First car i drove,

[kozar]

1964 Comet, yours?

A lot has changed since then..
My God I drive a Lincoln Hybrid, now,

Koz

[bullimiami]

1. First I owned was a 72 Nova.

[kozar]

2. Owened? Or drove?

First car I " owned" was a 76 Monte Carlo,
Re read ny post,

First car , I drove.

Koz

[Polly Hennessey]

10. Mine was also a '72 Nova.

[rzemanfl]

3. First car I drove was a Driver's Ed Chevy, with a brake pedal for the front passenger seat.

[WestMichRad]

50. +1

Yup, drivers training car.

First stick shift was a friend’s AMC Gremlin.

[CanonRay]

4. I learned on a '63 Chevy Bel Aire

with 3 on the column.

[Onthefly]

5. 1963 Plymouth Belvedere. Slant six with 3 on the tree.

[Enter stage left]

6. My moms car, a '56 VW, with the sliding fabric sunroof.

[debm55]

7. 1965 chevy Impala .aqua. colorored I was 15 years old and it was a TANK

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[arkielib]

8. Chrysler New Yorker.

My parents’ car. That was in 1974. It was several years old at the time.

[BOSSHOG]

9. 1951 Chevy Truck

$150.00 in 1970.

It was blue. Had headlights, taillights. The brakes worked. Gas was .25 cents a gallon.

[Beatlelvr]

11. My brother's 55 Ford

He taught me to drive. I later bought a 72 Chevy Vega. Thank goodness it was put out if it's misery when it was rear ended while parked on our street. What a lemon.

[Nittersing]

20. I had a 72 Vega

Check the gas and fill it with oil...

Thing smoked so badly, I got three tickets!!!

Third ticket required a court appearance... I delivered a letter from the fire department saying the car had been destroyed in one of their auto extrication classes.

The judge chuckled and called it good.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. It was a black 1954 Bel Air. A four door that my father got to drive to work and back.

It was not rated for night time driving because the electrical system was wonky. It was a three in the column. I drove it around the 'back yard' sometimes to learn how to operate it. I was around 9-10. (The barns and such were right behind the house, so there was a big area between them.)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 51 Studebaker

[lark]

14. I learned in a 1960 red VW Super Beatle

[Silent Type]

15. Learned to drive in a 1960s Chevy Monza. My first car was a 4-door Ford Fairlane with an 8-ball gearshift knob and

baby moons. I could ford rivers and offroad in that tank.

[quaint]

19. I remember the baby moons; they sometimes came off while driving.

The driver often gave half a dollar, or at least a quarter, if we chased it down and gave it back. Fun days.

[MiKenMi33]

16. 72 Chevelle

She was beautiful.

[kozar]

44. Bet she still is

[quaint]

17. In 1965, I learned on a 1953 Ford Mainline "Cheapo Sedan".

Three lights to get through an intersection, figured out how to slide down to get the clutch in far enough and then pop back up to see the road in front. To the day my eyes forced surrender of my license, everyone who entered my car offered (begged) to drive.

[a kennedy]

18. A brand spanking new 1968/1969 Nissan Sentra.......

My grandma bought it for me, was 18 when I learned how to drive, had 3 brothers before me, so had to wait until I was 18/19 years old. I was so spoiled. Oh, just another example of being spoiled. I was the only one out of 6 kids that played in the band, so I go a 2nd flute so I wouldn’t have to carry it back and forth to school. Got a piccolo too when I went high school. All instruments were donated to both schools I attended when i graduated. Wish someone would spoil me now.

[Nittersing]

21. A 1960s something VW Squareback

Don't know the actual year for sure.

[Mr.Bill]

22. A 1952 GMC pickup truck, my dad's daily driver.

This was in '68, so the truck cost my dad $250 a few years prior to this. It was three on the tree with a straight six. It drove pretty nice actually. My big milestone with driving wasn't the first day I drove, or when I got my license in that same truck. It was a short time later when my dad let me drive it by myself.

[kozar]

23. Fun post

When I drove the 1st MrsK home,, we drove , Nova,, after 3rd MrsK passed, I see Novas everywhere, thinking about buying one for 500 bucks.

Will bring back my boat billing days,, I could fix, I could paint, I could ..build ,again

Im just an old vet, voting for Kamals.
I need a reason to wake up,, Biden got me ,

Halfway there,, we need to finish the job!!! I see my bank account.

Koz

[wnylib]

24. First car that I drove was a 1964 Plymouth Valiant with a push button automatic transmission.

That was in 1967 and it was my boyfriend's car.

First car that I owned in my own name was a 1967 Plymouth Fury VIP that I bought second hand in 1973.

[LuckyCharms]

25. 1965 Chevy Impala. Standard shift. Three on the tree.

[The Third Doctor]

26. 1985 Oldsmobile Calais

[rsdsharp]

27. 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air.

[TommieMommy]

28. A 60 something Pontiac Tempest

[Codifer]

29. Dodge.

1946 coupe with some strange "fluid drive" semi automatic transmission but still had a clutch. Or maybe that trans was in a subsequent '49 DeSoto. Long ago.

[gab13by13]

30. 1958 Ford - 292

Stick shift on the column, could get rubber out of 2nd gear.

[Dave in VA]

31. 1962 Ford Falcon

[peachpit24]

32. First car

Studebaker. Don't remember the year, but it was yellow and green.

[Freddie]

33. Learned to drive on Dad's '68 Barracuda

Gorgeous car, metallic green coupe with black stripes. Horrible to drive, way overpowered - you had to use a delicate touch on the gas pedal, plus you sat really low in the drivers seat (Dad was tall, I’m not).

