How old......?

[Jetboy.]

Prolly wrong forum, but sod it.

How old were you when you first learned to opperate a vehicle, and what was it?

I will start. I first learned to opperate a clutch at age 11, while trying to free my uncle's (now my) Nova from the snow. At age 13 I learned to really drive on the half mile dirt road by my house.

 

[cardude2004]

I haven't driven a thing, and I am 15 1/2. I can't even turn on the push lawnmower.

 

[Small_Fryz]

at about 10 - 11 i dad taught me clutch and basic turning, acceleration and brakes in our 196x HK kingswood. But i also drove the 1993 statesman (auto) and ive also been out in the bush in 2000 RAV-4, which i drove around getting used to it. Ive riden motos since i was 7 so i know all the thery its just using my feet instead of my hands.

 

[Silverzone]

I'm just starting to really learn how to drive. I am still trying to get ahold of not popping the clutch.

 

[Der Alta]

Well, I was running a snowmobile at age 9. Not sure if that counts. I was driving a tractor at age 13.

Started driving a car at age 15. Learned on a Standard.

AO

 

[Omnis]

started a car at 4 or 5. steered the car while my mom drove through the neighborhood at 4 or 5. learned clutch/manual basics from my dad at around 8. started actually driving around my parking lot (therefore, in circles) at 13. 13 or 14, my mom drove me to a big empty parking lot, and i did every driving excersize in the book.

i've done nothing extreme though...haven't driven in traffic either (obviously. that's just crazy).
i did launch our explorer in that parking lot to 40 mph, and then braked back to zero. that was probably the most wild thing i've done. keep in mind, i was driving a bigass SUV (without a license either), so i was pretty worried about doing anything questionable. though i do park perfectly in all methods and directions.

oh and im 15 now. (6/30)

 

[McLaren]

Drove in my neighborhood at 14.

Got the 3000GT 2 days before I turned 15, and drove the h*ll out of it.


First thing I drove....dad's old Porsche 944 before he left.
Sports cars all my and the rest of my life.

Actually, I had that Fiero for a while and then the Saturn.

But yes, the old 944 was the first.

 

[Jay]

First manual I drove was a 1953 Pontiac (coloum shift) when I was 14, I drove a auto Van around when I was 13.

 

[Omnis]

boy, you're rich. no fair. you can say hell, by the way.

3000gt before you could even drive....mr. car spoiled

uhh.....in other news....my mom had a fiero. lol.

 

[McLaren]

Well, that Porsche paid for my 3000GT.
When my dad and mom passed away, the Porsche was left to me. My uncle sold it, and helped me pay for 3000GT.

 

[Lamboracer]

Damn i ahvent riding stick yet... clutch i mean. But i drove everything in my yard from 1950 Vespas to the snowblower,, yea it had a big engine so i sat on it. But i drive the car with my parents everychance i get but noone has a standard so im stuck there. I worked with this guy tearing down his house last summer and he let me have a go at his old standard silverado, but that was tough. The gas was extremely sticky and i was double clutchin'.

 

[miata13B]

Popz let me steer His Bronco at the age of 5. . . that was the first of many addictive experiences I have had with the mechanical wonder that now engulfs my being on this planet. . .

 

[Sage]

My dad took me for a drive in the Ranger when I was 12 or 13 (private roads, of course). Good thing he had his seat-belt on.

 

[sUn]

I drove my dad's Corolla at age 12.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I first drove when I was about 11 or 12, it was an Auto, I still havn't driven a manual I'll have to wait till june Clear the roads people!

 

[Egghead]

15 yrs old, in a Buick.

 

[-Fred-]

I learned to drive a stick in a Porsche 944, beat that. I was 15, and very, very cautious.

 

[Minnesota01R6]

I learned how to operate a clutch on my 2nd dirtbike when I was 8. I learned to drive when I was 12. 1960 Austin Heeley 3000z that my dad restored. He took me out to a bar and got too drunk to drive home, so I did. These were country roads at night, so there was no traffic, but the clutch and transmission in general on that car were very hard to use because the synchros (if it had any) are worn out. 3 years later and I got a perfect score on my driver's test....imagine that.

