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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:17 AM
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i passed around mid day on a friday
went home polished the austin metro's orange paint work
let some fluid out of the suspension to lower it a bit
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and never came home for 3 days

ahhh the good old time

13 years ago now
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:32 AM
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i remember the day i passed.had test in morning,was dropped home.fag n drink then drove to work on my own.following day drove to college to show off my 15's on my mk3 escort .never looked back.17 years next month
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:34 AM
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just before christmas 8 yrs ago dec 23rd 2003 (23 before i passed my test due to bans, DOH!)

was insured in my C reg black mk1 orion injection Ghia before my test pass, got home and felt soooooooo free!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:37 AM
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It will be a day to remember
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:44 AM
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i passed my test 26 days after my 17th birthday and then drove my dads 2.0 ghia sierra and those were the days when if you put a fiver in the tank and it made a difference, then i got a chevette and used to drive everywhere just for fun, can remember driving to dover for no reason and then home.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:45 AM
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I got dropped off after passing the test got insured for a fiat uno. That day i went for my 1st cruise around the town stopped at a set of lights handbrake on then BANG some daft cow ran into me in a ax then blamed me bitch
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:56 AM
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Jan 88, passed first time after 5 lessons lol

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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:00 PM
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Jan 88, passed first time after 5 lessons lol

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shit i was only 8 then

god your old lol
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:02 PM
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Can remember mine well. Passed my test on a Thursday dinner time, went home jumped in my capri took it too the local car park to do some donuts and my driving instructor was in there! she came over to me and said your going to crash that.....3 days later i did!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by lee2cossies
Can remember mine well. Passed my test on a Thursday dinner time, went home jumped in my capri took it too the local car park to do some donuts and my driving instructor was in there! she came over to me and said your going to crash that.....3 days later i did!
lol.

7 years ago for me.
ran to the post office staright after to get tax, got a taxi back though as i couldnt be arsed, then reversed my old mint xr3i cab out of the mot garage and nearly went straight into a cop car lol.

Went for a 6 hours drive. loved it

passed 2nd time with only 4 lessons.:
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:25 PM
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Passed 1996 after 6 lessons, had a mk4 escort 1.3 on cloverleafs. Was meant to go back to work after test but fucked off in the car instead lol.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:52 PM
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April 26th 1994 at 2:30pm, passed first time. Amasing I can remember that 18 years ago but not what happened last night in London
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:57 PM
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Passed after 6 lessons. Got dropped of at home. Cut the L Plates of. Did a burnout outside the rents house lol. Went cruising roung skeggy and got pulled for speeding 6 hours after passing my test. avelled a bit and got a bollocking. Loved my first car. radiant red orion 16i Ghia. saph cossie rear spoiler. Set of 15's and a peco twin dtm back boot long after. Couldnt. Added limo black windows not long after. Couldnt see a thing
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:58 PM
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I remember the day I passed mine, it was one of the best feelings ever!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 02:19 PM
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had mine mid morning, i remember my older brother (also taking lessons) saying 'you wont pass.

Came back in a daze, passed first time, 5 minor faults and in 18 lessons, he was gutted lol!! was another 6 years before he got his license!!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 02:24 PM
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i remember the day i passed mine in 94. it was great to drive back home from the test centre fully qualified in my toyota celica.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:29 PM
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Passed my test 1999 went straight from work got in my mk2 fiesta went to my mates then went for a cruise round the town lol.It felt wierd at first.I kept thinkin to myself that i had better take the car back incase i get caught.I just couldnt believe i had past my test.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:37 PM
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passed mine in 2002 came home and persuaded my dad to let me drive his ford explorer to honda to get some bits for my 98 ek civic vti rep he came with me but i wasnt insured on it lol dont think i slept much for the first few months as i spent 99% of the time in my car
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:38 PM
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25Th may 2007. woke up with stinking hangover as i had been at a wedding reception the day before and got a little carried away.
6 lessons one minor and a hangover. not bad really
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:55 PM
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yeh i remember mine , passed my test about 3 weeks after my 17th birthday , got insure on my dads diahatsu charade turbo ( carb model ) took it down the m55 to see how fast it was
then 3 weeks later put it on its side oops
he has never put me on his insurance since that was 20 years ago
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 06:59 PM
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Ah, happy days....2nd March 1990. Passed my test, went home and got my car (Mk1 Fiesta) and went and picked my brother up from school !
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by lee2cossies
Can remember mine well. Passed my test on a Thursday dinner time, went home jumped in my capri took it too the local car park to do some donuts and my driving instructor was in there! she came over to me and said your going to crash that.....3 days later i did!
brilliant!

I only passed August 4th 2010.
Mine wasn't very impressive, as it was only a mk4 fiesta 1.25.

