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So i drove a car for the first time, what was yours like?

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Oct 6, 2007
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Hi all

tonight i drove a car for the first time. I am 22 and have eye disease which prevents me from every getting a drivers license. It was 7:30 and we were just leaving mum and dads and i ask my brother if i could drive. ( we live like 200 meters up the road)

So he parked it on the road for me i get in, put it in gear stall it, started the car nearly stalled it but was on my way up to my house, driving in first gear i was like OMG i am driving. i wasn't game to drive in to the drive way so i parked on the side of the road for so my brother could drive in

What was your first experience like driving / learning to drive? who's car did you use?
 
It was terrifying! 10mph felt like speeding, and changing gear seemed like an impossible task. Then when it was suggested changing gear while going round a round about, well, that was just crazy talk! :p

I went on to pass my test first time though, despite curbing the wheels as I pulled up outside the exam place at the very end :D
 
i was also worried too, my brothers car is a V8 and has some power. I did about 5 km all the way home but still i had a go at it and it was great. I intend to keep doing it too when possible
 
Very first? I think it was my dads 1967 Chevy II Nova SS.

He was feeling generous. I was 15. I was terrified I was going to cause it harm. We drove around the parking lot of my old elementary school on a weekend when no one was around. It was great. Then I learned on my mom's PT Cruiser for my driving exams. I got my license at just over 19. :eek: My 1st car was and is, my 1992 Toyota Corolla.

Thing is damn tank! :)
 
A high school friend's toyota tercel...i was unlicensed at the time...it was a terrifying and super exciting experience :D

Cheers.

-J.-
 

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Congrats on experiencing driving!

I was petrified. It felt like there was so much to do and check before I could actually start moving/stall :)

Steering in a straight line and changing gear at the same time did not come naturally to me ;)

Amazing how it all becomes second nature.
 
My first lesson was good. In a 1.4l diesel Fiesta.
Spent 10 minutes explaining the controls to the instructor, 5 minutes practising moving off and stopping. Then 1 3/4 hours driving round tight and twisty country lanes at national speed limit speeds.

Second 'lesson' was in our 2.0l Alfa Romeo.

Simple. Nothing scary about it.

Of course I failed the test because the examiner was a bastard.
 
Well, so far, my brother, cousins, and family let me back up/park in the driveway, parking lots, stuff like that. Not actually drive though.

I'm 15. I think I first sat in the driver seat of a car with the car in my control when I was 12.
 
I remember the first time I did. I didn't know the gas pedal was so sensitive and I had to keep holding it down. I pressed down on it and the car started moving rather quickly and kept going. I thought there would be a lot more friction involved. My first car was a rather slow car so I was used to that. When I got my first real car, it was a V8 powered Aurora, that thing was so fast and smooth - it was so nice!

It's cool how it all becomes second nature. Like said above.
 
Oh, so scary!


I just knew I was ready to drive, got my permit the first day I legally could, and my mom took me to an empty truck parking lot in our family car, which looked like this:
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Chevy Caprice Classic, longest car made that year.

So I put the car in drive, take my foot off the gas, and :eek: I'm coasting through this enormous space, my hands squeezing the life out of the steering wheel, my leg lifted over the gas pedal, but not touching it, and feeling completely out of control, like I'm speeding down the Mass Pike. I was in that position for so long that my leg started shaking (still not touching the gas, just hanging mid-air), and my mom had to remind me that it was okay to give it some gas. :p



She reminded me of that scene the other day, as I was driving on a rotary, eating an ice cream cone, and adjusting the radio.

I've become a very good driver and I love to drive, but I'll never forget how scary that was.



Now, ask me about the first time I had to drive stick through the streets of Boston...
 
1st time I drove a car was my parents Citroen BX estate. Big old barge with a virtually un-stallable diesel engine. Don't remember being at all worried about it at all. Very forgiving to poor clutch control :D Then a couple of days later I had my first proper lesson with a real instructor. Once I'd demonstrated I could get the thing moving, change gear OK and generally not crash he instructed me onto a dual carriageway and told me to "boot it" :p
 
richthomas said:
i didnt know the accelerator was so sensitive so heads went flying back and i didnt know the steering wheel span back when turned bahaha.
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that what it was like for me. The accelerator and the break were pretty senstive at first to me so everyone would heads would go back and forth as I hit the brakes or hit the accelerator.

First car I drove was my dad crystal convertible (POS). I remember the first time I took it out of the neighborhood so I was going up to speeds of 45mph I was completely freaked out and my hands were sweating like no tomorrow.
 
I just hopped in and started driving and went to 40 right away. This was in desert flat lands when I was 8 or 9. I also drove a quad and started jumping within a half hour at around the same age.

After that it was not until drivers ed at 15 in which case I immediately had to keep myself from speeding. I was raring to go:D

But I grew up with RC Cars, power wheels, Go Karts at the mini golf course, countless hours in sit down racing arcades and car racing games on consoles.

For me it was not nervousness. More like its about f***ing time I've been preparing for this since I was 3. I passed my written test and driving test easily.
 
When I was about 5 or 6 my dad let me sit on his lap and turn the wheel while he worked the pedals/shift on a 2cv not unlike this one:
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:D

The first car I truly drove, however, was an '04ish Honda Accord with a manual transmission. Took me a while to be able to start it consistently without stalling or peeling out...but I figured it out and now look forward to a spirited drive with some heel-and-toe action. :)
 
I remember my first time, god awful lol.

I was 14, my dad let me turn it around (I had already been learning to drive for a bit but hadn't actually driven yet) and well I put it in the wrong gear and drove into the wall, screwed up the front of my dad's Range :(
 
My first time was in a Peugeot 205 Diesel, in a layby near Romsey in Hampshire before pulling out onto a 60mph A road. Agree about the changing gear thing, which seemed impossibly difficult at the time.

Long time ago now though :)
 
I've only ever drove around empty, derelict old industrial estates (only getting to 3rd gear). It was alright I guess. Not much interested in cars or any side effects of driving other than getting from A to B.
 
1995 Acura Legend. Drove it half a mile to my house. Almost ran off the road a few times because I didnt turn the wheel far enough when turning.
 
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