I learned on my dad's '57 Chevy half-ton. Step side, 8' bed, three-speed column shift, 6 cylinder when I was 10 or 11 years old. We'd go to either the neighbors fields or sometimes on "real" roads around the nearby dam.

Learned how to drive in a '87 Monte Carlo SS, in Alaska. Winters were fun.

1970 Buick Riviera and a 1970 Volkswagon Bug manual.

1994 Jeep Cherokee.

74 Dodge tradesman, (kidnap van) learned to use mirrors from that.

Had a bed in back put in there for family vacation by parents.
That was fun to pull up in on first dates.

HK Ag

My dads early 70's Chevy station wagon (not sure of year) it was a 3 speed on the column and would hang in gear. Took my driving test at DMV in 75 Chevy Vega.

1967 Chevy Impala with a Powerglide...but NO power steering and I had to parallel park to get my DL...I was sweating that, but I aced it the first time

I learned how to drive in a early 1940s thirty-six passenger retired school bus on dirt roads on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico in 1959. It had the floor shift that you had to double-clutch because there were no synchronizers.

I took my driver's license test in a 1959 Mercury Monterey on my sixteenth birthday in 1962.

I really learned how to drive in the Navy living in San Francisco in 1965. My first car was a 1952 Ford Custom with three on the tree. If you can drive a stick shift on the hills of San Francisco, you can drive anywhere.

I also had the pleasure of driving a six passenger Navy pickup in Japan on the right side of the road in 1966 as a duty driver. Talk about white knuckle time.

1984 Mazda pickup, 5-speed.

1957 Chevy.
Rod

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Originally posted by mbinky:
A 1984 Bronco II 5 speed.

I had one too - loved that car. We kept it 18 years, and my son learned to drive in it (truck and boy had birthdays within days of each other) and he drove it through high school. But I took my drivers ed class and road test in a 1971 AMC Javelin in the Bronx. Left NYC at 17 and got the license mailed to me at school when I turned 18.

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Originally posted by hudr:
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.

Mine was my uncle's Massey Ferguson. I learned to drive while bailing hay - getting to and from the fields.

Station wagons and 4 speed trucks.

1965 (I think) Jeepster Commando. Learned to drive when I was about 13 and drove all over the farm. I was driving a dump truck by the time I was 16.

Having been born and raised on a family farm in the 40's and 50's I was driving a tractor in the fields at age 12 or 13 so learning to drive a car was easy. And I didn't drive the car in a field, if any of you were wondering about that.

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Originally posted by hudr:
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.

I done a reply to yours. We ate a lot of dust in those days also, right?

1965 VW Beetle.

Great grandfather's 50-something Chevy pickup with the push button starter on the floor. Didn't get going very fast across his fields and I could barely see over the dashboard, except when I had to slip down in the seat to get the clutch and shift the tree.

Then a 63 Impala my grandparents had. My parents didn't teach me to drive.

Oddly enough, a Hyster forklift. From there to a 1968 1/2 ton pickup. Aghhh, growing up with your father owning a lumber yard.

1987 b2000 Mazda truck. Stick shift and no power steering. Everything has been easy to drive after that.