warren t claim Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Do you still remember the cars that your schoolteachers drove? Were they exceptionally shonky or memorable? Did any pupils at your school ever get dropped off in anything remotely interesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 One of our teachers at the high school I attended had a beige Mini with the numberplate something like 'LEY 400R'. We didn't like her very much and one day after an epic game of 'put stones in the lawnmower blades while the workmen have their dinner' said workmen fired up said lawnmower and a stone flew off straight into said teacher's said Mini.Oh how we laughed at the large dent in the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 In the car park of my primary school, I clearly remember an orange Wartburg, a white Lotus Elan & an orange Fiat 126...best days of our lives apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonka Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Chemistry teacher was near retirement and never seemed to complete an experiment properly but she drove a Capri 3000GXL. Geography teacher had a P reg'd Mark 1 Escort Mexico Estate............. a pukka Ford built estate with flared front wings, 1/4 bumpers the lot and wood cappings on the doors/load area, this was 1977 bet it cost him an absolute packet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 My pals mum had a thing for Allegros. I remember her giving us a lift in it. I also remember another school pals mum had a G-reg beetle. It used to kangaroo and we cwerent allowed to step on the running boards as they were rotten. My primary school had a fearsome Deputy Head with these bright red-rimmed plastic spectacles. She had a brown V-reg MK5 Cortina with headlights that used to come on when she braked, which somehow made her persona seem even more angry to me. Another pal's mum had a MK1 Cav 2 door saloon on an R-plate. If he got a bollocking for something he used to skeak out to the garage and pile up cardboard boxes in front of it and stick it in 4th gear. We thought that it would shoot off at about 40mph through the boxes when started, not realising the laws of gears back then. Or that his parents would obviously notice the boxes. I remember my techie teacher who took the class out to his ancient Mini Clubman to demonstrate the virtues of the internal combustion engine, but he couldnt re-assemble it again afterwards. Think thats called a FAIL on the internet. Another teacher had a Borders registered Minor, whihc was always parked next to a colleagues Talbot Solara. C reg with blotches of grey primer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Also, may I just say 'LOLZ' : We didn't like her very much and one day after an epic game of 'put stones in the lawnmower blades while the workmen have their dinner' said workmen fired up said lawnmower and a stone flew off straight into said teacher's said Mini.Oh how we laughed at the large dent in the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Mrs Frame, she drove a GS, then replaced it with a GSA.Mrs Williams had an orange Mazda 323 (1st series 1970's flavour).EDIT:-Just like this one - did they have a security hing where the seat locked in the forward position to stop thieves driving them?Mr Ray and Mr Charles both had Mini Metros (W reg) but as befitting their jobs, the head had a Vanden Plank and Mr Charles had a boggo spec blue one.Mr Plumber had a Worsley 1300 and everyone else either walked or cycled to school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Back in the late 70's early 80's, the sadistic infamous head teacher of Plympton secondary modern drove an Allegroid LE in that lurid metallic 'Kermit frog' green. A black Mercedes Benz would have been more in keeping with image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I remember them well. In the early 80s my primary headteacher Mr Austin had a zircon blue MG Maestro with cheesegrater alloys, and he used to drive it like the wind even at school kicking out time (the bastard). Dear old Mr Villa who was a gent drove a huge, at the time, white Toyota Crown circa 1974. At secondary school in 1986 the cravat wearing art teacher Mr Piggott had a Gold mk1 Capri (he used to nip off in it at breaktimes for a drive and a smoke!), and both the Geography and Biology teachers had mk2 Metro Turbos. Both of which got stolen Edit: and a kid at secondary used to get dropped off in a 1973 Marina TC Coupe. I remember this because in true know-it-all fashion he'd always go on about how good a car it was I was more interested in the red-headed girl who's Dad had a maroon Fiat Croma. Not sure if it was her or the car I liked more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 english teacher at primary had a blue bluebird think the headteacher had a cortina mk5 cant remember others......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Er, my Rural Studies teacher drove a red and white 2CV... Chemistry teacher drove a pre-facelift Mk2 Carlton estate in a wonderful shade of faded blue. I wondered if it left the factory looking that faded. There was one teacher at my primary school who drove a metallic gold Panther Kallista! