What did you drive in High School ???

[fourrunner]

Ank teased us old guy's in a nice way ... but stumbled upon a good idea for a thread

What did you drive in High School ?

I drove three vehicles in my High School Career ... I got my liscense in 1966 at 16

1958 Buick Super .... White with Copper side panels ( My Dad's old car) drove it for a few short month's, I looked rediculous in it I was so skinny !

1966 Volkswagon Beetle - Bought Brand New for $ 1,850.00 including Radio......wrecked the "Bug" avoiding a dump truck (rolled it 4 times ) and then bought

1964 Triumph TR4-A (used) British Racing Green ... LOVED that car...
first class "Babe Magnet" Had it till after graduation couldn't afford the $ 125.00 repair cost for the new Bell Housing - I made $ 1.75 an hour part time in a restaurant while going to College .

What did or does everyone else drive in those formative years

in the mean time, I'll be dying my hair Blue ! ;)

High School was fun

[chop456]

'69 Pontiac Bonneville. 428 Firebird engine. :thumbup:
'81 Z-28 identical to this one:
http://www.uspcv.at/magazin/Camaro_Z28/image047.jpg
Stroked 383 and all performance parts. True mulletmobile :thumbup:
'83 Pontiac 6000 STE. Rear ended a mullet-piloted GTO and killed it. :thumdown:

[Don Quixote]

1965 Buick Wildcat, w/ 401 v8 and posi
What a heavy piece of american iron.
and my hair is not blue, it's bluish.

[racer2c]

My high school years were '82 thru '86.

My very first car was from my parents at 16. A '76 Chrysler Cordoba. 360cid, power windows, AC. I loved that car. Great on dates. I ended up wrapping it around the try on a snowing night.

In the '80's we could buy muscle cars from the '60s and 70's by the dozen.

My second car I bought myself for $300. A guy I knew wanted to buy a motorcycle and he had this old muscle car but he said the engine was blown because coolant would leak out as soon as you put it in and not from the radiator. I crawled under car and expected to see a rod sticking out of the block, but to my surprise, he had two freeze plugs that were rotted out. I made the deal, went to the local autp part store and in a few minutes I was driving home in my '69 Dodge Charger 440. I loved that car. It would smoke the tires as long as you held the pedal down. Nothing like a big block.

After I wrecked the Charger and sold it for parts, I picked up a small block '70 Dodge Challenger. Another car I loved. And watching Jackson Barret, it makes me sick to think how disposable they were to me at the time.

[Jervis Tetch 1]

I had one car in high school. A 1968 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was sort of a drab green like this --> :p .

My dad bought it for me for $200 my junior year of high school (1978-79 so now you know my real age). I nicknamed it the "Mean Green Machine" and had it for two years.

Like your first love (Theresa H.), you never forget your first car (but I had my car longer than I did my first love :gomer: ).

[Ziggy]

1970 Plymouth Belvedere. 383 Magnum four speed. Ordered by senior mechanic at local Chrysler dealership to fly under insurance radar screens. Car was a RoadRunner without the title. Big radiator, big suspension (front disc's) 8 3/4 suregrip spinning a 3:23 ratio, pistol grip four yanker. Eight inch rims with dogdish hubcaps. Car was a top end comet. Met more cops and judges than I care to admit too!

Wish I had this car, held onto it till after college. Since did research on it, as it was one of fiftythree built in this configuration. The great motorcycle accident of 1983 forced it's sale.

My other car, 1967 Chevy II (Nova) with a six cylinder three on the tree. Car was cherry, as it was very low miles. Sold it while going to school.

1979 Honda 400 bought new (my first ever loan)
1977 Margay European Road Racing Kart, with Mac 101 B
1966 Honda 160 Scrambler

Me and another guy had three flat track motorcycles and went AMA racing as well.

Not a rich kid, worked since I was a sophomore in highschool. The last thing on earth my parents wanted me to own was a motorcycle.

as usual, they were right!

no regrets

[pchall]

The first set of wheels I could call "mine" was a 64 Rambler 660 wagon I got from my great aunt. Dark brown with buff upholstery, three on the tree with some kind of mechanical overdrive engaged with clutch and a pull knob. Loved the completely flat laydown of the backseat -- lots of room back there. ;) Eight years old when I got it and still a great ride especially after getting better shocks and some radials at Sears.

