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

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My Dad's 79 Honda Accord hatchback until I did a 360 in it. Barrel roll style. :eek: Then it was whatever 100k+ 200$ beater I could finish off the automatic in. '75 Plymouth Gran Fury Broughm, '76 AMC Matador, '71 Plymouth Satellite, '78 Ford Elite, '76 Pontiac Grand Prix... you get the idea.
 
What a great thread Tripper, sure wish I could go back to that time, even for one day. My first car in high school was a 65 Galaxy 250 six that promptly was replaced with a 302. Then I scored a 69 Mach 1 with 351 and a 4 gear. But the sweetheart was my 65 Chevelle SS with a very warmed up Vette 350/350 combo and 12 bolt posi 3:73 rear. Man I'd love to have that car back again.

Here is a list of some of the other cars guys were driving at my scholl at that time.

71 Challanger 340/auto
74 Cuda 360/auto
70 Super Bee 383/auto
70 Vega 327/ 4gear/9"rear
63 Galaxy conv, 390/auto
73 Nova 350/auto
51 Ford F1 239/4gear
69 Mini Cooper S
66 Chevelle 327/4gear. This car was purchased by this this guys dad new. It was a 4 door hard top, butter nut yellow, black vinyl top, black bench seat interior, and was very fast.
 
Graduated high school in 1992.
Got a 1963 falcon in 1990. Got a 70 F-100 in 1991 and it is still my daily driver. Best 2grand I ever spent.

thanx...Ded N. Buried
 
You guys are all so...young. I started with a 1948 Chevy 2 door bought from a car lot for $125 in 1957. A year later I had a 1935 Ford 2 door. Paid $65 for that one. Then I put a 24 stud flathead in it that had seen a year of dirt track use on alcohol. Eventually I traded that one for a 1941 Ford coupe.
Among these cars was several $50 wonders to get around in while working on the good ones.
 
finished highschewl wats that?
72 chevy truck slung a rod, then 72 cutlass drunk and let my 15 year old sister drive me home, brakes went out we ran off a 15foot embankment! Totaled!dat jewel! 71 ;td! jealous man drunk ran over it with a 21/2ton truck cause he thought i was sleepin with his wife! and the stories the cars could tell about me if they had survived! lol bad dog bad dog!:rolleyes:
 
1967 camaro SS Marina Blue 4-speed built 327. the motor was bored 60 over with a 3030 cam big valve heads..me and my wife dated in this car..we keep it for 10 years after we were married man i miss that car....
 
Mine was a 1982 Chevy truck, Longbed fleetside 250 ci. 6 banger, 3 on da tree...Black with red & Black interrior, factory white wheels with baby moon caps.


It was lower than the truck in my shop now.

MAN, I miss that truck.
 
I built a lot of cars back then to...had all of these and a few more during HS, I worked at a junkyard after school and weekends so parts weren't an issue. At 16 I inherited 15K and got the Vette and Electraglide., needless to say I had a big time as a teenager.

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Started out At 14 with a 1968 Ford f150 that i worked all summer to get then 1960 f100 flat bed with a 223 cyl. the for graduation in 1986 folks gave me a 1973 f150
 
My first car was technicly my 29 model A. Got it in 8th grade from my uncle. That was in 1986. Nice to have it done finally. My first car to drive in high school was a 74 chevelle. Very nice car, my grandpa bought it new and it was handed down to me in 88. I had the body redone and new paint when I turned 16. Just sold it a few yrs back cuz I never drove it anymore.
 
'60 Chevy farm pickup for half a year until it blew in grand style then'70 Chevy pickup from the farm. It was the straightest one but Ochre and my brother didn't like the color so I got it. Then I had a 750 Honda I paid little money for and ripped the fairing and bags off of.
Then senior year had my '69 Nova

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Winters were rough and I didn't want to take either out so my parents sold me their '80 mercury station wagon. Great parts runner I almost went to college in that thing LOL
 
I got my first car when i was 15 (1975) I spotted it at a local dodge dealership with a sticker price of 199.00 It was a 1963 impala ss black with red int.buckets 52,000 miles on it I just had to have it man I had some good times in it wish I still had it
 
Being from Idaho where you could get a licsense at 14.

1st car at age 14, was a 1968 Dodge 100 with a 318 that burned the oil as fast as the gas, paid $200.00 and worked it off at the neighbors farm

2nd car bought in 1988, 1956 Chevy 210, put a 327 out of a vette in, camel back heads, big cam bored over, etc. Munice 4 speed and Ford 9 inch. Total investment $3200.00. Very nice and fast. Sold in 1993 cause I was love struck and dumb. Don't care where the girl is but I wish I still had this car!

3rd, owned at same time as the others not driven much, 1971 Buick Skylark with the aluminum block 350, traded the Dodge for it. I guess I actually still own this one, technically, but I don't know where it is anymore.

4th 1955 GMC with a 400 Pontiac and the big rear window. Paid $1200 for it. Took it apart and then the parents sold the farm. Sold it years later in pieces for $3000

Thats it for high school
 

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