What did you learn to drive in?

[Bananaman]

First car was a 1985 Nissan Skyline 2dr. Went to look at it and the guy who owned it took me for a spin around the block. Was a wet day and as soon as we got out of mums sight we were sideways for the rest of the test drive so I HAD to have it.

Got it home, when WOF time came around it needed $1500 worth of stuff fixed (diff being one wonder why, LO

Had a great time doing skids in that car.

Then I had a 1976 Toyota Corolla SL Coupe. Gutted I sold it in the end, was very tidy, lowered and a 2" exhaust 8)

Ohhh those were the glory days.

[Gridlock]

mitsi galant when i was 11-12 the good ole days when petrol was cheap....

[fr3ek]

Originally Posted by Reaper_2000

i learnt in a toyota ops: ops:

Me also. AE82.

[SiLent]

Originally Posted by CRZYSi

the car i learnt to drive in when i was about 12 i think was a
1965 Toyota Corona RT40

I would sell anything to have one of those cars...So hard to find these days! I learned to drive in a '85 corolla sedan, 1300 SOHC carb 5spd y0. Fond memories of road trips with a full car, tucking rim haha

[Snoozin]

Originally Posted by Gridlock

mitsi galant when i was 11-12 the good ole days when petrol was cheap....

I hate looking at this photo.... 8O

Once I got that car my folks never let me drive theirs

[nzcivicracer]

MMC(Mitsi) Diesel Manual wagon similar to Espirt's at 13 (around the old mans work yard), then a Vk 1/2 Holden Commodore station wagon, 3.3 straight 6 auto. Was my favourite surf wagon till my bro rolled it

[Gridlock]

Originally Posted by Snoozin

I hate looking at this photo.... 8O

Once I got that car my folks never let me drive theirs

oh look at that.... 89 cents....

[IV]

I learnt to drive in a 1985 CIvic Hatch. My brother went to Raro for a trip, and left his keys!!!

No Licence, no skill and even less brains. I learnt pretty quicly tho!!

[Pommy]

did laps in a carpark in my dads vauxall omega in the uk when i was 14 onwards, then when i got here i was given this to learn in...




couldnt resist a few trips to school on the learners

i remember watching the speedo fly round in amazement only to just miss a clothes bin through my dad yanking up the handbrake haha

[NZRacerX]

1981 Datsun Sunny. 1200cc of 4-speed RWD goodness.

[agroek]

1990 ford festiva racey red on 12s was all class 8) then i bort a eg6

[Colza]

I learned to drive in dads 80-something Holden Camira Wagon. Oh my god that was a piece of junk, but it was the only manual car we had at the time.

It later exploded in a shower of oil and was sold to a really dodgy guy for $200

Then moved on to dads 1990 mirage hatch for my full liscence.

First car i owned was a Hondamatic 1980 Honda Civic hatch in the 80's favourite colour -> Brown 8) After we boosted it, i crashed it into a curb one arvo after we had put the 155/80R13 wheels back on :cry: they didnt grip much on wet tarmac.

Theres actually a photo of that car in some ancient NZPC magazine from the 2004 Honda vs Toyota drags

[EVLTEK FBI AKL]

Lada Samara

[DCIM8R]

i lernt for the first time on murawai beach @ 14 in a 4wd lada...

the when i was 15 was given a poo brown toyota starlet.... i told mi parents to get real and we sold it and bought a celica.... man that was so much fun! ....... skids on the grass at bethels beach reserve .... hangin out hte sunroof.... those were the days lol!

...if it counts i had to re-learn to drive when i got mi bmw (everything was backwards lol)

[americ_ian]

i learnt to drive on gran turismo 2

[Chaos]

Mazda 323 Sedan, theyre good cars

first time i ever drove though was when i was 13 and it was in this big fuckoff jeep on 90 mile beach, trying to max the thing out

[Snoozin]

Originally Posted by nzcivicracer

MMC(Mitsi) Diesel Manual wagon similar to Espirt's at 13 (around the old mans work yard), then a Vk 1/2 Holden Commodore station wagon, 3.3 straight 6 auto. Was my favourite surf wagon till my bro rolled it

Haha the olds VK 1/2 was a manual! Notchy shift to the extreeeme. My god 202's are horrible breathless motors.

[Matty]

First car driven was Dad's 1984 Ford Fairmont Ghia , on the way back from the Helensville Golf Club. I was so scared I forgot to put on my seatbelt, and nearly took out a tractor doing 100km/h on a 65km/h bend. That car was so awesome it got stolen. Just like Dad's '69 Capri Mk1. And his late'80s Eterna...

I started learning after that in the good old Austin 1100, which my sister bought to learn in but never drove. She sold it when she realised I was the only one driving it, so I moved on to mum's '84 Pulsar. After I'd scared her a few times I went to Apple driving school (Errol Wagoner was the instructor) and drove a City, which I left because Errol was a bastard, then went to AA driving school in a late '80s Corolla with a button clutch and a starter button because students kept riding the clutch and stalling. Since then I've been able to get in any manual car and drive it no problems first time. I only went to driving schools because mum was too busy to teach me, not that she's a paragon of efficient driving...

After I got my license I bought an '87 Madaz Familia XR 5-door, 5-speed. Which I had a head-on in 4 days later. Ph34r.

[XPLOIT]

I first started steering on my dads lap down our old 2k no exit shingle road in a dirty ol' corolla wagon, for xmas when I was 10 mum bought me my first car.... A 1975 Ford Escort MK2. Jumped in that and taught myself to drive. After that, I bought a $50 MK5 Cortina Wagon, A Vaxhall Viva (with roll cage, 4AGE and duals on the back!), then a 74 MK1 Escort and then another MK2 Escort that Mum was using as it was too good for the paddock until she crashed it (Into dad in his Landcruiser causing over $3k damage to the cruiser).

Ahhhhh the days, wish I knew how to use a camera back then.

[Haydz]

My brother's 1976? Hillman Hunter. It was like pooh green but it kicked arse. When he crashed it and munched the radiator it still drove him to and from work for like four days. That was just learning how to use the clutch.

I learnt to drive on the road in my dad's brand new 1998 (3rd in NZ) AU XR8 which had been tickled by torque performance.

[mofo]

learnt to drive in morris minor 1000cc

then got a 94 toyota corona gl (auto)
then my r33gts25t skyline which i still have an was 1st manual car that i owned...
funnily enough just brought another toyota corona gl 93 but manul for a run around haha

[freestiLe]

Learnt to drive in an automatic 323 mazda
Learnt to drive manual in my first car, a 1978 Mini Clubman

[WAY TC]

the legendary toyota tercel. 8)

even wrote a story about it

http://gisborneherald.co.nz/features...oice070813.pdf

[tysonzane]

I learnt in an old Diahatsu Rocky Diseal in the padocks at about 7 years of age. I was double clutching perfectly in it by the age of 10 . I learnt alot of skid control from playing around in the padocks at a young age its any wonder how i didn't roll the thing with ever increasing ego!

Then i always got to borrow Dads good Honda NZ company cars to try out in the paddock as well. High lights of that would be a VTIR prelude super handling, VTIR teg and a lime green del sol which back then i thought was the absolute shiznit with all the windows down and the top off.

My first car for the actually road was a 91 Nissan Caravan 2.7 diseal. I've still got that van after 3 gearbox rebuilds. It was the rally service van. I then stepped up to my old Mugen EK9 8O 8O 8O

[BLAZED_RACER]

mitsi L300,

column shift; was a prick to drive.

started driving when I was 11years old. got caught when I was 14 driving, came up to a stop point; got licence checked.... was 3 months from turning 15, and actually sitting my learners,