learning to drive

[bilsat]

When dad worked at Cadbury's he bought an old Ford "Sit up and beg" for £5-00, this had been passed around the workers who always bought and sold it for £5-00 and each persons son used to learn to drive in it.
It was a pig to start in the winter due to the 6 volt system and luckily we lived at the top of a hill so it could be rolled down the hill to start it!
I enjoyed learning in it and we kept it for about two years and in the end went back to Cadbury's, and no I didn't take my driving test!!
Does anyone remember such a vehicle?

 

[Eric Gibson]

I've recently put one back on the road for a neighbour, his teenage daughter loves it. E.

 

[bren]

I think it was the E93A, i had one towards the end of the 1960s, had some great fun in that motor, there was loads of room inside. I used to get stopped by the police when out of a night, "Your headlights don't work son", "They're 6v officer", "Oh -- right, then you can go" bloomin things was useless in the dark but i have to say apart from that and being a pig to start when it was cold i clocked up a lot of miles in that motor without any other problems.

bren

 

[Mossy]

I can remember my dads Ford reg;BPX 467 in the winter he used to have to start it up with a handle,forgot to mention it was about 1956-7Mossy

 

[john70]

Ihad a 1954 Ford "pop" for three years, it was two year old when I bought it. sidevalve engine, 3 speed box,and air operated wipers that would stop when going up hill unless you took your foot off the accelerator for a moment, and 6 volt electics, but a very reliable car,heres a photo of it
with my dads van.

 

[G G Jean]

Think yourselves lucky we always went by Shanksies Pony.

 

[Wendy]

Michael had a sit up and beg Ford Pop when he first passed his test. He took his driving test three weeks after his 17th birthday in a 15cwt Bedford Van used for traffic signal maintainence. There was no passenger seat, so the examiner had to sit on a box!:shocked: My how things have changed.