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Did anyone here learn to DRIVE in an old car?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Ocean56, May 6, 2010.

  1. claymore
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    1932 ford 5 window with the back cut off and wooden pickup bed installed when I was 11 years old. Had a homemade snow plow setup too. Used it to plow out the grandmother huge back yard and learned how to do donuts and power slide at a young age.

    The most important thing I learned was not to touch the metal straps connecting to the sparkplugs while the engine is running.
     
  2. Lobucrod
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    I am old and learned to drive at a young age, therefore it stands to reason that the car I learned to drive was old. Actually it was a 52 ford custom.
     
  3. Oldb
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    Amazing how many guys here grew up on or had something to do with a farm. I learned to drive in a 1948 Ford COE in the middle of a cow pasture while my day was back on the flatbed cutting hay bales and throwing them on the ground for the cows. It was snowy and I had quite a time with the clutch and he had quite a time keeping his balance. I was nine or ten at the time. Still have that truck btw.

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  4. I'm 58, Daddy started taking me on back roads and letting me practice a bit when I was 12, '55 Ford with 272 2 barrel and 3 on the tree, parents bought the car new, still have it and will be working on it some today.
     
  5. A 1961 Chevy wagon, which is old now.:D
     
  6. ChevyDevil
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    I love all of these stories! This is why Dad & I danced to Alan Jackson's song "Drive" at my wedding!
     
  7. JUICEHALL07
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    Im 21 now but at 16 i learned how to drive my dads 1951 chevy 3 speed on the column
     
  8. In 1995 i was 15 and my grandpa taught me how to drive in a dodge dart.. He told me to turn the headlights on and it prob. took me about 5 mins before i asked how to cause i didnt want to act like i didnt know how but it was a button on the floor.. I am pretty sure thats how the story went..
     
  9. Rudebaker
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    Unfortunately I "learned" in a 1970 Plymouth Fury III station wagon DE car but I took my test in a 348 powered '60 Impala.
     
  10. carcrazyjohn
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    72 chevelle was my first car .That was 20 years ago .Around 1990
     
  11. motorhead711
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    My brother and I learned how to drive in a 1954 chevy. 3 on the tree, 235 6 cylinder. We were both 14 when he started taking us out in the car. Can't thank him enough today for introducing us to that experience.
     
  12. Bazooka
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    Nothin special. 65 VW bug. Just jumped in and taught myself how to drive a stick. Havent owned a stick shitf car in years. Kind of miss it
     
  13. Learned to drive in a '50 Plymouth and a '58 Sunbeam Rapier convertible.
     
  14. david38rc
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    I learned to drive in this '36 Chrysler. Used to volunter to do the yard work so I could haul the trailer to the dump, the Chrysler was the only car with a hitch. Dad bought it in '58, now in my garage. I have the trailer, too.
     

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  15. Uncle Albert
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    It was an un ugly 2 tone green 59 Chevy 4 door 6 hole three on the tree in 1960.
     
  16. ej1928
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    i learnd in an all origanal 1930 model a ford this was 3 years ago now
     
  17. Drove a '59 VW and a '64 F-100, they are old now. ;)
     
  18. silversink
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    when your 65 anthing you learned in is old.
     
  19. Learned how to drive in my dad's 55 chevy pickup (that we later painted Red with flames in the backyard...wonder what happened to those photos?) and also in his 73 Ford pickup parts chaser. Then later when I got my license, I drive my 56 Merc 4 door HT to school. That was in the 80's.
     
  20. fergusonic
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    Does a 1934 John Deere A count?
     
  21. I was 7 years old, learned to drive in a 1955 Buick 4dr, in the alfalfa field in about 6 to 8 inches of new snow with new snow tires.
     
  22. Oh, and that was 1966.
     
  23. BOWTIE BROWN
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    i learnt runnin moonshine. Now iam a bus driver & hell yeah they hang on .
     
  24. 68Caddy
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    learned to drive in a 66 International harvester pick em up.
     
  25. hubcap
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    47 Chevy 2 ton hay truck. My feet didn't reach the pedals, my uncle would get it going in granny then slide out and I would slide over and steer. On a farm everyone worked. I had the best job. Ha.
     
  26. BONNEVILLE BOB 95
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    Pedal cars @ 3yrs., go-cart @ 5..... then the '55 in my avatar around 9 or 10.
     
  27. fordknut
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    I put a lotta miles on this truck as a teenager hauling hay in the summer and a big maple sap tank in the spring.
    It was a neighbor farmer's truck (eventually married his granddaughter) and I got paid $2.00 a day and all the driving that needed to be done.
    It was originally a tow truck and had a steel bed which was slippery as heii when it got all "wetted down" with maple sap.
    I actually learned how to drive on my Dad's Allis B when I was 11 or 12 rakin' hay and cultivatin' corn.
     

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  28. 1960 Chevy Brookwood stationwagon. 3 on the tree, baby.
     
  29. T-Faust
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    '52 Buick, I remember being told to keep the "bomb sight" lined up with the curb.
     
  30. widow maker
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