I dropped it 60mm on some capri lazers in white and thought I was Mr. McRae.
Needless to say, I stacked it in the side of a City Link van on a roundabout!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:29 PM
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passed mine in 2004 first night out cruising got pulled by the police on the way home as my alternator went and I had no lights on! thats the reason I was heading home before I lost all power
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:31 PM
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I passed first time 19 years ago,i was already driving my mini before i passed anyway never got pulled
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:33 PM
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1st May 1964 in my 100E Ford. Nobody seemed to care about safety back then so no speed limits to hold you back . Mind you that old 1172cc side valve was flat out at around 73mph .
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:37 PM
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6 weeks before taking my test I agreed to buy my first car (a mk1 fiesta 1.3 ghia) off a guy who's brother worked with my dad, told him I would be back the afternoon of my test (may 16th 1989) to pick it up, I passed mid morning then got a bollocking off the examiner for celebrating too much lol
Turned up at the guys house that night to pick the car up and he had totally forgot he had agreen to sell me it and hadn't got himself a new car, his wife went mad with him lol He still sold me the car tho...
June 20th 1989 I crashed into an xr3i in car park , november 1989 I wrote it off crusing!

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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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July 2004, got picked up from work lunchtime ish by the instructor, did the test went back to work about three o clock when all the lads were outside on teabreak, i was passenger in the instructors car so they all assumed i'd failed and i then told them i had passed and instructors insurance wouldn't cover people once passed which is why i was the passenger! Then went up the shop opposite work, sat on the freezer eating a lolly getting chatted up by the girls in there, they seemed more excited i'd passed then i did, lol bless em! Nearly 8 years later still haven't got either of them in the back of the car, lmao
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:40 PM
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1986 and straight out in my Nan's 1.1 Popular Mk2 for some sideways action I had swapped the 12" wheels for 13's though
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:46 PM
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May 88, I remember, when I drove to work the next day, thinking how big my mk1 Fiesta seemed inside, with only me in it!? Happy days! Lol
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by MadRod
1st May 1964 in my 100E Ford. Nobody seemed to care about safety back then so no speed limits to hold you back . Mind you that old 1172cc side valve was flat out at around 73mph .
Poor thing, I bet she was screaming
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My first road trip was from blackpool to mansfield, and iirc i put a fiver petrol in to get me there
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:01 PM
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8 days after my 17th bday ,i always remember emergancy stop ,smashed the instructors flask on the dash ,he let me off paying for it as i passed
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:06 PM
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24th june 96, one week before the theory test came in

Alton towers the following night in my mk3 escort

November last year for my bike test
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:24 PM
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passed when i was 17, my instructer said on way home bet you cant wait to get home and drive your car i said fuck that im off out on the lash ive been driving on the road for years allready lol!
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 10:50 PM
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5th August 1996, took me 3 attempts

I was one of the first to do the theory test, at least i passed that first time.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:03 PM
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Try again!!!
April 1993 first time (of course)!!
Yet another broken promise from the old man saw him stop me using his car that first night I passed my test,I was fucking furious,I doubt he let me use the car more than 3 times in 3 months so I worked my ass off that summer,cafe in the day,nightclub in the night and bought myself Ł900's worth of 1.1 fiat UNO.
Some cunt drove into it pissed 2 days later,wrote it off but once again I listened to my idiot father who told me the Ł1250 I got paid for it HAD to be spent on a repair or they'd take the money back out of my account and I'd have nothing.
Knowing no-one I paid Ł1250 to get it repaired,2 doors,pillar and a sill,what a fucking idiot.
Never took advice from that fool ever again,the damage was minimal,I could have had the car,plus Ł1250 and driven it for a year til it needed an Mot,it didn't even look that bad!!!
Mind you I've wasted far more than that over the years on cars!!
Saved just enough from my first few pays to get an UNO turbo and had a great 18 months racing pretty much anything on the road,winning most as well,loved it and would have another one tommorow.
Although only for the weekend,it was hideously unreliable!!!
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:26 PM
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1989 took my test examiner took me back home beat him out of the estate had a mk 2 1600 ghia in white was 24 years old [had been driving since i was 15 years old ]
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 12:44 PM
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i remember passing mine. i passed first time on the day my car was getting mot'd. It was a mk3 fiesta si and its passed its mot but the tester said it desperatly needed a clutch but he couldnt do it untill the following monday. as it was friday i still took the car home so i could have it over the weekend.

i went out with my mate who has a 1.4 cvh escort, his car broke down as it over heated so we had to call the RAC, once they came i took my mate back to his, we all jumped in my fez and jumped back on the motorway when my clutch went and we had to call the RAC again!

2 break downs in a hour haha funny day though
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 08:42 PM
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I passed my first one in March 2000 at 10am, went to the bank and got a loan then bought a Sierra but wrote it off about 5 days later so got a ban for dangerous driving!

Fast forward to August 2006 I passed again and have been legal ever since!
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Mine was March 5th 2010... Not that far back to remember!

Went out for 5 mins in my 1.9TD 406 Estate. Came home and turned the turbo up
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