spud the mackem Posted October 1, 2012 #26 Share Posted October 1, 2012 A Vauxhall Viva,(long time ago),then a 57000 ton Shell Oil Tanker,(Oh sorry thats not a car) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted October 1, 2012 #27 Share Posted October 1, 2012 An Austin Metro and it was bloody awful..now own an M5 and an Impreza WRX which has been highly tuned..... Ha ha I like it but you must get really frustrated following a "Matchbox on Milktops". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKO Posted October 1, 2012 #28 Share Posted October 1, 2012 My first car was a 88 Toyota Camry lol. Then a 96 Holden Commodore. And my future dream car, a HSV Maloo. 6.2 litre V8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhantomFlanFlinger Posted October 1, 2012 #29 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Ha ha I like it but you must get really frustrated following a "Matchbox on Milktops". Im lucky North Yorkshire has nice wide roads... .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted October 1, 2012 #30 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Hyundai S Coupe This model, but mine was white Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scouser Posted October 1, 2012 #31 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Did all my lessons in a Vauxhall Corsa. My first car was also a Corsa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMelsWell Posted October 2, 2012 #32 Share Posted October 2, 2012 My parents had two cars ... I believe the first one I drove (which was a disaster on a few levels) was their 1977 Westfalia. It looked exactly like this one: The other car we had was almost as bad... This was the model I eventually took my road test in--A 1972 Olds 442. Sit down, shut up and hang on! LOL: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted October 2, 2012 #33 Share Posted October 2, 2012 (edited) learned to drive in... 1976 Cougar XR-7 First car I owned Best car I ever owned too. Wish I still had it. Edited October 2, 2012 by OverSword 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMelsWell Posted October 3, 2012 #34 Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) learned to drive in... 1976 Cougar XR-7 LOL, that's almost as a good as my Olds! Your brother couldn't ride up front with me in the olds because it had a bench seat and me being all of 5' nothing, he had to ride in back for leg room or risk riding with his knees carefully positioned in his ears. LOL. (Ooops, I just saw in my post that I typo'd the year, it was a 1976Olds.) First car I owned Best car I ever owned too. Wish I still had it. And is that your actual bug? I remember it vaguely. It was even that color wasn't it? Edited October 3, 2012 by MissMelsWell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted October 3, 2012 #35 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Im lucky North Yorkshire has nice wide roads... .... Yep better than the "tank trap" potholes,and narrow roads with high hedges on both sides in Somerset, these roads are a disgrace to England. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah_444 Posted October 3, 2012 #36 Share Posted October 3, 2012 This was identical to the car I learned to drive. 1998 Pontiac Sunfire. I drive a slightly newer white one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted May 31, 2015 Author #37 Share Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) Thought this topic would be great fun again , what was the first car you ever driven? Didn't drive it but was born in a 1933 dodge Made the Detroit head lines- baby girl hold up five blocks of traffic Edited May 31, 2015 by docyabut2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LavenderAlice Posted May 31, 2015 #38 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I still can't drive, tried to learn many years ago but gave up quite quickly. IIRC changing gears was a particular problem, manual cars are the norm in Britain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted May 31, 2015 #39 Share Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) Can't post the pics of my car types. Says I can't use them here. Maybe this will work. My car looked exactly like this. first car... http://en.wikipedia....974_Gremlin.jpg Learned stick on one of these but it was Brown with white hood stripes. 1974 Chevy Nova, 3-columm. Edited May 31, 2015 by susieice 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted May 31, 2015 #40 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I learned in the old Chevy pickup my dad drove. Then learned how to drive stick in my ford ranger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffSplitkins Posted June 2, 2015 #41 Share Posted June 2, 2015 My father taught me how to drive in a cemetery in the pouring rain in his Mazda RX2. I had a hard time seeing because it was raining so hard and I said "Dad, I can't see anything, shouldn't we wait until a nicer day?" He said, "It's not like you're going to hurt anybody here. They're all dead anyway. Keep driving and turn left up here." (photo not my father's old car but looks exactly like it) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted June 2, 2015 #42 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) I learned to drive in my dad's '64 Ford Falcon Van (manual transmission)... My first car to drive for any practical use was a Dodge Coronet 440 (dad's car, but he let me use it)... My first truly owned car was a '68 Pontiac GTO convertable... Bought it for $500 and loved that beast... Edited June 2, 2015 by Taun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.ZZ. Posted June 2, 2015 #43 Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) My dad taught me how to drive in a 51 Desoto like this when I was about 15. It had a semi-auto trans, meaning it used a clutch and the 1-2 gear changes were manual, but the 2-3 would shift by getting up to speed and letting up on the gas. Unfortunately I put it into a ditch when I was 16 and that was that. Edited June 2, 2015 by ZZ430 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdueleaf Posted June 2, 2015 #44 Share Posted June 2, 2015 a 1982 mazda hatchback 5 speed... it had a batman symbol on the back window so we called it the batmobile.. i loved that car and should have kept it it ran good in 1997 when i got rid of it and i bet would still be running today if it wasnt rusted out... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted June 4, 2015 Author #45 Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) Thanks all its really interesting to see all those cool cars:) anyone named their cars? We had a Vega that we called Daisy, every morning getting the kids off to school when its was so the cold and it would`nt start we kept say come on daisy:) the back seat was all in crayon drawings of the kids. Edited June 4, 2015 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted June 4, 2015 #46 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I believe it was a 1927 Dodge Brothers sedan, not unlike this. did it come with a Thompson 45? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted June 4, 2015 Author #47 Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) Then we got this white jeep that we called Snow ball, that car had roll up windows and a setting one could put in four wheel drive, that car went though anything and I really felt confident. but after that we got a automotive red jeep, drove it for some time and wonder why it did not hold to the road, here the system was `nt working, give me back those old cars where one had the control Edited June 4, 2015 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanity Posted June 4, 2015 #48 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Thought this topic would be great fun again , what was the first car you ever driven? Didn't drive it but was born in a 1933 dodge Made the Detroit head lines- baby girl hold up five blocks of traffic These were a bit different to drive, took a little effort and more awareness while driving. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightly Posted June 9, 2015 #49 Share Posted June 9, 2015 i don't have a picture of the one i practiced in the most... but picture a red VW bug. I"d sneak off with it when the folks took Mom's car. It was terrifying to go on the pavement until i reached the two tracks through the woods. *scrape* Lot's of fun.. not sure i got away with it,, but Dad didn't say anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted June 9, 2015 Author #50 Share Posted June 9, 2015 i don't have a picture of the one i practiced in the most... but picture a red VW bug. I"d sneak off with it when the folks took Mom's car. It was terrifying to go on the pavement until i reached the two tracks through the woods. *scrape* Lot's of fun.. not sure i got away with it,, but Dad didn't say anything. Loved those VW bugs, we had a black one, but when we took it up to Mich on a trip, we got surrounded by three really big simi trucks, man did I freak out ,thought we be sucked up or be runned off the road I felted like I was in a tin can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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