In what kind of car did you learn to drive?

[disney junky]

1963 Ford pick-up. Three speed on the column (manual transmission).

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Can't recall the year, but it was a Chevy Bel-Aire (sometime in the late 60s).

 

[RangerPooh]

My parents Dodge caravan. But I learned how to drive stick on my VW Fox. Bought it and was dropped off at college and told "have fun learning".

 

[morgan98]

1985 Gray Stick Shift Toyota Camry. That was my mom's car. Both of my parents had cars with manual transmissions.

 

[chiefmickeymouse]

It was an Oldsmobile Starfire. No idea what year, but it had a manual transmission and was a piece of junk.

 

[fly girl]

1981 Cutlass Supreme. It was an automatic. I learned how to drive a stick a few years later.

 

[SC Minnie]

1980 Dodge Omni stick shift. I had been driving for about 4 years before every driving an automatic.

 

[Meriweather]

Not sure specifics.....Mercury sedan of some kind, circa 1970

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Learned to drive on a Ford Country Squire LTD station wagon

Learned to drive a stick shift on a Boss 302 Mustang

 

[tvguy]

Driver's Education car at school was a 1973 Pontiac Lemans automatic.
Car at home was a 1960 Buick Le Sabre automatic.
Two vastly different cars in how they drove.
In 1960 Power Steering and Power Brakes meant POWER steering and POWER brakes. You almost could blow on the steering wheel and it would turn, and blow on the brake pedal and it would stop. And the steering did NOT return when you went around a corner, so you have to turn it back.
Automatic transmission gear order on the 1960, PNDLR. On the 1973 PRNDL.

 

[bcla]

A variety of cars. My parents cars of course including an Oldsmobile. I guess it's way past the statute of limitations, but a few times in a rental car even though I'm pretty sure the rentals terms didn't allow it. If one was under 18 when getting a DL in California, there was a required drivers ed class as well as a minimum 6 hours of a behind the wheel driver training class. I took the free drivers ed class as my high school, but our high school's waiting list for the free driver training slots were long. We all knew the car though - a Dodge Aries K. My parents paid something like $100 for a private driver training class which was done in a Ford Escort. Don't remember that much other than the horn was actuated by pressing in stalk on the left. One time my instructor wanted to honk at another driver and reached over to honk.

I barely missed passing my first driving test and had to take it again. And my parents forgot it was my test day and I had to call a friend and I took the test in his car.

Some have mentioned learning how to drive a stick. I learned how to do it on a few test drives, which involved quite a bit of stalling. So I bought my car and the salesman took to me to a place to practice for an hour before I sent him back to the dealership and did my best to drive home. I kept on stalling for a whole month until I got it. Still - It wasn't that bad - an import car with a light clutch and five synchronized forward gears. I remember seeing a few Ford Model A's thinking there's no way I'd be able to drive one without killing the transmission. I guess I could learn how to double clutch.

 

[serenitynow]

A 1967 stick shift Volkswagen baby blue square back that was possessed by gremlins no mechanic could fix or even find. Every so often, without any warning, the gremlins would simply shut the engine down while the VW was traveling 45-50 miles an hour. Lots of stuff was replaced, including the transmission but the mysterious problem never cleared up.

 

[Klayfish]

In arcade racing simulators of the 80s. Seriously. When I got into a real car, no lessons needed.

 

[Kitty 34]

Chevy Impala

 

[cedricandsophie]

A rambler station wagon, manual transmission, 3 on the floor. I was 16 in 1966 so it was an early 60s or late 50s model. If you learn on a stick you can drive anything.

 

[RedAngie]

In spring 1978 I learned on a boxy-looking dark green 1967 Plymouth Valiant I was embarrassed to be seen in it, but drove it until fall 1979 when it finally broke down.

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I learned stick on a Chevrolet El Camino about a year later. It was black, likely a 1976 model. It was one of the delivery vehicles at my father's business.

 

[fla4fun]

I have no idea what the car in Driver’s Ed was, other than it was an automatic (no stick cars at all). The two cars at home were 1977 and 1978 Fords, and I took my test in the ‘78. Our ‘77 Ford had the horn on the left stalk too. I have never driven a stick.

 

[L&Lfan]

1972 yellow Mercury Montego

 

[Lumpy1106]

'77 Honda Civic - 4-speed manual. By the looks of things my kids will be the last generation to learn to drive a stick, and only if I teach them. I have a Subaru 5-speed manual I intend to teach them on, but all manuals are getting hard to find these days.

 

[ChrisFL]

1982 Honda Prelude automatic that was my dad's....then my first car shortly after was a 1984 Mazda GLC with a manual. I've loved manual transmission cars ever since.