The first car you ever drove...

Motorhead350

Motorhead350

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My first time was with a mid 80's Dodge Diplomat. I was eight years old in my uncles junkyard and I had full permission to find anything that ran and drive it around in the yard after it closed. I found this Dodge and drove it until it ran out of gas... which was about ten minutes. I was coasting most of the time, but boy that was fun!

So what was your first drive and how old were you?
 
I was 11 or 12 and helping my sisters ex boyfriend work on his friends car, the car we were workin on was at the top of a steep driveway and my sisters ex's 350TPI trans am was at the bottom of the driveway, we decided we wanted to listen to the radio so he tosses me the keys to pull the car up, so I start it up, put the pedal to the floor spinning the tires all the way up the driveway, I was so panicked I didn't even hit the brakes, I just slammed it in park, when I got out he said I take it you've never driven a car before, I said nope!!!
 
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My best friends Dad had a 72 F250 Camper Special,360 with like 4:56 gears

we would drive down our street to the end and do massive burnouts. We were about 13-14 years old.
 
I was about eleven and it was my grandpas 77 f 150 302 3 on the tree in tennessee, it was a learning experience. But an hour or two later piece of cake. Next day he let me take his 63 ford fairlane six bangor auto but still had a blast.
 
I do not know what my 1st car I drove was but I do know what my first manual trannied car was.

This was around April or May of 1989.

It was an early 80s Toyota Corolla with a dead battery. I was in auto shop during my senior year of high school and we had to get this car to the shop in the back. So I, and 2 other kids named Chuck and Brian go with a battery and jumper cables on a dolly to get this car. When we get there I noticed that this is a stick and say "Hey, we can push start this". So the other Brian gets in the driver seat, and Chuck and I push the car out of the spot and then down the road. Brian gets it started but lets out the clutch too fast and stalls it. That's when I said "Get out!!! I'ts my turn!!!" So I get in and they push. I got it started and let out the clutch easy and hiccuped the thing for about 70 feet. It finally got going to where I could get it into 2nd gear, made the right turn and then left to end up at the shop to put the car on the charger. Since then I wanted to drive a manual trannied vehicle and have for many years.
 
My parents used to let me steer their 1967 F-100 from the center of the bench seat. Eventually I learned to drive it, 352 V8 and 3 on the column. You never forget that feeling!!
 
10yrs old. '72 Ford Pickup, old blaze orange IC Rail Road truck. V8 and stick. Let's just say that it was interesting yet amazingly awesome at the same time.
 
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First Drive

It was my Dad's new 1957 Olds 98 4-door hardtop with the 3-2 barrels & enough torque to roast the bias tires at the crack of the throttle. Definitely helped my adolescent self develop the need for speed. Nothing's changed, except now I drive a 4-door sedan with twice the HP and 2/3 the CID.
 
My first car i ever drove was a 1978 Caddy Eldorado that my dad just bought from the original owner ....man that car was long .
 
My first was a 1975 pontiac grandville brougham convertible. My uncle let me drive it around a new housing subdivision for about an hour & I was 12 or 13 years old at the time.
 
58' Ford pick-up, V-8, Red, and White paint, on the roads next to the creek, southern tier of New York. 9 years old, then next year a 64' international 5 ton, picking up hay in the fields.
 
My father had a bug (VW). I drove it a couple of times before going to driving school where they made me driving a FIAT 131 (the basic model).

JP
 
1966 Mustang

I would sit on my Dad's lap and drive (steer) on the back roads when i was 6-7 years old.

I couldn't reach the pedals anyway so it didn't matter.

No airbags, no power steering, no powerbrakes, no abs, no power anything.

It was great fun.
 
I think I was about 6 or so and my family and I were at the beach for a picnic. And before we left my pop let me sit in front of his lap and steer the car for a while around the parking lot.

So I drove and weaved around some light poles and was coming back to the spot where we'd left all the stuff but I being a child steered directly towards my grandpa, who was waving us in, intend on greeting him with a hug from the 1990 Plymouth Voyager's front end, unknowing of the consequences of running people over.

Luckily my pop was able to shift his foot to the brake in time as me sitting between his legs partially blocked the brake.
 
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I think I was about 6 or so and my family and I were at the beach for a picnic. And before we left my pop let me sit in front of his lap and steer the car for a while around the parking lot.
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Yeah, my Dad would let me steer "Leapin' Leena" when I was about 7-8 years old -- that was the family knickname for our '53 Plymouth Cranbrook. He replaced shocks on that car about twice as frequently as tires -- hence the name.

The first car that I truly drove was my brother-in-laws '65 Ford Galaxie 500 (red on red). :D
 
I was around 14 yrs old so my dad decided it was time for me to learn how to drive his '74 Cougar XR7 on a back road, what a tank that car was but then again look what I'm driving now...
 
My Dad taught me to drive in his black over white 1963 Rambler American 440 2 dr coupe with a 3 speed on the floor (and an overdrive stick shift next to it!). An odd looking car but it was unbreakable and I remember my Dad selling it for more than he paid for it when we moved.
 
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The first car I drove legally was our family car: 1972 Galaxie 500 351W 2V.:D

The first car I drove was around age 13-14, a 1970 Coupe D'eville. Kelly Green w/white Leather. What a boat.
 
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