What did you learn to drive on......?

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Dan Dlabay

I learned to drive in a 65 Buick Wildcat.

Same size land yacht as the caddy. Going down to a little car years later (civic) was a joke after the big boys.

I had two VW bugs, and they were fun, but I froze my ass off in the winter!

A 57 Pontiac wagon with 3x2s.....man that's a rare car today. Too bad you never got to drive it...

[Grey Ghost]

At 12, I kind of learned the steering thing with a '69 Ranchero with auto. Not on the street, but just on our property. A few yrs. later was a late '70s/early 80's Chevy truck with inline 6/3 on the tree.

The first car that I drove completely alone was the '69 Chevelle SS 396 (in another thread of mine). I went to get my drivers permit in it...alone. I couldn't wait! I was scared to death the patrolman was going to bust me for driving there without a license. I was also very nervous about being there in the Chevelle with headers, stout 396, healthy cam lope, etc...I just knew he was going to give me a lecture about the car. We walked out of the inspection office to the parking lot and he asked which car. With my heart pumping a thousand times a minute, all I could do is point to the Chevelle. He said, 'I always wanted a '69 Chevelle SS'. That totally relaxed me and the driving test was a breeze. I think he enjoyed the opportunity to ride in it.

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Grey Ghost

The first car that I drove completely alone was the '69 Chevelle SS 396 (in another thread of mine). I went to get my drivers permit in it...alone. I couldn't wait! I was scared to death the patrolman was going to bust me for driving there without a license.

That happened to me as well....drove there in my Mom's big Olds by myself. BUT....I failed my test for being overconfident (for a 16 year old). So I had to nonchalantly walk out and look around, then drive home!

[Craig]

'78 Volare station wagon, 318 CI with...ISYN...a four speed manual. Also the first car I ever wrecked.

[onedef92]

My Dad's 1973 VW 412 Squareback Sedan. Me and ol' boy J.C. Whitney were definitely well-acquainted.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by Craig

'78 Volare station wagon, 318 CI with...ISYN...a four speed manual. Also the first car I ever wrecked.

I still to this day jones for a Volare wagon. I want to make a Volare Road Runner wagon. I'm crazy that way

[Cybercowboy]

Whatever car they had for us in driver's ed. That and my parent's old Ford station wagon and '76 Cougar. My first car (bought it myself for $200 at age 16) was a 1966 Pontiac Star Chief Executive. Now that was a boat!

[Montehall]

1996 Plymouth Voyager.

[Yerf Dog]

1979 Ford Fairmont wagon.

[mrvette]

Single car family, burbs of Wash DC, Dad drove a '49 Buick, then a 52-53? Packard Clipper, then a '56 Caddy that was yellow with white top/interior 4 dr sedan.....then a white '59 Caddy Fleetwood 75 sedan.....that damn car was SO long it was pulled into the garage far as the block wall would allow, then the door lowered and set on the fins that stuck out about a foot longer, maybe more......THAT was the boat I 'learned' to drive on I never could parallel park the thing, always knocked the cones over...Dad got SO frustrated, he finally tossed his hands in the air and took me to the driver's test, where I parked the thing for the first and ONLY time ever.....

couple years later some of the Caddy's above appeared at his ride, and Mom got a '63 Olds F85 sedan, the car I put 35k miles on through college.....but in that time frame Folks moved out to nowhere, and it was some 15 miles one way to a grocery store.....6 miles to a gas station.....

I was taking Mom to the grocery store one Sat AM, and a pack of Dawgs ran out on the 2 lane road, I swerved to miss them, right wheels into the ditch, Moms' head into the WS, and an overhanging limb too out the A pillar.....ever since then, I don't give a shit WHAT runs into the road, I not steering or braking, it's dead, these daze more I see I going to remove the disclaimer about it being 'human'..........that that includes a COW, I did not swerve but bossy wiped out the entire left side of my '67 Grand Prix......

my first own car was a '60 vette, in '66.........


Good thread, especially with pix, I have none except in my mind.....

[onedef92]

And on the tangent tip, I like the PS rack on your avatar chickie, Kerrmudgeon.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by onedef92

And on the tangent tip, I like the PS rack on your avatar chickie, Kerrmudgeon.

He's the avatar king

[8Up]

I actually learned how to drive before I had a permit on my friends VW bug. The first time I went driving with my dad after I got my permit he was impressed with how good I was at shifting gears LOL!.... Poor ignorant dad.

[Hoog]

I learned on this. My father was the original owner. It went through a few hands and ended up wth this guy who restored the car. He's tried to sell it a couple times and seems to be really proud of it...which may explain why he still has the car.

I had been riding motorcycles since I was 10, but this was the first car.

[jda67gta]

1953 International pick-em-up.

[markids77]

1970 Mustang Coupe. Straight six, three on the floor. Froze at the controls in the first corner; knocked down several rows of corn.

[The Cripp]

Originally Posted by LATB

My pop wanted the wagon. But couldn't afford the extra few hundred bux. The Impala was out of the question.

The old Chevy 4 door was a good car. We (I) looked after it well, and it served as "The poor man's limo" at family funerals/weddings/functions.

Move the front bench up a couple notches (I'm 6' 2") and three could ride in the back in great comfort.

Not a Cadillac, but I doubt the seats were much less comfortable...

The "family limo" was my 429 '68 Thunderbird, with A/C and every option.

Just the coupe, but the same thing; move the front seats up a bit, and even the elderly were impressed.

It had custom exhaust, and the 429 CJ was modified, but if you were light on the throttle, it was still quiet... which Birds are renowned for.

I had to bite my lip once when my step-granddad "encouraged" me to accelerate more rapidly from the backseat.

Heh... if I'd have floored it, his dentures would've ended up in his stomach!

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by onedef92

And on the tangent tip, I like the PS rack on your avatar chickie, Kerrmudgeon.

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

He's the avatar king

A.D.D. I get bored easily.

[TripleBlack]

Dad had a '56 Rocket 88 and that's what I learned to drive.

Ours wasn't as cool as the one above as it was a 4 door sedan, but still red/white and pretty cool for the day. No fender skirts either.

[island14]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

Same size land yacht as the caddy. Going down to a little car years later (civic) was a joke after the big boys.

I had two VW bugs, and they were fun, but I froze my ass off in the winter!

A 57 Pontiac wagon with 3x2s.....man that's a rare car today. Too bad you never got to drive it...

Mine was the two door coupe, but I really do like the Wagons now..

The 58 Pontiac had some nice lines also I always thought.