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Watching a recording of the recent Barrett-Jackson Collector Vehicle Auction and the guys got to talking about the car they learned to drive in. One or two specified the Driver’s Ed cars they learned in, another one or two their parent’s car. I learned in a ‘62 Galaxie 500...in beige  My dad waited a long time before he ever owned a brand new car—well after I left home._______________________________________________________ despite them | ||
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1966 Volkswagen fastback. Manual 4 speed. Dad was my teacher. | |||
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King Nothing |
'95 Astro Van haha Also had my high school gf in the back  and got a speeding ticket doing 97 in a 55  Many a good times in the old "Blue Whale." I think I only drove it for a year....Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way... | |||
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The Snow.  | |||
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CAPT Obvious |
1986 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight. | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
1974 Dodge Ramcharger, loved that truck. Driver’s ed car was a green with wood grain trim Ford Country Squire station wagon. The cool thing about was the push button cruise control buttons on the steering wheel. I got smacked by the female instructor for driving with no feet and using the accelerate and decelerate buttons up and down the hills on County Line Road. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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My parents '61' Rambler Classic with 3 on the tree. Both parents helped with the lessons. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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1966 Rambler. High school drivers ed. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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I'll begin by saying dad was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco, and we live up in Marin County near San Rafael. So, for drivers ed there were two cars, a mercury something auto and a Datsun B210 Honeybee stick. I got the Datsun and learned on the streets of San Fransisco so to speak. Nothing like popping a clutch on an uphill street downtown! So, that being said, that Datsun probably saw about 30 students a year, all popping the clutch on that Honeybee. I've lost my train of thought, but if you need a new clutch, I recommend a 70's Datsun. ___________________________ He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
A 1984 Bronco II 5 speed. | |||
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1978 Pontiac Grand Prix, no s#!t that's what my High school was using the summer before I started my sophomore year. Full power and everything, way nicer than what we had at home. Dad had a 1968 Plymouth Satelite for us to use at home. | |||
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Serenity now! |
1981 Honda Civic with a manual transmission, and a 1982 Ford F150. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Driver's Ed car was a Ford Taurus. Most of the other learning was done in my dad's Dodge Dakota truck. | |||
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I learned to drive on the road in a 1977 Buick LeSabre and a 1979 Ford F150. Ford was a stick, Buick an auto. I had driven farm tractors, farm trucks, and a Morris Moke long before I drove on the roads, however. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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What's driver's ed? My learner car was a 1961 Volkswagen Beetle. Black. No frills. Once you learned the clutch on one of those, you could drive any stickshift in creation. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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Learned on three different cars my dad had. Ford Fairmount and Ford Granada were the automatics and a Dodge Caravan which was a manual. The Caravan was stolen but recovered. Instead of fixing the column, my dad wired up a doorbell switch to the ignition so we had push button start back in the 80s. Not minority enough! | |||
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Mostly a '79 Olds wagon and a '77 Chevy pickup, though there were a few others. (several years before I was old enough to get a learners permit) _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| "The deals you miss don’t hurt you”-B.D. Raney Sr. |
2 cylinder John Deere tractors. I wasn’t big enough to operate the foot clutch on the “late model” tractors, but I could lean on that hand clutch and get things done. I doubt I was in double digits yet, age wise. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
Since I started driving at twelve, a bunch of cars. Most notable was when I washing cars at my uncle's gas station, we washed the local P.D.'s cars at one time. Driver's ed was three years later. Car I drove was a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500XL, two door hardtop, green/green vinly top with green cloth interior. 390 2bbl AM radio with A/C. Local Ford dealer must have liked us or something. -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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