What did you drive? Here was my main car:



Here is what I have now. I bought it from my friend who drove it in high school:

I don't see anything....

Weird.

Remember the Stephen King movie Christine? I had one of those

Freshman-sophomore years it was a twin to this one. Minus the mud flaps.




Junior-senior it was a couple different used reg cab F150's.

Mine was like this, a white 1970 Torino gt with a 351/Cleveland.

It was blue when I got it, it was my first project. Painted white with single stage dupont centari.

Mine had keystone classic wheels on it.

1974 Z-28, 350 CID, 4-barrel, 4-speed. Fast, rough, and thirsty.

Sweet!

A Kelly Green 1968 Mercury Cougar. It had a souped up 302 and a Hurst 3 speed manual. That thing was fast. Shag carpet in the dash and on the floor with an 8 Track player for tunes. The interior lights were painted red so if you left them on when you were driving at night the interior kinda glowed.

Dan

We were not in that much of an affluent community. Probably less than 6 kids drove a car to high school out of a class of about 120 seniors.
Our family as4 kids, and we only had one car for the family.

Me being the youngest, it was a rare occasion that I got the car on a Friday or Saturday night. Even at that it was a 52 Chevy station wagon

When I was 18, I bought this 97 Ram Van.

I know where there's a burnt orange one sitting. I believe it belonged to the guy's mother who bought it new.

A Jeep CJ-7. Rolled and totalled it halfway through my first year of college. Replaced it with a CJ-5.

Just out of school I had one of these with the 429CJ and 4 speed, fun car and wish I still had it!

pic of a pic......senior year....'68 Dodge Dart GTS 340 4 speed

Rag top no less...bought it in '69 for $2400 w/21K miles...

OMG..wish I still had it..........

I had a sweet ass 1981 amc concord. Before you laugh...it was a 4 door so there! Oh yeah, and it was a wagon. Don't you worry though, it only burned a quart of oil every 40 miles. And just to make you really jealous...it had a roof rack. Yep! A chrome one!

'79 Trans AM. Same color as this one. Had T-Tops, loved that car. Lot of fun was had in that car.

I went to high school that the bus didn't run to where I lived. Got my license in January of my freshman year (you could get a license then at 15) and drove every day from then on.

In senior year I only needed 4 hours of whatever and 1 hour of english (they let you go half days back then as a senior). I took 4 hours of auto mechanics in the morning then an english class. LOTS of fun. I got to leave 1/2 the time to go pick up parts or whatever. We built a Super Gas legal '67 Chevelle with a 396. LOTS of fun. I helped on the engine build and did the sheetmetal work on the interior. We had other guys who did the body work and paint etc..LOTS of fun lol.

79 Chevy Custom Deluxe(yeah right), I-6, 3 on the tree
and
71 MACH I

Damn, I wish I could post pictures.

My car was a 72 Chevy Nova SS. It was actually a real SS, not a regular Nova with the SS emblem. It was Fire Engine Red with an original black vinyl top. It had a Muncie 4 speed, factory in dash tach, and the gauges were in the console, in front of the shifter. It had a 350, four bolt main with a 3.73 rear end. I sure miss that car. We will be restoring my wife's 68 Camaro in the next few years, so that will be fun!

My very first car as a 16 year old.. 85 Chrysler Laser...



My first 4 wheel drive when I gradgeeated...

First was a 1500 series 1956 Chevy PU, 283 manual 3 speed. Upgraded to a 1964 Lemans 326HO 2 speed slip and slide. Upgraded it with a turbo 400, still didn't do big enough smoke shows, dropped in a 389 4 bbl and it was a great improvement.

My current main old car is a 1970-440 Cuda that a good friend in Sacramento had as his highschool car, we both graduated in 1977. It still has the 1977 Imron metalflake black, Candy cherry red pearl paint. It looks a lot like Cameleon paint when in the sun.

Allen

My high school wet dream car was a 1970 Dodge Charger 440 6 pack which I owned after 36 easy payments, but I drove a 1968 Chevy C10 with a 4 spd and a 250 inline 6. The Dodge taught me about what you should not do as a young dumb azz kid. Sold The car with about 30 K miles when I got married. My wife used to ask me about a mid life crisis car about 20 years ago , keep telling her I already had mine Russ

No pics of mine, but my first car was a 72 Dodge Polara. I totaled it the beginning of my senior year.





