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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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D4B

Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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My Dad used to let me drive (steer) his electric milk float on his rounds from when I was 5  |
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Riley Blue
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire
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I would have been four or five and living in Lincolnshire where my Dad had a Standard Vanguard RAF staff car. He would sit me on his lap and drive home from the base with me 'steering' for the final hundred yards or so - we both survived... |
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 1386 Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I was allowed to sit on my father's knee and steer the car from around the age of nine or so but the first vehicle I actually drove was a grey Ferguson tractor on my uncle's farm when I was eleven.
My uncle and father were keen for me to learn and I was taught how to manoeuvre and reverse a farm trailer and do it quite well by the time I was twelve.
I drove a Series 2 Land Rover belonging to a farmer friend of my parents many times on his land and taught how to double declutch on the semi crash 'box.
That was when I was in my early teens and by by then I had been taught so well that I could down change by listening to the Series 2's diesel engine with just one clutch action.
My cousin, a girl, did better than me. Her task at the end of a working day was to park her father's fuel delivery tankers, 4, 6 and 8 wheelers in order of departure for the morning and refuel them.
She was about 13 when I saw her do this and, boy, was she skilful. _________________ Starting Handle Expert
1964 Jaguar Mark 2 3.4 litre
1962 Land Rover Series 2a 88"
2002 BMW M3 E46 Cabriolet |
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 1359 Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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I was allowed to drive my dads wolseley 6/110 (auto) up and down his uncles farm drive from about the age of 8..loved it.
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4857 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
At sometime during the period Greenham Common was out of use between WWII and 1950 I had a go at steering a Ford 8 Tudor, on the airfield, sat on my uncles knee.
We were on our way from Bristol to Guildford and I would have been between 4 & 8. _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Black Rock North wales sands aged about 8 semi sat/stood between the Old Mans knees in a column shift PB Velox. First drove a 100mph aged 12 on an old airfield somewhere near Acaster Malbis, York with the Old Man as a passenger in his very hot Corsair 2000. |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1763 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Aged around 4, steering my grandad's car, he always had Vauxhalls but not sure exactly which model at the time, it wouldn't have been more than 2 or 3 years old (mid/late 80's) along the last couple of hundred yards of the old Great North Road - a bypassed stretch leading nowhere very much, I hasten to add - at Sutton on Trent in Notts. It's amazing how you remember this stuff when you think about it. |
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Ellis
Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 1386 Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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BigJohn wrote: | in a column shift PB Velox.. |
That was something else I was taught as well - changing gear on the column shift of our PA Velox from the front bench seat. _________________ Starting Handle Expert
1964 Jaguar Mark 2 3.4 litre
1962 Land Rover Series 2a 88"
2002 BMW M3 E46 Cabriolet |
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Jonv8
Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 66
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Eight,sat on dads lap steering the SIIA Land Rover... |
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KevC
Joined: 21 Nov 2013 Posts: 13
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Behind the wheel....or handlebars.
My dad had motorbikes (and sidecars) in my early years. My first experience of driving anything was nervously making my way round the back garden on a Vespa/Lambretta or something similar. |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 4173 Location: The Somerset Levels
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My brother who is a couple years older than I got heavily into Land Rovers when he was about 17. He had two old Series 2's and when I was 14 he let me drive the short wheelbase one around the private lanes etc where he kept them, great fun at the time! |
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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My very first job after leaving school at 15 was as a van boy on a local baker's Albion van. It was a Friday and my driver collected his money then. We were driving along and he says "can you drive?" I said "no". "Can you ride a bike?" I said "yes". "Grab this wheel then and steer the van" So I got on top of the engine cover and took hold of the wheel. He then starts to mark up his book as I steered the van along the byways. At one point I got the van onto the grass verge and got a clip on the ear. He said "I thought you said you could drive" I retorted " No! I said I could ride a bike"
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1165 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I first drove my father's wartime Commer utility when I was about eight or nine around our Essex farm, with a large fat cushion under my bum so that I could see through the steering wheel and reach the pedals with my tip-toes! (Early nineteen fifties)
By age ten I was ploughing with our old pre-war Fordson tractor. (Dad had to crank start it for me!) We had a two furrow plough that used to clank and bang at the ends of each row! No hydraulics on those tractors! How things have changed!
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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I first drove the milk float when I was 5. It was one horse power, if you get my drift. I then progressed to more horsepower at the age of 7 when at the wheel of a V8 Pilot on my Dad's knee. My first car of my own was an E-type at the age of 14 and since we lived in the country we went all over the place in it, untaxed and uninsured naturally. I am though being a bit economical with the truth since while I might say it was an "E-type" it was in fact a Morris Series E 1948 which was my uncle's and which fell foul of the new-fangled 10 year test in 1960 with a rotten chassis. At that age though it was as fast in my eyes as my E-type is today! |
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