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Look at that... the moment I log in, up pops this brand new thread. Yes, in a word. Way way back in primary school, I was in Mrs Atkinson's class. I'd be 4 or 5. Mrs A came to work in a Bedford CA camper, one of those with little fins. Martin Walter? She was pushing on for retirement even then. I moved up to secondary and look, here's her hubby, teaching me woodwork; but no more camper, I think they pensioned it off. Instead he drove a white Imp Californian, RDM 826F (how sad is that, that I can remember this!).There was a bit of a feast at my high school actually. The school minibus was a Commer. My French teacher had a maroon Renault 16; the other woodwork teacher had a Victor 101 estate and one of my form teachers (who looked like Alfred Hitchcock and smoked huge cigars) had a white Arrow-type Rapier (which I particularly liked). His wife, also one of my form teachers in a different year, provided my first close encounter with a Japanese car, by coming to work in a yellow Toyota Corolla, 1974/5-ish. This being a Catholic school, we had nuns, who used the convent hack, which was a Renault 4 or 6, I can't remember which. Headmaster had a white Rover 2000, BAN 890H. Mrs Baird (History) had a white Beetle. Mr Bradley (Geography) had a beige one with a steel sunroof.And then we meet the art department! You can usually rely on these people for something interesting. I remember one teacher had a 1966 Bedford CA Utilabrake, which he replaced with a Mini Clubman estate bought from one of the others. My dad nearly bought the Bedford, I still don't know why he didn't. I think the Mini donor bought a Simca 1100, but don't quote me. I didn't take much notice of the cars others arrived in (if any) but I can list most of what we had in those times!In 1964, when I was 5, my dad bought a brand new Corsair 1500, 2 door, in Goodwood Green. He bought my mum a grey 107E Prefect.These were followed, through my primary period, by a new Mk3 Zephyr 4; used Morris half-ton van (A55 shape); new Mk2 Cortina 1500 Super; used Anglia van; used 100E Popular. We're into high school now, beginning with the Pop; then an A35 van (window and seat conversion before we got it); and finally Mk1 Cortina (first car I ever drove). At which point I left school in favour of my local Technical College, followed by Art College (other side of the same building; Marc Almond was there at the same time) and after that, the big wide world of hourly-paid slavery. (This period marked by an A60 Cambridge and a Triumph Herald...)During the Art College time, I started my driving lessons; the one-man school I went to initially had WCK 726R, a pale blue Escort Popular. I learned to hate that car. The Mini I drove when I moved to BSM was a revelation! best days of our lives apparently. Cheggers, if I'd believed that for a second, at any time in the last 50 years*, I would have killed myself without a second thought. Yes, it really was that awful. *Or even any time in the next 50..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 In primary school one of the teachers had a beige Lada Riva which was replaced by a red Samara and the headmistress had a Peugeot 309. She retired and for my primary 7 year the new head had a red and white 2CV Dolly. In high school there was a blue Volvo Amazon saloon and a green Rover 2200. Both of which had a few rusty patches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Well, the ones that I remember were- Metalwork teacher drove a brown reliant robin (because he only had a bike licence. He kept it in the playground next to the CDT rooms so he could keep an eye on it - every time he parked it in the car park it "fell over". A young (and very pretty) female biology teacher drove a bright red (brand new) Mk1 MR2 with a private plate that said "HOT" The chemistry teacher had a lada, then replaced it with a FSO 125p. This would have been much funnier if he wasn't my dad. Oh, and the school minibus was an incredibly tatty and unreliable LWB mk1 transit crewbus. (a van with windows and side bench seats...). I remember at least one school trip that involved the AA being called, and another where the clutch failed on the way back, so Dad couldn't stop to drop people off. He slowed down, and they jumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Oh, and the school minibus was an incredibly tatty and unreliable LWB mk1 transit crewbus. (a van with windows and side bench seats...). I remember at least one school trip that involved the AA being called, and another where the clutch failed on the way back, so Dad couldn't stop to drop people off. He slowed down, and they jumped. Shonky school minibuses! There's a thread in itself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreepingJesus Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 The last primary school I was at, the infant mistress, Miss Phillips, had a red Karmann Ghia. The reg was EGGxxxL, so we all used to have a jolly good laugh at Miss Phillips' egg car. It was immaculate too, bearing in mind this was 1985.Up at the secondary school, we had a PE teacher who used to borrow her other half's Porker 944, when her Mk1 Fester SuperSport went wrong. Every other week then.One of my science teachers, Mr McKenzie, had a couple of RX7's during my time there. He was a proper petrolhead and could always be sidelined with a good discussion about the internal combustion engine. Particularly of the rotary kind.Likewise one of my techie teachers, Mr Strachan (although by the time I got to Higher C+D, everyone just called him Trevor) took immense pride in his early Senny, and used to drag it into the workshop for practical demos. Brave man. He could talk cars for hours.Another techie teacher (whose name I can't recall) had a disgusting W-plate Mk1 Fester with a rusty roofrack. He coached the rugby team, and used to pile tons of kit into it for away games, so we used to wind him up by picking it up/bouncing it away somewhere else. Halfway across Helensburgh was the record we set, I think.One of the geography teachers impressed some of the more easily impressed lads by buying a shiny new XR3i in '87. Arctic white, with the white wheeltrims it was. One of the easily impressed lads asked her if this newfangled ABS made any difference, to which she replied "Dunno. I don't use the brakes much anyway...". She wasn't joking. I asked her sometime later if she was serious, she said it was a personal challenge to get from home to school without touching the brakes. Swore she'd done it more than once too!School minibus in some of 1st year was a disgusting old MK2 Transit, which was replaced by a VW LT28. When I rolled up at uni in '93, there was an Alfa 6 belonging to one of the deans, but I think it dissolved in an especially violent Aberdonian downpour. 