Just T
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Post by Just T on Sept 26, 2024 18:55:34 GMT
I posted on the other thread that I was gifted a really cool 1976 Camaro for my 18th birthday/high school graduation. That was the first car that was mine all mine. LOL Before that, I drove my mom's 1971 (I think!) Buick Electra. It was a pea green BEAST. LOL I found a pic on google images--it looked exactly like this!  What was the first car YOU drove? |
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Post by Merge on Sept 26, 2024 19:05:13 GMT
My parents' 1978 Buick station wagon, complete with faux wood panels. You know you're jealous!
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Post by Restless Spirit on Sept 26, 2024 19:19:54 GMT
1968 Chevy Chevelle Malibu in Seafrost Green with a black top. It was a really nice car and fun to drive. I took my driver’s test in it. I think that was the first and last time I ever parallel parked. Ha.
A few years later, my sister was trying to make a left-hand turn out of our housing addition and was broad sided and totaled it.
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Post by malibou on Sept 26, 2024 19:53:07 GMT
A 1978 burgundy/red coloured, 2-door, Ford Pinto. I was 16, it was awful. Fortunately, I managed go put off getting my license, so it was never my ride. I spent the last 2 years of high school being driven around by my bestie in her Army green 1967 Chrysler New Yorker! It was a beast of a car and one of the longest ever made. If it had windshield washer fluid, and you then used it for its intended purpose, it would continue to spray until it ran out, even if you turned off the car, which no believed until shown. We lived in Oregon and you need windshield washer fluid! To mess with her I would flip it on on sunny days! 😈 Here she isOh, and before I met my bestie, I already knew her car, because it was owned by my sister's boyfriend, who sold it to bestie. |
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Post by kristi521 on Sept 26, 2024 20:13:03 GMT
The car I learned to drive in was my parent's 1990 Lincoln Mark VII -  My parents bought me a 1976 Bonneville and damn that was a boat....  . The driver's door would open when I made left turns if I didn't hold on to the handle. Then my parents had a lock put on the door that would keep it closed without me needing to have one hand on the handle. Ahh, memories. |
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Post by Just T on Sept 26, 2024 20:22:17 GMT
I think that was the first and last time I ever parallel parked. Ha. I took my driver's test in that pea green monster. I failed parallel parking. LOL It was many years and a few smaller cars later before I even attempted to parallel park. I'm a whiz at it now in my little Ford Escape.  |
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Post by Just T on Sept 26, 2024 20:23:34 GMT
The car I learned to drive in was my parent's 1990 Lincoln Mark VII - My parents bought me a 1976 Bonneville and damn that was a boat.... . The driver's door would open when I made left turns if I didn't hold on to the handle. Then my parents had a lock put on the door that would keep it closed without me needing to have one hand on the handle. Ahh, memories. When my mom traded in her giant Electra, she got a Pontiac Bonneville. LOL It seemed small in comparison. |
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Post by Just T on Sept 26, 2024 20:24:48 GMT
A 1978 burgundy/red coloured, 2-door, Ford Pinto. I was 16, it was awful. Fortunately, I managed go put off getting my license, so it was never my ride. I spent the last 2 years of high school being driven around by my bestie in her Army green 1967 Chrysler New Yorker! It was a beast of a car and one of the longest ever made. If it had windshield washer fluid, and you then used it for its intended purpose, it would continue to spray until it ran out, even if you turned off the car, which no believed until shown. We lived in Oregon and you need windshield washer fluid! To mess with her I would flip it on on sunny days! 😈 Here she isOh, and before I met my bestie, I already knew her car, because it was owned by my sister's boyfriend, who sold it to bestie. Gotta love those mid century tanks. LOL |
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Post by ntsf on Sept 26, 2024 20:56:44 GMT
1958 gmc suburban truck.. no synchronized anything.. truck starter (a button on the floor), compound low gear.. and a stick right out of the floor board.
