What drivers test? Rural South Dakota in the early '60s there was no drivers test. You filled out an application, took an eye test, and were good to go. I was driving on public highways at age 15, a relatively common practice for farm boys at the time. The car I would have driven was a 1961 Ford Falcon that cost my dad $1,800 brand new.
An aside, I was sitting in one of those, same color combination, in our carport listening to the radio, waiting for the rest of the family on our way to the airport for a trip to Germany, when I heard the news flash that Kennedy had been shot.