Then I got a 69 Audi Super 90 and the pleasure of replacing the most of the front end on a regular basis. The Solex was warped and sucked in lots of extra air at idle when it was warmed up. Holley sold a Weber sourced replacement carb kit that fixed that. Nice but not up to the pounding it got on lousy American concrete interstates.

Those two rides got me through high school and college, after which I started a dubious flirtation with Renaults -- R17 Gordini, R5, and the Fuego 2.2l from hell, but those are another misadventure... ;)

[KLang]

Started driving in 76.

First was a 69 Cougar. Loved that car, but it only lasted about a month. :o

Next was a 73 Nova with headers and glasspacks. The neighbors could hear me coming from blocks away. Got pulled over one time and told by the cops I had the air shocks pumped up too high. :laugh:

Shortly after graduating I picked up a 74 Mazda RX4. Sweet car, same engine as the RX7. Surprised a few Camaros and Firebirds in that bad boy.

edit: Oh and no blue hair here, just plenty of gray. :cry:

[fourrunner]

This is great ...

You know your Car was a great way of Expressing yourself in High School ...

Once you had it, you could do all sorts of things to it to put "your stamp" on it

I added "tuned" Abarth Exhausts to the TR4-A ... also Small Pirelli Custom Steering wheel, Driving Lights, Wind Wings, and a beautiful Walnut Shift Knob ... Just enough ! It already had Wire Wheels with Aluminum knock off's....

But it sure was a conversation piece in the Parking lot ... Gave many a ride to curious friends .... I went from geek to "somewhat" cool overnight! ;)

[nrc]

An aqua '69 Mustang fastbask with a 302. Always loved that model.

Once it rusted into the ground I had a '76 Capri.

My first car that was actually titled to me was a '78 Fiesta, but I think that came after high school.

[Ankf00]

high school:
http://osh.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p1293395dt.jpg

college:
http://a712.g.akamai.net/7/712/225/1d/www.footlocker.com/images/products/zoom/34179506_z.jpg
http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2004/mountain/medium/4100.jpg

[Railbird]

I stayed in enough trouble to keep me from getting my liscense untill I was seventeen in '67.

Had my eye on a '57 Ford with a fourspeed and a 312 police inerceptor, my dad brought home a plain jane '58 Belair to block that move. 283 poweglide got wore out pretty quick.

The no hot rod rule was still in place so I bought my sister's 63 Monza and had "heavi-duty" shocks and Sears "sportcar special" tires installed. Terrorized the back roads and a couple gymkhanas until I graduated and got a real job instead of two half-assed ones.

Never was much of a streetcar fanatic, started building my first stockcar about the time I turned 19.

Highschool pretty much blew for me.

[Dave99]

high school:
http://www.trekbikes.com/images/bikes/2004/mountain/medium/4100.jpg
Oh, so you DO know how to ride a bike... just not on wet sand I guess. :p


Anyhoo, my high school car was a 1969 Volkswagon Squareback. Great economical transportation car to and from school and around town. Lots of room in back or in the front trunk to throw sports equipment or beach gear (back seat also folded down).

Tricked it out with the California Look (slightly lowered in front, Riviera wheels, aftermarket exhaust, etc) and then a Ford F-250 smashed into me on the 405 @ Woodruff! :mad:

[Michaelhatesfans]

1980 Pontiac Sunbird hatchback was my first car... :o
Then I got a '76 RS Camaro, had it painted in a solid color, then promptly drove it into the back of some woman who had the audacity to stop at a light. What the hell was she thinking??? You don't stop in front of 16 year old kids who are having fun with their friends. :shakehead



;)

[Ankf00]

Oh, so you DO know how to ride a bike... just not on wet sand I guess. :p


heh, it was DRY sand, and your bike's skinny tires suck. :p

[RTKar]

Nothing fancy, a green '72 Chevy Bel Aire.....it got me around.

[WickerBill]

http://www.allpar.com/images/side.jpg

Oh heck yeah. 1981 Dodge Omni 024. With louvers!!

WB

[Classic Apex]

1982 VW Scirocco, which died very quickly.

http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/gobbo/hg_foto/auto/auto_scirocco2.jpg

After that I pretty much commandeered my father's 1988 Blazer with the 4.3L in it (that thing had some grunt to it).

