What did you pass your test in, what was your first car and your first crash in?

[Mook]

Politics schmolitics.

Idea for this thread shamelessly stolen from northloop.co.uk :D

What did you pass your test in? What was your first car (yes, own up)? What was your first crash in and why?

Me?

Test: Driving school's Ford Fiesta 1.0 L. The L is all important

First Car: Beetle 1300

First Crash: Beetle 1300 - double bounce out of two ditches, then ended up facing the wrong way.

Reason: Fecking about five up in the car and finding out what oversteer really was

[Tipex]

Test- Citroen AX 1.0d

First car- Alfa sud Ti.

First crash- Alfa sud Ti, in a sainsburys car park in Maidstone, in the snow, dicking about, went into the back of a parked Sierra XR4x4.

[Dave]

I passed my test in a nissan sunny :D

My first car (shared with my sisters) was a Volvo 340

The first car I bought myself was a Vaxhall Corsa SRi

Never crashed.

[Mook]

Never crashed.

Ever?

Lying git

[burble]

Test - Rover 114GSI (I think it was a GSI)

First car - C plate Fiesta 1.1L.

First crash - H plate Fiesta 1.1LX. I stopped at a roundabout but the Astra behind me didn't.

[Dave]

Ever?

Lying git

i scraped the side of the car once on a gate post.. but other than that.. no!

[Mook]

That counts

[Andy_Bangle]

Passed in: BSM Metro

First Car: MKII RS2000 Ok, a fake one

First Crash: receiving a BJ and crashed into a lamp post

[Mook]

First Crash: receiving a BJ and crashed into a lamp post

I see you've been interviewing for BS-Factor again...

[theduisbergkid]

@ Bangle.

Passed in a Fiesta 1.0, I remember doing 40mph and thinking "woo-hoo!".

First car Chevette 1.3, 2 door saloon in regatta blue. Saw more action than Stringfellow's bedroom.

First crash (as a driver) ? Hmm... never really had one to be honest ! First crash as a passenger was in a VW Passat t-boned by some cnut who ran a red light.

[Brabus]

Passed: BMW 318 compact (uurgh)

First Car: Fiat Uno 55S

First Crash: driving around on some mountians roads at 5 in the morning with some friends in the car, skidded on some snow and smashed into a Fiat Panda 4x4. Not big and definitely not clever.

[DHA]

Passed: Peugeot 205

First Car: Ford Escort 1.3L (three door "coupe" version, at least that's what I told myself!)

First Crash: Reversed my dads company car into someone elses, only broken tail light on other car. All my "accidents" have been in car parks, 3 in total just bent panels/creases in bumpers.

[garcon magnifique]

Passed my test: dad's Maestro 1.3

First crash: dad's Maestro 1.3 ... titting about on a rough car park and ending up in a big ditch.

Second crash: dad's Maestro 1.3 roughly 15 minutes later ... coming out of the ditch sideways and tw4tting the back of the Transit that was towing me.

First car (I owned), a few years later: a gold Maestro 1.6HLS. My God it was shyte. I mean really shyte. Possibly the worst car in the world, ever.

[stooH]

Passed: Nissan Micra

First Car: Rover Metro 1.0S

First Crash: Never had a proper one (touch wood) but having passed my test did reverse my mums Austin Maestro into a wall pillar, put a small but perfectly square dent in the metal (?) bumper which I denied all knowledge of.

[stooH]

Passed my test: dad's Maestro 1.3

First crash: dad's Maestro 1.3 ... titting about on a rough car park and ending up in a big ditch.

Second crash: dad's Maestro 1.3 roughly 15 minutes later ... coming out of the ditch sideways and tw4tting the back of the Transit that was towing me.

First car (I owned), a few years later: a gold Maestro 1.6HLS. My God it was shyte. I mean really shyte. Possibly the worst car in the world, ever.

That's a lot of Maestro. I concur, they were shite.

[DHA]

Second crash: dad's Maestro 1.3 roughly 15 minutes later ... coming out of the ditch sideways and tw4tting the back of the Transit that was towing me.

