learning to drive-what car? who taught you?

[jphanna]

i used to sneak into our VC valiant and drive in 1st gear in a big car park while dad was working in a shop...age 12. i idd that for a few years and he never caught me.

when i got my proper learners though, it was in an LX torana 2850. i got my licence in that. mum taught me.

[TVR-190]

Mum and dad for me, learning in a VP lexcen

[Zeussy]

When I was around 13 or so, drove an old landcruiser up on a farm, for a day or two..

Then pretty much when I got my L's had bought a VH SLE.. learnt in that with mum by my side.. lol..

[Sharoo]

Dad mostly taught me to drive in his 73 Ford Fairlane. It was a tank of a car for a 16 year old girl!

Then brought my first car a VN commodore from my brother for $300.

My ex tried to teach me in his Vh brock replica commy but I needed 2 feet to push the clutch down so yeah that was a problem...lol Also made t 10 times harder when I crunched gears and could tell he felt like punching me..lol

My brothers helped me get my hours up in a Pulsar and a ford XR8 ute.

When it comes time to teach my kids I'm buying a cheapo car and getting proper driving lessons. I learnt 2 many bad things from my brothers...lol

[DANNY8]

I bought a Colt (manual) for my first car and my Mum showed me how to drive. Started driving out the salt flats to start with.

[Tom_1569]

A HZ? Ute was the first car I remember driving, 308 and 4 speed, had to have someone do the peddles for me as I couldnt reach. I think I was about 4 or 5 when I first drove. Growing up on farms I drove pretty much anything that would move or could be towed lol.
First car I drove on the road was a Mazda Metro 121, as mum wouldnt take me, so my Gf at the time Grandma took me for a drive, no instructions, just drive.

[Astranomical]

When I was 14 Dad taught me to drive around the farm in our WB 'tunner. He'd set up barricades with old roundup containers to teach me about keeping road position and stuff, it was good.

When I got my L's, I learnt to drive in a 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer, and then ended up getting my P's in a TR Magna.

[djmenow]

My dad had a company car so in 1990 my dad taught me in his 1989 Toyoya Camry. My driving instructor taught me in a Barina.

[VN_Luke]

I drove any possible time I got the chance - I even used to wash my folks cars just because I'd be allowed to move them around the front yard to do so!.... though dad must have always wondered why i'd water the ground just in front of the rear wheels and get the cars dirty again when moving them back lol.

On My L's I predominantly learnt with my dad in the big block 1.5 '96 Festiva manual. Also got to drive the brand spank VT (at the time) followed by the AU wagon.

My brother would let me drive his '82 Starion 2.0 turbo occasionally - and that thing seemed like a weapon at the time!

we also used to do all stupid kinds of stuff in paddocks/fields at a mates place with dunger corollas and such.

One thing I did learn from learning, though - if you're teaching boys to drive, take them out to do skids first up - so they realise they have 0% car control when they're first starting out, and they don't try to slip skids in 'accidentally' when taking off from lights or turning corners

[jphanna]

my young sis decided that she wasnt going to be outdone by her older brother (once she found i was sneaking around in the VC valiant) so she started the val without engaging the clutch and it was in first gear....it hit a wall (on the starter motor) and slightly crunched the bumper. that was the end of the VC valaint rides...

[ecotec_kid]

Learned to drive in mums VL calais turbo when i was about 14, just driving around the property. When i got my L's i bought a rusted out HJ Kingswood with the big red 308! The thing blasted all the time and never had any trouble with it (besides the massive rust holes in every panel) but with petrol prices hitting close to $1.50 that one just sat for a while and i drove a 86 supra sx that my brother gave me when he got his new car for my P's. Just recently my mother, who is involved with the fire brigade took the old holden to the fire training centre and set fire to it! She never did like that big old thing.

[Astranomical]

ecotec_kid: DAMN! Did you get the 308 out of it before she was torched?

[excalibur]

i usew to use mum and dads old datto stanza and 200b and the driving instructors barina

[VL_5SPEED]

VL. Mum and dad.

[Robbo_c]

vt s2 calais,and the old man teaches me.

[DUK13Y]

VYII Berlina, '08 hilux and a '98 lancer manual. Dad still teaches me. Mum just sits there really. My dad doesn't really like her instructing on what to do

[Garth]

my first car i was taught to drive in a vh rt charger. that was a brick. grand father taught me how to drive, was about 15/16, would run around the paddock.

then mum taught me to drive, was a ea ford falcon.

[DannyboyDS]

I learned in anything I could, my adice to anyone out there is start in a BRONCO :P if you reverse paralell park that, you wont have any problems later when you drive a smaller car.

Get plenty of lessons with a pro too, and make sure you get someone who states clearly upfront that they will not assist you to get your P's untill they believe you are truelly ready.

[MikesCalais]

My old man taught me

First car I ever drove was a VY SS when it was the current model

The L plates stood out a bit haha

[cracker]

dads ba falcone, work car, when i was 16, im now 20 then brought my vn drove that around for 6months before pulled the engine and put in a acl race series cam and heads engine for the last 6 months or so of my l's was good fun, also drove mum vxs here and there too.

[love the general]

started learning when i was about 7 or 8 in an early 80s model corolla that was a beast and then in dads old cruiser an 88 model that i now own and am restoring at the moment.

[whitey152]

iv lernt in a few cars some of the more noticable one that i drove while i was on my L's were a 180sx a r32 gtr and a worked r32 gtst lol yeah i know some of there are considerd "ricers" but there pritty good cars and go pritty hard

[Captain Kermit]

I learnt to drive in my mums VT, then in my stepdads Rodeo 4x4. Then I bought my first car (Manual VS) and learnt in that for a few months til my P's. Then about 8 months after I got it, I wrote off the VS and now I've got a VH.

[muttley383]

Back in the mid 80's with my old man and a 1977 Gemini.
From the Gemini I traded to a VB 253 4 speed.

[vlv8vic]

XC falcon ute on the farm. Then an EL falcon on L's - driving test for Ps was an AU falcon.