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I drove a 1960s something Bel Air for my driver's ed class, but I didn't drive again until I got my license when I was 26. Then I drove a 1970 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. The parallel parking portion of the driving test was a true nightmare - that car was so long it would have been easier to just try and shove it into the space sideways.
A brand new 1972 Mercury Comet. My payment was $81.60 a month.
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Originally Posted by dazzleman
That sounds like a lot of money for back then. How did you like the car? Did you keep it for a while?
Not really.....my first "brand new" car was a 1971 Chevelle SS454, that I got on an "end of the model year deal", in October of 1971. The car's original list was $4250, and I got it for $3450. I forget what my down payment was, probably around $200, and my monthly payment was $98, for 36 months.
I drove my parents '65 Impala with a 327 V8. I took Driver's Ed at the HS and had to drive on the first day a 3 on the tree '61 Ford over a mountain road. The instructor was a red - headed coach who was yelling the whole time! I was a nervous wreck by the time my turn was over. LOL Later, I did learn to drive my Dad's '59 Chevy Fleetside pickup with 3 on the tree. He was patient and I ended up taking it to school my senior year. I really miss having a manual and if I had room , I would want a Miata 5 speed.
1927 Buick Sedan, which I traded a cow for back in 1945. We lived on a ranch, and we had leased at $1 per year an adjoining 100,000 acres of cut over timber land (we also kept an eye open for any smoke (fire watch) from that area).
I took my driving test with a large farm truck with high cattle racks on it. My dad and I had hauled a truckload of cattle to the meat packers in the county seat, and I took my driving test in it.
The tester seemed nervous of a 16 year old kid driving that big of a rig. Had gone 4 blocks and at a stop light with us having green, someone ran a red light right in front of me and stopped due to traffic from the other direction. I double clutched down and made a hard right to keep from hitting him. My tester turned green and told me to get back to their office anyway I could. When we got there he told me to park on the back street behind the building and told me to wait for my father. When dad came out, he was grinning, and handed me my license. The instructor told him what had happened and said he could not have avoided that wreck, and I deserved my license, and he was going to administer tests the rest of the day, and his partner would have to do all driving tests as he was too shook up to do more tests.
My first owned car at 16 was a 31 Model A Ford that I drove to HS.
Best car earlier was when I was about 12/13 ( mid 1940's) my dad had a legal licensed auto repair shop behind our house in Canada.
He Did some repairs for a used car dlr.
Guy brings this 34 Cad V16 Limo for a rod noise repair.
Dad calls a machine shop and a man came out to turn the crank rod journal with engine still in the car. YEP for sure.
Car had the glass partition behind the driver as a Limo would those days.
Anyhoo at my young age dad allowed me take it for a long turn around the block.
Real trippy for a kid my age.
I am now 88 yrs old.
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