I then got a 69 Chevelle Malibu

'71 Dodge Demon, 340 4 speed. Factory twin hood scoops and rear spoiler.
That is one of two cars I wish I'd never gotten rid of. The other, after high school, was a '71 Plymouth 'Cuda, 383 with a shaker hood.

I had the same car. 1968 Cougar XR7 with 302 and automatic. It was gold with a white top but painted it dark metalic brown with white top. Some good times. I paid $500 bucks

My brother and I had a 1963 Plymouth station wagon that was bought surplus from the US Soil and Water Conservation Dept. It had a slant six, three on the column, no A/C, no power steering, no power brakes, no back seat and no radio, but it ran. A $50.00 paint job and a back seat from the junk yard and we were good to go.

A buddy of mine had a late 60s Cougar and what a beautiful car it was. His old man was the best body man in town. He told us that he was having it painted gray and we thought that was a disaster........ until we saw it. Wow, was it beautiful!

For a short time I had a 1968 XR7. 302 auto. It was red and all stock.

I went to my older sisters house one day when I was a sophomore in high school. One of these with a 396 and 4 spd was sitting in her garage. It was a friends, and it was for sale. Absolutely MINT! Hugger orange with white stripes IIRC. $4000.

First was a 62 country sedan station wagon,man could it haul beer!

Then a 64 Comet and the last in school was a 69 Mustang.
It was a California car with a 302 and a 3 speed,with enough smog equipment for 3 more cars.

I've got an ex wife like that....

whose name happens to be Christine...

Maybe Stephen King knew her before I did, and used her as the inspiration for the movie...

Car? You gotta be kidding! One vehicle in the family and my Dad stayed after work so I could ride home with him after football practice and I have walked home...12 miles! No...not through snow...but on occasion a damn big thunderstorm! Kids in high school didn't have cars! Here was my 'car' every day:

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Wasn't any running around on the bus while enroute either and it was as quiet as a church mouse or....if you chose to holler and try raising hell...you got your azz put off the bus!

My first car was a 62 Pontiac Tempest my mom bought me and had me pay the $300 for it... it belonged to an Airman 2nd Class who worked in her office at the Pentagon and he got orders for Vietnam....so he had to unload it quick...

It was red and the paint was all faded and oxidized... It looked like crap.... she hands me the keys and tell me to take it for a spin.... Adding it was "real peppy for a 6 cylinder"....

So I drove it up the road, and as soon as I was out of sight from home, and hit a stop sign, I decided to see how peppy it was...



I floored it, and it went in any direction but straight... and I burnt a couple thousand miles worth of wear off the snow tires on the rear....I popped the hood on the little buzzard...

No inner fender wells, big asssed radiator.. yet the entire engine bay was FULL....air cleaner was inscribed Pontiac 421 Tri Power....What I wished it was going to look like...



note that 421 emblem on the left front fender...







Guy who owned it was setting it up to drag race it, and got his orders for Vietnam... so felt he'd better not tell my mom what was really under the hood...

Word got back to her a month or so later... and she immediately pulled the keys and sold it to someone else in her office...

but that sure was one hell of a fun 30 days or so...

after that was a couple of VWs....

but I got tossed the keys for about 2 months on a car one of her friends had bought when going thru tough times...because it was a "gas hog"... mom let her use her car, and she took my VW...

Previously government owned 57 Caddy Fleetwood Limo...3 doors down each side... shiney black, had some bullet holes in the back fender some kids had shot in it... Looked like a real Mafia Mobile...

Thing had like a 50 gallon fuel tank, automatic EVERYTHING...

lift the hood the air cleaner was the size of a garbage can lid... housing 2 Four Barrels.. probably the biggest made in 1957.. and I am sure the engine was the biggest thing GM made for Cadillac that year also...

Tires were huge....you could get it up to 120, let off the gas pedal and it would slow down to about 90 and then without touching anything, it would start slowly climbing back up picking up speed...

could load it up with about 20 plus high school kids...

that was a fun 60 days or so also...but as soon as her friend got a job, there went the keys to the Caddy... and I'm back in a darn VW once again....

