what car did you learn to drive in?

Learned to drive in my grandparents '53 Chevy 2 dr. and got my license at 14 in ND. My first time at the wheel was on my aunt's lap in her brand new '55 Buick when I was 9. Turned the first corner and didn't know to turn the wheel back and almost ended up in the neighbor's front yard. That was the end of my driving until I was 13.

 

This the first car I ever drove (my mother's 63 Chevy II), about 3 years after this picture was taken I was allowed off the roof and behind the wheel





Al in TN

 

Officially this one a 72 Hillman Hunter

Unofficially this one a '71 Hillman Imp

My fathers was a Tahiti Blue Specimen he purchased new, a great little car with a light alloy 875cc Coventry Climax based rear engine, faster than a mini and great handling ( front de camber kit converts front ifs from pos to neg camber)

 

1960 Falcon...three on the tree, I was 9
Every kid within a ten mile radius learned to drive at the Santa Anita Race Track parking lot on a Sunday. Huge empty lot....

 

1963 Ford Galaxie 500 XL notchback, red with black guts, 405 horsepower 406 (3 X 2), 4 speed. My dad was a salesman for Fisher Ford in Portland, car was his demo. Fifteen years old, learner's permit in hand, my mother picked me up every day from summer school.

To concentrate she made me turn the radio off, the radio is still an annoyance to this day. Because I was so nervous the first day, my foot shook so bad holding the clutch in I could hardly get the car rolling. That didn't last long! I thought she was going to have a coronary the first time I laid into the end carburetors. Come to think of it, if my daughter had been that brazen when I was teaching her to drive.......

 

At age 14..... My first drive was a 53 Chevy with 6 cylinder and 3 speed. I also drove on a regular basis a 49 Ford "mint truck" for a farmer until I was 17..... that was in 1968!!!!

 

I was 7 years old. Dad taught me to drive his 1955 Buick Century 4 dr. In the alfalfa field in about 6 inches of new snow with new snow tires.

 

i was 15 years old and it was my first car also a 1971 396 4 speed chevelle i know not the best of classics but i was fun at the time (sure got me lots of dates in high school)

 

like so many other HAMBers, i learned the fundamentals by watching my dad drive, he had a '49 chevy pickup, and then doing the same play driving in the driveway with the '52 chevy my dad bought my mom, so she could learn to drive.
i learned to drive on the street, in other peoples cars, or i belive the term is joy riding because you can not commit a GTA under 18yrs.
not braging, believe me i spent a few years as a minor paying for these mistakes, iv been a no repeat offender since the age of 14.
oh, and none of these cars were hot rods.
rich

 

My Dad had a '64 Bel Air 283 three speed stick w/OD when I learned to drive. Hood the size of a flight deck! I never felt comfortable with it because he was always in the right hand seat wait for me to f***k up and I usually managed.
A couple of years later I got a '61 Lark 6 w/three on the tree, Dad wouldn't ride in it so that's what I actually learned to dive in.

 

REMEMBER THE '59 PONTIAC?
Yeah, I learned basics by watching the folks drive. They had a car - usually a Pontiac. Also a series of Chevy delivery trucks because we had a furnature store. I remember my dad explaining the choke/throttle knobs on the truck. I have this mental image of the truck where mom would grab the wheel and strain to mash the floor mounted starter. When it came close to solo time I learned on the folks white '59 Pontiac 4 door hardtop. What a sweet car that was! I never seem to see these cars now. But, at a car show last year, I did see another white '59 Pontiac 2 door hardtop. This one had the 3 x 2 carb set up!
Nearly brought tears to my eyes...

 

Mid 60's Ford F100 6 cylinder 3 on the tree in our back yard...we had 3 acres.

 

74 plymouth valiant, in 1996

 

I bounced back and forth between three trucks 1 was an old flat fender jeep half cab that my grandpa restored had the stars on it and all 2 was a 50 chevy pickup that they were redoing for my aunt(she still has it) 3 was a 50's jeep pickup that was so rusted you could see the ground about anywhere you looked down

 

Dads 48 willys jeep in the back yard. In another year or two hope to have my oldest boy (6 now) drive the same jeep. Just last Sunday my 3 year old and my dad took the old jeep for a ride out back.

 

63 Buick Le Sabre, man that car seemed big. easy car to drive though!!!

 

'51 Dodge four door that I paid $50 for. The passenger side of the windshield was missing and the trunk floor was rotted away but I had freedom. It always started on the last dying gasp of the battery and it taught me how to keep it running.
Many years later my four teenage daughters learned to drive a stick shift Nissan pickup and before I let them go out alone I made them get the owners manual and change a tire.

 

Haha..

After a few lessons in the Moggy, I went out and bought a '47 Ford V8 sedan.
That is where I truly learn't to drive. (fast)

Then next was a '35 Pontiac 3 window coupe. The girls loved that one...

 

Saturdays my Dad went to the dump...................Tought me to drive on the dirt roads there, in a 1949 Nash Ambassador...........I still remember the thrill!
Thanks Dad.................

 

1950 Ford pickup..flat head V-8...

 

Hi a 1956 studebaker it was my dads. Dusty

 

Sad state to admit initial learning was on a 2 cylinder forkhoist in my dad workplace but then the firsdt real one was my grandads1955 F100

 

I learned on my first car...a 1957 Opel Record.I got it for my 13th birthday. Took my road test in a 1960 Chevy p/u with a 283 and a hurst stick on the 3 spd standard trans.

 

1961 Chevy Bisq.

 

didnt have a car, so i learnd by driver ed, scared the hell out of teacher,he pass me too get me out of his class, been hotroding ever since,the truth

 

1974 Orange Chevy Beauville window van with 3 on the tree

 

A 1939 Farmall Model B tractor with no self starter. After I mastered using the clutch in it I graduated at age 12 to my Dad's '49 Ford Tudor Sedan. Got my license in it at age 14, legal in Texas at that time.
Fearless

 

Drove a Ford farm tractor since being able to get on it by myself. Legally was a 1960 Ford 4-dr. Six stick Drivers Ed car.

 

The first car I drove was my Dad's Aunt's '64 Falcon 4 door 170 Fordomatic when I was about 8 (I still have that car)
The one I really learned to drive in was Dad's '67 Falcon ute, 200 with 3 on the tree.

 

I learned in TR-3 when I was 8 or 9