What kind of car did you learn to drive in and what was your first car

[northshore]

2nd car but far and away the most fun car I ever owned even with it's thundering 89 horsepower and 0-60 in just under a week speed.

I got the treatment from my buddies on this car as some of you had.
They picked it up and set it sideways between two k barriers at a place we hung out at.

 

[Soulshine]

First car I ever drove was a 66 MGBGT that belonged to my very cool uncle Mike. I think I was 12.

First car I ever bought was a 67 Camaro SS that never saw the road.

I learned to drive in my father's 66 Plymouth wagon. It was out of commission the day of my road test so I used my mom's 70 Buick Electra 225, which was a block long...somehow I passed.

First car I drove legally was a 58 Impala. Lost that car to a wreck or I'd still have it.

 

[boatman37]

Learned to drive on a 1964 Corvair convertible three-speed automatic. It had seat belts, which at the time was a factory option. Drove it through high school and first few years of college. Great traction in the snow and could even drive it on the beach because of the rear engine. Perfect car for a lifeguard in the summer. First car was a 1980 Datsun 280ZX five-speed manual. Fast off the line and great handling in curves but only in fair weather, would fishtail if the road was wet.

Love Corvairs. My dad had one when I was real little...like 5 or 6 years old maybe

 

[Stingrayaxe]

1968 Pontiac Executive station wagon. Pontiac 400 and a 2 barrel. It was a hand me down that my parents thought would be safe. Stopped one day to make a left turn into a golf course. Got rear ended so hard the engine tore from the mounts. The woman that hit me told the cops her brakes didn't work. Then the cop pointed out the 40 feet of skid marks she left before impact. She was quiet after that. That was the end of that.

 

[Joint Custody]

I had a go kart at 12 and drove it everywhere in about 15 miles of neighborhood roads. My big brother taught me how to obey the traffic laws. So I would say that is how I learned to drive. First real car I drove was a 72 Buick LeSabre that I bought at 15 for $25.00 sold it at 16 and bought a 1966 Chevy truck with a 4 speed that truck was a POS . I learned to drive a manual at 14 that was in a friends moms 72 pinto.
I started to wash my moms 78 custom chevy van around 14. Before I would dry it I would always take it for a lap around the neighborhood to get the water off .

Reading all these post the thing that stands out is all of learned to drive a manual at a young age. Ask any kid now and they couldn't even tell you how to put one in reverse.
My two favorite cars I had where a 72 Z28 and a 66 GTO. I wish I had both today!

 

[GirlyGirl1999]

I had a go kart at 12 and drove it everywhere in about 15 miles of neighborhood roads. My big brother taught me how to obey the traffic laws. So I would say that is how I learned to drive. First real car I drove was a 72 Buick LeSabre that I bought at 15 for $25.00 sold it at 16 and bought a 1966 Chevy truck with a 4 speed that truck was a POS . I learned to drive a manual at 14 that was in a friends moms 72 pinto.
I started to wash my moms 78 custom chevy van around 14. Before I would dry it I would always take it for a lap around the neighborhood to get the water off .

Reading all these post the thing that stands out is all of learned to drive a manual at a young age. Ask any kid now and they couldn't even tell you how to put one in reverse.
My two favorite cars I had where a 72 Z28 and a 66 GTO. I wish I had both today!

Here you go.

 

[Espos4]

First drive.. 1979 VW Dasher Diesel with a 4 speed

first car, 1972 Plymouth Satellite
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This was car #2

 

[Golfman25]

Here you go.

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When I was considering a car for the kid, I was really trying to push the manual transmission idea. Figured, it would be all but impossible to text and drive.

 

[WaveDancer01]

I learned to drive in 1965 Chevy Impala. My first car was a 1974 Vega. What can I say, I was a poor college student.

 

[highslice]

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My youngest bought a Mazadaspeed 6 manual when he was 16 after owning a Mazda RX 8 automatic for about 9 months. I had to test drive it for him and drive it home. I spent a few hours the next day teaching him how to drive a stick. He picked it up pretty quickly. 10 years later his older brother decided he wanted to learn how to drive a manual. So he and his wife did the logical thing and bought a lightly used C7 Corvette with an 8 speed. They live 4 hours away from me, so I couldn't help. His wife's grandfather drive it home from the dealership. He self taught himself. I have taken him out a few times to fill in some of the gaps in his skills. So my wife is the only one in the family who can't drive a stick...and she is no millennial.

