Teachers' cars.

[chaseracer]

When I was a teacher (stop sniggering at the back) I ran the Dyane, a Saab 96, a Volvo 240 and a Peugeot 309.

 

Perhaps this demonstrates my decreasing enthusiasm for the profession...

[Volksy]

There was a lot of Volvos at my school,

 

History, maths and chemistry teachers all drove 240 estates in that light powder blue colour.

English teacher had a Renault 14 TS.

Drama teacher had a Variomatic Volvo 343

French teacher drove a VW Golf

German teacher a Citroen AX

Design teacher a pristine black XR3

[Junkman]

Yeah, after I had left school,  90% of all teachers bought an Ovlov estate, and 10% a Westfalia Joker.

[r.welfare]

My Physics teacher had a beigey-brown Lada Samara van.  Do I win?

[anonymous user]

I'm finding it hard to remember many. The only one I remember from infants was the headmistress's Vitesse (I think most teachers walked to work)

 

Junior school headmaster had a Victor FB, deputy head a Humber Sceptre (pre-Arrow) I also remember a Renault R10 and Morris Minor Traveller but not their owners

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Secondary School obviously had richer teachers and was on the outskirts of town so more teachers drove to work. The Head drove a newish Triumph 2000, quite a few teachers had Austin and Morris 1100s and 1800s, one maths teacher had a Mk1 Capri, another drove a Renault 16, my form teacher had a Datsun 100A in yellow and the female part-time music teacher drove a Healey 3000.

 

It was a long time ago.

 

edited to add just remembered the Spanish teacher drove a Wartburg Knight Tourist, his daughter who was a friend of mine used to beg to be dropped off before school and walk in so that no-one would see her arrive in it. (but we all knew)

[dangerousdave]

I can only remember a few from secondary school the English teacher had a cream and burgundy 2cv dolly she did look the typical 2v driver at the time our pe teacher had an 80,s square shape celica supra the deputy head had a brand new rover 800 vdp which he once took a few of us to an out of school training scheme in the 2 mini buses were knackered mk2 transits and the one I remember most was miss pollard she was fit and she had a c plate mini ritz which I remember mainly because I was obsessed with minis at that age

I also remember been on camp in hathersage and one of the teachers boyfriends had a mgb gt of which the few of us that were into cars got a ride in

 

the other 2 memories was when I were in scouts my scout master had a vw lt work van which we went canoeing in but I refused to get in because it had been on watchdog the previous night about them setting on fire he also once took me in his car because there wasn't enough room on the bus and I loved it a c plate red audi Quattro

[Crusty Sills]

There's only 2 that I can really remember,

1st one was Mr Faulkes who had an A reg Cavalier in green with a green interior, he was a horrible man who had dried spit in the corner of his mouth.

2nd Mr Nichols who had ared VW Beetle, he lent me a Haynes manual to read he was a nice jolly fat bloke, although thinking back he could have been trying to groom me!!!

[Lord Sterling]

head had a brand new rover 800 vdp

Sorry to be pendantic, but there was never any Rover 800 "Van Den Plas". The top-spec of the 800 series was a Sterling in saloon form and an 827 Vitesse in Fastback form. There were also lesser spec 800s such the Si/I/Se/e etc....

[HMC]

We're talking early 90s, the most popular single model were mk2 fiesta xr2s. 4 of them, 3 black, one red, all with damage to the locks from attempted TWOCing.

[Albert Ross]

Various Schools over the years (None approved)

Dr Bucknall. 3x E-Type Jags.

Mr Christian. Silver Skoda 110

Mr Wilson. Blue Dolomite. (Known by him as "The Bombshell")

Mr Forrest. Hunter Estate.

Mrs Dolphin. Herald Estate (Then a ID/DS Familiale in sage green!!)

Can't remember the teacher.... Ivory Flat screen Beetle.

Mr Knight. Metallic Green Allegro.

