I recently turned 18, so my parents signed me up for driving school. When I showed up at the academy, I was surprised by the cars they had available for students to learn on. They told me to pick whichever I liked best, and I chose the Mercedes-Benz G500.
The driving school’s VW Golf.
Though to be fair, I did start learning in my dad’s Saab 95 BioPower, and his Peugeot 406 convertible.
Red '89 Civic hatchback. It lacked power steering so I had to turn the wheel a hundred times to make it turn. It felt ancient to me and it was manual transmission. My dad wanted me to learn manual even though most cars are automatic in the US. No power steering absolutely sucked, but it turns out knowing how to drive manual can be pretty useful.
Ahh the Chevrolet Datamine, it was also my first car!
'78 Toyota Land cruiser troop carrier, down dirt tracks with my father when I was 14.
Early 80s Chevy Chevette.
It was so basic of a car it was unreal. Manual transmission, no radio, I mean, the damn thing was with a giant riding lawnmower with a hatchback.
a 1968 International dump truck.
zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.
once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.
Nice way to get the answer to an often used security question!
Why are americans still using security questions ? And why does every post get a comment like this one ? If you don’t like these, quit this community.
I always thought these “ask” communities were a great vector to extract PII.
all you’d need to do is link users to leaked identities and probably get access to accounts quickly.
this is why I make up the wrong answers to any of those questions.
what was you first pets name?
Hannibal Lecter
what was your mothers maiden name?
Poopsmith
I just had to recover my PSN account from a decade ago and I did this with my mother’s maiden name apparently
luckily I managed to remember the false birth date I had also used
Currently learning on a Peugeot e-208 which is electric. Apart from that, it is more or less the same as the manual version.
Some yellow modern Peugeot, can’t remember the make
The make is Peugeot. I guess you meant to say model.
1982 AMC eagle wagon with woody side panels.
The car actually caught on fire while I was driving, and I was known as the person that smelled like burnt car in high school, because that burning rubber/plastic smell stayed in my books and materials for the entire school year.
The color of your first car is a fairly common backup question. Answering this in detail is not recommended.
A riding lawnmower. Good enough to get the basic hand eye coordination down, so when I drove a real car it wasn’t a big deal.
The first actual car I drove was a Toyota sienna.
Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s
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how does the car you first drove relate to security?
It’s often a security question for institutions like banks to reset your security parameters.
I’ve only seen it as “what color was your first car?” But I learned to drive with my parents cars. They are not the same, nor even the same color
I suppose for some it’s the same and some may interpret the question differently
Driver’s Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.
Parent’s Cars:
1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn’t so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.
1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It’s the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13’s in the quarter mile.
Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort
REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend’s Dad’s car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho’d transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.
The car that taught me how to race (there were two):
1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend’s car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90’s.
1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn’t handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me “trail braking” and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I’ve ever owned, even to this day. I’d love to find one and restore it.
My sister’s first car was an 86 cavalier. It was blue and had a manual transmission. She stalled the engine going over train tracks once and the train crossing lit up as she was trying to restart it. Panic ensued…
I have no idea besides that was a stick shift with 4 wheels. Is this something people normally care about?
I learnd to drive stick at the car dealer when I took the car for my first test drive. lol dude was NOT impressed but only found out as we were doing 40 in 3rd gear about 15 minutes from the dealership. only stalled once! lol
bought the car too… didn’t learn how to put it into reverse until the day I went to leave the dealership with my car. that was an experience lol
How can you test drive a stick shift without knowing how to drive one? Didn’t you have a driver’s license?