Minus the white walls this is the same, 3 on the tree 6 cyclinder

'64 Malibu and then a '67 Firebird

If it's rockin'.......

1964 Ford.

My first car I bought from my gradfather the summer before my sophomore year in college. Very similar to this '66, but mine was a 1967 Fairlane in the same Pebble Beige.

Had my sights on a pick up as long as I could remember so I saved up and bough a 70 Ford XLT Ranger (F100.) It only had 15,000 on it but had the dog of a 360 engine under the hood. Didn't want to pull my boat so well.

My mom's Mercury Monteray(land boat!) had a 390 in it so I did what any red-blodded teenager woud do... swapped them out one weekend when she was away. Was a perfect fit.

She seemed suprised when she found out (30 years later.) She had always maintained that "My Mercury seems to be running rather slow for some reason..."

If you'd have rolled up against the 1970 1/2 version you'd know the guts were long gone out of that engine by 1974.

Seafire, I really enjoy reading some other Camper's stories, and you're one of 'em.
Cheers!

Or, the bus driver stopped and gave you a spanking, in front of all the other kids. Then he told your parents and Dad would give you another spanking for 'cutting up' on the bus.

BTDT

Yep, and the boys sat on one side, girls and the other. No talking. There were three or four "rich" kids that had their own car. On a special day you might be allowed to take the family car to school.

Lived 20 miles from town as a youngster. Never got to drive to school. ALWAYS rode the school bus. Got my first ride at 17. Bought and paid for on my own. 1983 Toyota single cab pickup. Was a great little truck, but I didn't get to drive it to school...

Mine was the same color, but black interior. 283 and a 4 speed.

I had finished my second year of college before I had a car. I ran out of money and had to drop out a while, so after finding a job I bought my first, a Triumph GT6.

1963 International Scout.

I had a 1970 Gt6. It was the neatest car I ever had that didn't work worth poop....Evil handling on fast sweepers, once the suspension was overwhelmed. Little sucker would step right out. Of course, it had to run, before that happened. Probably a safety feature...

Same here, ran out of money (school loans were almost unheard of back then), dropped out of school, got a job, and bought my first car. '67 Impala fastback, 327, powerglide. The motor had been worked on, by the previous owner and was scary fast, on the top end. If you put it in low and floored it, the valves floated at 93 mph.

I had one of those during junior year. Gawd awful ugliest tank they ever put on this planet. That set of heater controls on the firewall was a real adventure too. It had posi front and rear, and that danged thing could just about climb a telephone pole.

Had an '80 AMC Eagle with that Pontiac 230 straight 6 in it. Everyone withing 100 yards of me when I was rolling got a free lube job weather they wanted it or not. I liked the concept of a 4 wd wagon that had a little ground clearance, but the thing was just a piece of junk.

I bought a 1966 Chevy II 2dr coupe when I was 15. Dad and I worked on it swapping out the complete drivetrain doing the body work. Made it tame with a 307, auto, and 10bolt 3.08 rear. Fun project.
Bought a 1968 Chevy II SS when I was a senior - LT1 350, 4spd, 12 bolt 4.11s. That thing would run. Sold'em both to get thru college.

My brother had a 69 Nova with the LT-1 350 in it. All built up. I think he actually broke even on that one as he won a couple pink slips when the cops in Youngstown went on strike. They gathered on South Avenue, or maybe it was Market Street and ran traffic light to traffic light. He took out an AMX and a 340 Duster. Remember him coming home that night with his buddies driving those two cars. We had to clean out a spot in the driveway until he sold them.

68 fastback, paid 800 for it... traded it in for a new honda civic in 76... dumb chit we do.

Still have mine ...since 1978.

Car, you must be joking , i walked every place i went. Unless someone picked me up and gave me a lift

Obviously not the car as mine was covered in rust and the green seems nice on this one. It was a throw away car that was for driving into NYC that someone gave me.



It was supposed to be one of these:


My brother went and looked at it for me. $300 after an engine fire. He came home and said "I have good news and bad news...I bought the car, but I bought it for me..."

He still has it.

Growing up in the 60's with a lot of brothers there were a lot of cool cars that came and went. If only one of us had the foresight to save a few more. The 60's muscle were cheap in the 70's for sure.

