What did you drive in high school?

[stangg]

Some of you had some pretty cool cars... I was dying to buy a '68 camaro, but my folks would have nothing of the sort. For the most part I had to ride with my sister in her hand me down 70 Plymouth "SS" (Sport Suburban Station Wagon).  My father basically bought several full size "safe" cars for us kids to use.  Being #6, I was near the end of the line for getting the cars I didn't want.  To try and get my sister to hate the wagon, so I could at least have my own wheels, I painted flames on the hood to embarrass her into getting her own car.   didn't work...  During my senior year, I got to take Dad's '72 Chrysler Newport once or twice a week.  It had a 400 and would leave some serious rubber on the ground... When I blew the transmission after school one day doing burnouts my big brother made sure the folks understood exactly how it broke... that about settled it as far as getting anything I really wanted.  My sister finally bought her own car and passed the wagon down to me the day before I started college.    I got about 9 months out of that car, then about a year on a '73 Impala before I finally got my "own" car in college which was a '76 Trans Am w/ 400 4 Speed.   

[RustyRed]

. He's 8, so, we may have it done when he's 20
Bill

LOL!  I hear ya there.

Jeff really wants the Mustang but to be honest I am not sure I want them driving an older car like the Mustang.  It's fun to cruise around in on a nice Saturday afternoon but wouldn't make a very good daily driver.

What we're thinking is in a few more years we can probably pick up an '05 or '06 Mustang with some miles on it for pretty cheap and fix it up.  Preferably a V6 model to keep the insurance company from getting in our pockets as much as possible.

I'm not totally against one or both of them driving the Mustang but we'd have to do some work to it.  We'd have to add AC, add a collapsible column and either change out the tranny for an AOD or tone down the gear ratio.  Right now I am running a 3.55 posi third member so it really screams down the road at freeway speeds and the gas mileage sucks.  One thing I've kicked around is putting in a fuel injected V6 with the aod...we could always store the current set up for later use.  But even if I did all that if someone rear ends them hard it could potentially be all she wrote for them when they are a ball of flames.

[monkeystash]

First car was a '66 Plymouth Sport Fury 383, white w/ ivy gold interior.  Sold that Junior year for a '90 LX 5.0.  Still miss the Fury.

[67 Fastback]

LOL!  I hear ya there.

Jeff really wants the Mustang but to be honest I am not sure I want them driving an older car like the Mustang.  It's fun to cruise around in on a nice Saturday afternoon but wouldn't make a very good daily driver.

What we're thinking is in a few more years we can probably pick up an '05 or '06 Mustang with some miles on it for pretty cheap and fix it up.  Preferably a V6 model to keep the insurance company from getting in our pockets as much as possible.

I'm not totally against one or both of them driving the Mustang but we'd have to do some work to it.  We'd have to add AC, add a collapsible column and either change out the tranny for an AOD or tone down the gear ratio.  Right now I am running a 3.55 posi third member so it really screams down the road at freeway speeds and the gas mileage sucks.  One thing I've kicked around is putting in a fuel injected V6 with the aod...we could always store the current set up for later use.  But even if I did all that if someone rear ends them hard it could potentially be all she wrote for them when they are a ball of flames.

I want to do a 67 Firebird with a late model ls motor. 5.3 w/ 4l60e transmission. Cam it for max economy low power and tune it as much. Update the suspension, brakes, and steering to make it a dd. Then he can put it aside and pick up an econo box later. I have dreams like my sig says 

Bill

[RustyRed]

I want to do a 67 Firebird with a late model ls motor. 5.3 w/ 4l60e transmission. Cam it for max economy low power and tune it as much. Update the suspension, brakes, and steering to make it a dd. Then he can put it aside and pick up an econo box later. I have dreams like my sig says 

Bill

A local friend of mine from our old church runs a body shop...he just redid a late 60's Camaro for a daily driver.  He was the one who was selling the Trans Am for a friend of his that had relocated out of state.  When I was over there buying the TA about a year ago he was in the late stages of finishing up the Camaro.

He did major upgrades to the suspension, four wheel disc, etc plus a fuel injected motor and aod.  I ran into him at the local O'Reilly a few weeks back and it's really a beautiful car.

[JeffTepper]

'58 belair,  '51gmc truck,  '84 Volvo

Craig:

I realize that 10th grade was the best three years of your life but an '84 Volvo in high school???????????????????

They didn't make '84 Volvos in 1969 did they??

[tarafied1]

Craig:

I realize that 10th grade was the best three years of your life but an '84 Volvo in high school???????????????????

They didn't make '84 Volvos in 1969 did they??

it was an 1884 Volvo, the first one actually

[Laurie S.]

Yep...if it's handed to you then you won't appreciate it for certain.

I completely disagree--it depends on the person.  I was handed my coupe and have always appreciated it.  As for my Bronco and Superduty, I paid for those.

[scedd]

I completely disagree--it depends on the person.  I was handed my coupe and have always appreciated it.  As for my Bronco and Superduty, I paid for those.

