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Posted: 5/13/2020 10:24:44 PM EDT

[#1]

76 Datsun coupe with a 4 speed
And a 72 Duster

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:25:31 PM EDT

[#2]

Go-carts and dirt bikes.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:25:38 PM EDT

[#3]

Learned to drive in a 1963 Ford F100 with a 3 on the Tree, I was 12. In 1979 I took my drivers test in a 1972 Pontiac Grand Safari Station Wagon.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:26:45 PM EDT

[#4]

1988 Dodge Shadow with manual trans.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:26:57 PM EDT

[#5]

1974 Datsun truck 4sp manual

started at 6 and was all on my own with it at 9.

1983 3910 Ford Tractor at 9

Obviously grew up in the country

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:27:25 PM EDT

[#6]

Not today Mr password mining security question searching phisherman

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:27:37 PM EDT

[#7]

1972 Porsche 914

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:27:43 PM EDT

[#8]

1973 Oldsmobile 98 with a 455.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:30:37 PM EDT

[#9]

I owned a car before I had a license.

It was a '77 Dodge Aspen with a thee on the tree and a 225 slant six. I sold it to my older brother when I was done with it.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:32:11 PM EDT

[#10]

1964 Mercury Comet, 3 speed on the column and vise grips for steering wheel. It was a junkyard freebee. I was 12 or 13. Guy at junkyard said I could have it if I could drive it home. Actually was a nice car after I put in a steering column.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:32:39 PM EDT

[#11]

In Driver's Ed in '75, the inner city yutes called it the "Fwa-fwaty-two." We just called it a Cutlass.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:33:19 PM EDT

[#12]

73 VW Van. Very unusual model with a front bench seat. Once I had my license, it was like Fast Times at Ridgemont High......

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:33:42 PM EDT

[#13]

A 1965 Plymouth station wagon with a slant six and a three on the tree.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:34:47 PM EDT

[#14]

76 Toyota Corolla 5 speed manual.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:34:54 PM EDT

[#15]

~1980 toyota corolla, 4 speed manual was the primary vehicle - my grandfather's. Then a 1965(?) F100, 3 on the tree, which was a "ranch truck". And a 9N tractor. Started driving around 9-10 and then had to unlearn bad habits when actual driving test came around :D

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:36:31 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
1984 piss yellow Chevy chevette
Mr Fife food ball coach

Drivers ed 8th grade
But had driven tractors and farm trucks since 10-11

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A 63? 1 ton Ford Dump Truck IIRC. My dad would leave me at a job and I had to learn to move it around the jobs or carry things all the way to it. Leave a teenager w/ keys to a vehicle and you know what that choice is going to be! I must have been 12 or 13 at the time because I had my license at 14.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:36:41 PM EDT

[#17]

Dirt bikes, four wheelers, tractor and farm truck. In that order.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:37:46 PM EDT

[#18]

1955 Ford station wagon, 3 on the tree.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:41:25 PM EDT

[#19]

64 Ford P/U. At work age 15.

Driver's Ed was a new 68 Ford Galaxy loaner from the local Ford dealer.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:42:44 PM EDT

[#20]

1982 Volkswagen Scirocco, manual transmission.

I was 13 (my sisters car) Used to sneak it out when my mom and sister weren’t at home and drive around the neighborhood.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:43:03 PM EDT

[#21]

63 Buick Le Sabre, 67 VW Bus

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:43:59 PM EDT

[#22]

88 Taurus wagon.

Beast.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:44:06 PM EDT

[#23]

'88 Chevy Caprice Classic
'86 Chevy K10
'68 Ford F-100
'48 Willys Jeep

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:44:09 PM EDT

[#24]

My dad had my drive a geo metro stick shift in the city and a gigantic Cadillac in back country roads. I learned to fucking drive.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:44:53 PM EDT

[#25]

87 grand marquis and 82 bronco

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:45:19 PM EDT

[#26]

