I remember sitting on my dads knee and steering a Bedford van on some quiet rural roads in Cumbria when I was probably 7 or 8.
I later taught myself to drive in a 1968 Singer Vogue Estate on some spare land behind our house. I would be 14 or 15 and never asked my parents I just took the keys and they never bothered. I could get into 3rd gear before having to reverse around a corner and turn round and go back.
When i was 17 I had some lessons with BSM in a MK1 Escort 1300E which was metallic purple with a black vinyl roof. Passed my test a few weeks after turning 17
Not much traffic on the roads in those days!