PE Teacher. MGB Roadster.

Music Teacher. Chevy Caprice.

Tuck shop man. Strada Abarth.

Groundskeeper. Purple ADO16 Estate.

House Matron (my morning Boss) Turquoise 120Y

Mr Narracott. I think he had a Ventora, but could be wrong.

Mr Clauson. GS, then a CX.

Gappy. Saab.... 99?

Teachers assistant.. Green Interceptor!

Cleaner of some description. Yellow Stag.

One of the on-site Clergy. Green Mk1 Escort.

 

My House Master... top bloke. TC Newman. Renault 4, Renault 30, Series 3 109 Land Rover.

 

I think he influenced me a bit....

[JohnDeere]

My mate who is a physics teacher at a posh private school is a great Autoshiter (I keep mentioning this site to him), and no doubt brings shame to the staff car park.  Current ride is a shagged Fiat Coupe, which replaced a P-reg V8 disco on LPG.  Pug 306 and 205 GTi before that.  I imagine the kids at the school think this selection of chod is immensely cool compared with their parents' LED-decorated metallic silver teutonic turbo diesels.

[New POD]

My metal work teacher, Mr Tony Horn, bought a BRAND new Ital. In Beige. He then proceeded to jack it up on axle stands in the workshop, and during lunchtimes, to coat the underside liberally with the schools, supply of green hammerite.  As "we" were doing A level Design, we were allowed in to finish our Projects, and take the piss out of his purchase.  As I said to him (having passed my test in a 1.6 Sierra estate and using money saved from my paper round to buy an almost scrap mk4 spitfire with dodgy MOT), "Tony, what possessed you? Have you no pride ? Anything, would have been better than that."  

 

Might explain the grade D, (which luckily was 2/3rd of what I needed to do Engineering, the other 1/3 being an E in Physics)

[phil_lihp]

In about 1996 one of the drama teachers had the world's most neglected F-plate Mk2 Cavalier.  One lunchtime we witnessed it being bump started around the car park by a group of 6th formers.  Once it reluctantly fired into life he came back and parked up to get something from his office.  As he couldn't risk turning it off he told me and my friends to stand guard over it while he went inside.  It managed to stay running until he came back out and drove off in a cloud of blue smoke, although thinking about it we should have just switched the ignition off and run for it, he wasn't much liked. 

Otherwise there was a selection of BXs, Metros, Orions (funnily enough, no Escorts that I recall), one absolutely hanging Citroen Visa with multi-coloured body panels (one of the headlights fell out as she left the car park one day) and a PE teacher's battered Datsun 260Z.  One English teacher alternated regularly between her immaculate Suzuki SJ10 and brand new Ford Probe, the workshop technician had a Reliant Rialto with a very badly repaired nose and a woodwork teacher had a very shabby Alfa Romeo 33 with no exhaust.  it wasn't a posh school.

 

The metalwork shop was rarely used by then but they did have a W-plate Toyota Starlet 5 door collecting dust in a seemingly permanently locked enclosure which unfortunately never seemed to move and eventually disappeared altogether.  I suspect it was very rotten by then.  The school's only minibus for most of the time I was there was a battered H-plate petrol Transit minibus which had had a pretty short and brutal life.  It was quite legendary by the late nineties as any trip undertaken was given extra excitement by the will-it-or-won't-it-start moment before we set off.  When it finally burst into life everyone on board would cheer (or be unloaded and taken back inside if it didn't).  It was last seen just after the new minibus arrived, sat outside reception in a big puddle of its own oil shortly before departing in an enormous cloud of blue smoke, never to return.

[cort1977]

I knew a teacher in the mid-80's / early 90's who used to ferry her kids around in a battered Bedford van, ex-Thames water with a blue stripe along the side.   The kids had a bit of carpet to sit on as a nod to safety.   This was replaced with a black ex-MOD mini van with the same accommodations in the back.   When asked why she didn't get a car instead of a van was told 'the insurance is cheaper'.

