First time driver

[Scott H]

Well I got to check one thing off my bucket list today...I taught my boy to drive in a Corvair. This is one of the reasons I got a PG trans car this time around. It was a little stressful but mostly a great day.

[Scott H]

At this point in the drive he asks me to show him how to do a Burnout. I laughed and said this car can't do that. (Even if it could, he needs ALLOT more time behind the wheel before I show him that stuff)

[davemotohead]

So I teach my son how to drive, he gets a pre runner,then next thing you know it starts breaking all the time,,Bent front A-Arms,steering stuff,shocks,drive shaft,,then I sneak around and find his face book page! it all makes sense now!

[flat6_musik]

HAHAHA!!.....that's so cool, Scott! That's that unfinished tract-home place on Ranchero, right? I've been taking my 15-y.o. daughter there on the weekends to teach HER how to drive! Perfect place, huh, with all the stop signs and various streets with zero traffic. Your son has about the coolest car to learn on, that's for sure!

[Jerry Whitt]

Been through this. Four sons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did get a hanclle on this problem. Each kid got a 65 Covair when 14 or 15. Told them it would be their car for high school, but they would have to make it run, and I would help. But also told them, "If you break it, you fix it!"

Well they did break the cars. But then the older started helping the younger, and so on down thru the ranks. Couple good things happened. Fewer break downs from stupid stuff
and they all learned about cars.

The wife and I agree, this was one of the smarter parenting moves!

[Scott H]

So I teach my son how to drive, he gets a pre runner,then next thing you know it starts breaking all the time,,Bent front A-Arms,steering stuff,shocks,drive shaft,,then I sneak around and find his face book page! it all makes sense now!

Hahahaha that's awesome Dave! Someone took a nice shot of him getting air in it.

[Scott H]

HAHAHA!!.....that's so cool, Scott! That's that unfinished tract-home place on Ranchero, right? I've been taking my 15-y.o. daughter there on the weekends to teach HER how to drive! Perfect place, huh, with all the stop signs and various streets with zero traffic. Your son has about the coolest car to learn on, that's for sure!

yep that's exactly where we were.

[Scott H]

Been through this. Four sons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did get a hanclle on this problem. Each kid got a 65 Covair when 14 or 15. Told them it would be their car for high school, but they would have to make it run, and I would help. But also told them, "If you break it, you fix it!"

Well they did break the cars. But then the older started helping the younger, and so on down thru the ranks. Couple good things happened. Fewer break downs from stupid stuff
and they all learned about cars.

The wife and I agree, this was one of the smarter parenting moves!

I like that!
This car was supposed to be mine but he pretty much claimed it the day I brought it home. We will see.

[bbodie52]

My comments from Facebook...

I can relate to this. My parents taught me how to drive in their 1965 Corsa convertible in 1968, and I took my first driver's test in that same car in 1969 in San Jose, California at age 16.

My parents truly got me hooked on Corvairs. As a Air Force tech school graduation gift my father gave me the 1965 Corsa convertible that I had learned to drive in. I drove that car with the wife and family all over the USA and in Germany for decades. Shown below after receiving a new top and a red paint job in 1980, just before I shipped it from Massachusetts to Germany. Perhaps Scott is planting a similar Corvair interest seed in his son!

[Vaircooled]

Man Scott your kid is uber lucky! Wish my dad had schooled me in a Vair, I did learn in an air-cooled 73 Beetle though.