Hey teacher, leave those shites alone!

[mercrocker]

Memory jerk!   We had an RE teacher, Miss Fielder, who had a Damask Red Elf.  I saw her one day applying lipstick to a graunch along the front wing which she presumably put there somewhere on the way to school that day.  

[beko1987]

The first Mazda 323 I saw was my primary school headteachers, in green, on a R.

The first Corsa B I saw was as ilver one a teacher had, cant remember the reg though.

The headmaster after the mazda one above had a 405 estate on an L I think, something to do with he had loads of kids and it had 2 seats in the back

[Elstro1988]

Secondary school, 1998 to 2004. I remember some cars but not much else I was taught there. The technology dept had the most interesting stuff.

Mr Boulter (tech): Riley RM

Mr Barnaby (tech): VW Scirocco and then a Corrado

Mr Scott (electronics): Saab 900 cabrio

Mr Lambrechts (computing, with a shiny bald head): even shinier white Ford Probe

Mrs Roberts (later computing teacher): Ford Galaxy but occasionally hubby's Alfa 75

Mrs Sloss (home economics): Daihatsu Move (which constantly had the piss taken out of it for looking stupid)

 

A few others I recall:

Ms Galloway (head): shonky pogweaseled Merc 190

Mr Wilson (rugby-playing PE teacher all the girls fancied): green Metro GTa

Mr Porteous or 'Porkyarse' (big black PE teacher): white pov-spec Pug 205

Miss Williams (head of PE, very butch and looked like David Bowie!): grey Escort XR3i

Mrs Lawrence (maths): white Volvo 240 estate

Mrs Robinson (biology): Mk2 Astra 'Tiffany' edition

Mrs Guiver (English): Toyota Carina. Her son was in my class and learned to drive in the Carina.

Mr Darcy (business teacher who once famously found a baby in a bin!): Renault 21 Monaco

Mr Kasold (big bearded American guy who taught English - yes really): doom blue Mk3 Fiesta

Mr Hill (physics): JRG Pug 306 Sedan. I liked his classes - he was the exam officer and a heavy smoker so he taught exactly what was needed to pass the exam and nothing else and then went out for a long fag break.

Mr Ware (physics/geology): never had a car and rode a big BMW motorbike. Lived alone and there were persistent rumours he was gay that I never really understood - he left to become housemaster at a boys' boarding school so seems unlikely to me.

 

Something else interesting about Mr Ware - we went on a geology field trip to his parents' farmhouse in the wilds of Wales and his dad was restoring a big old Bedford 4x4 lorry, which was awesome.

 

I went to the same school as Adam/Quicksilver and his younger sister is a good friend of mine so I can vouch for several of these!

 

An addition:

 

Mrs Major (she taught Maths) drove an early Mk3 Cavalier, it struck me in particular because it looked just like the ones used in the first Harry Potter film which came out the same year she joined the school.

[brickwall]

Primary school in the 80s was a sea of Chevettes, Metros and Renaults

[Robson3022]

Had a PSHE teacher who was the man had 900 turbos while I was in comp. He ended up with the art teacher and promptly bought her a white MR2 Turbo!!! NOICE

[320touring]

we had the world's campest modern studies teacher..

 

his brief of choice was a Saxo VTS.

 

good effort!

[Datsuncog]

Okay, feeling slightly guilty here as I (inadvertently) kicked off a bunch of INTENSE REMINISCING posts on the New News 24 thread, through making a flippant comparison between a fellow shiter going to collect a £300 Jaaaag on behalf of his father, and a clunkily-worded ad for a private school that happened to be roast of the day on Twitter, by inferring that the bestowment of a glorious Jaaaag upon one's plebby common Volvo-driving paterfamilias was the only true measure of success in life.

 

And so, in penance (and to avoid these thoroughly entertaining posts being lost for eternity in the ever-rolling maw of the New News 24 thread), here they are in the appropriate thread (with thanks to Lord Sterling for pointing me in the right direction).

 

My headmaster had a rusty BMC 1100, the deputy head (mistress) drove a knackered Bedford CA.

Schools were better in the old days.

 

 

the head teacher at my school had a black, series 3 Daimler Doube Six as her transport.

 

with paint like glass, and it was her choice of vehicle.

 

the deputy had a mark 2 Sierra GLS, in 2 litre EFi flavour, while the Wookwork teacher had a DAF Variomatic and the guy who taught Metalwork was running about in a snapdragon yellow Mini 1000. The miserable old sod who taught (!) art drove a beige Maestro 1300. that was a cheap one too as it had metal bumpers.

 

the PE teacher had a maroon Capri Laser, and Mrs Todd who taught Physics had a late, white Metro Clubman, while Doug Scarr (a geography teacher) had a Volvo 340/ it was a dear one, with a sumptuois velour interior.

