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[pete.h]

Following on from the thread by mars , can anyone remember the first time they drove a car (not just in and out the garage for your dad ).
Mine was on Southport beach when I was about 10  in my uncle's   Wolsley . Got to about 30 in 2nd , seemed like 130 !

The Wolsley looked like an Austin Cambridge , anyone remember what they were called ?  Something / something ?

[Welung666]

That would be a Wolseley 15/60 like this.

[pete.h]

That's the one.  I remember it had blue leather seats and wooden picnic tables on the back of the front seats.  Lot posher than my old man's Victor

[Kevin Wood]

 

I remember driving round a camp site on my dad's lap in his Triumph Herald 8-) when I was about 5.

First proper drive was 21 years ago yesterday - my 17th birthday. My dad did the fatherly thing and slapped some "L" plates on my mum's Volvo 340 8-) and took me out for my first driving lesson. Let's just say he didn't repeat the favour for either of my two younger brothers. Neither did he get in a car with me driving again for quite some time.

I all honesty, he could have picked a more appropriate bit of road to hand over the reigns but I guess he figured a twisty country lane on a dark September evening would have at least been quiet.

Unfortunately I (well, both of us, I suspect) totally misjudged one of the bends and negotiated it sideways, somehow regaining control and missing the oncoming car.

End of driving lesson no.1.

Kevin

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Stolen Viva HB aged 6.
Had to put blocks on my shoes to reach the pedals.
Very scary ....needed a fag to calm down afterwards.

[jereboam]

When I was 17, my Dad didn't have a car - we lived on the Charing Cross Road and even in 1963, you couldn't park there!

So my first drive was in a BSM car.  Kings Cross branch, at 5 o'clock on a wet winter's evening.  We sat in a traffic jam on the Pentonville Road for 30 minutes before managing to get to a deserted industrial area where I was shown how to do a three-point turn.

What a bloody waste of 17/6!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

P.S why is the slang for cigarette not allowed on this forum....anyone know.

[Andy B]

..........anyone know.

American derived filter, where a f a g is something quite different!  

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

..........anyone know.

American derived filter, where a f a g is something quite different!  

Yes...But I still can not see why it is not allowed.

[Andy B]

..........anyone know.

American derived filter, where a f a g is something quite different!  

Yes...But I still can not see why it is not allowed.

Presumably beyond the control of our admin.

[cem_devecioglu]

Age 12 ...no permission of family..ended with a small damage to the right door

[Jay w]

in the early to mid 80's there was something called the Shell young drivers club, membership was open to youngsters aged 12+ and you had to have parental guidance.

Most of the time it was disused airstrips, the occasional racing circuit and open spaces, but the principle was youngsters were taught to drive in a responsible manner and learnt how to handle a car.

I could drive from the age of 13, i used to attend a lot of these sessions, they were great fun......i had to wait until i was 17 to drive on the road though  

[carper]

I was 12 at the time, I used to go with my mate and his dad to stock car racing, his dad always had a Zephyr 6, but raced various cars. I can remember at this particular time he was racing a Ford Anglia, (I can even remember it been a $hitty green colour). Now this would'nt happen by todays standards, but at that time, it was more or less.......well who's to know. His dad raced the Anglia, then so did my mate, there was still some life left in it after being battered round the track by old Rover P5's and the likes. My mate talked his dad into letting me drive in the next race, I say race, it was more like a one for all round an oval mud track. I'd never driven before, never mind raced, but got the bottle from somewhere to get in next , so to speak.

I did'nt need clutch control or anything, I constantly got rammed and shoooooved round that track for the whole race, can't remember how many laps. It was fun, but also scary, but atleast I did'nt get rolled  

This sort of thing when I was 12, is unheard of today, and no doubt very illegal  , those were the days.

For the young one's of today........... this is a Ford Anglia




Pushed around the track by the Rover P5

[pete.h]

You can still race at 12 in Autograss racing but you're limited to racing against other 12 to 16 year olds, mainly in more or less standard Mini 1000's. Nowhere near as scary as what you were doing , but good fun, 45mph on mud with 7 other cars can get a bit hairy.

[LaserLance]

sitting on me dads lap in his mk1 escort when i was about ten or eleven in a big field, and then again when i learnt to drive in 80's after to many offs on me motorbikes , got hit head on by a car on me LC250 that was it no more bikes after that ,till i passed on direct access in 88