What did you drive in High School?

[crowMAW]

[Skuzzy]

Originally posted by Airscrew
Hey, you're not going to bring up that "toe jam in your keyboard" excuse again are you?

Only if it scares you.  

[nirvana]

I am spoiled, I should be happy to have a car that runs.  I hear you guys when you say cars used to be so easy to work on, damn near need a lap top these days.  Most everything is computer controlled.  It's a shame, but that's life.  By the way I was a little wrong on the POS part, it was only a POS the first month after I got my license, then it was check engine light every week or 2 weeks.  $5,000 car so it's not horrible.

Catch this: Girl in my alegrba class got an 8 series BMW for her first car.  Now I don't look so spoiled do I?


Oh and i'm hoping to rebuild an older Camaro or Mustang in a few years with my step dad.  Money will be tight for a few years so have to start saving money right now.  Heard a Chevelle revving up one day when I getting carts at work, one of the greatest sounds ever, rice rockets got nothing on that, as we all know.

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Only if it scares you.  

As FDR as been much quoted as saying
"We have nothing to fear, except fear itself; and Skuzzy's toe jam"

[Octavius]

87 cutlass ciera, baaaaad assssss

[Flatbar]

'61 Volkswagon
'57 Chev 2-Door Coupe
'64 Malibu SS
'69 GTO

Graduated '71

[Russian]

Either that or my legs...

[texace]

1986 Honda Prelude 2.0Si

[MoeRon]

nuff said...

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Shifty
I graduated in 1977. My first car I purchased my sophmore year was a 1967 Falcon, which I got for $600.00. My senior year I bought a 1967 Mustang , with a 289. I paid $900.00 for it.  I look back on those days , and wonder how I had time to do anything. Being a student , playing football, which in Plano Texas in the 70's bordered on a fulltime job. I worked at a burger joint, also worked for my fathers construction company on weekends and in the summer. Plus  I worked partime for the local funeral home.

I was never short on money. Wish I could say that now.

My cousins lived in Plano and I think one of them graduated in 77... another in 79.

I had one of these...


1968 International Travelall. Mine had the same stripe on the side but it had a black top.

[Furball]

[weaselsan]

Graduated in 1961 had a 1954 hudson straight eight, painted with a paint brush. I once used tin beer cans cut to size and formed into main bearings...lol they worked until I got enough for the real ones.

[nirvana]

Furball you bastage, I would kil for a Mini Cooper.  That is if I could even fit in one, 6 foot 2 and still growing, the new ones are really cramped for me.

[Mister ED]

I quit school in December, got a GED, and wnet to Vietnam, seemd like the thing to do.

I had a 53 Chev Highboy, but I gave it away to a bud.

[lazs2]

Had a 50 Austin with a Kaiser continental flathead 6 and plymouth tranny and rear.. it ran in the 16's I had to have a freind tow it to the drags cause I was 14 at the time.  

traded it for a 38 chevy coupe with black naugahyde interior and a bright yellow paint job but it was pretty slow so..

Traded for a 47 chevy coupe with a 394 olds and 4 speed B&M full manual hydro in it...

Traded that for a 57 chevy 150 business coupe that I dumped a tri power 371 olds motor with shaved heads and a 3 speed then later a T10 four speed... the car ran in the 13's when I could keep from blowing the weak early chevy rear end up.

I had 2 triumph 40 inchers and a BSA lightning for bikes.   Didn't have much money so all of this stuff was pretty cheaply done. but I did work in a machine shop in the summer and that helped.

last year I bought a 58 Healey100 6 that was a major purchase... paid $450 bucks for it but.... had to have it.   Stock six was good enough to cirp the skinny meats in 3 rd and tear all the spokes out of the rear wire wheels too.

I lived a mile from Fremont Drag strip for most of my high school years.

lazs