Name the car you passed your drivers license in?

[RobertN]

Miss having Bird in threads like this; he would have tested in some interesting car that we'd call old now.

 

[grsthegreat]

Extra Credit Bonus Answer:

This is the airplane I used for my private pilot flight test on December 10, 1977, a 1976 Piper Cherokee 140.
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It is apparently still registered and has a little over 4,800 hours now, although it was new when I was renting it. This might actually belong in the "You Know You Are Old" thread...

In 1980 i got my private pilot license in a scary piper tomahawk….. and it was scarry the way the tail on that plane shook

 

[Runner]

In 1980 i got my private pilot license in a scary piper tomahawk….. and it was scarry the way the tail on that plane shook

My flight school had two of those that I flew. They flew OK, but were pretty poor quality compared with the Cherokee. Oddly enough, one of them, N2448B was also destroyed in a crash in California in 1981. The other one I flew was N2528B which is now in Texas.

This was Piper's answer to the Cessna 150, but didn't really sell well. Probably a victim of the times and economy more than anything else. These were the last Pipers I flew before changing over to the Cessna 152, which was cheaper to rent.

 

[MossRoad]

Miss having Bird in threads like this; he would have tested in some interesting car that we'd call old now.

I recall he was driving in his early teens.

 

[MossRoad]

In 1980 i got my private pilot license in a scary piper tomahawk….. and it was scarry the way the tail on that plane shook

When I worked at a little airport in Niles, MI in 1979-1980 they had two Tomahawks for training. During the trucker strike fuel was hard to get. We ran out. So I hitched a ride with a flight instructor over to Elkhart, IN to get fuel. It was super windy that day. We had to head into it on the way there. We were paralleling 80-90 toll road. All the cars were going faster than us. It's only about 14 miles by air. Took us about 25 minutes to get there. As we're flying along, my arms kept flying up in the air, one time hitting the ceiling. That was the roughest flight I ever had.

It only took us about 7 minutes to get back.

The flight instructors used to do carrier takeoffs with the Tomahawks on the taxiway.

First pic is of the airport.
Second pic, red dot is where the pumps used to be located. Green line is the taxiway. There was a dip in the grass where it dead ended into the east/west taxiway. They'd set the brakes, full throttle, let go, and fly right off the end of the taxiway. They kept moving their starting line forward. They got to the point the plane would sink as it crossed the E/W and the wheels would skim the grass. It was impressive to watch. In one way, they're learning the true capabilities of the machine, which is similar to what I did with cars as a kid. Always pushing its limits to see just how far you could go. But also pretty irresponsible considering they didn't own the planes.

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[MossRoad]

Google earth said it's .11 mile. 580 feet, but less as they moved up.

 

[Whittsend]

1968 VW Squareback. Something like this. I had broken my leg a few months earlier on a ski trip and I remember walking up to the DVM desk on my crutches in my full leg straight cast on my left leg. The guy at the DVM asked me what car I was taking my test in and I told him the VW. He looked at me cross-eyed and asked me how I planned on driving a VW with a cast on. He didn't realize that VM made an automatic trans.

 

[ultrarunner]

I searched for my uncles planes… he was a rocket scientist under government contract, flew Civil Air Patrol and also Reserve Sheriff Deputy… he died in the line of duty and his planes sold when I was 4…

He promised to teach me to fly and I was enamored by airports, planes and pilots…

The piper cub was found restored in Norther CA

After some digging I found the Mooney was owned by the DEA… I made inquires and got the Texas location and then it disappeared from the data base entirely…???

He loved flying and had the coolest surplus military Jeep and was training for Olympic Biathlon which is cross country skiing and *****ry.

 

[Runner]

When I worked at a little airport in Niles, MI in 1979-1980 they had two Tomahawks for training. During the trucker strike fuel was hard to get. We ran out. So I hitched a ride with a flight instructor over to Elkhart, IN to get fuel. It was super windy that day. We had to head into it on the way there. We were paralleling 80-90 toll road. All the cars were going faster than us. It's only about 14 miles by air. Took us about 25 minutes to get there. As we're flying along, my arms kept flying up in the air, one time hitting the ceiling. That was the roughest flight I ever had.

It only took us about 7 minutes to get back.

The flight instructors used to do carrier takeoffs with the Tomahawks on the taxiway.

First pic is of the airport.
Second pic, red dot is where the pumps used to be located. Green line is the taxiway. There was a dip in the grass where it dead ended into the east/west taxiway. They'd set the brakes, full throttle, let go, and fly right off the end of the taxiway. They kept moving their starting line forward. They got to the point the plane would sink as it crossed the E/W and the wheels would skim the grass. It was impressive to watch. In one way, they're learning the true capabilities of the machine, which is similar to what I did with cars as a kid. Always pushing its limits to see just how far you could go. But also pretty irresponsible considering they didn't own the planes.

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Looks like the airport elevation is 750 ft, so on a 32 degree day with 10kt wind from the south the ground roll is only 650 ft and there don't appear to be any obstacles, so what the heck, go for it! Just to be on the safe side, I'd probably start at the north end of the big hangar. Have to have a lookout to make sure someone doesn't taxi or drive across between the buildings.

Looks like a heck of a lot of back-taxiing if you want to use 4 or 33.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I don't remember what I took the test in. I do know it couldn't have been newer than a 1964 anything. I took Drivers Ed in Junior High School. They weren't going to let me take it since I was only 13 at the time. They let me in because I would turn 14 before the class was over. I've been driving ever since.

I had the same good fortune, being able to get my license at age 14. Living in a small town however, I had been driving our old '49 International pickup, with a 4-speed granny gear transmission, for 2 or 3 years.

The local police 'Chief' had stopped me a couple of times to remind me that I really shouldn't be driving on public roads yet. I explained that I needed to drive to get to my job, working as a janitor after school. I was always very courteous and polite, and of course, never got a ticket. By the time I was 15, I had bought my own car, a '51 Olds 4-door.