Much cooler than my first drive. What was yours?

[Mr.Dids]

      

 

Build pretty much complete, so what better way to celebrate the hours and dollars invested than by throwing your 12 year old behind the wheel for a driving lesson?

Two questions here:

1.  What did you take your first drive in?

2.  If you are brand loyal, is it the same make as that first drive?

 

FYI:  She did great!!

 

We may address completely shutting the door in lesson 2.  lol

Edited September 3, 2016 by Mr.Dids
forgot something

[Mr.Dids]

Mine was a '70?? Plymouth Fury III

I don't consider myself brand loyal anymore but most of my life I was a bowtie fan, so no, I guess not.

Edited September 3, 2016 by Mr.Dids

[JBNeal]

First drive in a truck was when I was 11, took the '75 D200 Club Cab long bed five miles to pick up my dad at my grandparents' house (by myself)...I had been driving tractors for a couple of years at that point, no traffic on them country roads back then...almost drove to the high school for the first day of driver's ed 4 yrs later, but my ride finally showed up

[Don Coatney]

I don't exactly recall my first drive but at 12 years old I was taking my dads car when he and my mom were away in my mothers car, and cruising the local drive in restaurants very much illegally.  Guess I was a juvenile delinquent. Some things never change. Now I am a senior delinquent. But I sure miss my mom and dad.

[DJ194950]

1 hour ago, Mr.Dids said:

We may address completely shutting the door in lesson 2.  lol

Hey, she is a smart girl. If things go really wrong, she is ready to bail out and leave it up to you to deal with whatever!  LOL.

 

DJ

[John Rogers]

My Dad took me out for my first driving lesson in his B1B when I was about 10. I learned to drive in that awesome truck and I double clutched my way thru High School. Here it is 35 years later and sadly my Dad and his truck are both long gone but a little over a year ago I got my '49 because it reminds me of my Dad .I love my truck and its almost like I can feel my Dad with me when I drive it even thought it isnt the same truck. Probably wishful thinking but its still comforting. Here is a picture of Dads truck on our farm in St David, AZ back in the mid 70's.

 

Edited September 3, 2016 by John Rogers
Part of what I typed didn't make sense :)

[Bobacuda]

First would be the old Oliver Row Crop 77 tractor at the farm, followed several years later by the farm's 1952 Dodge 1/2 ton, tall side, short wheel base truck.  My (not the wife's or the kids vehicles) I have daily driven 7 Mopes ('41 up) + two Mazdas and one Nissan.

I always considered working in the gas station as a kid a bonus.  I got to drive a King Midget car, a Crosley, a Hudson, several Packards & Nash, Studebakers, Internationals (and a Knox), Ramblers, AMC's, and everything (except a LaSalle) that the Big Three cranked out (loved the Muscle Car era), as well as pretty much everything the Japanese and Germans were sending here in the 60's and '70's.

Edited September 4, 2016 by Bobacuda

[pflaming]

Timely thread. Just after lunch a man riding by on his bicycle saw Phoenix and and my son out front, stopped and asked if the truck was for sale. He learned how to drive in a like truck when he was 14 and has been looking for one for some time.  I said I have promised it to my daughter then I showed him my suburban. He wanted the track first but said he'd be back in Reedley in October and waned first shot at which ever one I would sell. He is from the Bay Area. Oh, and he said, "Don't paint the truck!" 

Interesting. People never forget the first vehicle they drove, nor the first girl they kissed.  To be continued.

[Frank's 49]

The 49 Woody, I have is the truck I learned to drive in way back in 1959.  Dad drove it to work everyday, and we all thought it was an "old" truck back then.    

 

[ggdad1951]

Actual vehicle was FEF on the farm taking seed out to my dad and brother when I was 12 or so.  I started driving the H tractor a year or so earler.

[Dodgeb4ya]

First car I learned to drive in in 1967... a 51 Plymouth Cranbrook.

Still have it too.

[Dave72dt]

8n Ford tractor when about 8, first plated vehicle on public roads, '63 F100 hauling grain in from the fields when about 12-13

[48Dodger]

My first car was a racecar.....a 1972 Charger with a 408 stroker motor!!!!

Teachers always waved a checkered flag when I pulled into the school parking lot......!

 

Fine......it was a 76' Aspen....whatever.

48D

 

[pflaming]

Tim, you certain it wasn't an American Motors, Metropolitan?  LOL

[rb1949]

Mom was the trainer in a '52 Ford as we hopped down the road with that dang clutch.

[Merle Coggins]

Like some of the others here I started driving our tractors once I was big enough to be able to push the clutch, even though I'd have to slide off the seat to do it. First tractor was a Farmall 200, then the 400. I also started playing with the farm truck, a 55 Ford F200 stake body, driving it around the farm. I don't even know how old I was at that point, probably around 10, give or take a couple years.

Merle

[NiftyFifty]

At 12 I would get to drive the 85 Dodge 1/2 to around the yard, but that's only around 5 well tree'd acres, so wasn't getting much speed or driving.  My first ride was a 87 S-15 single cab long box....and nobody believed that 2.8L would do 75 in 3rd...but I could do it...LOL

[Todd B]

Mine was a 1949 B1B, Bought when I was 14 and with tons of Dads help I drove it on my 16 birthday back in 1980.  I gave the truck to my son when he was 16.  14 years later it still is not finished with the restoration. 

[Brent B3B]

3 hours ago, Todd B said:

Mine was a 1949 B1B, Bought when I was 14 and with tons of Dads help I drove it on my 16 birthday back in 1980.  I gave the truck to my son when he was 16.  14 years later it still is not finished with the restoration

sounds familiar, mine was my B3B. Grandma bought it so she and I could get wood in it. drove on the back roads in central Oregon. 34 years later... I'm still not finished either.   

[Mr.Dids]

Technically my first driving experience was an ancient Craftsman garden tractor, followed shortly by the D15 Allis Chalmers we had/have on the farm.  At about 8 my dad let me sit on my backpack and drive the Fury III home from the bus stop (1/2 mile or so).  

 

At around 11, my Pap died and I inherited his approx. '52 Willys Jeep.  I beat the living snot out of the poor thing and learned how to keep old junk running.  lol.  Wish I still had it.  Hindsight.

[48Dodger]

Well geez...if we're going back to the first contraption that had wheels and we controlled its direction.....!

My first ride was just short a V8...and the second built ma arms as well as my confidence. lol

48D