 

Mr Sowerby, who taught french and german, and who was also a TERRIBLE letch around teenage girls, well he had a newish (at the time) Volvo 240, with hubcaps....

 

those are the ones i remember. the other teachers welll god knows, cos i've got no idea what they had.

 

ah, the good old days (it would be around 1985-90 ish)

 

 

Can't remember the exact chod that all my teachers were driving back then, except for:

 

Senior Branch

 

The Headmaster of my school walked to/from school, as his house (provided by the school) was only about a half-mile away.

 

Mr. Mellor (long dead now) who had a 1976 Austin Maxi. He taught Maths and was an alcoholic; the two may have been related.

 

Mr. Myles: we had him for Music. He ran a 1985 Honda Accord EX.

 

 

Junior Branch

 

Mr. Norman: taught Music. Nicknamed Papa Smurf and was a total tyrant. He had a 1987 Austin Maestro.

 

Ms. Spencer: taught Maths. 1980 MGB roadster, in yellow. Subsequently left teaching, married a fabulously wealthy businessman and is reportedly enjoying a luxurious retirement.

 

Mr. Rance: think he taught Geography or Maths; maybe both. Drove AC Cobra replica that he built himself from a kit. 

 

Mr. Hann: Science. Had a VW Golf Cabrio - think it was relatively new at the time. He was married to the Art teacher, Ms. Kelly. The two of them divorced and she went on to marry a Senior Branch teacher, Mr. Eggleton. The two of them then spent the next decade or so growing apart from each other and, when they divorced, she consulted the Teaching Staff list (again) and got hitched to Cobra-driving Mr. Rance (see above). I hear they are still married, in retirement, and Mr. Rance is now nicknamed "Ebeneezer" due to him being very careful with money even though he's got pots of it. Mr. Eggleton subsequently married another divorcee (who later became my riding partner) and they've gone off to spend their retirement on a farm in Wales.

 

School for scandal. Think I've opened a window there....

 

 

No idea what the head drove, but the deputy drove a grey M11 Prairie, the chemistry teacher a blue Carlton B L estate, the librarian a green Volvo 345GLE and the rural sciences teacher a red and white 2CV...

 

 

The head of my secondary school (78-85) had a string of Pug 305s, brand new every 18 months.  The three deputy heads had, respectively, a Morris Ital, a series of new-ish Hondas followed by a Volvo 240 Saloon, and a lovely Triumph 2500S.  The most interesting cars operated by the rest of the staff were an olive MGB and a dark green Saab 96 whose registration I can still remember.  There was a Granada 2.8 Ghia Sapphire but I never found out whose it was.  One of the sports teachers had a Polo but would occasionally rock up in a new-ish E23 735i which I found out belonged to her dad.

 

 

 

notables from Moseley School circa '78-82

• renner 4 in beige with factory side exit zorst- mr brown chemistry
• purple mk2 crapi 1.6L- mr (pete) anstey geography
• gold crapi 3 litta ghia- miss (bev) charmaine english
• orange allegro 3 estate- mr (roger) norfolk physics- this was the bloke driving the flying scotsman on bbc4 december 2016!
• pink xj6 sreies 1- mr (frank) kirby
• lancia beta spyder- mrs bradley art
• rover p6 followed by sd1 2000!- mr clarke year head
• series 3 swd landrover- mr (tony) stokes year head

 

 

 

My junior school teacher had a hanging mk1 escort estate in yellow about 85-86, when teachers were paid sod all under Maggie.

 

At secondary school, most notable was an English teacher who lived a mile from the school who drove in every day in his Senator A.

 

I also remember after a school trip in about 93, I was waiting for parents to pick me up, me and a girl I fancied. Her dad arrived in a flippin W124 and just behind was my mum in our Mk2 roman bronze escort. I knew then I had no chance.

 

 

Quite by coincidence, the automotive choice of my kids' headteachers was a topic of discussion at home last night. At both primary and high school they apparently had Volvos, clearly they went/go to rubbish schools.

 

My own primary school head had an L-reg (suffix, not prefix) VW Camper for all of the five years I was there. Can't remember middle or high school, but back in the 1970s/80s Citroens seemed to be popular in the staff car park. A larger number of left-leaning teachers back then?

 

Head of another local primary school had a Datsun 1200 throughout her time there - what sort of a chance did those poor little blighters have? I now own said Datsun.....

 

 

My headteacher had a nice tidy Merc 190, went in it a few times as the school minibus was as reliable as a pensioners erection so we often had to go swimming in the staff cars.  I am convinced from being in his Merc that they do not have a throttle, they have a transit van switch.. FULL POWAAAAA and zero power.  There is nothing in between.

