These Are The Rarest Cars You've Ever Seen On A School Run

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The leaves are starting to alteration color, and nan schoolhouse twelvemonth is good underway crossed nan country. If you person nan work of dropping kids disconnected astatine people each morning, you astir apt person a bully grasp of which parents person nan cool cars. We asked our readers past week for the rarest cars they've ever seen connected a schoolhouse run. The comments conception featured trips down representation lane aliases caller carspotting outings while waiting successful nan pickup statement for their ain child.

The submissions ranged from costly luxury cars to racing machinery that astir apt wasn't legally allowed connected nationalist roads. A fewer commentators reminisced astir nan cool cars they sewage to thrust into nan parking batch arsenic students aliases spotted their classmates driving location in. However, you would committedness that nan parents were trying harder to show disconnected than nan newly-licensed precocious schoolers. Without further ado, present are nan rarest schoolhouse tally rides:

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If you want to talk successful position of axenic rarity and uniqueness, I've dropped my kids disconnected successful one-off pre-production prototypes and conception cars a clip aliases two. But I worth my anonymity, truthful I won't beryllium disclosing what they were here...

Submitted by: NoID11

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My dada worked for what yet became to beryllium known arsenic Ford Aerospace (eventually Loral Space Systems). In immoderate case, we ever had a Ford lease car. Of course, my dada would prime a sensible four-door family car but his bachelor co-workers, sometimes not truthful much. And nan lease group did occasionally connection immoderate oddities based connected Ford's collabs astatine nan time. Apparently, 1 of my Dad's coworkers needed nan sensible sedan for a fewer days and that's really I ended up being driving to kindergarten for a mates of mornings successful a Pantera.

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Was picked up erstwhile aft shot believe by a friend's mom who was driving a Rover SD1 (3500). I distinctly retrieve it because while astir cars had blue-tinted windshields, nan Rover had an amber-tinted one.

Submitted by: RobFromVA

Poorsche

Several years ago, our son's simple schoolhouse called to show america he had been successful a fight. It turned retired he had been protecting immoderate kids from different one, who was bullying them. For his trouble, our boy was kicked successful nan shins.

My title car wasn't road-registered, but I took nan consequence and drove it to prime him up from school. The pick-up statement was minivan, minivan, suv, suv, title car, suv, minivan...

Submitted by: Poorsche

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It's not precisely an exotic vehicle, aliases thing for illustration that – but erstwhile I was successful precocious schoolhouse backmost successful nan mid 2000s, I usually sewage a thrust from a friend who lived successful our neighborhood, but erstwhile he would person an AP people successful our later years, my precocious begetter would occasionally return maine to schoolhouse and prime maine up connected his 70s era Yamaha triple.

It was ever funny seeing immoderate students looks arsenic I would get dropped disconnected connected my dad's bike. I conjecture sometimes, you tin get nan motorcycle cool facet moreover if you're conscionable nan passenger.

Submitted by: Mondestine

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Back successful nan mid-to-late 80s, my sister and I drove ourselves to precocious schoolhouse successful immoderate reasonably uncommon metal.

My sister drove a 1971 Triumph GT6+, and erstwhile I started driving, I drove nan 1960 Chevy El Camino my Dad and I built. I don't cognize really uncommon they are successful nan world, but they were nan only ones successful our westbound Texas city. They were fun, but their rarity made it tricky to get distant pinch anything.

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Decades ago, I utilized to driblet myself disconnected successful a 1976 Triumph Spitfire...not judge if that counts? My dada and I fixed it up together, and it became my first car. Couldn't return it to college, though, because it was ne'er really weather-proof :-)

Submitted by: Matt Eames

Sicnag / Wikimedia Common

The rarest point I saw connected nan occasional schoolhouse runs was a Ford Centurion conversion. I lived successful a lower-middle-class suburb and my kids usually walked. My precocious schoolhouse parking batch was a batch much interesting. This was an able NYC suburb successful nan early 80s. One of nan jocks had a Citroën Mehari, different kid drove a Porsche 911 Carrera. RS, and 1 kid occasionally drove dad's Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. Two different standouts were a Renault 15 and a VW Thing.

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Currently surviving successful Birmingham, UK and went to prime up my girl from school, only to spot a Mercedes G-Wagen 6x6 waiting to prime up different kid! Then 2 weeks later, I saw personification successful a camouflaged Defender (her schoolhouse was astir 1 mile distant from their factory) and past besides saw a camouflaged Aston Martin DBX (which a batch of their labor unrecorded wherever I do).

Before we moved to nan UK from nan US, I had bought nan Alfa Romeo Giulia erstwhile it first came retired successful nan US, utilized to return my girl to schoolhouse successful it and each nan boys would unreserved complete to nan car to unfastened nan doorway for her only to show maine that is simply a bully car, which past irritated my daughter!

Submitted by: George