65 Ford Ranchero... three on the tree baby. Any clutch after that was cake.

'71 Monte Carlo....all the envy of my Hispanic (that PC?) friends at Santa Barbara High (boy were we) in '77.

66 Chevelle Malibu with a 283...great engine, but terrible tranny...2 speed powerglide.

Jaguar XK120

74 VW Super Beetle.

My first solos were in dad's international KB-5. It was the only truck I could drive because it had a hand throttle and I was too small to reach the gas pedal and still see out the windshield. I would drive it around the cow pasture in granny gear. Mom didn't like it, but dad thought it was great training. The key was always in it, so I took it out whenever I wanted to. I graduated to a GMC pickup and then a Henry J. I took my driving test in a 1964 Plymouth Valiant.

I learned to drive in a '63 Ford Galaxie. I learn to drive a stick in my '70 Beetle, driving it home from the dealer.


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A 1955 Ford Country Sedan wagon, very much like this, and in this color.

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1968 Renault R-10. This is the actual car but the pic was taken several years before I started learning to drive (at least as far as my parents knew ;)).


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1963 Ford Comet , 3 on the column.

Shut up!

`66 Delta 88
Looked like this:
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78 corolla. Loved that thing. "Until rust do us part."
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I learned at 14 yrs. old on whatever car/truck was in the gas station parking lot. We're talking 1974.

'59 Borgward Isabella Station Wagon. 4 on the column.
I was 14 1963.
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64 Ford Galaxie 500.
2 door with the mighty 352 ci 2 bbl.
3 on the tree no first gear syncro.

1982 Honda Accord brown 4 door 5 speed... taught by my grandmother ... I was 14

68 Bel-air with a mighty Powerglide.

Four door.

Learned to drive in a 1984 Renault Alliance 4 door 4 speed (which, until now, I didn't know was really an AMC built just down the street in Kenosha...). No pwoer steering, not much in the way of power brakes...
Took my test in a 1985 Honda Accord automatic with all of the bells and whistles, which means I could have kept my eyes closed it was so much easier to drive than the Alliance.

Seriously,in 1969/70. and my 1st car was a 59 Chevy Bel Aire that I bought for $45, the second car I bought was the 1961 Aston Martin DB4 which I bought for $1,750 in 1971. Owned it for 35 years.

The XK120?

'72 Chevy Nova 350 coupe. My first car was an '80 VW Rabbit.

1963 Olds Dynamic 88

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73 Duster 340. Guess dad had a sense of humor.

My driving instructor had a Riley 1.5; that light car with 68bhp was a fast car in England at the time(this model won the British Saloon Car racing championship in !959). I personally owned a '54 Ford Prefect to practice on then drive to University in once I had passed my test; it had a 3 speed floorchange with a huge gap between 2nd and 3rd, which with only 36 bhp at 4400 rpm meant revving the nuts off if slightly more rapid progress was to be made, but not in the rain please because the vacuum operated wipers would stall at full throttle!.

Me too! Straight six - manual steering and brakes. Baby Blue Biscayne. The first car my dad bought new.

Learned to drive in a Citroen Light 15 ( aka Traction Avant, in France ) just like the one below.
My love for Euro cars started here!

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First driving was on a 69 Oldsmobile Cutlass and learned how to drive a standard on my Dad's 70 Jaguar E type conv. First car was my 59 Austin Healey 100-6, which I got in 75 and still own after owning over 100 cars.

1966 Rambler, 3 on the tree.

VW Beetle.

This one.

Starting around 9 years old shifting and steering from the passenger seat.

Still have it.

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This was the kind of car our friend Jack had.

Back in the 1960's Jack my parents best man at their wedding used to drive me around the back country roads of Norfolk UK going to the pubs. Great looking car and pic. Jack's car was a pea green. I am impressed that you still have it. Assuming no rust in your part of the world? Brings back the memories. :)

Datsun Insult....er 910 wagon




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Early 60"a ??? Metropolitan Nash....white over turquoise

My dad had several cars that I learned on:
Mostly, 1963 VW Bug

But also:
1965 356 Porsche SC with an "airport gearbox" and a '63 Caddy Fleetwood

A 1935 Morris 8 Tourer(about 840 cc and side valve engine) and an Austin A40
( 1960). The 1935 Morris is my icon...:)

First drive was in Dads '57 Belair Hardtop. He bought it in 1968 for $250.00. Needed a college transportation car, still has it today.
Also much seat time in the family '85 Chevy Caprice.

Learned to drive manual in a friends '56 Austin Healy 100-4 Le Mans. Neat car, was a post production factory conversion to the Le Mans spec.
Also used his '91 Isuzu Rodeo. Healy was way easier to drive with all the torque.

Cooper

Yeah, I think it was a 1953 or 54, don't remember. Back then as a 15 year old piece of British trash, it wasn't worth much, cost more to rebuild than it was worth.

I learned to drive it when I was 15 in 1969, in Oak Ridge, TN, I think it was the only one in the state at the time. We had moved from Boston area to Oak Ridge where my Dad took a sabbatical from MIT to work at ORNL. I remember my Dad pushing me to accelerate around corners, not put on the brakes.

1975 Brown Chevy impala with a bad muffler....I thought it sounded cool. I graduated to an 87 Chrysler Codoba 6 cylinder family car, and also learned how to shift a "3 on the tree" with my dad's chevy inline 6 pickup......slow !

My first ride was a 1973 Green Ford Pinto wagon, with wood stickers down the sides of it. It had the 2.0L 4 cyl motor and did an absolute top speed of 68 MPH. We got it for $150 because it had been in the big flood of 1981, and still stunk of it.

This one
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1960 Fiat 1500 with an OSCA Brothers engine. Looked like this. Wish I had it today.

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