1969 F-100 Ford Ranger
390 with 3 on the tree.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:46:30 PM EDT

[#27]

K5 Blazer

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:46:48 PM EDT

[#28]

93 Saturn SL1 sedan with a 5 speed. Smacked a deer with it in college :(

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:50:43 PM EDT

[#29]

Ford 8n was the first powered machine. Circa 1961 Ford Ranchero was the first road vehicle.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:51:14 PM EDT

[#30]

1988 Pontiac Grand Am with 5 speed manual. Looked just like this one.

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I worked at a grocery store in high school and was driving a forklift and accidentally got a wheel off the pavement and it got stuck. I panicked and tried to pull it out with that car. Needless to say it didn't work and I destroyed the transmission. Luckily the butcher had a big truck and did get it out. Nobody in mgmt ever knew. Then I got home and told my dad "something's wrong with the car". Good times.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:52:49 PM EDT

[#31]

1997 Civic, was my older brother's car in 1999. I should thank him for having so much faith and trust in me back then.

ETA: Learned stick in my dad's 1994 Ranger

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:52:54 PM EDT

[#32]

1970 black Mercury Cougar, with vinyl top. 351 Windsor, 2 barrel.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:52:55 PM EDT

[#33]

Chevy Citation or Chevy 1/2 ton.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:53:22 PM EDT

[#34]

‘66 Ford Bronco

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:55:26 PM EDT

[#35]

In a banged up WW2 surplus Willys Jeep on a deer lease in West Texas around 1968.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:55:55 PM EDT

[#36]

1979 Dodge Aspen Station Wagon

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:58:07 PM EDT

[#37]

LOL. I humbly submit my entry among so many awesome cars: a 1994 Ford Ranger extended cab. 5 spd manual. I've been hooked on manual transmissions ever since.

Posted: 5/13/2020 10:58:27 PM EDT

[#38]

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Originally Posted By Britt-dog:
1979 Dodge Aspen Station Wagon

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Whooo.

I took my three speed on the column for my road test.

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:01:31 PM EDT

[#39]

84 Buick Skyhawk 2 door.

Learned how to drive a stick on a 94 Wrangler I bought new. Went out with my friends in it that night. This was before I knew that driving a manual transmission is supposed to be some arcane skill that people take absurd pride in.

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:02:30 PM EDT

[#40]

70 Ford Maverick. Bench seats, 200ci straight six, 3 on the tree and manual steering. It was Mom's car, bought new in late 69. I learned on it when I was around 15, which would have been 1972. Eventually Mom got a newer car and my parents gave the Maverick to my Brother, who totaled it within a year after getting it. Too bad, it was a neat little car except for the craptastic column shifter.

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:02:37 PM EDT

[#41]

An army Jeep.

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:07:41 PM EDT

[#42]

A 1966 Mercury Parklane.
It would go at least 110 mph. I know this because I was standing on the transmission hump watching the speedometer going up when my mom said to my Dad "aren't we going fast enough?

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:08:44 PM EDT

[#43]

A 1977 sky blue Pinto wagon

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:09:48 PM EDT

[#44]

1966 F100

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Posted: 5/13/2020 11:11:13 PM EDT

[#45]

Isuzu P'up
5 speed i think

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:11:14 PM EDT

[#46]

1978 Chamois colored Ford Fairmont. Probably identical to this one:

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Posted: 5/13/2020 11:11:19 PM EDT

[#47]

A bright yellow & brown vinyl top 1975 AMC Matador.

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:12:06 PM EDT

[#48]

Jag XJ12

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:12:35 PM EDT

[#49]

<-----Primarily in that one.

Also in my dads 1971 Dodge van, that had a three on the tree.

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Parked behind the van is my moms Cadillac, in which I lost my virginity. (First wife, at the Drive-In).

Posted: 5/13/2020 11:12:51 PM EDT

[#50]

1999 Astro Van

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