In which car did you pass your Driving Test ?

[Tony427]

1976 in a J reg Hillman Avenget 1250. Passed first time but remember having a discussion with the examiner who advised me that I could have set off in second gear.

"Not in this car" I told him " it doesn't have enough torque".

Chers,

Tony

[PJS917]

Sep 85 in a 1979 Alfa Sud, my instructor drove back from the test cos he wanted to drive the Alfa. I would love to drive a Sud now.

[Prof Beard]

Triumph Herald

[B3ALP]

R reg Datsun 120y 1983

Here it is in the Background.

[chevy-stu]

passed mine in 85' in 1972 MkIII Cortina estate..

[onomatopoeia]

Mk1 Fiesta with a sticky throttle pedal.

[jclanky]

1969 mki escort

[neilbauer]

B3ALP said:

R reg Datsun 120y 1983

Here it is in the Background.

White socks and slip ons, remember them well. Bet they had tassels

[B3ALP]

They did

[driverrob]

LordBretSinclair said:

deltashad said:

There's a lot of old gits on this forum.

Harsh but true

Including me - bike test on a Lambretta LI 125, car in an Austin 1100. I still remember the handbrake starts - up with the clutch until it bites, wait for the bonnet to rise and away you go !!!!

Strangely similar for me (in the late 60s) except my 2-wheeler was a Vespa 125.

[englisharcher]

I did my test in my fathers MG Montego turbo

[Sambafi]

Mine was in a Honda Civic in 1988.

[FarmerJim]

Tractor: Massey Ferguson 135
Car: Ford Fiesta 1.1L - new car in 1984
HGV: Ford Cargo artic

[GBB]

neilbauer said:

White socks and slip ons, remember them well. Bet they had tassels

Surely this thread is "what car did you pass your test in" not "what shoes did you pass your test in"

[fushion julz]

In 1981 I passed my test on 2nd go in a Mk2 Escort and the test was taken in Greenford, West london

[The Don of Croy]

Fiat 128 driving school car in 1980. Parents had automatics.

Remember going for a lairy drive in Mum's 131 Supermirafiori later the same day - these ex-hippies with their easy going attitude to property, I dunno. Damned if I'd let my kids loose in any nice metal. Hypocrite? Moi!

[Rower]

driverrob said:

LordBretSinclair said:

deltashad said:

There's a lot of old gits on this forum.

Harsh but true

Including me - bike test on a Lambretta LI 125, car in an Austin 1100. I still remember the handbrake starts - up with the clutch until it bites, wait for the bonnet to rise and away you go !!!!

Strangely similar for me (in the late 60s) except my 2-wheeler was a Vespa 125.

May I Join the club !

Lambretta TV 175 and Austin 1100 , the 1100 had very weird trafficators that kept cancelling themselves as I was turning right , I kept resetting it whilst making the turn but it just kept cancelling..........I failed !

Rower

[matchmaker]

1955 Austin A30 on 24th December 1975

[williamp]

This very car, the first I bought:


August 1996. Those tyres were from a DB6 and rated for over 140mph dont you know...

[Mark A S]

May 17th 1977 Honda Civic mk 1 version, in green. I recall going up to 40 mph on the browndown road and thinking, "this is fast, dont want to go any faster" ,, that soon wore off!