lol sam oh I know NY real well born in Manhatten and I think we might have the same dad... should have seen him wheel that Desoto around like it was a mini

hahah very cool. that makes you and me some of the few people on the forum who know what its like to drive around looking for a space and then using whatever means necessary to get into one haha :-)

Oh man like you know it, look at the R/F tire in the first post I put up, Daddy-o would come flying up 12th Ave, tires screaming as he hangs the right onto W52nd, up the left side of the road and at the last second drop 2 gears slam on the brakes and crank it, swear to god it felt like it was on that tire only. We thought is was the norm lol

1967 4 door ford cortina 1300 cc
 

i was about 10 year old & was hooning around a 300 acre farm . btw i rolled this car & later bought this car when 18 for $100 & used it as a bush basher untill it was laid to rest with a 6.5x55 round through the block .
my first road driving experience was in my mums 1974 ford xb falcon 250 cid sedan . i would borrow it while she went to church lol . you know i was 14 & my brother 10 & we'd do one wheel burnouts around corners :D & get lots of bodyroll & swaying going on at around 160klm :eek: . i did get caught by mum red handed eventually lol .

[QUOTE=Sgt. Veteran;45990]Your first car or what you learned in, person that taught you & the year


I learned to drive in a 74 Plymouth Valiant, and other assorted used cars my parents owned back in the early 80's! *the first car I owned was a 79 Honda, but I learned to drive way before I could own a car!LOL!* My mom and dad both taught me to drive, my mother had more patience than my father! and it would have been around 1980, 81, 82?

My first real driving experience was in a Ford Van 6 cyl 3 speed column shift

1967 model

Great question! I learned to drive in my Dad's 1964 Pontiac Bonneville. Classic and fast with a 389. I loved that car except for the white interior I cleaned every other weekend in order to drive it.

Learned in my Father's 1966 Chrysler Windsor 383 2bbl, received my license in my Grandmother's 1967 Belvedere II 273 2bbl.

Don't know how I came to love Mopars.

Learned how to drive in a 1958 Chevrolet Impala with a 348, 2-4bbl set-up. Lots of power for a 15 year old kid.

'76 chevy three quarter ton longbed 4x4 camper special. :D had a 400 small block in it and the steering wandered badly. could turn the wheel 180º without the truck turning. it eventually became mine, and i bashed it and camped in it for a while before unloading it because i couldn't afford california's extravagant weight fees each time i'd register the thing.

oh, i also put a rattle can flame job on it. :D

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First time I ever drove an automatic was in 1964, on the beach in Galveston TX, in my Mom's '63 Dodge 330 4dr sedan. (I was only 12, and it was a very short drive!)

First standard (3-on-the-tree) I drove/learned in was in 1966, in a pale green '61 Dodge Lancer 4dr sedan, in Farmers Branch TX.

My first car was a 1964 Dart GT, 273, 4-on-the-floor w/a factory Hurst shifter (circa 1966)... and I'm still in Farmers Branch!

My mom's 73' Dart Bro's 66 GTO & 69 Super Bee
One fall Sunday after noon when I was twelve I got into a drag race with myself in my mom's Dart
Having almost a 1/4 mile of dirt road behind my house & at least another 1/8 mile of driveway in front there was the makings of a track The straightest part coming close to the end of the house I missed the house but drilled an Oak that was 18" at the stump in the corner of the front yard by the drive way
Boy did that hood crumple up on the drivers side Boy did mom yell at me!

She got the car repaired $1670 in 1976

I learned to drive in my Fathers 1953 Ford Pickup, three on the tree. I was 14. Before that he and my uncle made a small car for me when I was 8. It had a Briggs & Stratton engine in it, shaped like an Army jeep. I played around the local streets with it until I was 14, then got serious. He said he'd match me dollor for every dollar I saved. At age 15 just two weeks before turning 16 (driving age in NY State) I told him I had $1300 dollars saved (a LOT of money in 1955. I played nine ball at the local pool room and made most of it there!), he matched it and I bought a brand new 1955 Ford Sunliner convertible, red/white with V8 and automatic. $2600 and we drove it home.I kept it four years and 76,000 miles, traded it for a brand new 1959 Bonneville convertible, red/black top. Wished I had it now!
Gerry

i learned how to drive ina 95 grandprix at 15. but when i was really little i would sit on my dads lap and drive his ramchargeraround the back roads. the when i git my permit my brothef taughtme to drive stick on a 74 dart 318 4 speed then i learned how to drive rigs in a freight liner fld with a 10 gear

Harry Legged Truck Drive.......lol

GoCart for me......

My grandfather taught me to drive in his 70 Plymouth Fury, a few years later he past away and I bought it from my grandmother. It was my first car, in a long line of Mopars

add info I learned in a 60's ford van, bought as a theft recovery, finger print powder all over.. .. It was my fathers work vehicle- family TV repair shop. I used to drive him around on his service calls, Year or two later he crashed it , hit a parked car. We got our first Dodge van a 67.Next year we will have been in business 60 years

1959-60 English Ford Anglias and Cortinas, in the early 70s my neighbors at the end of the block were mini stock car builders and racers I was part of their pit crew and they taught me how to drive in those!!!!

