Where did you take your driving test ?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Pedro del monkeybike, Nov 2, 2020.

  1. I took mine at Unigate Dairies
    Totton ,Southampton :)
     
  2. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

  3. Ward End. Birmingham. Passed first time. 29 Feb 1968 :thumbsup:


    Edit.
    Forgot to mention the bike test, round about ‘65 on a Lambretta Li125, which I eventually sold for £25. (If I’d known then what I know now) failed first time, which was the day after I got the bike back after previously being stolen from outside my bans house. My first experience of claiming on insurance. Both tests taken in Erdington, at the test centre which used to be on the junction of Kingsbury Road & Bromford Road. Just up the road from The Old Green Man pub, for those who may know the area.
     
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  4. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    Barnard castle.

    oh no, that was my eye test
     
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  5. In a small Mazda with a Brummie ex-ambulance driver called Mike.
     
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  6. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    Failed number one in Hitchin, passed at second attempt in Luton.
     
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  8. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    proper answer

    I was waiting nervously on my doorstep for the overdue driving instructor - 15 mins late.
    a new guy turns up, in a new car, to tell me that the previous instructor had a crash.
    new car, 45 mins practice before test.

    passed first time!! :)
     
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  9. In Portsmouth in Bedford Rl 4 tonner army truck 1968 passed first time
     
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  10. Cape Canaveral;)
     
  11. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    Fox Hill, Bath. Passed 1st time after 6 £9.00 per hour lessons.
    Been driving since I was 13...
     
  12. Leighton Buzzard. 1990. Passed second time. The first time I failed literally as I pulled out of the test centre. I was so nervous that I failed to look properly, started to pull out, felt the car stop, confused I looked at the tester and realised he’d applied his brake, instant fail. Didn’t see large calor gas lorry that was looming down on us. After that I drove okay cos I knew I’d failed.

    It was in a proton. Remember those?
     
  13. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    Proton???? Bloody youngster.
     
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  14. Lazy Andy

    Lazy Andy Supporter

    Failed one driving in Luton, passed the second one when the tester took me on the easy route driving out of Luton... you can see the incentive!
     
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  15. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Southfields sarf London 1977
     
  16. In Northampton, I failed my first one in October 1983, had my next one cancelled in the December due to the weather and finally passed on Valentine's day 1984. And I was driving a silver Triumph Acclaim:thumbsup:.

    I can remember getting home all excited, ripping the now redundant L plates off my Morris Marina and prepared to venture out into the big wide world all alone.......unfortunately the piece of BL marmite had other ideas and refused to start:D
     
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  17. Very naive of you...
     
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  18. Berko not good enough for you ;)?
     
  19. Walton Liverpool in a BSM Austin A40 - April 1962
     
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  20. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    First time passed Redhill, 1985. Mitsubishi Colt.
     
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