Carissa D’Agata didn’t require an enchanted pumpkin and body-morphing mice to get to the prom.

Nope, she just needed the sleek, fuschia hot rod she saw driving down her street once in a while.

She’d seen the car in prior summers, and wondered whether the owners would be open to provide chariot and chauffeur to the West High senior prom on Friday, May 30.

Not knowing who owned the car, D’Agata, 17, and her father chased the car down the street on Monday, May 26.

The 1950 Mercury slid into the driveway of Tom and Pam Alberts on Elmer Avenue, just around the corner from the D’Agata home on Alice Avenue.

D’Agata’s prom entrance was made perfectly classic when the Alberts agreed to drive D’Agata; her boyfriend and prom date Christopher Tonn, 18; and their friend Elizabeth Hebert, 17, to the prom.

“I was very excited, I would love to be a part of this for her,” said Pam Alberts, who played the role of coachman for the evening. “I love my car, and if someone else can get joy from it, why not?”

D’Agata said she just wanted something different and vintage to arrive at the prom in, and made many of her friends jealous in the process.

“I have a friend who’s going in her boyfriend’s new Escalade,” said D’Agata before stepping into her coach before the prom. “When she saw a picture of this, she said ‘I want to go with you now instead of him!’”

Tom Alberts said the couple built their beloved hot rod from scratch 13 years ago, and have enjoyed it ever since as members of the Cruz’n Knights car club out of Manchester.