What did you pass your test in?

[trigger]

I passed in 1997 in a red K reg Astra TD Saloon like this, It had done over 200k by the time i drove it.

 

Vauxhall Astra saloon by VAGDave, on Flickr

[Felly Magic]

That Sunny I was learning in had done over 80k and was just over a year old!

 

 

It was like this thing, but black

[Twiggy]

Showing my age......... a 1954 Daimler Conquest Century, in 1963 when I was 17 !

 

PCV in the 80`s in a 1948 Leyland Titan

 

LGV in 1994 in a Volvo F12 - can`t remember the age of it...........

[Morgan84]

W883LRY Ford Fiesta 1.8 TD 5 door; was a year old

[flat4alfa]

 

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[AndyW201]

G833 FEF, Nissan Sunny 1.4 LS hatch in red. The instructors round our way loved the Nissans. The Sunnys were a piece of piss to drive as well. I think the one I drove was knocking on for about 90,000 miles at 2 years old. Compared with the identical looking 1.3 LS fathaW201 had at the time which had done about 10,000 at three years old...

[Junkman]

I passed my test in Germany in 1983. You have to do the test with one of the driving school cars there.

Can't drive any car but a driving school car with instructor before you passed the test.

You guessed it, it was a fookin shite Golf Diesel.

[Richard]

I failed my test in May 1987 in the instructor's D plate Nissan Sunny. At the time the examiners were not allowed to discuss the test beyond giving you a sheet showing the categories you hadn't passed. It was mostly taking too long at junctions, I didn't get along with the Sunny's super-light controls and should have done the test in our Volvo 244.

 

In 1987 the waiting time for a test was five months so I planned to get a few lessons before my November test date. At 5pm on September 29th I got a message at work saying I'd been given a cancellation at 9am the next morning. The only option I had was to do the test uninsured in my mother's 8 year old Viva Estate with massive holes in the wings. I hadn't really driven the car, other than a quick spin around town in the dark the night before, so it was a complete surprise to all concerned when I passed.

[ypsilandra]

A 1981 Talbot Horizon 1.3.The engine sounded like a bag of nails jumping up and down on a metal roof. (July 1982)

 

Aah, memories!!! Loved my dad's horizon.

 

I did most of my learning in the family Solara 1.6LS, XBD 927W which Dad px'd the N reg Allegro for. In our household it was described as sounding "a bit beady". I actually did my test in a sky blue, C reg 205 GLD. I'd obviously got the Peugeot Talbot bug, as first car I went out and bought was a Sunbeam 1.3 (TPP 633W) that lasted 3000 miles

[DVee8]

An E reg base Fiesta Diesel in burgundy

[Ben_L]

Corsa D Design 1.7CDTi in Black.

 

Discreetly missed fourth for sixth and got away with it.

[Hertz]

I passed in 1993 in my mum's 1984 Renault 11 1.7 TXE. What a car, been into Renaults ever since...

[quicksilver]

The year was 2003, the car a 1978 Fiesta in finest beige. Much better than my instructor's ghastly Fiat Bravo that was like driving a bathtub and I think the examiner was impressed that I could drive a car much older than me.

[FredTransit]

I passed in a Mk3 escort but learnt in a Mk2. Luckily there was a gap between the Mk3 turning up and the test. I would have bought it off em if l knew it was going. Didint drive a car after that for almost 20 years! I went straight into driving transits....

[cms206]

Passed my car test in BC53 CXJ, a petrol Focus Ghia, my airside driving test in H446 KJN, a Ford Cargo 0609 and my bus test in ex MOD Dennis Javelin N188 RGD.

[whitevanman]

Back in the dark days of 1979 I passed my test in a 1973 Honda civic, that was owned by myself and the mother......passed at 12.45, first bump at 18.03

[Joey spud]

A black 'top gear school of motoring' 1979 Toyota Starlet 1.0 litre 4 speed.

 

Loverly little car to learn in,can still remember the excellent 'snick,snick' gear change to this day..

[whiskeyonesix]

1988 Nissan Micra! I was surprised I passed, my feet were too big for the pedals

 

It was the very first time I'd driven it aswell... my Instructor part-exchanged an ancient MkII Escort for it (which I'd come to know and love over the course of 25+ lessons...) looking back I could have refused to have taken the test in an unfamiliar car...

[Baz]

Rather tedious white Mk2 Fiesta.

