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

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Someone hit my dad's Falcon wagon with no insurance, car was totaled.
S0 dad rode a bike to work rest of the week, a day or two. He took his paycheck and his cash on hand to the Chevy dealership on the same street we lived on, He bought the Loss Leader Nova. Three on tree, AM Radio, Heater and a 230 straight six. Rubber mat car. Nova was Gray looked just like Mopar Gunmetal Gray and Black vinyl bench Dog Dish poverty caps.
Be a cool car to have today
I learned to drive on work vans and trucks that were also 3 on tree. Onevofbtge vans was a Dodge 3 on tree 225. 1st had to be full stop. We always loaded the crap out that van. It was slow but pulled any load.
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Longitudinal V6 with 215 HP. My dad LOVED this car.
 
My first car, was a 73 Challenger rallye 318 in 1977 same color as this one but no vinyl roof but a rallye hood. I had the car for three days and a guy ran a stop sign and smashed the driver's side quarter. I was just getting used to the car and it ended up in the body shop for a month. :rolleyes: Owned mine for 30 years.

*not mine*
 
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No pics, but the car I took my drivers license test in was my Mom's 66 Slowsmobile 4 door. I was at Camp Daniel Boone in Boy Scouts Summer Camp on my 16th birthday. My Mom drove up (30ish miles) to get me and take me to the NC Highway Patrol Station to get my license on my 16th birthday. It was a complete surprise! I drove from the camp back to Asheville and got my license, and drove back to Camp Daniel Boone in time to do The Mile Swim for the merit badge in the coldest assed lake in NC!
 
1972 Barracuda. 318 with Slap Stick automatic. I think it was B5 blue when we got it in 1983. Dad and I fixed the rust and painted it a very dark blue. Put a 1850 Holley on a Performer intake. Heddman headers and dual exhaust perked it up pretty good. I had to have another one and am rebuilding a 73 Cuda with a 340. Paid a LOT more for the current train wreck than the $800 he paid for the 72.

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Took my license test in Mom's 84 Reliant. Looked just like this one.
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Couldn't use my car as the reverse lights weren't working.

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'83, late Grandpap's, still My Folk's then....I took over ownership ~'86.....I still have it.
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The hood injury was Grandpap's incident w/a Ford trk. bumper after a panic stop. I traded the Poncho rims for GLH rims & put 15×7" Olds ralleys painted body color on it.
 
I was in such a rush to get my license after completing driver's ed, that I begged my mom to go to the station that Friday. It was October and the thing to do in those parts back then was go to JayCees haunted houses and party, which I was anxious to do as the driver rather than a passeger.

We got there just in time and after the parking cones incident, and...

traveling down a residential street (no closed course in OH), a group of kids were playing football.
The instructor said "honk the horn", and when I did, the kid closest to me took his eye off the ball he was about to catch and the ball hit the windshield right in front of the instructor's face.

I passed, but we got back to the station after they had shut down the printer.
They gave me to option to come back Monday, or take a piece of paper saying the license was issued but not yet printed, which of course I took.

After getting home, I called friends and we all got a case of "Little Kings" and headed to the nearest haunted house. It was a very cool experience except...

On the way out of the parking lot a sheriff lit me up.
He had never seen the "license pending but valid" paper before and it took a few minutes of discussion and radio time to settle that.

I also got my first sobriety test. YAY. Which I passed three times. Both of the officers didn't quite believe it. They made us pour out the remaining three bottles. (I quietly told my friend to "take a long time" pouring them out so it didn't seem like there wasn't anything left).

After some more discussion and questions, we were let go and they followed me for about 2 blocks before turning off.

That's the rest of my "eventful" getting my license story.
 
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