11-12-2023, 04:05 PM
I took my driving test in 1964 in my dad’s RN saloon registration WJ xxxx. My dad taught me.
Passed first time but I told the examiner I would have to use the handbrake as well as the footbrake for the emergency stop.
I used the car from then until I bought a Ruby for £10 in running order (just!) I used the RN for work and everything else, including courting. Unfortunately the courting didn’t turn out the way I had hoped because with the young lady as passenger I drove the car up a very muddy remote country lane and couldn’t get traction( this is not a euphemism)
The embarrassing result being I had to phone our neighbour who turned up with dad and neighbour’s car plus tow rope.
That was the end of the relationship with the young lady.
All very sad but then I was only seventeen.
Anyway the RN is still going strong and is still in my possession.
Passed first time but I told the examiner I would have to use the handbrake as well as the footbrake for the emergency stop.
I used the car from then until I bought a Ruby for £10 in running order (just!) I used the RN for work and everything else, including courting. Unfortunately the courting didn’t turn out the way I had hoped because with the young lady as passenger I drove the car up a very muddy remote country lane and couldn’t get traction( this is not a euphemism)
The embarrassing result being I had to phone our neighbour who turned up with dad and neighbour’s car plus tow rope.
That was the end of the relationship with the young lady.
All very sad but then I was only seventeen.
Anyway the RN is still going strong and is still in my possession.