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.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1463447267.jpg

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 ;)).


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...y/Renault2.jpg

1963 Ford Comet , 3 on the column.

Shut up!

`66 Delta 88
Looked like this:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1463447715.jpg

78 corolla. Loved that thing. "Until rust do us part."
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1463449581.jpg

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.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1463451113.jpg

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?