At what age did you learn to drive?

[Kirbs]

About 13 there was a knackered Ford Pop that a local teenager new how to crank over,drove it up a "gully" the back of our house

Legally 4 weeks after I was able to,got a cancellation from the test centre in Lichfield,had no driving lessons other than with my step dad in a Morris 1100,did not know the hand signal for turning left,stuck arm out of window and pointed towards the left,instructor bent down to see what I was doing???

Those were the days

Paul

 

[coxyhog]

Passed my test at age 19(1972) in my own car,an Austin 1300 which I wrote off two weeks later.
A year later after writing off my second car,an Austin A40 I passed my bike test.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

Passed my test at age 19(1972) in my own car,an Austin 1300 which I wrote off two weeks later.
A year later after writing off my second car,an Austin A40 I passed my bike test.

On the bright side, in spite of all that, you are still with us.

 

[00slk]

I was 13 when I first drove and was lucky enough to a have a great Dad who let me drive on a private road where my Uncle and Grandad were managers and caretakers of a big company. Within a few months I was on the road mixing in with the grown ups. (My Dad's excuse for letting me drive on the public road was when its time to take my test I should be experienced)
Oh this did backfire, as I had picked up all the bad driving habits like driving with one hand and leaving the other on the gear lever, speeding and being too cocky

Peter

 

[Alfie]

Car - learnt at 16! passed test just after 17th birthday

Bike - Learnt at 13 in the fields etc passed test at 17.

 

[littlebrooklyn]

My dad started teaching me to drive when I was 17, failed my first test when I was 18, passed my second one at 19. I've had gaps of years and years when I haven't driven at all and it's been like going back to being a learner again when I've got behind the wheel. Unlike riding a bicycle I do actually think you can forget how to drive a car, or maybe it's just that the roads get so much busier all the time

 

[coxyhog]

In 2003 when I'd just paid almost £11k for my Harley and I rode it out of the dealer's I hadn't been on a bike for 18 years....I was a tad nervous!

 

[Little Phil]

Well, I learned to drive when I was about 12 by "borrowing" my fathers Ford Anglia Van.

Further enhanced at 15 by borrowing his then Moskvitch estate...

I sat and failed my 1st test 3 days after my 17th birthday.... examiner not impressed with my double de clutching expertise & non knowledge of highway code.

Took 10 lessons after that and passed 8 weeks later

 

[Smeagol]

Just being slightly different..........

My first license was for an aeroplane. I obtained a Private Pilot's License at the grand old age of 17 years and about 3 months. I think I was in the 10 youngest PPL's in country at the time.
I tell people the first vehicle I learnt to drive had 3 wheels, was about 23 feet long, 30 feet wide, was steered with ones feet and had no means of reversing.

I obtained a license to drive a car some 3 years later.

Only learned to ride a motor cycle in my late 20's, almost certainly illegally as I had no license, but it was on an oil camp in the Sumatran (Indonesia) jungle where I was working.

Complete reverse order to most people.

 

[Painter16]

Passed me test at 17.me mum and dad brought me first car triumph herald,£40,wish I still had it,hand painted it British racing green,pulled some ladies in that.haha

 

[Vehementi]

Started learning at 17, passed when I was 19.

I'm 27 now so been on the road for a good few years.

 

[nicholas15]

started with a week of lessons then about 3 months of one a week before passing test. Mother tried to supervise me once - but stopped the car after 100 yards and insisted she took over.
Still learning after many years, many cars and many hundreds of thousands of miles.

 

[BryanC]

I did my N/Service in 1956,I was aMP in the Army,I passed driving a Truck, When i was in the Far East;I rode a M/c .I never did take Test for that.:lol:

 

[AMGeed]

Age 17 on two wheels and 21 in a car. Couldn't afford a car until then.

 

[Ricardo_e220]

About 11 or 12 on the back of a beach in menorca in my parents SEAT127 - dad taught me there for clutch control... You over do it you dig out son

Needless to say I have yet to destroy a clutch on a car (there's still time I suppose - 23years)

 

[Noelmc]

17, took 11 lessons, test was on 31st Dec 1975, it started snowing and when I got back to the test station my examiner was told to go to the office (before I took the questions) was told the other 2 tests that were going on had been abandoned , and if he was going to fail me he should abandon the test, if he was going to pass me, then he was to carry on, I passed. A test I couldn't fail !

 

[jmurray01]

I planned to learn as soon as I turned 17, but having no money and rather unstable living conditions delayed that.

Ultimately I was 20 years old by the time I first got behind the wheel in January this year, and passed my test 7 months later in August.

Part of me wishes I had been able to do it three years ago, but perhaps I wouldn't have been as mature then and if I had taken the test at 17, I may have failed. Waiting until now meant that I had the maturity and determination to pass first time, which I did.

 

[Frontstep]

Youth is practising on off road area's and has been for a while.

I started driving on the roads. I took my test,
the two are muddled in my diary as to when