Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms What car did you pass your driving test in??

Lessons in a Fiat 124 (Lada)till the last lesson, a nice lorry driver wrote the Fiat off ( in court, it turned out he had 28 previous convictions) I took my test 4 days later in a Mini Moke. The Moke belonged to my instructors daughter, no hood or side screens, the examiner was not impressed, but I did pass. First car May 1969, 100E van
Bike test Vespa 150 sportique with all the mod gear!, last bike Laverda SFC 1000.

Passed second time 1963 in dads vauxhall victor, column change. no lessons but many arguments with father, used to take mother in the back as referee. First car a Singer 4AB. taste has not changed much over the years.

Passed every test I took first time.
Learned the basics of car control in a field - Mini Van and an MG Midget.
The drove LR IIa with Dad and Escort 1100 Mk1 driving school car on the road.
FS1-E moped test '74. M/C test '75 (don't remember what on, possibly Yamaha DT100).
Car test in '75 in the school Escort.
HGV1 in the mid '80s (need to look up the date) again a school wagon, from Leyland...

I used to walk past the skid pan at Greenford on way to school .lived of lady Margaret rd whet to school in eascote lane Northolt. Passed test in hillman advenger a BROWN one Easy pass first drive at 8 years old so just had to learn rules of the road, was ridding me FS1E for 18 months before legal car age..

Oh yes and the IAM m/c test sometime in the mid 90s...

O bike test Kawasaki KH250 bald rear tyre. passed straight off to Daytona Ruislip Z1H fantastic.......

Reading all these brings back some lovely memories -
In my case a 1976 100,000 mile Mini 850 ( clapped out ) back in 1986. Pasted first time, despite the examiner walking around the car - admiring the multitude of spot lamps - and asking " has it actually got an MOT?"

The most unreliable pile of junk that mini, but i loved it! Didn't last long - i found out what valve bounce was all about and within months in the hands of a wannabe teenage racing driver it met its match with a church gate. The lesson was that even a Mini will skid in the snow - ran out of talent big-time!

Passed my test in a Mk 1 Escort - Red with a huge dent in the back panel (not mine - it was a driving school car). Most of my pre-test mileage was in Dad's 2L Ford Consul.

First car bought - as an impecunious student, I found a 1964 Reliant Regal 3/25 van in bright orange for £99. Ran it for 18 months and sold it for £100.

Bike Test: passed first time on a Lambretta Li 150 in the summer of 1968.
Moved on to a series of Honda's

Car Test: Failed 1st attempt in a Triumph Herald in the summer of 1969.
Passed second time in dad's Ford Zodiac, complete with column shift, a year later. Slumped into a ford 105E Prefect.....

RD250LC for my bike test. Wrote off two of them in a row with people pulling out in front of me. Decided to go for four wheels.

VW1303S Beetle, ODL360M, campaign edition blue. 1970, first go but was told I was overconfident by the examiner. So many things wrong with that car, wet roundabouts for one, but it was a hell of a time in my life once released into the community with transport. One engine meltdown. How Porsche ever made a sports car out of those roots remains a miracle.