I drove for the 1st time!
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You Cheeky Bugger!! zippee said:
Remember my first time on the road - absolutely cacked it
Me too, it was on a go-kart made out of an old bedstead and a Lambretta 200 engine which I had aquired by swopping a pair of binoculars and a digital watch way back in the seventies. I was 14 at the time and it was such a long way to the gravel pits to push it, so I drove the damn thing 
If I was a kid now, I would have a string of ASBO'S. Hope to see you at the Romper sometime Charliemoo, with or without L plates.
Balmoral Green said:
If I was a kid now, I would have a string of ASBO'S.
Me too! When I was about 12, myself and some friends managed to jump start an abandoned car on the Green where we used to play. We drove all took turns driving around the block - only I couldn't because I couldn't reach the pedals (nothing's changed really)
My first driving experience was a Simca in 1987 in Old Reading car park (near Bushey). My boyfriend taught me how to drive, and I managed to get the hang of balancing the clutch/accelerator quite quickly, changing gear was a whizz and I thought I had it sorted. Only he hadn't taught me how to stop!!!
I learned to drive at 14 - some 25 yrs ago ,in a lwb Series 2 Land Rover , along the side of the Bridgewater Canal near Booothstown Tip.
The Landy was great , although the gear lever used to come off in your hand when changing into 3rd.
Not a problem at the canal side , but more of an issue whilst driving it home along the East Lancs.
The Landy was great , although the gear lever used to come off in your hand when changing into 3rd.
Not a problem at the canal side , but more of an issue whilst driving it home along the East Lancs
.fond memories... I remember piloting (steering ) a tractor through fields of oilseed rape and barley that were taller than I was.. then I remember changing gear for my father, graduating to changing gear while racing down a country lane as fast as we could go..then when I could reach the pedals (about age ten IIRC) driving round car parks and when I could fit a car properly (age 13ish) belting round the country lanes in north northumberland learning to drive fast 
bloody fantastic and all done under the dead of night with my father as co-driver with pace notes and all done in his company car finally I remember being picked up from school in a hire car by my father and since it was snowing a blizzard and most of the roads were cut off (in the borders of scotland) he let me drive home, stopping only at every single roman fort on the military road to practise J-Turns, handbrake turns, spinning starts and power slides..
who said I was brought up wrongly?
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) a tractor through fields of oilseed rape and barley that were taller than I was.. then I remember changing gear for my father, graduating to changing gear while racing down a country lane as fast as we could go..then when I could reach the pedals (about age ten IIRC) driving round car parks and when I could fit a car properly (age 13ish) belting round the country lanes in north northumberland learning to drive fast bloody fantastic and all done under the dead of night with my father as co-driver with pace notes and all done in his company car finally I remember being picked up from school in a hire car by my father and since it was snowing a blizzard and most of the roads were cut off (in the borders of scotland) he let me drive home, stopping only at every single roman fort on the military road to practise J-Turns, handbrake turns, spinning starts and power slides.. who said I was brought up wrongly?
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minimax said:
<incriminates himself badly> 
And I thought I had it good when I was a kid - need to have words with my father and tell him off for being so strict... I just got to drive the Sierra 4x4 back and forth on the driveway (admittedly not an easy task as it was about 100m long and anything but straight).
Did the ad-hoc go-kart thing too but it never really went well enough to cause trouble, mostly it just sat there shredding the alternator belt I had chosen for driving the rear axle...
jimbro1000 said:
minimax said:
<incriminates himself badly>
And I thought I had it good when I was a kid
father was more of a hooligan than I am
I still have lots of things to do on the list that he's done
...which is what caused me to fire soda siphon cartridges at empty barges on the thames from my exe's flat 80ft up (dead simple really, 2ft square flat piece of ply, two sides on it about 2" tall and a nail in the join...hammer said siphon on and fiiiiiizzzzz....BANG!) upon hitting the barge floor they made a noise like big ben when you got it right Edited by minimax on Tuesday 1st August 12:55
My First time was on a fergi 135,TOP Tractor.At 9years old,and then when 14 took it on the main Road In The Lizard Cornwall,Infront of my mates,flat out and then pulled handbrake up left two great big black lines in the village sqaure,which did not go down well!!With anybody in the Village!!!Was that you the other night Burnard 
I just new it would be such a stupid boy!!
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