High School Cars

[kayak_rat]

Originally Posted by vstrommark

I started college with a '70 Chevy Impala with a bored out engine. Later, I bought a '76 Ford Maverick that I kept until 1993.

My dad and I had a 72 Impala drop top. Was a blast to rebuild. Blew the engine at a drag strip when I was 10. We did some research and found a 454 out of an old trooper car. Put it in drove it for a month.......two tickets later my dad sold it.

[Sailchaser]

My first car was a brown 67 VW bug that I bought for $75.00 bucks from the neighbor accross the street. It came with a second engine and I could change that sucker out in about 3 hours.I ran that car home from school one day about 12 miles on 3 spark plugs no problem at all except for not being able to drive over 40 mph. I kept that car for 2 years and sold it for $250.00 bucks to a guy from school. He drove it for another 3 years and sold it again. Best darn car I ever owned

[Snake Hips]

My high school ride was a silver 1994 Mazda B4000. Rear wheel drive with 4x4 and a 6-cylinder on a 4-cylinder platform. Thing rocks in the snow.

My college ride is the same sturdy little truck.

This, but silver and minus the man-cab and the chrome on the front bumper:

[acarr]

65 Chevy Impala

[gettysburgfreak]

2004 Oldsmobile Alero

[borndead1]

I had a 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis, nicknamed "The Beast" (of course).

It was turd brown and gigantic. Had some power though, thanks to the 460 under the hood. I got voted "junkiest car" in my senior class.

Once my friends stole my car out of my driveway (I always left the keys in it). They took it to a garage and went nuts with paint. They painted one of the doors orange and put a black "01" on it like the Dukes of Hazard car, taped off the hood and painted it 2 different colors, stenciled "THE BEAST" in huge letters on the trunk, wrote MISFITS on the driver's side door and GARTH BROOKS SUCKS on the passenger's side door...


For some reason I got pulled over by the cops way more after that.

[Silound]

I wish I still had pictures of mine. I drove a 1977 Chevrolet C/K 10 pickup with the Bonanza package. It was one of the very limited released numbers (less than 10,000 made) that included a four bolt main 350ci V8 and an oversized heavy duty automatic transmission (these were standard on a basic 1-ton truck, and nearly unheard of for a mere 1/2 ton). Factory A/C, cruise control, manual locks and windows, and upright rectangular towing mirrors (the tall kind that attatched at three points on the door side). Two-tone rust and tan (color rust, not actual rust ) with the gold stripe trim and oversized bumper fenders. Aluminum hubcaps, whitewalls to the outside. Disc/drum (front/rear) brakes, and

The only things that we changed were new upholstery and carpet (old was pretty ratty) in 2004, an AM/FM/Cassette and back corner speakers that were from the '79 model, and shoulder seat belts, also from the '79 model which were all added in '80.

In 2004, with 600K miles, the engine finally gave out. After some cracked seals led to oil leakage, the number 1 & 2 rods stripped the camshaft and threw, causing the piston heads to sink and collect oil in the chamber above. Amazingly there was NO lip formed on the cylinder walls, so to fix it we only had to do a standard 30/1000ths re-bore. The hard part was a new camshaft which had to be custom ordered for the heavier engine.



Was a helluva good truck too.

Back in CA, in those days, I was driving a '72 Maverick......

Come by the house here in NC, and I will take you for a spin around the neighborhood....Yes, I STILL have it, and yes, I STILL drive it!

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by Bruzee

I drove a 1977 Datsun 280Z, that I had to push start to get off campus at lunch time. Here is a pic of one similar. It had an in-line 6 cylinder engine, and rear wheel drive. This car was a blast! Mine was the same color, but not as nice...

Ah, a discomobile!

Me? I walked everywhere....

[Kiss079]

Mine was a 79 GMC Jimmy, Incredible Hulk Green, and had glass packs on it. This thing was a gutless wonder, I got it stuck all the time. It sure was fun while it was alive.

1985 Chevy Celebrity...Came silver but I 99.95 painted it dark grey, and very quickly it became silver and grey. Though it did have and 18 inch bass tube wedged in the trunk... And the tailights had to be duct taped on because they would rattle themselves off.

I had a no-name 10-speed bike I made from misc. parts in high school. My first car was when I finally saved up enough money at my first real job. A '69 Triumph Spitfire. Little go-cart car that got 35 MPG but couldn't get out of it's own way. I then got a '78 full sized Ford Bronco. Lots of good times in that one.

[the3cs]

A '67 Mustang coupe, which I still have, with the fancy turn signal lights in the hood and a not so stock 289.

I still get a laugh when I think about the time a buddy of mine and I were dragging stop light to stop light and we get polled over by his dad. The first question out of his mouth was "have ya been drinking" and we replied with an emphatic 'not yet'.

[acruce]

1977 Chevy Camaro

[jaycarla]

The best car ever made, a 78 El Camino SS Black Knight.

[smitdavi]

77 Chevy short bed Pick-up with a 3 on the tree that we later converted to the floor

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by jaycarla

The best car ever made, a 78 El Camino SS Black Knight.

Sweet!! My dad got a 79 Royal Knight brand new off the lot. It had the smallest V8 Chevy made, a 257 ci. That little light car would flat out haul ass! It's still parked in the edge of the field with probably 800 spiders growing under it.

[sofaman]

Mine was a 83 Chevette and it ran forever an a tank of gas

[cricky101]

I drove some real beauties during high school.

First was a 1976 Dodge Aspen my Grandma had bought new. I got my driver's license in 1996. The head liner sagged down and had some funky stains where my grandma's cat crawled in and had babies. The chicks loved it. I drove it for about six months without reverse gear, too, which made parking a pain.

Next was a 1978 Chrysler Newport, green.
Then, a 1984 Chrysler New Yorker.
Finally, a 1980 Ford LTD, green. Drove that through my first two years of college until it crapped out.

A 1987 Pontiac Grand Am - what a POS!