First car you ever drove

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First car that I steered on our neighbour’s lap at 8 years old, 1970 Torino Cobra 429 shaker. First car I drove on my own after I got my license, 1967 Olds Cutlass 4 door with the 330 cid Ultra High Compression and a powerglide.
 
64 Fairlane 500 2 door hardtop
Our family car…dad let me drive it in a big parking lot….I was probably 13
 
j par said:
My uncle taught me how to drive in his 74 VW camper bus... He was an Old hippie I can't ever remember him not smoking weed at the same time when he was driving or teaching...:rolleyes:...
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No different than a college professor LOL!
 
14 years old, ~5' tall, ~80lb kid learned to drive my girlfriend's brother's 1970 Chevy K5 Blazer with a 4-speed (mechanical clutch). I had to use both feet/legs on that clutch!
 
'74 AMC Gremlin, 258 six, auto. This was my mom's car. Thing was orange with black interior. Loved this little car and, because of it, I have owned several Gremlins over the years. I really love me some AMC's!
 
Brothers '57 Ford looked like this ..just as nice.

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Interesting how few members here started out driving some kind of Mopar. Except for our one Studebaker, Mopars are pretty much all Mom and Dad ever had for primary transportation.
 
I don't remember if I drove one of the family cars first..... but my drivers' training car in high school was a green 70 383/727 roadrunner.
My instructor did not care for the way I drove it.......
 
Showing my age lol... First car I drove sitting on my dad's lap around 5 years old was his rustbucket '83 Buick Riviera. A little later when I was about 8 he took me to an open parking lot and let me drive around our mid-90s Nissan Sentra (mom's car so of course it was an auto:rolleyes:). But the 'car' I learned to properly drive as a teenager and took my test in was our '03 Town and Country minivan.

People hate on minivans because of the stigma but they're damn practical, I was able to fit a queen-sized mattress only slightly bent/twisted completely inside our minivan. Also hauled an entire small couch/loveseat in that thing. I won't hesitate to get one when kids come into the picture, who cares what my friends think.
 
Used to drive my grandpas early 80s F150 around his property when I was about 10. Took my dads mini van out for a joy ride on the same property when I was about 12 and put a real nice dent in the side when a tree got in the way of my e brake slide.
 
65 Cuda 340 said:
Interesting how few members here started out driving some kind of Mopar. Except for our one Studebaker, Mopars are pretty much all Mom and Dad ever had for primary transportation.
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I wrecked my first mopar at 5yrs old and 2nd mopar at 13 yrs old. 1st one was manual and i was playing in car i turned the key she started right up and went through garage wall. 2nd time i was allowed to take car in and out of garage and hit the neighbors fence. Lol hope this qualfies
 
Danco said:
I wrecked my first mopar at 5yrs old and 2nd mopar at 13 yrs old. 1st one was manual and i was playing in car i turned the key she started right up and went through garage wall. 2nd time i was allowed to take car in and out of garage and hit the neighbors fence. Lol hope this qualfies
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Sounds like me. 1961, I was ten years old, we had a 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk, factory equipped with a 352 Packard V8, three-on-the-tree manual trans with O/D, 3.92 rear gears. House had a one-car carport, no wall on the driver's side, just a couple of hollow posts holding up the roof.

One cold winter morning (Pensacola Florida, so "cold" is relative) Dad sent me outside to start and warm up the Hawk. I got in, leaving the door open, pushed in the clutch and started it. Revved the motor just because I loved the sound. While I was revving the motor, I let my foot off the clutch - don't know, maybe thought it was in neutral?? It was in reverse, though, so basically when I popped the clutch I did a burnout in reverse. WAHHH, came roaring out of the carport burning rubber at what seemed like 60 mph, open door snapped the two carport poles. Fortunately, I did at least have the presence of mind to take my foot off the gas, push the clutch back in and hit the brakes. Stopped just short of the street.

Amazingly, the only damage to the Hawk was a crease in the front fender from where the open door smacked into it. It was still there when we traded it November 1962 for our Polara 500 convertible.
 
When I was 16, my grandma sold me her well-kept '59 Plymouth Savoy in 1975. Remarkably clean for a Michigan car (seldom left her garage). Unlike the photo car, hers was white but also a four-door sedan. It had the ancient flat six and a three on the tree. Fortunately, I had learned to drive on my parent's VW Microbus--with its four-speed manual.

I thought Granny's humble sedan was the coolest ride ever (still do). It began a life-long love of Mopar for me, though my buddies--all rich kids with new Trans Ams and Camaros--derided it and its glorious fins. Unfortunately, it was broadsided by an idiotic driver who went 60 mph though a red light into my passenger side. I was lucky to escape with a busted nose and severely bruised knee.
Would I love it back! Unfortunately, ForwardLook cars are priced way out of my humble range.

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I got to steer Dad's '77 Ford Courier on the highway a couple times before I was 10 but I think the first car that I got the keys for and drove around a church parking lot was mom's maroon fishbowl, '75 AMC Pacer, about 12 years old.
 
My Dad's 1954 Ford Pickup with the Granny Gear 4 speed, like this one pictured here. It happened to be red too.

Was out in the hay field learing how to drive it, would let out the clutch in 1st gear and it would jerk, then stab the gas and it would jerk some more. On and on, until I figured out how to feather the clutch and gas.

Remember that like it was yesterday. Was like 8 years old so legs were kind of short too.

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K.O. SWINGER said:
Sounds pretty cool! Yeah we we had a scout and to travelalls too got to love them old corn binders
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CORNBINDER! I haven't heard that name in a while. :lol: My first hot rod was a 1955 Cornbinder 1/2 ton pu my buddy and I put a 348 Chevy in. If I had waited another year, I probably could have had the 325 CI Dodge hemi out of my Dad's 58 Plymouth wagon.
 
65 Cuda 340 said:
Interesting how few members here started out driving some kind of Mopar. Except for our one Studebaker, Mopars are pretty much all Mom and Dad ever had for primary transportation.
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Actually, the second car I ever drove was a Mopar. 1956 Desoto 4dr with 330 Hemi. That's another story. Dad wouldn't let us kids drive his Mopars.
 
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