Learnt in an Austin 1100, then had a break for a few weeks with 2 lessons booked before test and instructor now turned up with an NSU Prinz for these two. Elected to use my father’s Austin 1300 for test. Dad died a few months later and that became my 1st car.
Henry Stephens:
I bet Carryfast aka Geoffrey passed in a British Leyland Austin Allegro Vanden Plas luxury edition with the square steering wheel and fake leather seats.
Before my time so I had to Google the Allegro. Just to see the square steering wheel lol. Reminds me of a scania steering wheel nowadays.
commonrail:
Passed in a micra,first motor,was an ■■■■■■ van.
I brought this micra to use for work , most unrealisable car we’ve probably ever had , every week something went wrong , brought my girl 106 as first car & never went wrong , after it was wrote off , I bodged it and ran it as works car for years
I had a Pug 106 that went on and on for years, a diesel car but would go very fast.
Those little diesels were great cars. My Fiesta used to cruise at 100 coming home after nights haha.
md1987:
Those little diesels were great cars. My Fiesta used to cruise at 100 coming home after nights haha.
“on private roads of course, officer!”
Foot down Friday.
Henry Stephens:
I had a Pug 106 that went on and on for years, a diesel car but would go very fast.
It went ok , petrol , until it got hit , then it didn’t go very fast or handle with the amount of filler I used to bodge car
It was the car that was wrote off , took away by ins then we got a phone call saying come & collect the car , I’d insured it as me as main driver , daughter as named driver but she was owner on log book , think we lost £1600 on value of car , £5000 really as had to buy daughter replacement car , fiesta zetecs , went through financial ombudsman but if I remember right we got £40 for inconvenience, that’s why I bodged it & used it for 3 yrs
You can imagine how many big cans of filler , how much I had to grind off door / shut to get it too close , looked a right mess but as a works car served me well
passed in a allegro .first car was a opel manta 1.9 sr . owned/drove manta ,mini. imp, tansit and a t2 vw van before i got round to actually taking a test. 
Henry Stephens:
I bet Carryfast aka Geoffrey passed in a British Leyland Austin Allegro Vanden Plas luxury edition with the square steering wheel and fake leather seats.
Shhhh, he and his BS havn’t been here for a while now, leave sleeping dogs lay.
dozy:
Henry Stephens:
I had a Pug 106 that went on and on for years, a diesel car but would go very fast.It went ok , petrol , until it got hit , then it didn’t go very fast or handle with the amount of filler I used to bodge car
It was the car that was wrote off , took away by ins then we got a phone call saying come & collect the car , I’d insured it as me as main driver , daughter as named driver but she was owner on log book , think we lost £1600 on value of car , £5000 really as had to buy daughter replacement car , fiesta zetecs , went through financial ombudsman but if I remember right we got £40 for inconvenience, that’s why I bodged it & used it for 3 yrs
You can imagine how many big cans of filler , how much I had to grind off door / shut to get it too close , looked a right mess but as a works car served me well
Dozy, you could have repaired that properly for the same cost as the bodge you did.
Sir Geoffrey Carrynotveryfast MBE OBE MRCVS BA Hons MA Hons in A frame trailer technology ,Imperial/Metric BBC Bridge Bashing Club height calculations has been very quiet lately.
I hear of the great white shark in Australia but maybe the shark has attacked Dozy’s car?
Or Doze went to Longleat safari park and the car got rammed by a rhino or a hungry hippo on heat, luckily the sides and didn’t get his back doors banged in to.