Reminiscing

[littlemissmartypants]

Car that I learned to drive on: (but it was yellow)

Datsun 240-Z #Advertising
⛩️⛩️🇯🇵 #Classic

Datsun 240-Z #Advertising
⛩️⛩️🇯🇵 #Classic

— Retrâ­•mania (@retromania4ever.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T18:24:21.908Z

My first car:
A Triumph Spitfire! I still have dreams about it.

Rétro car voiture 🚘 la Triumph Spitfire, noire 1970s

Rétro car voiture 🚘 la Triumph Spitfire, noire 1970s

— Mémoire2cité (@memoire2cite.bsky.social) 2024-04-15T22:45:26.388Z

But in these colors, green with a tan interior.

My '78 here in SWFL

— Rod Ratcliffe (@rodratcliffe.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T07:25:34.519Z

😻🤓🏁

[GiqueCee]

1. I had a '64 Spitfire...

... lotta fun to drive. Then I bought a new red '67 MGB GT and got serious about tricking it out. '67 was the last year that cars sold in this country were allowed to have knock-off spinners on wire wheels, or any rims, for that matter. Congress, in their infinite wisdom, also banned covered headlights, as on the Jaguar XK-E. Two totally asinine laws. If a pedestrian is close enough to a moving vehicle to be endangered by spinners, then they've already got far more pressing problems! And now, nearly all cars have covered headlights.
To this day, I regret selling that MGB. But in '67 I was an impetuous 20-year-old, and that was only one of many dumb-ass, spur-of-the-moment decisions.

[Old-8643]

5. I had a '67 MGB , I was excited to get my first flat tire and use the copper hammer on those winged spinners!

And the flat dash, and the take it apart top and frame. Then I bought a new "72 Midget thinking that since it was brand new there will be no issues.

Wrong!

From there I went to a '72 Ford Capri 2000cc, very nice car and served me well.

I love this forum already.

Greetings to all

Old-8643

[GiqueCee]

6. Welcome!

[twodogsbarking]

2. Had a 280z, 1976. No weight on the back. Fun car but not too safe.

[GiqueCee]

7. I remember driving one of the first 240Zs...

... and the ass-end got a little squirrelly in tight turns. My MGB GT had a bit of oversteer, too.

[Old Crank]

3. Car I learned to drive in

My father said I learned to steer in our 1965 Mercury Comet.
That I learned to drive in this.
1961 Ford Anglia.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Thanks so much for sharing this, OC. ❤️

[GiqueCee]

8. With right-hand drive...

... and a Royal Auto Club badge! Very cool!

[Old Crank]

9. Sorry this is an example

Ours was left hand drive. It was quite the rarity in Arizona in the late 1960's

[GiqueCee]

10. It matters not...

... still a cool old buggy!