[Datsuncog]

And there's more.

 

Mr Tate the head teacher  had a Audi 100 in black.

Mrs cheng had a white XR3i.

 

 

Mr Nicel had a shitty mk1 transit minibus that didn't seem to go very well with a raw egg in the tank.

 

 

I remember being in Sixth Form and being invited to a party at my friend Henry's house.  He told me he was a bit rural, so his Dad could come and pick us up from Sainsbury's on Friday after school.

 

Great!  Thought I.

 

Then, Friday came.  I'm waiting with Henry, happily chatting and a car pulls up.  Henry goes over to it and then I look up.  It's a six-month-old Bentley Continental GT.  His Dad ushered me in, Henry got in the back and I sat in the front.  I was stunned.  His Dad even proceeded to give us a 0-60 down a country lane and we had a lovely chat about cars.

 

It turned out that his Dad had been an amateur racing driver and had made a lot of money in business.  Completely self-made.  He'd had to give up the racing after he'd had a heart attack half way around Castle Coombe driving a Caterham.

 

It was the best party I've ever been to.  Loads of girls turned up, loads of other mates from school and I got absolutely trashed in this lovely country home.  The next day, his Dad drove me home with a couple of other people in his other car.  A Range Rover Sport.

 

Good times.

 

 

Junior School - can't remember who had what

Humber Super Snipe - Cream/Red Interior

Hillman Hunter Estate (Possibly Minx?)

Volvo Amazon

MG Midget

Granada

 

Only standout I remember from secondary school was the gorgeous teacher who owned the Nova Kit Car - hydraulic roof and everything, It was a morning betting game to see if she'd have one of our favourite short skirts on....... and I'm damn sure she new she was being ogled too...... 

 

 

My Primary School Headteacher was a winner on all levels. Mr (Jon) Trotter of Felixstowe with an enormous Peugeot 505 Estate with all of the seats - and his wife’s runabout was a Talbot Sunbeam.

Even by 1994 these seemed, at least to someone who’s father had always had a Ford Sierra, slightly unusual choices. The Peugeot was eminently practical though with many seats and no minibus - and I’d never seen another Talbot other than his!

 

 

My HT at primary school had an ITAL, at middle school HT had an Ambassador (y reg) French Teacher had an Audi Quattro and my history teacher (Mrs Wheat) had an MG metro turbo and lived fairly local to me out in the wilds and drove it like she stole it, years later I saw her driving a 205 1.9 GTi.

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You're just after reminding me of another Senior Branch teacher:

Mr. Peace (and he was a bit of a hippy): taught Maths. Drove a 1983 Mk.1 Astra Estate in that weird bathtub blue they used to have. Registration plate was YEG 732Y.

 

 

My maths teacher in secondary school was a right old bastard. Ex military and just vindictive. No idea what he drove though. Bastard. He used to enjoy humiliation. Hope he drove something that broke down a lot.

 

 

My school days are so far in the past I cannot remember the cars, with one exception. Every day whilst I waited for the school bus, on my own, on a main and very busy rural A road, one of the teachers from my last school (no idea what he taught, though might have been art as I had dropped that by then) went passed in a white Renault 5. The reason I remember is as I hid from the horizontal rain and walls of spray from the passing trucks I thought everytime it would not have hurt him to give me a lift. He was an arse!

 

Oh, it must have been a very early 5 as it had the through the dash gear lever. I now want an early 5 with that gear lever.

 

[Datsuncog]

And the last of them. Some cracking tales here!

 

I cannot recall what any of the teachers drove at any of the MANY schools I went to... except one. Miss Bamforth (Miss Bumfluff) wh had a penchant for VERY short skirts, had long blonde hair and was seriously gorgeous, she drove a red Triumph Spitfire. She taught French and I spent so much time drooling over her I failed first year exams in spectacular fashion - I was in the 'top' set at Grammar school and came bottom out of the complete year. 26% Strange how she stuck in my mind

 

 

Standouts from my school days (mostly a haze of Anglias, ADO16s and HB Vivas) were Miss Kemp in 3rd year Juniors.   She was Hawt.   Suede mini-skirts, tight sweaters and alice bands.    A combination that still does it for me now (I was fucking nine years old, FFS).   She had auburn hair, as well, I recall.   Best of all, though, was her yellowy-green Simca 1300.  No Angle-box for her.... 

 

Foreign stuff really stood out back then and I also remember a supply teacher in Infants having a brand-new (B registered) NSU Prinz 4.   Bloody exotic that was, in 1964.    

