What was your very first car you leaned to drive in

A mini cooper s that had been fully renovated by my then boyfriend.

BSM's Ford Cortina. My first car of my own was meant to be a Morris Minor, but I saw and fell in love with a mini instead! Great for city driving but later, when I bought another, we were in semi rural area and I did not find it as practical

SAAB 96 with a two stroke engine and a free wheel facility, which enabled me to disconnect the engine and just roll down hills (no longer legal)

My first car was the same model, but a different colour.

Ford Escort that sometimes needed one to double declutch.

A BSM mini in 1972. Then married and our first car was a Hillman Avenger. I can still remember the number plate!

I can't remember what it was. But it was black, had running boards, cost £10, and my Dad bought it from a farmer who kept chickens in it. It frightened me to death. ButI did pass my test and then had a Triumph Herald. Can't drive now as my eyesight is rubbish

Left hand drive Renault 5 in Hampshire. Then went back to Germany with a right hand drive Mazda. Like a challenge

Austin A40 was my instructor's car, along with mother's Austin Cambridge.

A blue Hillman Imp belonging to the driving school.
My family didn't have a car and I could only just scrape enough together for lessons but I was determined to learn.
I needed to pass first time as I couldn't afford any more lessons.

Driving instructor was a allegro
2nd one was a mini metro
My then boyfriend had a Toyota celica ooo I felt the bees knees driving it?

I learned to drive primarily in my Dads Morris Oxford. A brute of a car but it felt safe. The few lessons with my instructor was in a ‘Harry Potter’ blue Ford Anglia. My first car was an older style Anglia soon followed by black Austin A30 with flip out indicators which I loved.

An Hillman Imp, l was only 5 years old and drove on a disused Airfield whilst sitting on my Dad’s Knee! By the time l was 10, l could Drive my Dad’s Wolsey 16/60 Automatic on Private land all by myself, however, l had to wait until l was 17 before l could take my test to drive solo in a Mini, the darn thing broke down during my test, leaving me stranded, whist the examiner walked back to the test centre. I finally took my test in a Morris Marina, borrowed from a Friend, and passed.

Simca Aronde at 15 ... then TR4 and 2CV to prepare for test at 18 - what a mix ahahaha

I never did learn to drive, but hubby decided to learn 12 years after we got married, and learnt in the car he bought off his brother, a red Hillman Minx estate, automatic. The registration was FND 570 D. That`s what he passed his test in, which limited us to automatics, but it didn`t bother him, he liked them. It went to the great scrapyard in the sky in 1978.

That made me laugh InaMarJoy!

A British School of Motoring car. Don’t remember the make.

Didn't have any lessons from a driving school, my dad taught me in his Morris Oxford estate car. Looking back it was far better to learn in a big car rather than a smaller car as it means I can drive (and park) any car.
The first car I owned was a Mini Clubman. My dad said that if I saved the money he would look out for a nice car for me and then once I had saved the money he bought it for me and told me to hang on to my savings.

My first car was a Morris 1000 convertible and it cost me £45! I was 17.

I'd only passed my test 3 weeks before I had an accident and the car was badly damaged. Luckily my brother was a mechanic and repaired and replaced most of the front. It had to be resprayed and I chose bright yellow! I loved it

VW bug

Morris Minor - the early kind with the split front windscreen. Remember those 'semaphore' indicators and the hand signals we had to learn?

A boyfriend’s split-screen Morris Minor.

Rover 2000 TC. It was my dad’s new car and he taught me. Like others said, if you can drive and park a big car, you can do it in anything.

Learned on a BSM Triumph Herald, had to battle with DH’s Renault 16 with column gear lever, then acquired a pale yellow Fiat 500 (called Custard by the children because it was the colour of custard powder). This held two small children and a week’s shopping, had a 500 cc engine which sounded like a sewing machine and eventually rusted to death. This was followed by a 2CV, also much loved. Many cars have followed including an MGF and a modern Fiat 500 now in the possession of DD with GDD learning to drive it.

I learnt in a left hand drive VW Beetle on an airfield in Germany and took my test in a Morris Minor in Malaysia.

My dad taught me in his old Ford Popular as he taught bus drivers to drive he thought he was competent and he had taught my two older brothers. It only had three gears and you had to double declutch to get into first gear. I doubt if many people had to learn to do that. We practiced up very hilly roads, one in particular had a junction right at the worst part. I used to dread it and once cried that I couldn’t do it but my dad smacked me round the head and made me get on with it. He thought I might get that junction in my test, I didn’t, my test was in completely unknown territory.

Anyway, I passed and have been driving over fifty years but the pleasure I get on coming to that nightmare junction and, thanks to my automatic car, sailing off with no worries at all now! Btw, my dad loved me very much but was ‘old school’ in that way, I still loved him to bits.