School teachers cars

[Bar8arian]

These cars were all parked outside a girls school in Barnet. Either the school is running a classic car studies group, or the teachers have eclectic tastes. [url][

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[clarkmagpie]

What a strange collection.
The Mrs use to take my old Elise to her school, always got a good response from the kids.

[Bannock]

Oof, love the 164. Nice selection over all and particular kudos for the TR7.

When I were a lad, our eccentric teachers drove either a SAAB 96 or 2CV6.

[nicanary]

Art teachers had the oddest cars of the lot. Bohemian tastes. Ours had a WW2 Humber Snipe staff car with yellow tinted glass (or it may have just yellowed).

[matrignano]

Bar8arian said:

I have imagines of a balding PE teacher wearing very short shorts and belly sticking out from the bottom of his vest

[cologne2792]

Bar8arian said:

That's a fine looking TR7 !

I don't think I've ever said that before, apart from a friends V8 powered Grinnall

[fourfoldroot]

In the 70s I was regularly given a lift to school by a teacher who had an orange Imp sport. This was changed to an Avenger Tiger which was much more interesting. The physics master had an old landrover with plate 1AHY, his initials .

[LuS1fer]

In the 70s, there were numerous cars that were commonplace. Our teachers had, from memory, a Renault 4, Renault 6, Renault 12, Herald convertible, Merc 280CE, Escort 1300E in purple, an MGB and an MGB GT, two Renault 17s, the gym mistress had a yellow Firenza 1800SL.
I think there may have been a Renault 16 as well.

Renaults were popular, for some reason.

[Bobupndown]

Mid 1980s, my German teacher drove a black mk3 Mini Cooper S with a works style dash. Respect. She then drove a Peugeot 305 diesel, which was a poor substitute!

[peterpan0]

be careful hanging outside girls schools with cameras id say

[Turbobanana]

A few memories of my secondary school (c1985):

Careers guy was a dashing fellow who drove a blue Triumph TR7.

Another teacher was absolutely huge: well over 6ft and properly obese. Drove a Mini, in Applejack Green.

Headmaster drove an Austin Princess.

By far my favourite was my physics teacher. For years he had a decaying Wolseley 2200 Landcrab, in beige. Horrible thing, and the holes in the bodywork got larger each year until you could fit your hand through them. Lo and behold, first day back after summer holidays one year, he'd swapped it for an immaculate BMW 2002tii in yellow - gorgeous thing (and I'm not normally a BMW fan). When asked, he simply explained that he bought a car he liked and that was in good condition, then just ran it for years until it fell apart, all the time saving money for his next one. Genius.

[mickyh7]

My English Teacher, Miss Alison had a Bright Red Spitfire in the 70's.
Always wore sunglasses to drive.
I thought about her lots when I was 13

[Hoofy]

peterpan0 said:

be careful hanging outside girls schools with cameras id say

That was my first thought. Right now there's a PCSO in reception taking down notes about a suspect with the OPer's description.

You think I'm kidding? I used to run an afterschool club about 10 years ago and noticed someone taking photos outside. I just raised an eyebrow but got on with signing in etc. 5 minutes later, a few mums rush in to report it, and a few minutes later still, a couple of PCSOs turn up to take statements.

Edited by Hoofy on Friday 11th February 12:16

[a8hex]

One of the younger physics teachers drove an Elan Sprint in red and white, it might have had a gold stripe too but hey we're talking about almost 50 years ago. Nothing else was going to come close. The head of physic drove a Morry Thou traveller.
The only others I remember was my trombone teacher drove a Skoda (way back before the VW days) and the head of chemistry drove an all agro.

[rampageturke]

one guy using the road as a dumping ground?