The leaves are starting to change color and the school year is well underway across the country. If you have the responsibility of dropping kids off at class every morning, you probably have a good idea of which parents have the cool cars. Last week we asked our readers about the rarest cars they’ve ever seen on a school run. The comments section shared memories of memories or recent car spotting outings while waiting in the pick-up line for their own child.
The entries ranged from expensive luxury cars to racing machines that were probably not legally allowed on public roads. A few commenters reminisced about the cool cars they got to drive into the parking lot as students or saw their classmates drive home. However, you would swear that the parents were trying harder to show off than the newly licensed high school students. Without further ado, here are the rarest school runs:
Someone thinks they’re too cool for school
If you want to talk about sheer rarity and uniqueness, I’ve dropped my kids off a few times in one-off pre-production prototypes and concept cars. But I value my anonymity, so I won’t reveal what they were here…
Submitted by: NoID11
Commercial vehicles at Ford’s aerospace division
My father worked for what eventually became known as Ford Aerospace (eventually Loral Space Systems). In any case, we always had a Ford lease car. Of course my father opted for a sensible four-door family car, but his single colleagues sometimes not so much. And the leasing group occasionally offered some oddities based on Ford’s collabs at the time. Apparently one of my father’s colleagues needed the sensible sedan for a few days and so I ended up driving a Pantera to kindergarten for a few mornings.
Submitted by: REO
A soccer mom with a Rover
Was picked up once after football training by the mother of a friend who drove a Rover SD1 (3500). I remember it clearly because while most cars had blue tinted windshields, the Rover had an amber windshield.
Submitted by: RobVanVA
Yes, it’s a race car
A few years ago, our son’s primary school called to report that he had been in a fight. It turned out that he had protected some children from another who was bullying them. Because of his efforts, our son was kicked in the shins.
My race car wasn’t road registered, but I took the risk and drove it to pick it up from school. The pick up line was minivan, minivan, SUV, SUV, race car, SUV, minivan…
Submitted by: Poorsche
Riding a friend’s Yamaha Triple
It’s not exactly an exotic vehicle or anything – but when I was in high school in the mid-2000s, I would usually get a ride from a friend who lived near us, but when he would have an AP class in our later years, my late father would occasionally take me to school and pick me up in his ’70s Yamaha triple.
It was always funny to see some students looking like I was being dropped off on my dad’s bike. I think sometimes you can get the cool factor of the motorcycle even if you’re just the passenger.
Submitted by: Mondestijn
Fun rides at a West Texas high school
In the mid-80s, my sister and I drove ourselves to high school in some pretty rare metal.
My sister drove a 1971 Triumph GT6+, and when I started driving, I drove the 1960 Chevy El Camino that my dad and I had built. I don’t know how rare they are in the world, but they were the only ones in our West Texas town. They were fun, but their rarity made it difficult to get away with anything.
Submitted by: Stillnotatony
Driving to high school in a British convertible
Decades ago I dropped myself off in a 1976 Triumph Spitfire. Not sure if that counts? My father and I fixed it up together and it became my first car. However, I couldn’t take it with me to university as it was never really weatherproof 🙂
Submitted by: Matt Eames
An eclectic parking lot in the suburbs of New York from the 1980s
The rarest thing I saw on school runs was a Ford Centurion conversion. I lived in a lower middle class suburb and my children walked most of the time. My high school parking lot was a lot more interesting. This was an affluent suburb of New York in the early 1980s. One of the jocks had a Citroën Mehari, another kid drove a Porsche 911 Carrera. RS, and a child occasionally drove his father’s Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. Two other highlights were a Renault 15 and a VW Thing.
Submitted by: Slow Joe Crow
Pre-production cars in the pickup line
Currently living in Birmingham, UK and went to pick up my daughter from school but saw a Mercedes G-Wag 6×6 waiting to pick up another child! Two weeks later I saw someone in a camouflaged Defender (her school was about a mile away from their factory) and then I also saw a camouflaged Aston Martin DBX (where many of their employees live where I live).
Before we moved to the UK from the US, I had bought the Alfa Romeo Giulia when it first came out in the US. I used to take my daughter to school in it and all the boys would run to the car to open the door for her, only to tell me it was a nice car, which then annoyed my daughter!
Submitted by: George
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