What was the first thing you ever drove?

[Slioch]

I think it was an Austin 1100. Aged 6 or 7. I sat on my dad's knee - he worked the pedals, and I steered.

And I learned to drive in a Morris Marina. God it was grim. You could see the road between your feet where the bodywork had rusted away.

 

[Sharky]

My uncles vauxhall Victor FB. Nice car to look at, but was full of rust and failed its mot a couple of years later.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Ford Escort as that's what i learnt to drive in. My first owned car was a Nissan Bluebird which i brought from an old fella for 500 quid. It had 61000 miles on the clock and even had a box of kleenex tissues on the parcel shelf. It wasn't the obvious choice for an 18 year old. One mate had an old micra another had a fiesta, me, im a bit different... I did sit on my uncles lap once in his Mk1 Cavalier as a lad, i had control of the wheel for a short period. People's idea of safety was a bit different back then...

 

[Edwardoka]

First drive: Go-kart in Butlins in Ayr. I was a speed demon. (thanks, Geoff Crammond)
First car I drove: Ford Ka. Hence the username.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

First car was a Austin 1100, first motorbike was a James Cadet.

 

[Drago]

A 1965 Peugeot 404. We were going to my uncle's farm when my father just pulled over and said:" I think the time has come for you to learn to drive.". That was in France of course, I was 17 and the legal age to learn to drive was 18 and still is. No provisional licence of course .

Voiture sans permis!

 

[figbat]

When I was about 13 my grandad used to let me drive his car on the beach in Brean - that was a Peugeot 309. Around the same time my dad took me to a nearby abandoned airfield and taught me to drive in my mum’s Fiat 126.

 

[Venod]

It will have been a tractor of some kind probabley a Massey Ferguson.

First car I think was a Ford popular 100e

First motorbike BSA Bantam (I think) in the quary, but could also have been a Tiger Cub or Francis Barnett.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

My Dad's Ford V4 Corsair 2000E at around 12, used to reverse it down the drive & into the garage, you'd only got 2 inches either side & had to wait until the door mirror was in line with the fall pipe before putting on 1/4 turn of right lock to get the back to kick over to go down the slope.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Dolomite Sprint, learned to drive in one, very nice.

 

[PeteXXX]

One of these, if memory serves correctly..

A Ford Prefect van (stock photo, not my dad's actual vehicle). It was along the service road behind his ironmongery shop on Lee High Road, Lewisham, next door to Young Cycles!!

I learned to drive, officially, and pass my test at 17 in a Hillman Minx.

From about the age of 11 ish, 1963 when my parents first owned a car, I used to change gear and put the indicators on & off from the passenger seat.

 

[Cycleops]

One of these. It had a 800cc ohv engine and the big ends went soon after I got it. Found a later 948cc in a breakers and swapped it over. Mine was a horrible green, they called it Empire Green.

 

[Edwardoka]

One of these, if memory serves correctly..

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A Ford Prefect van

Going by that image I can see why he would recommend bringing a towel.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Massey Ferguson 135 when I was about 10. Grandad's MkV Cortina in the field was the first car. Yamaha TY175 was my first bike. I was 24 before I had driven my first minibus and forklift, both in Australia backpacking. I still love the old Masseys and would like a Cortina one day, but I think that is just nostalgia

 

[Chris S]

An Austin Mini. I now don't feel comfortable driving unless the seat is so far forward that my knees are up in the air.