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Post by cerebralstokie on Oct 14, 2022 8:24:45 GMT
Ford Anglia 1966. Back in the Good Old Days???
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Post by maninasuitcase on Oct 14, 2022 8:29:37 GMT
Genuinely cant remember. However i do remember the driving instructor looking like Peter Bowles. And my test was on the first days of the potters holidays so the roads were dead. Passed first time too š
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 8:47:33 GMT
Peugeot 205 GTi
I had shall we say a few driving tests and the instructor actually remembered me š I had a lste cancellation and knew had passed as she asked me 1 highway code question and actually made conversation during the test which I thought they didn't ever do but mainly re the weather. I think maybe she felt a bit sorry. It was just before Xmas and started to snow heavily so cut it short also.
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Post by 828492 on Oct 14, 2022 8:47:57 GMT
My Dadās Ford Corsair.
Old joke. How many cars can you get in to a pair of knickers? About 2,000 Corsairs
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Post by phileetin on Oct 14, 2022 9:00:24 GMT
triumph herald 1360 , passed first time , clutch fluid leaked 100 yards from test centre when i was driving home after test.
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Post by ravey123 on Oct 14, 2022 9:18:20 GMT
Was a very long time ago but Vauxhall viva I think!! Same here - Vauxhall Viva and passed first time š
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Post by noustie on Oct 14, 2022 9:53:43 GMT
Old Stokie's resit:
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Oct 14, 2022 9:59:06 GMT
Who's done their FLT test then?!
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Post by prestwichpotter on Oct 14, 2022 10:00:57 GMT
Not a clue I can't remember. I think it was black though......
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Post by steve66 on Oct 14, 2022 11:42:45 GMT
Was a very long time ago but Vauxhall viva I think!! Same here - Vauxhall Viva and passed first time š Me too, viva must of had magic!
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Post by westlandstokie on Oct 14, 2022 12:00:36 GMT
Learnt and passed in a Datsun Cherry Datsun 120Yā¦in 1980.
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Post by clarkeda on Oct 14, 2022 12:01:57 GMT
Saxo Furio. Like the sophisticated MF I am.
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Post by maxplonk on Oct 14, 2022 12:04:18 GMT
Ford Cortina
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Oct 14, 2022 12:27:09 GMT
Renault Clio
I now drive.....a Renault Clio
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 12:36:32 GMT
Ford Corsair
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Post by OldStokie on Oct 14, 2022 13:09:55 GMT
Very good! This anecdote is absolutely true and I swear on my grandkid's lives that it is. Failed 1st time in 1959 cus I took my test in an old knackered 7 ton van around Fenton. It was a bit like something out of The Inbetweeners. There was no passenger seat as such, just a wooden box (unsecured) with a straw cushion and the back doors were held together with string. The examiner had to hold onto the engine cowling inside the van and his side door. Every time I went round a corner he was almost keeling over. He told me to turn right and as I did so, the string on the back doors broke and one door opened and slammed into a lamp post. I had to say "Sorry" and got out and tied it back up again. The irony was that he only failed me on one thing... failing to use my mirrors correctly. Passed 2nd time a couple of months later in the boss's daughter's brand new 1959 Morris Traveller. Easy peasy. LOL. OS.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Oct 14, 2022 13:18:19 GMT
Who's done their FLT test then?! I don't even know what one is? š
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 13:47:36 GMT
Who's done their FLT test then?! Something I did pass first time but a good reason for it I booked some warehouse workers in for it but then they decided everyone should do it for emergencies...5 or 6 of us. Was cup final day, Arse v Lpool I think and the instructor wanted away, he wasn't happy about being there Saturday morning as it was ....I was last to do it so he basically said... pick that up, put it down, well done you've passed, signed everything and away .
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Post by chuffedstokie on Oct 14, 2022 14:46:24 GMT
Who's done their FLT test then?! Not done a FLT but the qualified to use those big sod off diesel powered skylifts and cherry pickers. Navigating between cones while 60 feet in the air was something I'd rather not do again. Never got to use the licence in anger on site thank god.
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Post by AlliG on Oct 14, 2022 19:41:39 GMT
Who's done their FLT test then?! Something I did pass first time but a good reason for it I booked some warehouse workers in for it but then they decided everyone should do it for emergencies...5 or 6 of us. Was cup final day, Arse v Lpool I think and the instructor wanted away, he wasn't happy about being there Saturday morning as it was ....I was last to do it so he basically said... pick that up, put it down, well done you've passed, signed everything and away . I got a summer job as a labourer at The Royal Albert Works on King Street in 1977 and started on the first day of Potters Holiday. On the 2nd day, the manager asked me if I had a driving licence. When I said yes, he gave me a set of keys, took me to the Fork Lift, told me which levers did what, advised me to keep my thumbs out of the steering wheel and that was it, off I went. Not surprisingly there were a few accidents along the way! There was a ramp down the side of the old building. I remember (at least once) forgetting to tilt the forks back as I went down the ramp and dumping a dozen or so boxes of first firings all down the ramp. It was like a Greek wedding! On another occasion I got a bit too close to the safety handrail down the ramp and sheared off most (all) the bolts that held the rail in place. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to give an 18 year old the keys to a fork lift after all. I understand why fork lift truck testing was brought in! My time there also taught me that most people who run businesses are idiots. The newly opened potbank building that I spent most of my time in those 2 weeks was built on a split level. The back half was about 4 feet higher than the front. There was a small goods lift between the 2 levels, which couldn't support the weight of the fork lift and the new building was built too close to the old building to allow the fork lift to move from the front to the back of the new building between the 2 buildings. The only way to get from the front of the new building to the back half was down the drive to King Street, along King Street left up Foley Street, left along Brocksford Street, into the compound at the rear and into the back of the building. All to cover a distance of as little as 6 feet. Apologies to anyone I scared the **** out of at the time! It was probably a good idea for everyone that I became a desk jockey.
