Two part question

[Camino LS6]

Part one: What was the first car you ever drove?

Part two: How old were you at the time?

[knightfan26917]

1979 Chevrolet Blazer (my uncle let me drive it while I was staying with him and my aunt the summer of 1988)

Age: 14 at the time

Cort, "Mr MC" / "Mr Road Trip", 32swm/pig valve/pacemaker

MC:family.IL.guide.future = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/

Models.HO = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/trainroom.html

"I wanna drive" ... Trace Adkins ... '(Her Favorite Color Is) Chrome'

[Cory Wolfe]

1989 Buick Regal... about 8 or 9.

[Guest Josh]

1) First car I've "officially driven" that the 'rents know of was ironically the 1999 Grand Am SE that I now own. Had to pick dad up from the Club that night.

2) I was 15 & skeeeered to deal the cops were going to bust my ass with a less than sober pops haha.

Man, what I'd do to be back in the old days and put me back in school lol.

[mjdecker]

I was actually legal the first time I drove, 16, just got my permit and my dad was with me. I drove his 1994 Buick Park Avenue we just got rid of a few weeks ago.

Here's how it looked the day we got rid of it

When i drove it it was in a lot better condition, no rust at the time and ran like a champ.

[Newbiewar]

98 camry.. i was 15...

a few days later i drove a 94 t100

a few days after that, the drivers school's corolla...

then i drove my brothers corrolla once or twice...

then old F350...

the hrmmm wonder if i drove anything else.. but after i turned 18 i started driving a whole lot of cars, and now, i drive at least 20-30 vehicles a week...

[ocnblu]

I guess it was my grandfather's '69 F-250 pickup... 390 with 3 on the tree and no power steering. Luckily, it was not on public roads, because I was a little $h! and had to look between the dash and steering wheel to drive it. I was prolly 10 years old. He traded it in '75 for another F-250 of the same configuration, except I think that one had the crappy 360 V8.

[Camino LS6]

A 1961 Ford Falcon, I was 13 at the time.

[mustang84]

1986 Cutlass Supreme, age 7 or so...I got to steer for a little bit, no pedals though :AH-HA_wink:

First time actually driving all by myself was probably our '96 Windstar at age 14...that and our school's Plymouth Breeze are what I learned to drive in

[Raybob9289]

My dads 72 Lesabre in 72 steering on his lap.

It woulda been about 75 or so. That woulda made me about 9 years old.

That old LeSabre was a cool car

[griff7774]

93 chevy corsica

16 yoa

[the_yellow_dart]

First time shifting a manual (shifter only), 88 Grand Am, roughly 10 y/o.

First time steering, 86 Sunbird, roughly 11 y/o.

First time actually driving, 88 Safari, roughly 12 y/o on a dirt road in a campground with my dad in the passenger seat.

[z28luvr01]

I guess I'm the late bloomer here.

17 years old, on my father's 1990 Lumina.

[Snate]

My dad's 1996 Jeep Cherokee when I was 15 and had my permit.

[daves87rs]

15 in a 93 Cavalier..learning to drive.

Ran stuff over too....

[Brandon Lutz]

1984 F-150 4x4 XLT when I was 8. Truck was a POS. Had the beautiful wondering suspension and two feet of play in the steering wheel. My father said if anyone could take the thing past 70 without wrecking, they could drive anything...

I took it to 100mph when I was about 15 on a long stretch of pavement on this abandoned road on some property we owned.

Didnt wreck, but she was all over the place.

Truck was a POS. Our 76 F-150 Ranger was a much better truck. Put about 800k on it. Only thing every changed was the oil, batteries, and the belts. Still has the factory carb, starter and etc on it.

[Sixty8panther]

I guess it was my grandfather's '69 F-250 pickup... 390 with 3 on the tree and no power steering.  Luckily, it was not on public roads, because I was a little $h! and had to look between the dash and steering wheel to drive it....

Awsome!

First time for me was in shortly after we came to the USA. My dad was

working two jobs and his job at night was a Cab Driver. I was about 9,

possibly 10 and he sat me on his lap adn let me take the blue & white

(Blue Cab Co.) 1984? Dodge Diplomat for a spin around the parking lot.

It was in Roslindale right by the "Bradlees" (now out of business) and

Stop & Shop Supermarkets. It was very cool. I guess a RWD Mopar

with a baby V8 (318) is not a bad first drive.