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Post by Lexica on Sept 26, 2024 21:14:00 GMT
Oh, the first car I drove was shared with my older sister. It was an old Chevy Corvair. It had the gear shift thing on the dashboard that looked like a toggle switch, not a gear shift. It was about two inches long and you just inched it down to the gear shown on the dash. It was so odd. And the thing leaked oil terribly! We had to add oil every other time we got gas in it. We even kept a milk gallon of oil in the trunk of the car just in case. I can still remember the smell of the interior. Old cigarettes and just old age. We didn’t smoke in it, it just had a yellow residue from the last owner. You know how two sisters would potentially fight over the use of a shared car? Not us. Neither of us wanted to drive that thing and we only used it as a last resort like if our boyfriends couldn’t take us somewhere and we absolutely needed to go, we used that car. This is what that beast looked like. Ours was white like this too. And it smoked if you spilled the oil when adding more. It just wasn’t worth repairing.  |
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Post by MichyM on Sept 26, 2024 21:20:40 GMT
My dad bought a Toyota station wagon and a Toyota Celica shortly before my 16th birthday in 1977. I lived with him and ya know, he couldn't drive two cars at the same time, so the Celica was at my disposal quite a bit. I didn't drive it to school all that often (was on a city bus line that went almost directly to the school or friends would pick me up) or work (it too was on an easy bus line), but used it for most everything else. That is...unless I was in trouble <---- which actually, hard as it may be to believe  was fairly often. It was a cute car for a teenage girl for sure, my friends called it Michy's "silly car" instead of celica. Oh, the memories! In my mid 20's a purchased another Celica (used). Loved that car too. After that my cars went fairly "practical" and have stayed there ever since. |
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Post by MichyM on Sept 26, 2024 21:22:58 GMT
I think that was the first and last time I ever parallel parked. Ha. I took my driver's test in that pea green monster. I failed parallel parking. LOL It was many years and a few smaller cars later before I even attempted to parallel park. I'm a whiz at it now in my little Ford Escape. RIGHT? I also have a short car, and live in the city so I have to parallel park a lot, and it is a breeze! I really don't think twice about it. |
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Post by MichyM on Sept 26, 2024 21:24:14 GMT
1958 gmc suburban truck.. no synchronized anything.. truck starter (a button on the floor), compound low gear.. and a stick right out of the floor board. Wow, I hadn't thought about those for a very long time! |
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 26, 2024 21:28:44 GMT
This one I will answer.. I learned to drive on a VW Rabbit. Probably 1980-81.. it was my mom's car, and stick shift. Fun times. lol
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 26, 2024 22:14:11 GMT
My mom had a Toyota Camry but I wasn’t allowed to drive it. The first car I really drove was the Mazda and since it was a stick shift DH had to teach me how to drive it.
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Post by VanC on Sept 26, 2024 22:34:19 GMT
I learned to drive on an old Ford station wagon with a wonky clutch, a standard H stick on the column and a full bench seat that was so butt spring we had a bunch pillows and a baby mattress stuffed in the holes covered by a rather tatty old horse blanket. Fun times!
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Post by AussieMeg on Sept 26, 2024 23:17:42 GMT
The first car I ever "drove" was the Toyota truck on my grandparents' farm.  I say "drove" because I was only about 8yo, and I couldn't even reach the pedals. My Poppa would hook up the occy strap from the gear stick to the steering wheel so the truck would drive around in a big circle. I would sit in the driver's seat, holding the steering wheel, thinking that I was driving, and he would be in the back forking the hay off the back of the truck for the cattle. When we were a bit older and stronger, Poppa would drive the truck, and my cousins and I would fork the hay off the back of the truck. Thank you for indulging me in this precious memory. Other than that, I would drive whatever car my older friends had, before I was old enough to get my licence. I did a lot of underage unlicensed driving in my teenage years.  When I was learning to drive after getting my learner's permit, I did most of my driving in Dad's Tarago van. |
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Post by librarylady on Sept 26, 2024 23:30:39 GMT
53 Chevy, mint green.
I can't remember if it was standard or automatic shift.
Before I drove that car, I had driven 2 different tractors.
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Post by jackietex on Sept 27, 2024 0:37:46 GMT
In 1983 I borrowed money from my brother so I could buy a very used, and not so well-loved 1976 Buick Regal. It looked just like the photo except more rust and no t-bar windows.  |
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Post by hopemax on Sept 27, 2024 4:06:54 GMT
My Mom’s 1986 Ford Ranger.
We had an “extra” car which was given to me for my 16th birthday. It was my Dad’s powder blue 1985 Ford Tempo. But it was a stick, no power steering or any features. I hated it. So I delayed learning how to drive a stick better. We lived on a steep hill, and in a hilly area, which contributed to my hate of the car. So my Mom would drive that, so I could drive her truck.
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 27, 2024 4:14:01 GMT
My dad taught me to drive on a manual 1986 Volkswagen Cabriolet.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Sept 27, 2024 10:43:47 GMT
1965 VW Bus! That’s what I drove first after I got my license.
I also learned on a ford pickup, probably around 1970 ish
i practiced on 4 or 5 different VW Bugs, of different vintages, which helped me get used to the idiosyncrasies of varying transmissions.
And finally, my good friend let me log many hours driving her Datsun B210, circa 1975.
As an undiagnosed autistic person, I was super uncomfortable about driving, and it took a lot of practice and support to get me to the point of getting my license at 19.
The first car I owned was a 1960 something Ford Falcon station wagon that my Dad gave me.
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was fairly often. It was a cute car for a teenage girl for sure, my friends called it Michy's "silly car" instead of celica. Oh, the memories!