Never seen the use of a car, but that day may still come.

77 chevy half ton, 4x4 we called the grey ghost. Ya know the CB craze was in and we all had to have handles...

Just junked that truck out about 10 years ago, rust finally had gotten it too bad and needed the 350 for a better project... an airboat engine...

Have a nice 51 Dodge truck in the barn though... maybe one of these days we can rework it. Would be nice.

Drive an explorer now, since the wife bought an FJ and gave the explorer to me, that allows my F350 to sit and only run it as needed, generally to tow boats and trailers and the like.

My first one was a real piece of crap. 1980 Pontiac LeMans - $500. Similar to this one but with a brown top:



After 6 months, I sold it and got an '77 just like this:



A little while later, I got a '70 C10 like this:



Next up was an '82 just like this one:



Then, in my senior year, I broke down and bought one like this except with t-tops off the showroom floor:



Insurance and car payments were killing me so 6 months later I sold it and bought an '89 like this:



I went through a lot of cars.

Only shot I have of mine.



Mike

My first car was the inherited 63' Chevy II station wagon. The first vehicle I bought was a 66' Dodge 1/2 ton step side that came from some old guy in your neck of Fayette county, Jeff! $500!

No 4 wheel motor vehicle in high school but did put together a little money from my part time job and bought a used motorcycle.

Late '50's 175cc NSU Maxi.

First 4 wheel motor vehicle came a couple of years later, a used 1955 Chevy, 2dr hardtop, white over green, 6cyl, Powerglide.

1960 V-W

I had a rotation of 4 $50-100 beaters...Started with a blue 78 Mustang II 4cyl, picked up a Red one just like it for parts the after I blew out the trans then just drove the parts car. When that started to fall apart, I picked up a '76 Plymouth Fury(basically just an excuse to get a V8) car was a tank, but I sold that one for twice what I paid for it and got a '82 Chevette. After the transmission FELL OFF the chevette, I scrapped it and cobbled the red Mustang together with parts from the blue one. That pretty much covers High School...

My older brother and I shared a burnt orange, 1973 Dodge Powerwagon. We drove to school together. We always had a 22 and a shotgun in it, along with our trapping stuff in the winter. It would not go over 50 mph w/o shaking your kidneys out, but it could anywhere you wanted. Tough truck!

I had a '70 Cuda Convertible. Sold that car in '82 cause I was getting married and needed a truck. What a dumbass I was..

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Had a '65 Barracuda in highscool. Sold it just before graduation, and bought a '66 Bronco with a built up 289.

Virgil B.

Well, you younger guys had some really nice rides compared to what I could get/afford - I'm impressed. Don't have a photo of my HS car (I didn't even have a camera in HS) but it was a not-as-nice version of this.

Along with that Cuda I had an old beater 56 chev 2 door hardtop.

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a good friend of mine is putting a 350 in a 68 vw beetle for his 16 yrs old grandson now.

Then...



Now...

People's "memories" in threads like this always seem to include certain engines in cars in which they did not come, in model years before the debut of said engine.

It's the automotive version of the BS stories you hear in the gun shop.

well she finally gave up the ghost at 290,000 mi. I had the same motor as the eagle though. this one was 2wd. we had the eagle as well but it was a lot more work to get roadworthy.

Mine looked like this:

A cousins boyfriend and now husband of about 40+ years had a '47 Chevy that looked pretty much identical to the one in the picture, same color too. IIRC, his had a custom two toned Naugahyde interior, as well as a few other custom modifications.

There were some tough old trucks out there... saw a 70 ford just while ago driving through town. Thinking, yep, probably outlive new vehicles too...

Thankfully I never lived where there were any of those, and after riding a few in the Baltimore/DC area on a long weekend I pray I never live anywhere or have to live anywhere congested enough that makes those things make sense.

Who says "they sure ain't making them like they use-to"?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lega...y-Classic-Trucks/171970266178836?fref=nf

http://www.legacyclassictruck.com/

sadly no pix and that's a shame as it had custom paint

'71 Dodge Charger, with a 383 in it.

twas black with black leather interior with a couple of angled white stripes on the front instead of the pinstriping as they came from the factory

had some starter issues, believed I replaced it twice.

once in front of gf's house that I wasn't supposed to be dating (according to her dad)

This was mine at graduation (1969): '57 Dodge Coronet, 2-door, 325 2 bbl, dual exhaust, push-button Torqueflite. Mine was cream body with a coral roof.


