What Did You Drive Senior Year in High School? In College?

My mother's Corvair.

 

<Sam Kinison>Die! Die Die!</Sam Kinison>

 

I got my first car when I was a sophomore. It was a 1950 Dodge Coronet in showroom condition (1971). Like driving your livingroom around. Big back seat.
1940 Willys Americar
1958 Triumph TR3 with a 318 Plymouth V8 installed. I traded the Dodge for it.(Deathtrap!) FAST!
1953 Studebaker Pickup with Olds V8
1956 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery with a 392 Chysler Hemi. (I installed) FAST!

When I graduated the only thing drivable was my mother's 68 GTO.(1973)
After that it was a blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................................

My 308 is car #30

 

High School...86 Vette red w/ grey int..
College....Highly Modded 91 RangeRover and a ZX-7.

C-

 

High school: Nothing! (Miami Beach H.S. '70)

College: 1970 Chevy Nova (University of Florida '74)

Since then all my cars have been Honda Accords ('78, '86) or Civics ('00)---that is, until I added my '86 328GTS!

 

I guess I just got rid of my 2CV ("ugly duckling" citroen) and got several Autobiachi Abarths(red of course. they came wirh a black hood, but I had them painted red) in college. Much like a Mini Cooper on steroids.

 

'76 Sedan deVille. Plenty of room for six guys.....and a bong!

 

1970.5 split bumper SS Camaro. 373 stroker small block, Lenco 4 speed. 4.11 gears in a Ford nine inch. 850 CFM Holley Double Pumper, feeding Yenko Intake. 2.02 intake and 1.6 exhaust valves in ex-Pro Stock heads. 1.6 Crane rocker arms being pushed around by a Crane Fireball cam. 5.65 lift, 310 duration. 4 link rear suspension. 11.20's at 3400 feet elevation. Best time: 10.96 Green Valley Dragstrip near Dallas. Second best time......Pauline Harvey naked in the back seat.

Street driven every day. Cold A/C and 8 track tape deck hidden in the glove box. Krako 6 X 8 speakers on the back deck pumping out Montrose Bad Motor Scooter at full volume.

Man, I miss that car.

 

Boarding schools. But mine wasn't the lifted pinky kind.

 

6.0,

Rarer still are the fiber optic brake light indicators!!

DL

 

'68 Plymouth Satellite
'72 Datsun 240Z

 

purple with black vinyl top. 3-2s, 4 speed, 4.56 posi rear, headers and a solid lifter cam. had 6 accidents in about a year, had to tow it to the dealer to trade it in for---a 1967 vette! 327, 350 hp. my parents must have been crazy!! spidey

 

Oh, indeed. White glove service the whole way. Why make your bed when there is a char to do it for you?
An ancient academy with students from good, old Northeast families. Of course, we did get the occasional Southerner...

 

Ah, an old T-Rex fan...

 

Benz CLK320 then Jag X-Type 2.5

 

Man you guys had it good! When I was In high school they hadn’t invented pavement let alone the auto. So it was uphill both ways with bare feet for me.

PD

 

Humph! You musta gone to one of those no account schools if they let rednecks attend. Not that my daughter is a redneck by any means...

 

Sophmore/Junior year-------
'87 Buick T-Type 3.8Turbo SFI(10.4's @ 128mph)

Senior year-----------------
'87 Buick Grand National show car(11.8's on DR's and alky injection)

Summer Before College------
'90 300ZX TT(stage 3 ~400hp @ crank)

College---------------------
'94 Supra TT 6spd(BPU++++ 450rwhp )

After Supra-----------------
'99 Corvette 6spd(haven't had it long enough for mods)



-DC

 

I drove my mom's car my Sr. High school a red/red 1983 Ford LTD, the original BAD CHARIOT! My 1st year of college I drove a 1979 Vette 4 on the floor, ok well it was a Chevette . My last year in college I had a 1967 Chevelle with a 300HP 327, 4 speed. Three days after graduation, a car side swiped it (hit and run) and in essense totalled it for I did not have enough insurance to fix it. Worst of all, it was a flippin Ford Escort that hit my car. The head light bezel broke off and Ford was able to tell me the model.

As much as I was heart broken the Chevelle was replaced with a new Mustang GT in 1995 so I did ok. Now I drive a Nissan Maxima (Boston winters and rear wheel drive Mustangs do not mate well).

 

HS ... no car ... how I could live like that is beyond me. I had a dirtbike though.

College, well ... senior year ain't here yet, but I drive a good ol 94 Ranger 4x4. Also have an 00 CR 250 and 97 SkiDoo MXZx 440.

 

1985 Camero 2.8 V6. Yeah, I even had a mullet.

 

golf cart.

 

High school (in '75): 1968 Ford Falcon with a 289 CI V-8 Seawash Green
College: 1972 Datsun 240Z

 

IN 1972 -- 67 Ford Fairlane $825 - white vinyl roof
In 1973 -- 68 Mustang Fastback - red/auto

then-
72 Ford Capri
73 240Z

fast forward to 2004-
1999 Ferrari 550

 

HS = Toyota Celica, bought with money from pizza joint and golf course; I enjoyed it, but it was never quite what I really wanted...

Late Senior year, once I had earned scholarships to pay for most of college, that freed up the money I had saved for college to be used instead to buy what I really wanted during high school... a Datsun 280ZX... found one with a really sun-faded paint job real cheap, allowing me to get a Euro-quality paint job (Japanese paint sucked back then)... can you guess... yep, basically Ferrari's modern titanium color with red accents.

I loved that car at the time... loved driving it out into the hill country west of Austin... but I really had no idea how much better a car could handle and feel! I'll never forget when years later I was looking for the sportiest sedan I could find when my budget could finally support a BMW... I went in thinking it would be an over-hyped luxury sedan... I left thinking "damn, that handles better than any sports car I've driven!". Put my 280ZX (even my glorified faded memories of it) to shame.