How old where you when you first.........

[Cookie]

Ever drove a car, reading another post got me wondering how old most people where when they first ever drove a car on there own, not sat on a lap turning the wheel steering pedals and all

 

I was very young, but i did have the advantage of being massivly tall all my life, was getting served beer at 13 without a second look

 

I'm not sure of the age, but it was second year of junior school (8 maybe is it ????) on boxing day, my old man took me to the local comprehensive school that has got huge grounds, and taught me to drive in my mums old blue vauxhall chevete It is a very vivid and good memory i have, and have had the car bug ever since

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Well the first vehicle I drove properly wasn't a car. It was a JCB! We'd moved to a new Barrett estate when I was 12. I think I was 13 when two of the builders (they were Irish and we called them Paddy and Spike even though we never knew their real names) were working on a Sunday and no one else was. Paddy let me have a go at driving the JCB. Ok, it was only for about 25 metres but I still drove it.

 

The second car was my dads Cavalier round a car park when I was 16.

[over_head_cam]

My mate (bestest) GAVE me a Mk Cortina when I was about 17. I promptly jumped in a drove it home - Very fookin badly I reckon I was a bit of a late starter

[Stu_B]

I didn't drive a car till I was 17 but I grew up with fieldbikes, go-karts & tractors

[orionmojo]

first time i properly drove it was a mk2 festa when i was 16. my dad 'got it for a pint' sort of thing cos it was rotten and taught me to drive in it round the truckstop cos i helped him change the kingpins on his tipper. good memories

[Gareth]

Think I was about... Err.... 17.... I think.

 

Was in a m8's brand new 106

 

He killed it 18 months later

[X-pack-Glyn]

I lifted my mums fiesta mk1 (950 POWER) when she stopped outside woolworths in high wycombe, i think i was about 12-13, usuall thing i thought i knew it all, but i got it right round the block before she came out and the clutch stank.

 

after that i tought myself to drive in a rotted out mk1 1100 4 door, i kept it in a block of garages outside my nans bungalow and would just potter about in the compound, eventually mastered the doughnut (as best as you can with an 1100 on crossplys), handbrake turn, and how to drive into a wall and look very silly .

[Jimbob-Squarepants ©]

Jimbob was 13, and it was in his first car... A Fiat 126!

 

Although I don't generally make that well known!!!

[Osgood Isgood]

I was 18! Very late starter.....made up for it since though as I wouldn't mind a quid for every mile I have ever driven!

 

I have made the mistake of teaching my Daughter (now 15) to drive at the age of 12!

 

She thinks she can drive the car to the shops now!

[Mr.Sumo]

13....ON THE RACETRACK I HASTEN TO ADD

 

Properly and legally , 2 weeks after i turned 17...4 lessons then my test , passed first time

Then my Dad let me have a go in his mk1 Sierra company car , drove it round the block twice ... he"s never let me drive another car of his since ...can"t see why myself

 

[Pye Man]

I was 11 or 12. Driving my dads Transit round on the beach.

[bmxdave]

Mines gotta be on the beach. I was about 9 or 10. Could barely reach the pedals. In a mk3 Astra 1600. After i had the hang of the clutch i was promptly taken out of the seat by my mum for driving 'irraticaly'.

[tazrocks88]

i was about 10 i drove my dads subaru pickup round a field

[Daveyboy20]

I got a capri for my 14th birthday and me and my mate would sneak it out when we got a chance (around an airfield of course )

[mk2_escort_chick]

12 I think.

Dad would let me drive up and down the back alley and at lydden hill on the field

Also I was doing pcts by the time I was 14.

[Rick]

i was quite younbg but it was only an automatic

[old skool freestyler]

i was 12 when i started autograss racing a day before my first ever race meeting for a couple of hours

[Wessie]

the day before i was racing while i was driving it round the field the bloke teaching me was taking the car apart still

worked almost all night then i raced th enext day, did a 360 spin on the 2nd corner, then ripped the sidewall out the tyre on the last lap and still limped it home for a trophy (3rd overall )

[old skool freestyler]

my first race meeting went about that well lol

[Guest HPEjadey1]

i was 10 and ripping up and down the lanes!!!! woo hoo!!1

[andrewg1323]

Learnt in the local scrappie at about 15, did 100 yards then wham my uncle ran into the back of me, learnt to use mirrors fast after that!

That night i was on track having never taken a corner

It was an interesting 5 laps i lasted

[RFChris]

13, and i 'kangaroo'd' my dads escort across a car park.....

 

i've improved since then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

slightly.

[Wessie]

at least it was going in a staright line aye chris

[Chris!]

1 was 13 when i drove dads brand new jeep grand cherokee ovris lol he still doenst no

[escort new boy]

well year 7 (age 11-12) was a mk5 fiesta and i did rather well tbh never stalled it but started on a hill practised a good old emergency stop and nearly put the person in the passenger seat threw the window but he said slam em on