Triumph Spitfire 1500 Driving With Gloves 

Great opening, you flying a Spitfire!

Great video. I love my 75 Spitty 1500. And this gave me more excitement to work on her to get ready for the New Mexico Summer days!

“You might ask why I drive with gloves, and my answer, why not” man first couple of seconds and I like this guy already

Awesome review!! Really enjoyed that, and a great little history lesson with it too. Spitfires are awesome little cars if you get what it is to own a 1960s or 70's fun two seater sports car, they are just so much fun

Very nice video; thanks. This was the colour of my 1973 Spitfire.

Fantastic - love my Spit - would be even better to drive in scenery like Switzerland! I have the 1500 with overdrive - when you're that low to the ground nothing quite like the Spit to take on a sharp corner and feel the G-Force :)

Great Video thank you 😀

Oh! You Lucky Pilot, You Had Me In Stitches, The Hat, Helmet, And Gloves Are Ace! And Your Narration With Suspect English/German/Italian Accent's Added To The Fun. Bye The Way, This Spit Is A Really Nice Car And Sounds Wonderful In This Good Fun Video. The Lake And Mountains Are Pretty Good Too. Tally Ho Chaps! Off To Dream About My Old 1967 Sky Blue Mark Three Which I Owned From 1971 To 1975, My Second Ever Car But The One I Always Remember The Best! Thanks For Posting!

I have an identical one same colour etc.I put full year mot then stored in garage and it's still there now.Lovely car.

thanks for the memories .i had a red 76 1500 ran it over 100,000 mi i was a kid i miss it so very much

Matt. Your Spitfire is here. Take it with you when you move back to Illinois. I enjoy working on it but it’s yours. Come and get it.

I have had 3 Spits and loved them all. The seating position in my last one, a 1500 gave me a bad back though and I had to sell it. Seriously thinking about getting another one.

I've own 2 spitfires, 69 and a 77, The 69 was well use, but then I bought a New one and enjoyed it. I was assigned to the Netherlands in the '70s and bought the new one in 77. I lived about 150 miles from Wiesbaden where there was a large PX. The fastest I ever made it was an hour and a half, driving down thru the eifle on a fairly new autobahn. I found out that my odometer was off just a little. When I was going 60 on it, I was actually going 71. The faster I went the more off it became. I don't want to know what I was doing when it read 130mph. I had the hardtop and overdrive. When I took it to the states, the car tore itself apart doing 55mph. I loved driving it but hated getting in and out. I broke the driver's seat back getting in and out.

Had three MkIII Spitfires, all very chuckable and you could (if you were brave) induce throttle steering. Yes, the rear suspension was iffy, but improved when you put a bag of cement in the boot. Prettier than the MkIV.

I miss my '77 RED Spitfire. I can't quite get myself into a state of lust over a brown one.

Loved this review, have to ask, how tall are you? I am 6ft 5 in and would like to know how roomy it was for you.

My first car when i was 16 ,

That is the very first car I ever owned in that same god-awful color and the first thing I did was paint lotus yellow, that's a dark yellow, but it was a very fun car and a very fabulous first car. Let's see what since , another 1980 triumph spitfire, TR 7, TR 8, dodge colt , Le Car, Honda Civic, 67 Cadillac coupe Deville, Miata 1990, Lotus M 100 Elan, 1964 jaguar XKE convertible Ginetta G 20 and several minivans. I would but a spitfire again, or tr3

Important question... Can it drive a 6.3 foot guy? (193cm)

Have you ever tried out an Austin Healey, preferably an early roadster?.

Thank you very much. I am 1.93 m, which is 6 ft 4. I was afraid, that I had no space in the Spitfire, but it was not so bad at all. Of course it is no SUV, but there is space enough to drive this car without a problem.

I have a 76 spit. No wonder it looks like an Italian swimsuit model, the designer.

Nice Spitfire

I think driving with gloves is a good idea now a'days. There's so much road rage anymore that gloves 🧤 are a great preventative measure to keep someone's teeth from cutting your knuckles. Well done 👍

Ok, I'll take it, but we're putting in the overdrive and repainting it British Racing Green. 😄👍🏻🇺🇸

Der Hingucker, ich hab auch einen 🎯👍

It was named after 'the Marine' Spitfire?! Nope, it was named after the Supermarine Spitfire; Supermarine being the manufacturer's name.

my first car

His question is understandable. the term "Sports Car" has been so muddied that few people know that sports cars as originally envisioned were not the fastest, and there were overwhelmingly the smallest cars on the road. It was the Sports, as in Motorsports, mentality. You could buy a sports car, modify it, and go racing. There are less opportunities to do this in today's high-tech, regulated world.

Yup, my 76 spit is loads of fun in the twisties, but the hwy,.......not so much. More of a weekend sunny day street legal go cart.

Have always thought the Spitfire was one of the prettiest British roadsters of the 1960's (and 70's). What nicer is that they're reasonably affordable, too.

Love the video, a great little fun car, but that pipe music, please lose it!

Fact: brown Spitfires don’t rust.

Could do without the music....

G54

What? What?? Huh???

Nice car but need repainting color is disaster

Need to work on your sound....