Car You Took Your Driver's License Test With

First car I drove was a 1964 MGB roadster. My old man had bought it from someone at work with a seized engine. Pulled the head off, soaked the cylinders with penetrating oil and pounded on the pistons with a hammer and a block of wood until it freed up. I got the 'honor' of backing it out of the garage one day, I was 10 years old, and promptly had my leg overpowered by the clutch, careening out the door of the garage on a slight angle, managing to hit both the house and the front bumper of dad's 71 Mercury Meteor. I was sure I was about to take my last breath, but he just kind of smirked and gave a slight chuckle. Apparently I had avoided doing any real damage to anything. A few months later he let me drive the Meteor in a field, by myself. My parents divorced a couple years later, and I was driving fairly regularly by then, with and without their knowledge.

My first car was a 1967 Dodge Charger when I was 15, had a 318 LA 2 barrel, automatic trans, 4 bucket seats, dual exhaust, a full length console, and a lot of body filler. That was a really cool car, but because my mother's boyfriend had loaned me most of the money to buy it, and she wanted to dump him, I had to sell it about a month before I turned 16, but at least I made a couple hundred bucks on it. My first flip!

My mom owned a driver training school and had a poop brown 74 Ford Maverick 4 door, powered by a 250 cube 6 banger automatic, and equipped with two sets of accelerator and brake pedals. I used that car for my driver's test, went on my 16th birthday, mom let me drive there, passed the written test first thing in the morning, and she had booked me a road test for early that afternoon, passed first try. A couple weeks later I bought a 68 Ford Fairlane 500, 2 door hardtop with a 289, 2 barrel automatic, headers, and dual exhaust, dark metallic blue with bucket seats.