:D

[Ozarkian]

1965 Impala 2 door hardtop. Bright red, with a 327, 4 barrel, duals, and a Powerglide (30 years later, I can still feel that downshift at 55 ...). Great car that I didn't appreciate enough.

In college, I bought a 1973 Dodge Dart Sport, with a 340. Only kept it for a year, because, cost-wise, it ate me out of house and home and was unreliable (couldn't have been the way I drove it). But boy, when it ran good ...

And BTW, no blue hair, and not even a lot of gray. Yet. :D

[Brickman]

I avoided driving the parents 70' Biscayne, and the 73 ' Audi was in the shop all the time.

My wheels looked like this, I drove it in high school 30 years ago until a friend lost his life in one, along with his girlfriend. Someone ran a stop sign. I parked it after that. Then in the mid seventies we bought a new Accord and Toyota pickup. That was 8 Toyotas and 5 Hondas ago.

http://www.carsonline.com.au/742htm.jpg

[Sean O'Gorman]

http://members.cox.net/sogorman35/civic.jpg

1983 Honda Civic 1300 4-speed. My dad bought it for me for $600 and the paintjob was free, but it HAD to be yellow (not my choice). I bought it off him when I graduated and drove it for another year or so and then bought the MR2.

I still own this car, but it is pretty beat up (vandals in high school), and can't be driven right now (brakes and emissions). But I'm going to get it back to normal eventually, I like the car too much to ever get rid of it. :)

[racer2c]

http://members.cox.net/sogorman35/civic.jpg

1983 Honda Civic 1300 4-speed. My dad bought it for me for $600 and the paintjob was free, but it HAD to be yellow (not my choice). I bought it off him when I graduated and drove it for another year or so and then bought the MR2.

I still own this car, but it is pretty beat up (vandals in high school), and can't be driven right now (brakes and emissions). But I'm going to get it back to normal eventually, I like the car too much to ever get rid of it. :)

I remember you posting that on 7G. I had the same car but mine was brown. Looked like a, well you know. I did enjoy it though.

[JT265]

High school posed a problem. Transportation wasn't an issue as I could commandeer whatever was at the old man's shop. But how cool can you be in a garden variety Ford pickup? So the problem, was this: Go fast, pick up babes, and have $$$$ to spend on said babes.

The answer?


http://hondachopper.com/images/black_low2.jpg



This isn't the actual bike now, but a CB 750 with an 810 bore kit solved everything. The girls thought you were cool, the guys with the rides like Ziggy's were too quick to lay their cash down for a 1320' rumble and as long as you got enuff heat in the rear tire you would slaughter almost any car in a straight line (thus solving the afterschool job problem), and it was fast as hell.

And I lived to tell the tale too. :p

[manic mechanic]

First Car: a 1963 Buick Skylark with some body damage to the LR quarter where it had been clipped by a train. Bought it for $125 needing trans work, then spent $40 on a good used trans.

Had it been 100% straight, it would have looked like this:

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=%221963+Buick+Skylark%

Believe it or not, the body damage got me out of having my license pulled when I got my first speeding ticket (doing an indicated 118mph down the Banning grade). The CHP officer walked around the car shaking his head and wrote me for 82mph because no one would ever believe that car could go that fast. :laugh:

After that I had a '67 Firebird with a built 400/4spd, a '64 GTO with a 421/4spd, then a '70 Buick GS (my mom's old car).

Got into LOTS of trouble with the "big engine" cars...My parents weren't amused.

manic

[rosawendel]

1972 olds cutlass supreme squareback.

loved the car. had the rocket 350 under the hood, but dressed up like a mild-mannered two door. dark green with a white vinyl top.

i had the car through december of my first year in college when i had to sell it for the money. i sold it to a mechanic friend of my father's who had done some work on it. he put a new exhaust on it, and i thought i owed him 300 bucks on it. so when we agreed on a price, i said i'd knock the 300 bucks off to pay him back. only when i got home did my dad tell him that he had already paid the bill! i was so pissed.

eventually, i got my vindication, though. the mechanic had bought the car to give to his son for his 17th birthday (in new jersey you get your license at 17, at least you used to). the kid had it on the road for about 15 minutes, and he wrapped it around a telephone pole.

