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Posted: 5/14/2020 6:05:08 AM EDT

[#1]

197? Datsun B210 and a 1975 Dodge Dart

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:09:14 AM EDT

[#2]

'79 E350 with a 460 and automatic, split with a '84 F150 with inline 6 and 5 speed.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:15:42 AM EDT

[#3]

I took my road test in a Checker Marathon. Basically a checker cab.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:21:22 AM EDT

[#4]

1964 Mercury Monterey.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:46:47 AM EDT

[#5]

Chevy Celebrity.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:48:30 AM EDT

[#6]

My sister taught me in a white AMC Pacer (the egg) at the baseball fields parking lot. She put on a helmet during the lesson to piss me off.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:51:05 AM EDT

[#7]

Milk truck.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:51:32 AM EDT

[#8]

a 1967 Pontiac Catalina that my Dad had special ordered with a Bonneville motor.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:52:23 AM EDT

[#9]

A '72 Plymouth Duster with a 340 and 3-Speed manual transmission. Heavy clutch. Probably in 1980 or 81.

My dad bought that car new in 1972, then sold it 30 years later for a little more than he paid for it.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:04:12 AM EDT

[#10]

1987 Chevy S-10 regular cab long bed with a 4 speed

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:05:52 AM EDT

[#11]

72 Toyota FJ40 ....was driving it around the neighborhood at 13 Years old.
tho had learned to shift in a 69 bug.
the toyota got me most of the wheeltime..
took the test in the family Truckster 77 Impala wagon.,
.
looked about like this

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:08:21 AM EDT

[#12]

Automatic - 1977 Ford Granada 4 door. Manual - '70s Toyota pickup. Motorcycle - '70s Honda 400. First car that I owned was a 1980 Pontiac Sunbird hatchback with no radio and no a/c.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:15:07 AM EDT

[#13]

I don’t know, there really isn’t one car.

Think I started in a Ford Granada? Then my dads car was a Chevy Celebrity...then got rid of the Granada and got a Chevy Lumina. That was the ‘nice’ car. Dad then got a big ass Ford station wagon thing... was huge. Drivers ed was some Oldsmobile on loan from the local car dealership.

My hand-me-down car was a ‘84 Chevette. 4speed manual, gray with one front quarter panel smashed in from hitting a deer. It was a POS that I was constantly cobbling together to keep running.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:18:20 AM EDT

[#14]

‘63 Rambler wagon with ‘three on the tree’

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:23:04 AM EDT

[#15]

1973 Superbeetle Convertible

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:23:18 AM EDT

[#16]

'77 CJ5 Jeep Renegade.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:26:55 AM EDT

[#17]

Couple of different cars and both were manual

78 Jeep CJ5

82 Dodge 024

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:33:20 AM EDT

[#18]

1993 Ford Explorer with manual transmission. It was the Eddie Bauer edition. I thought I was hot shit.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:36:23 AM EDT

[#19]

Early '70s Plymouth Fury. Same color as this one. The driver education class that year had brand new Chevy Citations, but since I was the youngest student, I had to go dead last. By that time, they had sent the Citations back to the dealer.

I was stuck with a school district pool car that had been previously wrecked. The steering wheel was about 45 degrees off center. My instructor was my social studies teacher, Mr. Figurski. We get in the car, buckle up, he rolls his window down, lights a cigarette and said to "just drive, wherever you want to go, doesn't matter." So we headed down to Ann Arbor and cruised around for a couple of hours.

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Posted: 5/14/2020 7:38:38 AM EDT

[#20]

1970 Ford Ranger XLT like this one.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:44:22 AM EDT

[#21]

A beat to crap open top 1944 Jeep. I was thirteen and my dad instructed me on how to shift gears as I drove around our back yard. He turned me loose with it on my own with my buddy along on the gravel backroads and trails in the woods of SE Ohio at 14 years old.

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:45:00 AM EDT

[#22]

1971 El Cameno, three on the tree!

Posted: 5/14/2020 7:59:42 AM EDT

[#23]

Dad's 1952 Jeep.

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Posted: 5/14/2020 8:05:04 AM EDT

[#24]

IIRC, it was a '56 Buick.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:13:12 AM EDT

[#25]

1968 VW bug.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:16:43 AM EDT

[#26]

Learn to drive in a 1964 Ford Falcon Futura 4 door sedan. White exterior and red interior. Three speed column shift. I was only 12 years old. Dear old dad taught me on the sugar cane hauler roads where I grew up on Maui. I also had sex in the back seat of that car with my first girlfriend. Ha!