[rover420]

I learnt to drive in a B reg fiesta diesel but ended up taking the test in a Fiat Uno petrol as my instructor was on holiday the week of my test.

 

Had a two hour lesson before the test to get used to the car and just about everything went wrong. At one point I went round the roundabout outside the Willis Fabour building in Ipswich with two wheels on the road and two on the roundabout. Went into the test with no hope at all but somehow everything went ok in the test and I passed

[Shep Shepherd]

I passed my test at the second attempt in a 1995 Nissan Sunny "Sequel" special edition like this one, although I did the bulk of my learner driving in a 1994 "Spray" special edition, which was a lovely shade of jade green:

 

[Charlie Croker]

I had most of my lessons in a Yreg Mk1 Golf. My instructor then changed it for a brand new Creg Renault 5 which i passed in.

[splatthefat]

Mine was in 1989 in a Y reg Metro 1.0 3dr in brown, utter shite with a knackered synchro on 2nd and warped brakes (made the emergency stop interesting). Passed 1st time and bought a Colt Celeste GSR Coupe, one of these in fact

 

 

IN Jewish Racing Gold with the fetching boomerang rear lights, dropped a valve in it whilst burning off an RS Turbo 3 hours later....

[tooSavvy]

 

1974 - brand new Toyota 1000. The guy had a matchstick pushed into the rear window rubber seal, about 1/3 across from the passenger side.... his 'mark', for reverse turning around a radiused bend.

 

I took my test in the car.... passed... AND had no difficulty with the 'reversing around a radiused bend'

 

tooSavvy

[Burnside]

Learn't to drive in Sreg Toyota Starlet 1.3 3DR in red with 150,000 miles but my instructor got a new car before my test which I passed 1st time in. Another Toyota this time a 2001 Yaris 1.3 5DR in Red again. Passed in March 2001. Can't say it impressed me much though my instructor loved it. My 1st car my 1986 C reg Talbot Samba Style was far better!

 

My brother did it better. Failed 1st time in his instructors J reg Ford Escort 1.8D 5DR in white. But took his test second time and passed in late 2000 in his own car. A 1989 G reg Fiat Panda 750L in white. Even the examiner was impressed with it!

[Junkman]

I passed my test way back in 1964 in a Morris 1100. I passed my HGV Class One(as it was then known) in 1968 using a Bedford TK with a 30ft single axle trailer. I shall always remember that!!

 

Brian.

 

Funny. In .de HGV was Class 2. Class 1 was motorbikes, Class 3 cars.

I did 1 and 3 in one go, you had to be 21 to do Class 2.

To get Class 1 (bikes) took the 'tick the boxes' test, then you had to ride around a few pylons with a 250 Yamaha or some shite like that.

If you passed, you could go ahead and get yourself the next 130 hp bike you could find. 18/19 year old guys died like flies in those days.

[fordperv]

i passed mine in a purple 1.0 y reg micra back in 2001, it was an hillariously slow car compared to my own car at the time which was a black 1990 orion 1.6i ghia which had a high lift cam and a couple of other bits done to the engine but looked stock standard exept for a slight lowering

[R9UKE]

2005 Toyota Yaris (OKZ 1147) which had to have a stupid aftermarket speedo fitted for the instructor as only the driver can see the speedo!

 

Passed 1st time with 2 minors 5 weeks after my 17th

[Pillock]

Rover 114. The AA had a bunch of them, all nicely specced with alloys and metallic paint both of which weren't really designed to make a learner's car cheap to repair. First instructor had a really dull voice and a habit of saying "do you know what I mean" after every sentence... and actually waiting for an answer. He was a bit miffed that on my first lesson, after accurately saying I'd never driven a car, we got into third gear and he saw his profits trickle away.

 

He lasted 5 lessons before retiring suddenly in mysterious circumstances so I got a different, younger, better bloke. Got on really well so the drives were just practise pootling around a variety of roads listening to cassettes. Now I recount the tale, it sounds like he was grooming me.

 

Test was with a lay-dee examiner, renown for being a bit of a battleaxe. 9 minors but a pass first time, two minors were for "failing to maintain lane position" or something - basically I took the racing line through a sweeping bend, and then did the same on the way back.

[junkyarddog]

I passed my test in '95 driving my '89 Mazda 323 hatchback.

I loved that little car,

my sister passed her test in it a few years later too.