[dando]

'77 metalic light green T-bird that I bought off my 'rents. Used to 'borrow' it from my 'rents when I was 14/15 years old for some joy rides...until they found out, of course. ;) Boy, did that hurt. :( That 351 Windsor wasn't a bad engine, but the car was too darn heavy to haul @ss much (tho I tried, believe me).

http://www.thecarconnection.com/images/gallery/tmb/7744_image.jpg

-Kevin

[Turn7]

http://www.xtremedecals.com/pics/84-vf700.jpg

and

http://www.yearone.com/carshow/customercarimages/firebird/eckel/eckel1.jpg

[Cam]

1969 MarkII Ford Cortina L..... :p

[Rogue Leader]

I had an 89 Chevy Cavalier 4 door... Was the dad-mobile and he passed it on and bought a mini van. I cleaned it up really nice and painted it... but of course then the inevitable happened and I sold the car (for a tidy profit) and bought my first Trans Am... Its been an uphill battle ever since LOL

[pineapple]

Got to drive my Dad's 64 International pickup, Mom's 69 Olds 98, and my brother's 70 Monte Carlo. Didn't get my own car until college (Honda CVCC and then a Cutlass).

[Hard Driver]

Didn't own a car in high school. But I used to drive my parents:

http://www.americangranada.com/gallery/75_brochure-1.jpg

[Winston Wolfe]

Didn't own a car in high school. But I used to drive my parents:

http://www.americangranada.com/gallery/75_brochure-1.jpg


Dood, your Mom is HOT ! (In a "Lindsay Wagner - Bionic Woman" sort of way)

[CARTNUT]

First, I had a few of these:
http://www.nexternal.com/kittyhawk/images/skateboard1.jpg

Then I got one of these and crashed it!
http://c.davidjohnson.org/Cars/Images/Beatle1.jpg

Then I got one of these, it was fun!
http://toybox100.bizland.com/images/S/27161.jpg

NEVER took the bus!

[Rob]

I had to pay for my own car and gas, so cool was out and frugal was in. My first one was a 1982 Mercury LN7, a little two-seater based on the Ford Escort. After less than a year I traded it in on an '84 Cavalier Type 10 hatchback.

[cart7]

http://carnut.com/show/00/hay/hay034.jpg

My first, not the GT though. ;) Fuel economy around 25 mpg, oil usage economy around 80 mpq. :laugh: Kept a case of 30 weight in the rear.

http://www.cars-on-line.com/17000/69mach17005-A.JPG
My second. Not the SCJ. 4 speed. 351w, I had the louvered rear window. I kick myself daily for not still having this one. :cry:

[RaceGrrl]

nrc drove this chick magnet:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/mdcaldwell/chickmagnetcropped.jpg



I had to ride the bus to school, but it was preferable to driving either one of these two gems, owned by my parents:

http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1973_Oldsmobile_Custom_Cruiser.jpg


http://www.corvair.com/upload/images/65wass.jpg


I totalled the station wagon six months after I got my license, and my dad's Corvair was embarrassing to be seen in but it was fun to drive. The paint was completely oxidized from years of parking it outside at the papermill where he worked. The chemical fallout from the smokestacks just ate the paint.


This was the first car I bought on my own. The picture was taken in the infield at MidOhio in 1981.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/mdcaldwell/missyscarsmaller.jpg

[indyfan31]

10th grade: 1971 Yamaha AT2-125
11th and 12th: 1967 Mustang, it went from my brother, to my mom, to me; I still got it.

[nrc]

Ok people. I'm getting new car soon and therefore we must get rid of one of our three cars. You are not helping me by talking about how you still have or wish you still had your old cars. :)

[Spicoli]

:gomer: mom's car!

http://www.taunus-zodiac.ch/images/volare/volare049.jpg


Then i saved up a thousand and got a used 1970 Z:

http://www.camarohighway.com/images/2ndGen/70hz28rs3.JPG

:thumbup:

My first experiences with the ladies of my high school occurred in that sled. Senior year I sold it to a guy I knew in high School (I moved to Colorado for college - no car allowed) and the thing subsequently caught fire in the school parking lot 2 days after I sold it to him. Burned to the ground, damaged 2 other cars as well.

Sucka! :cry:

[IlliniRacer]

Spicoli -

My college roomate had a Volaire indentical to that. Did your's sputter and miss trying to climb hills also?

