I have gone from the little Red book with pages to a photo card type through all the other iterations. I have to renew it in 2022 due to age but I may not bother. I will see what my lifestyle requires then.
Having passed my test in 1957, I had the little red cardboard book for years, then I got my HGV all groups by “grandad rights”, as I’d been driving articulated trucks for years, before HGV licences were deemed necessary, this was a paper licence I think.
When photo licences came in, I applied for one, saying to my wife that I’d drop the HGV part out.
She said, “Is that wise? You never know.”
I said, “Are you kidding, I never want to drive an 18 wheeler again, I detest driving now, and you have to hold a gun to my head to make me drive your little Peugeot.”
In fact, the only times that I drove her car was if we visited my relatives in Lille and Lens, and took her car on Le Shuttle to France.
She really got hinky driving on the right in a RHD car, as it drove her nuts trying to see round trucks that she wanted to overtake, where conversely she’d fly down I.75 in Florida in a Lincoln Navigator, like a bat out of hell.
