What Car Did You Learn To Drive In? (Post Pic!)

Lincoln Stax · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:02 am

I saw people talking about this in the blog section, so I thought I'd start a proper thread for it. I'm not talking about your first car (although they could be the same thing), but the car you learned to drive in.

For me, it was a 1966 Mercury Commuter station wagon. It was light yellow, had a 390 V-8, it was my mom's daily driver, and it was the first car my dad bought new. It was already about 13 years old by the time I learned to drive in it. At the time, it was just a big old wagon just like all the other big old wagons that everyone owned back then. But now I look back at it with a lot of fondness, because I spent a sizable portion of my childhood in the back of that car.

Other than the color, wheels and ride height, it looked just like this:

Dachshund · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:51 pm

Learning with my dad? A 55 Chevy with a 350 and four on the floor (the one I have custody of now :mrgreen:

With my mom? An automatic S10 Blazer; the car I ultimately took my driver's test in. Both cars were closer in driving experience to each other than one would imagine, or maybe not. But the Blazer was an absolute snore to drive, without having to shift, and wafting in relative silence. Til we got rear ended, anyway, with me in the drivers seat and an un-validated learner's permit :lol:

Garant · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:04 pm

with dashboard shifter

Lincoln Stax · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:33 pm

matt wrote:

with dashboard shifter

Awesome. When I was in high school, one of my best friends had a red 1960 Corvair 4-door with an auto as his first car. He later traded it for a 65 or 66 2-door with a floor-shift 4-speed manual. They were fun cars.

Packergreg · **Posted:** Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:31 pm

My step-mother's harvest gold 1970 Datsun 1200 coupe w/ 4sp; later to be my first car, and making me the second owner.

ArnieGT · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:22 am

When I was in car school we make a trip about 200km (3 of us) and teacher. I am 206cm high!!!!!! In Fiat Cinquecento!!!!So imagine it :lol:

Gear shift under the right leg (thigh), bent neck,...just crazy

oldeskewltoy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:35 am

Hmmmm, I had my "own" car when I was 16 (permit was 17 then). I had a 1964 Volvo 1800S in 1975

not me in photo... although I have smoked a pipe... I've never been that thin :lol:

I took my drivers test in my mom's 72 Skylark

looked similar to this, her car was turquoise

Marv666 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:58 am

In the Netherlands the driving schools have their own cars to learn to drive in, I learned to drive in one of the yellow BMW 1-series on the right (too bad that only one week after I got my drivers license they bought their first BMW X1, I wanted to drive that car too

). And shortly after my drivers license I learned driving with an trailer in the BMW X5 with the trailer on the left (driving a car with trailer is a separate license in the Netherlands).

Dachshund · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:05 pm

Right, pics:

This:

And very nearly this:

e-at_me · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:40 pm

ok.. see the gold 94 Accord wagon in the background? that one..

and i learned stick in this (which i now own)

qdseeker · **Posted:** Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:49 pm

First driven and learned to drive in was a 1983 Honda Accord.

Motiv8 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:44 am

Marv666 wrote:

And shortly after my drivers license I learned driving with an trailer in the BMW X5 with the trailer on the left (driving a car with trailer is a separate license in the Netherlands).

WOW - interesting..... Sometimes I wished that was the licencing protocol in Australia!!

yella81celica · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:27 pm

i learned to drive stick shift in a 1990 Ford Festiva same color but my parents was faded. i then wrecked it (on Easter) and it was totaled by insurance

solidstripe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:04 pm

I learned in a stock A31 Nissan Cefiro that looked simliar to this, driving round the mountains of the Coromandel, way back before they were considered "cool" and every man and his dog had a "HeLlA fLuSH" one as a drift taxi.

Maybe that's where the Nissan fettish started...

8duecedlx · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:15 pm

I learned to drive a 82 Corolla 4dr which belonged to my mom then my older sister...I was 14 at the time i learned to drive!

This pic was taken in the early 90s. I think 91-92?

now i'm 27 and i drive this...

go figure.

Lukas · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:55 am

I learned to drive at the age of 15 (not that legal) with my dads 94 Mitsubishi Pajero he had at that time. It was my first car too:

Garant · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:16 am

solidstripe wrote:

I learned in a stock A31 Nissan Cefiro that looked simliar to this, driving round the mountains of the Coromandel, way back before they were considered "cool" and every man and his dog had a "HeLlA fLuSH" one as a drift taxi.

Maybe that's where the Nissan fettish started...

most yanks haven't seen a cefiro in the flesh ... they're HUGE :shock:

Snoozin · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:51 pm

I first drove in one of these at age 12:

'61 Bedford J1. 214cu petrol and a heavy clutch.

shanec86 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:21 am

i learnt to drive in this 1983 N12 Pulsar GX 1.5 5speed
my auntie gave it to me when i was about 14 and its what started me off with nissan

it never saw the road though, i learnt in a paddock. The first cars i drove on the road were my parents GQ Nissan Patrol & 80's v8 range rover

SharmCos · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:01 am

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