 

Senior school was dull as ditchwater and so were the teacher's cars.   I suppose the best were Mad Geography's LHD column change Mk1 Cortina which spectacularly failed to select reverse one afternoon, inching closer and closer to the classroom wall whilst the revs got higher and higher and Mad Geog got redder and redder in the face. 

 

A short-lived Art Department supply had a BSA combination with a Ginetta for wet days which was memorable and there was also a Volvo Amazon with a "121" number plate.  

 

Mr Pope had an immaculate P4 and a Messerschmitt, Mr Barber a blue Renault 4 which he rear-ended something with and it got the facelift bonnet with which he was visibly chufffed.   Mr Warren had a saffron GTE and the French teacher had a R8 in similar shade followed by a Renault 10 which was so unreliable he replaced it with a Damask Red Landcrab.   Another French teacher Miss Wright occasionally got dropped off in a Lotus Elan (she was conspicuously skimpier-dressed on those days IIRC). 

 

King of the car park though, wasn't a teacher at all.  It was the Lab Assistant.  She normally drove her 100E Anglia to work but sometimes brought her husband's car - a beautiful Ermine White MkIII Zodiac Executive.   

 

 

My biology teacher had a white XR3i for a while, it was written off when he flew over the crest of the hill on Locko Road to find a milk float doing its rounds. Sadly it was before the days of mobile phones let alone ones with cameras so it wasn’t recorded for posterity.

My maths teacher (miserable cow) had a dark green three door Sierra. I can’t remember ever seeing that colour on another. It had a big round mark on the side where someone had booted a very muddy football at the rear door.

 

 

My form teacher Mr Wilson was cool as eggs, 2CV, 80's  Suzuki Jeep and a Saab 99 turbo, Mr Chambers had...literally HAD ...an MG Montego that got nicked by some 5th formers at the school disco then wrapped round a lamp post...turned out he was shagging one of his female pupils so guess he deserved that  

 

 

My primary school teacher was cool as buggery she had a white porsche 911 turbo, the ones from high school (1995-2000) that stick in my head was my maths teacher who had a silver MX6 with a full enclosure alarm that he used to show us all closing the windows and sunroof, physics teacher who looked like professor weeto had a blue chevette 3 door hatch, my tech teacher had a maroon Saab 9000, my form/art teacher had a series 2 landrover

 

 

My teacher, Mrs Billingham, replaced her Mk1 Golf GTI with a TVR Griffith.
She was also smoking hot.

 

 

My last headteacher, a Dr White (stop sniggering at the back) had an early TR7. In yellow. I didn't like it.

Mr Champion was a very much browbeaten woodworking teacher. But he had a GT6 in that purply blue colour. Even then, it seemed unfeasibly close to the ground, and it was a struggle for him to get in and out of it. Rumour has it that when he slammed the driver's door after getting in, the boot opened. You can imagine the comedy.

Mr Crewe was very cool. He taught chemistry, with a certain amount of aplomb, being from The North™ - "don't tickle that conical flask" (we had to heat it up with a Bunsen burner) "- give it some WELLIE!" He drove a black 3.0S Capri. Then he downgraded to a 2.0litre one, when he started dating the diminutive biology teacher, Miss Madeleine Beastie (really). He maintained that the 3.0 would always be his favourite, but it never steered properly after he piled it in to a kerb, pissed. Allegedly.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Another one half-remembered from my school's Junior Branch:

 

Mr. Mackintosh: taught English. Always wore a leather jacket. May have had a drink problem - we were never quite sure - and often seen with a half-burnt fag. Drove a grey or yellow 1969 Volvo 144; it was a proper bit of autoshite, and in a terrible state. No idea how he got it to pass the MoT every year, but it did.

[andy18s]

In my last year at school there weren't too many cars or owners that stood out

Head teacher had a brand new Maestro Clubman diesel and always left the keys in it,much to my brothers delight ahem

Mr Henson,proper old school metal work teacher had a series 1 Landrover

Home economics teacher, who stood all of 5ft tall had a 2 dr Range Rover with 2 or 3 cushions on the drivers seat

History teacher Mr Dennis had a black Saab Turbo

French teacher Miss Jollie had a 2cv.....I know,I know

Geography teacher had an old Saab 96 (?) estate

PE teacher Mr Greatorex was a youngish bloke,had a bright red Xr3i and thought he was It.....right untill he got pulled for drink driving and tried legging it from the coppers

[Cardinal Wolseley]

When I was in short trousers the fearsome Headmistress Mrs Gingell owned an immaculate sky blue Ford Zephyr {Mk.3} which must have been eight or so years old, and impressed me greatly. Most other standard 70's motors, but those that left an impression included MGB GT, Honda Civic {Mk.1} and a particularly nice sand coloured Rover 2000 {P6}.  However the most exotic was to be found when I was at school in Norwich in the late 70's and a teacher owned one of these.....

