when did you learn to drive and where? what kind of vehicle?

I went from an automatic 4k lb desiel benz with 50 hp to a 11 sec manual RX-7. Things were... intresting. Both were turbocharged but the RX-7 had 22psi...

Oddly enough I got caught speeding 2X in the Benz (had 3 cops draw on me the first time!) and never got caught speeding once in the RX-7 but I got pulled over at least 13 times for other things in the RX-7 cuz the cops really really didn't like that car. Another thing which was weird was the fact that I would run so rich at idle that it would throw blue flames when I would slow down but I never got pulled over for that :) Ahhh, gotta love that 3 inch straight pipe exhaust to a Greddy straight out exhaust system. I also miss the screaming BOVs. That being said, I miss my old Benz even more.
 
Last edited:
I drove up and down the driveway as a kid, first in an old Pontiac and later in a Galaxy 500.

At about the age of 12, I drove on country gravel roads with my mother and grandmother as passengers. Got pulled over by a state trooper, who was just asking us for directions because we were way out in the sticks of Kentucky. When I was 12 I looked like I was about 9, but the trooper made no mention of my age. Things were different back then.

First car was a '78 Volkswagen Rabbit, purchased new for me by overindulgent parents for $5,200. Later came a 1980 Mustang, and an '84 BMW that I put 280,000 miles on. Drove an Explorer for 10 years, running up over 200,000 miles, and am now in a sweet '09 Suburban. God willing, I'll drive it until it disintegrates.
 
I was about 9 years old. My gramps had his own log trucks since the early 30's, and I learned how to drive in a 1966 Mack log truck...

It had no power steering, and it took two men and a boy just to get the clutch pushed in.
 
Summer of 1989, a dirt road in Headland, Al. The next summer I was driving down the county highway. :)

Missed the second question. First a Nissan Maxima. Then a 50-something F100.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top