Bike test was on my 1939 Panther sloper. Unforgettable as the emergency stop was approx 100 yards of brake drum grinding agony with me doing my best to smile nicely as I simply sailed past the examiner with full brakes on.. He passed me though after a few oh for goodness sakes.
Car test was later in a new Colt Lancer, one of the first in the country in 1975. Plenty of home made lessons in whatever dad had at home at the time, some right old weird things some of them as he owned a used car business. I can recall some exotics, jags, rover v8's, a moskvitch, Heinkel, and a Morris marina TC that I managed to get stuck one night in a field with a girl friend but that's another story!
