Were you full of confidence (after all, you've passed your test - your good enough to drive alone!?) or a little, shall we say, tense and nervous or even worse?

Your experiences, memories please?

I was a little nervous but then if you aren't going to drive alone what's the point of passing your test! You've got to do it sooner or later!

Exciting and exhilaration , is what i felt driving alone before my test

[quote name='w481ggc' post='683102' date='Jul 25 2009, 02:08 PM']Exciting and exhilaration , is what i felt driving alone before my test [/quote] I agree! It must have been about 1976, in an ancient Ford Anglia at Tockwith aerodrome. In those days of long hot summers and cheap petrol, they ran a thriving car club for under 17s, which I attended. The cars were old Anglias, Fiat 500s and suchlike. We youngsters got put through our paces both in the classroom and out on the airfield, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Once you’d got a given level of skill, you were then allowed out on the airfield without an instructor and it was a great privilege.

By the time I was 17 (in 1980), car control was a given, it was just traffic awareness that I needed on the road. I passed my test a few weeks after my birthday and my first unaccompanied trip out on the road was in my Dad’s Rover P6, the V8 version. Yes, I was nervous, but that was probably good. Nowadays, you couldn’t possibly insure a 17 year old on an equivalent motor

ive been driving for 25yrs and errrrrr NEVER sat a car test hehe i joined the army and went straight into a HGV 3 sat and passed that test along with over the years my bike licence, track licence(for tanks) PSV licence and in civvy street my LGV CLASS 1 artics got my car licence as a freebie when i got my HGV 3
but back on topic the first time i drove a car(actually a landrover) i fluffed up big time driving on the autobahn i drove it like a hgv ie doubling the clutch etc was called a muppet or words to that effect by the officer i was driving and asked if id passed my test to which effect i said NO he told me to pull over and he drove me lol untill he relised id gained car licence thro my hgv

I was a Fishmonger & had 2 drive a Bedford van the boss threw the keys @ me & said off u go & i was scared stiff but soon got over it & now i love driving been @ it near on 22 years now & never got bored with it will drive anywhere.

My first drive was from Leeds back to RAF Scampton near Lincoln after picking up a Mk5 Cortina from the car auctions in Leeds. Won it on the Tuesday I think it was, and picked it up on the Saturday. Was a tad nervous, especially as it involved some motorway driving but the buzz of driving my own car (even if it was only a Cortina) was immense.

It was 1975, I was an apprentice at Rediffusion ( remember them!) and the Escort vans were left in what could only be described as a large wooden shed parked alongside each other.
Only being sixteen I had no car licence but having studied the method of driving when helping to make deliveries I convinced the driver that I could sucessfully park his van for him in the shed.
Knowing I had to push the left pedal and the right pedal completely to the floor I engaged 1st let off the handbrake and quickly lifted my foot off the left pedal,with a satisfying screech of tyres the van flew forward into the shed straight through the back and out the other side only being stopped by the wire mesh security fence behind
Having witnessed this act of dedication to my job the Engineer in Charge suggested I might need some more tuition so the company paid for all my lessons at £3.50 an hour in a lovely blue Austin 1100, my test ( passed 1st time) and £5.00 for my "lifetime" green licence as it was then ( since then of course ripped off by the government with a renewable photocard one.)

i rember very well nearly 5 years ago i passed my test and got 3 points + £60 fine great day

I've been driving since i was 9, rally driving since 10 (both my parents were rally drivers before i was born so it's kinda in the blood) and i passed my drivers on my 18th birthday - you have to be 18 in South Africa, and my brother gave me his BMW 3 series for the day to celebrate. i can honestly say even though i had been driving for nearly 10 years, i was bricking it driving through town that first time on my own LOL.

I can remember it well....i had a 1.4 Ford Orion i got of my brother...was a little nervous even though i passed my test 1st time....then 3 weeks later lost the rear end on a wet bend and scuffed the rear bumper on a wall... soon learned NOT to drive fast in the wet....

passed my test(17) jumped straight in to my metro turbo(i know but it was faster than my mates cars)two hours later i was being pulled from a wall!!lol.

Took the car test in the early fifties (but had been riding a motorcycle before that). I took home the bloke who accompanied me to the test - never had any lessons, just got friends to come out with me - ah the good old days - then drove back to work.

When I reached the ripe old age of 75, I decided that I ought to re-take the test, to satisfy myself that I was still competent. I drove myself to the test and drove myself home again afterwards. I took the practical test in the IS250. The on-the-floor parking brake and the reversing camera seemed to give the tester some pause, but apart from that it went without incident.