 

[RX-7_FC_DrIfteR]

at the age of 13 in a cemetary, Dad had a saying if you can't kill any one its a good place to learn

 

[xcsti]

I was given wheel of my parent old van briefly when I was around seven (I sat on one of their laps). I was always good at go-carts (not real carts, just the summer afternoon go to a minigolf and cart track with the family dealie). My first real oportunity to drive a large vehicle was when a family friend was moving a bulldozer from his cottage and down the road past my grandparents cottage to a lot he was working on when I was about 12. He gave me the wheel with no instruction and walked up to adjust the bucket. The road was only wide enough for one vehicle and dropped off pretty cleanly to the lake below on one side. I freaked out and he took the wheel back. I still wish I had kept my cool.

Other than that I aced my written test for a permit but waited a year to actually take the driving test.

 

[Flerbizky]

Must've been 5-6 years old when I first got to steer a car... Learned to drive stick when I was 8 or 9.. IIRC, I was 11 the first time I drove a real truck (18 wheeler).. (Family has been in the trucking business for decades, so it was quite naturally )

 

[Jay]

I'll have to wait till june Clear the roads people!

June hey, I will make sure I stay at home and play GT4 .

 

[Solid Lifters]

I was seven years old, on a farm in a Ford work truck. I did donuts on the cow patties.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Wow, most of you are so lucky to drive at such early ages. I never got to drive a car until I was 18. You people who have gotten cars as gifts from your parents are very lucky too.

 

[McLaren]

I learned to drive a stick in a Porsche 944, beat that. I was 15, and very, very cautious.

Turbo S, 14.

 

[Lamboracer]

Since you guys mean cluth only i can say that i learnt cluth at 7.. on my dads vespa 150.? That had a lever on the left handel bar and the clutch was the bar it self in a way where you would pull the lever and twist the bar. But i was the basics of a clutch and i mastered ti. My older brother came home that day and tried to be all macho and was like i know how to do it, need less to say he ended up in the garden with the Vespa on top of him. I have been riding dirtbikes since 8 too. Living where i do to helps with the aspect of driving. My driveway is a test in itself. When you are comiong in the left side you have to do a Leguna Seca corksqrew deal up ut, not to mention in the snow, with a Deawoo with bald front tire and bad struts. But i got it.Id say the funnist type of practice driving i did whas hwen i got my 4wheeler stuck in waist deep snow and my dad told me to take his plow truck down into the snowy field and plow it myself. He was expecting me to really do it but i did so there. I recently aquired a snowmobile too but that was a lost cause. A week into it i had mastered the snowmobiling techniques, i was too good for my snowmobile and literally threw the rubber track off it around corners.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I was steering cars and driving lawn mowers or go carts when I was around 8. Physically drove my first car RWD 4 door 1988 Delta olds 88 with a 400 engine at age 13. Lots of donuts and tire burning. Good times. Right after that it was a Dodge Horizon 4 cylinder. Pathetic. At the same age my friend and I took his sisters, boyfriends 1979 Monte Carlo with a 350 out for a ride. First time I went 100mph and I was only 13.
After that I started driving everything I was allowed too. When I was 16 I drove my first semi truck. My dad worked for a company driving trucks and I worked for him. Talk about a lot of gears in those trucks!!! If I remember correctly there were 12 gears in the tranny. Had to shift thru 6 of them then push a putton that allowed you to shift thru all 6 years again. Thus 12 gears.
Got my permit at 15 and driving license at 16. That year of my my dad gave me a 67 Chevy 350 truck for free and thats where my love for muscle cars began. I installed an aluminum intake, headers, Edelbrock carb and other goodies right in my autoshop in high school. That was an incredible year in school. Now ive had several muscle cars, trucks and many vehicles. I think ive had around 30 vehicles so far in my lifetime. The majority of them were muscle cars. 👍
Jetboys427,
What year nova do you have? I just got rid of a 66 Chevy II nova about 2 years ago.

 

[Flerbizky]

Talk about a lot of gears in those trucks!!! If I remember correctly there were 12 gears in the tranny. Had to shift thru 6 of them then push a putton that allowed you to shift thru all 6 years again. Thus 12 gears.

12.. Meh!... The MBs I learned to drive in had 16 speed ZF boxes - 4 speed with dual high/low selector... Crazy stuff 👍

 

[TB]

Permit at 15. Licence at 16. My first car was an '82 Oldsmobile Omega Supreme. Sold it and bought a '92 Blazer. Taught myself to drive a manual at 17. Got married and my wife brought her '97 Plymouth Neon with her. Sold the Blazer and picked up a '99 Grand Prix GT.

 

[miata13B]

I learned to drive a stick in a Porsche 944, beat that. I was 15, and very, very cautious.

a brand new '93 300ZX Twin Turbo when I was 14 : ) so blah