Bakc 2 Skool.

[maxpower]

my primary school teacher who i hated as much as she hated me

 

had a renault 12

[Albert Ross]

Blimey.. one School revealed these.

Beige Beetle, Miss James.

Blue Dolomite, Mr Wilson.

Turquoise Hillman Husky (Imp), Mr Forrest.

Anglia Estate, Mrs Dolphin. (Should have had a Renault really!)

Brown All-aggro, Mr Barnes, Reg started BRA.... Pffft.

 

Another School,

Headmaster, Humber Super Snipe. I think......!

Physics teacher Mr Bucknell, 3 E-Types, Red and Navy Blue S2s, and Yellow S3 Roadster I think.

 

 

 

Another...

Mr Christian, Skoda 110

Mr Wyllie, Citroen DS (I think)

Miss Thomas, Renault 16?... memory fading...

My Trombone teacher. Summat Beige, American, and StatWag shaped. He was fat and ginger.

Matron. Turquoise Datsun 120Y

Mr French, BRG Morris Minor.

PE Teacher, MGB Roadster in that 'orrible orange.

Various Land Rovers..... in various states of "repair".

 

Another School.

Green Interceptor.. unknown teacher...!

My House master. Tim Newman.. shiteist par excellence.

White R4, Black R30, Series Land Rover Petrol 109. All registered IOW....

Lad in the next boarding house, his parents had a Daimler C12, and he had a small Karting career. (Dominic Chappell)

[Pete-M]

We had a few choice characters.

 

Mr Spencer and Mr Clough shared a few oddball motors, they used to do 'em up in the workshops. Spencer had a new 131 Sport, Clough had a 262C. Both ended up in Mk2 Escort Sports. Both randomly arrived in a selection of old Frogeye Sprites and the like.

 

Mr Williams (M.B.) had a S1 Landy with a sticker on the side "Save the Whale, Harpoon a Jap" and regularly used to drive it around the school field firing an ancient musket loaded with bogroll from it. He eventually replaced it with a drop dead gorgeous dark green Granada 2.8i Ghia X Exec Estate.

 

Mr Hodge had a succession of Saabs, including an early 99 Turbo with Aztec rims.

 

Mr Frazer, the headmaster, he had a Chevette HS followed by a new Mk2 Golf GL 5 door. I felt sorry for him.

[Rod/b]

A few teacher's cars spring to mind:

 

Our games teacher, had a white 3 series (e21?) that was absolutely hanging whereas the girls' PE teacher had a 2 litre Capri S. Lazy cow used to drive it over to the school field rather than walk. GR9 example...

 

There was a typing teacher who had a Mk 1 Cav. She never used to put the handbrake on for some reason so it used to get pushed around the playground quite a lot.

 

One art teacher had an Ital that only had the drivers seat in it. The rumour was he had killed his family in a car smash so he took the seats out. Probably actually just came from the factory like that and nobody noticed.

 

My economics teacher at college had an Uno turbo which caught fire. It was replaced with a Karmann Ghia. Lovely.

[mattblack]

At high school, the wonderfuly named Mr. Spavold(sp?) had a shonky Daimler SP250. I can remember the little 'D's cast into the rear lights.

[Rod/b]

How could i forget; one primary school teacher, Mr Emes, had a gold P1800, and was therefore the coolest teacher i've ever had.

[Skizzer]

Nice thread!

 

My first primary school head, Mr Ellis, had an orange Renault 12TX on an N-reg, which was pretty cool then and certainly would be now;

When he left we got the equally fine Mr Harries who had a bright metallic green Chrysler Horizon on a T-plate with orangey-brown cloth trim FTW;

Mr Williams the visiting violin teacher had an FD Victor in a mixture of battleship grey and red oxide primer;

Mrs Williams (no relation - this is South Wales remember) had a Marina in limeflower on an L;

Mr Whittaker had a brown Mini Clubman Estate on a T;

everyone else at primary school either walked or I've forgotten. Someone had a yellow VW K70 but I can't imagine who - might have been the visiting flute teacher.

 

Secondary school highlights included:

white Matra Rancho (woodwork)

red Talbot Solara (maths)

silver Datsun Stanza (also maths)

black Mk1 Golf GTI (art)

green e12 BMW 520 (head)

gold Mk1 Polo (German)

yellow Mk1 Escort 4-door on an M-plate (French - spotted her a couple of years back still driving it)

a Mk1 Astra in two-tone gold/brown (was that the Celebrity edition, or was that only in black and silver?)

and the customary smattering of Escorts and Metros.

