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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #75 on: 16 August 2011, 22:28:57 »
Bike test in 82 and car test in 83 :)
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #76 on: 20 August 2011, 13:44:01 »
Car test 1996 - passed first time, just, with 11 minor faults!  Despite my driving instructor saying that I wasn't ready and shouldn't expect to pass.

No bike test as apparently I have too many responsibilities to be riding a motorbike! :(

If I ever had the money I'd love to drive HGV too.

I've also contemplated doing the advanced driving course. :y
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #77 on: 20 August 2011, 13:46:27 »
car test in 2001, bike test in 2009
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #78 on: 20 August 2011, 14:15:51 »
Car 1989
HGV3 1990
HGV1 1992
PCV 1993
M/Bike 2003 (Cyprus)

All the above passed first time!   :y
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #79 on: 20 August 2011, 15:52:38 »
Passed both bike & car first time in 1982.
Bike test (the original) was 10 days after I turned 17, and car test (drive anything up to 7.5 tonne, including trailers) was 4 weeks after that.

First car at 17 was a 1977 3 litre Granada Ghia with manual box, insurance was £200 for the year TPFT, and I got £20 back when I notified the insurance I had passed my test.
I suspect these days if a 17 year old on a provisional license wanted to insure something similar they would be laughed off the phone, so it doesn't surprise me that there are so many out there without insurance.
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #80 on: 20 August 2011, 18:05:02 »
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I've also contemplated doing the advanced driving course.

Absolutely no reason not-to, Ljay......and several insurance companies offer significant reductions for 'advanced-pass' motorists! :y
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #81 on: 20 August 2011, 18:29:12 »
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I've also contemplated doing the advanced driving course.

Absolutely no reason not-to, Ljay......and several insurance companies offer significant reductions for 'advanced-pass' motorists! :y

Other than having to keep my bad habits in check and having to learn to be less offensive and more defensive you mean! ::) :-X ;D
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #82 on: 20 August 2011, 18:35:48 »
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Car test 1996 - passed first time, just, with 11 minor faults!  Despite my driving instructor saying that I wasn't ready and shouldn't expect to pass.

No bike test as apparently I have too many responsibilities to be riding a motorbike! :(

If I ever had the money I'd love to drive HGV too.

I've also contemplated doing the advanced driving course. :y

The RoSPA test is tougher, and unlike the advanced driving test (which once passed is for life), it has to be re-sat every 3 years.
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #83 on: 20 August 2011, 19:09:07 »
Car 1956, in a 1955 Ford Popular
Bike 1956 RAF Triumph TRW, 500cc sidevalve twin. http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/Triumph_TRW_1955.jpg
1956 RAF truck licence on a 3.5ton Magirus Deutz, air-cooled diesel. These were superb vehicles, and I even used one to tow a Beverley a/c once, using the optional low ratio box, and IIRC, 4wd.
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #84 on: 20 August 2011, 21:32:30 »
1987
Car / Suzuki Alto  :-[
4th time lucky  :-[
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #85 on: 20 August 2011, 21:36:32 »
Car - December 1995 for me....and still using the old paper license I got at the time  :y
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #86 on: 21 August 2011, 07:01:21 »
Can barely remember them but both were passed first time when I joined the forces in 1965. Took the 'tick' and ability test to be able to drive in Germany in Jan 1966 and passed them first go too....
Trust DLK to bring back memories covered in cobwebs..rotten sod ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #87 on: 21 August 2011, 09:30:30 »
Theres alot of passes in the 1990's here so most of us are at the big 40 or just either side of it with the exception of old fuddy duddy stmo who seems to be [size=8]1931[/size]1971 who needs to piss himself every 20 miles :P :P :P.
Oh I passed 20/6/1990 first time/hgv2 1998
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #88 on: 21 August 2011, 12:29:37 »
 1964 army,was stationed at Perhan Down /Tidworth.Was a red book which was replaced some time in the '70's :y
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Re: What year did you pass your driving Test or Tests?
« Reply #89 on: 21 August 2011, 14:05:23 »
Car test: 11 July 1988. Used my mum's mk2 Cavalier as the instructor's had just been written off for the second time in a year! Remember the date as it was the day before my 18th birthday, although it was the second test I took.

Bike test: no, far too much of a wuss, and I've picked up too many fatal bike crashes.

HGV test: tempted, haven't spent the money yet.

Cycling proficiency anyone? We did it in the road outside the school(and they still do it in the same place, although with more hi-viz) when I was 9. Wish I'd never brought it up now, feel really old.
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