This pic was taken circa 1984. I'm a lot thinner snd had more hair. Still have the truck. It's blown apart waiting it's turn. This was from the high school paper. My next door neighbor was the writer. He had a 70 Camaro with side pipes and Cragars. My 36 had a straight axle and a 327, Mickey Thompson slots. Sort of had the street machine stance. I don't know why I didn't take more pics.
All of us wish we had taken more pictures back then, but then I didn’t have a camera until my twenties.
Jeez, am I the only one here that drove a rolling junk yard in high school??? A Chevy II, 6 cyl, column shift, 13" wheels, and baby poop brown. I didn't want pictures of it.
We might compete with each other ..... I drove a 3/4 ton 1951 Ford truck complete with a rebuilt flathead engine and bullet holes in the windshield & cab. ..... I loved it. Same time I never completed 9th grade in jr high ... seems I got moved around and transferred then left school for a bit. ..... So I decided to try going back to school ..... I really had to do some serious BS'ing and they let me in high school. I had to finish up 9th grade while attending 10th grade. Same time I got my first job at 12 or 13 with a paper route .... by the time I was 15 I was a plumbers apprentice and making real money ..... under the table because to young to really work. Going to school just never fit in ... I always worked and had $$ .... In between classes in the 70's I had a bottle of MD2020 under the seat and go blow a bowl and get a few drinks in the parking lot .... then show up to the next class 15 minutes late. MR Larsen do you realize you are 15 minute late to class again? Sorry Boss, I just got tied up ..... again. Best thing I ever did for society was to quit high school .... Better story was when I got a job as animal control officer and was a ordained officer in order to write tickets when I was 17 when I got the job. Because I never went to school I needed drivers ed to get a license ... just not qualified til 18 ..... I drove my dog catchers van and often squad cars back from the repair shop for maintenance. OMG I never seen a chief of police so mad when he found out I had no driver license. .... His face was beet red.
My high school rides were pretty interesting. The 1st car I drove was Dad's 4 door 64 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 with a 394 4 bbl. But the car was dads car. We had a bit of a falling out concerning tires, and he informed me that maybe I shouldn't be driving his car then, so I didn't. For most of the spring, the entire summer, and into the fall, my high school ride was a 10 speed bicycle I bought and paid for myself. As I entered my senior year, my ride was the big yellow school bus! Shortly after I turned 18, dad bought a car he sold to me by 12 monthly payments. The Buick looked great, but was a mechanical mess, and that lead footed teenager leaning over the rear quarter, didn't help. As soon as I paid dad that last of the 12 months of payments, I traded it in and bought a different car that I picked out and financed myself.
I had a manager at a Jiffy Lube or some shit in Lewisville Tx that drove one just like that. He was a dumbass but I really dug that Monte.
I had a few different cars. Got this 56 first but was not my first driver which was a 64 Impala while getting the 56 running. The 69 Nova on the jack stands in front of the garage was my third? second car of interest, but oddly never took any pictures of it until I returned it to a race car. Still have it though so thats better than a 50 year old picture I guess. 1970 Monte Carlo SS 454 that I wish I had kept but can’t keep them all I guess.
I still have my high school car also, my 68 GTO that I've had over 44 years now. Built a 74 V8 Vega when senior in high school. That became my college car. The GTO been an extra car ever since.
I bought a 1950 Ford 1/2 ton truck. It was an ugly grey so we fixed the rusted front fenders and painted it blue in the driveway. I went to school in Slinger WI and knew some of the race car drivers in town. They were just done with racing the flatheads and had a lot of parts laying around. So we talked them out of a twin carb intake and a cam for my flathead. We reringed and did the valves, put the parts in shop class. I drove it 44000 miles and a wrist pin gouged a cylinder. When we were looking for a chevy small block to put in with a 4 speed, I guy I knew blue up a 302 chevy engine in a camaro and put a big block in it.. I bought the 302 from him and was in tech school by then.We fixed the 302 and put it in my truck. It was a lot more fun after that. Gary
I guess I had other high school rides as well. None of them were my first car which was a 67 Camaro. I sold it while in high school but never finished it. Anyway, here are two pickups I built and drove to school in addition to the Monte Carlo I posted earlier. The red truck started as a pasture truck that I totally went through. The yellow one, I only lowered and painted.
The Nomad and pickup were my parents the GTO was a LeMans my sister had and the Cuda was my uncles and the Nova is the one I still have.
Already posted in the “goats” thread, but since ya asked…. It was a 3speed factory stick with a ‘67 400 Geez, I wish I had my dads ‘72 BB Suburban sitting behind it in the picture. I remember he couldn’t give that thing away when he got a new one. Nobody wanted that gas pig in the early 80’s.
My grandpas 63 Chevy long narrow bed pickup . 283 powerguild. I still have it . Should have stored it in a better place . It’s on the get back on the road list . He had MS his pickups had automatics
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