what car did you learn to drive in?

[Beaker]

(i don't mean the Driver's Ed car at the school)

mine was a brown 1972 Dodge Charger SE 440/4bbl...it was my parent's first new car.



I think it greatly influenced the way I drive, to this day.

[elfwitch]

1. 1968 GMC Red Pickup and 1984 Nissan King-cab

The 68 GMC was an automatic the 84 Nissan was a standard.
I took my test in the 84 Nissan.

[northzax]

2. '82 Volvo Station Wagon

and it was '92...

[Aristus]

3. A 1978 Ford LTD.

Mint-green, if you believe it. How embarrassing.

[mark0rama]

34. More minty freshness...

1979 Olds Delta 88 Royale, also mint green, with a padded vinyl top on the last third of the roof.

[RebelOne]

4. A Studebaker convertible.

I don't remember the year, but it was really old..

[GOPisEvil]

5. 1980 Datsun 210 and 1981 Subaru sedan.

Datsun was an auto trans, and became my first car, and the Subaru was a 5-sp. I liked the 5-sp. better, but dad wouldn't give it up. :P

[SoCalDem]

6. 1956 Yellow Cadillac

"Ole Yeller"...:)

My aunt & uncle had sold it to my friend for $50.00 in 1966..:)

Like this.. only buttery yellow.

[YNGW]

7. 1976 Mercedes Benz 220D

Great handling car. Had to hit the gas about a week before you actually moved.

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. 1985 Mercury Lynx.

:puke:

[nini]

9. 1967 Volkswagon Beatle

it was a sweet car.. all decked out. If my friend's mom knew i was driving that car around unlicensed she would have had a stroke!

[CO Liberal]

51. I Learned in a '56 Beetle

With the tiny back window, 36-hp engine, and a manual choke.

[jean]

10. a red with black interior

1967 VW beetle with no heater. It took me some time to master the stick shift, especially since my Dad would purposely take me onto hilly roads with uphill waits at the stoplights.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. A 1974 (I think) Dodge Dart.

Man you used to see those cars all over the place...now I hardly see them at all. :hi:

[DODI]

12. 1967 Dodge Coronet with a 318

And it is still on the road today -- although now with a 440 God bless it's little heart!

[lovedems]

13. An Austin Healy!!! My dad has one. He wanted me to learn how

to drive a stick shift first so that is the car I learned it. He didn't let me drive it very often but hey!

We also had a conversion van, he let me drive. Bad idea, it could hold alot of my friends, had built in coolers in the back. Great pary van when you are in High School!

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. 1980 Chevy Citation

One of the truly silly ones with the cream on top and the "cinnabar" panel on the bottom. Mom's car.

I'm mortified to this day....

[prole_for_peace]

15. a pacer. for pete's sake.

wasn't mine thank goodness. belonged to my best friend.

[grannylib]

16. '66 Olds Cutlass with a Hearst transmission; belonged to a friend from

high school; also my parents' "spare" car, an orange VW squareback wagon.

[Kellanved]

17. *ducks* 1998 VW Golf IV

Manual Transmission, of course.
Almost all driving schools use Golfs here; learning without a school/ a certified instructor is not an option. Thus the licence is easily as expensive as the first car.

[wysimdnwyg]

18. '74 Pinto and '73 Cutlass

The Pinto was a standard and the Cutlass was an automatic.

[bubblesby2002]

19. A 1970 Ford Grand Torino

...a station wagon no less - that car was HUGE. And on a small gulf island, man that car took up the whole road. With my dad beside me - often yelling.

[thebaghwan]

20. 1962 Chevy Nova II station wagon

N/T

[NoPasaran]

21. 1967 Dodge station wagon

[trotsky]

22. 1973 Plymouth Fury III

It was such a piece of crap that we had to rent a Ford Escort for me to take my test in.

The land barges were dying a slow, painful death when our Fury III was made...

[supernova]

23. 1977 Buick Electra 225

Silver w/ burgundy interior. It was my mom's car. I loved it because it had electric seats and I could put the seat up as far and high as I wanted it.

Also, on very rare occasions, my brother's "Smoky & the Bandit" Trans Am. He got his car 6 mos before the movie came out. :D

[Champion Jack]

24. 1947 army jeep at age 13

[bobthedrummer]

25. A 1965 Chevrolet full-size station wagon and a 1966 Yamaha YGY 80

bored out to 101 c.c. with high compression head and bigger carb.
I loved to hillclimb and ride in the dirt then.

[name not needed]

26. 99 hyundai elantra

when i was 13.

[beyurslf]

27. 1986 Remault

stick shift at 14...scares the hell out of me today to think about it.

[terrya]

28. My parents 1967 Country Squire Ford station wagon

Yellow with brown fake wood panelling on the sides (I know, ugh)

The back door that could open on the side as well as down.

[Bertha Venation]

42. we had one of those!

