First car you drove

[mollykins]

What was the first car you drove?

But say whether it was (il)legal and whether it was on private land or a proper road etc.

How far did you go? did anythin bad/ interesting happen?

[ummmm]

Vauxhall Astra...Sunday in a carpark on a indutrial estate.

Legally on the roads....Citreon ZX.

[tamborine]

Dad's Austin Westminster with new innovative overdrive on newly opened M4 extension to the west in 60's. I nicked the car !

[mrs_overall]

True story.
When I was in my teens, four of us (all with provisional licences) clubbed together and bought a Ford Capri. We set off for France for a summer of grape picking. After a minor altercation in a cafe, we decided we didn't like the French. We drove across Europe....all the way to Turkey. We spent the day in Turkey then had a slow drive home.

[mrs_overall]

It was...apart from being arrested for straying into a country (blowed if I can remember which one - it may have been Romania or Yugoslavia) without the relevant visa

[daftgrandad]

Many, before I passed my test.
First one after, was my Dads Hillman Imp
Everything was fine,until the bl00dy thing caught fire,on the way to a cricket match !

[mrs_overall]

I wonder how many of these cars Molly has heard of lol

[daftgrandad]

You are so right mrs o
I had a Vauxhall Pubic in the 60s,it was made out of old Cors-airs.

[tiggerblue10]

Nissan Micra, when I was learning to drive over 20 years ago.

[mrs_overall]

lol dg!

[netibiza]

Minivan, illegally (had no licence) in the mid-60's

[boxtops]

Apart from steering my sister's Ford Popular down the drive in the 1960s, I'd say my first legal drive was about mid1970s when I learned to drive legally. No idea what car though, my first own car was a Nissan Micra bought in 1989. I spent a lot of years with a licence but no car.

[DTCwordfan]

Triumph Herald - red one

Lessons in a private quarry, family owned.

And this was my first car on the road. First I bought was after my gap year (though we didn't call it that back then) and was an Autin 1100

[Khandro]

Riley Pathfinder, bought for £27 and on my first drive the exhaust dropped off in the middle of Malmesbury, a butcher came out of his shop and gave me a piece of string to tie it back on. The car went on to better things serving me well, and I sold it 3 years later for £25, not bad depreciation really!

[TTG]

Private land - Ford Escort
On the road (first driving lesson) - Mini

[craft1948]

First car legally was in 1967 and it was a Hillman Minx (4446DN) which brings back memories of courting victim 1.
First thing I ever drove (illegally) was in 1963 and was a Triumph Tiger Cub, in the grounds of Ampleforth College.

[sara3]

first drive, a Ford Escort (proper lesson). first car, Triumph Herald. it was ancient then, and fell apart shortly after.

[DSJ]

An Austin Mini van (legally) in 1973. Passed my test early in 1974. The van was later converted with side windows and rear seats and did a splendid job on the school run for many years.