 

 

Oh yes a Borgward Isabella, don't think I had even seen let alone heard of the brand before, it wasn't as nice at this one though it was quite well worn and battered. Impressive old thing though.

[Lord Sterling]

Nice one Dats. Sometimes these threads are lost as we move on and I felt it was a bit of a shame to lose some of the gems of memory in the News 24 thread as it basically a thread of stuff we've just done so will eventually get buried. Sticking them in a dedicated thread is better. There has actually been several threads like this so:

 

This answer came from here by Ghosty but was was originally posted in this thread originally by WarrenTClaim. I have added a bit more now given this is more recent:

 

Primary School - In my first years at Primary School, our first teacher, Mrs Lakin had a Citroen 2cv, she was a sort of very laid back new-age hippy type. Another teacher of ours, a sort of Jerry Adams lookalike, Mr Lille drove an early 1987 D-plate Fiat Uno, pretty shite then. Another teacher (A tall thin thunder-faced oldish lady, don't remember the name) had a dark-Blue mk2 Audi 100 and one of the dinner ladies had an early mk1 Blue Ford Sierra.

 

Secondary School - Our rather big, scary, bearded Yorkshireman and dominating Deputy Head - Mr Wennington for a long time drove about in a tatty metallic Beige C-plate VW 'breadvan' Polo, though when he was given the Deputy Head post he treated himself to a then new mk2 Primera in BRG.

Our German teacher, a sort of dowdy bloke with an equally dowdy 'tache I think also drove a VW 'breadvan' Polo, possibly in Red.

 

Our first English teacher, a very tall, old, 'tache wearing ex-Army major type fella drove about in a Citroen Xantia which would have probably been a year or two old. He loved that car.

 

Our first Music teacher, a softly spoken ginger-haired fella and Neil Kinnock lookalike drove about in early 90s Ford Sierra Estate in Red.

 

Our IT teacher (Then a very new subject) a sort of mid-40s hippy type with a scruffy Ginger beard, scruffy longish hair, forever laid back and very calmly spoken drove a tatty Red 4-door Mk2 Escort. His wife, also an English teacher and equally hippyish had an old Mk1 VW Camper van.

 

My form tutor, Mrs Metcalf first had a dark-red metallic Vauxhall Carlton (J?? OKR which I used to nickname 'joker') but then "upgraded" to a similarly coloured Frontera, her husband (Not a teacher) apparently had a Peugeot 205 - Now, I was quite perturbed by this as I grew up in an era where women drove small cars and men drove the big family saloon. But this was other way around. It's now the norm.

 

Our PE teacher firstly had a late E34 5-series BMW in BRG which he seemed very happy driving, I kind of admired that car back then. Later on though the 5-series was traded down to a newer early Renault Scenic which he didn't seem so happy driving. I'd imagine Mrs PE teacher probably had a say in it somehow.

 

A home economics teacher had a then newish P38 Range Rover HSE, before that she a top-spec C-class Mercedes in re-sale Silver, she must have either been married to a rich bloke at some point or came from a well-off family, I do remember her mentioning one time that she once worked in a biscuit factory.

 

A youngish Science teacher had an early 90s VW Jetta on White.

 

Another (possibly) English teacher (she never taught us) an small round lady drove about in a faded Purple Mk2 Orion, I think this was traded in for a slightly newer Blue Ford Escort saloon.

 

The head of English, a large feary cockney woman had an early 'R8' Rover 200 which was then traded up to another later base-spec Black R8 214 with small wheel trims.

 

Our History teacher, another London cockney bloke had a Silver F-plate Nissan Sunny, he didn't seem that bothered about cars, apparently the Sunny was given to him by a neighbour.

 

Our maths teacher, a small but very go-getting afro-carribbian lady had mid-90s BRG Vauxhall Corsa, possibly a GSi as it looked pretty well-specced. She may have got a newer Polo afterwards but she swapped schools with a teacher from my old school; a curvy MILF called Mrs Ashurst with Red David-Bowie haircut. She did maths and PE for the girls.

 

Early on at secondary school we had a Science teacher for a small while who drove about in a then-new Black mk2 MR2. The fella himself was some sort of self-contented yuppie-type.

 

Another English teacher, a tall well spoken lady had a Blue mk3 Vauxhall Astra which she entrusted the keys to me to fetch a music cassette from.

 

Our school bus was a big White LDV 400 diesel thing that Mr Wennington once took over the school field and tried to do wheel spins in it.

