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Old 05-14-2013, 04:42 PM
 
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Either in Driver Ed or with a parent/licensed adult for the first time. Mine was a 77 or 78 Pontiac Bonneville in Driver Ed in early 1978. doing slalom maneuvers with new Novas was pretty cool too
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Old 05-14-2013, 04:47 PM
 
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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1937 Buick gangster car.

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Old 05-14-2013, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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1968 Chevy Biscayne.
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Old 05-14-2013, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Keosauqua, Iowa
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Probably a '79 Horizon, I'm pretty sure that's the one we had when I got my learner's permit. Being a lifelong car guy I can't imagine that I didn't drive a vehicle before my first turn in the driver's ed car (which, ironically, was also a late '70s Bonneville).
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Old 05-14-2013, 05:27 PM
 
Location: SE Michigan
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Some kind of British tractor (I lived there way back when.)

If that doesn't count, a mid-late 70s Pinto. It was my aunt's car and what I learned to drive with when I first came to the US in 1979.

After that my first car was a '67 Chrysler Newport.
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Old 05-14-2013, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Not technically driven but i got to move my dads 68 Ford Ranchero from one side of the property to the other when i was about 13
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Old 05-14-2013, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Prosper
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Not sure exactly what model or year it was, but it was my grandfather's little orange Mazda truck when I was 7 or 8.
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Old 05-14-2013, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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1967 IH Scout...I was around 6 or 7 and my dad would put it in low range and 1st gear and I would crawl all over the place.
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Old 05-14-2013, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham. A local Olds dealer loaned new cars to the school district for the driver's ed program, so we all got to drive practically brand new Oldsmobiles. Actually, my first car was bought as a driver's ed demo, an 81 Olds Cutlass LS with just over 3,000 miles. It still had the holes and impression in the carpet from the extra brake pedal on the passenger side!
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Old 05-14-2013, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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1977 Chevy Nova in driver's training class at Mariposa High School. That was back in the pre-Proposition 13 days when California was still rich compared to other states and had plenty of money to provide driver's training for free in high school. So glad I went to school during the late 60s and 70s.
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