[quicksilver]

Great thread and its got me thinking - I can't recall primary or middle school but remember a few choice examples from secondary school. The business teacher (who became a local celebrity for finding an abandoned baby in a bin) had a Renner 21, posh one with alloys and leather. One maths teacher had a Volvo 240 Torslanda * and my biology teacher Mrs Robinson had a Mk2 Astra special edition of some sort. The exam officer had a Pug 306 Sedan and the head of PE (a woman who looked like David Bowie, but not in his androgenous era ) had a grey XR3i. The head had a surprisingly shonky car, a faded red Merc 190 with a gazillion miles on the clock.

The technology department had some good/bad stuff. The IT teacher drove a white Ford Probe of which he was unfeasibly proud (I don't know which was shinier - the car or his bald head!) The electronics guy had a Saab 900 cabrio with one of those naff 'A1 4' plates. Mr Barnaby had a VW Scirocco and later replaced it with a Corrado, and the department head regularly used a lovely old Riley RM. Then there was a green Metro, donated by a local garage supposedly as a teaching aid for sixth formers but I never ever saw it move and it gradually turned even more green with algae. Happy days?

 

*EDIT: thinking back some more I'm not sure it was a Torslanda, I now think it was a base model with wheeltrims. It was definitely white and L-reg so a very late one.

[R9UKE]

I left school two years ago so it was basically a sea of Golfs, Qashqais and Scenics. No fun. Although Mrs Kerr, my art teacher had a Volvo 940 2.3 Estate. Seats always folded down and filled with clay ornaments and the likes, the great Volvo image. It was lobbed in during the scrappage scheme for a Suzuki Vitara 3 Door.

 

Back to primary school in Birmingham, this would have been 1996-2000. My Year 1 teacher had a B reg Fiesta Ghia which then became a Renault 5 Campus. Mrs Amion had a B reg Nissan Prairie. Then there was Mrs Phillips who had the car of my dreams. A brand spanking new S reg Ford Mondeo 2.5i V6 Ghia X in black with the optional polished chrome alloy wheels. That car was the sex.

[Formula Autos]

Could anyone manage to get some screen grabs of Grange Hill?

 

IIRC Mr. Bronson had a Maestro, and I seem to remember all kinds of other quality chod was in evidence on the rare occasion the car park was shown.

 

As for my teachers my history teacher, Mr. Hopkinson, had a bodykitted Yugo 55, just like this.

Am I now in the lead of this round of Autoshite?

[retrogeezer]

I can only remember 3..

 

One teacher was disabled and had one of those blue Invacar things.

 

My form head had a black RS2000 mk2 and I remember the day he traded it in for a new XR3i, I bet he is cursing that now.

 

And our french teacher had a Alfasud, I remember that as the staff car park backed onto houses and a friend lived in one of them. One morning she came in, turned into the space and then hit the accelerator instead of the brake shooting straight through the fence into my mates back garden!

[Station]

A teacher called Miss James had a beige mk1 Y-reg Fiesta (new). She used to give me and my brother a lift to school if she saw us at the bus stop. This would've been about 1981 when I had just started school. I can still remember the smell of the inside of the car vividly, it was very perfumey, like Yardley or one of those old fashioned perfumes.

 

Mrs Engle had a battered Rover P6 3500 in brown. Even then (1985) it was seen as a complete shed. Must've been very early 60's car?

 

Moving into secondary school (1987 - 92), my biology teacher (Mr McCabe) had one of those a-reg Mitsubishi Sigmas, and the 'temp' PE teacher had a Toyota Supra mk1 in yellow.

[retrogeezer]

Oh, I just remembered that the receptionist at my junior school had a Triumph Toledo, she had to take me home in it once when I was ill.

[504GL]

Only teacher whose car I can remember as being even slightly interesting was my year one teacher. Her name was Mrs Ford and predictably she drove a Ford. A Mk2 Escort in white or beige (I can't remember) which had a vinyl roof and one of those metal sunvisors which attached to the side of the windscreen and provided a bit more protection from the savage Australian sun. Can't find a picture of the sun shade/visor thing which is frustrating because it was very period and I suspect that most shiters would find it rather fapworthy.

