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Old 04-04-2013, 02:49 PM
 
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I'm fairly sure I was 13 when I got what we called a "beginner's license" in Texas (ca 1962). I was then taking driver training at school. With the beginner's license, I had to have a fully licensed driver with me to drive. I was 14 when I received my real license.

My dad, born in 1909, always told us Texas mailed his license to him without any sort of tests.
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Old 04-04-2013, 03:27 PM
 
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Oh crap, I don't want to be on the same road with a 14 year old kid driving.
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Old 04-04-2013, 03:56 PM
 
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Just to gloat... In the early 60's, in Abilene, we could take Driver's Ed at school. Any student had to be at least 14, so we we're all in the 9th grade.

A few weeks of course work and we could take the state written test. Then a prescribed number of hours driving, three students to a car, alternating. My class had a Pontiac Tempest with a four speed stick on the floor, the teacher, Mr. Cook, had a break pedal on the passenger side and cough medicine in the glove box.

I took my driving test the last week in November. Fully qualified as a driver, no restrictions and covered on dad's State Farm policy.
One of our coaches took the students out driving. The big finale was the day they got on the expressway. Poor thing, he could have used a bottle of Mr Cook's cough medicine, lol.
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Old 04-04-2013, 04:14 PM
 
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No doubt that, in the early 196os, a 14 year old's maturity was probably that of a modern day 30 year old.
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Old 04-04-2013, 11:29 PM
 
Location: Northeast Texas
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No doubt that, in the early 196os, a 14 year old's maturity was probably that of a modern day 30 year old.
I guess my maturity is around that of 9 year old. Crap...
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