First car you ever drove

[The General]

I know there will be some very interesting posts in this one, especially from the likes of Crash...

Here's mine:

1988 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser


In fact, that is the first one I drove legally. The first car I ever drove was a 1980 Buick Century station wagon on a farm.



This could explain my affinity for wagons...

[Crash]

After a lovely intro like that...I’m going to have tell you!

I learnt to drive at 8 years old on a friend’s farm just outside London, England. My dad let me drive his Jaguar Mk 2 around until I scared him He then went out and rented a Vauxhall Viva from hertz or somewhere (he’s a pretty smart man my dad!!!)

As I helped out on the farm, I got to drive the tractors and other stuff around the place for a few years until my dad (who was a builder) went crazy and brought a farm himself, by this time I was about 12 or 13.

The farm, being in a remote area of North Devon, my dad soon got tired of driving me to local youth clubs and young farmer’s club meetings, so he would let me take the farm pickup (a Morris Minor). I was always tall for my age, and I passed for much older, besides, there wasn’t much traffic on the roads.

“Occasionally, the Morris Minor pickup broke down” and he would let me borrow his brand new Daimler Double-Six (the Daimler version of the Jaguar XJ12).

Imagine... no driving license...years under age...and driving an expensive V12 powered dream car! Is it any wonder I went into mechanics after leaving school? I might not have been able to fix much...but I knew more ways to disable a Morris Minor than anyone :lol:

[The General]

See, I knew it!!

A Morris Minor, a Jag mk2 and a Daimler Double Six!

I was 13 when I test-drove the Century...

My earliest memories behind the wheel was in a 1978 Ford Fiesta. I must have been no more than 4 or 5 years old, sitting on my father's lap steering the little brown box around a corner...

Here is a picture of a Fiesta:

[Crash]

My first car in Canada was a Buick Century 2 door, (73-74 model I think). I paid $300 for it and it looked like the one Kojak used in the TV show, it was mud brown with a white roof and had a big dent in the drivers door, I had to climb in the passenger side and slide over.

My sister had a pristine looking Pontiac Firebird Esprit which was gold and had fancy rims. It looked just like the one that Jim Rockford drove in the Rockford files.

My car might have looked like a heap but on main street Brandon, Manitoba... but my Kojak Baldy-Wagon could whip her pretty Rockfords a## :lol:


Years later back in the UK, I also had a Ford Fiesta, it was the sporty XR2 version and it was a lively little car as I remember!

[apl16]

lol..........first car i ever drove was my father's '61 new yorker........when i was three y o......more by accident than on purpose.........drove it forward about 30 yards down a long driveway........i loved that car........my first car was a '62 mercury meteor s33 2 dr .........nice car but the 221 v8 was the shits........once it got a 289 in it it was much better

[sorooros]

My grandpa taught me to drive his Moscvich-412. Looked like this but in blue:

[apl16]

cool!

[Olivier123]

The first car I drove was a Pontiac 6000 LE.

Just like this

[Crash]

[quote="RacerZ"]Come to think of it, I can't even remember!


You can't remember your first drive???...Shame on you!!

Can you remember your first date...or your first "nudge, nudge, say no more"!!

Can you even remember your name :lol:

I'm only pulling your leg! :wink: You really should ask somebody who does remember though...maybe it was "a real hot one"... THE CAR I MEAN !!! :lol:

[Lesley]

First car I ever "drove" - my Dad's old Buick, the "blue witch." I sat on his lap and he let me steer.



First car I ever fell madly in love with was my brother's Mach II Mustang, then a friend's mom's 65 notchback. My brother's 70 GTO with the 455 HO sealed my fate: from then on I was a die-hard car nut. (he still has the car!)