What car did you learn to drive with?

[greglepore]

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

[petrolhead611]

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!.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Amail

1960 Chevy Biscayne - three on the tree, baby!

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

[zelrik911]

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!

[vonsmog]

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.

[yel911]

1966 Rambler, 3 on the tree.

[sc_rufctr]

VW Beetle.

[stomachmonkey]

This one.

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

Still have it.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

This one.

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

Still have it.

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.

[Outback Porsche]

Datsun Insult....er 910 wagon

[Dueller]

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

[RF5BPilot]

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

[recycled sixtie]

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

[Cooper911SC]

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

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

The XK120?

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.

[ckelly78z]

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.

[Tobra]

This one

[mountaineer]

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

[jwhcars]

1963 Morris Minor 1000, it sure was under powered but it was better than riding a bike.

[Scott Douglas]

1959 Pontiac Catalina wagon w/389/tri-power. Hood was as long as an aircraft carrier, but it could move if you put your foot into it.
I failed my first driving test, which I took in Mom's 1964 Studebaker. It had a 289/4-bbl and automatic and it was fast. I asked why I failed the driving test and the examiner said I cornered too fast. Say what?
I learned to drive stick by watching my girl friend in jr high drive her VW (yeah, she was an older woman). When we got to drive the VW in driver's ed, my auto shop teacher, who also was the driver's ed instructor, noted that I must have driven stick before. Nope, just knew what the mechanics of it were about and had been real observant.