What did you learn to drive in?
 

When I was in school they still had drivers training in the school itself. You had a drivers training class with simulators, and then after school you drove for real with 2-3 other students and an instructor. My instructor happened to be my Biology teacher Mr. Koobs, who was also a neighbor when I was real young.

My driver training car was a new 73 Pontiac LeMans. What a classic... :lol:

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When I got my permit I cut my teeth on the family Ford wagon.

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At least it had a 429. :wacko: So what did you learn to drive in?

Interesting......I'm trying to think of what my first steering wheel with 4 tires vehicle was?

In high school we had a drivers ed class and the vehicle was a '73 or so yellow VW bug.....clutch modulation 101 :bang:

I took my permit and license tests with my mom's '69 Pontiac Lemans 350 w/ TH350 and that was my drifting car. I swear it gained 75 hp when I flipped the air cleaner lid. :lol:

My Dad had a '73 LTD w/ a 460.......the high-speed hwy pursuit vehicle.......straights only as that thing was a genuine pig in the corners.

Awesome topic Jody. :thumbsup:

When I was 12 in small town South Dakota my MOM took me out to a gravel parking lot at the edge of town in a high performance 1981 Plymouth Horizon (4 speed!) to cut my teeth. :D

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I'm so old they didn't even have cars to learn to drive in. Wait! What were we talking about?

It's been so long I honestly can't remember.

This is going to be a good thread. We had simulators in high school too, a movie from a dash of a car playing at the front of a trailer/classroom filled with dashboards from something like my Dad's old Caprice. That would alternate each day with 4 of us plus instructor driving around taking turns in a 80's ish Escort POS.

Before that though my Dad one day asked me when I was about 12-13 probably if I would like to steer the car, that old Caprice. Well, it had a bench seat so I slid over next to him and began to steer the car. That continued when he got his '79 Malibu Classic until I got my license. Learned to drive a stick in my Mom's '74 Datsun 610 that later developed a problem with the anti-backfire valve and would backfire after shifting like a bomb going off!

Nice car.
Too funny Jody! My very first car was a 1974 Pontiac LeMans. Very Similar to this but a maroon color.
I learned to drive in an mid eighties Camaro. (It wasn't a Z28, but still a nice car at the time and had a V8.) The guy who owned the driving school was a younger guy at the time and cool dude.
After I got my permit, I was driving around my mom's Ford Escort and my dad's Caprice Classic. Ahhhhhh,...........the memories. lol

I learned to drive in a 1958 Cameo

3 on the tree baby!

I was too young to deliver and throw the Sunday paper by myself so my dad would let me drive his 72 Dodge 3/4 ton. This was when you could pass an officer and wave while your old man sat on the tailgate, I was 10.

The first manual I remember is our little Meyers Manx. We'd go down into the valley and run the gravel roads next to the slough. Still remeber the lil white wheel for a gas pedal, man that thing was a lot of fun!

Drivers Ed was a sweet burgandy K car, lame!

Easy...my Mom's 69 Nova 350/350. 1:am, I was 13 years old and had the night of my life. When Dad found out the next day I couldn't sit down for a week.

Yard tractor, 51 jeep (farm/hunting rig) and this Camaro, "technically" my fist car, had it when I was 15. Would love to have it now... Also, not instead! LoL!