 

Honarable mention: Mr Chetwood; he was a science teaching assistant, setting equipment, he wasn't, as far I knew, ever an actual teacher or he never took a class whilst I was there. He was a really nice, chatty, happy bloke, looked like something out of the 50s, neat Jet-Black hair, very fair skin, always appeared clean cut and well turned out. Anyhow, I never saw him arrive in a car, he often rode into school on a push-bike. When I asked if he drove, he regaled tales of tearing around Dawley town (as it was then, pre-Telford) in a Mini GT.

 

I'd imagine now most of these people (if they're still alive) are probably driving about in new Euro-bland finance cars.

[anonymous user]

I was sure I'd responded on this thread.

Primary school

Head drove a Vauxhall Victor FB, eventually replaced with Mk 2 Cortina

Deputy Head a Humber Sceptre

Scary teacher a Morris Minor, she replaced this with a Renault 10

Form teacher a Morris Minor Traveller

 

I'm sure there were others but it was a long time ago

 

Secondary School

 

Head drove a Morris 1800 replaced by a Triumph 2000 (which he crashed outside the school)

Deputy head Morris 1800 (they were popular)

Spanish teacher Wolseley 1800 (which he once crashed into the building by going forwards instead of backwards)

RE teacher a mini (once carried into school hall by 6th form)

Nice maths teacher a Mk1 Capri

Not so nice maths teacher Renault 16TX

Form teacher Datsun 100A

Music teacher Morris 1100

History teacher Morris 1800 (which he over filled with oil)

Geography teacher Austin 1100

English teacher Morris Marina

Another maths teacher VW beetle, replaced with Audi 80

Another music teacher Capri 3 litre or her other car a Healey 3000

Chemistry teacher Austin Allegro

The Latin teacher walked as she lived next door, she did have a car but I can't remember what

Other Spanish teacher Wartburg Knight Estate (I was in school with his daughter who used to get dropped off so that she wasn't seen arriving in it)

[Fumbler]

A Maths teacher I never had drives a pre facelift Micra with some 90s zesty name. The oldest car in the car park.

[mercrocker]

I have a few more memories stoked by all this (thanks to Datsuncog for the thread assembly!) 

 

Mrs Lilley.  Looked like Yootha Joyce with a bad facelift.  She was almost like my Gran in appearance and very easily shocked as I found out after farting loudly in a desk with the lid ajar before I noticed she had entered the classroom..... Anyway, she had a Commer Cob (Common Yob in our parlance back then) in pea-soup green but occasionally arrived astride her husband's Commando Interstate.   She would hitch her skirt, flashing the epitome in Grattan underwear and climb off outside the form rooms while hubby blatted back off up the school drive at what seemed like 75mph. 

 

Mr Clarke.  Metalwork.  He is memorable for two things - firstly slating the headmaster to a colleague about his choice of Morris Marina which arrived in the HM car park slot literally days after being announced.   "Ten versions, Eh?  What a joke...Hrmmmphh".   I very nearly said "What about your Crapi, then?   Twenty six versions, if I am not mistaken".   However, remembering he had battered me with a metal ruler for far less impertinence I kept shut.  He also owned a crusty Landcrab which came into school one day with the horn stuck on.  Nobody laughed. Much. 

 

Mr Tate.  Always walked to school and assumed to be "too stupid to drive a car" according to our 11-year-old assessment of the world around us.  Later found 25 miles away in an immaculate Escort 1300E by a pupil visiting some relatives.   

 

We also had two commercial vehicles at school.   A brand new pig-face Diesel Transit LWB minibus with the transverse slatted seats usually found in Border Patrol re-patriation Jeeps in New Mexico.   It was fecking long way to Stratford upon Avon from the New Forest in that mother.   Better, much better, was a Bedford J0 donated by one of the techy teachers.  A remedial class (remember that word?) stripped it down, weighed in the body, rebuilt the engine and cab and bombed it round the playing fields as part of their Group Studies.   I can still remember the pang of being in English Literature wondering how I could possibly get busted down eight sets so that I could go and play with it as well.....

[Pieman]

 

Not a teacher, but one of the girls I was in sixth form with had a Justy identical to that one as her first car.  The rear suspension failed on it and she replaced it - with a Triumph Acclaim.  This was in about 2004!  I wish I was still in contact with her as she clearly had superb taste.

 

The headmaster for my first year in high school, Mr Podmore, was a big petrolhead and had a Westfield, which I believe he entered in a few sprint events at Curborough.  Sadly he retired after my first year there and I never really got to know him.

 

Other I remember included history teacher Mrs Challoner who had a Mk2 MR2 complete with T-bar roof and later a Merc SLK, Dr Anketell, head of science who had a Fiat Uno (which he later crashed), head of careers Mr Albutt who had a Mk1 Laguna and a Daewoo Lanos, and IT teacher Mrs Worsey who I am still in touch with who had a Nissan QX.  There was also a languages teacher, Mrs Owen, who tried hard to prove to everyone how posh and upper-class she was but drove a Mk1 Mondeo which constantly rattled as if the bottom end was about to fall out.  I bet that's been banger raced now!

