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What kind of car...; did you first learn to drive?
Topic Started: Oct 20 2006, 03:48 PM (507 Views)
DivaDeb
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I learned on my dad's 1966 VW Beetle. Loved that car and drove it long past the point where I had to park it on a hill, roll it, and pop the clutch to start it.

(prompted by IT's Studebaker)
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Jane D'Oh
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I learn in my mums VW golf. It was a manual and had something going on with the choke and so it would stall as you changed down gears approaching a roundabout.

So as a learner I learnt to downsift, pull the clutch lever right out, turn the key and rev hard when approaching a roundabout.

It was a nervewracking experience - particularly for my mother who had the whole process down to one very smooth operation!

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Pfft.
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I learned on a 67 Bettle that was soon replaced with a 64 I had for ten years. The 67 was totaled in an accident that was not my fault. I started my VW many times that way. -_-

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Ford pick-up. Looked very much like this. Yee haw! :cool:
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Daniel
Oct 20 2006, 04:57 PM
I started my VW many times that way. -_-

do they start any other way? :P In my beetle's final years, I always parked facing downhill to start it.
Years later, many different vehicles, I am still hesitant to park up a hill.
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1990 Toyota 4Runner
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77 Plymouth Fury.
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A stolen 1975 Plymouth Fury 4-dr. Fortunately it was an automatic.
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DivaDeb
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Oct 20 2006, 07:00 PM
Daniel
Oct 20 2006, 04:57 PM
I started my VW many times that way.  -_-

do they start any other way? :P

only one...there was no hill for me to park on at school. Every day, a couple of my best guy friends would follow me out to the parking lot and push it, get it rolling, so I could start it. It was a dicey procedure when the lot was icy!
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Oct 20 2006, 08:21 PM
A stolen 1975 Plymouth Fury 4-dr. Fortunately it was an automatic.

So I wasn't the only one driving around in one of those barges.
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sue
Oct 20 2006, 04:00 PM
Daniel
Oct 20 2006, 04:57 PM
I started my VW many times that way.  -_-

do they start any other way? :P In my beetle's final years, I always parked facing downhill to start it.
Years later, many different vehicles, I am still hesitant to park up a hill.

Once I was driving across a bridge at night in Florida in a thunderstorm and both windshield wiper blades went flying off. There was no defrost in the first place. There I was going about 60 mph in the rain rubbing the fog off the inside of the windshield and squinting through the water. Sigh.

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DivaDeb
Oct 20 2006, 06:48 PM
I learned on my dad's 1966 VW Beetle. Loved that car and drove it long past the point where I had to park it on a hill, roll it, and pop the clutch to start it.

(prompted by IT's Studebaker)

and down shifting rather than braking to extend the life of the brakes...

we went thru quite few 200 dollar VWs (coupled with a station wagon for the 11 of us)
it behooves me to behold
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1958 Chevrolet Apache.
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1999 Pontiac Grand Am and a Chevy S10
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kenny
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VW bug - manual tranie.

Quite possible a 66 like DD. ;)
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Oct 20 2006, 05:30 PM
sue
Oct 20 2006, 04:00 PM
Daniel
Oct 20 2006, 04:57 PM
I started my VW many times that way.  -_-

do they start any other way? :P In my beetle's final years, I always parked facing downhill to start it.
Years later, many different vehicles, I am still hesitant to park up a hill.

Once I was driving across a bridge at night in Florida in a thunderstorm and both windshield wiper blades went flying off. There was no defrost in the first place. There I was going about 60 mph in the rain rubbing the fog off the inside of the windshield and squinting through the water. Sigh.

Ah, such memories. ^_^ I had an ice scraper for the inside, and would have to scrape and wipe as I was driving. Fully bundled with hat, coat and mittens, of course. :hat:
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DivaDeb
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heh...I can remember a load of times where I had to pull over every few blocks, get out, grab a couple of handfulls of snow to clean my windshield, get back in and drive til I couldn't see anymore. I lived about 10 miles from my highschool...it's really kind of a wonder I made it through those years in that car.
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Just like this one except it was blue and, oh yeah, it was newer then:

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'65 Chevy Nova Sation Wagon. Three on the tree.
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One of these:

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The colour is the same. In fact, every detail, including the open bonnet is pretty much bang on.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Where is the smoke?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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sue
Oct 20 2006, 06:36 PM

Ah, such memories. ^_^  I had an ice scraper for the inside, and would have to scrape and wipe as I was driving. Fully bundled with hat, coat and mittens, of course. :hat:

an ice scraper for the inside. LOL!! Oh, that's great.

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DivaDeb
Oct 20 2006, 06:40 PM
heh...I can remember a load of times where I had to pull over every few blocks, get out, grab a couple of handfulls of snow to clean my windshield, get back in and drive til I couldn't see anymore. I lived about 10 miles from my highschool...it's really kind of a wonder I made it through those years in that car.

I hear you. :lol:

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Steve Miller
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'56 Ford Victoria coupe like this one:

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