1980 Army Green Ford Fairmont. My friends and I called it the Fairmonster. One of my friends even did a spoof on the ZZ Top Eliminator Album cover with it. I need to see if I can find the original art work

[JLMannin]

www.adclassix.com/ads2/75fordpintoline.htm

I went to high school from '81 to '85. It was my mom and dad's car. Red hatchback.

[race chica]

So since im a "youngin" i got my moms 1990 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon when she got a 2001 Forester. When we sold it this summer it had over 200,000 miles and ran great. i just hated driving a silver car with enough rust on it to look orange so i bought a 2001 Chevy Prizim. I sometimes miss the "GumbyMoblie," named for the green guy that always rode around the mirror...but not that often.

[mexican]

1980 white chrysler lebaron 4 door, handed down (most certainly due to the fact that I had already "rubbed" it a couple of times while joyriding it and also on the first time I actually had permission to drive it)

used to scare the s**** out of everyone who saw me approach in it. apart from being banged up in various places and having the frame & bumpers warped, it had no hubcaps and the completed "look" matched to a T what the local criminal police (judiciales) would drive at the time. :D

[Dave99]

heh, it was DRY sand, and your bike's skinny tires suck. :p
Skinny tires on a mountain bike? I think not. I guess I didn't lower the seat enough for you. :gomer:

:D

[Ankf00]

Skinny tires on a mountain bike? I think not. I guess I didn't lower the seat enough for you. :gomer:

:D

you call that hunk o junk a mountain bike? Miss Daisy rode that bike! :gomer:

[Dave99]

Miss Daisy rode that bike! :gomer:
You got that right! :p

[Ankf00]

You got that right! :p :mad:

[Warlock!]

'75 Nova

[Wheel-Nut]

'78 Toyota Corona Wagon. Hand me down from my mom to my sister to my brother and me!! For some strange reason we couldn't keep an alignment on it!!

[Forza Lancia]

An aqua '69 Mustang fastbask with a 302. Always loved that model.

Once it rusted into the ground I had a '76 Capri.

My first car that was actually titled to me was a '78 Fiesta, but I think that came after high school.

My experience was similar (sort of...).

My high school years were 1975 - 1975, and I got my mother's cast-offs -- first, a 1966 Mustang convertible (but with a 6 -- it was my mother's car, after all...), then a 1973 Capri. (Judging from the model years, I must be three years older than nrc). Both cars were a lot of fun for a kid in high school.

[SAdair]

'79 Olds Delta 88, rear-wheel drive, V8

The thing was a land Yacht, but the V8 made it move. And I could pile atleast 10 people into it.

The car was two years younger that me. My mom sold it when I went to college. Then she and I scheemed my dad into buying me a 93 Cougar (rear-wheel drive V6). A couple of drives through snow storms to pick me up from college in Cleveland and he was buying me a car so I could drive myself. :D

[RacinM3]

Fisrt car: 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 2-door, white with a black vinyl top (that had peeled completely off, leaving the adhesive residue behind). It did have a 350 though. It also had an incurable (well, for a kid with no cash) alignment issue from too many meetings with curbs. Once, being a stupid kid, I backed up while a buddy had the passenger door open and bent the door back about 180 degrees on a tree. We just forced the door closed and tied it with rope. Seriously, the car shouldn't have been on the road.

Post high school, my second car was a 1968 BMW 2002, which I got for the smokin' price of $1,000. I then proceeded to dump $10,000 into it over the next 8 years. Sold it for $3,500, though!

After that, I bought my first M5, and there's been no looking back.

[Wheel-Nut]

My experience was similar (sort of...).

My high school years were 1975 - 1975, and I got my mother's cast-offs -- . . . . . . .

Dude, that's quite a career in High School. :thumbup:

[Turn7]

:D

[nrc]

My experience was similar (sort of...).

My high school years were 1975 - 1975, and I got my mother's cast-offs -- first, a 1966 Mustang convertible (but with a 6 -- it was my mother's car, after all...), then a 1973 Capri. (Judging from the model years, I must be three years older than nrc). Both cars were a lot of fun for a kid in high school.

Looks like three years and a few months according to your profile. :) The Mustang was technically dad's but he found one of his favorites, a 68 four door T-bird not long after and the Mustang was pretty much mine from then on. The Capri was intended to be my college car but it didn't hold up to the commute very well and I eventually wrecked it.

