Your first driving experience

Probably about 15 driving my parents' Pontiac on a little used gravel back road near our cottage. Said road is now paved and quite busy. It was a stick (3 on the tree) shift.
Age 16 driving a stock car on a dirt track until the officials wised up. You were supposed to be 21. The real driver almost got banned. The starter was killed a couple of weeks later and the track closed.
At 18 had my first car a 41 Plymouth coach.
Biggest enjoyment when I first drove a sports racer after a couple years of racing assorted MGA's and B's in various states of mods from street stock to fairly highly prepared. The A was mine but none of the 3 B's were which made racing cheaper!! :D

Land Rover Santana (from Donk's land)

No suspension (seemed like it)
No locks on doors
first canvas and years later a fiber glass hard top

Shift gears of course, manual 4 wheel drive, a manual crank to start it up from the front if needed.

Took us EVERYWHERE.

Great car. Great memories
:s mokin:

About 10 or 11 years old,my grandfather had a chain of butchers shops,and one of the shops backed onto a large mill complex,that had about half a mile of roads that were gated,and empty at weekends .He had a Ford 5cwt delivery van that i washed every week ,and then spent hours driving round the mill yard.Also driving on public roads when i was 15 ,I used to have a beret on and dad said if we saw the Police,dont look sideways at then and dont panic.were never stopped. My grand daughter sits on my knee and steers the lawnmower in their very large garden,whilst i cut the grass,and she is not 2 years old yet!

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Originally Posted by schmenke

’64 Plymouth Valiant

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An American Classic :up:

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Originally Posted by schmenke

equipped with a Chrysler “slant-six” engine and push-button

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We used to take my budies push button Rambler loaded with surfboards to the beach.

Another Classic American "Bomb" :burnout:

Oh Lord, that reminds me of the time we got a 'Turtle' as rental car when racing at Westwood, BC. (American Motors 'Pacer'.) :s mokin:
At least we got it back to the airport in one piece. Which is more than be said for Bobby Brown and Fred Operts' cars. They played bumper tag on the way to the airport as we stayed a couple of blocks back. I think the only straight panels on either car were the roof panels. I think it was Hector Rebaque driving the Opert car. :cool:

Hey Taz, I still have my '74 Suzuki TM 400 Cyclone motocrosser in the shed out back. The widowmaker. Cool.

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Originally Posted by Fiero 5.7

Hey Taz, I still have my '74 Suzuki TM 400 Cyclone motocrosser in the shed out back. The widowmaker. Cool.

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I wish I still had my Honda CR 250 supercross racer. That thing tried to launch me into low earth orbit. :s mokin:
I bought it when I did a 4 year stint in Vegas. Sold it when I left because there are very few places to ride 2 strokes in So Cal.

I was 8 years old and I dreamt about driving. We were at our summer cottage and my dad had a Citroen 4CV at that time. When I told my dad what dream I had, he asked why don't you try? So I tried. I remember that I hardly reach to the pedals and because the gear stick in Citroen 4CV was so hard to use, I drove circles at the yard never changing a gear. Can't remember anything else but I do remember I had a blast :D

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An American Classic :up:

We used to take my budies push button Rambler loaded with surfboards to the beach.

Another Classic American "Bomb" :burnout:

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I remember one family vacation when we drove the Valiant from Montreal to Disney World, Florida, towing a tent-trailer :eek:
The water pump broke somewhere in South Carolina, but we managed to limp into a local grease-monkey and thankfully he had a replacement.

The "Slant-Six" engine was still in production by Chrysler well into the 1980's. That engine was bullet-proof (um, unless it's used to tow a trailer through South Carolina... :erm: )

Chryslers 318 V8 was bullet proof!!!!!!!!
We tried to blow one up and couldn't do it!
It eventually seized after it boiled all the water away but it would not go bang.
Wrote a story on that on www.thegarageblog.com