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Bought my first car when i was 15.
Taught myself, gravel roads, power
sliding and learning throttle slide control, in a 1972 Toyota Corolla.
Practiced emergency braking and timing full braking stops, Got it down to an art where i would hit my brakes at various dead ends coming to a skidding stop a few feet from the ditch.I also practiced power stops in the snow.
Lots of winding country roads for afternoon drives.
I drove that little Corolla everywhere, carried a small bottle jack as i was always getting it stuck in the sand on beaches or in a rut / bottom out on a over grown logging road. Oddly enough, giving my predisposition to power sliding, I was not a speeder back then, or now, have had two speeding tickets in my 30 years of driving.
In Canada it is mandatory to take a motorcycle riding course but not a automobile driving course.