OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Your First Time

Submitted by JeepinBen on

So we've definitely covered the "first car" bit, and while the first car you own is important, it's not the same as the first time. For most of us, it was one of our parents cars, as they, terrified, tried to tell us to let off slowly on the brake and not crash into parking lot lightpoles. For others, it was a sibling's car, or an uncles, etc. So - what was the FIRST car you drove? How'd it go? Pictures and stories highly encouraged, no one forgets their first.

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March 7th, 2017 at 6:56 PM ^

My brother's car. Standard. Four speed Muncie. 350 SBC. The steering wheel was roughly the circumference of a coffee can and it required you to squat at least 300 lbs to depress the clutch. I probably killed it two dozen times before I got it rolling. 

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NY-Wolverine3599

March 7th, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^

My father was an estate care taker when I was in my teens for a old publishing heiress. She only visited the property on the weekends and would go back to Manhattan during the week. 20 acre estate with 4 acres waterfront on Long Island. There was a beater pickup truck, automatic, perfect shade of BLUE. GO BLUE! Just absolutely bulletproof. We did everything but drive it into the Long Island Sound. Dukes of Hazard shit. Made launches for it and all, which had to be removed by Friday afternoons. Me and my friends had a blast. It finely end up in the field smoking from an engine compartment fire that had been extinguished. Dad came up calmly and said, "Took ya long enough!" And walked away. 3 years it took our abuse. Had to pull it out of the field by ourselves too.

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Walter Sobchak

March 7th, 2017 at 8:46 PM ^

I turned 16 on Christmas day. I went to SOS and got my license the next day. That night my dad says to me, "What are you doing here? Youve got your license, call your friends and go to the movies.' It.was my dad's Monte Carlo Z34. It was awesome.

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Entitled Millennial

March 7th, 2017 at 9:15 PM ^

My first time was a minivan in an empty parking lot. Went as well as it could have gone, I guess. 

A little while later, when I was on a drive in drivers' ed, I was rear ended by a pickup truck. Shook me up a bit, but I was fine and wasn't at fault. 

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