I learned in a 1948 jeep.... No top, doors, or seat belts.... My Dad put me in the hay field and showed me the gear pattern and told me if I burnt up the clutch he would bust my butt!!!! And he meant it.... I learned stick driving before I knew what a automatic was.... I guess I was about 10.... This was the Jr dragsters of the early 60's !!!! :laugh::laugh:

85 1/2 Nissan 720 pickup. Dad taught me, but not before I stole the keys @15 and hit a house in it. Good truck, I miss it. Saved my ass when I hit that house, and saved the kid we sold it to when he went over a stone wall and hit an oak.

68 Mini 1000 street legal go cart !!

I got my license in 1972 and was driving my mothers car a 1966 Ford Fairlane. My Mom worked nights as a Nurse and she left for work at 1045 to be there at 11:00. So I had the car all day, She went to work one night and came home the next morning and said the car seemed loud and felt different in the way it drove.. Mom knew nothing about cars. What had happened is I being 16 and in auto shop put air shocks on the car and thrush glass pack mufflers. The 289 that was in the car would really blat out when you got on it. So here's this old lady driving to work at a nursing home, roaring into the parking lot all jacked up in the rear.. She must of been embarrassed as hell. Boy I put her through alot growing up. (she was a single Mom, my father left when I was 8) My first car came shortly after that A 1964 Impala 283. Yes I fixed Mom car and put quiet exhaust and normal shocks back on..I needed the mufflers for the Impala Lol...Bill:driving:

The first car I drove was a 1967 Dodge Monaco 383 A.T. 727..... That was a great car.... That was where I fell in love with Big Blocks... And the story has been never ending....lol

I learned how to drive M.T. cars in a 1973 Gremlin 6 cyl 3 speed car. Good car. Just at that age, you couldn't keep tires on it...Hahahahahahaha

I could tell you about the Chevy Side of thing.... But I'm here because of my passion of Mopars.....

I learned in my moms 73 Dart when I was 12 or so I learned manual trans in my Bro's 66 Tri Power GTO when I was 14 or so

Well the first car I ever drove was a 1956 Plymouth, my father sold it to me for 15 dollars, I didn't have a license yet, I think I was 14 and I made the money picking blueberries, haying with the neighbors and working in the neighbors garden all summer.It was a 6 cyl with 3 speed on the column, took me forever to learn the 3 on the tree.I decided I was going to make a circle track in the back field so I started pulling up trees and wrapping a chain around the bigger rocks to pull them out of the way--well after about 2 months I had it almost all done but the trouble was I no longer had a clutch and the car was blowing black smoke so bad we had no problems with mosquitos---needless to say that car went in the junkyard--the first car I had on the road was a 55 Oldsmobile Holiday I got for nothing, a guy lived in Syracuse and bought a new car and had to get the old one out of his yard so he signed it over to me, I just had to buy a used battery for 5 dollars to start it and drove that for about 4 or 5 months until the radio burned up and burned the whole dash up.

I bought my car in 1982, I was 14 years old. I paid $75.00 cash and worked off another $75.00 working for my Grandpa. It belonged to my Grandpa and was stored in his tow yard since about 1979. In 79' my gramps loaned it to my Mom and step dad, it was the first car I ever drove at 12 years old. My dad let me pull it up onto the lawn so he could wash it. The tranny was gone, slipped really bad so I gave it gas and it didn't move and then the tranny caught and I almost ran my Mom over LOL. After my Gramps towed it to my house after I bought it in 82', my friends and I worked on it for about 3 years, we were all 14-16 years old and didn't know what we were doing but we replaced the tranny with my Gramps help and started the car. I had a car that kind of ran and drove, tags expired 6 years earlier but I took off around my neighborhood and taught myself to drive. Still have the car and all the memories of my Grandpa helping me replace the tranny and all the great memories associated with the most special car you will ever own, your first car.

I learned to drive from my GrandFather, in his 1963 Buick Wildcat convertible, white w/ a red interior. Of course I loved that car. But my first car was a 1961 Chrysler New Yorker, (Talk about a boat!! It was a ship!!). It was a 413 w/ push button tranny & electrical problems that were totally over my head. I paid $50.00 for it & when it wouldn't start anymore I sent it to the junkyard & bought another $50.00 car. I have often thought how much I would like to have it back, but I was 16 & what I knew about auto electrics was how to hook up a battery.

The beast
 

I learned to drive in a '74 Power Wagon lifted at 8 years old. It was our sprayer pickup at the time. Working on getting it fixed up now.

Mom's 66 Belvedere II, slant 6 three on the tree and my 66 Fairlane. I happen to see Joie Chitwood's thrill show when I was thirteen, so to say I was a little hard on those two cars is probably a gross understatement.

That reminded me !! I took my parents 58 Fairlane out one AM & hit a light pole ouch !!!