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How old were you when you first drove a car?
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I first drove a car at a school fete when I was 10 years old. There was a driving instructor charging kids 50p a go to drive round the field.0
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When I was 14-15 my Dad used to take me to Elvington airfield near York and then shout at me for going too fast. A couple of years later, I used to go to his place of work after school and 'get the car out' of the garage there and just shunt it around a bit. (It was private land.) I was 100% confident with gears and clutch, and low-speed manoeuvring before I went near a public road, and I am sure that made the formal lesson part of learning much easier.If someone is nice to you but rude to the waiter, they are not a nice person.0
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It was my dad's first car, which he bought when I was 7 and sold when I was 9. I was driving regularly on private land from 16, and then out on the road before work on the morning of my 17th birthday.0
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Is the OP doing some kind of Market Research or writing a book, many threads started with inane questions:question:
Not certain if it a real person, probably a posterbot. Same modus operandi, starts a thread and never returnsIf you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
I was 62 !0
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23. A ford Cortina mk 3 [red with a black roof]. :cool:0
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9 on my brother's AJS 500 bike, up and down his (initially!) quiet street.
11 in my Uncle Jim's Rover 10, around an old Cheshire airfield, not far from Oulton Park cicuit.
16 in a Ford Pilot V8, swearing I was 18 to the -ahem! - young lady daft enough to be my passenger. The 'gullwing' bonnet parted company with the car, which ended a relationship before it got going. No insurance, road tax or licence. Eventually I returned to bikes, joined the Army, received the best Driver Training in the country, passed and drove just about anything from Land Rovers to aircraft Recovery trucks.
I am 72, so most of this was a long time ago when the world was young and the roads were not filled with fast traffic.I think this job really needs
a much bigger hammer.
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In keeping with the OP's MO .... I was 5.
Oh, sorry, did you say car ? Thought you said cart. My name is Lewis Hamilton if you'd like to PM me for further information.
Mods, please can we ban this poster and her banal questions ?0
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