My brother's car was a '63 Galaxie convertible, white, 352 2-bbl with dual exhaust, bucket seats and automatic in the console.
Nice rides.

While in high school I bought my first car, a 1949 Ford 4-door sedan that had been lightly side-swiped down the passenger side, but ran good. Paid $65 for it.

Then I found a 1951 Ford Victoria 2-door hardtop with a beautiful body and interior, but a shot engine, for $150. So I swapped the '49 V-8 into the '51 and was stylin'.

Looked like these, except my Victoria was black with white top:

73 Galaixe 500 blue with white top 351w, 4door, no air, am radio. Put 275k on it,overhauled motor,put another265k and was still driving it to work when I lost it in the flood from Floyd in99.

Not my car, I don't have a photo, but found this on the net. Mine wasn't nearly this nice but was identical. A 1969 Firebird bought used in 1974. It had been hit, and rained on with the top down. I paid $500 for it. Dad knew a guy who fixed the dent and painted it for $200. Dad and I replaced the ruined carpet.

I wish I could have kept it, but gas prices doubled shortly after buying and it got 6-10 mpg. I had to work 2 hours each day just to pay for the gas to get to work and back with a typical high school job.

1972 Buick Electra 225 2 door (kinda). Bought it for $100. Had the 455 that got about 10 mpg when in tune, mine had a bad choke, and the exhaust was rotted off just below the exhaust manifold, so I think I got about 8 mpg.

I was told by my parents that they always knew when I was close to home because the dog would stand up and start wagging his tail when he heard the rumble of the car a few blocks off.

The hood had sprung up on a previous owner, and thus the springs were gone, so I had to muscle open the hood and prop it open with a baseball bat.

The 3/4 vinyl roof was rotted away and in tatters that wafted in the wind.

It was a two door, except the passenger side door opening mechanism was broken, so that door wouldn't open, thus it was a 1 door. I used Armorall liberally on the vinyl seat to allow dates to slide over easier to the passenger side after entering on the drivers side.

Nothing will throw fear into a fathers heart faster than seeing his little princess slide across the seat of such a car, and hearing us rumble away.

When I first bought it, the blower motor for the heater didn't work, so you only got a bit of heat. (Later I had a shadetree mechanic wire a toggle switch into the blower motor, so I had either no fan or the fan on high.)

The rubber strip between the front and rear window on the drivers side was missing, so it allowed a nice amount of fresh air in. A buddy of mine who I picked up on my way to school decided it was better to wait outside for the bus in a Wisconsin January--because he eventually got into a warm bus, than it was to ride all the way to school with me.

Raced a friend of mine once, he had his late 70s Firebird with a smallblock he and his father built as a hotrod project. I won, which really pissed him off.

Sadly, I never bothered to take a photo of it.

I had a Ford Galaxy 500, which I had to share with my older sister. I have no idea what year it was---late 60s. It was a nice car till I ran into it with a front end loader loaded with hay bales. Dented up the right rear quarter panel quite nicely.

I had a 1968 Coupe with a 351 Windsor.Far from stock. I lost my license in that car. I wish I still had it. I sold it to pay the fines to get my license back.

One just like this, wish I still had it. Flat head six W/3 on the tree.

I was even practical way back then in high school. But Dad let me have the family 1959 Oldsmobile on date night.

1947 Ford

'72 Toyota Corolla, the "Babe Magnet", not!
I was cheap even then.

Had a 69 Camaro, 327, Fathom Green, ordered from the factory.

Just like the one in the limber dick's Viagra commercial of him driving one in the desert and apparently both run hot and they share a liter of water and drive off.

My car was identical almost.

1967 chevy step side truck. Still have it but its rough. Gonna start restoration soon but will have to postpone for a while as I got 6700 dollars worth of doctor bills, washing machine went out and heat pump all in a 5 day period. Damn I would love to catch a break someday!

She's rough but she has factory air, power brakes and power steering. Rare in 67. Gonna find a fleet side and can the step bed.