I don't know what year it was, but it definitely came in a box. The license plate was ZLA 310. I will never forget that car.

Did you ever ride in the "third seat" in the "way back?"

[terrya]

46. I sure did!

Riding in the third seat was pretty cool! You had a different view from everyone else. :-)

How are you, Bertha?

HUGS,
Terry

[ScreamingMeemie]

48. For some reason, we used to call that the "back back" as in,"I

wanna sit in the back back"...my cousins called theirs the "way in the back" :hi:

[eyesroll]

29. One of those early 1990s station wagons that looked like a suppository

I'm not sure what the model was. But it was ugly. And I had the damnedest time driving it.

[madrchsod]

30. a 1959

simca aronde two seater. in the next few years my dad and i bought 5 more simcas.a fine french car.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. 66 Chevy Suburban

I was waaaay ahead of the SUV craze.

[M155Y_A1CH]

32. '69 Olds 98

Man, was that car hard to parallel park.

on edit: I don't know if it counts but I really
learned to drive on a '49 Ford tractor at the age of 9. By 11 years of age I could hitch and unhitch and by 13, I had full responsibility for the care and repair of it. (Farmer's daughter)

[NewHampster]

33. A Valiant

Shift on the Dash

[M155Y_A1CH]

36. I remember those

Push button automatic.

[NewHampster]

38. hard to screw up the shifting

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. A '67 Corvair

My dad was/is a Corvair freak. Had many Corvairs over the years. Pretty cool little cars, actually.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

37. 1960...a truck on my best friends produce farm in Davie FL it was missing

the gas peddle...just had a rod sticking up out of the floor board....it was her chore after school to drive the truck to all the stations in the fields whole workers loaded it and take them to the washing and packing station...it was great fun for us ...tare assing through the fields....we were 10/11 years old....then at 12 i learned to drive on the streets in a chevey nova

[Bertha Venation]

39. Datsun B-210

It WAS the school car, 'cause no one at home taught me. Then learned in my first car, a '72 Toyota Corona Mark II.

[sister_rosa_refried]

40. '63 Nova

[arwalden]

41. 1965 Dodge Dart and a 1971 Safari Station Wagon

[ronnykmarshall]

43. 1970 Chevy Impala

[WorldBuilder]

44. An '85 Subaru GL Wagon

I first learned to drive on a POS '85 Subes 5 speed. It may have been ugly, but it was tough and a rgeat car to learn on.

Chris

[Lostmessage]

45. 1972 Mercury Cougar

I tore the shit out of that car in a parking lot when I tried to park.

[Parrcrow]

47. '74 Bel Air (n/t)

[annonymous]

49. 1969 International Jeep with manual choke.

.

[ellie]

50. 1974 Gremlin

It was a three speed and didn't need a key to start it if the ignition wasn't locked.

[Mrs. Venation]

52. 1959 Chevy Parkwood Station Wagon

Dang thing was like driving a battleship. No power steering, power brakes . . . you get the idea. I was a skinny little 15-year old; I don't know how I managed that big hunk of steel. I do remember scaring the crap out of my dad a few times. :scared: Ah, the memories.

[tsakshaug]

53. 73 chevy half ton & 75 delta 88

The chevy pickup was the main ride. could fit four other kids in the cab with a case of beer on the floor. several hundred other could ride in back.

The delta 88 was like riding in your living room. It was huge. 455 engine with a 4 barrel, look in the carburetor and it was like watching a toilet flush.

[shanti]

54. my first car, a 56 chevy belair

what a tank!

[TheMightyFavog]

55. Let's see...

1989 Ford tempo, which was an automatic, and a shit-ass 1984 Dodge Ram pickup which was a stick.

[geniph]

56. 1980 Chevy LUV pickup

I actually bought it new without knowing how to drive it. I'd gotten my driver license through the Sears driving school (and who knows what those cars were, some generic POS sedans), but the LUV was a 4-speed, and I'd only driven a manual once before (my brother's 1958 pickup, with 3 on the column). I had to have my big brother drive my brand-new truck home for me, then I learned to drive in it. I did have to replace the clutch at 80,000 miles - not too surprising with a brand-new driver.

I kept that truck for 22 years.

[bleedingheart]

57. The brand new 1991 Saturn I bought

I had a license...I had taken lessons years before...but never needed a car in college... so when I got my first job I had to get a car and actually drive...

So I bought a new car with some help from an endowment my mom had for me... and I drove a new car off the lot without any real driving experience...I was lucky never to wreck it...

[KansDem]

58. 1965 Ford Fairlane...

(ours was a blue-silver 4-door...)

[TrogL]

59. '80 Monte Carlo (auto) and '65 MG-B (standard)

Both were waaaaay too much car for a beginning driver.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. A behemoth of a Plymouth station wagon...

I think it was a 1970...looked something like this, but in a creamy yellow: