Ok. No holding back.
What did you drive on the public road when you were a spotty faced youth that you were not entitled to.
Mopeds?
Motorbikes (either up to scratch legal stuff) or rough Motorbikes (Field stuff like my Villiers). My Dad would have killed me!
Cars, borrowed or nicked or a friends Parent's chariot etc..
Come on, don't be shy. I couldn't have done it alone.
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Mate's mum's Vx Chevette to 'learn to drive' age 17 (provisional licence but not personally insured).
My own Honda XL 125S off-road bike for using on the shale bings in West Lothian from age 13 to 16 (usually went along canal towpaths and occasionally a stretch of road).
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A few tractors off the farm nearby, and other farm machinery.
Several mopeds and a BSA bantam.
My dad's week old Mk1 Astra. First ever driving lesson, but IIRC I was only 15 or 16 at the time, so no licence or insurance. Nearly stuffed it into a grass bank had it not been for dad grabbing the steering wheel as I hadn't turned it far enough.
Fortunately it was in a quiet village.
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Took my brother's New Imperial motor bike up and down the A316 when I was about 13. My younger mate on the back also had a go. All without permission. Later rode his Vincent Rapide, also without permission. I must have posted this before - shirley?
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My first drive was on a disused airfield in Norfolk - we were there on holiday(Norfolk, not the airfield!
Drove my Dad's Hillman Minx, on the last day he let me get totop speed - which probably wasn't much over 70.
My first road vehicle (at 16)was a Lambretta Li150 with the big mirrors, backrest, flying tiger tails, spotlights etc. Then a small Suzuki motorbike before my first car, an Austin 1100. Which didn't last long and was replaced with an MG 1100 - essentially the same car but with dual carburettor.
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A Talbot Samba GSU159X and once I mastered that, a Peugeot 504 Family estate , brown colour, CHS468X
We had a big house with a driveway that went up the side of the house and round the back. It also had a part in front of the house.
I used to reverse down the driveway in the Samba, do a J turn in front of the house (easy as the driveway was gravel) then drive down to bottom of drive. Wait till there were no cars coming then drive out into road, do a u turn and back up the driveway. Repeat.
The 504 wasnt quite as easy to throw about !
I was 16 at time.
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"Mate's mum's Vx Chevette to 'learn to drive' age 17 (provisional licence but not personally insured)."
Exactly wot he said. Mate's milf's bright yellow Chevette. 17 year old, provisional licence but not personally insured. I didn't even know what insurance was at the time.
Fab little RWD car. I'd love to drive one again.
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I was awful. Shameful. And I'm certainly not detailing it here.
But if there was a part of the RTA that could be broken, I expect I broke it repeatedly. Thank goodness I lived in the middle of nowhere.
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>> I was awful. Shameful. And I'm certainly not detailing it here.
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>> But if there was a part of the RTA that could be broken, I expect
>> I broke it repeatedly. Thank goodness I lived in the middle of nowhere.
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Reading? :-)
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No.
That I most certainly did go in there from time to time. But in those days the 25 miles or so (or whatever it was) was usually further than the petrol I could afford.
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Nice try, Mr Plod. I'm not admitting anything.
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Well did you? - Lygonos
