Daughters driving test

[edd]

I'm over the moon for my youngest daughter who today passed her driving test first time. My eldest also passed first time so I guess they take after dad ( well I did pass 4 th time so maybe not )
I now have to try to restore my car whilst buying young one a car. I'd better get back to work.
So who passed their test first time and are they better drivers ?
Now be honest
Edd

[staginhiding]

Congratulations to your Daughter Edd..I wondered what all the fireworks were for,now I know....

My daughter took 3 times to pass.She took her test in Bristol so must be a different style of driving for you City folk....

Took me 3 times as well I ran all the way home to tear the L plates off my Mk1 Cortina GT

Sam

[Dave Worrall]

Congrats to your daughter.

My eldest son passed on his second attempt which brought him down a peg or two as he thought he was the worlds best driver due to his Go-Kart race experience.
I passed the following 1st time:
Car
Motorbike
Road Roller
Tracks vehicle
HGV 1 and my HGV 3 second time round.

Dave.

[Tdm]

I'm over the moon for my youngest daughter who today passed her driving test first time. My eldest also passed first time so I guess they take after dad ( well I did pass 4 th time so maybe not )
I now have to try to restore my car whilst buying young one a car. I'd better get back to work.
So who passed their test first time and are they better drivers ?
Now be honest Edd

Well it was 1961 and I took my driving test in my father's Ford Popular which was difficult to drive with only 3 forward gears and no "synchro" on first so you had to "double de-clutch" to get it into first. Never had any lessons so failed miserably both 1st and 2nd times after which went to a local driving school and learnt how to pass my test in a Triumph Herald saloon. Much easier car to drive and after 6 lessons sailed through my test at the 3rd attempt. I think driving the Herald 1st kicked off my love affair with Triumph Motor Cars as after several 2nd hand cars then a new Mini-Cooper my 1st real sports car was a Triumph Spitfire which was eventually replaced by yet another later model Spitfire. The 1st car I bought myself after passing my test was a Morris Minivan (all that I could afford).

[Stagdad]

Myself and both daughters 1st time,misses well that's a different story.

[DJT]

So who passed their test first time and are they better drivers ?

Congrats to your daughter.

Me (1971 in my father's HB Viva) and yes, of course.........

[jleyton]

Good on her Edd

I managed mine at the first go - a week after my birthday and with my arm in plaster

Cheers

Julian

[Richard Saunders]

My youngest turns 17 Friday, so we're off to the local business park Saturday with a fresh set of L plates.

Think I'll start her off in the Defender!

PS: well done Edd minor

[edd]

I think I got into bad habits with mine. It was the day when as soon as a mate passed you jumped in and drove with them. Crazy looking back. I remember him saying I had passed and not believing what I was hearing.i jumped into mums mg midget and off I went with the top down crunching gears I think most of us would fail a test due to little habits we pick up. Like not looking in the mirror three time every second
Edd

[jleyton]

I've just done an IAM course and they say you should be looking in the mirror at least eight times a minute.

Cheers

Julian

[Kevin Garrod]

Passed my car test second time, when I failed the first one it felt like the end of the world because it was all I wanted at the time. I had to wait 3 and a half months for the retest, which seemed an eternity. I'm not sure the wait did me any good, I drove like an idiot for the next year.
Passed bike, and both lorry tests first time.

[Stocky]

First time at age 17. I am, of course, along with every other man, the world's best driver!!

[Andy Rundell]

Passed first time when 17….. then i started learning to drive
……… Andy

[SaskStag]

2nd time in a real mini - great cars!
My sons (when 16 years old) learnt to drive through free high school programmes; for which I am grateful (no lessons to be bought). But i insisted they learnt to drive our manual transmission cars and that they took their tests in a manual, even though their buddies were all using automatics (they still get a full driving licence). But I've heard my work colleagues even say they can't teach their kids to drive, because their own car is a manual and their kid needs an automatic to learn
We bought both boys manual transmission cars once they passed (cheap >20 year old Japanese cars)

Well done Edd junior
Tanya

[MandM]

Well done her, I passed 1st time in 1976 in a 1975 mk111 cortina in purple, which the driving instructor change to from a mk1 escort 2 weeks before my test.