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Post by Gods on Oct 14, 2022 19:47:59 GMT
Vauxhall Viva, I failed in it and passed in it!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 19:56:00 GMT
Something I did pass first time but a good reason for it I booked some warehouse workers in for it but then they decided everyone should do it for emergencies...5 or 6 of us. Was cup final day, Arse v Lpool I think and the instructor wanted away, he wasn't happy about being there Saturday morning as it was ....I was last to do it so he basically said... pick that up, put it down, well done you've passed, signed everything and away . I got a summer job as a labourer at The Royal Albert Works on King Street in 1977 and started on the first day of Potters Holiday. On the 2nd day, the manager asked me if I had a driving licence. When I said yes, he gave me a set of keys, took me to the Fork Lift, told me which levers did what, advised me to keep my thumbs out of the steering wheel and that was it, off I went. Not surprisingly there were a few accidents along the way! There was a ramp down the side of the old building. I remember (at least once) forgetting to tilt the forks back as I went down the ramp and dumping a dozen or so boxes of first firings all down the ramp. It was like a Greek wedding! On another occasion I got a bit too close to the safety handrail down the ramp and sheared off most (all) the bolts that held the rail in place. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to give an 18 year old the keys to a fork lift after all. I understand why fork lift truck testing was brought in! My time there also taught me that most people who run businesses are idiots. The newly opened potbank building that I spent most of my time in those 2 weeks was built on a split level. The back half was about 4 feet higher than the front. There was a small goods lift between the 2 levels, which couldn't support the weight of the fork lift and the new building was built too close to the old building to allow the fork lift to move from the front to the back of the new building between the 2 buildings. The only way to get from the front of the new building to the back half was down the drive to King Street, along King Street left up Foley Street, left along Brocksford Street, into the compound at the rear and into the back of the building. All to cover a distance of as little as 6 feet. Apologies to anyone I scared the **** out of at the time! It was probably a good idea for everyone that I became a desk jockey. š Am surprised no one was killed at our place. We had a giant steel safe delivered by winch....one fella decided to give it a nudge with the forks so was tight against the outer office wall... Tipped be over and went straight through , luckily none in there at the time but they came back to a pile of rubble where their desk was. Think I only ever drove it once and was in the office myself, thankfully not the one in question.
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Post by teenagefanclub on Oct 14, 2022 20:06:03 GMT
Driving instructors Nissan Micra around Market Drayton.
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Post by AlliG on Oct 14, 2022 20:19:22 GMT
I had 2 driving instructors; both had Austin 1100s.
The first died between my 1st and 2nd lessons (don't know if it had anything to do with my driving) but fortunately my 2nd instructor survived until I passed my test.
That night I went out in my Dad's Volvo 145. As I approached the mini roundabout by The Swynnerton Arms at Rough Close, I allowed the car to roll to the junction as my instructor had taught me.
First lesson learned as a qualified driver.
A 1.5 ton Volvo estate carries much more momentum than a little Austin 1100 as I discovered when I went straight across the roundabout and stopped inches away from the hedge on the other side!
I have never made that mistake again!
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Post by meggeth on Oct 14, 2022 20:25:21 GMT
Honda CJ250T! š
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Post by telfordstoke on Oct 14, 2022 20:36:45 GMT
Nissan Micra and I drove my brother's Cortina day I passed to Wembley Arena to see Rush , 1988
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Post by Kpsje on Oct 14, 2022 21:33:53 GMT
passed first time in my instructorās nissan sunny, after quite a bit of practice in my dadās ford capri.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2022 23:53:31 GMT
My Dadās Ford Corsair. Old joke. How many cars can you get in to a pair of knickers? About 2,000 Corsairs Get it now š
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Post by rivival on Oct 15, 2022 2:33:20 GMT
Austin Allegro, my instructors car. No idea how I passed, fucked up the reversing around a corner and got a couple of highway code questions wrong. In addition to that I had the legendary horrible examiner at Fenton who apparently never passed anyone first time. Ha ha sounds like the guy I got . I said thank you for passing me sorry I don't know your name . he said "Youll find out when I sign your form son" I kept stum afraid he'd change his mind . I learned to drive in a Vauxhall Cresta with column gear change and shit brakes. Passed in a Mini with my first car being a Hillman Imp Californian which I seized up down Yarlet bank doing 90
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Post by Dutchpeter on Oct 15, 2022 8:19:25 GMT
My Dad had a CJ250, a short lived and rare mistake by Honda. It was also the very first motorcycle I went on as a pillion in 1978 wearing ill fitting open faced helmet, shorts and t-shirt š¤£
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