what car did you learn to drive in?

Practiced my first driving in Dad's old (sorta run down) fishing car, a
1938 Chevy fourdoor. Also about that time, he bought a 1946 or 47
International retired Railway Express truck. It had the "granny" gear,
and I drove it up and down the alley.

Took my driver's test in the family 1957 Plymouth station wagon.

This is a pic of that old Chevy......


That 57 Plymouth wagon (Mom loved it, it was gold & cream) didn't
fare so well. I ran it off a curve into a big ditch one night while racing
with a buddy in his family's 54 Dodge with the red ram V8. The thing
was a total per the insurance company. That was in 1960.

 

Brace yourselves; a Fiat Uno (I was born in Brasil)

 

I know everyone is thinking "what a lucky guy, that car sounds exotic, it must be awsome" so here is a picture

 

i first drove a 71 Peterbilt, then a 31 Model A, then a 42' dodge truck.

 

1960? gmc pick up, granny low, up on knees to see over the steering wheel(hand throttle)
keeping it between the hay bales while the older boys were "buckin' bales" I had to slide down off the seat to push in the clutch.
1970 datsun 240Z (the early, fast ones)
And Dads 1966 galaxy convertible, 390GT engine, 4 speed, Blew the engine in the Sacajawia junior high school parking lot, I'm still surprised that Dad didn't kill me that day....
Parking lot full of black donuts, big puddle of oil oozing out from under the car...

 

I got my license in my dads 1970 Valiant Regal

 

1976 Fiat 128 sedan 4 speed. . Still own it too!

 

'83 Honda Civic Wagon. I know, I know, please try not to be so envious.

 

haha! Thats awesome!

 

I love those '71 Pete's. Those were the last years for the small narrow windshields and the first years of the wide radiator and grille. It made the truck look like it was chopped from the factory.

 

'75 VW bus. With a cable operated three foot long gear stick. If you can find the gears on one of them you can drive anything!! Was like trying to stir a box of marbles with a wooden spoon.

 

Mine was my Dad's '84 GMC Sierra. Straight 6 with almost 300,000 miles on it, 3 on the tree, my dad laughed his ass off at me when I kept stalling it. Thing was loud, bumpy and uncomfortable. Total beater, but it was a tank and I miss the thing. Totaled it when some jackass ran a stop sign and I T-boned him. Funny, that day was the only day I ever wore the seatbelt in that truck.

 

Total OT... This little piece of shit 5 years ago... 1992 Renault 19, 5 speed manual, 1.6 liter engine, 90HP

 

Morris Minor.

 

33 Willys and a 51 Chev 4 door sedan in Whaka Forest and at the beach

 

40' ford coupe.my first car that my dad built for me

 

First started learning in my step-dad's '54 Plymouth. Then the driver's ed car was a '56 Chev. And finally, my dad got me a '48 Chevy when I was 15. So I did a lot of learning in all three of these cars. This was back in the early 1960's. They were all 6-cylinder cars with manual transmissions, and I still prefer a stick shift.

 

I was about 13 when my dad took me out in his 54 Ford to teach me how to drive a clutch car.

 

My Dad's 68 Chysler 300 and my sister's 66 Dodge Dart GT.

 

My mom started me out on the family 51 chevy. It was her idea. Then I got a 1930 Ford. Bad brakes but I could stop it because I was good at downshifting. Those old Fords had what we called a crash-box tranny which meant it didn't have syncromesh. A lot of people had to double-clutch those trannies. I learned quickly how to match the speed of the car to the rpm's of the engine. I only used the clutch to get underway. You haven't lived until you have driven one of those.

 

I was 13 in '64. Dad had a '56 Ford panel truck, 272 stick shift 3spd. Clutch pedal so damn stiff I could barely depress it, let alone release it without stalling. But dad wouldn't allow me in anything else till I learned to hold that old panel on a grade without stalling it, and without using the brakes. It's a wonder I didn't blow the clutch out.

Later in driver ed we had a '67 Buick LeSabre (whatta tank!) and an Opel Kadette. Teach asked who could drive a stick so I said "Me". I think only one other kid had ever been in a stickshift car so we got to spend most of our 'road time' in the Kadette. Had more fun with it than the LeSabre. I think the teach liked it better too; his driver was a '64 Impala, 4spd.

 

59 Ford wagon, 292, 3 on-the-tree. I was 13 years old.-MIKE

 

Didn't get hit by a piano did ya.



For me at 17 it was a 69 Pontiac Le Mans that still had that new car smell and would run like a raped ape.

 

I learned to drive in a $95 1966 Plymouth Belvedere convertible that I hitchhiked over to buy with my lawn mowing money in defiance of my parents orders. I HAD to learn to drive to get home!! It was a poly BB 318 and a 3spd stick!! But I did it!!

 

74 Nova SS was the first car I got a chance to drive. I learned to drive a standard in a Vega with a 4 speed and a Buick V-6.

 

1971 Plymouth Satellite. I wish I could have bought it when my mom traded it in.

 

Learned to drive in a brand new 1956 Ford Fairlane with a Thunderbird incepter engine with automatic with my sister as copilot , what a day still remenber it fondly ,,,,,Sam

 

First pickup I drove was Dad's '69 Datsun 1300 pickup, at age 12. Right after that, I bought a '52 Plymouth and drove it home myself, also at 12. But, Dad let me practice a LOT with his '54 Willys CJ-3B 4x4. Had lots of experience before I even got close to getting my license.

 

'59 Beetle and '64 F-100. I remember sitting in the garage practicing my shifting.

 

Go Kart. Then my 1955 Chevrolet 2 Door Post with a 265 and a Powerglide. Wayno