[Chief]

In 1974 my brother gave me a 1967 Datsun SPL-311 (1600). I restored it and drove it until the mid 1980's. Great car, great fun...unless you were parked with a date....at 6' 3" not much room to "work it", if you know what I mean! ;)

http://www.datsun.org/roadster/registry/IMAGES/0325.jpg

[racer2c]

Looks like three years and a few months according to your profile. :) The Mustang was technically dad's but he found one of his favorites, a 68 four door T-bird not long after and the Mustang was pretty much mine from then on. The Capri was intended to be my college car but it didn't hold up to the commute very well and I eventually wrecked it.

They made a four door T-bird!?! Ford was like "We need to make the T-bird even longer!" "I know!, add two more doors!" :D

Although I beleive the two door coupes ten years later were even longer!

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/ford/thunderbird-68m.jpg

http://78thunderbird.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/fd1978thunderbird01.jpg

[nrc]

They made a four door T-bird!?! Ford was like "We need to make the T-bird even longer!" "I know!, add two more doors!" :D
http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/ford/thunderbird-68m.jpg


Yep, and he replaced it with a mint green '71 four door like this '70.
http://www.albeedigital.com/supercoupe/images/70tbird.jpg

Note the suicide doors on both models. Maybe that's what I like about the RX8. :)

[Joelski]

I drove ;) a semi-pro YZ 250 MX bike with some sponsorship from moto-x fox (the name back in the day, now known as Fox). Unfortunately, Ohio law :gomer: frowns upon closed course machinery operating on the streets and so did my neighbors (at 3 am!) :eek: . Subsequently, I had now four wheel option unitl I attained the age of 20. :rolleyes:

[RichK]

High school from '81 until '85.

Started out borrowing my parents:

Rabbit Diesel (comic book guy says "Slowest. Car. EVER.") But it did get up on 2 wheels easily with my large friend in the passenger seat!

'76 Porsche 914. Awesome car for a high schooler. It had sheepskin seat covers, and a propensity for tossing the alternator belt when over-revved. With the mid-engine layout, getting that belt back on was almost impossible. I was racing an Alfa on Mulholland Drive in this car....I was in the wrong lane passing him (yeah!) when a Caddy pulled out of a driveway. At about 80mph, I scraped the whole side of the Porsche down the bumper of the Caddy....but lived to tell about it. My dad didn't kill me, but was probably planning it in his head. :laugh:

Then I bought a Baja Bug for $300 and spent the rest of high school tricking it out. Roof-mounted oil cooler, lifted it, new engine, big tires. It's where I learned VWs for my eventual Formula Vee obsession!

[cart7]

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/ford/thunderbird-68m.jpg

HeHe. I had one of these 2 cept it was a '69. :cool:

Had this massive power flow air circulation system that took up the whole back window deck. When you turned it on, you heard this noise as the vacuum acctuated duct flaps slowly opened and then the air got sucked out of your lungs. :rofl: Kiddin, I never understood the real reason for the contraption and it wasted rear deck space where extra 6X9's couldn've been mounted. :gomer:

[Anteater]

My wheels looked like this
http://www.carsonline.com.au/742htm.jpg

So did mine! '68 Beetle with automatic stickshift (it was my parents' car). That thing was fun to drive! I drove it for 11 years--finally sold it for reasons similar to yours, Brickman.

[spirit_of_99]

HS years for me were 90-94. Needless to say, in a snooty suburb where kids were driving Bimmers, my Silver '84 GTI was not the coolest:
http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/52/e6/e9_1_b.JPG

But it was a great car.

Senior year, I had saved up another $1500 or so, so I sold the GTI for an '86 MR2, very similar to this one:
http://www.chambf1.bravepages.com/auto/mr2.JPG

That MR2 taught me never to buy a car with signs of rust. Had a little patch right above the mudflaps when I bought it, by the time I sold it the thing had rust all over the place. It was pretty fun to drive though, except in the Chicago winters.