 

[Pirate Lady]

Not technically a car.

Dam I miss that bike. I’d give both my nuts to get it back. Hell they ain’t doing me any good these days.

 

[Maggieiscrazy]

I had a go kart at 12 and drove it everywhere in about 15 miles of neighborhood roads. My big brother taught me how to obey the traffic laws. So I would say that is how I learned to drive. First real car I drove was a 72 Buick LeSabre that I bought at 15 for $25.00 sold it at 16 and bought a 1966 Chevy truck with a 4 speed that truck was a POS . I learned to drive a manual at 14 that was in a friends moms 72 pinto.
I started to wash my moms 78 custom chevy van around 14. Before I would dry it I would always take it for a lap around the neighborhood to get the water off .

Reading all these post the thing that stands out is all of learned to drive a manual at a young age. Ask any kid now and they couldn't even tell you how to put one in reverse.
My two favorite cars I had where a 72 Z28 and a 66 GTO. I wish I had both today!

My 16 year old sons 2012 mustang has a 6 speed manual.

 

[mrsrobinson]

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Sa Weeeet!

Reading all these post the thing that stands out is all of learned to drive a manual at a young age.

And we are all old as dirt. Sounds like most of us dug in and figured stuff out with them as well, which sadly I don't think is happening today.

 

[copb8tx]

Sa Weeeet!



And we are all old as dirt. Sounds like most of us dug in and figured stuff out with them as well, which sadly I don't think is happening today.

I could do an engine overhaul of my four stroke Honda 50 with a spoon and an adjustment wrench.

Back in those days you had no option other than to figure it out on your own. No Internet. No camera to take pics of what it looked like before you blew it apart. That said, always did end up with few extra parts when you were done.

 

[Tucker K5]

Learned to drive on a Ford 3000 with a 4’ bush hog. Except ours had turf tires so it must have came from a golf course.

Then on the road in a Chrysler Newport Custom. Slid that thing sideways through a red light when I was 15 with mom screaming her head off in the back seat. Funny as shit now.
It was the parents car.

Took my driving test in that thing and I could barely see over the steering wheel. I’m 6’ now but I was a very late bloomer.

Drove to high school in a ‘67 Chevy C10.

 

[mrsrobinson]

Back in those days you had no option other than to figure it out on your own. No Internet. No camera to take pics of what it looked like before you blew it apart. That said, always did end up with few extra parts when you were done.

Absolutely agreed. To this day I have no idea how my step dad learned and knew as much as he did. Uneducated, grew up on a cotton farm, 4 years in the Navy then heavy equipment excavation. He built wooden work and sail boats from scratch, remodeled houses, added an addition to a house, fixed everything on the cars, boats, you name it. To this day I ask my mom "How did he learn to do it?" She doesn't remember/know. I still remember him adjusting carbs, points and such with a match book cover. I catch myself doing something he did and/or taught me during almost every project I do.

 

[Creekwood]

I first learned to drive sitting on the edge of the seat between my fathers legs as we drove around the roads near the mine camp in the Yukon. The car was a black 1968 Galaxie 500 with a 302. Picture below the year Dad bought it. That's the Yukon and the log house the mine provided for employees. The bug was his "company car".

My first car was a 1976 Chev Monza I bought for $250 in about 1983. I "rebuilt" the engine (a 4 cylinder) by honing the cylinders and re-ringing it. All with very loose measurements and cheap tools. It was blowing blue smoke before, and after it barely burned any. I also replaced the clutch and all the brakes. I did a bunch of bad bondo body work, primed it and then had a paint shop shoot it candy red. Then I drove it for about 4 years and then sold it for $250. By then the cheap rebuild had raised its ugly head and it was burning a quart every tank of gas! No pictures of that thing LOL

 

[Scott215]

1984 Ford escort automatic easiest car to drive ever made in my opinion past first time

 

[Tripsdad]

Learned to drive on a 1964 Rambler Classic with push button transmission when I was 15 and my first car was a 1960 Pontiac Catalina that I bought in 1973 for $80 with 80K miles. Mine was blue and nowhere as nice as this but I had the same whitewalls!

Taught myself to drive a stick on my second car a 1970 VW Bug.

 

[mrsrobinson]

First car you had sex in? Same as my first car. Did some heavy making out and such in dad's p/u and mom's big ole Buick prior though.