What car did you learn to drive in?
01-11-2006, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by alohalc' post='222603' date='Jan 11 2006, 02:14 AM
dear all,
i think it's a very interesting and perfect topic for me to share a little of my background. i learned to drive when i was 10 and it was a rolls royce silver spur. the car was a little too big but it was ok. i just jumped to a porsche slantnose. i have to admit i'm a very picky person. i didn't really like the porsche's style, then i went to the garage for the lambo countach. anyway, i kept changing and i lost count already. oh, one last thing, my first car...i should say my first group of cars are porsche, lambo, ferrari, aston martin, maserati, rolls royce, bentley, mercedes, bmw and many more.
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i think it's a very interesting and perfect topic for me to share a little of my background. i learned to drive when i was 10 and it was a rolls royce silver spur. the car was a little too big but it was ok. i just jumped to a porsche slantnose. i have to admit i'm a very picky person. i didn't really like the porsche's style, then i went to the garage for the lambo countach. anyway, i kept changing and i lost count already. oh, one last thing, my first car...i should say my first group of cars are porsche, lambo, ferrari, aston martin, maserati, rolls royce, bentley, mercedes, bmw and many more.
regards,
johd
01-11-2006, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by SFBimmer' post='222494' date='Jan 10 2006, 11:21 PM
My Father had a 1966 Mustang GT Hardtop 
Boy do I wish I had it now
Just like the photo, however was white with red rally strips.
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Boy do I wish I had it now
Just like the photo, however was white with red rally strips.
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learnt on an old 70ish bug manual..... man that wa hard... and then perfected my skills with the huge family van...nice post!eric d
01-11-2006, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by stream' post='222749' date='Jan 11 2006, 06:49 AM
You misspelled you name, jond...
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Originally Posted by cobradav' post='222714' date='Jan 11 2006, 10:48 AM
I responded in the original "daughter" post of tachyon. But a little more here. I learned in a '47 Ford pickup that was the errand runner on my Grandpa's dairy farm. I started when about 11 and I could actually get out on the roads in the local area. We commuted between the "town" house and the farm, a distance of 25 miles one way in Grandpa's '49 Plymouth. Part of the way we were on paved roads that had actually had a center stripe. My Grandpa put that center stripe right between his eyes and it was always a thrill ( ) coming up over the many hills we traversed between the two locations. Every once in awhile we met another vehicle but most often they might have been a horse drawn plow or harrow. When I got my permit at 14 I was pretty skilled on the roads we traveled, but my first foray on a bridge was quite a trip. Apparently I tried to compensate for my Grandpa?s habit of taking his half out of the middle and I decided the best place to be was to place the chrome bumpers up against the right hand side and see how many sparks would fly. Mighty long bridge too, over five miles and I never came off the side on that first trip. I checked the bumpers as soon as I got off and lo and behold a lot of chrome was missing. On the return trip I managed to only hit the right side of the bridge for a couple hundred feet. I believe I have improved since then.
) coming up over the many hills we traversed between the two locations. Every once in awhile we met another vehicle but most often they might have been a horse drawn plow or harrow. When I got my permit at 14 I was pretty skilled on the roads we traveled, but my first foray on a bridge was quite a trip. Apparently I tried to compensate for my Grandpa?s habit of taking his half out of the middle and I decided the best place to be was to place the chrome bumpers up against the right hand side and see how many sparks would fly. Mighty long bridge too, over five miles and I never came off the side on that first trip. I checked the bumpers as soon as I got off and lo and behold a lot of chrome was missing. On the return trip I managed to only hit the right side of the bridge for a couple hundred feet. I believe I have improved since then.
01-11-2006, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by grogan545' post='223055' date='Jan 11 2006, 07:08 PM
I learned by driving my fathers construction vehicles around our driveway.I started when I was about 12.The driveway was gravel and I would spin the tires and leave long skid marks.After done playing I took a broom and sweep over the marks.Like my father didn't notice the 2 broom sweeps about 50' long and 5'apart.When I was 14 and working for my father in the summer he needed some material from home.He said take the truck and get the material,I know you can drive,I've been looking at your marks in the driveway for 2 years
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Now let?s talk about our kids. Great kids, mine. Buuuut, #2 son. Well let?s say he had a propensity to ?wreck? all of dad?s cars. First there was the Pontiac, full frontal lobotomy, pushed the bumper up to the windshield, not hurt. Car totaled. Then there was the Charger, foolin? around he managed to get someone up his a*s, pushed the bumber up to the rear glass, totaled. Then Supra, managed to put it UNDER a high ridin? pickup, totaled. All of these when I was out of the country on travel, wife was supposed to take him too or from something and she would be tired and let him drive my car. Taught me to buy him his own wreck and wouldn?t you know it, never wrecked again. 
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Originally Posted by Canada545' post='222181' date='Jan 10 2006, 12:55 PM
1975 Chevette ... or as I called it ... the vet!
First car (which I still have) 1975 MGB roadster (golden anniversary edition)
First car (which I still have) 1975 MGB roadster (golden anniversary edition)
I learned on a combination of a 1971 Buick Skylark V8, a 1970 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, and miscellaneous GM econo-boxes like the Pontiac Phoenix and Chevrolet Citation.
Oh, plus a neighbor lady whose yard I cleaned made me drive her 1973 Lincoln Mark whatever (IV?) to get gas for the tractor, before I had a license or anything.