Larry, Thank you!!  The garage belongs to a friend of mine.  He has a C4 and a C5.  It's a Corvette Shrine!

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I honestly don't remember what I learned to drive in   it was either my friends first Ford F350 or my dad's Country Squire Station Wagon   My first car that I actually wanted and went out and bought was a Maroon 72 Chevelle   I bought it from a a friend who said someone had out a 350 LT1 in it.  At the time I didn't even know what an LT1 was, all I knew was the car hauled arse

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My first car wasn't cool, it was a black 49 Chevy four door that I shared with my mother.     I was 15 and she drove it during the day to work and I used it at nite to go to work and on dates.   It had an old 6 banger with 3 on the column.  

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I traded my SL70 Honda and $25 for a two door "63 Impala when I was 14. Changed the engine and painted it before I was 16 and able to drive it.  In the meantime I learned to drive in a '59 Impala wagon.

I learned to drive in My fathers 55 chevy pickup. It was wrecked, we found another for parts, I moved all the body parts from one to the other and got it back on the road. My father gave it to me for my first vehicle. It was my high school cruiser.

Like some of y'all I 1st learned ta drive on a Allis Chalmbers tractor. (That is iffn the crank didn't tear all the skin offa my hand tryin ta start it.)

I then bought a nice 49 Studebaker pick up. This was my driver for some time. I sold it and had 3 vans before the 1st car came along. 67 327 4spd Camaro... sold it for a 383 slapstick 4spd Cuda.... then big 4wd trucks graced my muddied up world until I decided to take a load off of my weekly breaking of truck fund and buy a vette. Since then my life has been lower, cleaner, and a lot less abusive.... Life is Good!!!

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OK.. you are not gonna believe this but I probably drove the ugliest car on earth, but as my Dad once said "the worst kinda drivin' beats the best kinda walkin'". I learned and took my drivin' test on a 1960 Saab station wagon, baby blue... you had to put a quart of oil in the tank first and it mixed with 7 gallons of fuel (2 cycle). It had 3 cylinder motor, with a 4 spd. on the column, front wheel drive, it free- wheeled when you let your foot off the gas, so you could actually shift without the clutch. Being 2 cycle it smoked like hell at an idle and you also know what they sounded like until you got the RPM's up (put...putt...putt...) It had 7 moving parts and got about 35 MPG. When I took my driving test the inspector was so amazed at the column shift I think he forgot to look at my driving.. My Dad said it was suppose to be one of the strongest/safest built cars of it's time. It was like a little tank... 3 Years later He bougth a SAAB GT... that had oil injection and 3 carbs (one for each cylinder), but still had 4 spd. column shift... that little bugger would run now... being 2 cycle the higher the RPM the better it liked it... NOw how would you like to take your prom dae in that... mine actually thought it was pretty cool... I had that car until I went in the service... got out and took all my pay i saved and bought a  "GREEN" '69 Vette, vert, 350/350, with 4 spd... YIKES.... oh yeah.. my brother took the Baby Blue SAAB...  2 cruzn2008-09-04 20:50:54

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[QUOTE=my7T1]Ok here's the scoop. About a year before I turned 16 my parents were trying out used cars. One day my dad drove up with a 1964 Olds Dynamic 88 2 dr. Coupe, with a 394 super rocket V-8, 4 bbl. carb, rated at 325 hp. Man I tell ya what, I licked my chops for a whole year until I got my license. Little did mom and dad know that their grocery getter could trany slam and lay down rubber for a whole city block. Plus turn low 14's in the quarter. Well soon after I got busted fer reckless driving, daddy took the keys away. [/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE=ebo] Marshall, I learned to drive on a 1962 Plymouth Valiant, slant 6 push button. Could not get in much trouble there.





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Ebo,

My buddies dad had a pea green Valiant with the same HYPO package you described here... it was radio delete and had studded snow tires on it...

Our 1st outing at 16 yrs. of age in it was to travel to another town 18 mi. from here to get a battery for his dad. We put in the portable cassette player an down the interstate we went.

Cruising along this dude in a Vette blows up along next to us. Kevin accelerates up and the Vette dude is looking at us smilin... 60... 70... 80.... (Vette dude is laffin)... 90 .... 100 ...(can't hear the cassette player anymore for the singing of the snow tires)... side by side down the road..... Arrrggghhh RED LIGHTS

Pulling over I I can hear is Kevin groanin... "My dad is gonna kill me... My dad is gonna kill me... Oh man my dad is gonna kill me...!!!"

We get stopped and the trooper walks up laffin so hard he has tears runnin down his cheeks.

A. Because we are both scared sh*tless
B. Because he said that had to be the stupidest funniest thing he had seen.

This was immediately followed by "What the He77 were you thinkin?"

All said and done he gave Kevin a warning ticket for goin 90 in a 70 zone. Kevin practically kissed the trooper for that....

We never knew what the Vette dude got outta the story... Quite frankly it was all about us at that moment....

I still laff (like right now) when I think about it.... Stupid Kidz ..... Geeezzz.....!


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Since we're talking Mopars, I'll relate my funniest story about my Barracuda. 

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I wanted a Corvette my whole life, but I never dreamed of all the wonderful people I would meet because of it!

My first car was a 58 Plymouth Savoy that my dad used for a work car. He bought a used pickup and gave me the Plymouth. Thinking back it was a nice car, had the 318 with push button,blue and white, but I beat it to death being 16. After that I bought a 61 Ford Galaxie and drove it for a few months before buying a 64 Comet Cyclone. The Chevys were cleaning up on me so I bought a 66 Fairlane GT 390. Had a lot of fun with that car and it could turn 13.60's with street tires. Had 66 Mustang Gt, 65 Chevelle, 66 Chevelle SS396, and my last real fun car before I got married was a 68 Nova SS 4- speed. I bought it used off a car lot and it was crazy fast.
In 72 I got married, but wish I could go back and know what we know today.