Fess up!!! What kinda car did you drive in High School!?

[darkk]

My first high school car was a 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Wagon with a 389/4bbl/twice pipes.

 

[busch]

70 Camaro, 67 GMC 3/4 pickup

 

[VonHyde]

1975 chevy nova with a straight six, oh yeah it was a 4dr

 

[doug_porsche]

67 Camaro Conv. (Thanks Dad)

Still have it. I am bad at buying; worse at selling.

 

[paultheblacksmith]

I had a very lightly used 74 Dodge Dart 2dr. It had the leaning tower of power! Took me 17 months to kill that car. somewhere i have a pic. bought a double snorkel hood from the old scrap guy for a 100.

maybe there should be a thread. How many cars did you kill as a teenager?

My total was 2.

Another dodge dart.

"Nothing is a dangerous as a teenage male with keys and gas money!"

 

[streetrodman]

high school ride

wish I had a photo...didn't think about that stuff then, was usually thinking about girls...lol, it was a rust bucket, remember installing an old baseball mit in a large rust hole on the rear quarter panel to fill the void. With a little perswasion, I gott'er crammed in there. Drove her like that for years. Guess at that time I missed bodywork 101 class. I was destin to be true ratrodder, use what you can find.

 

[streetrodman]

oh, sorry...forgot to mention it was a 65' mustang. My dad traded a junk murray riding lawn mower for it.

 

[nwaringa]

Dodge Omni 1981 followed by Plymouth Horizon 1983. I am ashamed to say I loved them both.

 

[The Spirit of 58]

Does a 96 Honda CR250 race tuned bike count? I never had a street car in high school, just drove my dads truck and sometimes had to take the bus. I figured I didn't have the room to build a rat rod, and didn't want some Fast and furious ricer so I just saved my cash and didn't by a car.

 

[Oldboy]

My first

Drove a ‘67 Dodge coronet 440. Was a more door, and the badging scared people off, but in fact that was the body trim level, not the motor.
Had a 273 2 barrel tho , have lots of happy memories in that car.
Guy in a ‘71 Camaro took me to the junk yard, Halloween night 1978.
Been looking for the same car ever since

 

[redidbull]

Started with Dad's 66 Galaxie 500,289, to my own 70 Duster, semi built 273. Jim

 

[dutch]

`76 bmw 525

 

[lowbudget50]

68 Ford Fairlane!

 

[05snopro440]

I drove a 1982 Chev S10 with a 350, and later a 1962 Bel Air 4-door sedan. I still have both and they both still look great

 

[26Troadster]

another one of them threads that is full of folks we haven't heard from in years. no matter how many years ago it was it was still a 73 impala 4 dr, with hijackers and a warmed up 350, best 1/4 mile time was a 15.001 so i say 15 flat. not bad for a kid that didn't know a thing but thought i did.

 

[smallfoot]

We need a "dredge"emoji! 12 year old thread but still viable!
The year was 1966. I was 15. Had a learners permit but wouldn't get operator's license till 16. I bought my own Jeep...1942 made by Ford. Paid for by mowing neighborhood lawns for $2 apiece..

 

[Neto]

I rode the bus to school, all 12 years. I got into the ecology movement in HS (graduated 74), and actually didn't get my license until I was 18 1/2. First car was a 62 Chrysler Newport, with the 361. (It was the old family car.) But I was already 21. (Poor college kid. But hey, I paid up all of my debts, so don't look at me about this nonsense going on now.)

 

[kenny c]

Graduated in 82. While in school I drove Dads 72 Ford F100, 6" bed 3 on the tree. 302. And I did some stupid stuff with it.

 

[zzrodder]

Never had a car, started off buying a brand new Honda SL125 trail bike. Spent all my savings from working after school and on weekends for 1.30 an hr - $800 bucks. Never had that much in the bank again for years. Didn't get a vehicle till I was 18, a 55 Chev big window 1/2 ton, 6cyl with the 4spd Hydramatic for $250. Bought it from my one and only employer, the same guy I built the yellow 37 Packard for.

 

[Bamamav]

12 year old thread, can’t believe it hasn’t shown up again until now!

1976, 16 years old, got a 67 Mustang, 200 I6 with a C4 automatic. Slug, wouldn’t get out of its own way. 1977, early part of my senior year, traded it on a 67 Mustang 289 C4. Thought I had a race car, lol! Would do a smoky one wheel burnout, ran pretty good at the drag strip, too. Kept it until the summer after I graduated, then sold it and bought a 68 Caprice 2 door from my uncle, I wanted the bigger bench seats for, er, extra curricular activities! It was a sled, had to carry around a gallon of oil it used so much. Only kept it about six months and it got traded on a 1974 Chevy Cheyenne Super pickup with a 454. Loved that truck, but about went broke buying gas and rear tires for it!