 

Unfortunately that teacher was my mum.   The shame.

[Justin Case]

My school was next to a station on a busy railway junction, so most of the masters came by train. University was better; our economics tutor appeared to be as dull as his subject until he casually dropped out that he was restoring  a prewar Rolls-Royce. Result for that tutorial ;  Rolls-Royce 20/25 -1, demand curve - 0. ICMFP

[sheffcortinacentre]

middle school (76-79)

 

the carpark on one side of school had a pair oh hc vivas red 2dr ,bronze 4dr.

on the othersiode of school there was a double gate into playground (cars could get through) on 2 parked here allways found the 2 that parked here amuseing a yellow supervan 3 (ala del boy before he was invented) & the ex Canadian teachers red 64 mustang convertible on occasion she used to bring the husbasnds  dark green70 ltd station wagon!

 

secondary school (79-83) loads of cars

 

headmaster 79 CX dark blue

headmistress 78 beetle dark brown met.

music teacher, red mgb 78, then a w reg dark green tr7 convertible.

English teacher 74 pale blue beetle

physics teacher  (keyboard player in a band) mk1 transit lwb brush painted black 71

geography teacher on had an early bronze allegro with quatric wheel, the other had a dark blue 340/3 78

wood work teacher one had a red 78 clubman est other a R20 bronze/goldish 77

metalwork teacher 77 brown alpine

history teacher a grey 70 minor van

pe teacher a yellow 2dr escort pop plus 77 other one had a green mk1 escort 73 then an 81 1.6 base bronze mk5 Cortina.

can also remember a brown 78 mini

 

school minibus was a yellow 78 swb transit petrol

 

prob around 25-30 cars in total.

[stilo_active]

Cars that stood out to me were:

 

Infant school

Headmistress had a jaundice yellow Talbot Samba.

Cheating now as my Dad was caretaker at this school so Renault 5 Mk1, Datsun Cherry N10 Coupe and Fiat Uno 70S during his tenure there. There was a Mini 25 and a boggo Metro.

Middle school

One teacher had an orangey red Allegro 3. This replaced another Allegro and was replaced by a Hyundai Stellar.

Another teacher had a then brand new red Sierra Sapphire which was awesome.

Headmistress had a Citroen BX St. Tropez and a C15 Camper. School maintenance vehicle was a Bedford Rascal that never started when cold/wet/dry/warm/ever.

Secondary school.

Geography teacher had a pale blue Volvo 480ES

Textiles teacher had lovely breasts and a Citroen BX Meteor.

Deputy Head teacher had a 2CV Charleston and a BX TGD

IT teacher had a red Montego estate

Music teacher had a Fiat Uno and a Renault 21 Savanna

Maths: Mk1 Fiat Uno 1.7D

Woodwork/design teacher had a SAAB 99, a 90 and a 9000.

Graphic design teacher had a pale green 205 GT 5 door and a 205 XS

French/Spanish teacher had a Mk1 SEAT Ibiza

Food and home stuff teacher had a then new Cinquecento Sporting that she had breathed on engine and suspension wise, but kept it standard looking. She also had a split tailgate Honda Civic but hated it.

Seem to remember a Renault 25 in the car park regularly. The rest were fairly humdrum machines that I really couldn't be arsed to remember.

 

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[RichardMoss]

It s a few years ago now (secondary 1977-83) and my memory is not what it was but....

