Drivers Ed

[dfrazz]

What car did you learn to drive in? Mine was a brown /6 Duster.

 

[33 IMP]

I went to a VERY small private high school. We had the driver's Ed class, classroom instruction only, but no facilities for Dr training.
I had to register at the local public high school for the summer, to be able to take driver training (in car)
You may not believe it.... but one of the cars was...... a 70 roadrunner (green, of course!).
Needless to say, I don't remember any of the others.

 

[33 IMP]

Learned to drive a stick in a Vega. What a pile of ship. Original engine was complete garbage at 40k miles.
It ended up with a 327, 350 turbo, and a narrowed 8 3/4, on polished centerlines.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

12, sisters Saab bolt action collum shift. Is what I learned to drive in.

 

[HD539]

1972 Dodge Demon (my moms car).

 

[sam dupont]

Started in the alley driving my dad's international pick up with a 304 and three on the tree. Got to the end of the alley, turned left up a steep hill and killed it. Tried to start out and killed it again. My dad blustered, so I started again, and this time I floored it, then dumped the clutch. Having an overdrive, the rear gears were 4.28. International school buses usually had the same short stroke 304, and if you ever noticed, they could rev. I laid rubber 100 feet up the hill, probably turning 6000 RPMs, but I didn't kill it.

I had been driving for two years when I took drivers Ed in 10th grade to get cheaper insurance yeah. Me at age 14 behind the wheel... now there's a scary thought

 

[TN6T8]

At my aunt’s cottage a cousin had a brand-new light-yellow 1968 Dodge Coronet.

Spent the late summer driving the back roads between Arden and Sharbot Lake finally venturing out on Hwy 7.

The love affair with Mopar’s started then and continues today.

 

[Davefinan]

Drivers ed was at a large public high school and I dont recall what the mid sized cars were , something very average I’m sure. I do remember starting out on what they called simulators. They were totally used and abused….practically worthless

 

[Unkle Krusty]

Please explain drivers Ed.

 

[kiwigtx]

Please explain drivers Ed.

Driving instruction classes at school....I wish we had those in New Zealand... but a traditional school like mine was - Palmerston North Boys High, had extremely high standards for academia and sport to uphold. Driving was considered something we learned on the farm....or on weekends at home.
The school was a breeding ground for top sportsmen in this country at the time....and some very clever guys who now make their marks all around the world. Still holds the record for the youngest ever to play for the All Blacks - while still at school as a Prefect and member of the first XV..... played for the local province of Manawatu also. Craig Wickes.

Spent my last year at Pakuranga College in Auckland ...where academia didn't figure as high.

 

[kiwigtx]

I first learned to drive in a Ford Anglia (1958 I think) that my Great Aunt owned - so well kept that it still had the plastic on the seats.
Similar to this one here I grabbed from the innerweb... and similar colour - mid blue. Three speed stick on the floor.

 

[GTXDAN]

I had drivers ed in high school. Small school with less than 200 kids in all 4 grades combined. We had a new AMC, most likely a Matador, I don't remember for sure. The local AMC dealer provided the cars for drivers ed. I'd been driving tractors and trucks farming for years so it was no big deal.

 

[TN Mopar]

In the summer before my junior year of high school, I attended the high school's Drivers ed
Ferndale High School, Ferndale Mi.
The cars were Camaros donated by a local dealership (they had 350s in them)
We drove them in a closed course on school property and often got in trouble for driving too fast
My dad also taught me to drive in the family car, A 1972 Dodge charger
I took my driver's license test in this Charger
Shortly, after passing the course and getting my license, I got the Charger I still have

 

[mmissile]

High-school driver's ed car. 1972 Oldsmoboat.
Like this.

 

[Richard Cranium]

My driver's ed car was a 1975 Ford Maverick.

 

[LowBikeMike]

5 years old, standing on the seat driving a 66 Ford F250 w/granny thru the field following my Dad on a tractor. Just me and him, he told me we had to get both home so we did. Been driving ever since.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

Driving instruction classes at school....I wish we had those in New Zealand... but a traditional school like mine was - Palmerston North Boys High, had extremely high standards for academia and sport to uphold. Driving was considered something we learned on the farm....or on weekends at home.
The school was a breeding ground for top sportsmen in this country at the time....and some very clever guys who now make their marks all around the world. Still holds the record for the youngest ever to play for the All Blacks - while still at school as a Prefect and member of the first XV..... played for the local province of Manawatu also. Craig Wickes.

Spent my last year at Pakuranga College in Auckland ...where academia didn't figure as high.

It was in that area of town, I was driving, my brother was dangerous, but between pubs, at a red light, I made a left turn. What are tou doing he asked. Turning left on a red I said. Bummer, it is legal to turn right on a red most everywhere in North America. I forgot you can not do the opposite in NZ, even of you are between pubs.

 

[33 IMP]

I first learned to drive in a Ford Anglia (1958 I think) that my Great Aunt owned - so well kept that it still had the plastic on the seats.
Similar to this one here I grabbed from the innerweb... and similar colour - mid blue. Three speed stick on the floor.

View attachment 1967503

I love any and all Anglias, (and Thames panels) once they have a V8 swapped in. A close friend had one, more than a few years back, (I think it was a 49?) with a 396, turbo 400, and an odd rear, a 56 Pontiac.
It was intimidating, but surprisingly un-fast. The 96 had no suds.