Name the car you passed your drivers license in?

[Oaktree]

It was a 73 Impala; not really a DMV test, but in north Idaho at the time if you passed the driver's ed class in high school, that constituted for the practical. Just show up at the sherriff's office with your passing grade and a twenty and you're good to go.

I don't remember taking a driving test to get my license, so maybe similar policy here. Got my license in 1966, parents had a '63 Impala at the time, so if I did have to take a road test that's what I would have used.
On-road part of driver's ed was that summer, classroom part was earlier, during the school year. IIRC, it was part of the school curriculum, not a private company.
Training cars were provided by the local Chevy dealer...Biscaynes, 2 were 6 cyl automatics, the other a V8 with 3 in the tree. I got the manual shift car. Instructor asked if anyone had driven standard, I had, so I got to go first. He said don't be afraid to give it a little gas, so I stepped on it. Left probably 10' of rubber in the HS parking lot! His reply was something to the effect of "not quite that much". Guy had nerves of steel, total 180 from driving with my mother!

The inspector asked me how I learned to drive in one day. I told him I live on a farm and have been driving there for a while. He didn’t look convinced. Actually, my brothers owned a garage and from about 15 on I would go with one of them to pick up a customers car and drive my brothers car back to the shop.

Dunno about where you lived, but we had learner's permits, where you could drive at 15 and a half as long as a licensed driver over 18 was with you.

 

[masseyrider]

My father beets all you fancy car guys.
He went to the local lumberyard where they also did driver's licenses.
He filled out an application, handed over $2. The guy asked him if he had driven before and if he could see the eye chart behind the counter.
Yes and yes.
He had his license.
No car involved.
Me? I took an early 70s 3/4 ton 4 spd GM truck full of straw dust and farm mess. The tester didn't want to go at first.
I think the guy doing the test thought he had me scuppered when he asked me to park in a tight spot between two compact cars. I couldn't even see the roof of the one behind me over the tailgate.
When I finished he got out and took a look around and said kind of dejectedly, "Perfect."
I'd been parking tractors and trailers since I could reach the clutch and brake pedals.
He did say though that I should use both hands on the steering wheel and not one hand it.
I never did get into the 10 and 2 positioning. Or 9 and 3 now with airbags.

 

[RustyA]

1963 Chevy Biscayne 6 cylinder 3 speed on the tree. No power steering. Was waiting for court house to open morning of my 16th birthday. Paid $75 for that rust bucket in 1974.

 

[kf4uda]

I took my road test in my parents 1968 Ford Custom 500 4 door sedan.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

You fellers are older than dirt.

I took my road test in ~1986 in a 1984 Renault Encore 4spd manual, no power anything.

I first learned to drive a 1947 Packard like this one. They were great cars.

 

[not2old]

Passed the road test in the driving school's 1953 Chev, 6 cylinder, three on the tree, no power steering.

 

[mapper]

196? Chevrolet Greenbrier van, fall of 1969. Flat 6 corvair engine and a 2 speed automatic transmission. Possibly the most gutless and ill handling piece of crap Chevrolet ever "proudly engineered" ( it said so on a sticker on the engine!).

 

[lilranch2001]

It was one day after my 16th birthday as birthday fell on a Sunday.

For me it was Grandma’s 4 door 1972 Buick Skylark with 350 ci motor…

Hayward California…

God I hate Haywood…….
I fought with the fire department and building department for almost a year, trying to get final permits for a warehouse in Antioch, I still firmly believe that they just like to put up barriers to get people pissed off.
It was one of my last projects before I retired, and after that I didn’t need or want any more projects.

 

[lilranch2001]

Oh yeah I forgot the reason for posting, my moms brand new 69 four door galaxy, my dad took the day off, and we went up to Angola to the DMV there, and spent the rest of the day on the lake

 

[masseyrider]

My friend took his brother's 68 Chevelle SS 396 4spd that was souped up to the bolts.
Driving instructor refused to get in.
So he went home and got his mother's 60s Acadian. I believe that was a name tag for the Canadian version of something else American.