What car did you learn how to drive in?

[name not needed]

My dad's 1999 Hyundai Elantra. I must have been 12 or 13 at the time.

[topgun77]

1. 84 Chevy Malibu! It was a boat!

[Bunny]

2. A purple AMC Gremlin! n/t

[redqueen]

3. Boyfriend's 83 (?) Isuzu pickup. Standard.

At 16.

[Worst Username Ever]

4. 1990 Nissan Maxima

My dad still has it. I did the first damage to that car, ever, when I can over a curb.

[doni_georgia]

5. 1964 VW bug, named Susie - my first car She was green with silver polka

dots - what can I say - it was the 70s!

[DODI]

19. The '67 Dodge was named Lazarus -- it always rose from the dead.

[tmooses]

6. A 64 Chevelle

[Gelliebeans]

7. 82 VW Rabbit

[Lavender Brown]

8. 91 Camry

:P

[Philostopher]

9. 1974 Chevy Vega.

I was 15. My dad took me out on a back road. The car was already toast -- guess he figured I couldn't do it much more damage. It had been hit on the street near where he worked, the wheel was bent under. It never aligned properly after that, so you had to have your hands on the wheel at all times. Actually, it was good experience -- I've seldom had any situations where my inattention caused problems, since I learned driving a 'ditch diver' that had to be watched every second.

[teach1st]

10. '63 Ford Falcon

and a '65 VW bug and finally a '67 Dodge Charger (hemi) which had a clutch I was barely strong enough to depress..

My father raced cars, and I learned to race as I learned to drive. I never followed in his racing footsteps, but his knowledge and tips (always have a way out) have come in very handy.

[Larry Tyler]

20. always have a way out

Seems like something that could be a key line for this election.

Perhaps your father should have taught b* about war.

[DS1]

11. Honda Accord - Manual

[Dzimbowicz]

12. Actually a wide variety of vehicles

A 1957 VW was my first car, but my mom had a 1967 Plymouth Sport Fury. That car was fun to drive! I also worked on a farm during that point in my life, so I can add tractors, combines and other assorted vehicles.

[Emops]

14. My mom's 1998 Toyota Camry

It's a standard shift, but since I own a automatic now, I completely forgot how to shift for myself.

[CO Liberal]

22. Small World

I learned on a '56 VW, which was my older sister's car at the time. My mother had a '67 Plymouth Fury III wagon - manual trans, manual steering, and manual brakes. My sister called it "The Sherman Tank" - and the year that Mom had Dad put studded snow tires on all four wheels, it SOUNDED like a Sherman Tank!!!

:-)

[Dzimbowicz]

23. I'm from the deep south

so what do snow tires sound like?

[CO Liberal]

24. Regular Snow Tires Rumble on Dry Pavement

Studded snow tires go "tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-...."

:-)

[Dzimbowicz]

26. Cool !

I'm a veteran and I used to drive a tank for several years.

www.veteransforpeace.org

[DODI]

13. 1967 Dodge Coronet

[CottonBear]

15. 1974 Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon

A true land yacht. I learned to parallel park that baby!

I learned to drive a manual transmission in my Dad's Porsche 912e. We lived on a mountain so it didn't take too long to get the hang of starting off from a stop on a hill.

[BoX o BooX]

16. Dad's Cadillac

I forget the year... 1972? And the model... but it was an 18-foot behemoth. I learned, driving up 101 in the Pacific Northwest, how to watch the corners of my car. Boy Howdy! 13 years old! My dad was the BEST!

[RetroLounge]

17. Officially my dad's 1972 Ford

Unofficially, an older friend's 1976 Grand Prix...

RL

[KayLaw]

18. Trial by fire

I learned to drive in 1970. My dad let me drive his manual-shift Fiat and, though we were in flat Florida, made me drive up a steep incline at a mall. No power anything but it was all downhill from there.

[CO Liberal]

21. 1956 VW

Same car I learned to make out in.

[Kellanved]

25. 1998 VW Golf

:hi:

[Tom Kitten]

27. A 67 Mustang

[mooky]

28. 1982 Mercury Lynx

Stickshift too! No stereo until I bought one at a flea market.

[Downtown Hound]

29. 1986 Pontiac 6000 STE

[supernova]

30. 1976 Buick Electra 225

Silver w/ burgundy interiod. It was my mom's car. I loved it b/c of the power seats. I'm petite and I could adjust it just right for me! :D

[flamingyouth]

31. My mom's 1984 Peugeot 505 Turbo Diesel

Not to be confused wiht my first car, which was a 1980 Peugeot 505 regular diesel. For some reason, my family had a thing for Peugeots in the '80s. I liked the cars, actually. I wish they still sold them in the US.

[DemWitch]

32. My car, and my folks cars

Mine... 64 Ford Galaxie
Mom's... 74 Gremilin WITH the Levi Interior
Dad's... 76 K-5 Chevy Blazer (Big One)

[arwalden]

33. 1965 Dodge Dart

[VOX]

35. Too funny! I learned to drive in my dad's 1964 Dodge Dart...

That thing was refrigerator white, and sounded like a egg-beater when starting up.

It was a very easy car to drive though! :hi:

[gollygee]

34. plymouth horizon - mid 80s

Then I smashed it into a telephone pole. It was quite new.

[trotsky]

36. 1973 Plymouth Fury III

It was a land barge. So big, in fact, that my dad took pity on me and we rented a Ford Escort for me to take my driver's exam in so that I stood half a chance of parallel parking.

[miss_kitty]

37. That 1958 Hillman Minx Estate wagon

I started in the family car (some land yacht) and gave up until I lived in the country in southern Oregon, and it was essential I know how to drive.

[NMDemDist2]

38. 1959 Saab with an extended "H" pattern shift on the column

i think it was a Saab (maybe a Volvo?)

Then in a '63 Mustang

[GRLMGC]

39. 1990 Nissan Sentra

Actually, my mom tried to teach me in her Civic which was stick shift. She got so frustrated that she just decided to teach me to drive an automatic :(

[cedahlia]

40. Mint green Toyota Tercel named "Turtle"

It had no power steering and struggled to make it up hills...good times. :-)

[BrotherBuzz]

41. A 1941 Chevrolet coupe

Three on the column, six under the hood. Did I mention fun with the vacuum pump on the hill in the rain? We've come a long way!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

42. 1988 ford taurus

[ldf]

43. i first drove a TRACTOR

we had a farm and grew tobacco. i had to drive the tractor pulling a sled in the field for the tobacco croppers to put their armloads of cropped tobacco leaves in.

i was hardly heavy enough to press down the clutch. i had to jump on it.

ah, childhood. those were the days. NOT!

[mrbassman03]

44. 95 Camry...

And it's still running better than the one I just got!

[SarahB]

45. 1979 Mercury Zephyr

The poor man's Ford Fairmont.

[NNadir]

46. 68 Pontiac Tempest. Man that was a long time ago.