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Post by Vienna on Feb 17, 2021 13:17:35 GMT
My mum's blue Austin Metro, similar to the one below. I remember driving it around the supermarket car park in the days when they closed on Sundays! Vi
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 17, 2021 13:59:06 GMT
My mum's blue Austin Metro, similar to the one below. I remember driving it around the supermarket car park in the days when they closed on Sundays! Vi ..........and didn't have cameras and security guards! I gave my son lessons in an industrial park on Sundays, doing no harm to anyone. Some numpty guard tried to flag us down, probably to tell us it was private property. It was a big area with mini roundabouts etc. We just ignored him, did another lap and left.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Feb 18, 2021 1:13:56 GMT
For me it was a H100 Honda motorcycle In 1989 aged 16. My first Car driven was a Rover Metro as a learner driver. I later ‘drove’ Submarines in the Royal Navy, which is actually not at all interesting, just hard work.
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 18, 2021 15:31:58 GMT
For me it was a H100 Honda motorcycle In 1989 aged 16. My first Car driven was a Rover Metro as a learner driver. I later ‘drove’ Submarines in the Royal Navy, which is actually not at all interesting, just hard work. Interesting to read that Bojan, well done for serving your country. Visibility always strikes me as rather poor in a sub.
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Post by Villain on Feb 22, 2021 9:30:20 GMT
I was doing some part time valeting work at the local Ford dealer to earn some bread to buy my first car and drove three different cars on my first day, a really ratty old Moggy Traveller, a white Mk3 Capri and a bronze Mk1 Granada 3 litre, I have a feeling the Capri was the first one I tackled. I remember that at the time it felt huge, with a bonnet that stretched out to the horizon, and the Granada felt even bigger. The Grannie belonged to the boss so I was being very careful not to smack it into the walls of the garage as I attempted a three point turn in the confined space of the workshop. About two weeks later I bought my first car from the same garage, a part-exed 1977 Belgian built Mini 1000 that had acquired some tasty Innocenti interior trim while it was overseas. It all seems a very long time ago now! Villain
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 22, 2021 19:11:22 GMT
I was doing some part time valeting work at the local Ford dealer to earn some bread to buy my first car and drove three different cars on my first day, a really ratty old Moggy Traveller, a white Mk3 Capri and a bronze Mk1 Granada 3 litre, I have a feeling the Capri was the first one I tackled. I remember that at the time it felt huge, with a bonnet that stretched out to the horizon, and the Granada felt even bigger. The Grannie belonged to the boss so I was being very careful not to smack it into the walls of the garage as I attempted a three point turn in the confined space of the workshop. About two weeks later I bought my first car from the same garage, a part-exed 1977 Belgian built Mini 1000 that had acquired some tasty Innocenti interior trim while it was overseas. It all seems a very long time ago now! Villain WHen you're a new driver, driving different cars is a bit of an experience, I certainly find it so. I did a couple of BSM driving lessons in an Escort Mk2 but it had a very sharp clutch compared to my dad's Victor.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Feb 23, 2021 19:36:02 GMT
I was doing some part time valeting work at the local Ford dealer to earn some bread to buy my first car and drove three different cars on my first day, a really ratty old Moggy Traveller, a white Mk3 Capri and a bronze Mk1 Granada 3 litre, I have a feeling the Capri was the first one I tackled. I remember that at the time it felt huge, with a bonnet that stretched out to the horizon, and the Granada felt even bigger. The Grannie belonged to the boss so I was being very careful not to smack it into the walls of the garage as I attempted a three point turn in the confined space of the workshop. About two weeks later I bought my first car from the same garage, a part-exed 1977 Belgian built Mini 1000 that had acquired some tasty Innocenti interior trim while it was overseas. It all seems a very long time ago now! Villain WHen you're a new driver, driving different cars is a bit of an experience, I certainly find it so. I did a couple of BSM driving lessons in an Escort Mk2 but it had a very sharp clutch compared to my dad's Victor. Interesting you say that 3L as that's what my late dad thought when he drove my first car, a '79 1.3L MK2 Escort, after comparing it with his Chevette.
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 23, 2021 19:47:48 GMT
I think Ford's of that era had a sharper clutch than others, in my experience anyway.
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Post by Cartman on Feb 23, 2021 22:05:44 GMT
They had cable operated clutches which you had to let the pedal out right to the end of the travel, the 1100 which I was also learning in was the oppisite, they were hydraulic and the clutch engaged as soon as you started to let the pedal up.
I actually think these old motors from the 60s and 70s which I started learning on, and used to drive turned out better drivers than today's cars with power steering and brakes and so on.
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Post by Nightfly on Apr 8, 2021 16:07:30 GMT
The first - a yellow Mini Metro belonging to BSM (British School of Motoring) with the pointed magnetic "L" sign on the roof which always reminded me of a dunce hat :)
First car I owned after passing the test was a 1975 Mk II Escort estate which was ex Royal Navy. It still had the MOD issue fire extinguisher clipped to the centre console, though it was already 12 years old when I bought it so I doubt it would have been any use if the car started to smoke. Rust and a tendency to let in rain and form a puddle in the back prompted me to sell it a few years later to a father and son who wanted a first car. "He wants an estate so he can have birds in the back", his Dad said. Had to stop myself from replying, "probably best keep a pair of wellies in the back, then".
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