[Pieman]

Mr Coales (English) Cortina 1600E in that sort of metalic pink colour, later replaced by another one in Aubergine. He also raced a Formula Ford (battling for second to last place).

 

Bloody hell - that's Tony Coales, he is now a motorsport commentator and I have co-commentated with him several times.  Small world!

[Mrcento]

I remember my Spanish teacher drove a grey Focus diesel, suited him well.

 

My English teacher was one of those uber professional types, she came in every day dressed like she was ready for dinner on the Titanic (1920's suit style), carried all her documents in a leather doctors bag...you'd think she'd drive a Volvo, but she drove an Audi TT Cabrio 3.2 v6, her car before that was a Fiat Coupe 20vt.

 

Me thinks Miss used to let her hair down at the weekend.

[ProgRocker]

Early to mid 1990s at a tough high school in north east Norwich.

 

The headmistress (sadly died last year) had a white C reg Renault 18, it was then replaced by an L reg base model Renault 19 in white (with matt black bumpers). Because 19 is greater than 18.

 

For some reason I couldn't fathom there were initially 3 Deputy Headteachers. Mr. B had a 1990 Escort Eclipse, Mr F (retired in 1992, taking the Deputy head count from 3 to 2) had an E reg Rover 216 Vanden Plas (I think - or an 'SE' spec) and Mr S, a no-nonsence Geordie English teacher, had a burgandy C reg Granada 2.8i Ghia...or it might have even been a Scorpio. That later got chopped for a black Belgian built Sierra 1.8 LX.

 

Mr D the Science teacher (nicknamed 'Kenny Everitt' because....well that's who he looked like at the time) had an X reg Skoda Estelle that didn't looked too great by the mid 1990s it was traded in for a Skoda Favorit. I wonder if he still drives a Skoda if he's still around?

 

Mr E had a beige early 1980s Austin Maxi and then a red E reg Montego.

 

Mrs C who taught me A Level French (which I badly failed - it was either me or her boring teaching) had a silver Renault 5 Campus 5 door. It had to be French, didn't it?! Another Mrs. C had a Citroen 2CV at one point but was sadly chopped in for something less interesting. The extremely young Geography teacher and all round good egg Mr G first had a red Renault 5 (possibly a Campus) but upgraded to a Renault Clio. I used to think he was loaded as it wasn't very old at the time.

 

My tutor and 'jack of all trades' Mr K (taught History and PE) drove a terra cotta mark 2 Cavalier L hatchback reg BKK 981Y. I think he had that car for years.

 

Mr M, another Science teacher had a black F reg BX GTi that I thought was as cook as f**k at the time.   I think it was an 8v model.

 

Mr L who taught me History for a year had a later reg Golf mark 1.

[HMC]

It’s 1993, I’m avidly building a Tamiya r/c kit of a BTCC Mondeo, and my teachers are driving-

 

Mr king music- early 1979 Saab 900 5 door replaced by cream 1984 2 door

Mr riding music 1992 Mazda 626 saloon

Mr ? Music 1978 Toyota Cressida

Mrs ? Music. 1979 mg midget

Mrs ? Drama 1988 seat Marbella

Mrs d English. 1987 Sierra 2.0I GLS

Mrs ? Home economics - mint mk1 Escort reg XTC7N

Various x4. Mid 80s mk2 fiesta xr2 all with door lock damage

Mr vell pe 1979/80 mk1 Astra

Mr ? Percussion teacher 1984 rover SD1- moonraker blue

Mrs vickers. 1991 Renault 5 gt turbo

Mr Briggs English. 1983 Austin maestro (on a y)

Mr? English. 1985 bmw 528i (e28)

Mr Marsh technology. 1990 Volvo 240 estate

Mr ? Science. 1977 Volvo 244

Mrs k. Science. 1988 lada riva

Mr ward chemistry. 1991 rover montego saloon, white.

 

Honourable mention- school minibus

LDV200 1989

LDV400. 1990

Can only have been a couple of years old but in my mind they were already rusty

[Noel Tidybeard]

moar from Moseley

• mr hebden (dave) p.e./games - doloposhite sprint (except he was well 'ard and used to run to school)
• mr scott (keith) p.e./games- escrote 1600 spurt
• mr bullock dupty head- hc viva
• mr powers music- simca 1100

[Mrcento]

Honourable mention- school minibus

LDV200 1989

LDV400. 1990

Can only have been a couple of years old but in my mind they were already rusty

 

They will have been, they were LDV's. Rust came as standard.

