My mum borrowed my dad's car for her test.
It was an old Rapier (not the Sunbeam), which had been rally prepared - four point harness, town & country tyres, full set of daylighters, blue printed engine, disc brakes (it originally came with all drums).
The only problem was the passenger seat, it was a flip seat, to allow people to get in the back. The lock at the back didn't work, but as the passenger was secured by a 4-point, it wasn't a problem.
The examiner got in the car and my mother asked him to fasten up. He refused. She asked him again, he told her he'd been driving for years and never used a seat belt.
They set off and she was doing everything right, double de-clutching etc. Then it came to the emergency stop. He said, when he hit the dashboard with his clipboard, she should stop as quickly as possible.
He raised the clipboard.
My mother caught it out of the corner of her eye and reacted instantly, stamping on the brakes.
The pads clamped onto the discs.
The tyres howled on the road.
The rear end rose up.
The driving examiner's head hit the windscreen, before his clipboard hit the dashboard.
She failed her test.