:roflmao: brilliant

[cruiser647]

Passed test (1st time I might add....) in a 1.2 or 1.3 Nova hatch Talbot School of motoring.

First car - shared with mum, an Alfa 1.3 SC

First crash - Alfa 1.3 SC about 8 months later. Mate in car, went round a corner I'd gone round many times. Nasty Semperit tyres didn't want to go round. Ended up in a fence. Car was driveable, but needed work and respray....

I blame oil on the road and shyte tyres...... and not speed, as I was going slower than normal!

Oooops.

Oh, I have never bought Semperits again.

[Simon690]

Passed in: Nissan Sunny

First Car: Mini Cooper (the worst brakes of all time but I managed to avoid crashing it, just)

First Crash: My Dad's Merc 190E while severely hung-over

[Teacake]

Passed test in: Fiesta Diesel. (Having learnt in a pair of Fiesta Diesels and an Allegro 1.3 estate.)

First Car: Triumph Dolomite 1.3, bought the day after I passed my test. Two speeds: 80mph and stop.

First crash: Rover Montego 1.6SL: Sideways into tree while over-extending myself on packed snow. Destroyed rear bumper and stove in rear wing. Fixed by £25 bumper from scrappies, and by standing in boot with heavy boots on and kicking rear wing back into shape. Happy days.

Edit: Oh no! I forgot one! The Dolomite, when I knew it wasn't going to pass its next MOT. I deliberately drove it into a brick wall at about 7mph to see what would happen. It bounced off.

Edited April 30, 2010 by Teacake

[hotdog]

Test: My Dads Driving school's Lada Riva no less

What a beast of a car!

First Car: Mini 1000 Countryman auto

First Crash: The same car

Reason: Trying to catch a tin of something flying off the dash "shelf", arm through steering wheel, tried to turn to avoid a wall in a car park and the wheel trapped my arm. Crunch, into the wall

Fixed the busted wing then a few weeks later bled the brakes, great until I had to do an emergency stop - and didn't! Lucklily managed to swerve down a side road narrowly avoiding the arse end of a dustbin lorry. Needless to say, I don't bleed my own brakes anymore

Oh and I put a Maestro upside down into a ditch. I hurt myself the most when I undid my seat belt and dropped onto the roof doh

[Mook]

Trying to catch a tin of something flying off the dash "shelf", arm through steering wheel, tried to turn to avoid a wall in a car park and the wheel trapped my arm. Crunch, into the wall

Fixed the busted wing then a few weeks later bled the brakes, great until I had to do an emergency stop - and didn't! Lucklily managed to swerve down a side road narrowly avoiding the arse end of a dustbin lorry. Needless to say, I don't bleed my own brakes anymore

Oh and I put a Maestro upside down into a ditch. I hurt myself the most when I undid my seat belt and dropped onto the roof doh

[byron13]

Test :- fiesta 1.1L

First Car - Mini 1275GT

First Crash - Company Escort 1.3L (mildly on purpose to get a brand new one!)

[Rick 63]

Passed test in a Opal Kadet,

First Car Mk3 Ford Cortina 1.6 2 Door

First crash Mk4 Cortina,pulling out of the R S P C A at Radcliffe,vauxhall Cavilier come round corner hit me at about 50-60 mph spun me round 180 degrees rear wheels up kerb other side of road.Car bent like a bannana rear windscreen gone,rear passenger door pushed well into the car,nearly had a neighbour with me with a new baby would have been sitting in the back,really happy they decided not to come.

[Mook]

First Car - Mini 1275GT

Nice

[shao_khan]

Test: Driving school's Ford Fiesta 1.0 L.

Learnt to Drive: Vauxhall Cavalier SRi

First Car: Vauxhall Viva 1300

First Crash: MK1 Vauxhall Cavalier 1600

Reason: Lack of road experience. To fast around a corner, horse and rider steps out of a field on the corner, I brake and camber assists me nicely wheels locked across the corner and into oncoming car. Now I know just scare the horse and stay on my side of road