 

Pretty sure a fair number of them needed welding at their first MOT.

[captain_cal]

The only one I can remember is my Science teacher Mr. Rodda, who drove his mum's Daewoo Matiz. A pretty meek and nondescript guy, who was later found dead in Hong Kong from an apparent overdose. Pretty shocking tbh.

[Amishtat]

I'm surprised how little I can remember of my teacher's cars. My maths teacher af junior school (1987-91) had a 505GTI which impressed me, D something VWC. The only ones from senior school to stick in the mind are Mr Kirkby-Green's K-reg Volvo 145 which was impressively scruffy by 1997,Mr Crickmore's Mini Neon, (J-reg, I think) which was rusting nicely at about five years old and Mr Chambers' mk.1 Mondeo because it was the first I'd seen. K288HOO, a metallic blue hatchback with those swirly wheel trims.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Mrs ? Home economics - mint mk1 Escort reg XTC7N...

Making plans for Nigel?

[beko1987]

No pics but the head teacher at my primary school had a 605 estate with the rear boot seats in beige, deputy head had an R reg mazda 323 (the nice sleek looking one, think its a 323,there was one for sale here a while ago...), Mrs Buswell had a silver corsa B, another teacher had an M reg laguna 1 in some mint green and another teacher got a mk1 focus estate on a t reg not long before I left in year 6.

 

They would all have been brand new at the time too, bar the heads 605 as he had loads of kids, and I think it was a k/l reg... Don't remember any others, but we could see the car park from the playground! Would have been the mid 90s

 

Might see if mums got any pictures with the car park in

[vanmartinrooy]

About time for my first post I think

 

Primary/Junior school (late 80s-early 90s). I don't remember many, but one teacher had a gold Mk1 XR2. The headmaster had a Marina estate in a vomity orange or yellow colour, which was already quite shite given the year.

My favourite memory, though, is being driven somewhere by Mrs Spindler in her gleaming new Peugeot 505 7 seater. "Would you like to sit in the back... or the very back?" Remember that like it was yesterday, and have had a soft spot for them ever since! Funnily enough, typing that has just brought back a memory of a teacher noticing that I liked cars and giving me some brochures to look at - one of which was for the brand spanking new Mercedes W124. Might well be the reasoning behind another little obsession of mine...

 

Secondary School (mid 90s):

 

Deputy head Mr Archer had a Jag XJS, although he rarely drove it in - instead favouring an ancient Volvo 340 which was eventually replaced with a turquoise mk5 Escort. Bizarrely, if he was on bus duty outside the school he would drive it out there and park on the pavement, despite the fact this 1) actually took more effort than just walking down the driveway and 2) got in the way of said buses and/or people queuing.

 

There was always an F reg Citroen CX estate in the car park (never found out who owned it) - looked awesomely spacecraft like, albeit rusting horribly already.

 

Young science teacher Mr Randall drove a A reg boxy Renault saloon (think it might have been a 9). Late 90s so already quite unusual/shite by then. He was an odd chap who used to cook his tea over a bunsen burner, and eventually got sacked for shagging a 6th former.

 

His colleague, Dr Swingler, drove an ancient VW Derby for almost the whole time I was at the school. eventually ceding defeat and getting a sleek looking Carlton estate.

 

Yet another science teacher drove a late  2CV in that green and white paint job they did.

 

A languages teacher whose name I forget drove an utterly wretched Chevette saloon with huge rust holes in the wings (this was mid 1990s) - another languages teacher had an early Mk2 Cavalier in poo brown.

 

My 5th form tutor Mr Cottrell (first name: Cedric) sported an A reg Scirocco in a miserable shade of light brown, complete with matching rusty steel wheels, which perfectly matched his greasy countenance and 70s style tinted glasses.

 

Obligatory 70s Beetle driven by 'kooky' drama teacher

 

Mr Manning (tech teacher) had 8 kids and thus drove one of those ubiquitous late 80s Bedford minibuses that have all disappeared now. This was christened the Manningavan. His family were still up in Crewe and he drove back there from Reading every week. After a while he returned the Manningavan to his wife and started turning up in a crumbling Mk3 Escort.

 

Computing teacher Mrs Melville, an utterly disinterested 60 fags & bottle of wine a day type, drove a tasty Golf Clipper convertible.

 

My 6th form tutor told us she had an Austin-Healey 3000, although annoyingly she never drove it in and instead used some sort of MPV.

[Sir Snipes]

Only cars I remember are the French teacher's old school Beetle, science teacher's Nissan QX and the headmaster having an MX3 and later a 323F (maybe V6, maybe not).

[Rocket88]

 

 

Maths and R.E...................Guess which one was which..........