Yes, but your a Girlie, you lot got all the common sense!

[RustyRed]

Yes, but your a Girlie, you lot got all the common sense!

It also depends on how your parents raised you....there are a lot of kids in my area that are spoiled brats and we've been very careful to raise our kids not to be like that.

[tarafied1]

I bought mine and built it up myself (with help of course) but I know I did treat it both harder and better than my friends treated their cars. I knew I would have to fix it if I broke it but I also knew it was mine and not my parents car. My dad did teach me a lot including how to be responsible. I paid for my gas and insurance too. I wanted the car and I really didn't NEED a car so if I wanted it I would need to pay for it. I learned a lot of lessons with that car!

[silverblueBP]

I sold my lawn business to buy my first car at 17. Mom and Dad let me use the family truckster (71 Torino wagon) to haul the mowers around for a year. When I got tired of driving the wagon they said I needed to get another job or sell the mowing business to buy it. I look back now and wonder WTH they let me buy a frick'n Vega!

Dad did co-sign my first loan so I could get the car painted. It was some ridiculously small amount, but it started me down the path of excellent credit. I thank them for being good parents and not " good friends" every chance I get.

[DB65]

that looks an awful lot like my 67 when I got it ... do you know what happened to yours?

I put 10k miles on it in 3 months and my dad took over payments and the car when I got drafted.  I got it back from him about 5 years later and drove it for another year or 2 until it became an engine donor for a Falcon.  The body was very bad and the floors and frame rails were pretty bad. Not sure what happened to the body though.

[tarafied1]

I put 10k miles on it in 3 months and my dad took over payments and the car when I got drafted.  I got it back from him about 5 years later and drove it for another year or 2 until it became an engine donor for a Falcon.  The body was very bad and the floors and frame rails were pretty bad. Not sure what happened to the body though.

hmmmmm.... mine was pretty rotten, floors, frame rails etc. and it didn't have an engine. The guy I got it from bought it at an auction.

[buckeyedemon]

i had a 70 maverick with a 289 my sophmore and junior year.  i sold it to get the mustang i have now. 

i then drove a 64 futura (when it was still powder blue) part of my senior year.  everyone loved the old maverick.  they hated the falcon.

this was the mid 90's so the school parking lot was full Ford Tempo's, Escort's, pontiac grand am's ,etc.

[Horseplay]

i had a 70 maverick with a 289 my sophmore and junior year.  i sold it to get the mustang i have now. 

i then drove a 64 futura (when it was still powder blue) part of my senior year.  everyone loved the old maverick.  they hated the falcon.

this was the mid 90's so the school parking lot was full Ford Tempo's, Escort's, pontiac grand am's ,etc.

Nothing against the Maverick but love that Falcon. My friend had a red one in HS. Lost it one day at speed and hit a tree. He joined the long list of Spear-o-Matic victims, unfortunately. His dad put the car in the garage and it still sits there today.

[Jack1966]

Love Falcons as well (would trade my Mustang for one now except people would think me crazy).  I picked up this one-owner Falcon in the early 70s for $750, later sold in the early 80s for $500.

[buckeyedemon]

i would have preferred it was a hardtop, but i was young with almost no money and couldn't afford the price of a hardtop falcon at the time.

i would love a 63, 64 or 65 falcon hardtop.  one of the nicest looking fords.  i can completely understand if a person wanted to trade a mustang for one.

[kcode]

Started driving in '64, then legally in '66. First car was a 1939 Ford Deluxe with a flat head V-8, 239 cubic inches with a three speed trans.  Beat the crap out of it until the cluster gear in the trans gave up.  Then moved up to a 63 1/2 Galaxie with 427, the 410 horse version with a single carb.  The first pic was in 1967, after a carb backfire and some work to hide the burnt hood resulted in the last picture.  The bad part is that it weighed in around 4200 lbs.

[Sacbill]

One of these in light blue...


Near graduation, my parents got me one of these...


Can you say "    ???"

[beach pony]

This is what I drove. A 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler. The Cale Yarborough edition. That was the first car I ever bought. Picked it up for 600.00 bucks. Damn I loved that car!

[DB65]

hmmmm.... mine was pretty rotten, floors, frame rails etc. and it didn't have an engine. The guy I got it from bought it at an auction.
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hmmmm indeed.  Do you remember what engine it had originally?  Mine was a T code sport sprint with a 3 speed.

[bigb427]

This is what I drove. A 69 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler. The Cale Yarborough edition. That was the first car I ever bought. Picked it up for 600.00 bucks. Damn I loved that car!

Very cool!   351 or 428?   Can we assume it didn't look like that when you bought it?

[tarafied1]

hmmmm indeed.  Do you remember what engine it had originally?  Mine was a T code sport sprint with a 3 speed.

mine was a C code 289 2V with an auto... I guess I don't have your old car after all. Mine was also a sports sprint however...

[Grabber70Mach]

First was an 81 Chevy Celebrity.  Next was the first car I bought a 69 Mach 1.  Wish I never got rid of it.  Insert image of me kicking a can.

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