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[GT Jimmy]

Massey Ferguson 35 tractor on my uncles farm in Ireland, Great fun for a 13 year old.

 

Driving instructor had a small Nissan, My first car an 87 1.4 fiesta. First mini an 83 mini 1000

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Still driving it 6 years later 

 

[DJS911]

First vehicle would have been a Honda C50 step thru on Llandow airfield at about the age of 12 and the first car I drove would have been a Hillman Avenger of my Dad's that I learnt to drive in.
First car of my own was a 1965 Mini 850.

[Vinay-RS]

First car I drove and learnt to drive in was my mother's VW citi Golf (mk1 Golf in the rest of the world I suppose).

[CMXCVIII]

When I was 8, I first jolted a car up and down the drive. I chose badly, because although it was a beautifully preserved 1956 Beetle, the action of its floor mounted clutch pedal meant I didn't take off smoothly!

 

Then when I was about 12 my father took me driving in a Renault 8. Back then, at the end of the 60s, Brentwood Council [IIRC] ran an off-road learner driver centre. They had a supermarket car-park sized network of tarmac roads where learners and unlicensed drivers could learn and practice away from real traffic. There were dozens of cars jerking and jolting around the place but I don't remember any actual bumps. Imagine the insurance implications of that now!!

 

Jon   

[lordyoung1980]

Fiat SuperStrada.....

[Albannach]

David Brown Cropmaster tractor around 1952. First Roadgoing vehicle was a 1953 Excelsior Talisman Twin. First "car" was a Standard 10 Van with windows.

[Gerbil367]

My Dad let me drive his BMW 2002 Touring when I was 12 (long time ago!!) on a big open park with no-one about.  Learned to drive in a 2 ltr Mitsubishi Colt Gallant, ahhh the days 

[Tommyboy12]

1951 Ferguson TE20 when I was about 10. It was my grandad's which he left me in his will so I've got it now.

First legal car journey was my mum's 1993 Ford Mondeo Estate with a 2L Zetec. I thought it was the dogs dangleys but really it was a pile of crap!

[need4speed]

Sounds posh but it was a Mercedes (a 190 so not really posh) I was 12 at the time.

[Northernpower]

The first car I ever drove was a 1963 Humber Sceptre, the first car I ever owned was a 1961 Mini van with a floor starter and very rotten floors.

[panky]

Austin A35 van on the local youth club football grounds

[Mike L]

1969 Mustang

[need4speed]

We're not worthy... but I do have a Corvette!

[spraybeater]

First driving experience, petrol/paraffin Fergie tractor at 11, bought my first car at 16 a 1953 Morris Oxford

learned to drive in my fathers 1959 Vauxhall Velox 3speed column change, failed first test for improper

use of gears! re-sat 2 weeks later after 1x1hr lesson and the use of a Driving school Vauxhall Viva HA

passed, at 17 1/2 in 1964 bought first mini 1963 Super De Luxe 850cc in 1967.