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What did you learn to drive with?
« on: 02 June 2018, 18:28:38 »

I learnt to drive on one of these when I was 11.  :y

My Dad taught me the basics and when he felt I had got the hang of it went in for a fag and a cuppa, telling me to practice stopping and starting and not just to go round and round the field. "But don't go too fast!" was his parting shot.  ::)

I didn't go fast, but I did wonder what would happen if I took my foot off the clutch suddenly.  ::) 

It turns out that it's possible for an 11 year old boy to pull a wheelie with a Little Grey Fergie tractor!  :o  ::)  ;D

I was suitably chastened by the experience and my Dad was very pleased to find me trundling around very sedately when he came back.  ;)
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #1 on: 02 June 2018, 18:37:08 »

I learned the basics in tractors on a farm too  :)
double de-clutch to change gear   ;D
i'd have been 13 ,so 35 years ago  :o
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #2 on: 02 June 2018, 18:43:36 »

Citroën AX :D for five lessons, immediately followed by 3, 000 miles over the following month in Dad's Sierra  8)
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #3 on: 02 June 2018, 18:55:04 »

No idea, I was running away from most of them when they ended in a hedge or similar.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #4 on: 02 June 2018, 19:06:10 »

I learned the basics in tractors on a farm too  :)
double de-clutch to change gear   ;D
i'd have been 13 ,so 35 years ago  :o

Seems there's a trend on OOF. I first drove a tractor too ..... a red one .... can't remember what flavour.

I was about 13 too though in my case it was 43 years ago  :o :o :o
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #5 on: 02 June 2018, 19:11:08 »

A Nuffield universal.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #6 on: 02 June 2018, 19:16:27 »

I didn't learn on a tractor as such, but partially in a 1950's Humber Snipe that had no power steering, so it was very heavy to steer by way of a massive steering wheel, and to change gear you had to double de-clutch.  What fun it was though, until a tapet broke on No 3 cylinder!! ::)

The BSM driving school car was a mini which was vastly different to the Humber!  I did manage to pursuade my boss to drive his company Ford Mk2 Cortina which was fun, especially when I took to 80 mph on the A2 ;)

Oh, great days.  I still would love to drive a tractor though :y
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #7 on: 02 June 2018, 19:22:47 »

Off road as it were then it was a 1933 Buick McClaughlin[that had been bullet proofed :o possibly from the factory but certainly before dad bought it]and a Bedford TK tipper.On road driving instructors car was a Renault 8.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #8 on: 02 June 2018, 19:38:57 »

Firstly a BSA Golden Flash (initially with a sidecar) and then a 1938 Morris 12. An early, interesting trip from Essex to Cornwall on "L" plates!  ;D 8) :y

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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #9 on: 02 June 2018, 19:49:35 »

Officially, in a Mini Metro owned by my allocated driving instructor.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #10 on: 02 June 2018, 19:51:53 »

Actually, when I truly learnt how to drive was after I passed my test.  In my case, when they gave me a clapped out little yellow Morris Ital van, £1m worth of liability (we didn't have traditional insurance, but a bond in place), and my boss's parting words were "go do your worse"

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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #11 on: 02 June 2018, 19:57:26 »

First car I drove was , I think, a Ford Pop  sit up and beg. I would be 11 or 12. It belonged to our neighbour who was two years older. It is the only car I have ever driven that you could select reverse whilst still going forward. Got to say never tried it on later cars. We had a figure of nine track. First car I owned was, I think , a Riley 1.5 . We had unofficial free use of Wykeham forest tracks. Used to help out on local farm as a young teenager. First job with a tractor was moving tractor and trailer around field while men loaded bales of straw. Graduated to driving tractor and trailer loading grain whilst  combine harvester kept harvesting. How proud I felt. If the fields were near the farm we even took the rig back to the farm to tip via public roads albeit off the beaten track. I dare say the local copper knew as he knew everything looking back.
Passed my test in my mothers Ford Anglia.

Talking of my mother. She passed her test on a motorbike and sidecar. When it came to learning to drive a car my dad said these are the controls  off you go on your own! That was a Ford Pop too that they hand painted as it was a bit rusty.

Later my dad traded that car in and asked what was going to happen to it. “ our mechanics will swarm over it and strip it of parts then it will be scrapped. “ how much will you get for it? £15. So my dad bought it back and gave it to me. First mod was to fit a 1200 cc engine £10 guaranteed ( the scrapyard stamped it !”. Did me well as a student

Gosh happy days a thousand years ago. I had a good childhood.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #12 on: 02 June 2018, 20:10:35 »

I had a go at nicking my Dads car by releasing the handbrake on the hill outside our house when I was about six. Apart from that, I learned to drive in the HB Viva he bought me, to keep me off motorbikes, with him sat nervously beside me.
Didn't have any actual lessons, just got the hang of it and then went and took my test.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #13 on: 02 June 2018, 20:12:41 »

Learnt to drive a 4 tonner when i was 17 in the army. actual went legal at 21 in a ford escort.
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Re: What did you learn to drive with?
« Reply #14 on: 02 June 2018, 20:17:17 »

I learnt in my Mum's mk2 Cavalier, plus the two new ones that my instructor had in the year I saw him and the selection of Datsun Sunnys rented while the insurance claims were processed. His claims, not mine ;D
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