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    Quote Originally Posted by shane View Post
    Passed in June 1970 in the driving school Austin 1100 after six lessons at 18/6d each.
    Compare that to the total cost well in excess of a grand for forty-odd lessons each to get my two kids through in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Both of them are probably better drivers than me, but it simply isn’t possible to do it the way we did these days
    This raises a good issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    I did my first test after three lessons at £2.50 each but failed. Had to fork out for another six before I finally passed!

    Meanwhile the lad is now 20 been taking lessons for a year, took him six goes just for the theory test, he kept missing by one mark.
    theory tests can be difficult. think mine was several questions after the practical. i got them all right fortunately. i didnt have many lessons from a instructor, but maybe 6... practiced in my brothers and my dads auto initially which let me get used to road sense and steering etc first. think that is the best way to do it, as when i started on a clutch the rest took care of itself
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    theory tests can be difficult. think mine was several questions after the practical. i got them all right fortunately. i didnt have many lessons from a instructor, but maybe 6... practiced in my brothers and my dads auto initially which let me get used to road sense and steering etc first. think that is the best way to do it, as when i started on a clutch the rest took care of itself
    drove from the age of 14. My old man taught me on the carpark, where we lived...hmmmm.lot of good it did...I needed 16 lessons with bsm...which were £10.50 per hour at the time..I was 23 when I got a license...a woman taught me to drive properly and I passed the test 1st time out....when I turned up to take my test at 8.45am...the tester, who was supposed to take me out had'nt turned up for work. The manager locked the place up and took me himself. When it was over the cheeky bugger said...You've just scraped through...he told me to take an availabe right during the examination, which he said was a no entry..I said no, the sign said no vehicles over 7.5 tonnes.. he walked back to the sign and looked...he came back and said, ok we'll carry on and do your turn in the road...(three point turn)..which took about 5 goes as the street was so narrow...and he done his nut and started shouting at me, now whats the problem, when I stopped the car, as a young woman with a pushchair, came out of her house right in front of me. I did it all by the book, and the sod said I'd just scraped through, but hey...I got my license..
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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    drove from the age of 14. My old man taught me on the carpark, where we lived...hmmmm.lot of good it did...I needed 16 lessons with bsm...which were £10.50 per hour at the time..I was 23 when I got a license...a woman taught me to drive properly and I passed the test 1st time out....when I turned up to take my test at 8.45am...the tester, who was supposed to take me out had'nt turned up for work. The manager locked the place up and took me himself. When it was over the cheeky bugger said...You've just scraped through...he told me to take an availabe right during the examination, which he said was a no entry..I said no, the sign said no vehicles over 7.5 tonnes.. he walked back to the sign and looked...he came back and said, ok we'll carry on and do your turn in the road...(three point turn)..which took about 5 goes as the street was so narrow...and he done his nut and started shouting at me, now whats the problem, when I stopped the car, as a young woman with a pushchair, came out of her house right in front of me. I did it all by the book, and the sod said I'd just scraped through, but hey...I got my license..
    You always get them. Pissed at having to work and tried to fail you for his errors. Tosser
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    I took my test in a Marina, horrid thing, when I was 18 after 14 lessons and passed 1st time. My instructor then drove me home like a lunatic. I think to try and frighten me so I would drive carefully.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    I was reading an article on old British car classics and saw a car i sat my test in... a Vauxhall Viva hc


    Believe it or not, it was rather nifty inside and out in its day..



    what did you use?

    think the pics are right, but it was a long time ago and ive driven a lot of vivas... this one was just out
    Yep that was the one, although in a slightly less vomity colour of Beige. Had a woman in a Mini hit me whilst on the test. We were at temp traffic lights and she thought they had changed in her favour. Examiner did all the necessary and got back in the car and said "we will have to cancel the test now", I was really pissed off and drove off quite quickly he said "you seem to be ok, shall we carry on"...which we did and I passed...1st time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    drove from the age of 14. My old man taught me on the carpark, where we lived...hmmmm.lot of good it did...I needed 16 lessons with bsm...which were £10.50 per hour at the time..I was 23 when I got a license...a woman taught me to drive properly and I passed the test 1st time out....when I turned up to take my test at 8.45am...the tester, who was supposed to take me out had'nt turned up for work. The manager locked the place up and took me himself. When it was over the cheeky bugger said...You've just scraped through...he told me to take an availabe right during the examination, which he said was a no entry..I said no, the sign said no vehicles over 7.5 tonnes.. he walked back to the sign and looked...he came back and said, ok we'll carry on and do your turn in the road...(three point turn)..which took about 5 goes as the street was so narrow...and he done his nut and started shouting at me, now whats the problem, when I stopped the car, as a young woman with a pushchair, came out of her house right in front of me. I did it all by the book, and the sod said I'd just scraped through, but hey...I got my license..
    They don't call it 3 point turn any more - I think they say 'make the vehicle face the opposite direction using forward and reverse gears' or some such tosh. Point is, as long as you didn't hit anything, he probably couldn't fail you whether you did 3, 5, 7 or whatever.

    Strange really, although I consider myself a pretty safe driver, I'm confident that if I took my test today I would fail for sure.
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    Hillman Minx 1500cc in 1969. Fortunately it was plsslng down so I didn't have to do hand signals as opening the window would have soaked me and the tester. A three point turn in that thing required the upper body strength of an Olympic gymnast.

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    The truck I took my drivers test in was my step dad's 1972 Ford F-250 Camper Special, with a large cabover camper he used for deer hunting, this was his daily ride 2 x 20 gallon gas tanks 8 to 10 mpg.
    The mirrors where adjustable only with a wrench . He was 6ft 5. I was 5 ft.9 and 16 years old and had to lift up out of my seat to use the mirrors to back up. the windshield mirror was pointless.
    My Mom would never and never did let me drive her Cadillac so the truck was all there was to drive.

    When I walked the instructor to the truck for the safety inspection before the test . She said to Tom my step Dad "You really don't want him to pass today do you ? most kids use a Honda ".
    To be honest it wasn't all that bad because truth is I had been driving it up and down road hunting the back roads in Dixon since I was 14 or 15 while Tom was ready to get out in a moments notice and dispatch a couple pheasant from the road. Not exactly book of Hoyle hunting but he grew up there and this was common when he was a younger man.

    So all went well, I did o.k. and passed that day.
    His truck was green and white , but this picture was as close as I could find to it on line.Even the camper is close to his except it had fake wood grain where the blue is.
    I took a date to the drive in once in that thing and oddly no one parked behind us.
    On grad night 1984 this was the truck used to hall the kegs of beer to a massive party at Folsom lake that ended the next morning when homes around the lake started complaining to the police.
    My friend worked at a beer and wine warehouse and paid wholesale retail was $60.00 for a full keg then his price was $45.00 for Lowenbrau !,we fit 12 kegs in that camper! and scraped up one of the cabinets inside my Dad was not happy but furniture stain fixed it pretty well.
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