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Hooniverse Asks: What’s the best vehicle to take your kid on their first day of school?

Jeff Glucker

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Today I dropped my daughter off for her first day of first grade. I wasn’t planning to do so in a Land Rover Defender 90, but that’s what I had in my driveway at the moment. I’m giving the Montero a little break after pulling camping duty last week, as I want to change the oil and eyeball everything underneath just for a health check. Also, I think it’s nearing the need for a new clutch. The Jag would’ve been a good choice for today, but… my garage is broken, which is a story unto itself. So the D90 keys are pulled off the key holder and that’s the vehicle we used.

But now I want to know what the best vehicle to take your kid to their first day of school would be? At least in your eyes. And yes, I’m sure the proper answer is a minivan, but we don’t really do proper here.

So sound off with the best first day of school rides below…

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Jeff Glucker

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Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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20 responses to “Hooniverse Asks: What’s the best vehicle to take your kid on their first day of school?”

  1. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    Well, there’s a little overlap between the obligatory seven seater and the way true dignitaries prefer to arrive.

    Congrats on the first day of school to your kid! Everything went well?

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    1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      Yes, it all went well.
      She walked in like a champ even though she was very nervous.

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        A good start is important. My kids started 4th and 6th grade today and they still look forward to school every day. Makes it very easy for the parents to say goodbye in the morning.

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  2. nanoop Avatar
    nanoop

    We walked down to the school, and took the tram back up.
    The occasion is already filled with anxiety, curiosity, and other strange feelings, no need to make it even more overwhelming – just use what you would use two months later, too. I guess you did well!

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    1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      The school is walkable too, which is nice. Though I want to get an e-bike and give her rides to school on that, on occasion. There’s a little trail nearby that we would go on, and it would be fun.

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      1. OA5599 Avatar
        OA5599

        If the school is walkable, it is probably bikable, too. If she’s able to steer in a straight line and wait at the street crossings until you give the OK, I think she would have more fun doing it herself (with you, of course).

        Lock her bike up at school during the day while you pedal yours back home. In the afternoon, either return on your bike, walk while she rides, or bring the Montero and toss the bike in the back.

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      2. nanoop Avatar
        nanoop

        Walking together is quality time, hard to claim nowadays, and an easy occasion for parents to actually listen. Driving doesn’t always leave me relaxed and patient, even if it’s just a 5-min ride…

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  3. mdharrell Avatar
    mdharrell

    Based on my own first day of school, I assume the answer is still a 1967 Buick LeSabre two-door hardtop.

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    1. Batshitbox Avatar
      Batshitbox

      In my house it was either a 1968 Camaro Convertible or a Suzuki GT185. I’m sure Kindergarten was the Camaro, I def remember 2nd grade being the Suzi, and by Junior high we were back to the Camaro.

      That is, of course, only the first day of school. All other days I arrived with my two chauffeurs, both named Chuck Taylor.

      I’m voting for the Suzuki 2-stroke as the best, though.

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      1. mdharrell Avatar
        mdharrell

        I’m pretty sure the Buick was called into service only because there was still some in-person paperwork to complete. Starting with day two I was consigned to the school bus. My town was too small to support its own school district so the elementary and high schools were in the next town over while we had the junior high. A few years later, of course, we moved out of the area a couple of months before I finally would have been able to walk to “our” school. We moved into a house several miles outside our new town, with a convenient stop for the school bus…

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    2. OA5599 Avatar
      OA5599

      A Lesabre seems like an interesting automotive choice to inspire (or condemn) a young student to an academic career in geology, but then I remembered the car probably came from Flint.

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      1. mdharrell Avatar
        mdharrell

        The Medium Gold body failed to steer me towards economic geology but I guess the Parchment top did its job.

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  4. Maymar Avatar
    Maymar

    I sort of suspect if your kid got dropped off in a full-sized replica of Twin Mill or Deora or something (I don’t know if kids still love the Adam West Batmobile, although I did despite being born about 20 years after the show), they might well be an all-time legend. A fire truck might go over well too.

    That said, when my kid starts school in a couple years, I’ll almost inevitably walk him over. I’ve already been walking him to daycare for about a year now, and that’s a pretty nice routine.

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  5. OA5599 Avatar
    OA5599

    Monster truck, definitely. Bonus points if it wears a school bus bodyshell.

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    1. Jeff Glucker Avatar
      Jeff Glucker

      Damn, that’s a great answer

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    2. Batshitbox Avatar
      Batshitbox

      How ’bout a Munster Truck?

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      1. OA5599 Avatar
        OA5599

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  6. Kenwood Avatar
    Kenwood

    I’m not that old, but I walked about 6 blocks to school, including my first day. Nowadays, in the neighborhood where I live, parents will shuttle little Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Madison Taylor and Harrison in a Yukon Denali XL even if it’s only 1/2 a block away. However, that doesn’t bother me as much as the naming trends of these kids though. Who’s going to be the first to name their kid Fillmore, Nixon or Trump?

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  7. Slow Joe Crow Avatar
    Slow Joe Crow

    A motorcycle with a sidecar would be an awesome statement. The reality is we lived so close the the K-5 school that walking was the easiest option. Riding a bicycle would actually take longer because you had to get the bicycle out of the garage and then lock it up. I think our son did it once as PoC and never again.

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  8. Neight428 Avatar
    Neight428

    As a newly minted member of the elementary school’s Safety Patrol, my fifth grader informs me that the Tesla Model X’s falcon wing doors are, in fact, the highlight of the drop off line.

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