Cars you passed your test in.
- Thread starter MACK
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North West Surrey
Great thread OP. 
Brings back many memories of being in the 6th form!
It was a big competition among my petrolhead mates to be the first to get a full licence, but being born in April I was never going to win that!
There was about a 3 month waiting list, so our standard practice was to book a test about a month before we were 17, wait a month and book another just in case - if you passed the first then cancelled the 2nd you got the fee back.
So after getting up at about 6 am to tear around on my motorbike all morning on my birthday on 24th April 1976 I had my first lesson that afternoon - as you do! Instructor said he thought I had driven before, but I thought I'd better not let on about the car park "lessons" with my Dad.
Passed my test at the first attempt on 30 June 1976 in my instructor's M-plate Navy Blue MKI Escort 1300XL, and having passed my bike test the day before I was the first in our school year to have a full licence for both.
So the next few weeks I sat in the passenger seat when my mate wanted some practice in his Dad's Cortina as his test wasn't until the end of July. :lol:
Maybe we need another poll - How many driving tests did you take?
Brings back many memories of being in the 6th form!
It was a big competition among my petrolhead mates to be the first to get a full licence, but being born in April I was never going to win that!
There was about a 3 month waiting list, so our standard practice was to book a test about a month before we were 17, wait a month and book another just in case - if you passed the first then cancelled the 2nd you got the fee back.
So after getting up at about 6 am to tear around on my motorbike all morning on my birthday on 24th April 1976 I had my first lesson that afternoon - as you do! Instructor said he thought I had driven before, but I thought I'd better not let on about the car park "lessons" with my Dad.
Passed my test at the first attempt on 30 June 1976 in my instructor's M-plate Navy Blue MKI Escort 1300XL, and having passed my bike test the day before I was the first in our school year to have a full licence for both.
So the next few weeks I sat in the passenger seat when my mate wanted some practice in his Dad's Cortina as his test wasn't until the end of July. :lol:
Maybe we need another poll - How many driving tests did you take?
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My dad taught me how to drive in his Mk2 Cortina but I passed my test first time in a driving school HC Vauxhall Viva after just 4 ‘proper’ lessons. I remember it had a 1,256cc engine and moved at glacial speed - probably why so many were used as learner cars :lol:
1977 in a white police driving school car can’t remember if it was a cortina or a viva after an intense 5 week course of driving and have to give a moving commentary every day and push the car and myself getting a pass was a major for me as I was a none driver 19 yr old .Instructor thought me and my mate were taking piss when we sat together with name tags of Austin and Morris 
Nissan Micra - it was rank. My instructor gave me a brand new one to take my test in which was an updated model than the one i'd done all of my learning in! I wasn't impressed!
My driving school car was so uninteresting in comparison, it's not even worth a picture - Mk3 Ford Fiesta (diesel), circa 1994.
Chris
Chris
A Chrysler Alpine
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RFY89T R.I.P.
1981 Toyota Corolla saloon...I remember it being pale metallic blue, with a blue interior - tasteful
The instructor was so confident I would pass (2nd time!) that he dropped heavy hints about how his grateful pupils often bought him a bottle of whisky - yeah right, like that was ever going to happen, especially as I was still reeling from him putting up the lesson cost from £4.50 to £5 :-o
The instructor was so confident I would pass (2nd time!) that he dropped heavy hints about how his grateful pupils often bought him a bottle of whisky - yeah right, like that was ever going to happen, especially as I was still reeling from him putting up the lesson cost from £4.50 to £5 :-o
