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[Floatylight]

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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[Lord Sterling]

[Grumpy old man mode]

 

Isn't there a thread about teachers cars somewhere on here?

 

[/grumpy old man mode off/]

 

Yeah, there is:

 

HEY, TEACHER, LEAVE THOSE SHITS ALONE

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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

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.

[Bobthebeard]

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.

[Saabnut]

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.

[xtriple]

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

[mercrocker]

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.   

[Tamworthbay]

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.

[theorganist]

This is probably not news for most people but after my assertion a few weeks ago that the DVLA might actually be efficient I have come to the conclusion that actually that isn't the case.
 
The Maxi I purchased has been off the road since 1995 and has the old style log book. To get a new log book I had to send the old one in with a form. I was also advised by the DVLA that I should send another form in so they could SORN the vehicle at the same time, this I did.
On getting the new log book back I checked online and found the car was still showing as untaxed.

I rang them up and the guy I spoke to told me he couldn't understand why they hadn't put it on SORN and he would do it there and then.
After a week the car was still showing untaxed. I couldn't get through on the phone so I sent them an email enquiry to which I got this reply:

"Dear Mr Thomson,

Thank you for your enquiry received on 4/9/2018.
Your case reference number is **********.
 
I apologise for the delay in our response. We are currently experiencing a high volume of enquiries.
It might help if I explain that on the 31 January 1998 the law changed. Keepers are now required to notify us if their vehicles are to be kept off the public road untaxed.

The scheme only applies to vehicles where the vehicle tax expired on or after 31 January 1998. As your vehicle was untaxed before this date, it does not fall into the Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) scheme. It will only become liable to SORN if it is re-taxed and then subsequently taken off the road"

Imagine my astonishment this morning when I receive a slightly threatening letter telling me to Tax or SORN now immediately (in bold and red letters).

A complaint is on the way.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...Mad Geog got redder and redder in the face. ...

Because only Mad Geogs and Englishmen?

[omegod]

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  

[fordperv]

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

[Tadhg Tiogar]

My primary school teacher was cool as buggery she had a white porsche 911 turbo,....

 

Clearly not teaching for the money.

[Tamworthbay]

Just a small thing folks, when you arrange a car to be dropped off on Wednesday, make sure both of you know WHICH Wednesday. More details to follow in a thread so won’t do a spoiler but today has gone from smug satisfaction, to oh fuck, and back to job well done whilst laughing about it.

[Slowsilver]

In other news, there's a classic car show at Milton Keynes Museum this coming weekend. I'll be there on the Sunday, with the Matiz, trying to pretend its a kei car.

 

Hopefully the now (in)famous Dollywobbler / Hubnut road test Maxi (nearly 35,000 views and counting) will also be in attendance on Sunday.

 

[SiC]

I'm determined to get at least one working Speedo out of this lot.

[Arthur Foxhake]

My teacher, Mrs Billingham, replaced her Mk1 Golf GTI with a TVR Griffith.

She was also smoking hot.

[Fumbler]

My brother's Camry V6 will be getting new pads next week. Yellow Stuff pads to test how good they are. Whatever it is it will definitely be better than the shit he has on right now.

[dollywobbler]

The Matiz is effectively two motorbikes sharing an engine stuffed into a biscuit tin.  It'll fit in just fine as a kei car.

 

Excellent. I might also be taking it to The Netherlands next month. I don't have European breakdown cover, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

[Squire_Dawson]

Guess where I've been? Can only be two possibilities...

 

 

The MO is a swine to start if left for more than a week. I had to hammer the starter as it kept coughing then going dead again. It's done this before no matter what I do - its just an engine that doesn't like to stand, though never been as bad as this. The ammeter was registering a charge of about 30 amps for ages afterwards!

[Guest Hooli]

Looks like a Welsh leisure centre?

[dollywobbler]

Guess where I've been? Can only be two possibilities...

 

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The MO is a swine to start if left for more than a week. I had to hammer the starter as it kept coughing then going dead again. It's done this before no matter what I do - its just an engine that doesn't like to stand, though never been as bad as this. The ammeter was registering a charge of about 30 amps for ages afterwards!

 

Sorry I haven't been able to meet up - again. Thought I'd send a welcome committee though.

[Squire_Dawson]

I do enjoy driving in Wales and being there - quiet roads, beautiful scenery and a slower pace of life. Wonderful.

[chodweaver]

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.

[Ghosty]

GTis handbrake gave up in the night, the fucking things rolled down the hill into someone's works Navara.

 

 

For fucks sake.

[Arthur Foxhake]

Ooh. Shit!

[SiC]

GTis handbrake gave up in the night, the fucking things rolled down the hill into someone's works Navara.

 

 

For fucks sake.

Isn't the GTi an auto? If so, why wasn't it in Park?

 

On autos, I usually do what the Americans do and not bother with the handbrake. Parking pawl in the box locks the box nice and good.

[Ghosty]

Yes. Can't select P at the moment, issue with the gearbox I'd not got round to looking at yet. Selector pawl jammed or something.

 

Clearly the handbrake cable is knackered or set up wrong after changing the brake pads.

[Ghosty]

Turns out the work truck is a company directors. His wife suggested he may be willing offer an amiable solution - really really don't want my insurance to blow up.

 

Need to find a load of front end parts for an early R8 now.

At least the front wings were rotten anyway.

[The Moog]

That's sucks.

 

I had a cavalier roll off my front drive and out into a massively busy main road. Luckily didn't hit anyone and was alerted but all the honking by all the cars outside