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Sometimes it’s good to have your preconceptions challenged. I was brought up and into car culture through the entertaining and sometimes scurrilous Custom Car magazine of the 1970s (below).<\/p>\n

Anyone that remembers that wickedly funny ‘zine will remember that as well as marrying cool modded motors with half-naked ladies Custom Car’s editorial was shot through with unadorned hatred of the Triumph Spitfire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For some reason, the Spitfire seemed to represent to the editorial staff all that pretentious, gutless and twee about motoring in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

And being an impressionable pre-teen in those days heady with the reek of Brut 33<\/a> and Long Life<\/a> and John Player Specials,<\/a> I carried this unjust hatred of the Spitfire with me deep into adulthood.<\/p>\n

But recently we stumbled across a little set of pictures of a Spitfrire on the excellent Asphalt Heritage<\/a> blog, and we’re looking at the Spitfire afresh.<\/p>\n

We’re digging the low-slung lines. We’re admiring the purposeful stance and the peaky rear end. We’re thinking that the Spitfire must have been a fun and accessible way into motoring with a bit of passion.<\/p>\n

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