POLL TIME When did you start driving a car?

[Hayden Goseek]

I don't remember exactly when I learned to drive a car but I had been "driving" boats for several years so that helped with steering.
My first 'car' was Mom's Rambler American. Three on the tree. With a little practice, you CAN shift with your Left hand and keep your Right arm around your date.
The Rambler was a great, practical car but very unsexy. The bench seat made up for that however.

 

[R2elk]

I think that's a very different, "after dark" discussion.

Nope, it brought to mind the 5 on the floor with high and low making it a 10 speed.

 

[WallyG74]

Nope, it brought to mind the 5 on the floor with high and low making it a 10 speed.

1966 F600 pulpwood truck. I drove it round and round the hay field. That little red button was so amazing!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Nope, it brought to mind the 5 on the floor with high and low making it a 10 speed.

Split shifting for the win, baby.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I learned at the wheel of a wheat truck at age 10 or 11. That's a big-ass truck to haul grain from the fields during harvest to the grain silos in town. At first, it was only in the fields to collect the hay bales. I'd steer and brake, but couldn't push the clutch and shift gears yet, so one of my brothers would run up to the cab, operate the clutch and turn the truck around to the next row. Then I'd steer, and my brothers bucked and stacked the hay bales.

In Kansas in 1972, a 12-year-old could get a driver's license to drive UNaccompanied, but only between farm and town, and only for farm work. And so I started driving loads of wheat to town. Legally, on my own, at 12.

Law's been changed, since. Can't do that anymore.

 

[sealer39]

I learned how to drive in a 1971 Ford F100, three on the column. I still miss that old truck.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Who here, other than @R2elk, has driven a "three on the tree" transmission?

I drove my Dad’s ‘67 Jeep once, and never again. It was harder on him than me, I think. That Jeep is his baby, he fixed it up when he was a teenager.

 

[Sussex19]

I started learning in the bush when I was 17, and got my learner licence soon after.
Still on the green Ps.
And I've only ever driven manual, and I love it!

 

[Nabiki]

Who here, other than @R2elk, has driven a "three on the tree" transmission?

I have. It was the first manual transmission car I drove. I was car shopping and test drove it but didn't buy it.

I ended up with a '63 Dodge Dart with a push button transmission.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I HATE driving. I was forced to start driving when I had my first son. I started doing all of the above at 17. (Yes, I was a teen mom). I learned on an automatic, but 2 of the 4 cars i own are manual.

My husband lived in a big city and didn't drive until he was 27.