What did you drive when you went to College?

I'm still in college, driving my 124 Spider. His name is Felipe, thanks to the girlfriend.
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1970 Fiat 124 Sypder (Yellow/Black) with 90,000 miles. Great car and a total chick magnet

 

whatever car I could get my hands on, but mainly my college girl friend's VW.

 

College: '72 VW Bug, baby blue with a semi-automatic and no parking brake, needed a rock to throw under the wheel for parking.....loved that car!
Grad School: nothing, rode the "T"
Medical School: nothing, walked
Residency: nothing, walked
Fellowship: '94 Volvo 850....black on tan....thought "I had arrived!" (Noticed one of the attendings drove....a '72 VW bug...became worried).

 

an aluminum 6C 275....
I'm nearly certain(but it was 1 of 4 275s I had in 2 years time...lots of them dead in garages and carriage houses...)THAT it had a door for the oil tank... on the top of the passengers fender-ONE OF THEM FOR CERTAIN, DID HAVE A DRY SUMP!
Also,one of them had a huge gas tank with the filler "up high," and,
an additional wiper motor in THE "roof"...
I chose NOT to trade it to my friend's Dad for his 250LM(that car is now for sale in Fr-for crazy money)...as it was impossible to drive through Kenmore Square at "rush hour..."
O well...I sold it, and it paid for my sophomore year's tuition, room, and board at VeRiTas

Worst part of the whole story....

 

I drove a 1975 Chevy Caprice Classic, white with white vinyl top and brown rust stains running down the sides from the iron clips holding the trim around the edges of the vinyl top. The rust bubbled up under the vinyl top as well, which meant it leaked around the top of the windshield when it rained. My first "car date" had to balance a tupperwear bowl and towl on her lap to stay dry when it started raining. It has over 150,000 miles, and both exhaust manifolds had rusted through so it made just a bit of noise. The interior smelled like weed killer, as my dad had accidentally left a glass bottle of it in there with the windows closed on a hot day, and it had exploded. The floor pans had also rusted through in various places, and gravel from the road accumulated under the carpets and rattled when it hit bumps. The best thing about the car was the enormous size of the backseat, which was more like a couch. We could fit FOUR young ladies back there.

Humble beginnings.

 

1972 fiat 124 sport spider white/black carried spare gaskets and sealant in the trunk...got rear ended at the beach and bent the frame. Then moved on to a 1972 VW bus with custom teakwood bunkbeds and a bolted down e-z-boy recliner. Rebuilt the engine in my backyard using the treasured Volkwagen for idiots manual. Followed the whole Grateful Dead east coast summer tour till the damn thing caught fire and I lost my guitar amp. Saved my surfboard though.

 

At one point, it took me a long time to finish college, I did have access to a Dodge Dart that looked like the pic below except that it was brown. Well, it may have originally been a different color when new. But when I drove the car, it was brown.

Frankly, I don't remember which one of us was the actual owner. But the car had over 200,000 miles and looked it. I used to buy oil by the gallon and fill the motor along with every fill up of gas. The stuffing was all coming out of the seats. There were unspeakable things in the trunk.

One nice thing about that old push-button shifter was that you never had to worry about someone stealing it. You didn't have to worry about losing the keys, either, because we never took them out of the ignition.

Ah, glory days.

Dale
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Brand new 89' Honda CRXi, red/Balck.

That got crunched in a rear-end collison.

Then, 89 Mustang GT convrt/auto (boring I know).

 

I'll see in a few years

 

CHEVROLEGS!

 

Same with me!

 

I had a 1966 Ford Mustang comvertible with a 289. I would get to class all sweaty (Miami). Its no wonder the girls were not into me. (lol) What a great car that was....I had some great times in that puppy. Later as I entered my 5th year of community college (should have been done in 2 years) I bought a Porsche 968. That was another great car.

 

A 1965 Mustang fastback / high performance package with the HiPo 289 / solid lifters and cam/ Dual quads on a Edelbrock high riser manifold , 4 speed. Suspension and dual exhaust mods, driving lights in the grill and bubble hood. American Racing Magnesium wheels and a set of Goodyear cheater slicks. Painted white with GT 350 stripes, black interior.........blew one motor and two clutches. Lots of fun and great memories in Southern California.

 

2000 chevy malibu...plenty of room in the backseat...

 

honda cvcc...don't remember what year..70's car though

 

1973 olds delta 88, 455 cubes, complete with the rusted out floorpan. Holes in the floor made excellent ashtrays for roadtrips.

 

An 84 GTV6 in this wonderful Chestnut Brown color. GF called it a cockroach. She married me anyway.
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College?

I didn't get to go to college

How come you guys got to go?

 

College was 1984 - 1989. I drove a 1978 BMW 320i, then a 1978 Chevrolet Caprice, a 1970 Mustang Mach 1 (Grabber Blue, Deluxe Interior... wish I didn't sell that to pay for college), then in 1988 got my 1984 Mustang SVO (which I still have.)

 

1988 VW Scirocco 16V

Everyone thought it was the ugliest car they ever saw. I liked it though, that was until everything, and I mean everything stopped working. A black car is not any fun when it is in AZ with a broken A/C and power windows that will not go down. I guess that's what happens to a VW after 10-12 years and XX,XXX miles. I'd say how many miles it had but that stopped working too!

 

mini cooper [real one] '57 speedster,'54 550 spyder[real one]....btw at the time these cars were pretty cheap and, except for the spyder, easy to find in calif.

 

Wow, that 550 Spyder must have been great. Was it really that cheap? Even used it must have cost at least as much as a new Corvette though, right?

 

Jeep Wrangler Sahara 1994

 

College 1992 - 1996................Ford Escort
Post 1995-1999..................... Ford Mustang GT