Who remembers this Lada loving lady ?

[Morgan84]

 

The lovely Maureen

[Jim Bell]

.........................And thats why womens inurance premiums went up.

[Morgan84]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4glDw_mOKE4

 

Look at all the lovely shite in this, Lada, Datsun, Beige 340 .... Got to love old tv clips

 

Lada UK gave her a new Lada when she finally passed if memory serves me right

[R9UKE]

She should've married John Shuttleworth.

 

 

[Albert Ross]

The kids would have been short sighted, chain smoking retards. And Shuttleworth's DNA input would have changed that.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Generation defining moments. The 40s had VE day, the 60s had man on the moon, the 80s had the Berlin wall, but the 90s trumps them all with

 

[In The Pit]

Ahh Driving School from 1997 I loved that what made me love it even more was the fact I was learning to drive then and remember discussing it with my driving instructor. What alot of people don't remember is that it actually followed quite afew people not just Maureen, there was a young lad Danny who bought a MKII Fiesta (in beige) and wanted to pass his test to see his girlfriend who I think lived in Preston (he was in the Bristol area). An older lady in her 50's with about 100 grandchildren and atleast one Old English Sheepdog who bought a blue Maestro but was too frightened to drive it after she passed her test. The posh competitve twins a boy and girl, a lady in her 40's who needed to drive for her job and an older guy who had never learnt to drive and wanted to drive to car boot sales with his new girlfriend, I think there were others too. Most of the people were from the Bristol and Cardiff area.

 

Not forgetting the instructors there were three a Cardiff lady (can't remember her name it may have been Paula) she was Maureens first instructor, then there was Paul? who was a young recently married man who was struggling to make a living but gave a portion of his money to the church and then there was Pam who had a very annoying voice and had a mobile phone (remember in 1997 people still thought of them as toys for yuppies, how I wish we still lived in 1997) that would play an annoying ring tone something like der der derda derda der derda der (and she'd answer in a high pitched patronising voice) "streetwise driving school Pamala Carr speaking"

 

All this was narrated by Quentin Willson. They only did the one series i'm surprised as it was very popular. Got most of them on video but my player doesn't work now, gonna have to get a new one. Driving School is often credited as being one of the first reality TV watch people at work type shows it certainly started a craze in that sort of TV show that is still yet to end.

 

Maureen and her husband Dave were given the last Lada to come to Britain from Lada this was due to the fact that 1997 was the heyday of Lada and Skoda jokes and both Maureen and Dave repeatedly praised the Lada during the show they were about the only people on tv to ever speak so highly of the brand so I guess Lada recognised this. I remember her saying that the neighbours laughed when they bought a Lada but come the winter the neighbours cars wouldn't start but the Lada did straight away. They had a blue Riva estate J reg (I think) probably the one in the video but it was manual and Maureen passed in an auto and she was gutted having to sell it, so the Lada she was given was an auto it was a Samara in grey or dark silver I believe.

 

Maureen and Dave were such a lovely couple the viewers warmed to them and made her a star. I believe when Real Radio launched in Wales in 2001 they gave Maureen her own show. If you've never seen Driving School before its well worth a watch.

 

Maureen and husband Dave in their Lada

[Junkman]

 

The lovely Maureen

 

Thanks phooque I don't.

[CortinaDave]

I remember this well.. I was glued to it as I was also learning to drive at the time. Just sat and watched the episodes again and it's still great telly. Surprised there was never a second series.

[Micrashed]

I wonder what she is up to now?

[Guest]

Driving a MG6 probably.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I wonder if time has improved her...like a fine wine?

[fordperv]

maureen was a fucking legend, i remember watching her escapades well

 

anyone thought of seeing if shes on facebook and getting her to join?

[Morgan84]

I did try looking her up on Facebook,but no joy I'm affraid. I was wondering what sort of car she would have now,and Kia Rio springs to mind,or a Hyundai Accent maybe or perhaps a Daewoo of some form. Maureen Rees the Queen of shite !

