What car did you learn to drive in? Shocked to see what learners are now driving...
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I loved the old mk3 escorts. The mk3 & mk4 were great cars in there day
I didn’t like driving the mk2 which I owned 2 of. Just found them boring to drive.
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I learnt in a brand new 2001 Golf GTi.
I was the first student to drive it, had 312 miles on the clock.
I learnt to drive in a Metro in 1992 and once passed my test got a Mk4 Escort 1.3 as my 1st car, it was terrible with rampant rust, a leaky after market sunroof and constant breaking lights\indicator stalks, kept it 1 year and then swapped to a Mk2 Golf Syncro 1.8
Vauxhall Corsa, one of the original ones, petrol with power steering from memory.
I went from that to a Vauxhall Corsa diesel with no power steering, that was nearly impossible to stall even on hill starts but was very heavy on the steering especially at lower speeds.
I went from that to a Vauxhall Corsa diesel with no power steering, that was nearly impossible to stall even on hill starts but was very heavy on the steering especially at lower speeds.
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My first driving "lesson" was in a BMC FG lorry around Newlyn harbour car park in 1984. I then went on to a proper driving school, Peter Trahair driving school of Penzance who gave me a initial lesson and booked my test straight away. I had just a couple of further lessons, one of which was directly before the test and passed first time. The driving school car was a Peugot 205 diesel. I then bought my first car, a Ford Cortina Mk4 1.6L which cost me just £180 a year to insure, a vast difference to the rip off insurance prices new drivers have to pay today.
But the wages back then was something like £80 per week
I remember paying £800 for my 600cc motorbike insurance in 1989 (19 years old) and think my wages were around £100 per week then
I think insurance these days is cheaper vs wages then it used to be or at least not much difference
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Passed in a Ford Fiesta MK 1 in 1985.
Had already held a full motorcycle license for 2 years was basically just learning road positioning, reversing and parallel parking in a manual car. Had already been driving my dad’s Renault 20 automatic under his supervision for a few months, so using the wrong appendages for gear changing, starts and hill starts was my weak areas.
Driving instructor was a mate of my dad’s, a mad Italian who’d whack my left hand or left leg with a wooden ruler when they were doing the wrong thing. Had 5 lessons with rapidly decreasing use of the ruler and passed first time.
The 1980s really were a very different time to be alive.
Had already held a full motorcycle license for 2 years was basically just learning road positioning, reversing and parallel parking in a manual car. Had already been driving my dad’s Renault 20 automatic under his supervision for a few months, so using the wrong appendages for gear changing, starts and hill starts was my weak areas.
Driving instructor was a mate of my dad’s, a mad Italian who’d whack my left hand or left leg with a wooden ruler when they were doing the wrong thing. Had 5 lessons with rapidly decreasing use of the ruler and passed first time.
The 1980s really were a very different time to be alive.