What did you learn to drive in?

[Kevin B]

For me it was a 53 Chevy pickup. It was just like the one below color wise but ours was a total rust bucket. Three on the tree and a starter pedal on the floor.
My first Personal car was a 57 Chevy.

 

[Pestcontrol02]

Yellow 1980 Chevy chevette... floor boards were completely rusted out, my old man said don’t buy it son… of course I bought it anyway… $50 felt like a good deal.
My friends and I tried to kill it, we took the oil plug out and went joy riding in a corn field, it just wouldn’t die- so we drove it to the junkyard and the guy gave me $20 for it.

 

[Captain Awesome]

1973 F100 with a 240 I-6

Farm truck that went everywhere, saw everything, and wouldn’t die

First road learning was in a 1970 Monte Carlo

 

[MattiThundrrr]

1988 chev sprint 3 cylinder.

We called it Pregnant Skateboard. It died in a blizzard when I did 100 kph dive into a deep ditch and did an end over end flip off the front bumper. The hat I was wearing ended up in the trunk. Thanks, seatbelt

 

[Cycledelic68]

1966 Malibu

 

[Wildcat]

1973 LTD. Perkins township schools driver's Ed. The teacher didn't believe me when I said I had never driven any car or truck. I had many thousands of miles in on bikes though, making driving easy.

My first car, 62 Comet, 144 six, 50 bucks from a neighbor in 1976. I later junked it but looked for it when I retired from the AF in 2005. I wanted to make a gasser out of it. Probably was crushed 25 years before that.

 

[RAD DYNO]

Took the driving test, in my parents 1970 Ford LTD Country Squire Wagon.
Then bought a 1969 Ford Cortina GT, it was fun car!

 

[kchurch86]

I bought my first car before I had my license, as such it was registered and insured in my dad's name while I learned how to drive. I bought it from a Ford mechanic for $750 in 2004. Both rocker panels were 100% expanding spray foam, but the rest of the car was nearly immaculate. Ran like a top, parts were a dime a dozen (I put tires on it for $29 a piece!!!), and it beat my buddy's Camaro in a drag race.

This is the only photo I have in digital but I have a lot of 35mm prints of it somewhere. 1991 Chevy Cavalier 2dr hardtop.

At the left of the frame is the truck I replaced the Cavalier with, an '88 Dodge Ram D150, in which I learned how to do burnouts and donuts . Bought it for $1,200 from the grandson of the original owner. It had 66,000 original miles on it and, other than an ugly patch job above the left rear wheel and a badly bent lower control arm; the truck was cherry. I kept the Ram hood ornament when I sold it.

I miss both of these vehicles almost daily, lol.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Ran like a top, parts were a dime a dozen (I put tires on it for $29 a piece!!!), and it beat my buddy's Camaro in a drag race.

My brother had one too, I remember it having a small v6 in there? He surprised a couple of people with his.

 

[kchurch86]

My brother had one too, I remember it having a small v6 in there? He surprised a couple of people with his.

I forgot they were putting V6's in those! 3.2L I think? Mine had the little 2.2L straight 4 and a whopping 95 horsepower. I only beat my buddy's Camaro because I had a better launch. His was a V6...possibly the same engine they were putting in the Cavalier?

 

[Wayne]

I learned to drive in a 1959 Chevy Biscayne. 283, power glide, no power brakes or steering. It did have factory air conditioning.

Internet photo

My first car was a 1964 Plymouth Fury. 318, 3 speed on the tree, with PS. It was red over white with a red gut. I bough it with my paper root money, $300. Needed brakes and tires.

also internet photo

 

[ingola]

Motorcycle first jawa 50cc

 

[Otto (Spelled Backwards)]

I can't remember the exact model...but it was this & an old Wheel Horse I learned on...We used to pop the clutch on the Wheel Horse & pull wheelies...
got an a$$ whoopin' for tearing up the grass

 

[Captain Awesome]

1973 F100 with a 240 I-6

Farm truck that went everywhere, saw everything, and wouldn’t die

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First road learning was in a 1970 Monte Carlo

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Man I want that truck back

Then I could LS swap it

 

[BobbyStillz]

1972 Chevy Caprice, 2 door coupe.

Like this one, but root beer brown with a cream vinyl top.

Fun fact, the GM workers were striking in the early '70s due to poor working conditions and pay (among other things). During this time, factory workers were acid washing hoods and trunk lids before they went to paint. So you will notice a lot of (original) GM cars from the early '70s look like they have leprosy on the hood and/or trunk. Ours was no different. As the years went by it got worse. Only way to fix it is to make a new hood or trunk lid.

 

[Captain Awesome]

1972 Chevy Caprice, 2 door coupe.

Like this one, but root beer brown with a cream vinyl top.

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Fun fact, the GM workers were striking in the early '70s due to poor working conditions and pay (among other things). During this time, factory works were acid washing hoods and trunk lids before they went to paint. So you will notice a lot of (original) GM cars from the early '70s look like they have leprosy on the hood and/or trunk. Ours was no different. As the years went by it got worse. Only way to fix it is to make a new hood or trunk lid.

My dad worked at GM from 1955 to his retirement in 2002. Probably worked every job inside that 4.8 million sq ft Goliath. Even during those early 70’s Fisher Body days like that Caprice

I worked there too and got out in 2007 before the plant was shuttered in 2008

 

[Ulu]

I had been building radios in school, and doing engine swaps and major repairs with my dad. I was able to hotwire a car by the age of 13.

So this wasn’t the first car I ever drove. That would have been a 1963 Mercury.

This is the first car I was officially allowed to drive and given an actual driving lesson in. Dad’s 1963 international scout, which I still own.

 

[ingola]

I had been building radios in school, and doing engine swaps and major repairs with my dad. I was able to hotwire a car by the age of 13.

So this wasn’t the first car I ever drove. That would have been a 1963 Mercury.

This is the first car I was officially allowed to drive and given an actual driving lesson in. Dad’s 1963 international scout, which I still own.
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There's one of those around the corner from me I'll get a pick next time it's out..looks brand new

 

[Ulu]

Not this one!

After life in Minnesota and Utah, the body had rotted.

She wears a ‘67 body from Arizona.

Dad and I swapped it in the winter of 1973-74. It’s roasted from sitting in the sun. Engine has been frozen since about ‘88.

It might get “restored” before I die.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

My stepfather taught me to drive stick on a 1976 Datsun B-210. His was blue.

He did not know though, that when they were gone on vacation, I had unhooked the speedometer on mom's 1980 Oldsmobile Omega and had been driving it.

Oh, but now that I think about it, when I was twelve, my sister would let me drive her triple green 1973 Plymouth Satellite in empty parking lots on the way home from church. So technically I learned to drive in that but learned the rules of the road in the Datsun at age 16.