[scharmer05]

1992 F150.....i think i was 9 or 10

[staceface]

I was a bad kid, I stole my Dad's 1975 red Ford pickup when I was 13 and my parents were gone for the weekend (clueless Aunt was staying over night). It had a three speed on the column and I couldn't for the life of me find first. I ended up hitting mailbox, but for the most part, no one was the wiser.

[04monteintimidator]

um... im still scarred from the experience... but uh... the first car i drove was the schools... its hard to say it... 2003... honda accord... oh god that was a terrible experience... i was 15... after that it was my grandpas... saturn sumthin... i dont even know its a huge POS and i hate it... i drove my moms deville once... too floaty for me... and then theres my monte...

[trinacriabob]

15 y.o. - that's when you can get a permit in CA as long as you are accompanied

Buick Regal (4 door vintage)

[ocnblu]

Mr. z28luvr... we know what's up... you were 17 before you could reach the pedals, right?

Stace... how could I ever forget the shift pattern of a 3 speed manual on the column... first is down and back... second is up and forward, and third is down and forward. Reverse is up and back. Neutral is in the middle, and you can move the lever forward and back.

[Black and Blue Landscaper]

1992 Jeep Cheeroke (Squeak)

13 years old

[NOS2006]

First I've ever driven: 2000 Durango at 14 and a half. Started driving on a permit at 15 or 15 and a half. I got my license at 16 and a half.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

14; 1998 Chevy S10 LS with a 5-Speed manual.

[Cory Wolfe]

I see I started alot younger than most people... Let's see... I drove that Regal, the blue GASE, the 77 Chevy truck, and the 88 C/K Cheyenne all before I was 16. My first car with a manual, though, was my lovely GAGT at 16. To this day, I've never stalled it. I feel special for that.

[NOS2006]

I see I started alot younger than most people... Let's see... I drove that Regal, the blue GASE, the 77 Chevy truck, and the 88 C/K Cheyenne all before I was 16. My first car with a manual, though, was my lovely GAGT at 16. To this day, I've never stalled it. I feel special for that.

I had driven 7 vehicles before turning 16 :AH-HA_wink: Edited April 11, 2006 by NOS2006

[Robert Hall]

Summer 1985. Got my learner's permit around my 15th birthday. First car I ever took out on a road was w/ my dad in his '84 Lincoln Town Car. Followed by his '84 Ford Escort diesel (first manual I drove, the car I did my driving test in, and later became my first car), then his '79 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4 pickup (my main vehicle for practice on the Ohio backroads--an awful thing to drive--numb power steering, tended to stall on left turns, bouncy suspension), and occasionally mom's '82 Mustang GT (fun car).

then occasionally I got to drive my folks vintage cars--a '69 Mustang Mach 1 (351W, auto), '67 Mercury Cougar (289, 3spd manual), '68 Mercury Cougar (302, 3spd manual), and '68 Mercury Cougar XR-7 (390, auto)...

Edited April 11, 2006 by moltar

[Cory Wolfe]

I had driven 7 vehicles before turning 16 :AH-HA_wink:

It's not about the amount of vehicles... it's the age. See my first post, smart one.

[staceface]

[stace... how could I ever forget the shift pattern of a 3 speed manual on the column... first is down and back... second is up and forward, and third is down and forward. Reverse is up and back. Neutral is in the middle, and you can move the lever forward and back.[/b]

But Blu, how was I to know? I thought I was brilliant for finding a gear, any gear, and moving. I was actually doing everything in second and third with lots of gear grinding and gravel spitting!

[NOS2006]

It's not about the amount of vehicles... it's the age. See my first post, smart one.

Hey, Smart One, you never mentioned an age except "before 16;" you mentioned quantity. :AH-HA_wink:

[Cory Wolfe]

So... see my first post, smart one. I said around the age of 9. You didn't. There.

[NOS2006]

Oh, sorry smarter one. I limit myself to page two of all threads.

[capriceman]

If road legal tractors with an orange sign then it was a 1965 allis chamlers? then i was around 10

car was a 78 chevy truck around 13 with a stick. going down back roads.listening to "Free as a bird" Some how i still remember that song was on.

first car in my name a Geo metro from the early 80's it was a year old when i got it. car i used was a 75 Caprice the old styles bigger than my now and it was always on a gas binge.

Edited April 11, 2006 by capriceman

[Sixty8panther]

Moltar's first car was more obscure than my Datsun Maxima.

Holy $hit I almost forgot they MADE Diesel Escorts.