What did you drive when you went to College?

All you need is a pair of snow shoes, and a Napoleon Dynamite look a like contest! Cool cars though! My mom would have killed for your corvette!

 

LOL, thanks.
Another shot of the Camaro. It ran 9.85@138.
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you're rite 4 once...stopped clock/twice a day/correctomundo...did say '58 too
but you went ahead w/ the Brit-paint-flag thing/German car,huh? Yas,diff for shure,but a nice job anyway

maybe sorta like an iron cross on the top of a Mini...come to think that's not too far out either

 

2001 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner (4cyl/auto).

I have been driving it since sophmore year of high school (2000) and have since graduated college...yeah...I still drive it. It only has 63,000 miles though! High school was about 1 mile away and college I'd drive to the parking lot, unload my bike, then ride my bike to get around on campus.

 

red 1999 v6 Mustang
and as of two years ago, a white 2004 Mustang GT ...I needed something a tad faster.

 

i lost a bet with my dad and ended up with a '77 mgb. in its unadulterated form this car barely qualifies for the title. i was always running it hard, and when it broke i had a good excuse to juice it up a bit, so over time i must have gained at least 20bhp by ripping out the cat, swapping out the single carb for twin suv's, changing the radiator and adding an oil cooler and a few other bits and pieces. but the lucas electrics were sooooo unreliable that i was never sure of getting back from where i had gone, so i knew every mg mechanic in new hampshire and mass, and kept a lot of flat bed owner's numbers handy...the worst part about having that car in new hampshire was the cold - this car did not like the cold at all. it was a pain to start on a good day let alone at -20. and in snow, forget about it ! i did manage to find a garage but it was unheated and damp, and the tires would quite regularly freeze to the floor. it wasnt quite the babe magnet a porsche or vette would have been, but it did catch the eye of a few crumpets, so it wasnt all bad. i still have it. not because i think it might ever be more valuable, but just to see if i can have the last one that hasnt disintegrated in another 20 years....

 

'63 ChevyII Nova ''SuperSport"...Had ''SS" in the emblem so it became the SuperSnake
[for reasons that will go unrecorded]
Tan/Red,,,[Oxblood , heh] straight6 ..3speed-manual on the column
Able to carry 7 brothers when an obstreperous 2nd year got too far under the pledge class skin calling for ''being taken down the road'' [however the back seat never was the same]
Also carried around some nice members of the opposite sex[good road trip car]
Drove around the southern tip of Manhattan on a Sunday morning Thanksgiving weekend and never caught a red light or saw any other traffic,,,also got towed to the west side impound lot,,,cost 25$ to bail out,big money in '68, skipped the fine,nypd listed the tag as OH so very difficult to trace[tag clearly NC]
Prior car was a DKW...wish I had a pic of That,3cyl-2cycle-4sp/on column,fwd...what a car
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Back in 1970 (hippie daze) it was a great chick magnet.....much better than my Ferrari is today.

 

First, a Ford Pinto with no a/c and vinyl seats. Ouch! When the engine block mercifully froze, I moved onto a 1973 Mustang...the last year of the V8 before the Mustang II entered the fray. Drove that from 1985-1987, and learned that a 70,000 mile car can mean a car that needs just about everything replaced. And replace I did: heater hoses, switches, water pump, motor mounts, tires, brakes, battery, etc. Rarely did a month go by that the beast didn't need something. It helped that my brother was a mechanic, but it also meant that he never let me forget how lucky I was to have a brother who was a mechanic. However, the Mustang had style a-plenty with its blue metallic paint and looooooong coupe lines. Shortly before graduating, I graduated to my first new car, a 1987 Honda CRX - the polar opposite of the Mustang in every regard. It was so refreshing to go from a needy older beast to a new vehicle with a superflous warranty.

 

Same car I still drive most days (30 years later!)
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Switched back and forth between 92 Mustang GT and 96 Corvette; still own both of them. Made for interesting winter commutes!
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1967 Harley FL and new 1982 RX7 (with the help of some alumni)

 

Whut's coollage? I did not evun may-kit pased hi-skool!

 

1969 MGB (British Racing Green)

 

Those cars are great fun to drive. I had a friend with one in college and it was always an adventure to see if it would start or if we had to push it to get it started. Once running, it was great fun.

 

1959 Triumph TR3A . Black with red interior.

 

Sounds like the MGB was the hot ticket. Several listed those. I know my wife has always checked out guys in MGBs, but only the chrome bumper cars, she says she does have standards...

Good to see some Chevy II's too!

 

67 VW Bus. Built the motor in my dorm room. Beginning of my downfall... <grin>

 

'74 VW Beetle
Sickest car ever ....

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Mostly drove my dad's old '70 Jag XJ. Sweetest car imaginable when it ran, but it was cursed with Prince of Darkness electrics and other British car craziness. My dad thought he was putting one over on me when he gave me the car, but the joke was on him: he was clearing a space for a brand new ... Lancia Beta. Absolutely beautiful but a total POS. He had to back the car up the driveway so he could use the slope to bump start it.

Also, +1 for the Fiat 124. I used to borrow my sister's roadster when the Jag was in the shop. Car drove like hell, even when it had so much rust you could see the road beneath your feet.

For graduation I got a Saab 99 EMS (because a BMW 2002 was, you know, too common). The car was vandalized the night I brought it home and seldom ran quite right, even after five (count 'em - five) sets of replacement fuel injectors. It was bloody quick, though, and could easily smoke a Bimmer off the line. Nasty torque steer, though.

 

let me guess...ground floor room...or else how many roommates did it take to carry up a flight[or two]of stairs?...v-dub eng weighs,300? maybe two can handle,but awkward. Elevators?we don't need no stink'n elevators...in a dorm?

Like to see pics of a dorm room rebuild,,,what'd you use as the stand? oh,the bed,,,then what'd you sleep on,a cot,,,did you wash the rags in the dorm washing machine? bet others liked that,"why's yor shirt smell like QuakerState?"

Understand the 'downfall' bit...''hey,that wasn't so bad n'only two washers and this nut left over''...

all in all,impressive

 

I commuted to the University of Michigan-Dearborn in a red 1995 Z28 Convertible that had a Six Speed Manual with a Vortech Supercharger. It looked like a stock Z28 but it was a lot of fun to drive. I miss when gas was so cheap. Someone attempted to steal the car while I was in class one day.

 

Did they get away with it? Enquiring minds want to know -

 

Nope. The thief ripped out the ignition so the car was undriveable for me as well. GM had keys that had a sensor on them that supposedly prevented cars from being started unless that key was put in the ignition. I still think no car is steal proof though. However, even if they would have started the car and gotten away they would not have gotten far since the car was equipped with Lo Jack.
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a datsun 240z then a 328 and then a daytona