High School Cars

[markem]

I started college with a '70 Chevy Impala with a bored out engine. Later, I bought a '76 Ford Maverick that I kept until 1993.

[kayak_rat]

Originally Posted by vstrommark

I started college with a '70 Chevy Impala with a bored out engine. Later, I bought a '76 Ford Maverick that I kept until 1993.

My dad and I had a 72 Impala drop top. Was a blast to rebuild. Blew the engine at a drag strip when I was 10. We did some research and found a 454 out of an old trooper car. Put it in drove it for a month.......two tickets later my dad sold it.

[Sailchaser]

My first car was a brown 67 VW bug that I bought for $75.00 bucks from the neighbor accross the street. It came with a second engine and I could change that sucker out in about 3 hours.I ran that car home from school one day about 12 miles on 3 spark plugs no problem at all except for not being able to drive over 40 mph. I kept that car for 2 years and sold it for $250.00 bucks to a guy from school. He drove it for another 3 years and sold it again. Best darn car I ever owned

[Cigarcop]

Originally Posted by Sailchaser

My first car was a brown 67 VW bug that I bought for $75.00 bucks from the neighbor accross the street. It came with a second engine and I could change that sucker out in about 3 hours.I ran that car home from school one day about 12 miles on 3 spark plugs no problem at all except for not being able to drive over 40 mph. I kept that car for 2 years and sold it for $250.00 bucks to a guy from school. He drove it for another 3 years and sold it again. Best darn car I ever owned

When we were in Mexico last year I couldn't believe how many of those bugs were on the roads there...I mean it was like everyone had one

[stevefrench]

My high school cars were a 67 Malibu and a 71 Impala.

[Snake Hips]

My high school ride was a silver 1994 Mazda B4000. Rear wheel drive with 4x4 and a 6-cylinder on a 4-cylinder platform. Thing rocks in the snow.

My college ride is the same sturdy little truck.

This, but silver and minus the man-cab and the chrome on the front bumper:

[acarr]

65 Chevy Impala

1988 Dodge Ram D50


bench seat for all the good times. 2.8L 4 cylinder 5 speed. pretty quick on the get up for a little truck. my dad bought it new off the lot in 1988, I was playing in the sandbox in the yard when he brought it home. it had 270K miles on it when I got it in 2001, and had 320K miles when I left for Italy. My brother drove it to 350K and my dad just sold it for 1 thousand dollars at 360K miles on it. The valves were starting to leak and the suspension needed an overhaul but it was a damn good truck. My dad really regrets selling it. The guy who bought it, dropped a new 4 banger in it and still drives it around our little town. Dad said he's thought about going and buying it back... lot of good memories of that truck.

[poker]

1970 Chevelle SS

Originally Posted by poker

1970 Chevelle SS

Nice.


First was a 72 Camaro then a 56 Willeys Jeep

[poker]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

Nice.

Hah! You must not have ever seen mine. It was butt ugly with 3 different colors of primer on it. The junkyards helped me keep it running though

[Skywalker]

A 1965 Ford Falcon!!! Piece O Crap!!!

[groogs]

I started my Softmore year with a 95 F-150, then I went to a 97 F-150. After my junior year I crashed my mothers car and my Dad took my truck away. I then saved up some money and finished my Senior year driving a jacked up 4X4 94 F-150. What can I say, I like Ford Trucks.

[theonlybear4CORT]

Originally Posted by groogs

I started my Softmore year with a 95 F-150, then I went to a 97 F-150. After my junior year I crashed my mothers car and my Dad took my truck away. I then saved up some money and finished my Senior year driving a jacked up 4X4 94 F-150. What can I say, I like Ford Trucks.

I like the way you think

[gettysburgfreak]

2004 Oldsmobile Alero

[Flatsix]

My Senior year, I bought a 55 Chevy 210 Delray very similar in color and look to the one in the picture. Mine had a front bumper. I wish I had it back!

[borndead1]

I had a 1978 Mercury Grand Marquis, nicknamed "The Beast" (of course).

It was turd brown and gigantic. Had some power though, thanks to the 460 under the hood. I got voted "junkiest car" in my senior class.

Once my friends stole my car out of my driveway (I always left the keys in it). They took it to a garage and went nuts with paint. They painted one of the doors orange and put a black "01" on it like the Dukes of Hazard car, taped off the hood and painted it 2 different colors, stenciled "THE BEAST" in huge letters on the trunk, wrote MISFITS on the driver's side door and GARTH BROOKS SUCKS on the passenger's side door...


For some reason I got pulled over by the cops way more after that.

[Silound]

I wish I still had pictures of mine. I drove a 1977 Chevrolet C/K 10 pickup with the Bonanza package. It was one of the very limited released numbers (less than 10,000 made) that included a four bolt main 350ci V8 and an oversized heavy duty automatic transmission (these were standard on a basic 1-ton truck, and nearly unheard of for a mere 1/2 ton). Factory A/C, cruise control, manual locks and windows, and upright rectangular towing mirrors (the tall kind that attatched at three points on the door side). Two-tone rust and tan (color rust, not actual rust ) with the gold stripe trim and oversized bumper fenders. Aluminum hubcaps, whitewalls to the outside. Disc/drum (front/rear) brakes, and

The only things that we changed were new upholstery and carpet (old was pretty ratty) in 2004, an AM/FM/Cassette and back corner speakers that were from the '79 model, and shoulder seat belts, also from the '79 model which were all added in '80.

In 2004, with 600K miles, the engine finally gave out. After some cracked seals led to oil leakage, the number 1 & 2 rods stripped the camshaft and threw, causing the piston heads to sink and collect oil in the chamber above. Amazingly there was NO lip formed on the cylinder walls, so to fix it we only had to do a standard 30/1000ths re-bore. The hard part was a new camshaft which had to be custom ordered for the heavier engine.



Was a helluva good truck too.

[awsmith4]

My first car/truck was a 1992 Ford F-150 Flareside