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I need to start teaching my son how to drive here real soon. What techniques and/or methods did any of you use...or your parents use? I really can't remember what my ole man used to teach me since it was last century.
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ehr400 12/10/2009 8:31am
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I am surprised you would have time to do anything with your son, I figured you would be to busy interjecting some of your idiotic insights here.
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huck 12/10/2009 8:35am
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We used to go ride/drive go carts together.
Then it was in the field.
Then it was old dirt roads.


Good luck!
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YZKEN250 12/10/2009 8:35am
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One hand on the wheel and one hand around his babe. Good luck on that one. My father in law has been teaching my oldest daughter how to drive his truck around his ranch and shes only 12.
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BobbyM 12/10/2009 8:36am
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ehr400 wrote:
I am surprised you would have time to do anything with your son, I figured you would be to busy interjecting some of your idiotic insights...
I am surprised you would have time to do anything with your son, I figured you would be to busy interjecting some of your idiotic insights here.
thanks for the help....wow.

and why would you be surprised...i have a PHD in that sorta thing.

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tcannon521 12/10/2009 8:37am
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I would go to church and pray a lot!!!
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huck 12/10/2009 8:38am
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Bobby just wants a designated driver... Kissing
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anyday3 12/10/2009 8:41am
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BobbyM wrote:
I need to start teaching my son how to drive here real soon. What techniques and/or methods did any of you use...or your parents use? I...
I need to start teaching my son how to drive here real soon. What techniques and/or methods did any of you use...or your parents use? I really can't remember what my ole man used to teach me since it was last century.
A young guy who works for me is learning to drive now he is the age and man I was suprised to learn a damn driving lesson for an hour is about $54.00. he said the instructor told him he would need about 20 lessons, so I said ID take him out an hour 3 times a week so the instructor wouldnt rip him of but fuck I was wrong you would need $100 lesson or be a very very patient.
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BobbyM 12/10/2009 8:41am
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huck wrote:
Bobby just wants a designated driver... Kissing
who doesn't?
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YZKEN250 12/10/2009 8:42am
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My brother and I learned how to drive by stealing our parents cars when they werent home. Got caught by my moms best friend when we were in 7th grade fully airborne in her Honda Civic.
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txmxer 12/10/2009 8:45am
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huck wrote:
We used to go ride/drive go carts together.
Then it was in the field.
Then it was old dirt roads.


Good luck!
that's how you do it!
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88sdad 12/10/2009 8:47am
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If he's at the age to drive, you don't need to worry about teaching him anything, he already knows everything.

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fcr 12/10/2009 8:49am
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The Karting thing is good. I just took my son out on dirt roads, started with driving position, how things work and what their function is. Is your son on a Motorcycle? That was my learner. Just jumped in a car from there, but that was in the last century also.
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ehr400 12/10/2009 8:52am
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I am busting your balls Bobby, I would say if there any rural areas around your house try having him drive on the back roads. Gets him some decent seat time and gives him a better understanding then a parking lot.
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huck 12/10/2009 9:01am
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huck wrote:
We used to go ride/drive go carts together.
Then it was in the field.
Then it was old dirt roads.


Good luck!
txmxer wrote:
that's how you do it!
Yep...at 10, my son drives my truck all over my place, sometimes even pulling a trailer.
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88sdad 12/10/2009 9:05am
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huck wrote:
We used to go ride/drive go carts together.
Then it was in the field.
Then it was old dirt roads.


Good luck!
txmxer wrote:
that's how you do it!
huck wrote:
Yep...at 10, my son drives my truck all over my place, sometimes even pulling a trailer.
That's how my dad taught me, and it's the same way I taught my kids.

My son that races, is pretty good at backing up the trailer.
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500guy 12/10/2009 9:08am
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Start in the parking lot of the Local High School on Sunday when nobody is there, or go find some dirt roads.

The whole key is seat time, the more he drives the better he will do.

