2doors3pedals Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 I learned to drive in my dad's 66 GMC Suburban - V-6, three on the tree and power nothing. That was a beast for a 16 year old. I kind of miss the old column shifters! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brudda Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Let’s see Carl, I drove a 1963 ford falcon 4 door, with a 170 cu in 6 and three on the tree. My Dads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phirewriter Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) I learned how to drive in this... And a 1931 Model A town sedan which I unfortunately don't have a digital image of, after mastering spark advance and choke adjustments, 3 on the tree, non synchro shifting plus a fussy Columbia 2 speed rear end I could drive anything modern. He had me driving by the time I turned 13. Edited April 9, 2022 by Phirewriter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrb124@sbcglobal.net Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 In 1965 I learned to drive in a 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix with an automatic transmission. Took the driver's license test in it too with the cop riding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 21 hours ago, rrb124@sbcglobal.net said: In 1965 I learned to drive in a 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix with an automatic transmission. Took the driver's license test in it too with the cop riding. Did it make you nervous with the cop riding along? When I took my road test I had to drive around the courthouse. The cort house was used in all three walking tall movies. You can see it on YouTube.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 On 4/8/2022 at 1:44 AM, 2doors3pedals said: I learned to drive in my dad's 66 GMC Suburban - V-6, three on the tree and power nothing. That was a beast for a 16 year old. I kind of miss the old column shifters! I liked those column shifters also, kinda fun… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 On 4/8/2022 at 10:54 PM, Phirewriter said: I learned how to drive in this... And a 1931 Model A town sedan which I unfortunately don't have a digital image of, after mastering spark advance and choke adjustments, 3 on the tree, non synchro shifting plus a fussy Columbia 2 speed rear end I could drive anything modern. He had me driving by the time I turned 13. I imagine you could learning to drive a very old car. My dad told me about the manual spark advance.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 On 4/8/2022 at 9:13 AM, Brudda said: Let’s see Carl, I drove a 1963 ford falcon 4 door, with a 170 cu in 6 and three on the tree. My Dads. Thase was nice little cars.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrb124@sbcglobal.net Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 3 hours ago, slusher said: Did it make you nervous with the cop riding along? When I took my road test I had to drive around the courthouse. The cort house was used in all three walking tall movies. You can see it on YouTube.. I was so excited that I don't think I was too nervous. All I had to do was drive around the block and parallel park. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglia105E Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I learned to drive in my Dad's 1963 Ford Cortina 1200cc 4-door, which was blue and had the reg no.: 440 LBM, and that was when I was 17 years of age in 1970. I passed the driving test at the third attempt (my Dad took 7 attempts, but he was a good driver). After passing my driving test, my Dad bought me a 1960 Ford Anglia 105E for £50, so US$.65 at today's rate. David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk11 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 "Hmmmmm. That doesn't look like the slant six we ordered" he said as he slammed the hood. "Oh, hello Buffy. Right on time for your driver's test".... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam I Am Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) 1946 Case cleetrack crawler when I was ten. Dad's 1968 Chevy pickup when I was 12, his 52 Mercury when I was 13, and my 1953 GMC when I was 15. Really pays off to live on a dead-end gravel road out in the country while growing up.😁 Almost forgot the 1942 Ford Jeep when I was 13, which I now own. Also pays to have a dad who was into old cars. 😁 Edited April 17, 2022 by Sam I Am 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 17, 2022 Author Share Posted April 17, 2022 49 minutes ago, Sam I Am said: 1946 Case cleetrack crawler when I was ten. Dad's 1968 Chevy pickup when I was 12, his 52 Mercury when I was 13, and my 1953 GMC when I was 15. Really pays off to live on a dead-end gravel road out in the country while growing up.😁 Almost forgot the 1942 Ford Jeep when I was 13, which I now own. Also pays to have a dad who was into old cars. 😁 I agree , it’s good to live in the country my uncle had old cars around all the time. To drive and my dad let me drive his pickup also.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam I Am Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, slusher said: I agree , it’s good to live in the country my uncle had old cars around all the time. To drive and my dad let me drive his pickup also.. The old tractor was a crank start. It was easy to start so dad taught me how to bring it up on compression stroke and open palm it . After a few tries I could get it started. The clutch was way down the body of the tractor, it was tiller controlled with a manual throttle. I would click the throttle up a couple of notches, slide off the seat until I could push the clutch in all the way, push it into first, let the clutch out and get back into the seat. I was so proud that I could do it all on my own. Of course, you could walk faster than that thing could crawl at an idle in first. 😄 Edited April 17, 2022 by Sam I Am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W Humble Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Wally Cleaver had a bad day in a '62 Plymouth (Savoy?) in Driver's Ed; a gal named Shirley 'back-seat drove' him and he looked like a fool -- but passed his test when she didn't. MoPars supplied cars for latter-day seasons of Beaver, even Brit Rootes compacts show up. Wally and Eddie Haskell had Chevy's -- '54 ragtop and '40 sedan -- while Lumpy Rutherford had the beautiful '40 Ford cabrio with great sounding pipes. LOTS of car adventures on LITB! "Scotty" tries to tach Mary Stone to drive in Donna Reed, in what seems to be a '29 Chevy roadster with SBC ("It's a 355... ) and F100 steering; later with Doc Stones '62 Merc ParkLane 4-dr HT. Pediatricians must not have made much dough then, however, because they later has a Comet wagon! Sponsors! I took my driving test two days after my sixteenth b-day (8-21-'61) in the family '55 Pontiac 870 4-dr. 8-pass wagon. Easy to do, using a Hydramatic, after learning in column-shift 3-speeders, like they required back in the day. Of course, unlike today (if what we see on the streets is any indicator) the high school expected some competency to pass the course... ! A couple of months later I had my '55 Chevy Delray 'post', and we'd replaced the '55 with a '62 Catalina long-roof. Wish we'd had the 389 in the '55 body! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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