Did anyone here learn to DRIVE in an old car?

I learned to drive on a 1949 Ford 8N tractor in 1982 when I was 9. A few months later I pulled my GreatGrandmother's orange 1954 Chevy 2dr hardtop out of the cow pasture with that tractor and started mowing yards with a push mower to earn money to redo the car. By 1989 I had the car looking like new and that is the car I learned to drive in. I thought I was hot shit because I drove the oldest car to school on a daily basis.

 

I learned to drive in a golf cart and a '59 cushman 3 wheeler. My first car was a 1950 Chevy. This was in the late 90's and early 2000's.

 

I learned to drive at 12 in 1958, a 49 Cadillac and an old Chevrolet army truck.
the next year my dad bought a new 59 Rambler American, so I went out and bought my own damned car.

 

Learned to drive with my first '33 Plymouth (1958), but took my test in my family's not-very-well-maintained 1951 Dodge fordor with very hard steering. I hated that series of cars after that!

But go back a few years before that and I was delivering the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Sundays to a nearby trailer park , so my mother would drive the car to the park with the trunk full of papers, and walk home. She always left the keys in the car. I was 8-years old. I actually would start the car and move it forward and back a little bit. Once I got it stuck in the snow. I still can't believe I did that at 8!

 

In my Granddad's, bought from "war surplus" WWII era Willys Jeep.... on an abandoned military facility.... I was 13Thanx Grandpa!!

 

this is my first car, me and my dad are rebuilding it technically i haven't learned how to drive in it but i will

 

the first time i drove was in my dads 39 ford standard

 

I learned to drive at the age of 12 in my brothers 1933 Dodge sedan

 

Well,yes and no,,I learn to drive in my granddads 1962 Ford but it was new at the time,,old car now. HRP

 

My first ride driving was in a '26 Model T Ford with the tractor conversion for the big steel rear wheels with cleats. All day long in the sun pulling a triple spring tooth over 80 acres. The second time I drove it was the neighbors Stearns-Knight to take him down to Santa Ysabel to meet an ambulance coming up from Escondido. Then I took it home the twelve miles by myself. I was 13 at the time. What a ride!
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The first car I ever drove was a 1927 Pontiac in 1961.
I took my driving test in a 1949 Ford in 1966.

 

The first thing I remember driving by myself was dad's 1948 F2. I don't know how old I was when I first started guiding it in granny gear while dad was in the back throwing hay out to the cattle but I do know by the time I was ten I was driving it all by myself in the pasture. It could cut some pretty good cookies and I had a blast with it. I guess I was a maniacal ten year old.

 

As some have stated, kind of depends on your point of reference. I learned in a 52 Jeep wagon although it wasn't all that old at the time.

 

At age 11, I was sit'n behind the wheel of my dads 65 El Camino, listening to the radio, when he got in on the passenger side and said "Let's go!" It was loaded with a bunch of trash and he had me drive it to my uncles shop to dump it all in his dumpster. This was in the late 80's. Couple years earlier, Dad tried to get me to back up his 327/Munci 4spd powered 54 Chevy truck, but I couldn't find reverse! Wish I had both those cars now!

 

I learned to drive in this 40 tudor, paid $150 for it in '58, I was 15. There was no front seat so I sat on a metal milk crate that wasn't bolted to the floor, young & stupid! It all was all good until I made a left hand turn, I fell of the crate and landed on the passenger side floor, luckily I got it stopped before I hit the Bank building right in my path......scared the CHIT out of me!

 

Remember it like it was yesterday . 1959 , I was 14 , visiting my cousin out in the country . He has a '51 Chevy , "3 on the tree" , and said " you drive " ......up to about 10 mph in first and shifted it right into reverse !! The car shuddered to a stop and then slowly went backward . My cousin was yelling at me . Nothing broke and it scared the crap out of me ....but that was my first real taste .

T

 

Your right, I would have been ten in 1967 so that 48 F2 would have been 19 so it was old but it really wasn't that ancient as it seemed to me at the time. There were a lot of vehicles that vintage in daily use at the time. The first grain truck I drove was a 62 F600 in 1973 so even though I thought it was an old truck at the time it was only 11 years old at the time. I drive a lot of stuff now way older than that. All my daily drivers are older in fact, but from my perspective now a 1984 or 1988 isn't that old.

 

My grandads 67 Buick Skylark. I was 13 and he would get about half tanked and tell me i need to learn to drive. Then my own 55 Chevy then a 66 Impala.

 

In the Nor Cal mountians in the snow. The 'old lady" a 1927 Chrysler sedan. Mid sixties, a pals car.

 

i learned on a 63 impala ss that was my dads first brand new car.that was in 67-68 so i was about 12 or 13 at the time.my god i thought that was the fsatest things on wheels at the time..lol we lived in hanover park ill a suburb of chicago.driven up and down streets with my little skinny ass legs shackin so bad i couldnt hardly push any of the pedals.but i was the coolest kid out there at the time..lol

 

11 yrs old in my moms 56 2 door post six

 

A rusty '62 Ford Galaxie convertible with no hood or front fenders

 

Mine was mixture of an old manual gearbox forkhoist at dad's work and a rusty 1955 Ford f100 on my Grandads farm - it had little in the way of brakes and you had to pump them up - so my first "scare" was barreling across a paddock watching a gate/fence coming up and putting my foot on the brake to find .... NOTHING. Mad pumping locked the brakes and we slid sideways towards the fence and main strainer post for the gate way. Stopped in time - felt a big relief at not having to go tell Grandad that I had had an accident. I think the thought of having to tell him scared me more than any accident itsself

 

I first drove my uncles 9n Ford tractor at 12 and his 50 Chevrolet truck. Then a friends 50 Merc. Dads 61 Chrysler and 68 F100 and Moms 65 Vw. Took my test in a cousins 66 Caprice.

 

learned to drive in a 49 ford f1 pick-up and the old farm tractor 8n

 

1929 Nash 400 in 1946. It was my first car.

 

I'm sure it's been said before but I'd guess most of us on here learned to drive in an old car (which was rather new at the time).
I learned to drive in the mid-late 50s driving a 52 Plymouth sedan; my first car was a 49 Ford convertible.

 

I learned to drive in 1973 using dad's 54 Kaiser Manhattan that was (is...I still have it) equipped with a McCulloch supercharger. No chick magnet...but definitely different!

 

They weren't all that old at the time - 1958 Morris Minor 1000 and 1960 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88.

 

First dricing experience was on the sear of a 1952 IH C tractor. After that I learned to spend long hours on an 8N in my Grandpa's hay fields. Afew years later at the age of 14 I bought a 74 Plymouth Duster. I had a school permit which allowed me to drive to and from school only. At 17 I bought a 62 F-100 Unibody. The Duster still ran at that point, but we pulled the stock 318 and made the change to a 383. That engine swap and all that was involved was alot of work for 3 17 year olds, but alot of fun. Rod