Christian Whiteley-Mason has taken 33 attempts, 14 different instructors, 85 lessons and left him over £10,000 out of pocket over a staggering 25 years to finally pass his driving test.
Christian, 42, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, first took his test in 1992 in the days before the driving theory test was introduced but quickly racked up a succession of test fails.
"I had 56 lessons with my first instructor and eventually he told me to just give up as I would never pass," Christian said.
And by 2003 after Christian had failed his test a monumental 32 times, he admitted defeat and finally up on his dream of driving and decided it wasn't for him.
Even when he turned 40 and decided to give it another go, he had afew lessons but didn't stick with it long and never got as far as taking his test.
"I just got bored with it,"said Christian. "I couldn't see the point."
But Christian, who is celebrating his tenth wedding anniversary to Darren, has increasingly been required to travel for work was finding it more difficult to get by day-to-day without being able to drive.
"I had to either get taxis or rely on other people and it was costing me a fortune. So in January that was it, I just decided I was going to go for it,” he explained.
"Everyone laughed at me and said I'd never do it, I'd get bored again. But I was absolutely determined I was going to show everyone."
Christian joked; "There must be a God because I prayed every night that I wouldn't get that same examiner who’d kept failing me, and I didn't."
"My motto was always been don¹t stop believing."
Christian has splashed out on a second hand Smart Car he's named Percy.