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I learnt to drive in my parents 1986 Ford Telstar. (Photos not our actual vehicle).
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I learned to drive, and got a license when I was 14, so that would have
been 1949. I think they let 14 year olds get licences because of all the
farmers who had kids that needed to drive trucks.
My Dad had a big old Buick Roadmaster with a straight eight engine in it.
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A Meyers Manx dune buggy, based on a 1965 VW if I recall. I learned to drive off road at age 14. It was a good way to learn to drive a stick shift and also how to control a car sliding around on dirt roads. I was a better than average driver by the time I turned 16 and got my license.
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Two vehicles, a 66 Ford F100 with a 240 6 and 3 on the tree.
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I learned on a 1979 chevy pickup. Straight 6 with a 3-spd on column. No AC or power steering. A stepside, but a longbed stepside. Dad bought it new, but it was just a ranch truck, really.
He told me if I could learn to drive that, I could drive anything. He was right.
I drove that thing everywhere and could park it in a shoebox. I learned a lot more in that truck, and miss it sometimes.
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I started in my dad's orange 1970 Chevy pickup, on logging roads up in Alaska, when I was 13. When we moved back down south the next year, I continued my training in my mom's little yellow Datsun. I can't remember the model, but I think it was a B210. Oddly enough, I didn't test for my license until I was 20. My parents said I'd need to quit a few of my bad habits before driving their car by myself, and since I discovered just how easy it was to hitchhike (this WAS the 70's!), I didn't really see the need. I taught my sister to drive in a big '73 Delta 88, and when we drove past the high school, she would make me duck out of sight!
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Dad used let me drive 67 Impala Station wagon think it was 307 powerglide . Dad also taught me to shift and float gears 70's Dodge stake bed truck. He would have grounded me for life if knew I drove around the block while he was out of town. Driving school was Chrysler K car first car by myself was 74 Impala, dad noticed right rear tire worn more than others
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First car I drove was my late grandfathers 1967 Rambler American two door sedan. I was 12, Dad let me drive it around the yard and the local farm lanes. The lack of power steering made it a good learning experience.
When I got my permit Dad insisted I had to drive a stick first, so I started learning in Dad’s 1976 F100. The clutch was failing, Dad would occasionally have to use a long blade screwdriver to help get me in or out of 3rd gear. That didn’t last to long, a drunk hit Dad on the way home from work and totaled the truck.
Most of my learning to drive was in Mom’s 1985 Crown Vic. I loved that car. Power steering, power brakes and a 302 V-8. Early on a guy cut in front of me on the highway. I slammed on the power brakes and turned the wheel at the same time. Did a beautiful 180 degree spin. I can still picture it now. Dad was totally unfazed, when we came to a stop he just said “well, get it pointed in the right direction”. I took my driving test in the Vic.
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When I first got my learners permit I drove a 64 Chev station wagon or a 64 VW Beetle. I don't remember which came first.
I first steered a 54 Lincoln Continental at the age of 5, coincidentally both mine and the cars age. I went down the rows of hay while my 7 yr old brother and dad threw bales on a low trailer. He had disconnected the gas pedal, turned up the idle and wired a block to the brake pedal. He later told me it was the only thing we owned that had an automatic transmission.
I didn't drive a clutch until I was 8 either a 1935 Dodge 2 ton or an Allis Chalmers tractor, I don't recall which.
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I learned to drive on a International Farm All BN tractor. 3 speed trans, throttle lever on the steering column clutch and left brake on the left side of the shift lever right brake on the right side. I guess I was 13-14 years old and was driving a 1 1/2 stake truck dodge. four speed with a granny 1st gear. First car was a 1950 dodge with a semi auto transmission. Farm kids learn early to drive.
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I learned to drive with farm tractors at 5 years years old and then by 10 years old was driving a Chevrolet cattle truck. First car was my dad's 62 thunderbird.
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My father took me to a large parking lot at our local high school when I had my learner's permit. The car was a 1958 Ford Custom 300 with a 292 c.i. engine and a fordomatic transmission. The year was 1961 and our high school had Driver's Education class. The instructors always said "You educate people, you train monkeys".
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I learned to drive a 63 GMC with a linkage jamming 3 on the tree. Having an impatient Father on the passenger side did not make it an enjoyable experience. I think I was 14. Dad was a contractor and I was cheap labor. He had no time to waste, there was work to be done.
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hard to declare just one...
the first time I placed my hands on the steering wheel and pushed on the gas all by myself it was in my aunt's 62 Buick with a wildcat V8... I was 9 or 10 spending a week at the farm and my aunt drove me out to the oat stubble field and parked it next to the hay stack behind the barn... she got out and said when I was ready put it in the garage and walked back to the house... I was Mario Andretti for at least half an hour... probably never went over 30 mph... managed to get the front bumper in the garage door and panic set in... turned it off and surrendered the keys in defeat... the next summer I learned how to drive a stick... 1965 GMC straight six 3 on the tree, radio delete and manual choke... once you can drive that... you can drive anything... neither car was glamorous, but wouldn't change a single moment... years later at 16 I took my driving test in my mothers 1972 Buick Skylark Custom Convertible with a 350 and a posi... got to drive that my junior year in high school... my older sister has it now... my senior year I saved up enough to by my own car... 1967 Pontiac Firebird Convertible with a big block... best man from our wedding has that one... both have been restomodded into street beasts... thanks for sharing your memories
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Duh, a tractor!
Yup, a tractor at age 15! A three cylinder, gas/diesel. Started on gas and switched to diesel! It had a huge flywheel that had to be turned to get the starter to catch up and start it! The rear tires were filled with water to add weight and traction too!
