First vehicle you drove

[ilvny]

What was the first vehicle you drove?  Mine was my mom's 1995 Ford Aerostar.

[Molandfreak]

Like, ever?

Tractor: My Cousin's '48 Farmall H...

Car: My Uncle's '86 Ford F-250...

[NE2]

A goat.

[agentsteel53]

an '82 Rabbit.  learned how to drive stick on it.  well, how to get going in first, anyway.  I was 11.

[Ian]

A few months prior to getting my learners permit in the summer of 2011, I drove my mom's '99 Oldsmobile Aurora on a few dirt roads in Maine.

[Kacie Jane]

The first car I drove was my Dad's Dodge Intrepid (sorry, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't know the year).  But most of my teenage driving was done on my mom's 96 Cavalier.

The first car I owned was an 86 Camry that I had until this past November, I now have an 06 Corolla.

[1995hoo]

After I got my learner's permit on 1-31-1989 (first day I could get it), my mom took me to my high school's car park and let me do a little driving there–but not out on the street–in her 1988 Volvo 740 sedan. The next day my dad started teaching me how to drive a manual shift in his 1982 Honda Accord and within a week I was out on the Beltway in that car.

Both cars are now long gone (the Accord was later mine for four years until it succumbed to undercarriage rust....losing that car hurt, it aged like a fine Bordeaux).

The first car I owned was a 1977 Ford Granada (3-speed manual with overdrive on the floor) I purchased for $325 from a guy at my dad's office. Sold that to my brother for $400 two years later when our dad sold me the '82 Accord (he bought a '91 Accord a week earlier). I now have a 2004 Acura TL (6-speed manual) and a 1988 Mazda RX-7 convertible (5-speed manual). My wife has a 2003 Acura RSX Type-S; back before we got married she sold me the RX-7 for $1 when she got the RSX (in part because as a birthday present I gave her the money for the down payment on the RSX).

[Takumi]

My dad's 1994 Ford Ranger. I was about 14. I later practiced manual shifting with it before I bought my current (1993) Prelude. The first car I owned (and still do, though it currently isn't running properly) is my 1991 Prelude.

[Duke87]

When I was maybe 8 or so my father sat me in his lap in the driver's seat and let me steer the family's '87 Subaru Leone around an empty parking lot.

The first car I legitimately drove was my mother's 2004 Nissan Quest. That thing was a monster.
Although, I learned to drive mostly in my father's 2005 Nissan Sentra.

[corco]

1985 S-10, manual. My grandpa who had 40 acres in southern Ohio would let me drive around his field with him in the car as soon as I could reach the pedals and coordinate a stick

First time on public roads was a pretty much brand new 2002 Jeep Liberty (heh, I drive a 2002 Jeep Liberty today) when I was 13 or 14- it was my Dad's company car at the time so I really wasn't allowed to drive it, but he thought that would be easier to handle than our family's Expedition or the manual Wrangler which would be my high school car (my Dad didn't know my Grandpa had already taught me to drive a stick... or drive period) so we went up the 8th street extension in Boise and he gave me the wheel.

[bugo]

1980 Ford Fairmont station wagon.  White, 200 cid inline six, slip-o-matic.  It was a Fox body so it handled pretty well.

[US81]

1970's  ('73?) Ford pick-up (F-150?) std trans. (named Henry)
1964 Ford Falcon automatic (The Red Baron)

I loved being "bilingual" as a new driver. 

[amroad17]

A 1974 dark brown Ford LTD with a white roof.  My great uncle bought it new, then my father bought it from him.  It was the car I learned to drive in.  I ended up buying it from my father and kept it until 1988.

[djsinco]

Mine was a 1960 Benelli 125cc street bike, several years before I had a permit or license...

[bugo]

I was 11 the first time I drove.  By the time I was 14 and had a license, I was a veteran driver.

[kphoger]

I learned to drive in a 1988 Toyota Camry five-speed.

[djsinco]

I was 11 the first time I drove.  By the time I was 14 and had a license, I was a veteran driver.

I know the age for a license is (or was) 14 in a few farm states, where were you at that age? I was in NJ, at that time the age for a license was 17...

[bugo]

I was 11 the first time I drove.  By the time I was 14 and had a license, I was a veteran driver.

I know the age for a license is (or was) 14 in a few farm states, where were you at that age? I was in NJ, at that time the age for a license was 17...

Arkansas.

[tchafe1978]

First car I drove by myself after I got my licenese was a classic: my parents' 1980 Ford Country Squire station wagon, complete with the fake wood-grain paneling. I was the butt of so many jokes because of that big old boat. I also drove their 1985 Ford LTD and my dad's 1990 Ford Ranger when I had my learner's permit. The Ranger was a stick, and I was being taught how to drive it before I even had my license, so when my dad and I went fishing, I could take my turn pulling the boat.

[DaBigE]

First car I pretended to drive (sitting in the driver's seat, without keys in the ignition) was my parents' old '87 Mercury Sable. First car I drove was a '00 Ford Focus, which I learned to drive in and subsequently took my test in. Couldn't ask for much better of a car to be required to parallel park in.

[DandyDan]

The first vehicle I ever drove was my grandpa's old International pickup truck (I have no idea of what year, but it was definitively before they made seat belts mandatory) on my uncle's old farm in far SW Minnesota.  At least I tried to drive it, as it was a stick and really not something I was interested in really doing, but they thought it'd be a good idea.  The first actual car I got to drive regularly, and the one I got my license with, was my parent's old 1989 Caprice Classic station wagon, complete with the wood side paneling.  The first car that was actually mine was a used 1994 Cavalier, which I ended up flipping over and almost got killed in.

[Molandfreak]

Funny story, my brother backed up a '95 ford windstar a few feet when he was three, in a parking lot! Then my mom noticed and she took the spare keys away from him

I don't know what would have happened if he had gone any further, he couldn't see over the steering wheel

[leroys73]

I am an old fart compared to most of you.  Other than riding lawnmowers, mini bike, and a short distance on a farm tractor my first car to drive was a 1962, 4 dr, Chevrolet Bel Air, with 3 on the tree and a a 235, 6 cyl.  It was in the spring of 1964 and I was 15.  First one to pretty much drive when I wanted was a 2dr, Chevrolet Biscayne same engine and complete with dents and rust.  That was in 1965.

[kphoger]

I got a 1962 Biscayne.
It won't start if it looks like rain.

[bugo]

The first manual I drove was a 1969 (I think it was a '69) Volkswagen Beetle.  I learned how to drive a manual in a 1973 VW Type 3 Fastback.  I tried to drive my dad's '69 Chevy pickup with a granny gear 4 speed but it wasn't successful.