What Car Did You Take Your Driver's Exam in?

[Dan in Pasadena]

The day of my sixteenth birthday in 1970 I took my sister's then-new Vokswagen Autostickshift, light yellow, chick mobile Beetle, left it in high gear (so it was a pig on takeoff), and took the test.

Also took my Dad's CL175 Honda motorcycle for the bike test. The tester said, "Okay drive across the parking lot, make a couple of circulars left and then right and come back shifting slowly. THAT'S what constituted a motorcycle's driver's exam in California then.

[widebody911]

1969 VW bug

[IROC]

1976 Toyota Corona.

Mike

[legion]

1993 Mercury Villager.

A few months after my 17th birthday. It took me three tries to pass, as I took driver's ed. when I was 15 and my parents wouldn't let me take the test (or practice any driving) until then. I learned to drive after I had my license.

[fastpat]

1963 Ford station wagon, 352 CI V8, column shift, no power steering. The car was new.

[red-beard]

1980 Datsun 310.

[Nostril Cheese]

1967 Mercury Cougar XR7

[nota]

60 caddy [aka the great white whale]
dad had sold the last 356 before that time
and wouldnot let me near his Fascel II

[Super_Dave_D]

1969 VW Beetle

[slakjaw]

1971 Ford F100 pickup.

[Kevin G.]

'68 Chevrolet Malibu wagon

First thing the examiner says as he walks up to the car (I had been waiting about 20 minutes) - Turn off the dam radio.

Last thing he sez - I wish I could have found one more thing wrong so I could flunk you. Even after all the yes sirs, no sirs, thank you sirs.

[kmhemi]

914

[TerryH]

It was a friends '65 Chevy Impala and it was 1972.

When we were 15 1/2 we signed up for "behind the wheel" instruction from our high school. There was a 3 month wait for the cars with automatic transmissions, but there was no wait if you chose the 4 speed manual VW bug. After the second day of a five day program, the instructor told me I passed. He wanted to spend the extra time with the other 2 students who had never been allowed to drive anything prior.

[126coupe]

I forget the year, but my friends Mom's MGB GT

[gprsh924]

1993 BMW 525i with a 4 speed automatic

It was then onto the minivan for the first month I had my license until I "proved" to my dad that I was ready to drive the 924 (stick) on my own and all that entailed. For the first month I had to "practice" driving stick everyday for a few hours (basically I would come home and cruise the local neighborhoods for hours until my dad would let me drive it everyday)

[911boost]

1983 Toyota Tercel SR5, yeah don't mess with the SR5 versions. 5-speed, my dad wouldn't let me take the test with an automatic.

[Dantilla]

1975 Chevy pick-up with a 454.

[syncroid]

1969 VW Bug and a 1973 Yamaha 175 enduro bike.
Lots of 69 Bug peeps here.

[onlycafe]

1963 mercury comet station wagon.

[bell]

took the test in a mercury topaz....tempo....whatever it was it sucked

i learned to drive when i was 12 in a 2 ton ford van which was a 3 speed......that was fun