Prom night car hire

[Bigkahonies]

My son has his prom night this Friday night.....looking to hire something nice to drop him off ie Ferrari, Aston, Bentley etc, you get the idea.

Does anybody know of any local companies or someone that may be willing to hire out such a car?? I'm between Newbury and Reading.

Any help much appreciated.

[F355GTS]

Bigkahonies said:

My son has his prom night this Friday night.....looking to hire something nice to drop him off ie Ferrari, Aston, Bentley etc, you get the idea.

Does anybody know of any local companies or someone that may be willing to hire out such a car?? I'm between Newbury and Reading.

Any help much appreciated.

Shame it's this Friday otherwise I'd have been happy to take him there, unfortunately I'm out this Friday at FOS event good luck in your search

[StarmistBlue400]

I've got a noisy Chimaera. Let me know if you get stuck, I am in Purley on Thames.

[Bigkahonies]

Thank you for the kind offers guys...........he's now going with a friend, so he's sorted but thanks again

[nickg123]

Be careful with this, a chap I know with a nice Mustang said the Police are starting to crack down on uninsured (incorrectly insured) Hire / Reward cars being used for Prom's, basically if they know there's a big prom on they will park up down the road and check any cars that are out of the ordinary so to speak...

[davek_964]

nickg123 said:

Be careful with this, a chap I know with a nice Mustang said the Police are starting to crack down on uninsured (incorrectly insured) Hire / Reward cars being used for Prom's, basically if they know there's a big prom on they will park up down the road and check any cars that are out of the ordinary so to speak...

What would they actually check though? I think it would be very hard for them to prove any money had changed hands - and in fact, if I had been free Fri night I would have volunteered for this and not expected payment anyway. They can't prosecute people for just giving somebody a lift.

[chevy-stu]

davek_964 said:

nickg123 said:

Be careful with this, a chap I know with a nice Mustang said the Police are starting to crack down on uninsured (incorrectly insured) Hire / Reward cars being used for Prom's, basically if they know there's a big prom on they will park up down the road and check any cars that are out of the ordinary so to speak...

What would they actually check though? I think it would be very hard for them to prove any money had changed hands - and in fact, if I had been free Fri night I would have volunteered for this and not expected payment anyway. They can't prosecute people for just giving somebody a lift.

Unless there is proof of payment can't see how they'd make it stick.. I've also done a prom run for a favour and could no way have proved to be hire/reward booking...

[nickg123]

The thread title saying the word "hire" pointed me to it, I'm only saying what I was told - I guess it's more the stretched limo's and dodgy looking home built jobs they will focus on.

[Frimley111R]

Couldn't help but repost this from a teacher on SELOC:

"Our proms are held at the local Hilton and involve a queue of traffic lined up. it's not quite the swish, "roll up and gracefully step out" entrance the kids think. It's sitting there, moving 6ft every minute until they get to the door by which point everyone is seeing what else is in the line!

Proms are ghastly things. Lots of fuss over very little, jealous/competitive entrance, the usual social divisions, drinking orange juice, kids I loathe telling me "i'm okay really" and standing around watching 16 years olds awkwardly try to find someone who'll give them a quick tumble at the proper boozy afterparty back at someone's house, that they're all killing time for instead. It really is like live-action inbetweeners, but without the jokes."

Edited by Frimley111R on Monday 30th June 09:08