[Sean O'Gorman]

Senior year, I had saved up another $1500 or so, so I sold the GTI for an '86 MR2, very similar to this one:

Your picture isn't loading, so I'll post this pic from the MR2OC forum to help everyone see what a Mk. I MR2 looks like:

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/2051/signature6ag.jpg

:D

[oddlycalm]

I had to ride the bus to school, but it was preferable to driving either one of these two gems, owned by my parents: http://www.stationwagon.com/gallery/pictures/1973_Oldsmobile_Custom_Cruiser.jpgHey RaceGrrl, was it totaled because Navy pilots mistook it for an aircraft carrier and tried to land? :laugh: Seriously, that was a lot of car for a beginning driver.

You do know that the full size Olds Custom Cruiser wagon extremely rare, right? Not sought after, but rare indeed. No concrete production volumes remain for that model, but a good guess would be well under 1000 for the entire 71-76 run and maybe as few as 500 cars total. For US models, that's about a rare as an actual production model gets.

Rare or not, someone near me has one that appears identical to the one your folks owned that sitting out for sale down at the Grange hall parking lot for $1000 in excellent condition in what looks to be excellent original condition in case you'd like to relive that experience.... :eek:

oc

[Forza Lancia]

Dude, that's quite a career in High School. :thumbup:

Oops -- nothing like proof-reading. I did graduate in 1975, but it took a little longer than a year....

[RaceGrrl]

OC, thanks for the info, but I think I'll pass. Although it is another thing my parents can blame me for. I totalled their very rare car. :p

Seriously, it was a handful. I remember the first and only time my dad took me out to teach me to drive. I scared him so bad he yanked the wheel out of my hands. IMO, serves him right for making me drive that pig. Mom went with me after that. Somehow I managed to pass the driver's test in it. The Corvair was more fun to drive and potentially dangerous in the hands of a beginner too, but it did teach me about oversteer.

[racer2c]

Hey RaceGrrl, was it totaled because Navy pilots mistook it for an aircraft carrier and tried to land? :laugh: Seriously, that was a lot of car for a beginning driver.

You do know that the full size Olds Custom Cruiser wagon extremely rare, right? Not sought after, but rare indeed. No concrete production volumes remain for that model, but a good guess would be well under 1000 for the entire 71-76 run and maybe as few as 500 cars total. For US models, that's about a rare as an actual production model gets.

Rare or not, someone near me has one that appears identical to the one your folks owned that sitting out for sale down at the Grange hall parking lot for $1000 in excellent condition in what looks to be excellent original condition in case you'd like to relive that experience.... :eek:

oc

My best freind had a hand me down Olds Vista Cruiser circa '74. It had a 455 that would smoke the tires. The back section had glass on the top sides. What a boat! It floated down the road like a Carolina Skiff.

[dando]

Skinny tires on a mountain bike? I think not. I guess I didn't lower the seat enough for you.
Dave, perhaps Ank is used to them bikes w/o the bar in the middle.... :D :p

Speaking of which, I've never understood why boy's bikes have that bar in the middle, where there is potential for injury. :eek: :D

-Kevin

[Ferdman]

1978 Jeep Cherokee Chief

1979 Ford Mustang Turbo

1977 Lancia Scorpion. I'll be acquiring another one of these in a couple of weeks. I'm actually buying it back from a guy that we sold it to over 12 years ago. This car was my dad's as I, my brother and my dad all had 1977 Lancia Scorpions. My dad's gonna s**** a brick when he gets back from his overseas trip and sees his old car back in family hands. :D

[Dr. Corkski]

'81 Volvo. That thing was a tank.

[Rob]

You do know that the full size Olds Custom Cruiser wagon extremely rare, right? Not sought after, but rare indeed. No concrete production volumes remain for that model, but a good guess would be well under 1000 for the entire 71-76 run and maybe as few as 500 cars total. For US models, that's about a rare as an actual production model gets.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I've got production figures on those cars:
1971 - 13,981
1972 - 24,994
1973 - 38,921
1974 - 15,916
1975 - 16,068
1976 - 22,316

So, they weren't all that rare, although I'm sure there aren't many left since a lot of them probably were used as battering rams in demolition derbies.

[Joe in LA]

Eclectic, without being interesting: I had use of my mothers's '76 Jeep Wagoneer (Fire Engine Red with the authentic imitation wood strip on it). Not bad for skiing and bashing around in snow in the winter in Pennsylvania. After that disintegrated into a pile of rust, I drove a '80 Chevy Chevette with a 4 speed. It's acceleration could be measure in geologic time. Fortunately, these two vehicles led my Dad to Subarus and Volvos, which in relative terms were much cooler.

