What car, did you learn to drive in
What car, did you learn to drive in
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anonymous-user

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84 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Hopefully not a repost, I did search

Last night whilst thinking about what car to get my OH when she starts to learn to drive I was reminicsing about cars gone by that we never see anymore, and I thought that given the wide age range and locales of PH'ers there might be some interesting cars

I personally learn't in a boggo fiesta like this



My brother learnt in his dads van



Anyone learn in anything remotely interesting? Did learning cause you to have fond memories of an otherwise crap car?

anonymous-user

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84 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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A black Peugeot 307.
Actually wasn't that bad of a car.

ClaphamGT3

12,246 posts

273 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Series IIa 109" Land Rover pick-up that was five weeks older than me.

Actually took my test in a driving instructor's Datsun Cherry

rolty

239 posts

227 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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A 1988 Nissan Micra 'Collete' no less. Rusty as hell but pretty solid mechanically - I think E857BNC has now departed to the scrapyard in the sky!

anonymous-user

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84 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6

petrolsniffer

2,551 posts

204 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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1.2 Corsa C awful car generally but good for learning smile

Rawwr

22,722 posts

264 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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A Rover 100 'Kensington'. Man, those cats were as fast as lightning.

angusc43

13,641 posts

238 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Triumph Dolomite 1500HL in 1981. Good gearchange but otherwise like an episode of the Antiques Roadshow.

TaRD

778 posts

217 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Nissan Micra with the instructor and a Metro as my car.

STW2010

5,918 posts

192 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Rover Metro. It had 250k miles on before my instructor changed it for a Saxo, which I passed my test in.

Speedracer329

1,507 posts

207 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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One of these.



Well, a proper car rather than a model, but you get the idea.

LimitedSlipDisk

229 posts

189 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Suzuki swift 1.4


I thought it was pretty good.

C2james

4,685 posts

195 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Instructors cars and mine:

Citroen C2 1.1
Vauxhall corsa C 1.7 cdti SRI
Renault Clio 1.5 diesel

Shaw Tarse

31,897 posts

233 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Instructor's car Datsun Sunny.
Mums car Renault 5.

Fun Bus

17,911 posts

248 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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An L-registration, Vauxhall Corsa 3-dr 1.2 LS - that horrible purple I think it was from memory.

The driving instructor I had (and his brother) are still running their driving school and still have Vauxhall Corsas.

anonymous-user

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84 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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bmw535i said:
Vauxhall Omega 2.5 V6
So most of us learnt in pretty generic stuff

But this ^^^^^ wow!! How on earth?

Still waiting for MBU to post a Ford Model T smile

lordlee

3,137 posts

275 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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Mk3 Fiesta in White. My driving instructor was a comedy genius. Thank you for all the 1p sweets Cliff Pugh from GT school of motoring!!

mat205125

17,790 posts

243 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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My mum was driving a 1.0 HLS at the time, for me and my dad to use in the evenings and weekends, and my instructor had a 1.3i British Racing Green Cooper as his school car ..... I really didn't need to actually perform all three points of the three point turn I was asked to do - I could have done a U-Turn (or a quick handbrake turn of course wink )


anonymous-user

Original Poster:

84 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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anonymous said:
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My Uncle's - it was an ex military one too with a few extra toys
cool

James P

3,037 posts

267 months

Thursday 14th April 2011
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2 lessons in instructors Datsun Sunny, the rest in Mum's Metro 1.0HLE - LPL763W