I learned how to drive in a Land Rover Diesel 1966 in Costa Rica in 1974. Can you top that? From first to second gear you had to double clutch, only synchronized gear was 4th.
My dad would allow no more than 2 inches roll back on start uphill. Parking brake was useless, I am sure it stopped working in 1967. Now my kids are learning how to drive with auto trans and EPB (Electronic Parking Brake).
Give me a brake

 

You win.

 

Please.... not another frosting free oreo half.


What are we trying to top?

BTW; is the fan clutch nut 36mm? (Disco II)

 

You pay attention in class, good for you.

 

How about learning to drive in a 43BHP VW? And with a woman teacher?!

 

I learned to drive a stick (not counting a tractor that is) in a '77 Pontiac Firebird with the 6.6L engine.
It was my uncles, it was very fast.

 

i learned to drive stick in a 3 cylinder geo metro, that had the roof and rear of the drivers seat cut off with the jaws of life, no drivers door and what was left of the drivers side was crushed in buy the full size chevy van that t boned us. It is a miricle that my brother, me and 2 friends are alive, and just as big a miracle that that thing ran after that. we drove it around my parents yard like a go cart til we put the engine in another metro. my brother wrecked that one too, along with his 2 following cars.

 

VW? First time I drove one I was 16. My uncle ask me to go to the grocery store. Got the groceries in 5 minutes and took me 30 minutes to find the reverse. I would have just pushed back long before, but it was parked downhill. It was so embarrassing having to explain the delay.

 

I bought my first Land Rover in 1974, it was a '62 Petrol 88 Regular with no second gear. But I already knew how to drive.
However one winter, around 77 or so the shift lever broke off and I could only get 4th and reverse by sticking a screw driver down through the hole. So I had to back up the hill on the road to our house.
Did I mention it also had no brakes? Sometimes when backing up the hill it slid on the ice in to the ditch, so I had put it in 4th, let out the clutch, get out and push and jump in once it it got moving. One such attempt resulted in me slipping on the ice just as I jumped for the drivers seat, smashing my face in to the roof and breaking my glasses which cut my face right above my eye.

I still have that Rover.
It still has no brakes.

 

I learned how to drive in a Ford Taurus that smelled like an animal had died in it...
The teacher was in his 80's and my Dad had the exact same teacher when he learned how to drive. The entire time he would tell horrific driving stories that always ended with or started with "you will die if..."

haha my favorite was on a rainy day, "If you hydroplane, you WILL die. I can't even count how many people I know that died from hydroplaning" And this guy had an extreme southern accent. Half the time I was driving I was trying not to laugh because he was so dang serious about every story he told even though I'm pretty sure most were BS.

And of course we ran all his errands too!