{"id":66670,"date":"2021-10-03T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=66670"},"modified":"2021-10-02T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:44:38","slug":"the-triumph-spitfire-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/03\/the-triumph-spitfire-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph Spitfire Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJGTpq3Y1-Q\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Big Car old account<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Mar 2019<\/p>\n<p>To help me continue producing great content, please consider supporting me: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bigcar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bigcar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Help support my channel through these Amazon US affiliate links:<br \/>\nTriumph Spitfire t-shirt:                <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KdY33m\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KdY33m<\/a><br \/>\nTriumph Spitfire baseball cap:     <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U1SrZF\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U1SrZF<\/a><br \/>\nTriumph sweatshirt:                      <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgGIXq\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgGIXq<\/a><br \/>\nTriumph Spitfire model car:         <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U4gnvo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U4gnvo<\/a><br \/>\nTriumph keyfob:                            <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YTeKV4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YTeKV4<\/a><br \/>\nTriumph Spitfire metal sign:        <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U2u4ej\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U2u4ej<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spitfire is a beautiful automobile, a thing of wonder penned by an Italian genius, but it almost never happened. If not for a chance find in the dusty corner of a factory it would have remained merely a &#8220;could have been&#8221;. But Triumph produced a car that still inspires new creations today and has a strong and loyal fan base around the world, nearly sixty years since it burst on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>#TriumphSpitfire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-03-at-09-42-29-The-Triumph-Spitfire-Story-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Car old account Published 8 Mar 2019 To help me continue producing great content, please consider supporting me: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bigcar Help support my channel through these Amazon US affiliate links: Triumph Spitfire t-shirt: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KdY33m Triumph Spitfire baseball cap: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U1SrZF Triumph sweatshirt: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KgGIXq Triumph Spitfire model car: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U4gnvo Triumph keyfob: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YTeKV4 Triumph Spitfire metal sign: https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U2u4ej [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,831,7],"tags":[311,263,111,140,859,45],"class_list":["post-66670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-business","category-history","tag-1960s","tag-1970s","tag-cars","tag-design","tag-manufacturing","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hlk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68753,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions\/68753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}