What cool car did you own in your Senior Year of high school?

Need to dig up some pics. My first car was a 68 Firebird convertible. Drove it home in 1979 for $125. Needed lots of work, but as a 15 year old it's probably the reason I became a professional mechanic.

 

Here's another one I had in high school. A 1966 Chevy pickup deluxe cab, C-10, 283, 3 speed with overdrive. Sears under dash ice cold air. I still have it too.

 

I was poor and for only $175 bucks which was all the money in the world to me it got me around.
It was a lump. Burned oil like a diesel and couldn't fall off a cliff

 

Life improved when I latched onto this a year later.

 

The '40 Pontiac had an Olds 303" and was a work in progress from my sophmore year thru my senior year. Barely ran to the end of the street and usually came home on a tow rope.
The 57 pictured with it was a whole different story.
Ran like a scalded ape.

 

Got a pic somewhere - '59 Impala convertible - dark blue, white top.

 

Well, I'm sure I've posted this in one of these threads at one time:
1969 Firebird with 350HO.

 

Graduated Thursday, was in Huntington Beach Sunday, to leave for Rod and Customs 1st Americruise. Circa 1993.

Parents said no way to Cancun for your senior trip. But a car show in Missouri , that we will cover

Got the car at 12yrs old


And then met this man while I was there

 

I drove this March 1975 until May 1975 in Grade 10 when I suddenly "Retired" from School and went to work in the real world. Car was a POS but I loved it......

 

I had a GTO for one-half my senior year, but with 7 mpg (389, 4-speed and 4.11 gears) I needed better mileage. So bought a '68 Chevelle with a 327 and 4-speed and fixed it up.

 

My 52 Ford I drove as a junior and part of my senior year in 1964. Then I bought the 1st of my 57 Chevys and I don't have any pictures of them. The 52 had a Merc flathead but with a fordomatic , it wouldn't fall out of a tree.

 

1966 had a white 64 chevelle SS, 4 speed 283. looked good but sure was slow!

 

Didn't have a cool car in 67 but I did drive a 4dr 56 Ford Customline. Up until then I just rode the 32 window coupe.

 

A 12 year old 55 Chevy with a hot rod 301 small block ,30-30,power pack heads , and t-10 .

 

'56 ford Crown Vic ...... then '60 Impala (BOTH senior year )

 

In 1961 I had a '48 Chevy four door with rotted out floors and the passenger side of the windshield was missing. The front suspension was so worn out that it would pull wheelies when the clutch was pumped. I left it in the parking lot when I arrived at the Navy recruiters office with the keys in it and never looked back.

 

My first car was my 56 210 my Dad gave to me when I turned 16. He bought it in 1970 for $25! Grew up going to drive in movies in the back seat with my sister. We put a 283 with an aluminum air cooled PG in it with a 10 bolt out of a chevelle. What a great car to learn how to drive in! Original brakes, strong arm steering and good ol bias ply tires! Ha ha I remember when I put radials on it for the first time! Holy shit it was a Cadillac then!! Had thrush mufflers on it, sounded wicked when I stomped on it and being a PG when you pulled it into low... Ha ha ha. All my friends in school used to tease me about the "big back seat" ah memories

 

Of course I have to include a long story instead of just saying what it was. In the summer of 1969 I was getting ready to begin my senior year at this POS Catholic high school for boys in Mundelein, IL and my dad decided to buy me a car so I could drive myself and my brother there to save the two bus fares because it was about 15 miles away from where we lived on the north side of Waukegan. He was one of those "my way or the highway" fathers and he wouldn't even let me go with him when he bought it. He had a friend who was a salesman at Reed-Randle Ford so I figured that was where he would go but that was OK because most of my friends drove Fords. As he was leaving I asked him if he could at least make it a 2 door with a stick if possible in the hopes that it would be a Mustang. He came home a couple of hours later in a dark blue '65 Impala 2 door hardtop with a straight 6 and 3 on the tree that he got from Sorensen Chevrolet. I couldn't complain because it beat walking so I put chrome reverse on it and an 8 track player in it. There was a guy in my class who was rich and had a built up '69 Camaro with a lot of engine mods and he said he had a 3 speed floor shifter out of a '57 Chevy that he would sell me and install it too for $25 so I went for it. The only problem was when I shifted into second the (4 speed) knob would hit the dash but I didn't care because at least it looked cool. I had to let my brother drive it in November and December 1969 because my license was suspended for too many tickets including one for trying to evade the police after I ran a red (mostly yellow) light. I did a lot of stupid shit back then but they were still the good old days to me....

 

The motor blew in my '55 Olds right after graduation. I didn't have time to fix it (again), so I drove a $350 '63 BelAir to college. I drove it 40,000 trouble-free miles in the next four years. It was one of the most reliable cars I've ever owned.

 

I went back to high school to get my final 3 credits. I was 20 yrs. old, married, and had a son. Worked part-time as an apprentice meatcutter. Drove a red 67 GTO with 3800 miles and a purple metalflake 52 Panhead chopper. I was Big Daddy for awhile, anyway. LOL

 

LOL Somehow I can identify with that.

 

LOL my Mom learned to drive in a '58 Simca.

 

The one I still own today.
Red oxide primer and chrome wheels with original six cylinder and three speed my senior year.

 

BMW.

Bus
My Bike
Walk

 

I was building a 1950 Ford 2 dr sedan with 303 olds punched to 324 and j-2 tripower, hydro tran, that was in 1967