[eddyramrod]

one of those metal sunvisors which attached to the side of the windscreen and provided a bit more protection from the savage Australian sun. Can't find a picture of the sun shade/visor thing

 

You mean like this one, on a Minor?

[504GL]

one of those metal sunvisors which attached to the side of the windscreen and provided a bit more protection from the savage Australian sun. Can't find a picture of the sun shade/visor thing

 

You mean like this one, on a Minor?

 

yeah, kinda like that one except it didn't go up from the screen, it just wrapped around the screen

[quicksilver]

Can't believe I forgot the best one. A later IT teacher, a few years after shiny Probe guy left, normally drove a Galaxy (boring) but occasionally turned up in her hubby's Alfa 75. WINNAH!

[Rod/b]

Thought of anothe one. There was a stand-in Drama teacher at our school who drove a battered Morris Marina van. After arranging a trip to some posh play in London for the GCSE and A level lot he disappeared with the money.

 

Turns out he was actually a porter at Billinsgate fish market. God only knows how he got the job at the school.

 

Additionally, our headmistress had an MG Metro.

[scooters]

a real collection of chod including:

 

Triumph Spitfire

Triumph Herald

Pug 304

Renner 9

Renner 11

Renner 4

Ami 8

Austin Allegro

Fiat 126

Mini Clubman estate

head man had an XJ40 - obviously being paid too much

 

oh - a mate of miune got a Yugo 45 Cabriolet for his 18th birthday - spoilt bastard!

spring to mind for starters

[Shep Shepherd]

In my last year at primary school in 1988-89, my teacher had a Triumph TR4A and an E21 3-series Bauer cabriolet. She was pretty awesome

[Lord Sterling]

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 up science equipment for classes, he wasn't, as far I knew, ever an actual teacher or he never took a class as far as I knew. 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.

[meggersdog]

My primary school head teacher drove a Renault 16TX

Miss Watkins drove an Alfa spider (would have been nearly new in 1976)

I went to a small village school with only three teachers and I think those were the only cars in the car park.

On to secondary school the one car that stood out was that of Mr Smith the music teacher.He was a weekend rally driver and drove a Mk two RS2000.It was lime green with massive spot lights,a roll-cage and had a fly off handbrake which he used to demonstrate every morning when turning into the car park.This was 1980 and the car was a T.reg so not very old.

Other cars were a Ford Corsair,(Mr Philips) Morris 1000 traveller (Mr Gillings) a chrome bumper MG Midget (Mr Wainwright) a bay window VW Camper (Mr Hobbs) a Honda Quintet (Mrs Roberts) and the school minibus was a shonky old Mk1 Transit.It was a proper minibus though with forward facing seats and a high roof.

At technical college ('82-'84) in the motor vehicle department Mr Bucchanon owned a Lancia Fulvia coupe.

My parents moved house in 1984 and our new nextdoor neighbour just happened to be the music teacher Malcolm Smith's co-driver.

[Cavcraft]

Head teacher at the primary school attended had a mint Triumph Toledo. Another teacher's fella (who looked remarkably like the Yorkshire Ripper) had an orange Austin 1300GT which we sometimes got a lift home in, usually driven full tilt down some back lanes.

 

At high school one teacher (a morris dancer) had a reed and white 2CV and the deputy head (rumoured to be a former model but who looked like a dried up prune) had a brown Merc SL, I think it was a 280. I wanted a lift in it but she was one seriously MENTAL old bat who you didn't dare talk to*.

Another fella had a prized Triumph Stag, but we didn't like him either (the bearded bullying twat that he was) so more often than not we'd try and insert various items from the school food menu into his exhaust or accidentally let his tyres down.

They're the ones I remember anyhow, excpet the odd 'leftie' type who'd come on their bike, once again some weren't so popular so we'd just lock their bikes up for them and watch them have to walk home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Except the time I instructed some bird from the fifth year to go 'go and stick a pencil case up her fanny'. She then told the deputy head who made me sit in her office and explain in explicit detail exactly how Jean Thompson could perform this act. That was one highly embarrassing moment I'll never forget. Later on in school life I took the chance to even things up after someone wrote 'Jean Thompson's minge is like a letterbox' quickly followed by 'how do you know?' on a school desk. All I added was 'because the postman told me'.

