Little Red European Sports Cars...
Great...or the Greatest?
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The one I had looked like this...
I paid $6100 cash for it, brand-new. 
Just don't ask me about the Lucas parts and electrical systems... 
Although these days I'd also find the forest green very appealing.
Back then I was 21, and in an Army hospital for a long time. I'd nearly died in Vietnam, and didn't expect to live a long time (a psychological 'sense of foreshortened future' reaction).
In-country, while I was out in the field my pay just piled up in the military's 'Soldiers Deposit' program at 10% interest (which continued for another 18 months while I was hospitalized). So I had the dough, and it was a sort of 'Be All You Can Be' moment.
In the '60s my older bother had a Spider Monza, and that might have influenced me. I was taking photography in HS, and took a lot of shots of that car.
And a friend had had one of those pink T-Bird T-top cars and used to take me all over in it. He was heading to VN in '65 and told me he wanted me to have his car if anything happened to him. But he didn't make a will, and when he was KIA in the Ia Drang with the 1st Cav, I didn't tell anyone what he'd told me.
I was never really 'into' cars, so it's kind of interesting to look back on the ways in which I was affected by subtle influences.
I didn't know others also used the label. That was back when Ralph Nader's 'Unsafe at Any Speed' kind of killed the Corvair.
My maintenance experience actually wasn't so bad, but I'd do as much as I could myyself because of the cost of going to Jag mechanics.
Apart from maintenance, my crowning achievement was installing a quad 8-track sound system. I'd put the leather top down and cruise with Quincy Jones...
I had a '66 for a while.
Although your pick is great:
Those were the days.
The Rat Pack...
My dad made sure of that. Had to listen to them all between my allowed bouts of listening to my "noise" (such as metal) during road trips. Grew to love the former
Actually got to try a 1980s 911 not long after the Brat Pack era. What a beast. Gotta be alert driving one of those things
Legendary 1960s A 110 Renault Alpine. One of the lightest competition sports cars ever built, the little Renault routinely beat Porsches, Lancias, Fords, and others, winning the Alps Cup, coming in 1,2, and 3 in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971 and 1973 and the World Rally Championship. And I loved its beautiful lines. When I was a kid, a neighbor of mine in the 1960s had one he drove to work every day and you find one for sale now and then on ebay, but they are expensive, especially the ones in the U.S.
was the Ford Comete, powered with a V8 engine. It wasn't a mountain road rally type of sports car but a very nice tourer and I loved its rounded lines.
