A Sportscar without a a soft drink???

[badboyjack]

FAMOUS PPL PAST,PRESENT,FACT OR FICTION??..Solve both parts of the clue to reveal the name of a famous person..(eg..the travellers saint went to Ohio,s capital??>>Christopher Columbus....thankyou in advance :)

[Dinkypuzzled]

Austin Healey (Sprite)

[Dinkypuzzled]

Welcome to Answerbank, badboyjack.

p.s. Are you a doonhamer?

[badboyjack]

ty for ure reply although im a lil confused as to sprite ,bein the soft drink,relating to austin healey the sportscar or the famous person??..and no im not a doonhamer sorry lol :)

[ubasses]

Austin Healey is a Rugby Player

[HowardKennitby]

^

..was a professional..

[MASS1961]

Austin Healey is BOTH a car and a rugby player.
Don't think his parents googled before naming him, or maybe they did?

[HowardKennitby]

^

makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[FredPuli43]

And presumably Austin Healey was named after the car, in the manner of Jensen Button. Poor choice, unless he was expected to be underpowered, not as fast as hoped, go rusty very quickly and have frog eyes.

[MASS1961]

lol Fred

[HowardKennitby]

Fred ^

apparently not so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenson_Button

[FredPuli43]

(All but the frog eyes and underpowered applied to the Austin Healey 3000. If named after that, delete those but add 'useless turning at speed'!)

[MASS1961]

The human Austin Healey managed 50+ England caps? Does that make him better than the car?

[FredPuli43]

Oh es, Howard; JensOn, not JensEn. Just as well, or people would think he was conceived when his mother had her bodywork entered by a 'powerplant' which was powerful. big, cheap, and American.

[HowardKennitby]

^

and noisy and inefficient

[FredPuli43]

"Oh Yes" ^ (I mean the typo, not anything that was shouted out...)

[Meldrew 2nd]

Merlene Ottey - Merlin no tea said somewhat quicker