What car did you drive in High School

Hi cgutz ... yeah know what you mean about it's looks, I rarely see one on the road but always enjoy the fact that it's still lookin' good when I do. The guy I sold it to did something like this to it ..

 

High School Wheels--1959-1963
Day wheels--Cushman Highlander and then the Mighty Eagle.
Night, especially date night--Mom and Dad's Rambler with the fold down seats--what a car!
First car I bought in college--Rambler American, flat 6, straight stick. Great little car.

 

1974 Mustang II:

Same s**t brown as pictured, was already 11 years old and showing it. Fun little 4-banger, though.

 

64 chev belair, 4 door230 six with 3 on the tree, am radio, then upgraded to a 69 Datsun pickup 1600 cc engine 4 speed. They never stranded me we lived 10 miles from town.

 

Oh hell my next door neighbor when I was a wee lad had two, one identical to that brown one, as well as a baby blue "fast"back with vinyl landau top. Back in the late 70's, as an impressionable youth, I actually thought they were pretty hot.

 

78 Buick LeSabre, my dad said if I could get it running I could have it. After some adjustments to the carb, I was off and running! The biggest boat I ever owned.

 

This thread popping up reminded me I ran across an old pic. This was my Junior year in spring 96. Mom looks thrilled after learning car had a 394 big block when I took her for a ride.

 

95 Yamaha warrior...not technically a car I know but in the mountains a 4wheeler is better transportation!

 

Didn't get a car 'till out of college :-(

But another "Never should have sold it" ... 85 Toyota Celica GTS

 

Yamaha 50cc FS1E moped, at 16...didn't own a car, properly until I was 24......, the it was a Ford Capri 2 Litre

 

In order...

75 Dodge Colt GT (engine seized)
76 Dodge Aspen (rear diff busted)
82 Mazda GLC (blew head gasket)
78 Chevrolet Camero (deer)
82 Chevrolet Citation (trans failed)
.. and that was just grades 11 and 12.

 

Started with a 2 door 1983 Buick lesabre, mile long and a 307 ci boat anchor under the hood. With the pedal on the floor you could literally watch the needle on the gas gauge go down as you went. Lots of room to pack friends in though. Then onto a 92 S-10, which met it's demise at a power pole. Picked up an 82 or 83 S-10 which I sold after it started leaving a quarter mile long blue haze behind it, which brought me to a free 80 f-150 2wd, 302, 3spd auto and a cross between calf scour and vomit brown complete with giant rust hole in passenger floor board. Then senior year before college I bought a 92 gmc 2500 4x4 which I rebuilt the small block in. That was a fun truck for what it was. Never scared to take it anywhere in any condition. It finally dies a few years ago when the current owner rolled it over a few times.

 

Ahh, to grow up in the Land of the 55cents gallon, lol....NO one, in the UK, could afford more than a motorcycle, i think gas was about 2 pounds a gallon, back in the mid 70's!!

 

No car in high school but my first vehicle was a 1973 Kawasaki KZ400. Add it to the list of wish I still had's.

 

It sounds like love!

 

1966 Pontiac LeMans, 326 2bbl 2 speed slushbox. in 71 a 66 was just a old car

 

Datsun 310 hatchback, then a kz440ltd. Both 82's.

 

I graduated from high school in 1986. My first car was a 1966 Chevelle convertible my father and I built (and he funded). We pulled the body off the frame and started from there. LS6 454 crate engine (eventually to have a nice roller cam), M20 4-speed, and a 3.31:1 posi. Ran a best of 12.01 with 10 inch slicks. Never got a ticket, never wrecked it, either.

 

That truly means something.
I had a friend who acquired a 1970's ish Camaro. Not sure what was in/ on it but that car would GRAB and GO when you stomped it!!! Sadly, within two weeks of owning it he wrapped it around a telephone pole - fortunately he wasn't hurt - car was done.

 

81 chevy impala with a 283 transplanted in. air shocks in the back and dual cherrybomb exaust with chrome tips. ugly as hell but rand great, really miss that thing