Do you remember the first time that you drove in snow?

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Unlike many here, I never drove a car until I was 15 and took driver's ed. It was a summer course so we never drove on ice. Fast forward to when I had my license, had to make a flower delivery in our 1966 Ford Fairlane, and we'd had our first storm of the year. I was apprehensive so when I got to the first snow covered hill I shifted from "Drive" down into "2". That wasn't slow enough for me though so I kicked it down into low, locking the rears up, going into a skid, doing a 180. I slid across the road and hit the snowbank backwards. This stopped the rearend but I had enough momentum so that the front kept sliding, pulling me back onto the road in the direction I'd been headed in the first place. I reached down, hit the starter and was back on my way with no harm done except to my ego.

Times have changed, with traction control I miss doing controlled skids in snow.
 
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Yes, I remember the first time I drove on snow. I got my beginner's permit in early February, 1976. That week my mom took me out to some big parking lots and taught me how to do donuts in the VW bus, how to control the thing in a slide, etc.

Thanks mom!!! (y)
 
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There have been so many times, don't remember the first time. But I remember the BAD slick snow times over the years.
 
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It would have been about 1955 or so...and no, I don't remember that far back. But lots of snow way back then where we lived - every winter it was deeper than the fences were high so sledding was not restricted by the fences around the fields.
 
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Got my drivers license in Norway December 20th 1989, drove my dads 1984 Ford Escort for the 1st time in a Blizzard. Two weeks later I bought my 1st car, a 1969 Volvo Amazon 122S.
 
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It was 1965. We were married and living in Seattle. Last quarter of my college life. We had a Vespa motor scooter. All we could afford. We went to a party. We left around 10:30 and, by golly, it had snowed. On the way home we slipped and went down. Nobody got hurt but the remainder of that trip was completed with great care. That was the first/only accident I've ever had - summer or winter - in my entire driving life.
 
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No, that would have been half a century ago and there's been hundreds of repeats since.
 
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MossRoad said:
Yes, I remember the first time I drove on snow. I got my beginner's permit in early February, 1976. That week my mom took me out to some big parking lots and taught me how to do donuts in the VW bus, how to control the thing in a slide, etc.

Thanks mom!!! (y)
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You must have had a very cool mom
 
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I irrigated in the summers even before I got my license. I drove a '40 ford flatbed with no clutch, often drifting around corners on hard packed dirt covered by a thin skin of mud. Great fun. By the time I hit snow, it was NBD.
 
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