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In the area of tractors, I started out on a gasoline powered LA Case pulling a 4X14” rope pull plow. Dad had two other LAs, but they had been converted to butane and had more power than the old gasser I drove. Think I was around 10 or 11.
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My mom's 83 Chevy Chevette. It had a 4 on the floor stick so I was always grateful that I learned to drive a manual transmission. So many people today can't. My first two cars were also stick shifts. Hard to find these days, even on so called "sports cars."
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I don't remember the actual model year but (Had to be a 66) it was a 3rd gen Rambler American (66-69) with a little flat 6 and 3 on the column or tree if you prefer. I think it was probably a 66 or 67. It was a good little car. I don't think it had power anything. It may have had a heater. It did have an AM radio.
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Reason: It was used and I got my learners permit in early 67.
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My parents got one of those Tempos after I'd left home. I did drive it some and drove it on a trip. It had some little Japanese diesel engine in it. It was the most gutless thing I've ever driven. However, it got just stupid good gas mileage. I don't remember what the mileage was but at the time I considered it unbelievably good.
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How about a 1959 Studebaker?
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1957 Ford's that the Drivers Ed program had both auto and stick. At home we had a 56 Chevy, but my first car was a 47 Dodge Coupe. Had a huge trunk, you could get 4 people in it to sneak into the drive in.
I was disappointed when my children were old enough to drive that the drivers ed program only taught on a auto trans. My son eventually learned to drive a stick, and has owned a stick shift now for 25 years. I don't think my daughter has ever learned to drive a stick, and the grandkids didn't know cars ever came with manual crank windows,
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It was my mom’s 1972 Ford Pinto station wagon. That car was also the car on which I learned to do an engine tune-up, as part of an auto maintenance night class at the local junior college I took WITH MY MOM! She was quite a trooper, joining me in a class like that. She has slowed down some in her old age, at 89 years old in an assisted living facility. I have a lot of love and respect for her, despite having picked out a pathetic Ford Pinto wagon as her ride in the 70’s.
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As a farm boy..
I learned to drive tractors first since Dad and his brother needed drivers to pull the hay bailer. Drove farm pick-up trucks as soon as I could reach pedals. When I got close to driver license age(16) Dad let me drive the family '53 Olds 4 door sedan and then bought me a used '52 Ford 2 door hard top Victoria( flathead V8 and 3 on the tree). Got my license the day I turned 16.
I had somewhere between 4 and 6 wrecks during my teen age years(none serious) and none since.
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1960 Rambler American. My dad got it for my mom new when she learned to drive. Caught fire in the church parking lot about '65 or '66. Smelled like burnt hair afterward. About 1970 she got my dad to buy her a '65 Mustang, a car I wrecked a couple years after I put the Rambler in the junkyard. After that I wrecked a '64 Impala, a 67 "ragtop" Buick honking V8 LeSabre and another "lead sled" 69 Le Sabre. Back in NJ they didn't call me "Crazy Joe" for nothing. I was 40 when I really learned to drive. Joe
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I don't remember the actual model year but (Had to be a 66) it was a 3rd gen Rambler American (66-69) with a little flat 6 and 3 on the column or tree if you prefer. I think it was probably a 66 or 67. It was a good little car. I don't think it had power anything. It may have had a heater. It did have an AM radio.
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My parents got one of those Tempos after I'd left home. I did drive it some and drove it on a trip. It had some little Japanese diesel engine in it. It was the most gutless thing I've ever driven. However, it got just stupid good gas mileage. I don't remember what the mileage was but at the time I considered it unbelievably good.
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I looked up that Mazda diesel for giggles. 2.0 liters, 60 hp and 89 lb-ft of torque. Stand back!
Here's progress for you. My BMW diesel: 2.0, 180 hp and 280 lb-ft of torque. My wife and I went to Long Beach and back last year and it averaged 45.7 mpg, including have the cruise set at an indicated 80 mph, uphill and into the wind back from Cali.
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I don't know. Maybe I misspoke but it was a little engine. I did have a Corvair back in 72 or thereabouts.
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I don't know. Maybe I misspoke but it was a little engine. I did have a Corvair back in 72 or thereabouts.
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The Rambler American had a base 199ci straight six with a single barrel carb. It won the Mobil economy run for it’s class. There was an optional 232ci straight six. My 1967 Rambler American 220 2 door has the 199 six. Not a bad little engine for what it is.
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1961 Chevy station wagon with a in-line 6 and 3 on the tree.
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The "flat six" discussion reminded me of the old "slant six" that came in the Plymouth Valiant. I had one of these that I paid a whopping $100 for, and I probably overpaid.
The main problem was that the fiber gear on the bottom of the distributor didn't last long. After I had these fail twice I purchased a handful of them ($1 each) and kept them in the glove box.
When one gave out, I would pull the distributor, pull #1 spark plug, crank around to TDC on that cylinder, replace the gear and re-seat the distributor, start the car, and time by ear. After a couple of iterations I was able to do all this in less than 15 minutes on the side of the road. This car also received a "new" set of Big-O retreads ($8 each) about once a year.
I was a poor college student in those days, but I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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The Rambler American had a base 199ci straight six with a single barrel carb. Not a bad little engine for what it is.
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Oh wow. I started out on Granpa's old Farmall tractor. Dad had to start it tho, it had to be hand cranked and they didn't want a back fire to break my arm. A few years later when I was about 14, Dad started teaching me in the '46 Ford. But I guess I actually learned how to drive in a 1963 Ford Galaxy that the school furnished for driver's ed. It was the newest car I'd ever driven or would ever drive for many years. Once I got my license, I mostly drove Dad's '57 Ford until I got my first motorcycle.
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