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littlemissmartypants

(34,398 posts)
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 01:47 AM Apr 11

Reminiscing

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


😻🤓🏁

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Reminiscing (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Apr 11 OP
I had a '64 Spitfire... GiqueCee Apr 11 #1
Had a 280z, 1976. No weight on the back. Fun car but not too safe. twodogsbarking Apr 11 #2
Car I learned to drive in Old Crank Apr 12 #3
Thanks so much for sharing this, OC. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Apr 12 #4

GiqueCee

(4,764 posts)
1. I had a '64 Spitfire...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 09:59 AM
Apr 11

... 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 Crank

(7,272 posts)
3. Car I learned to drive in
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 03:38 AM
Apr 12

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



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