How about pics of car you got your first drivers license in.

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I don't have any photos, but my first car was almost exactly like this one!!! $150.00 saved it from the crusher, I drove it daily, dropped motors in it, raced my friends, what a BLAST!!!
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No pix but I took mine in dads 76 charger SE
(Think Cordoba, same car, different grill and tail lights)
 
lemondana said:
Reading all of these posts makes me realize how old I am or how young alot of the members on here are. I took my drivers test in my dad's 1959 Cadillac, I have a picture of it somewhere. I actually didn't pass the first time, the red haired examiner was a butthead. I got even a couple years later by getting his daughter in the sack. I'm bringing up the drivers education car because it was similar to a previous poster's 73 Lemans. Our school got a new car every year. My year was a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am, 2 dr, bucket seats, auto on the floor 400 4 bbl. I would love to find a nice one today!
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Fellow car club member has a '73 G.A. - If he ever decides to sell, I'll keep you in mind!

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I went through the school in '96 for mine, ended using some 80's Chrysler K car. My instructor was one of the last people in our county to have polio, had a smaller arm because of it.

A few months after I got my license my dad finally got our project car, '71 Barracuda, registered and drove this...

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Until about 4 hours later turned it into this:

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Too excited to notice a flat tire and hit the soft shoulder of a curve. Ended up over-correcting and rolled it over a tree at 65mph.

Next car was a '78 Aspen wagon we picked up for $100. Someone put a "rebuilt" 360 in it. It was a surprisingly fun car, and I could fit all my buddies in it. That lasted for about 6 months before the engine seized up on me one day. I pulled over and checked to see how much oil was in it, as I had done an oil change about a month before and never noticed any smoke or anything. The dipstick showed about two quarts high. Something fell in the pan and dad didn't want to deal with it. Sold the car to the scrap yard for $200.

After that I needed a car, and our neighbor was selling a '73 Nova for $800. V8, 3 on the tree. We never did figure out what the was by the codes on the block. Picked it up and that was my car for the rest of high school. Got into way too much trouble with that car.
 
My Dad's 1970 Dart Custom taken before Senior Prom in 1974, the year before I bought it from him

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Same car today...
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Only pic I have of it , 72 Swinger, this is well after I got my drivers license, but still working on my glider license, roughly 82.
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67 GTO 400 H.O, M22 with 4.10 posi Pontiac 10 bolt, When I sold it it had a 455 shortblock out of a 71 Gran Prix SJ with the cam, heads intake n Q-Jet off the 400 and a 4.33 12 Bolt out of a 350 RAM ROD OLDS. It was QUICK but my 69 Bee ate it up

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Mine was a 1971 Firebird Esprit, photo is not actual car but it is the exact color combo/rims as the one I had.

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I learned driving with one of these: Swiss-Made Bucher D4000 from the 60s (not my picture)


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My first car I bought when I got my license in 2016 (yes I am young) was a Seat Ibiza 6J, like this one. Sold it and got my '05 Corolla TS instead. Seat stands for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
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I learned in a 1959 Chevrolet Apache something like this one. Starter on the floor, 3 on the tree.

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justcuz said:
I learned in a 1959 Chevrolet Apache something like this one. Starter on the floor, 3 on the tree.

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Dad had a '58 stepside, straight 6 w/ 3 on the tree, used for little more than hauling coal.
When I was around 10 or 11 years old & they'd go on a grocery run (leaving me to my own devices) I'd snag the keys & move it back & forth in the driveway. It was a thrill at the time!
 
Published ratings aside, I've found the routinely smaller displacement Mopar engines to be the equal of the "in class" offerings from ford and gm.

IE 383 equal to or batter than 390 and 396, etc.
 
I took my test with this one. 216 with the "granny" 4 speed. My Dad bought it new in '53 and it was our only vehicle for many years. Being a farm kid I actually started driving on tractors and progressed to this
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and grain trucks. My Dad and I restored it in the early 90s.
 
65 Cuda 340 said:
Must have been a really stout 383 to outrun a hopped up 455 GTO.
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It was...the family I bought the shell from was all mopar "2 +6 intakes sitting on benches and other D.C stuff in garage" ...they also had a 70 440+6 70 R/T they had bought new, but I can't remember what trans ??? "oldest son still has it I think?" I actually tried to buy that one a few years later from the dad but he said his son wanted it. The Bee was his daughters car .I bought a 64 SPORT FURY from a friend who had purchased it from the Dad and it had a blown rear end "4.33 ?".The SPORT FURY had a 426 hood emblem and it had the fenderwells cut out for headers. The 383 I put in the BEE came out of that and it was a SCREAMER. I picked up on a wrecked 73 SATELLITE SEBRING with a 400 2 bbl n and auto. I put the 400 in the SPORT FURY along with the 3rd member into the SPORT FURY & sold that to a friend . "HE LUVED IT". I put the SEBRINGS 727 with a shift kit into the bee behind the 383. I ended up getting married & moved to colorado and sold both....UGH.. The GTO was quick but I had issues with the 400 "BATHTUB" H.O heads on the 455 as it would blow head gaskets ...not all the time but at 12.1 finding gas and THEN octane booster was a pain and expensive. I had also picked up a 428 out of a BONNIE station wagon at a local scrap yard I had plans on building as a back up . Thing is tho, the MOPAR just plain ran better with fewer headaches. Been MOPARORNOCAR ever since......& NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY ! lol
 
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I took my test with this one. 216 with the "granny" 4 speed. My Dad bought it new in '53 and it was our only vehicle for many years. Being a farm kid I actually started driving on tractors and progressed to thisView attachment 1716351369 and grain trucks. My Dad and I restored it in the early 90s.
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My wife loves the "Advance Design" especially the 51-53 with the wing windows. She said that's my next project, lol.
 
1961 Beige Pontiac Tempest 4 door 4 cylinder Trophy 4 and 2 speed trans in the rear of the car.
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My first car.. first car I ever drove. It was originally white with a green vinyl top, hub caps, and white walls.. this is a photo toward the end of my ownership. I wonder what happened to it the last 30 years..

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