Describe your first driving experience.

[rider9195]

Had mine today...well just up and down the driveway. Car is a Volvo S60 6 speed. Already got the touch of driving stick. :xyxthumbs:

Can't wait to get out on the road!

Feel free to share your first experience! :)

[Setec Astronomy]

Yeah, driving up and down the driveway and trying to patch out in time with the car in Billy Joel's "Movin' Out".

PS Yeah, I know you don't know who Billy Joel is.

[JonMiles]

My dad and I went for a ride in his old 89 honda civic 5 speed. I got to drive around the block and got back home safe. Left the car in 1st gear and popped the clutch before shutting down the car and took out the garage door with the bumper. Had to pay my dad for a garage door, bumper paint and a new headlight before i could get my license.

[dad07]

8n ford tractor! Plowing the field.

[Pockets@PoorboysWorld]

8n ford tractor! Plowing the field.

Ride on lawn mower than parking lots when I was like 14/15 but I had been riding dirt bikes and quads since like 10 lol

[Kaleb G.]

Used to race quarter midgets from 1st grade to 6th grade.

First time driving on the road legally was right after I got my temporary permit... Dad let me drive his brand new quad cab f150 and figured out why driving with both feet is a bad idea.

First time I drove my own truck ('00 Dakota 5-speed) I killed it in the busiest intersection in my home town 3 or 4 times in a row and had quite a few people cheering for me when I finally made it through. I received quite a few one finger salutes that day...

[Setec Astronomy]

My dad and I went for a ride in his old 89 honda civic 5 speed. I got to drive around the block and got back home safe. Left the car in 1st gear and popped the clutch before shutting down the car and took out the garage door with the bumper. Had to pay my dad for a garage door, bumper paint and a new headlight before i could get my license.

LOL, that reminds me of kids I went to HS with, who used to brag about taking their parents cars out when they were away (before they had their license). That came to a bad end when one of them drove into the garage back wall.


Ride on lawn mower than parking lots when I was like 14/15 but I had been riding dirt bikes and quads since like 10 lol

Oh, I didn't consider lawn tractors...

[ScottB]

Way under the legal driving age, my cousin and I would take my moms Thunderbird out for jaunts around her neighborhood up North. We were more careful in taping off the gas level after use then our spirited automotive excitement. (Rockford Files had nothing on us)

[zeno49]

Dad's 54 chevy bel air, went about 3 blocks then hit a large rock when turning right. That was my last for a few weeks.....lol

[RaskyR1]

My first driving experience in a car, alone, would be when I was 14 and my parents where out for the evening bowling. It was a 1982 Ford Escort wgn with a 4-speed manual. We had a long driveway where I learned to engage the clutch and then when my parents were out I'd take the car for spin. :D

I also drove a '78 Ford F-150 and the '85 IROC Camaro that summer, but mainly the Escort. Told my parents years later and they couldn't believe I did that. :D

[DLB]

First time on the road with just me in the driver seat was when I was 14. My mom just pulled over and let me drive about a mile and a half to our house. Was quite cool - I didn't even ask to do it.

First time legally was right after I got my learner's permit. My dad took me driving on a bunch of skinny back roads in his 1-Ton Chevy 3500 Dually, 4-Door, Long Bed. Yep, that's a LOT of truck to handle when you are just "learning". But, he also subjected me to dump trucks, road tractors, and other vehicles too large for a new driver. :D

First time behind the wheel? When I was about 4 dad would set me in his lap and let me drive his old '67 Ford Truck down the road to the landfill.

DLB

[rider9195]

Wow, very interesting stories here! Thanks everyone for sharing!

:bump2:

[bevans]

My parents would always take us on dirt roads/two tracks and let's us drive. When we were rly little they'd put us on their lap, but once we were big enough we got to do all the work (steer, gas, brake) and I also mowed my grandparents lawn with the riding lawnmower.


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[Setec Astronomy]

First time behind the wheel? When I was about 4 dad would set me in his lap and let me drive his old '67 Ford Truck down the road to the landfill.

Oh, we're doing THOSE stories...hard to beat me on that, when I was 1-1/2 my mom left me in the running car in the driveway while she ran back into the house. I pulled the gearshift and wound up in the neighbor's front yard.

[Flash Gordon]

I stole the old mans car around 2am one morning. Went and picked up a girl, and we went to a park and got stuck in the mud. I kept jamming the shift lever from drive to reverse untill I blew the RR tire. Finally got unstuck, changed the tire and went home. The old man was on the front porch waiting. He beat the living daylights out of me for that one

I was 12