 

Primary - the only ones i remember are Miss Pasquire's old white over burgundy Ford Anglebox. It was a one of those cars that you could see year by year heading closer to being scrapped. Much like the lady herself, the classic primary school spinster heading for retirement

 

Meanwhile Mrs Macnab had a Saab 96 which very much fitted her image as a "protest against everything" environmentalist vegetarian

 

At secondary i remember Mr Howe friving a Peugeot 504 pickup because as well as teaching maths he ran a smallholding (very Good life) - he was a decent bloke, too. Mr Watson (PE) drove a white ADO 16 and could fit his drum kit into it. Mr Adkins (Maths and a creepy, "unmarried" retirement age chain smoker whose first name was Kay to boot) had a tangerine coloured Allegro estate but rarely drove it to work because he lived across the street and walked to work. One of the lady teachers had a mk1 Fiesta popular and that really showed how grim a car could be when you build it down to a price

 

Best of all was Mr Glynn "piggy" Edwards (physics and general science) who owned a nearly new small bumper X1/9, a Lancia Delta and one of the very first Yugo 311s to arrive in te UK. He was a top bloke, one of those teachers who would talk to pupils like they were friends or family, and was a genuine car nut and italian car devotee. He bought the Yugo because he said it was convenient thanks to the hatch, was dirt cheap and best of all was much fun to drive as the FIAT 128 on which it was based. Mr Edwards must be in his 70s now - i hope he's still alive and kicking and enjoying driving

 

Meanwhile, in the sixth form (1983) I used to drive to scool in my dad's 3 year old mkV Cortina 2.3 GL and it was without doubt the best car in the car park and several of the teachers were openly jealous.

[cms206]

Ahhh... teachers cars.

Don't recall much about primary school; my P3 teacher had a gold Escort Bonus with cream wheeltrims, P5 teacher had an early red Isuzu Trooper and the P6/P7 teacher had a maroon VW Vento.

Secondary is much clearer... Mr Connolly had a Pogweasel Pink Volvo 240 estate with wooden side "windows", Mr Sludden had a C-reg Ford Sierra LX, Mr Alexander had a green P10 Primera (to go with his green fleece, green classroom, green carpets, green curtains and green doors), Miss Hall had a green Calibra V6 with a cherry plate and cream leather and Mr McKenzie had a red E34 5-series which he used to drive to cross country whilst we all walked.

Oh yeah, Mr Collins in tech had a Harley Davidson and took smoke breaks with the pupils on double periods. Top banana.

[jmsguzzi]

Reminds me of my "PE" teacher. Used to drive his Mazda MPS to where ever we had to jog. He was so fat that when we went to Flamingo land at the end of term, he had to get off one of the rides because the bars wouldn't fit over him.

[barefoot]

My old maths teacher was a complete nutter called Terry Yarwood, I don't know what his middle name actually was, but it began with an R.

He used to mark peoples work with TRY.

And to the point, for a short time he had a wedge shape lotus, Elite? With the number plate TRY 1.

 

Coolio!

[chaseracer]

[Negative Creep]

The only ones I remember were a maths teaching having a red and white 2cv and the German teach, who was a complete tosser, having a light blue Montego estate. One of the spoilt 6th form kids got a Bank of Mum and Dad Rover 600, then stuffed it into a tree. Which was quite funny.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Two things. I'm a primary teacher and my daily is a T plate Audi A4 avant in dirty silver. Great dogwagon and the oldest thing in the car park...

When I was at secondary school - in the late '80's - my art teacher had a metallic purple Mk1 Escort 1300E, which looked a lot like her (well lived in). Always caught my eye, probably because my own mother owned 2 mk1's in succession about 5 years previous. 

It would be worth literally at least 1 million pands by now, I'd imagine. 

 

*Edit: Doing the maths, her car at the time would have been about the age my car is now. Shittt, I'm a proper teacher. 

[Mog]

Ones that stick in my mind are the tech teachers red (pink) Volvo 940 Estate, complete with black boot and missing a full set of hubcaps. The art teacher had a Saab 900 four door and was a Land Rover fan so would occasionaly come in with a tidy Defender 90 with all the mod cons or a similarly 'all options ticked' mk2 Discovery. Most of the other teachers drove generic shite and the headmaster had a black Mk3 Mondeo Ghia X which was brand new at the time.