[sinkingfeeling]

34. 1954 Chevy pickup.

[gibraltar72]

35. 1953 Mercury Monterey.

[doc03]

36. 1956 Chevy Bellaire, two tone green, four door, Powerglide with a 265 V8. It was my father's first new car.

It was an 8-year-old rust bucket when I was 16.

[bottomofthehill]

37. first I drove was a 1973 Olds Cutlass. I think you could land an airplane on the hood and it was a 2 door coupe,

The 2 doors weighed a couple hundred pounds. they were gigantic and swung about the width of todays parking space.

[kozar]

38. And today, i drive

A 2014 Lincoln hybrid,,

My how times , gave changed,

Koz

[Rhiannon12866]

39. 1971 Plymouth Duster. My mother got a new car every 10 years so when I learned to drive, she gave the Duster to me

I loved that car!

[kozar]

47. Love the white rims!!

[Rhiannon12866]

49. Same here! The only difference with mine was that it had raised stripe along both sides as a dent-preventer

And the interior was all blue. It had been my mother's first brand new car.

[kozar]

51. The 64 Comet was Dads first car

My God , the lectures I listened to, before he let me drive it.
My God, the good memories, first car, first kiss,
Sometimes, I wish, I was young again.. so I could appreciate, those moments, in life.

Koz

[Rhiannon12866]

57. Awww, I can identify. When I was really little I rode in the car a lot with my Dad

And I guess to keep me entertained, he identified the other cars we passed, explained what all the traffic signs meant and the same with the lines in the road. So I did have a slight advantage when I finally took Drivers' Ed. But my Dad never drove with me for practice and neither did my mother. My brother did a couple of times, but driving with me mainly fell to my grandmother, and she never flinched even when I ran over a curb!

[kozar]

40. And,,Glad had a huge hairball

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I can't figure this out, I'm paying for " special" cat food, per my vet, and she's puking hair balls. I brush her daily, lots of hair

Thanks DU for the off topic help

Koz

[some_of_us_are_sane]

41. 1972 Black Plymouth Scamp

Bought second hand in 1976 but I LOVED THAT CAR! Had little doors that opened in the front under the dashboard near the floor on the driver's and pasenger's sides to LET IN AIR (instead of open windows that might mess up someone's coiffure. LOL!)

[Figarosmom]

42. 2 door light blue stick shift

Plymouth Valient 1964

Loved that car- that was first car I owned


First I drove was a 1965 vw beetle

[GoodRaisin]

43. 1966 Ford Falcon Futura Sports Coupe

4 in the floor, car I learned on. Dad’s car, he would let me drive it on country roads where we wouldn’t see another car for miles - when I was 13.

[NEOH]

45. 1975 Ford Thunderbird

The first car I drove was my mom’s 1975 Ford Thunderbird. That car was a beast! Being a newbie at driving, I hit the brakes too hard. I thought I was going to go through the windshield…

[kozar]

46. I grew up in North Dakota,

We only had a single car garage.
We used to park a Nissan Honey Bee and a Plymouth Fury there in winter.
That was interesting, and involved a lot of climbing and crawling

Koz

[kozar]

48. Do you remember?

When you installed the first 8 track stereo??
Lol, what a mess of wires!!!

[PikaBlue]

52. 1964 Chevy Impala

It was 5 years old when my parents bought it for my senior year on high school. She was beautiful!

[kozar]

54. Impala was THE CAR!

what sleek lines, great curves,
Chevy tried to copy it with ,the Monte Carlo,
No one came close to the Impala.
Yeah, I'm a Ford Guy.
Koz

[PikaBlue]

55. And gas was 31 cents a gallon. Good times!

I loved that car! It was silver with a white top and a blue interior.

[kozar]

56. Yeah

I remember that as well., and sitting in long gas lines, during the embargo?

Koz

[kozar]

58. Yep

I remember that as well., and sitting in long gas lines, during the embargo?

Koz

[10 Turtle Day]

53. I had 1961 comet once

That was eons ago. I still remember the hood ornaments, one on each side of the hood.

I don’t remember what car I learned to drive on. I remember the HS I went to had driving simulator machines. Does that count?

[redstatebluegirl]

59. 1965 GMC pickup

I was raised on a farm, driving when I was 13.

[dhol82]

60. I learned to drive a stick shift on a 64 lovely blue beetle.

Loved that car!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

61. 1960 Chevy Apache 10, 3 on the tree

Similar to this:

but faded orange and white with highlights of cow manure on the sides.

I was supposed to drive out of the barn lot, across a gravel road that hardly ever saw traffic beyond a tractor or mule, and park by the house. The old farmer who asked me to move it didn't ask me if I'd ever driven anything other than a tractor before. Naturally, a car came up that road just as I got the truck to lurch across. Good thing that driver was watching, because I didn't know how close it came to being a first wreck as well as a first drive until I got stopped and out.

[OLDMDDEM]

62. 1961 Ford Falcon

[Conjuay]

63. Two tone '57 DeSoto FireFlyte

Canary yellow/white

[Niagara]

64. I don't remember what car I first drove to be honest

My mom's car went into the dealership for repairs and they gave her a loaner car.


That loaner car was much smaller than my mom's car. I was 14 at the time so my mom took me out into the countryside with that loaner car and let me get a feel for driving. I only remember that loaner car was a light blue sedan.


Once I got my learner's permit, my mom let me drive her mid 80's Caprice Classic coupe.


In Driver's Ed., we learned how to drive using a Dodge Dynasty sedan.

[onethatcares]

65. first vehicle, not a car

1952 studebaker pick up truck. Starter button on the floor, 3 on the tree. I think I was 12 yo