Me and a friend were talking about when we started driving. He started at 13 and I started at 18. Thought it was pretty funny that some people are comfortable behind the wheel at an early age and some arent. What age did you guys start driving?

 

although i drove for years sitting on my dad's lap until i could reach the pedals i owned my first car at 11 yrs old.had some dirt roads through a pine forest across the street from us that i drove on,banging off trees as much as i could making new roads

 

Awesome...love it!

 

I think I was steering at 6, pedals too at 10.

 

With or without a license?

 

If it had been up to my mother I wouldn't have driven till I turned 25, because me being able to drive meant she no longer had 100% control of me.

My dad overrode her because he needed me to be able to drive on the farm. So, tractors by 9, farm trucks by 13, finally licensed at 17, my own car at 18 so she could no longer check mileage on her car when I drove it.

 

I was brought up on a farm, tractor at about 8, cat track layer about 9, 37 chevy pickup somewhere around 10. Everything happens early on a farm. Tedd

 

12 backing Oldsmobiles out of friends/ex baby sitters driveway. 14 down the road in the burbs.

Pat

 

Drove my moms 66 Impala SS Vert when I was 11 (1967) around the neighborhood (thx sis) then my cousins 66 Chevy Pick Up 3 on the tree (clutch) the next year. When in my teens my mom would let me drive the dirt road we lived on alone - I was teaching my friends to drive when I was 14-16 - they were so psyched ! Got my License at 16 1/2 and 7 days (had to be 16 1/2 to apply) and a month later bought a 69 GTO Judge Ram Air 3, 4 speed Carousel Red with 49,000 miles / all original for $1250 which was a LOT of money in 1972 ... great car to own through high school - lots of black marks on the streets / lots of G-60's replaced - at my class reunions every one talks about the GTO adventures / mis adventures, Still hooked on 4 speed big blocks !

 

haha!! Right. Without because thats most accurate!

 

On a public road, with a license, 15 years old in 1962.

 

14 in a old Land Rover. Working in a bungalow colony in Monticello, NY. It was like a tank! Would run over small trees in creeper gear. And tried to ride up bigger ones. You could walk faster, when it in creeper gear.


16 with learner permit in upstate NY. In my future first car 1966 Malibu.

 

Licensed at 14....53 years ago. Humanity survived....though a couple of my vehicles...did not.

 

I drove sitting on my dads lap in a 65ish GMC truck, I was probably 6-7, I thought I was really something shifting that 3 on the tree. I’m sure today’s girlie-man wrap the kids in bubble wrap mentality cringe as I mention that. I also rode in the back of a truck, and didn’t wear a helmet on my bike.

First time I personally drove a truck was probably 11-12, helping with some landscaping.

First time on a public road, 15 with my learners permit.

 

Learned to drive first on an Allice Chalmers tractor, hauling hay into the barn. Got my license at 14. I was the only kid in school that had his own car. A 1929 Model A Coupe.

 

Driving the car on Dad's lap at around 8, and driving a mini-bike at the same age. Got my learner's permit at 15, and my auto license with motorcycle endorsement at 16. I then got 2 speeding tickets on my Suzuki 750 GT within the 1rst 3-months of getting my license and Dad shut me down for 3-months! I slowed down . . . for awhile.

 

I started on a Honda 3 wheeler at 5 years old and on my dads lap. At 11 I started racing Quarter Midgets and won nearly 70% of all my races. I never drove a car or truck till I was 13 but that was just in the hay field. As far as on the road actually driving it would have been 15 years old.

 

Legally 16. I started driving forklifts at my dad's shop when I was 5. By the time I was 8 I would move and wash the shop fleet. The only one I couldn't move was the TOPkick GMC ( big diesel dog). Which by the time I was 10 I could work the clutch to move it and that worked it's way into my wash regiment.

 

I started working on my uncles farm that was about 25 miles away at 14. Didn’t take too long for my parents to get tired of taking me and picking me up everyday so if the car was available I just drove the 65 galaxie convertible that is in the background of my avatar. I drove the same car to my summer drivers education class but that is another story altogether.

 

Water Buffalo! Cool, I always wanted one of those.

 

It was a 72 model that I bought used in 75. Had it 12-years and put almost 60K miles on it with nothing more than normal maintenance items put into it. It was a great bike for the time. Wish I had been smart enough to store it until I had enough money to restore it!

 

I actually talked my Mother into letting me drive the 56 Mercury when I was 12. I got my license at 15 in Louisiana in 1961 with no drivers ed. They didn't have drivers ed in those days.

 

I started driving at 16 after completing driver education through my high school, however I used to spend some of my summers on my cousins farm he was driving pick up trucks all over that farm at 12.

 

16 with. At 11, my dad used to let me drive around a department store parking lot.
This thread needs a poll

 

15. 50cc moped, legally. After then, my life has just been driving. Car, truck, working machines etc, just driving.
Currently, and for longest, been driving CMM + the travel to get at job-site. Usually 12 to 16 hours a day i drive something ( not at weekends until special occasion). Sometimes i drive the truck to move the CMM to job-site, when the guy who usually moves it, has his maximum hours per day of driving fullfilled.

 

Like most of my older sibs, Dad let us steer sitting on his lap before we were in the double digits. Backed the cars in/out of the garage by 12 or 13, didn't drive on the roads until I had my permit at 15.5. Got in my first fender-bender (in the car pictured in my sig) at 17 or 18. Purchased my first car (the same one) at 20.

 

Same for me, around 6 or 7 sitting on dads lap in his '62 Starfire watching that cool ribbon speedo change from green to orange then red!! seatbelts??? car seats??? what were those!!! When I was 14 I'd sneak moms '68 Cutlass out for a spin when her & my stepdad went out for dinner.

 

I forgot to mention that at 16 (1972) I took Driver's Ed (Ringers Auto School. Saugus MA) and the car we all drove, that they had for publicity, was a 70 Superbird / 440 / 4 barrel / automatic ... They showed us the movie 'Death On A Highway" - really graphic wake up call.

 

They showed us one of those movies. Maybe, even that. But, that didn't stop us

 

My first recollection of driving anything was when I was five. It was one of those Kiddieland motorized tractors with a Briggs engine. Parents were required to ride on the back to aid in the driving but my father thought I was able to handle it myself. I managed to loose control and ran into a fence requiring 20 stitches above the eye. I think I was two when I had my first peddle car. My first time driving on a interstate was around fifteen. My Uncle was bringing me to Michigan to stay with my Grandparents and He let me drive. I later found out that he was too drunk to drive himself.