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:22:11 AM EDT

[#27]

59 ford pickup with 292 and 3 on the tree.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:22:31 AM EDT

[#28]

For manual transmission it was a 1971 Datsun 510 wagon. Pea green with a green vinyl top.

The automatic car was a 1967 Mercury Cougar. Cinnamon frost with a black vinyl top and the Dan Gurneypackage. I still have the bill of sale from Federal Motors in Baltimorr City.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:29:55 AM EDT

[#29]

1967 VW BUG! Took forever to figure out where reverse was

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:30:36 AM EDT

[#30]

I got a crash course in a manual Ford EXP because my friends older sister got trashed at the lake and couldn't walk let alone drive. So I learned to drive stick in a KMart parking lot to get us home.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:32:36 AM EDT

[#31]

I drove a lot of vehicles before officially getting my license,

75 Chevy K20
80 Chevy K20
Isuzu pup truck
Several different farm jeeps.
3 different International grain trucks.
Tractors
Combine

Though, I did most of my driving from 15-16 on the road in my dads Jeep. I think it was an 88? Can’t remember.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:35:21 AM EDT

[#32]

'71 Plymouth Duster - 3 on the tree!

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:38:05 AM EDT

[#33]

Mix of a K car, then six months later standard transmission was on a deuce and a half and Chevy chevette.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:48:37 AM EDT

[#34]

Bought it from the widow for $1,500 in 1994 so I could drive to the college. She started crying as I drove it off her lot. It lasted 5 years... 5 YEARS!!! and just would not die... I hated the tiny tires, the fact I needed studded tires for winter driving, the color, the blue couch it had for a front seat.. The AC Delco stereo with official AC Delco parts... I could go on, but this is what my first car was.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:48:42 AM EDT

[#35]

Betsy

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Posted: 5/14/2020 8:50:33 AM EDT

[#36]

lol, now see, that's how you do wood paneling with style.

Posted: 5/14/2020 8:54:14 AM EDT

[#37]

1971 Dodge dump truck with a 6 speed, out in a field of course. We started empty but the old man would put a scoop of dirt in the back on every lap around the field so I could "really learn to work the clutch." I sure thought a lot of things he did were dumb at the time and then look back and think the opposite. I can pretty much drive anything I get into/onto from 18 wheelers to sport bikes.

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:07:26 AM EDT

[#38]

Olds 98 with carbureted v8.

Chevy K5 Blazer with carb V8 and custom engine built by a local 4x4 shop. The original engine block cracked. (Also learned to change tires and build ramps to get out of ...long story...)

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:11:34 AM EDT

[#39]

1972 Mercedes 250C

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:12:57 AM EDT

[#40]

Old state patrol mustang. Don't remember the year of the car but this was back in 1993.

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:21:16 AM EDT

[#41]

Took my test in a 78 Olds Cutlass, later a drunk driver tried to hit me head on. I swerved and he hit my side and ripped the rear end out of it. Totaled. Me and my GF walked away from it.

My first car that was mine was a 74 Ford F100 Camper special. $750 360/C6.

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:39:53 AM EDT

[#42]

My brothers 85 IROC. It was black with T-Tops

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:46:09 AM EDT

[#43]

63 Impala for me.

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:48:31 AM EDT

[#44]

66 Chevy pu
three on the tree
Manual drum brakes
Manual steering

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:54:51 AM EDT

[#45]

1982 Toyota Corolla. 5 speed manual, 3TC engine. IT HAD A HEMMEH!

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:55:59 AM EDT

[#46]

Like a 92ish Chevy stepside. In a field. It was a manual and I'm still thankful to this day. Had to drive it while loading hay.

Posted: 5/14/2020 9:56:03 AM EDT

[#47]

1969 Ford Falcon V8, auto tranny. Simultaneously, a 1968 Chevy Bel-Air V6 with three on the tree.

Posted: 5/14/2020 10:08:21 AM EDT

[#48]

I didn't throw rocks while driving the "Glass House"

Posted: 5/14/2020 10:10:34 AM EDT

[#49]

57 Chevy on an oil lease in Oklahoma with my Uncle Lester....about 12. Later in our summer adventure another Uncle in Texas let us drive a Jeep around Alice, Texas. No license, no insurance, not much supervision.

Posted: 5/14/2020 10:12:10 AM EDT

[#50]

1965 VW bug I was in the 4th grade .

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