I was sitting pretty here, thinking I was 'cool' and clever and that she'd never know it was me. Unfortunately she did know and she invited me into the toilet on the train on a school trip to London. Thinking I'd finally get my first go at a bird (and already imaging the bragging rights) I stepped into the cubicle. She shut the door and said 'get ready' so I shut my eyes. Then she promptly kicked and punched the living shit out of me.

The door opened, everyone laughed at me so I shouted 'get your hands off me you slag, I don't want to shag you' so she just beat me up again, this time in front of everybody.

[jonny69]

My English teacher had an early Sierra in faded shineless blue. This was probably the shonkiest piece of shite without deliberately trying to be so. Another teacher had a luminous yellow Dutton kit car, a really horrible looking one too and we could never work out why he built it. Finally, in 6th form in the mid 90's we got a new English teacher and he drove I think it was a Landcrab painted in black hammer finish Hammerite. The paint had reacted though and cracked all over and it generally looked like crap but he loved it.

[Simon M]

Woodwork teacher at my old school had an absolutely immaculate, showroom-fresh N-reg Triumph 1500 that was his absolute pride and joy - he still had it well into the late 1990s, and I do hope it's still around. He himself looked like he'd stepped straight out of the 1950s, and I strongly suspect both he and the car slept in Tupperware containers to preserve themselves. Nice chap, though.

[Rod/b]

Ooh just thought of another. Primary school, Mrs Goldsmith. She had a beige Mk 1 Astra with a boot, not a hatch. Autoshite of the future, and I bet she never even realised.

[jonny69]

Reading the thread there were also the school minibuses. I remember the early ones were a couple of Mk1 and Mk2 petrol Transits. The Mk1 was completely kenked, torn seats, stank inside, well frilly round the bottom 6" and used to leak exhaust fumes in the back. Back doors were often held closed with blue or orange string. I endured a school trip to the Alps in that thing and it would struggle to crawl up the hills with 8 kids and luggage inside. By the time they got rid of it, the Mk2 was looking just as sorry for itself, with the rubber arch extensions gone completely grey and the white paint coming off like it was chalk. I'm surprised the school didn't find them a complete embarrassment, considering I occasionally see their minibuses driving around these days and they are shiny and new.

[michael t]

Im in my last year of secondary school here in ireland and as you would expect its a horrible mix of new corollas and recent toyota RAV 4s. I do remember though in Liverpool in primary school (1999-2006) there was a lovely teacher (ms.jones) who owned a mint J reg honda civic, she told me she had never crashed it and she had owned it since new, well that was until she got rear ended by someone, im not sure though if it was repaired or she got something else. The 1st school bus i went on over here was a 1985 volvo lump in green it was he shitest thing iv ever seen but ran like a dream never had a problem with it(it did have moss growing out of the window sills tho ). For some reason it was replaced in my second year of secondary school by a white Volvo B7M (or something like that) and it broke down twice and didnt even arrive to pick us up twice. Sense prevailed and we drive in now instead.

[Jozza]

There was a decent selection of shite at my secondary school (this would be in the mid/late 90s):

 

- A Mazda 'AP' 323 3-door

- A pale green Reliant Kitten

- One of the teachers who lived on-site had a Landy SIII Lightweight which he used to drive around the sports field and used to repaint the white lines.

- Another teacher had a series of Lada Riva estates.

- The art teacher (inevitably) had a Dyane 6 which was replaced by a red 2CV6 Special.

- One of the IT staff had a couple of Maxis - an early 70s 1750 and a Mk2. Both very rusty and the Hydragas had gone lopsided on the 2.

- Not really shite but one of the staff had a Renault 5 Turbo.

 

That school originally had a fairly 'good' minibus fleet- a scabby Freight Rover 300, a Mk2 Transit with the twin-wheel back axle and the 'good' one was a Leyland-DAF 400. Whilst I was there they were replaced by a pair of brand-new LDV Convoys in factory 'School Bus' spec.

[daveb47]

Dunno about school,most of the teachers rode bikes,but my dad had 1955 austin a30 which he had from new,my friends ada had a Bradford van,neighbour had old vauxhall wyvern,uncle had sidevalve hilman minx convertable,he worked fo power petrol and often used to take me out in firms bedford ca van.