The car the girls buy, and that Laverne uses in her road test, is a 1952 Hudson Wasp convertible. It was rented to the production company by a Hudson collector in California.
This is also the same title of mork and mindy season 4 episode 14 mindy tries to teach mork how to drive
First mention of Shirley's cousin Mikey who is featured in episode 3:17.
The title is a take-off the the title of a 1971 Jack Nicholson film, "Drive, He Said," in which Cindy Williams had a bit part.