'Twas replaced with a less crusty S1 XJ6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 The maths teacher (Terry R Yarwood) had a Lotus Elite - TRY1English teacher had a Renault 5 - the tiny engined one with the gear lever that came out of the dash.with 5 of us in it, it would just touch 100mph (on the clock) Northbound M1 between 22 & 23 & the school had a bus, like a proper bus on a D 1966 plate but very short about 24 seatsall the teachers used to just jump in & drive it, air operated front door seldom closed.very refined in top gear at 30 - at 70 absolutely deafening! & there was a guy with a plastic pig who used to fire it up & set off in one smooth action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 My English teacher had a Honda Quintet. Therefore I win this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Great thread!Infant School the head mistress had a Hillman Minx as did the caretaker, one very old and very round female teacher had a baby blue Mk.1 Escort Mexico, the nuns had a Morris 1100.Junior School, head master had a Bedford CA Dormobile, deputy had a new Austin Princess (1975) to replace his 1800, swimming teacher had an Escort 1300E, school bus was an ex Green Line AEC. The parish priest who was an evil w*nker drove a Lancia Fulvia saloon, his assistant had a sporty Mk.1 EscortSecondary School, was run by resident christian brothers, in their pool was Austin 1300GT, Mini Clubman, Mk.2 RS Escort. Art teachers were utter babes, Miss Dredge had an F reg (1967) Toyota Corolla, head of art, Miss Fry had a Mk1 3.0 litre Capri (MML3L), in tech block teachers had a Volvo P1800 Estate, Austin A35 and Mr Singh with a Sunbeam Rapier, English teachers had a DAF 33, Fintail Merc and a 1975 N reg Polo, the minibuses were Bedford CF's, blue with wooden benches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 My German teacher, Mr Delay, used to have a light blue Montego Countryman. I remember it well as he was a complete tosser who used to insist on utter silence whilst he typed his notes in a typewriter (this was the late 1990s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Norman Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Our school playground was filled with some prime shite. Mostly scabby old Alpines, Cortinas (I'm talking about late 70s/early 80s here) Escorts etc, but one of the maths teachers had a well off hubby and she ran a then-new W reg Lancia Beta Spyder. We had a Russian classics teacher and she drove a Lada, my chemistry teacher had a R reg Datsun Laurel 200L, a physics teacher had a really shite, scabby Daimler Sovereign, on an L or M reg IIRC, but the piece de resistance was undoubtedly the headmaster's Reliant Kitten. I remember the school had a minibus too, a wonderfully shonky old Commer, one of these ones where the wheels were about a foot inside the bodywork. Lots of school trips got cancelled or cut short because of that old shitter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreepingJesus Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 One of my other half's teachers, was the wife of Jim Watt, the boxer. Apparently, she had an Astra Club (tightwad - he was running an executive car garage at the time), and when some wag went round kicking all the wing mirrors off the teachers' cars, Mr Watt came round to 'have a word' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I remember in primary school one of the teachers drove a gold MaestroVDP, when we had the Burns day gale in 1990 three tiles flew of the school roof and through the back window, Secondary school my forum teacher had a Peugeot 306 in 1993, it was one of the very first ones and the drama teacher drove a yellow VW Beetle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 The only one I remember was the physics teacher who drove various ancient Lada's and drank various bottles of whisky while supposedly teaching us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 I suppose as I started the thread I'd better make a contribution. My french teacher was something of a local celebrity being John Lennon's half sister. Sadly she didn't drive a Rolls Phantom with a wacky paint job but she did roll in the most spectacularly tatty Mk4 Cortina that can't of been much more than four years old at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Way back in junior school one of our teachers had a rather tatty red TVR. I can't quite remember the model, but I think it was a 3000M. One of the older lads used to get picked up by his mum in a white Lancia Fulvia In secondary school I think the teacher with the most Autoshite car of all was Mr Hunt who had a yellow Austin Maestro hatchback. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 One of the spoilt kids had a Rover 600 that was only a few years old at the time. He wrote if off then daddy just bought him another one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I knew one like him at Art College. He had a Simca 1501... Doncha just love people like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 I knew one like him at Art College. He had a Simca 1501... Doncha just love people like that? When you were at art college with Marc Almond did he drive an Austin Seven SWALLOW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 One teacher drove a bubble car. A bunch of six formers carried it in and put it on the school stage. Lord Sterling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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