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I drove a 1969 Buick Riviera with a 430 4BBL. It was like this photo, but was light metallic blue.

Nothing near as cool as most of you here...but I had a 1991 Dodge Spirit. It had the 3.0 V-6 and ran really well. I had it for about 2 years and put 38K miles on her. "Sold" it to my brother when I left for BMT for $1. He drove it a couple of years and then gave it to my cousin...She drove it for a few years and it finally gave up the ghost. 220,000 miles on it and it just lost oil pressure. Not too bad for having a few kids beating the slop out of it for a while.

Not High School but a year or so later I bought and drove my Grandfathers 49, Red with Black Fenders, rebuilt the brakes, electrical, was in rough shape, looking back almost 40 years wish I would have kept it.

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GF I had Senior year and into college had a 67 Pontiac Tempest. Man, that big old backseat was made for fun.

Not mine but I see it on the road from time to time.. Now here's a good ole boy that's a free thinker!

My first car, a '57 Buick Special like this one except mine was all black. The Buick was purchased after I figured out that riding in Chicago traffic in the snow wasn't fun on my main ride pictured below.

Couldn't find a pic of the car I was "allowed" to drive occasionally while in HS, so this will have to do . . . 1958 Pontiac Star Chief HT. Folks had one with just the opposite color scheme as this one (light green/dark green were opposite) . . . Oh, and it was a 4-door. Leather seats, 389 ci, 4 bbl and a 4-speed auto tranny and rear wheel fender skirts. It was a really sharp ride. A whole bunch of chrome inside and out. Fun to pull into the gas station (remember when they were full service?) and watch the attendant try to find where to put the nozzle in. Burned premium gas and got about 8 mpg. Lot of car for a youngster to handle but it was a lot of fun. I swear the hubcaps weighed over 20 pounds. AND one side had RH threads on the lugs an the other side was LH threads.



BTW - I didn't have a car until 2nd semester of my senior year in college, but it was a 2-door '57 Chevy 210.

No pics. 69' SuperBEE, 383 with 440 heads, Hooker headers, Edelbrock, Holley 750, 3/4 crane cam, etc. That was one chick, I mean ticket magnet.

According to a reference book I have, throughout 1968, '69, '70, and most of '71 all high performance 383 and 440 engines used the same head casting, with the same part number, and the same size valves.