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What Did You Learn to Drive In?
July 06, 2019, 05:34 PM
TMatsWhat Did You Learn to Drive In?
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.
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despite them
July 06, 2019, 05:36 PM
Bob at the Beach1966 Volkswagen fastback. Manual 4 speed. Dad was my teacher.
July 06, 2019, 05:37 PM
SigSauerP226'95 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... July 06, 2019, 05:37 PM
adobesigThe Snow.
July 06, 2019, 05:38 PM
Spiff_P2391986 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight.
July 06, 2019, 05:39 PM
2000Z-711974 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. July 06, 2019, 05:42 PM
Jimbo54My parents '61' Rambler Classic with 3 on the tree. Both parents helped with the lessons.
Jim
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July 06, 2019, 05:45 PM
mcrimm1966 Rambler. High school drivers ed.
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham July 06, 2019, 05:46 PM
TexasScrubI'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.
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He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.
July 06, 2019, 05:48 PM
TMatsquote:
Originally posted by TexasScrub:
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.
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despite them
July 06, 2019, 05:51 PM
mbinkyA 1984 Bronco II 5 speed.
July 06, 2019, 05:51 PM
agent 2291978 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.
July 06, 2019, 05:52 PM
4x51981 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.
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RogueJSKDriver's Ed car was a Ford Taurus.
Most of the other learning was done in my dad's Dodge Dakota truck.
July 06, 2019, 06:03 PM
ArtieSI 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.
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July 06, 2019, 06:04 PM
fpuhanWhat'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.
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ChowserLearned 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! July 06, 2019, 06:05 PM
casMostly 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)
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July 06, 2019, 06:06 PM
hudr2 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.
July 06, 2019, 06:12 PM
shovelheadSince 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.
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