Let’s Talk Cars…Old Favorites, Your First, Dream, The One You Wish You Still Had, Car Stories Any Kind, How You Learned To Drive …and more

Capt MJ said:
My first car, a stick, as I have mentioned recently in another thread, was a Triumph TR-7. Got her in España, so she was La Cuña, the wedge. That was the advertising on her. Yes, I had the yellow one. With a dark green plaid (!) interior. Odd little “eyelid” type pop-up headlamps. I went to the graduate school of hill-driving with a stick driving up to mountain-top towns all over Spain and Portugal, narrow, twisty, cobble-stoned, hairpin-curved sweat-inducers where rolling backward was not an option.

I PCS’ed in her with my best friend from Rota, Spain to Naples, Italy, taking 20 days of leave. Drove her on the French Riviera corniche roads and the lake/mountain area of northern Italy, autostradas and autopistas, coastal highways and the middle of Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Florence and other great cities. “Epic” is an understatement for that road trip. She and I still talk about it. Two single Navy LTJGs, a yellow sports car, and a pile of paper maps. She could drive a stick just as well, because her car was a red Fiat Spyder.

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Did your TR-7 have this type of license plate?
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I was traveling with the family to Austria during the Kosovo conflict when I got pulled over by Austrian polizei. There was a lot of anti-American sentiment in the region. AFI (pronounced A-fee, for the reader) plated cars were being vandalized around Aviano Air Base. When the polizei saw the tags, he said “American Forces Italy.” I said, no sir, AFI stands for Allied Forces Italy. After the encounter I covered the
base entry sticker at the bottom left hand corner of the windshield with tape. The vacation went well after that.
 
WT Door said:
Did your TR-7 have this type of license plate?
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I was traveling with the family to Austria during the Kosovo conflict when I got pulled over by Austrian polizei. There was a lot of anti-American sentiment in the region. AFI (pronounced A-fee, for the reader) plated cars were being vandalized around Aviano Air Base. When the polizei saw the tags, he said “American Forces Italy.” I said, no sir, AFI stands for Allied Forces Italy. After the encounter I covered the
base entry sticker at the bottom left hand corner of the windshield with tape. The vacation went well after that.
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Yes, I had Spanish plates with something on it to show it was assigned military, and got the AFI plates in Naples.
 
I have to go with two cousins. The cobra cause as Johnny Lawrence would say "Cobras are badass!"

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Red, of course! Very nice.

For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets?
 
Never had a red car. I once painted a Triumph TR-6 red, but it was for a friend who had no business attempting it himself.
I tried to talk him into British Racing Green but he wasn't having it.

I have had;

Gold
Burgundy
Black
White
Burgundy (again)
Gold (again)
Silver
Silver (again)
Silver (yet again)
 
Capt MJ said:
My sailors showed me the “get it rolling and pop clutch in 2nd” trick.
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I could pop start my bug while parallel parked. It helped having a piece of rust that you dont really care if you umm, overshoot the end of the runway. But, it was a great outdoor parlor trick, nonetheless.

I also loved turning off the engine as far from the house as I could and seeing if I could take the mountain roads just fast enough to coast in to the driveway silently.

RIP badly (re)painted orange bug...
 
Capt MJ said:
Red, of course! Very nice.

For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets?
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Two red cars in my lifetime. Never a sports car though. DW said it will never happen.

Red Ford Aspire
98 Red Kia Sportage. The one with a spare tire on the back.
Red Suzuki

Actually probably got more speeding tickets in our mini vans.

For those that know of the Norfolk area. My wife went into labor about 3:30am with DS1. We lived in VA beach. Drove to the Portsmouth Naval hospital in the Kia.

I was doing about 70 through the downtown tunnel. State trooper pulled me over. I explained my situation and how I was just really freaked out and nervous. No tickets and offered to escort us the rest of the way.
 
Capt MJ said:
Red, of course! Very nice.

For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets?
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I missed this...

How many speeding tickets would a person need to have earned to be able to provide a statistically significant answer to this question?
 
Capt MJ said:
Red, of course! Very nice.

For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets?
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My 1969 Camaro was yellow and I definitely got pulled over once because the car (and the way I was driving it) got the attention of the Police. I spent a night in jail. It was 1980 or 1981.
 
justme said:
I missed this...

How many speeding tickets would a person need to have earned to be able to provide a statistically significant answer to this question?
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Gut Meter, internal comparison to any other cars you have owned or driven.
 
Capt MJ said:
For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets
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LOL-- the only red car I ever had was the 2001 Jeep Wrangler.... you would have to try to get a speeding ticket in that.
(My back in the 80's Suzuki Samurai wasn't even capable of getting up to highway speed without a tailwind).
 
I am a classic car fanatic. Specifically, I am a Mopar man. I have only ever owned Dodge vehicles. My current commuter vehicle is a 2018 Dodge Durango. I have a 2007 Dodge Ram Mega Cab 4x4. But my pride and joy have been my performance and collector cars.

I recently sold my 2018 Dodge Challenger T/A 392.
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I also just sold my first ever project car. It is a 1969 Dodge Dart GT that I restored from scratch.
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I sold both of those cars last winter to buy my dream car - a 1969 Plymouth HEMI GTX.
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Beautiful - shows all your effort. A great visual addition to the thread.
 
Old Navy BGO said:
LOL-- the only red car I ever had was the 2001 Jeep Wrangler.... you would have to try to get a speeding ticket in that.
(My back in the 80's Suzuki Samurai wasn't even capable of getting up to highway speed without a tailwind).
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LOL. My brother was able to get a speeding ticket in a K car at a speed my father (whose car it was) didnt even know it was capable of going.
 
That is "110 Red", I believe!
 
For the readership - have you had a red car? Do you feel you received more speeding tickets?

Yes: Red 2003 Chevrolet Venture minivan. And No on the tickets, obviously.
 
THParent said:
In High School, our Cross Country coach had an orange 240Z. We (the whole team, but it was my idea) picked it up once and turned it between two other cars in the parking lot, so he couldn't get out until one of them left. He was really not happy with us, be we thought it was hilarious.
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Same thing, only Chevette in 1982 and it was a bunch of super-bored JROTC guys during a "study hall" on the field outside school very late in the school year. One very important difference: we put it between two trees. He had to get the weight men from track team to move it for him after school.
 
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