Whats the first car you drove/learned to drive on?

[Scott_65]

My first car was a 1980 Camaro with a 305 and an automatic. $hit brown with beige vinyl interior. It had enough power to have some fun with it, but not so much that I couldn’t handle it. I loved that thing, awesome first car!

My first car was a 81 Z28 also brown with the beige interior. Had headers, shift kit, holley carb, man that thing was great. I really wish I still had it.

 

[moosem]

My first car was a 81 Z28 also brown with the beige interior. Had headers, shift kit, holley carb, man that thing was great. I really wish I still had it.

A few years later I had an ‘81 Z28, white with black interior. IMO, the last good year of the Camaro. I was never a big fan of the ‘82 and up hatchback IROC-Z style.

 

[Gen3CoupeTX]

1973 Pontiac Grand Prix. Bought the day after I turned 15. I wrecked it shortly after getting my license, then bought a '77 Camaro. Both cars were brown, noting the other posters talking about brown. Guess that was a thing?!

 

[Rampat]

1995 Chevy Tahoe. First year they made it. Back then that thing was huge and my 15 year old 5’6 100lbs soaking wet looked funny as hell behind the wheel. Dad was going to give it to me when I turned 16 but 2 months before I did the tranny blew and it wasn’t worth replacing since the truck had almost 200,000 miles on it.

 

[Ellisstrong]

1991 Isuzu space cab pickup with manual transmission.... My Dad’s little truck.

 

[79 300]

1962 Chrysler 300 coupe with a 383 and pushbutton transmission. It originally was a two barrel, but I changed it over to a four barrel and added dual exhausts. It could show up some of the "muscle cars" around town. I had that car for 14 years, it had around 260,000 miles when I sold it.

 

[Danny_TheHouseCook]

Triumph GT6. I was not even a teen yet when my step brother went into the Navy after he graduated high school. Both parents worked so I used to sneak the keys and joy ride around the neighborhood before they got home. Took me a little bit to learn how to use the clutch and stick. That was a great car and cool looking at the time. (In a land long ago and far away) actually not far away b/c I still live about 10 miles away from where I grew up.

 

[Billy James]

1976 Toyota Corolla Station wagon. No power steering or power brakes.....about as plain a car as one could buy. My second car (the first one that was mine) was a 1979 Dodge Colt 2 dr with a manual; it was a fun little car.

Not the actual 1976 Wagon; but nearly identical:


This is a dead ringer for the Colt I had; right down to the seat covers (lol):

 

[Dookie]

Paid $500.00 for a 1975 Ford Courier that I rebuilt the engine (another 350) and made my own muffler (free). Blew the engine up in about 1000 miles because I was 16 and stupid, then rebuilt it again, and sold it for $500.00. Have had many vehicles in between from lifted trucks to built hotrods...
Best vehicle I have ever owned is my current truck, love this machine.

 

[LaxDfns15]

'97 Chevy Blazer POS, and a '97 Jeep Wrangler 4 cylinder 5 speed for a manual. Wrangler was my brother's. The Blazer blew up after about 10k miles (transmission, dropped rod, everything else), in and out of the shop for 9 months, drove my dad's F-150 for a year and fell in love with trucks, which was what let me to my Titan. The Blazer had a $2000 stereo, and it was worth $1000 in the end for parts.

 

[TruckDriver]

Great question - thanks for the memories!

'69 Super Beetle - my dad called on his brick motorola phone to tell me to look outside .. he was rolling up in a $500 more-rust-than-paint beetle that we got to work on together for a bit... I can still smell the paint after all these years

 

[tcm4950]

growing up on a farm I learned to drive on a Ford Nseries tractor and a 3 on the column '56 Dodge truck . My first car was a 1966 Plymouth Satellite convertible 383 with 2 4-barrels
My mopar roots go deep....my Dad worked for Chrysler Corp.

 

[jerryw1000]

'51 Chevy pickup 6 cylinder straight drive with tool box sides and '56 Plymouth with push button automatic. That was when I was 12 , so about 1961 on my grandad's dairy farm. The next summer they put me in a '47 International KB6 6 speed/2 speed axle hauling silage from the corn field to the trench silo. My grandad got his right arm cut off in a hay baler and loved that Plymouth with the push buttons on the left side of the steering wheel and one of those big steering knobs on the steering wheel.

 

[MFALRAM]

1986 dodge Shelby Charger. Not actually this one , but exactly like this one

 

[CLECSoft]

In '76 I learned to drive in a '67 Plymouth Belvedere wagon. Was my Dad's first car he bought new from dealer in '68.

 

[wegasque]

I learned to drive a stick on my sister's 1980 Toyota Corolla. I drove my mom's Plymouth Volare wagon with a 318 when she let me. I used to wash my grandmother's Dodge Dart with the 318 just so I could drive it around town.

 

[Eighty]

‘71 VW Superbeetle. Pushed it through more intersections than I drove it through. Kinda miss those days of pushing it as fast as I could then jumping in and popping the clutch

 

[Threesuns1]

Shared a '68 Ford Country Squire station wagon and a '71 Toyota Corolla with my sisters until I bought my '70 Duster. The Duster was black with a 318 3 speed that switched out with a 4 speed.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Two and a half year old thread back from purgatory.

1990 Chevy 1500 5.7l with 5-speed and a 1988 Chevy S-10 4 cyl 4-speed. The 1500 was dad's truck he bought to tow our antique tractors to tractor pulls. S10 was my older sister and my "school car". The s-10 started out black. Byrhe time I graduated, it was three different colors, and dash was busted out. After I graduated, dad hit a deer with it and added another color. Parts for the S-10 were a dime a dozen in junk yards since they were same body style from early 80s through 93.

 

[Scap]

Learned to drive in Mom's 89 Dodge Aries K