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

There are some terrible factual inaccuracies in that song. The worst being "it was built in 59, in a factory by the Tyne", which should have been with "it was built in '91, in the Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan production facility". Also the Lada badge is on the rear quarter not the door.

 

There's an embarrassing story behind this song. I wanted to buy a copy of FHM so I picked this CD out of the bargain bin, figuring if I was buying two items the cashier wouldn't notice she was selling FHM to a schoolboy. Unfortunately it didn't work and not only was I embarrassed at the checkout when the cashier refused to sell me the magazine, I had to stand there while she struggled to scan the clearance barcode on the Maureen Rees single.

[retrogeezer]

There is an old fella near me with a saloon Riva and you should hear him revving the nuts off it and slipping the clutch to pull away from the shops!

[Negative Creep]

There are some terrible factual inaccuracies in that song. The worst being "it was built in 59, in a factory by the Tyne", which should have been with "it was built in '91, in the Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan production facility". Also the Lada badge is on the rear quarter not the door.

 

There's an embarrassing story behind this song. I wanted to buy a copy of FHM so I picked this CD out of the bargain bin, figuring if I was buying two items the cashier wouldn't notice she was selling FHM to a schoolboy. Unfortunately it didn't work and not only was I embarrassed at the checkout when the cashier refused to sell me the magazine, I had to stand there while she struggled to scan the clearance barcode on the Maureen Rees single.

 

 

Does FHM have an age restriction? We used to buy it in days we were too young for proper grot mags

[Lacquer Peel]

Likewise Max Power for me.

[dollywobbler]

It's somehow very British to laugh at someone for being absolutely rubbish and worship them as a hero. I blame this programme for all the 'reality' dross that followed. She was a shocking nightmare who should have just had her licence ripped up and thrown away.

[John F]

^ I agree.

 

What is good about this horrific, useless person? She should be towed out to sea & sunk.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Does FHM have an age restriction? We used to buy it in days we were too young for proper grot mags

 

Thats what I thought it's sole purpose was, but me and my friends were forever being refused it.

[Morgan84]

Aww poor Maureen !

 

All they could afford was a Lada,she spent over £5000 on lessons so that she could get a license,and start her own buisness. A determined hard working lady,who was just bloody hopeless at driving,but then again,look what she was trying to drive.A Lada and a 106 diesel are both awful heavy steering cars,and both have the same refinement as a capsized inflatable dinghy.

 

There are worse than her out there,but her Welsh charm won us over

[RedSparrow]

There's an embarrassing story behind this song. I wanted to buy a copy of FHM so I picked this CD out of the bargain bin, figuring if I was buying two items the cashier wouldn't notice she was selling FHM to a schoolboy. Unfortunately it didn't work and not only was I embarrassed at the checkout when the cashier refused to sell me the magazine, I had to stand there while she struggled to scan the clearance barcode on the Maureen Rees single.

 

LOL!

Ah memories of being a 15 year old trying to buy a porn mag. I was never stopped from buying FHM etc though.

[John F]

...,but her Welsh charm won us over

 

Speak for yourself! Ordinarily shit drivers are dangerous enough, but this Maureen fucktard doesn't seem to have the faintest inkling of where she is or what she's doing. She's a serious accident waiting to happen and shouldn't be allowed a licence, end of.

[Albert Ross]

I remember buying "Titbits" off a lad on the School bus. He would pay full price for it, and when he got the next issue, I would give him half price, then sell it on.. I used this to good effect at my next (Boarding) School when I became the porn mag dealer for the boarding houses. (At age 13/ 14!) I would get all the foreign lads with "Diplonmatic" Immunity bringing me Scandinavian, Hong Kong Chinese, Japanese, and German stuff in, I would pay pennies for it, "rent" it out to other lads, and keep the deposits (Yeah, I know) if the mags were damaged or "stained" by organic material. They would go in the bargain box... When I left age 15, I sold the case and stock on to a younger lad for a vast profit! Shite connection? My House master had a Silver Skoda 110.