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View Poll Results: When did you go for your license? | |||
Absolutely Straight Away |
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103 | 66.45% |
1-6 months after you could |
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29 | 18.71% |
7-12 months after you could |
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5 | 3.23% |
13-24 months after you could |
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8 | 5.16% |
24 months + |
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9 | 5.81% |
Don't drive |
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1 | 0.65% |
Voters: 155. You may not vote on this poll |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Thought it would be good to find out when people went for their license (straight away or not for a while) and how did they learnt (e.g the old man)?
Cheers, Anthony P.S What did you drive? Also, auto or manual? P.P.S We're talking P's, for now... (poll is for P's only, hopefully, somehow, a poll for L's can eventually be made)
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OzFalcon.com.au
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wallan, Vic
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i went for my l's probably a month or 2 after i could, tbh at the time was a little scared untill i had the chance to flog some paddock bashers around and then i was all good.
learner car was mainly a 2000 model diesel manual toyota hilux, stall proof lol but slow as , great for learning as u can really see the traffic around u etc. occasionally drove a 1990 excel manual and a 1997 mercedes c180 auto. i feel i learnt alot more about driving tho when i was on my p's in my own car, a 1990 xf panel van, its not untill your p's that u really learn to drive i recon |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Canberra
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I went for it as soon as I could. I was counting down the days in fact
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
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Took Dad out for one lesson, then drove my instructor to my test. Passed on the first go, speeding and a compression lock up to boot lol.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: hills.. western sydney
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Bought a car and drive around the streets by myself,no one to teach me so that was the only way for me to learn.
Drove to the R.T.A and passed second time so i was happy considering i had no instructor lessons at all.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Montrose, Victoria
Posts: 1,217
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im hoping to get my Ls on the day so i can drive up to kustoms
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Brunswick
Posts: 895
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Whoops answered the poll before i read the post.
I got my l's straight away and will do the same for p's. Been learning in dad's 08 BF MKII SR and now in my BA XR6 ![]()
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Montrose, Victoria
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my dad isnt gonna let me learn in his 08 BF MKII SR :(:(:( so im stuck with either my mums civic pos or dad caravelle pos :( (until il get my car)
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playing in my big shed
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: miriam vale , qld
Posts: 3,302
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i went and got my ''P"s on my seventeenth birthday, got my "L"s exactly 3 months before as soon as i was legal.
when i went for my "P"s i drove my own XW falcon 3 speed manual. (when i turned up at the police station to get my "L"s cop made the comment "didnt i see you driving that car last week." he knew he had, i was taking it home from buying it with dad following behind. cant actually remember learning to drive. i grew up on a farm and was steering cars/trucks/tractors from the time i could stand on the seat and see over the dash, just progressed from there as my legs grew. i guess the first things i really drove by myself would have been the fergy TEA20 tractor and an old bedford bread van we had as a padock basher. with 2 older brothers, an older sister, mum and dad, i had plenty of teachers.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: south burnett
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Location: Skidsville
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I was taught by Tibetan mountain pygmies when I was still in my mothers womb.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,171
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all i've ever driven/riden is a holden rodeo and a quad bike (both on a farm)
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: NSW
Posts: 864
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got my ls in 06
ps in 07 now sitting on my greens learned in dads 2000 model v6 rodeo and occasionally mums au2 did the test in dads rodeo then bought an 89 telstar. drove a lil different i must say now im sitting snug in my bf xt still have the telstar 2300 if anyone wants a car that will do 8.2l/100ks |
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Chasing a FORD project!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: adelaide
Posts: 5,114
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daddy taught me once in his commodore, then he lost his licence so i learnt in his mates XB GT(auto), a Brocky V8 VL(manual) and finally a ford mondeo. 11 lessons with the instructor, then a VORT, 96% and im a licenced driver.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Outer-Inner-Northern Melbourne
Posts: 243
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Got it 2 days after I turned the correct age. I'm learning in the family Avalon, as well as N16 Pulsars owned by two different driving schools.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Outer-Inner-Northern Melbourne
Posts: 243
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Mum and Dad sent me there
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Chasing a FORD project!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: adelaide
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i turned 16 and got my Ls the next day, Ps 7 months later, been on them since then, as i took points for my dad. had a ball learning hehe. read<-----other thread similar title.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
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I was what you would call a late "bloomer" , I did not need a licence until I was much older.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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My ma and pa taught me in our... wait for it.... 1989 toyota tarago manual. No lessons at all, got my licence first go.
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BF XR6, oh yeah!!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Melton, Vic
Posts: 1,015
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Got my Ls about 4 months after I was eligible, first car I drove was my dad's ZH Fairlane 500 302, then a mix of my mum's Suzuki Swift Auto and the driving schools Nissan Pulsar 5 speed
Got my Ps straight after my 18th Birthday, (June 2004) and was driving my first car (an '89 Excel 5 speed, that 'wasn't as bad as you might expect') two days after my 18th. then I got my AUII Futura about 6 months later Then I got my HR in December 2007 driving an old non Turbo UD.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Melbourne, Vic
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Back when I first got my licence, SA allowed you to get your L's at 16, P's at 16.5, and your full licence at 19 or 3 years after you got your P's (I think). I remember standing in line on my 16th birthday, waiting to sit my test for my Learner's Permit, and then standing in line again when I was exactly 16.5 to get my P's. Aaah... the freedom of having your own licence and not relying on friends or, worse, the folks, for a lift. ![]() As to how... first time behind the wheel was with my uncle in a Kmart car park. I ended up being one of the first to get my licence via log book, rather than test, so had 6 lessons with an instructor to go through the items in the log. I wanted to learn in a manual, but the instructor said because no one else I knew had a manual, there was no point in learning in a manual with him, because I'd have no opportunity to practice. I bought my first manual car a few months ago, and I really wish I'd learned earlier - it's hard to break 15+ years of habit (driving an auto). |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Narre Warren, Vic
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On my L's I drove around in both an 89' Rodeo diesel non-turbo (100kph is a challenge!) and a 93' EBII wagon, both of which were manual. I had driving lessons for about a week or 2 before getting my p-plates, which was less than a week after my birthday. The driving lessons are handy because they teach you the little tricks that they look for in the actual driving test. I passed first go. About 2 months later, I got the EA
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BF XR6
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 1,809
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14 in an almost brand spanker au fairmont 4 speed auto in a paddock. nothing funner then a gravel paddock
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Canberra
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Got my L's at 16, in High school....
Got my P's at 21... :P Glad it worked out that way, as if i had my license at 17 - 18, i would have been one of them statistics.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Area 51 (tm)
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I got my Learners when I was 16. Did the first of my Learner Driving in Dad's Escort RS 2000 until I got my Escort Ghia. I did a few Lessons with the RACV Driving School to get everything right before going for my Licence, which I got a week after I turned 18.
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It was before "P" plate laws - took 5 minute driving test. All done & dusted.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Nth Brisbane
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before P plates!!!! I thought you got yours before engines...haha.
Serously, I was driving on the roads at 14.(parents were O/S and I used the car.) Got licence offically at 17 like everyone else.
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Back to Le Frenchy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Back home.....
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Got my L's when I was 16 1/2 due to being an apparent illegal alien lol. I was born in NSW and a NSW birth extract was not good enough, took me 6 months to get a new certificate from NSW
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cattai, Sydney
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got my L's when i was 16, learnt in a 100 series V6 landcruiser - put off getting my P's for another year because i didnt wanna drive the landcruiser lol
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