[Audi_A4]

I had a 1976 Chevy Monza red, body was in good shape but had nasty rust on the chassis and underpan, there was a hole behind the drivers seat. I installed some cool "HALLELEJUA" horns and it was a fun!. the car died then I got a 1985 honda civic with a manual choke.

[Dave99]

Dave, perhaps Ank is used to them bikes w/o the bar in the middle....
http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/08/78/76/53/0008787653476_500X500.jpg

:gomer:

[cart7]

So, they weren't all that rare, although I'm sure there aren't many left since a lot of them probably were used as battering rams in demolition derbies.

I believe some were converted to railcars and are now used on those scenic trans-Canadian runs. ;)

[dando]

Dave, LMAO.

:rofl: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[oddlycalm]

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I've got production figures on those cars:
1971 - 13,981
1972 - 24,994
1973 - 38,921
1974 - 15,916
1975 - 16,068
1976 - 22,316

So, they weren't all that rare, although I'm sure there aren't many left since a lot of them probably were used as battering rams in demolition derbies. Seems like I was given a bum steer by someone who should have known. The numbers I was given on the Vista Cruisers, which was the primary wagon model, were also lower than these numbers. Curious what your source was Rob if you can say?

oc

[RaceGrrl]

I'm a little concerned about why you guys would even have the numbers on that behemoth. :saywhat:

[Sean O'Gorman]

I'm a little concerned about why you guys would even have the numbers on that behemoth. :saywhat:

Are those the production numbers or the curb weight? :saywhat:

[Rob]

Seems like I was given a bum steer by someone who should have known. The numbers I was given on the Vista Cruisers, which was the primary wagon model, were also lower than these numbers. Curious what your source was Rob if you can say?

oc
They come from an old book I have. It's one of those huge comprehensive books from the editors of Consumer Guide magazine. It's called "The Encyclopedia of American Cars 1930-80" and gives the history of every manufacturer from that era marque-by-marque. It's got photos of most of the models and every production quantity available. They actually broke down the production numbers even further than I did, by whether the cars had two or three seats and by trim level. You might be able to find a newer version of the book at your local Barnes & Noble or Borders.

[oddlycalm]

Are those the production numbers or the curb weight? :saywhat: :rofl: Exactly right. Retched excess as epitimized by GM. If a lot is good, even more must be better...right? :gomer:

oc

[Napoleon]

MY parents cars 76 Chevy Caprice, 4 door and 78 Olds 88, 2 door.

At the end of my senior year I bought a 80 Chevy Citation, 2 door hatch brand new with what I had save working. The worse automotive purchase I have made to date.

[Paintergeek]

My cars or my parents? I know this thread is old, but since someone just re-upped it, Ill reply. I drove (my junior year, 1992) a 1973 dodge charger with a 400 and slapstick, then my senior year (1993) a 1978 Datsun 280Z, and then a week after grad, got my 1966 ford falcon. more often than not, I drove my girlfriends (now wifes) car......cause mine all sucked :) Rather than take up space with pics, Ill just give you this link.......These three cars are the first three cars listed:

http://www.fordfalcons.com/other/allcars

[MAXAR RE]

1989 Chevy Beretta GT in "arrest me red" with a 1990 Honda Accord wing on the back.

That's right, I introduced "rice" to my hometown 15 years ago. :D

[peelo]

81 Mustang. Learned how to add oil and transmission fluid thanks to that one.

81 200sx (inherited it when Mom treated herself to an 87 Supra Turbo, which she still has, with only about 60K miles -- let me know if you might be interested in that classic). Learned how to paint fenders on that one!!

But my college car was the greatest -- 84 Jetta with non-power steering (made it more fun to drive) and a sunroof. It had "cooling issues" and it shook like a cheap motel bed but I loved it sooooo much!

Even when it fried itself in front of a fire station in Houston and I was forced to give it up, I was still entranced enough with the VW brand to want another one. I was vetoed by my parents who made the down payment on my then-new Civic, which I bought in 1995 and am still driving today (she'll be 10 on 5/5/05)!

[Rob]

But my college car was the greatest -- 84 Jetta ... shook like a cheap motel bed but I loved it sooooo much!
Ahhh, so that's what they meant by "fahrvergnugen." ;)