triquet wrote:A fascinating thread. It is noteworthy how many older AD's started their driving careers with ancient cheap sheds of various types, thus learning the rudiments of car maintenance and body work repair work with cardboard and fibreglass.
The days when you could mend your car with a big hammer, a mole wrench and a bed-spanner
WhoseGeneration wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Haven't passed my test, let alone turned 17
I'm praying to the gods that I can have a 100 HP Panda as a first car!
Sadly, you'll not be able to have as much fun, driving, as we older ones here had.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, I can still have fun!
Just make sure nobody's about to watch me...
WhoseGeneration wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, I can still have fun!
Just make sure nobody's about to watch me...
Test, then AD for you straight after so you get into the right mindset.
Perhaps join your local MSA affiliated Motor Club and get involved in some competition driving.
This, http://www.bmsad.co.uk might interest you.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, I can still have fun!
Just make sure nobody's about to watch me...
Test, then AD for you straight after so you get into the right mindset.
Perhaps join your local MSA affiliated Motor Club and get involved in some competition driving.
This, http://www.bmsad.co.uk might interest you.
Alright, steady on! I was only joking
I'm not sure I could do AD straight after, simply because if I'm lucky enough to get a car and afford to maintain it, my funds would probably be rather depleted very quickly.
TheInsanity1234 wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Well, I can still have fun!
Just make sure nobody's about to watch me...
Test, then AD for you straight after so you get into the right mindset.
Perhaps join your local MSA affiliated Motor Club and get involved in some competition driving.
This, http://www.bmsad.co.uk might interest you.
Alright, steady on! I was only joking
I'm not sure I could do AD straight after, simply because if I'm lucky enough to get a car and afford to maintain it, my funds would probably be rather depleted very quickly.
WhoseGeneration wrote:AD is cheap relative to other motoring costs. Don't argue, just do it after passing the basic test.
All you have posted here has shown that you would benefit from AD immediately after test pass.
skodatezzer wrote:Told you before - get along to an ADUK driving day. They're always on a Saturday, there's likely to be at least one not too far from you, you'll find we're a fairly tolerant bunch of old fogies (speaking for meself, of course), and we could make sure you got to go out with some good people who could point you in the right direction for your further driver development. Cost would be fuel and lunch. If you didn't want to drive, come along as a passenger. Loaada fun, lots to learn!
TheInsanity1234 wrote:WhoseGeneration wrote:AD is cheap relative to other motoring costs. Don't argue, just do it after passing the basic test.
All you have posted here has shown that you would benefit from AD immediately after test pass.
In what way?
WhoseGeneration wrote:Do you mean in what way would you benefit?
If so, in avoiding the basic errors I, for example, made when a youth, on motorcycles and in cars.
Probably others old here did the same but, back then the penalties were much less severe than now, both legal and financial.
Remember, you'll be sort of on probation for the first two years.
It'll help you to temper your youthful enthusiasm, which I can easily understand, been there, done that and, perhaps, put an old head on young shoulders.
There's a subtlety in this AD stuff which is hard to convey via this medium.
You looked at that 'site I linked?
TheInsanity1234 wrote:Indeed, text is an excellent way of communicating facts, but it's useless for communicating emotion.There's a subtlety in this AD stuff which is hard to convey via this medium.
30 things British people say and what we actually mean wrote:Meanings of "I beg your pardon"
1. I didn't hear you
2. I apologise
3. What you're saying is making me absolutely livid
Gareth wrote:TheInsanity1234 wrote:Indeed, text is an excellent way of communicating facts, but it's useless for communicating emotion.There's a subtlety in this AD stuff which is hard to convey via this medium.
I think it'd be more to the point if you'd said that text is useless for communicating complexity because, in this context, the experience -- and subtleties -- of driving are exceedingly complex.
TheInsanity1234 wrote: I'm also aware of my short temper and my ability to find fault in just about anything if I don't like it, which won't help me in situations where I have to accommodate someone's misjudgement or something.
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