when did you learn to drive?

for me it was at age 9, in an ex-army 1977 Patrol, on a beach near our campsite. I then learned some car control in the first dub till i killed it.

when i was about 9 i got to steer my grandads kombi camper while he did the peddles, then when i was 15 he let me drive his panel van around the farm (i hate colum gear shift)
Dani

16 in my dads Mazda van. Hated it so much that I used to cryand dad was such a mean teacher that he bought me a "nice" small car to drive .... a dark blue 1968 semi auto beetle and the obsession begun

I learned when I was 16 too....when I got my beetle I became a better driver

12 learnt to drive dad's xp falcon wagon. Learnt to back a trailer also until I swiped a post with the RH front guard....... Learnt to panel beat at 12 also.


Brendan

early..dad used to take me down when i was little and show me how to do handbrake turns.. though never by myself. then i got to drive on his lap when we had an auto..then i got to properly drive at 12. (our vw,mazda's and the 64 type 3 sedan 😀

got dad to let me drive his old merc at 16, it was an auto. we went just out of town to start, nice quiet long rd. there was a bit of a bend in the rd and i began to brake, dad said "dont worry about braking, just take your foot off the accelerator untill your straightening up" so i did, no worries. then came the t intersection, i thaught id take dads advice again, and ended up on the wrong side of the rd staring at a ute,
swerved out of an accident, drove straight home. about 6 months later had a drive in a manual, got pulled over by the police. then didnt get my licence till i was 20

when i was 7 or 8 in the falcon 500 up and down the road. dad even got busted by the same female cop in his undies 2 days in a row as he was showin me! haha

I drove my mum's Vauxhall up and down the drive when 9 but learnt to drive in a VW Twin Cab Kombi in 1969 while visiting my uncle in Papua New Guinea:bounce

hey my old man had a vauxhall viva he bought for $20... it was the shit!! i loved it

leanrt to drive when i was 11 in my old mans renault T16.

got sent home from school at age 12, inthe same renault, for parking in the teachers car park in my school. :duh :thumb

I was 10 when we went camping we had an old Standard 10 with duel wheels on the back and the guards cut out to fit the wheels lots of fun

Marc

used to also spend many a weekend barrelling around a friends farm in a hillman hunter. no windows. 1 driver seat. milk crate for passenger and a board in hte back for anybody else game. hand brake only really good brake. one full functional brake shoe on the rear. was a hell of a lot of fun. but do remember us using many a tree as brake assistance.

I was 7 when i first drove by my self in the police boys club car park while waiting for my sister to finished her gymnastics in a bitsashity L300 colum shift

hey Tim

How is the new Baja going ?

Marc

was 12 when i got behind the wheel of a car and my first car was..... a vauxhall viva magnum... ooo i thought i was the dogs bolloxs running round the farm tracks and scout feilds... wasn't long before i got my first vw .. never looked back .. mind u wouldnt mind the viva again, had some laughs in this old best(picture not the one i had but the same,way to tidy compared to mine)


steff.................................

my first car when i was 15yr was a vw 67 buggy,,bright green with yellow flared guards,,had so much problems with it i sold it up the sun coast years ago.then i bought a mini moke,, back in those days u could get away with driving with no licence,,less accidents back then to ,to never had insurance,,

I learn't to drive in a GTHO PHASE 2 & 3 when I was about 15/16 in Tassie, aroun 12-13 years ago. The funny thing is my first car was a 64 beetle. The old man hateded it.

learned to drive at the tender age of 9 behind my mums telstar and my dads mazda 323 wagon. did circles around the paddock until age 12 when i got a motorbike, which we still own.

got my first dub justover a year ago now.

When I was around 15 my mum used to take me into the paddock and drive around until after her nervous breakdown that day...which resulted in her holding tightly onto her seat belt, stomping an invisable brake and screaming stoooooooooooop!!! (I was probably taking corners a little fast, but it was a paddock!). I decided not to let her teach me anymore.

So my brave Dad took me out on the road in his 1966 Toyota Corona! Still to this day though my Mum holds her seat belt tighly and stomps that imaginery brake everytime I drive her around!! hahaha

Jo

i was taught to drive by carmageddon, anyone else a graduate of this school?

yeah i did as i was a late bloomer didnt get my license till i was 19. but was driving since i was big enough to see ove the dash

My driving teacher said I was one of the best. Dont know if that was before or after I smoked the tyres of the Mitsubishi colt trying to get out before the truck came. Mum and Dad let me drive the company Hilux too... until I reversed over my bike.

I was lucky enough to get my licence in NZ when I was 15. Wasnt too hard. There was a 20 multiple choice written test (and there was only 5 versions of the test and you could practice them beforehand), a 5 question verbal test, and then a lap of the block. I turned left out of the registry then right, then left. Had to reverse back around the corner keeping the rear wheel on the gutter. Turn right again, right, left into the registry. STAMP, thankyou very much. Came back to NSW and tried to get them to transfer my licence, just a matter of filling out a form. Just as they were about to stamp the new one (had already stamped VOID on the kiwi one) the woman next to her picked out that I was under age. Had to wait for another year before having it transfered.

But then I drove (and crashed) without a licence and stuffed that up, then when I finally got it I drove too fast and stuffed that up... but I am a good boy now.

Learn to drive? ummmm..... It's on my "to do" list.:duh

SKEWtYpe3 wrote:i was taught to drive by carmageddon, anyone else a graduate of this school?

no sidewalk is safe!

Nice list of vehicles people learnt to drive in....

I learnt when I was about 13 in the large backyard at home,
in My fathers 1960 & 64 Beetles...
Did a lot of offroad driving on forest roads when away with Dad for the weekend....

I then got My Licence in TEXAS Queensland.... while on Holidays... when 16 or 17....

Lee

I learnt to drive in an LJ50 suzuki on my grandparents property when I was 12.