[keekeeree]

Another car thread got me thinking about my high school days and the hell me and my friends used to raise in our cars. So, as a walk down memory lane, here they are (almost...examples found on Google):

My beast (still have it):


Friends' cars:

His was blue, and eventually sold it to another one of my friends:


He still has this, but I think it's sitting in a shelterbelt somewhere:


My brother's car:


His family bought him a new paint job for graduation...and he picked silver again:


We laugh about what my friend (rumored) had to do to get this car:


Only one of my friends' cars that could take me in the quarter-mile:


Except for this one actually my friend's dad's car, but I got to drive it once:

[ringo]

Nice! Well, nice except the last one (Never liked vettes)

My ride in high school, topped out at about 130 MPH on a back road one hot summer day.

Camaro, Rally Sport, 1978



Too bad it was such a cop magnet.

[Kitschy]

My first car in high school:

A 1984 Mercury Grand Marquis:

Bought at a junk yard for $800.

I really really miss it. Haven't had a nicer car yet.

[NoMoreBanning68]

GM garbage, and ugly fords.

BLech.

My old car would destroy you:



Muha.
I bought it when I was 16.

- Ca$h

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

My first car in high school - 1970 Audi 100LS (mine was white)



It was dog slow, and burned almost as much oil as it did gas.

Chicks dug it, though. Well, not really. Damn all you popular boys with your Camaros.

[NoMoreBanning68]

Originally posted by Worst. Episode. Ever.:
Chicks dug it, though. Well, not really. Damn all you popular boys with your Camaros.

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Your memory must be fuzzy. Chicks never dug camaros. Just guys with long hair.

- Ca$h

[keekeeree]

Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
GM garbage, and ugly fords.

BLech.

My old car would destroy you:

Muha.
I bought it when I was 16.

- Ca$h

Obviously I don't agree with you about the GM garbage, but no arguing with the ugly ford

Sweet ride though Ca$h. Seems like I remember you sold it off awhile back. Am I remembering correctly? And if so, do you mind me asking what you got for it?

[keekeeree]

Originally posted by Kitschy:
My first car in high school:

A 1984 Mercury Grand Marquis:

Bought at a junk yard for $800.

I really really miss it. Haven't had a nicer car yet.

Heh...I just bought one of those! Well, except mine is an '88, but it looks identical to the pic. The engine on my old car died on me a few weeks ago, and I needed cheap reliable transportation. Picked it up for $500. The engine is solid, a few small rust spots, but the interior is like new. And it rides like a dream. Very cushy

[D'Espice]

My first car:


1988 Ford Fiesta (yes, the so-called "rocket-Fiesta"), 1100ccm. Mine was red though

[Kitschy]

Originally posted by keekeeree:
Heh...I just bought one of those! Well, except mine is an '88, but it looks identical to the pic. The engine on my old car died on me a few weeks ago, and I needed cheap reliable transportation. Picked it up for $500. The engine is solid, a few small rust spots, but the interior is like new. And it rides like a dream. Very cushy

I'm jealous.

[keekeeree]

This was really the first car of my youth:



It was almost identical to this...a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with 383 Magnum. This was the family car believe it or not

Sometime in the mid-70's, my dad had problems with the original 383, so he had to have the engine replaced. My mom insisted that he get something not so powerful. He "agreed". Later on, she found out that he didn't go smaller...he had a 426 Hemi dropped in it That car would scream!

[Steve]

... what is that yellow car right behind the Challenger?

[NoMoreBanning68]

Detamaso Pantera (the yellow thing behind the challenger)

[NoMoreBanning68]

Awesome challenger. Of course... they have their own problems... like those plastic doors. Today any original plastic door looks bad. Wasn't chrsylers fault. It was the first use of a real plastic for an interior piece, instead of just 'vinyl'. Heh. Oh, and I bought the charger for $3000, probably spent 1500 trying to fix other peoples 'improvements', and I sold it last year for 3,000. It needed more time than I could give her.

- Ca$h

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

My folks had a sweet 1966 Impala when I was a kid.

I loved that car. I was pissed when my folks sold it in like 1978 for some pile o' crap 70's car.

Speaking of pile o' crap 70's cars, my own first car, was a 1972 Dodge Dart:

I bought it for $50 off a friend. I eventually sold it for scrap for a modest profit.



One of the first 'real' cars I had was a 1987 Subaru XT- an adventure in driving.

The only halfway cool thing was a sunroof. The weird hydralic system in that car was all fooked up and I never bothered to fix it- so half the time random wheels or sets of wheels would elevate to 4x4 height while the rest of the car was lowered- it's fun to drive never knowing what way the car will be tilted.

The shocks sucked so bad that I'd be experiencing a smooth ride in the driver's seat, while friends would be jostling around in the passenger seat hanging on for dear life. Eventually the transmission sprung a leak- it could go 3 days leaking tranny fluid everywhere before I had to refill it. Fixing all that crap (heck just the tranny alone) cost more than the car was worth, so I got rid of it and and bought a more 'real' car.

[NoMoreBanning68]

I think those XTs are pretty neat cars. The later turbo models had a bit of oomph, and they are pretty strange. The air suspension is also cool, when it works.

- Rob

[malvolio]

The first car I drove a lot was my family's 1962 Buick Special (we had a hardtop, though).


Later on, we had a Fiat 500 for a couple of years. I could raise its front wheels off the ground with one hand.


Then we got my favorite car of my teen years - a Toyota wagon with rear seats that folded down. Basically a bed on wheels.

[starman]

Mike

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Originally posted by NoMoreBanning68:
I think those XTs are pretty neat cars. The later turbo models had a bit of oomph, and they are pretty strange. The air suspension is also cool, when it works.

Actually it probably would have been a great car- had some idiot not driven the crap out of it. I bought it when it was only 3 years old at a police auction for a ridiculously cheap price for a (then) fairly late model car. That was my first clue. The first time I flipped the passenger side visor down, an AA handbook fell out- probably wedged there since someone first tried to run an intervention on the previous owner. That was my second clue.

Whoever owned it before me, beat the living crap out of it and probably got it impounded during some drunk driving escapade- hence I bought it and inherited all the fun added quirks.

[pooka]

Originally posted by keekeeree:
This was really the first car of my youth:

You're lucky someone didn't roll up in a wheelchair and punch you in the nuts.

[keekeeree]

Originally posted by starman:


Mike

Did it have the flux capacitor option installed?

[Sven G]

I'll never forget my childhood's Denmark years' Ford Taunus (beginning of the '70s): even today, it still looks rather cool - even if one of the coolest ones, in Europe, from those times ('70s/'80s) was the legendary "sport" car Ford Capri (IMHO)...

Here are some (appropriate) Danish specs, BTW - translate yourself...