Boxer mom

I bought my first car with my babysitting money, it was a 1966 Plymonth Vallent with a 3 in the tree as they called it (3 speed in the column) and it cost me $250. I didn't even know how to drive, my dad drove it home and over the next week taught me how to drive it.

angieh1964

chevy chevette and chevy luv stick shift in both dad wouldnt let me drive the automatic suburban till i could drive stick he told us girls if u can drive a stick u can drive just about anything! i also liked driving with mom better than dad he was a nervous nelly!

varacefan

A full size 1980-something chevy truck with a camper shell and the HUGE stick-out-a-foot-and-a-half mirrors you use when you pull a trailer. The first thing I learned was how to back a boat trailer down the boat ramp :-) It got easier from there....
My first car was a 1969 blue AMC Gremlin stick shift (it was the same age I was). I loved that car - I still have the gas cap with the gremlin on it!

FAYE

not going to date this....but my class of hi school graduates had to have a valid driving license in hand before graduation.........this was a rural small town area, & all the kids drove farm machinery from about the age of 10,& we all needed some safe driving education on smaller things - like cars.

Linda - K.

I learned in my first car - a '57 Chev. Very popular car back then. I was 18 and just out of high school. My Dad told me when I turned 16 he wasn't going to teach me to drive cause when I got married, my husband would take me wherever I needed to go. HA! My husband of 40 years wouldn't have taken me anywhere without a huge hissy fit! I dread the day I have to give up my license (I'm going to be 63 in July so hope to have 10-15 years at least).

quiltwiz

Actually learned to drive in my parents 1958 ish Desota (anyone remember those?) But when I was a junior in high school, I asked a friend if I could use her 1956 Chevy Impala to learn to drive a stick shift. We were in summer school for extra credit and she was not using the car during break. I drove around the almost empty parking lot until I got comfortable with the gears and shifting. It is a wonder I did not strip her gears...Funny, I met her again at the local JoAnn's and have not seen her since 1963.

horsefeather41

I learned to drive on a 46 ford, boy does that date me? :lol:

GrammaNan

I learned how to drive a stick shift in a 1969 Chevy Carry All. It was huge! But now I am so glad that I learned how to drive a stick shift and a large truck. I now drive a Chevy 350 crew cab dually and I love it.

shortstack

1962 Red Corvair....

eimay

Ford Falcon Station Wagon