What's the oldest car you've driven?

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Sad to say, but I haven't driven a car older than the early 60's. I've ridden in older cars but never driven them. Would love to drive some of the 1930's and 1950's era cars.
 
Currently have a 1973 Superbeetle (sitting, waiting for engine work and some rust abatement). My daily driver is a 2011 Honda.
 
1954 willys wagon
1956 willys pickup
60 el camino ( ya the one with fins)
All sorts of early British cars
66 el camino
+ a few I can't remember
 
1938 Ford Deluxe with the original flathead V8

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Oldest car that I've driven? Probably a 1995 Fiat Uno, and that was in the early 2000's.. lol

But I've been in 1970's vette's.
 
69' 442.
My favorite. My 91' VW Jetta. That thing was a tank. Hand crank sunroof to boot. If it was not totaled by a stop sign runner. I would still have it.
 
A real, that is all original 1926 Model T. Looked something like this,

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When I was around 15 years old, one of our next door neighbors was "Jack Wentworth" or "Wentworth Motors". This was the Ford Dealership in Albany, Oregon.

Jack had restored a 1926 Ford Model T and one sunny Saturday he had it out and I was in our garage working on my hot rod Model T and he asked me if I would like to take it for a drive?

I said, sure!

So he let me drive it around the neighbor hood for a few laps. It was very interesting as the way you would speed up or slow down was by adjusting the timing, not increasing or decreasing gasoline.

It took some real arm muscles to steer it and it had mechanical brakes, you had to do a little pushing to slow her down.

It was a great experience.

I used to go down to Jack's office at his dealership and talk to him about "cars", (what else?), he was a great guy and always had an open door to me...


Somehow when I was a kid growing up mom and dad never seem to get a picture of my first car. I found it for sale in the newspaper and somehow talked dad into letting me buy it to fix up. It was an old Model T hot rod and we literally did hook a rope up to it and drag it out of a barn.

Looked something like this only with a short, or shallow wooden pick-up truck bed on the back where you see the gas tank on this Model T. Had the same type of tire, windshield, frame etc. Still had the original windshield like you see here and the original Model T wooden steering wheel.

Model_T_Hot_Rod.jpg


And for what it's worth, I was the only guy in my high school that was "into" hot rods and the only guy with a hot rod.




:)
 
I used to have a 54 Ford with a 239 V8 and 3 on the tree when I was 15.
 
I got to drive a 57' Chevy w/ a "3 on the tree", very cool!

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I'm the only one in the family that has driven my Grandpa's 1940 Ford 2-door Sedan. That was back when I was 18 and he had his old 5.0 in it. I haven't gotten to drive it since he dropped his Roush 302 in it though :(.
 
A 1908 Cadillac that belongs to a pathologist friend of ours.
Also had the privilege of preparing it for a local Concours d'Elegance event.

{Vehicles of this era seem to be just a whinny away from being horse-drawn buggies.}

:)

Bob
 
One of my Dad's friends had several collector cars.

1928 Ford Model A
1935 Cord 810
1935 Auburn Boattail Speedster

I got to ride in all of them. Only one I got to drive was the Auburn.

When I was 16, I went to work in a service station. Lots of my friends bought old cars. I frequently got to work on some of them, and drive them. I bet they wish they still had them! Lots of 1960s muscle as well. The oldest ones I remember are

1940 Willys (I helped on the restoration of it)
1954 Porsche 1500

Hey, it was the 1960s. I guess everyone considered me to be a responsible teen. :rolleyes:

Now, I have to go to Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale to even see any of these.

Jim
 
I've spent quite a few vacation weeks over the past 15 years in sunny Orlando working on a buddy's '37 Chev 2-dr Sedan. With a Camaro front clip and a 455 Buick motor, it gets up an on-ramp OK. If I ever have the nerve to take a long trip, I'd like to cruise to Stuart for the AutoGeek HQ tour.
All the work I've done to it has been mechanical: motor and trans replacement, steering, suspension, cooling system etc. I'd have to spend a day or two gettin' it swirl-free before parking it in AG premises. Wouldn't want to be embarrassed after all the help I've received here.

37Chevfront.jpg


Bill
 
My Dad had a 32 Ford Coupe, with a rumble seat. Black and then Green.
You had to retard spark to start. Air condition was thru the front window or sitting in the rumble seat. You needed to stand on brakes. I learn to drive by sitting on his lap and steering and shifting while he did the brakes and cultch. Steering was ok as long as you kept moving. Parking was a bear. This was in the 1940's, ( I am 76) he finally had to Junk the car in the early 50's. He just could not afford to put money into it. It was a sad day.
 
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