[Sigmund Fraud]

The only memorable vehicles were owned by our physics teacher, who was a proto-autoshitter. He was a tall chap with long hair and an unkempt beard whose dress style is best described as a very shabby Dr.Who.

 

His daily was an early Civic sedan (Acclaim shape) in faded blue with dents in every single panel and loads of visible rust. When the weather was good, he would turn up in a superbly scruffy, early Yahaha SRX that had a torn seat, pitted chrome and plenty of scratches. Legend !

[cms206]

Ahhh... teachers cars.

 

Don't recall much about primary school; my P3 teacher had a gold Escort Bonus with cream wheeltrims, P5 teacher had an early red Isuzu Trooper and the P6/P7 teacher had a maroon VW Vento.

 

Secondary is much clearer... Mr Connolly had a Pogweasel Pink Volvo 240 estate with wooden side "windows", Mr Sludden had a C-reg Ford Sierra LX, Mr Alexander had a green P10 Primera (to go with his green fleece, green classroom, green carpets, green curtains and green doors), Miss Hall had a green Calibra V6 with a cherry plate and cream leather and Mr McKenzie had a red E34 5-series which he used to drive to cross country whilst we all walked.

 

Oh yeah, Mr Collins in tech had a Harley Davidson and took smoke breaks with the pupils on double periods. Top banana.

Remembered another! Physics teacher Dr Hastings who looked like a 70-year old Bo "Bandit" Darville who had, and possibly still has, a green Renault 21 hatchback.

[Noel Tidybeard]

mr kirby - pink xj6 s1 - what a legend!

mr ansty - purple mk2 crapi

mrs bradley - lancia beta spyder

miss charmaine - crapi 3.0 ghia in gold

mr brown - very late renno 4 in beige

mr stokes - s3 landie blue

mr clarke - rover p6

[HillmanImp]

mr kirby - pink xj6 s1 - what a legend!

mr ansty - purple mk2 crapi

mrs bradley - lancia beta spyder

miss charmaine - crapi 3.0 ghia in gold

mr brown - very late renno 4 in beige

mr stokes - s3 landie blue

mr clarke - rover p6

 

I call bullshit. I don't believe Frank Gallagher went to school enough to remember his teachers.

[eddyramrod]

As one does, I've remembered some more from my secondary (1970-75)...

Lab assistant had a Reliant Regal, a roundy one before the Supervan shape.

History teacher had a white Beetle that wasn't very old.

Being a Catholic school, we had a handful of nuns who lived in the local convent and taught various subjects; Sister Bernadette was my maths teacher for a while.  They all seemed to commute together in a communal Renault 4.

There was also a Rover P4.

 

When I moved up to the local "tech" and then art college (adjacent buildings, now amalgamated) a new collection emerged...

Carawagon LWB Landy S3

FD VX4/90, replaced by a scabby old Beetle (I think he must have got divorced or something)

R4 van

1967 Humber Imperial

1973 Citroen GS

brand new 1976 Princess 1800 in white

Volvo 145

Cortina mk1 in grey (4 door)

MGB roadster (one of the tutors from art college; she was later in a programme about Marc Almond who was there at the same time, and she appears to be still driving an old MG!)

Mini Clubman estate

beige Opel Kadett, about 1973.  Same style as the orange one Trigger had.

 

My sister's husband is a high-school physics teacher in Liverpool.  Since he passed his test in the early 90s he mostly drove sister's castoffs (she passed first): 1984 Daihatsu Charade*, 1986 Austin Maestro 1.3, 1989 1.3 Metro, Pug 206... I'm starting to lose track here because they seem to keep cars a while, and anyway they moved to Chester in 1996, we didn't see much of them after that.

*Before the Charade she had an Adriatic Blue Lada 1200 saloon, RTB 56Y.  Our parents later had an Adriatic Blue estate, RTB 52Y.  Truth is stranger than fiction, etc.