first manual car you ever drove?

1966 Chevrolet with 2 speed rear, 4 speed (granny +3??) and 327.
I think the family farm use for that one was that it had a grain-bed.
It was just like how I had imagined it after years of reading car mags.
I was 13 or 14.

 

In the 70's dads bone stock 49 chevy, 5 window pick up (wish it was still around)

 

1938 Dodge touring sedan with 3 on the floor. My first car.

 

Volvo 544, in 1975. I drove it again today. Fun.

 

'52 Ford, v/8, 3 speed w/ overdrive.

 

48 chev in 1972, I was 9 yrs old. I own the car now! peace

 

1976 MG Midget, that thing got 38 mpg repeatedly and I drove it to and from college for 4 years. Great car, lousy engine/tranny.

 

I'm form sweden so most car are manual so i shall say insted the first aut car was insted

that was a Cadillac 69 vert and that was in 1982 when i was 18.

 

When I started driving,There were NO Automatics,,,closest to an automatic was Model T Ford

 

'60 Studebaker Lark Flat head six, three on the tree, manual steering and brakes...Scotty

 

A 1983 Mercury LN7

 

Some early 90s mercury econobox. It was my friends car and we roasted the clutch in a month. I must have side stepped the clutch 10 times in that thing...

 

1956 Ford F 100, 223 straight 6 w/ 3 on the tree

 

Fitty Four Chevy.......Bought it at 17 and DAD had to "School" me on the art of "three on the tree".

Dad: "damn, this thing is tight"...... LOL

*In reality.. I bought a 45K original mile "Seafoam green" '54 210 Del Ray with the Bitchin "Del Ray" interior...........

 

1972 Datsun 510 4dr. An instant addiction...

 

A1962 Willys 4x4 truck. I was 8

 

1953 Pontiac Chieftain, with a 2nd gear that would engage ~50% of the time. It was 1969, I was 14 -15, would sneak it out when i could or later drove with a permit.
Wish i still had the car. Very solid car for $35, bet i could sell if for more now.

 

50 Ford grain truck, I was 8 years old, I was to drive it from a field about a mile from the farm and park it by the garage. All is well as I drove it in low gear slowly to the farm, but when I went to stop it I just pushed in the clutch like I did on the tractor, oops, I ran over the metal scrap pile and that stopped it. No harm, no foul! Scared the crap out of me. ~sololobo~

 

'70 road runner

 

63 econoline 3 on the tree

 

"49 Ford two door, no overdrive.

 

Same here. BelAir 6 cylinder 4 door hardtop, 3 on the tree.

Bob

 

I was fortunate enough to have an uncle who was crazy about old cars and would let me drive anything he had before I was 16. I learned to drive a manual transmission in their '40 Ford stake truck, but also drove his '40 Chevy, '41 Lincoln, '30 Model A panel, '40 Chevy pickup and a few others that I can't remember. Coolest part of the story, I now have the '40 Ford stake truck.

 

A 1965 Izuzu sedan...used to drive it in a field like a dune-buggy( before I had a licence!)...would not drive anything else! Everyone should have to learn to drive stick to get their licence, would weed out people who should not drive anyway (unless disabled)

 

A little shit hook delivery mini truck. I was working at one of my first jobs at about 16 years old. I'd rode dirt bikes but not manual in a car. A driver called in sick at work so the boss tossed me the keys and I didn't argue! I did pretty well other than romping the hell out of it starting out on hills because I was nervous!

 

85 Mustang

 

1963 Pontiac Catalina, 3 speed Foxcraft on the floor.
Did a lot of hole shots untill I got it right, stalling it would have been too embarassing

 

1953 Plymouth, flathead 6, 3 on the tree. Went around the corner and the body shifted on the frame. Rust!!! what rust

 

65 willys CJ-5. in a field when I was 12. all of my current cars are stick, too!

 

1961 Pontiac Tempest Station Wagon with the slant 4 and the transaxle in the back with three on the floor.