1979 ford bronco, ranger XLT package. 400M, C6, AC, tilt, cruise, all the bells and whistles, came with almost every option available minus the GT steering wheel, CB radio, and a console. Wimbledon white and dark jade metallic two tone.
I canned all the smog nonsense and replaced the intake and carb with Edelbrock goodies. As well as dual exhaust with the shortest glass pack mufflers I could find. Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels and 33x12.50 mud grips.

Great old truck, sounded good, ran good, and looked good. Usually jerked the top off and cleared a parking spot in the barn right after Easter every spring since it would be warm enough to be able to stand driving around topless. Lots of good memories of cruising around on weekend nights with Deep Purple cranking out of the 8 track player.
Not mine but identical with the exception that the exhaust was routed in front of the rear tires with chrome down spouts.

Looked like this one.

Bought this one during my senior year and still have it.




Current condition

Mine was similar to this one:

1969 plum crazy purple charger with a 440 and 727 torque flight trans. I Acquired too many tickets so my folks made me sell it after about a year.
Next up was a 65 Mustang A code. Black with red interior, 289 4V and 4 speed toploader. Not near as fast as the Charger, but it still attracted the attention of the cops.

1972 Matador with 304 and 4 br Holly

I saw old boy, believe it was an Allison, drive a Matador at Daytona that year..

Hell no it wasn't.. It was Dave Marcis in 1973.

That is a nice looking truck. Have you still got it?

'63 Scout 1/2 cab. Then a '68 Scout full cab. 1/2 was tan, white cab, small 4 cyl, 3 speed - '68 was big 4 cyl 3 speed and Mogen David purple.
First I bought was a '52 Chevy Powerglide Deluxe with 235, visor, and skirts!

I started with '68 Dodge Polara 2 door with a 318. Nothing fancy, but I liked it. After a couple of years I sold it and got a '73 Buick Limited 225 4 door. That was okay in a way, but I liked the Dodge better.

I drove a 1957 Ford Station Wagon in High School. Fold those seats down, it was a party-mobile.

1969 C-10, 1/2 ton Chevy truck. Straight 6 (250 CI), three on the tree and a 4.10 rear gear. Baby blue with the white top.

Wished I still had today.

Similar to this but not in as nice condition. 1949 Ford F-1 with flathead 6 and 3 speed transmission.

I had one of these too!! Straight 6, NO ps or pb. If you rolled up the windows, locked the door the cat could EASILY get out!! Paid 200 bucks for it, had more fun in that car than any other

I had one of these to in "Solor Gold" with 6.6. Pretty fast for its day.

the one I really wish I still had........

'70 Cuda w/440 six pack...auto..4.10 gears...shaker hood..

bought from original owner for $1400......I would give my left nut

to have it back.....sorry no pics...only memories.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRLwHECHjYA

Dream car. How could you ever sell it?

was a dumb azz kid............

it was black.........OMG.......

LMAO!!

No, I kept it in good condition for several years, but later could not justify a major overhaul and sold it to a local vehicle restoration shop. The shop eventually sold it to a person in Tehachapi, Ca.

My Dream Car. Dad had 67 427 4sp convertible that he sold before he went to Nam. It was before I was thought of. He had pictures and it was beauty. Always liked the 66 and 67 Fairlanes.

My first car was a truck. 69 F250 360 4spd 2wd brakes worked part of the time. Learned not to fly up to stop signs with that one. A few months later I got a 77 Dodge Monaco 318 2b paid $125.00 for it with a bad trans. Guys that sold it me had a pile of the old 904 transmission he said I know 1 of them is good I just dont know which one. It was the fifth one. I could pull and replace trannys in that car in my sleep.

Yay for another '49 Ford.

Peterson Motors in Storm Lake had a Dodge Coronet Six-Pack on the showroom floor for quite some time. One day it was gone. The next day it was on the used lot. The owner-in-brief had the misfortune of choosing a section of highway being patrolled by the Iowa Highway Patrol's airplance for a race against a Mustang. Not sure what hit he took in depreciation.

I had a Plum Crazy 1970 Charger with a black vinyl top (my friend, Joe, called it the purple pimp mobile) - just a 318. The paint on the hood completely peeled off. Dodge was generous enough to provide the paint to have it redone if I paid for the paint job.

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.

Flyer

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.