When you first began to drive were you legal?

Question

In my day we drove and learn to drive without benefit of licenses. What did you first drive? me a tractor and a 1955 chevy stick shift. Can you drive a shift stick?

Answer 1

I first learned how to drive a 4 speed Corvair. Many years went by, then I got brave & decided it was high time I got my license. I tool my test in our Omni, & passed first time around. I should have, after all, I was a backseat driver for years. ~lol~ Oh, did I tell you that I was 4-0- when I got my license?

Answer 2

I'm not quite a senior yet but I lived on a farm growing up. I started driving tractors at about 8 or 9 and driving the pickup truck and cars at about 12. I have been driving stick shifts since the beginning. The first car I drove was a 1965 Chevy with a 3 speed on the column.

Answer 3

Yes, I can drive a stick. I learned first to drive in driver education at school, with an automatic. Then while in Vietnam, I learned to drive a stick shift in about one hour when I was offered a job driving a water truck and some troop truck convoys riding shotgun or driving. There were no automatic shifts in those vehicles. I seemed to pick it up real easy. Jeeps were the most fun to drive but I mostly drove a deuce and a half. Two and a half ton trucks. When I returned home, they gave me a 5 ton truck to play with.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 4

I learned on a tractor as well.

I drove my dad's car for a couple years before I turned 16... we did get stopped once because a tailight was out on our trailor... I think I was 13 or 14 that time. I couldn't believe my dad let me drive the car on the main road- let alone with a trailor attached. I was so scared, but he was very calm and got out of the car on the drivers side and spoke to the cop....
no ticket.

I think he was probably shaking in his boots thought. teehee

My first car was a stick shift and my mom taught me how to drive it.


blessings :)

Answer 5

Oh ya, I'm really good with driving shift stick. As matter of fact, i prefer those to automatic, unless I'm stuck in a heavy traffic!

I used to live in Europe for a while and i got few chances to compete in a very amateurish! rally.

BTW, i was 13 when first drove( in suburb on family picnic, no other cars around, whats so ever, under my brother's supervision) and the car was BMW 2002, remember those series. I still love those. Wish i had one!

Answer 6

As a farm girl, I grew up driving tractors, mowing machines, combines....all kinds of farming equipment. I drove illegally until I was 17 and finally decided to go get my license. I haven't driven a stick in many years. I used to be able; I'm not sure anymore.

Answer 7

You had to be able to shift so you could sit right next to your sweetheart. He would teach you to shift, and he would operate the clutch. Before I was even thinking about a real date, I took the family car.I was twelve, and my father was out of town, and even though my mother did not drive, he left the car keys to his '60 Impala. As soon as my mother was asleep, I called my best friend to take a spin with me. No, my parents did not catch me, my friends older sister did. She knocked us around until her arms just got tired, then she drove the car back. In those days kids that pulled something that ignorant were fair game for the first one to catch them. We couldn't tell on her, because all that would have meant was another round of whup butt.

Edit: We didn't need no stankin' drivers license in those days!

Answer 8

I started driving my great aunts chevy, that was stick shift and only started in 2nd gear, so you had to start on a hill and sort of push it, hop in and pop the clutch. I was 12...in South FL you could get a learners permit at 14! What in the world were they thinking?????

Personally, after teaching my kids to drive, I still have nightmares and still twitch and make sound effects when they are driving.....just like my mother, oh, heaven help me!!!!

Answer 9

I learned to drive before I had a license and I actually drove on the roads 2 years before I ever got my learner's permit. Those were different times back then!!

And yes, I can drive standard.

Answer 10

Sure I was legal, I was born legal.........OH, you mean to drive. I started riding an old thumper BSA on the streets when I was 11, got my first ticket at 12 and started driving a 4 speed car back and forth to work when I was 13. I got my drivers license when I turned 16. Haven't stopped going since.