# What car did you learn to drive in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412 "2009-05-27T12:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OsoiNA6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/osoina6/32/6301_2.png) [@OsoiNA6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OsoiNA6)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/1 "2009-05-27T12:44:42Z")
I don’t know if this has been posted, but I thought it would make for an interesting thread. Tell us what car you learned to drive in. For me, the first car I ever drove was my cousin John’s late 70s vintage Toyota Corolla SR coupe- 3K engine, 4 spd manual. I think it was a '78 but I forget. He thought it would be interesting to let me get behind the wheel and attempt to drive the thing around the block, which I kind of managed. In between the stalling and lurching, the experience was a lot of fun and pretty exciting. I was probably about 13 at the time. It looked something like this car: ![http://www.adclassix.com/images/78toyotacorolla.jpg](http://www.adclassix.com/images/78toyotacorolla.jpg) What about you? ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/2 "2009-05-27T12:47:13Z")
I drove my uncle’s Pathfinder a handful of times, my grandmother’s Neon twice, and then got my Supra and took the road test. Between those three completely different types of vehicles, somehow I learned to drive enough to pass. :lol ---
**Author:** ![mcflurry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mcflurry/32/6468_2.png) [@mcflurry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mcflurry)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/3 "2009-05-27T12:47:51Z")
'87 ram ---
**Author:** ![GD3Skier](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gd3skier/32/6400_2.png) [@GD3Skier](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GD3Skier)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/4 "2009-05-27T12:48:35Z")
1997 chrysler conchorde. My mother still has the car. Looks like this ![http://www.bnbautos.com/images/Page8Vehicle1.jpg](http://www.bnbautos.com/images/Page8Vehicle1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![waltbabyluv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/waltbabyluv/32/6300_2.png) [@waltbabyluv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/waltbabyluv)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/5 "2009-05-27T12:50:17Z")
1985 jetta, my first car ---
**Author:** ![94Gt5.0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/94gt5.0/32/6377_2.png) [@94Gt5.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94Gt5.0)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/6 "2009-05-27T12:55:14Z")
Started driving my dads 82 F-150 4spd in the back yard when i was like 12 lol. As for legally, my 94 Mustang ---
**Author:** ![deadbeatrec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deadbeatrec/32/6401_2.png) [@deadbeatrec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deadbeatrec)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/7 "2009-05-27T12:55:55Z")
2000 golf 1.8t back in 2000 ---
**Author:** ![6SPD\_S4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/6spd_s4/32/6326_2.png) [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/8 "2009-05-27T12:58:00Z")
95 mazda protege. 5 speed. took my roadtest on it. Haven’t owned an autotradgic car since either. ---
**Author:** ![SSmokinn\_SS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/9 "2009-05-27T12:59:17Z")
Jeep grand charokee…93 Standard cars, my SS ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/10 "2009-05-27T13:00:03Z")
87 Plymouth Voyager minivan. Thank god after I got my license the van died and I got a 96 Honda Accord. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/11 "2009-05-27T13:00:58Z")
Yeah, I didn’t know how to drive stick 'til I bought my Jetta. Pretty much had to learn then or I just wasted thousands of dollars. :lol ---
**Author:** ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/12 "2009-05-27T13:01:35Z")
i dont remember but i learned to control the clutch in my bros 80 something 3 series, wat an awesome car that was so simple and cheap, nothing ever broke either, then he sold it… stupid… ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/13 "2009-05-27T13:03:24Z")
88 cavalier z24 was the first car I ever drove. Standard transmission, 07 Cobalt SS Supercharged (worst car to learn stick on. New clutch + drive by wire FTL). I knew how to drive it already since I have been riding dirtbikes and whatnot as a younger kid, but that was the first car I actually went out in traffic and drove regularly. I still have it today 32,000 miles later and still on the factory clutch haha. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/14 "2009-05-27T13:04:30Z")
I don’t think it has anything to do with new clutch and drive by wire. The clutch in those things is the most strange feeling clutch ever. ---
**Author:** ![HANSTECH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hanstech/32/6445_2.png) [@HANSTECH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HANSTECH)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/15 "2009-05-27T13:05:17Z")
mini van/ escort lx standard was my dads 318is it was kinda pimp. ---
**Author:** ![ReDevil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redevil/32/6385_2.png) [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/16 "2009-05-27T13:06:57Z")
I learned to drive in a 96 Grand Voyager, vans rock! I learned to drive stick in my next car, a 92 Civic ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/17 "2009-05-27T13:09:36Z")
> [@NTB ... $55K Please](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ntb-55k-please/18549/13): > > I don’t think it has anything to do with new clutch and drive by wire. > > The clutch in those things is the most strange feeling clutch ever. It’s just a sticky clutch, and the drive by wire makes it weird as shit. It gives it gas when you tell it not to, and it lags when you hit it. It’s not bad though, I have driven cars that are WAY worse. Still, it pisses me off and I wish it were a cable throttle. ---
**Author:** ![n\_cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n_cole/32/6382_2.png) [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/18 "2009-05-27T13:12:01Z")
The Jetta is, and it’s no where near as strange feeling as a Cobalt. ---
**Author:** ![K20power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/41988e/32.png) [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/19 "2009-05-27T14:13:19Z")
First time I ever drove a car was like age 5 or 6 when I drove my dad’s old Mitsubishi truck into our garage at our old house :lol Legally though, learned to drive/drive stick my first week with my permit on a '99 Civic coupe. ---
**Author:** ![big\_red](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/big_red/32/6328_2.png) [@big\_red](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/big_red)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412/20 "2009-05-27T14:19:42Z")
99 mercury grand market LOL [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-car-did-you-learn-to-drive-in/244412.md?page=2)