What car did you pass your driving test in?

[Godfrey]

Long wheel based land rover diesel ex army in 1976. Unusual choice even then but all work had to spare.

 

[Godfrey]

Hillman Hunter 1725.

With overdrive?

 

[MOCAŠ]

The year I was born, That would've been a HB Viva?

More likely to have been an HC.

Passed my test in a mk2 Ford Escort.

 

[W4E300]

A Talbot Sunbeam - or was it a Sunbeam Talbot......?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01426/Sunbeam-Lotus_1426392c.jpg

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[Peter T]

1957 Mk II Ford Consul.

It was my first car and the reg. was VUL109!

 

[MOCAŠ]

A Talbot Sunbeam - or was it a Sunbeam Talbot......?

Right first time, though the one in your photo is a Lotus Sunbeam.

A Sunbeam Talbot, on the other hand, would have looked more like this:

 

[baxlin]

Mk 1 Cortina courtesy BSM. But the car I'd had my lessons in, with floor gear change and handbrake, was crashed the day before my test, so I had to use their other Cortina, column change/bench seat/unbrella handbrake. Also all the demist controls were different, and it poured with rain throughout my test.....

Still passed first time though, as I had my bike test the previous year, and two RAF tests a few years later.

 

[Clkrichard]

A Lambretta GT200 and then a Simca 1000

 

[BTB 500]

More likely to have been an HC.

Definitely HC. My first car (discounting an Austin 1300 that went straight from the MOT station to a scrap yard ) was a 1971 Viva HC.

 

[Ian Donkin]

A 1980 Hyundai Pony 1.4.... Awful car, but passed first time to keep up the family record.

 

[George Douglas]

a35 for the car and Lambretta sx200 for the bike.

 

[Tazz666]

Definitely HC. My first car (discounting an Austin 1300 that went straight from the MOT station to a scrap yard ) was a 1971 Viva HC.

I got my Viva's mixed up Deffinatley a HC, as my dad had one of them

 

[theogeor]

Isuzu Gemini a late 1980s model... Easy car for a learner....but as a drivers car.. stupid. That was the car I passed my test. The car I actually learned to drive was a Mazda 323 the last real wheel drive. I had that car for few years and I learn a lot on how to handle real wheel drive cars...

Theo

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Not mentioning what motorbike I passed my test on because that wasn't the OP's question and I know that deviation from the thread is frowned upon so rarely happens . But I passed my car test in my first car, a 1954 Austin A40 Somerset:

 

[artyman]

A 1964 Hillman Minx, first time.

 

[sspeed]

Err Old Honda civic

 

[Mercator]

The year I was born, That would've been a HB Viva?

No I have just looked on Wikipedia and it was an HC as correctly stated by some others. I remember the distinctive ridge along the middle of the bonnet.

I only had a couple of instructor lessons as I had learnt to drive tractors and cars on our farm before I was ten. However I always remember the instructors question 'What is the most dangerous component in this car?' to which the correct answer was 'The nut behind the wheel'.

 

[Clivefa]

Ford Anglia 105E, white with a red stripe, in December 1966. I think the stripe signified it was 1200cc.

 

[tanuie]

Singer chamois, or a posh Hillman imp, first time, a long
time ago.

 

[johnkyte]

1974 mini pick up, in red! with a 1300GT engine fitted.

In 1955 ,I painted my car red,,only to find that most insurance companies would not insure a red car