How about pics of car you got your first drivers license in.

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The first car I owned after I got my license was identical to this except for the hood scoop and the traction bars. Had a 289 2V and a C4 automatic with a shitty Indymatic shifter on the floor that had a completely reversed shift pattern. Pic from the net.
 
Reading all of these posts makes me realize how old I am or how young alot of the members on here are. I took my drivers test in my dad's 1959 Cadillac, I have a picture of it somewhere. I actually didn't pass the first time, the red haired examiner was a butthead. I got even a couple years later by getting his daughter in the sack. I'm bringing up the drivers education car because it was similar to a previous poster's 73 Lemans. Our school got a new car every year. My year was a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am, 2 dr, bucket seats, auto on the floor 400 4 bbl. I would love to find a nice one today!
 
Took my test in a barge just like this one. Dark brown and all. 73 Pontiac Catalina, 400 2-bbl pig.

It's what I started to learn to wrench on too! Put a big ole yellow Accel Super Coil on it but hung the resistor for it in midair by the wires only. Hey, we didn't own a drill to make a hole for the bracket screw so I just hung that big resistor by the wires.

Worked great until a few months later a wire broke from it dangling there and bouncing around. Stranded the folks on their way home from church on the interstate on a hot summer day. Got some well-deserved heat for that one!! (Good way to learn though.) :rofl:
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Man, you guys smashing mom or dad's car just after getting your license! I'll bet there were some belts worn out on your behinds. No wonder 16 year old male car insurance rates were so high!!
 
Demonx2 said:
Man, you guys smashing mom or dad's car just after getting your license! I'll bet there were some belts worn out on your behinds. No wonder 16 year old male car insurance rates were so high!!
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Sorry,I didn't wait till I was 16. I wrecked my mom's car when I was 4-5ish.

The story goes.... Mom and I leaving the house, which was stationed on a hill, which had a long driveway. She had forgotten something in the house, so she shut the car off, told me she'd be just a moment, got out of the car, and went inside. Me, sitting in the passenger seat, saw this big shiny chrome button on a stick, in the 87 Plymouth Turismo, pushed the button down, and pulled the stick as far back as it would go. The car rolled down the hill, into a row of mailboxes at the bottom of the drive, and knocked the driver side mirror off. I was the first one to wreck it, it we'd only had it a couple months, new off the lot.
 
Pictures of the car I got my license in have long since disappeared. I got my license in 1966, two years prior my dad and his best friend drug home a 1926 T roadster pickup. He told me when I got it running, licensed and safety inspected that I could drive. His exact quote was, "you are not driving my cars!" I was 36 years old before I drove one of my parents cars and that was only because they had doctors appointments on the same day on opposite ends of the city.
 
Demonx2 said:
Man, you guys smashing mom or dad's car just after getting your license! I'll bet there were some belts worn out on your behinds.
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Neither of my folks raised a hand (or a belt) to me when I trashed their car, but I was told years later that it did cause considerable strain to the family budget.

Demonx2 said:
No wonder 16 year old male car insurance rates were so high!!
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Guilty! I was already paying for "risk" insurance when I was only 16, and probably like many here, I'm pretty damn lucky to still be alive.

(But I did have fun!)
 
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I blew the transmission in my dad's 74 Ford LTD when I was about 14.
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Honestly yes I was beating on it and told mom "I dont know what happened." but yeah all the trans fluid ran out under it in a big puddle...that was my first experience in that "a 4 cylinder car cant take much of a beating..."not like the old V8 cars...I could actually get in my 71 Pontiac later on and go into a parking lot and smoke the tires doing a donut and drive away...
 
Dartswinger70 said:
Honestly yes I was beating on it and told mom "I dont know what happened." but yeah all the trans fluid ran out under it in a big puddle...that was my first experience in that "a 4 cylinder car cant take much of a beating...not like the old V8 cars...I could actually get in my 71 Pontiac later on and go into a parking lot and smoke the tires doing a donut and drive away...
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I wasn't actually beating on it at the time, I got in it on a very cold morning, started the engine and popped it into reverse, heard a 'bang' and it didn't move. Too scared to say anything about it and my dad never knew it was me. Apparently the reverse band broke.
 
My dad was a FOMOCO guy. Galaxie wagon, 67 Mustang coupe and a 77 Mercury Cougar XR 7 daily driver. I remember when I bought my 67 Fastback Barracuda with my own money.
I don't think he was impressed but it had Pinto front buckets.
 
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I grew up in a large farming community, several small towns. Most of the people were from German descent. The neighboring town's descendants were from the Hanover area in Germany. They always flaunted their money. Whenever a son would turn 16, daddy would go out and buy him a brand new musclecar, late 60's to the mid 70's. The kid would total his car the first weekend, Monday morning daddy would buy him another new one. It was down right disgusting how they treated these cars. I heard about one kid getting a new 1966 SS396 Chevelle, he didn't like it, so he parked it on the railroad tracks and let it get hit by the train. I think he got in trouble for that one. Quite a few of them died to. Another wreck, 70 SS396 Chevelle crossed the highway and hit a driveway abutment at a very high rate of speed. The car pretty much stopped at the driveway but they found the 396 out in the field about 500-600 feet The driver died and the passenger survived till he took his own life later. Sorry for the long rants. If anyone doesn't approve, let me know.
Demonx2 said:
Man, you guys smashing mom or dad's car just after getting your license! I'll bet there were some belts worn out on your behinds. No wonder 16 year old male car insurance rates were so high!!
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When I was in High school (mid 80s) the twenty year old v 8 cars were what the adults didn't want and handed down to us. It was fairly common for a teenager 16 or older to have a v8 car. One kid though his dad built him a 66 Chevellle . That car was too nice for this particular guy honestly...but it was common to find an ole 18 or 20 year old V8 car for cheap as a high school kid with a part time job alot of times we bought them and brought them home against parents wishes you didn't need to be 18 to title a car...I remember plainly being 19 and going down the highway cruising at 120 -130 MPH in a GM A body Pontiac Tempest. There was rarely a mention of "Thats too much power for a kid..."
 
Demonx2 said:
Man, you guys smashing mom or dad's car just after getting your license! I'll bet there were some belts worn out on your behinds. No wonder 16 year old male car insurance rates were so high!!
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AAA just told my parents that they would not continue the policy with me on their insurance. It took 25 years to get AAA to remove my name from the exclusions.

My mother never liked her 1982 Cutlass the way she liked the 78. My father was more upset when I high centered a driveway apron and just about ripped the k-member out of his 73 Barracuda.


Alan
 
Drove home from getting my license with my dad in his 94 (or maybe 93, I can't remember) Stealth. He pulled over a few blocks from home and said "okay, drive it home". Non turbo, but it was a 5 speed.
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My actual first car that I drove to school was this 71 Vette:
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My mom used to teach at my school in the mornings, so I would drive it to school, she'd take it home at lunch, then come back and get me and I'd drive it home to get my hours for my learner's permit. Drove it through all of high school and some of college rain or snow (I didn't really have a choice, lol). Still have the Vette to this day 20+ years later, but it doesn't get out as much. Need more garage space so I don't have to move stuff to get it out.
 
1961 Cadillac convertible......

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When I nailed the parallel parking test, the examiner made a couple notes on his clipboard and said to head back to the courthouse, my test was done and I passed.
 
Rick@Laysons said:
1961 Cadillac convertible......

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When I nailed the parallel parking test, the examiner made a couple notes on his clipboard and said to head back to the courthouse, my test was done and I passed.
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Wow! I don't know that I could parallel park that beast now, let alone back when I was a teenager! :lol:
 
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