I put Ryan through that Drivers Edge program and he learned a ton not to mention the videos and 911 tapes of real accidents that teens were in opened his eye's to reality.
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huck 12/10/2009 9:09am
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88sdad wrote:
That's how my dad taught me, and it's the same way I taught my kids. My son that races, is pretty good at backing up the...
That's how my dad taught me, and it's the same way I taught my kids.

My son that races, is pretty good at backing up the trailer.
Yeah...he can't back up so well. It's strange, he can back up his four wheeler with a trailer good...but not the truck. I think he can't see so well. It is a 4 door 3/4 ton...
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YZKEN250 12/10/2009 9:13am
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500guy wrote:
Start in the parking lot of the Local High School on Sunday when nobody is there, or go find some dirt roads. The whole key is...
Start in the parking lot of the Local High School on Sunday when nobody is there, or go find some dirt roads.

The whole key is seat time, the more he drives the better he will do.

I put Ryan through that Drivers Edge program and he learned a ton not to mention the videos and 911 tapes of real accidents that teens were in opened his eye's to reality.
I remember watching those movies in drivers ed in high school. I thought they quit showing those movies to kids these days. To graphic.

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txmxer 12/10/2009 9:15am
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I took driver's ed in school. It's a help, but you still need to get the kid out on the road and actually drive at speed.
project racer 12/10/2009 9:16am
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I taught my niece how to drive. She had a brand new Honda Accord with a 5 speed sitting in the drive way, and her mom would not let her learn in it. Said she was too hard on the clutch/ transmission.

I had a beater Mazda 626, that we used. She could never get the clutch/throttle modulation down. Finally just had her hold the throttle halfway down and dump the clutch. Then we progressed backwards with lower and lower throttle settings, and slower and slower clutch release.

That was 10 years ago. But she has perfected her technique ,and does some killer burnouts for a chick.
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Big Lenny 12/10/2009 9:22am
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huck wrote:
We used to go ride/drive go carts together.
Then it was in the field.
Then it was old dirt roads.


Good luck!
Actually a good post, I'd have to replace the dirt road with a big ass parking lot after hours, but when we were in school we had driver ed. classes...
project racer 12/10/2009 9:25am
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I learned by watching the Rockford Files.
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88sdad 12/10/2009 9:27am
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project racer wrote:
I learned by watching the Rockford Files.
What about the Fall Guy?
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project racer wrote:
I learned by watching the Rockford Files.
88sdad wrote:
What about the Fall Guy?
Night rider and speed racer for me!
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Anything with four wheels in the desert should do the trick.
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Dukes of Hazzard style!
We had driver training in school but what really taught me was driving my brother in laws Dodge Duster around the pasture and later my Dad's Lincoln Town car around LA.
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JPT 12/10/2009 3:24pm
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I made both my boys learn on a stick. It really slows things down. An automatic is easy and they starting thinking they got it too quickly. Took them out to a local State Park with slow speeds and little traffic for about a month before we tried real streets. Found an steep incline and made them learn to stop and start again with a clutch, stuff like that.

Don't yell, it don't help.
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Rooster 12/10/2009 3:49pm
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My old man made these pylons with sticks attached to teach me how to parallel park.

We go out one day to an industrial park and he finds a spot where he can set these things up and teach me. He must have spent a whole day putting the pylons together and finding a secluded spot.

So he sets up the pylons and tells me that it's a really tight fit, but you better be able to squeeze it in there if you want to pass the test. While he's walking back into an area where he says I'll be able to see him in the mirror I just backed the car right into the spot. The car was 3/4 parked by the time he turned around.

He walks back up to the window and says "pop the trunk, we're going home". Tosses the pylons into the trunk, climbs in the passenger seat and off we went. Lesson over.
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J.F.S 12/10/2009 4:02pm
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You know how to drive, so you only need to things to teach it. Time and patience. Preferably you should teach him how to drive a stick shift. Spend alot of time with him behind the wheel and he will get experienced enough to be a decent driver, the more you drive the better you get.

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