Who had the coolest car in school?

Most didn't consider it the coolest, but it was the only Hot Rod in the High School parking lot in 1978, and I built it myself. I bought it for $100, and a Buick Station Wagon for $50 took the engine ,trans, and rear out of the wagon, and made my own engine and trany mounts, and put them in. It was funny, all the gear heads that took shop class added HiJackers and Mags to their cars and thought they were building cars, I was a band nerd, that didn't take shop class, but I would go home and weld and fabricate on my Rod. The attached picture was a couple of years later. That old pickup gave me the best memories of my life. As I always say when I post this picture, if anyone knows where this rod is, please let me know. I would gladly give a reward to the first person with current contact info so I might possibly buy it.

 

When i had my slightly lowered, stock, all white 95' Grand prix, everyone loved it.
When i drove my dads 79' Coup DeVille, and blew all the build up out of the engine covering the lot in smoke, everyone loved it.
When i had my straight piped 91' V8 cadillac, everyone loved it.
When i had my 49' F-1 with the 454 and would do doughnuts and drift around the island in the middle of the small lot, the kids went crazy.
With the 84' monte carlo, everyone loves it.

I find it amazing too because most of the kids own brand new, nice cars, yet they loved all my buckets.

 

And check out the Anglia! Too bad we can't buy new Torq Thrusts just like those original '60s versions. I'll bet the fathers of your dates weren't so happy to see the pie panel pull into their driveway!

 

I had a 1957 Ford Ranch Wagon (two door wagon sorta like a Nomad) with a 292 Y-block that was soon replaced with a 312. It was a three speed stick car and I broke alot of those transmissions. I could get them at the local wrecking yard for $30 each and I could change one in about 30 minutes.......my Mom called it my 30-30 car. It wasn't even close to being the coolest car in high school.

 

I was far from having the coolest car at IVC but I tried. No matter what you bolt on a 307 you can't make it fast.

 

That Anglia I bought for $15. I found it while on my paper route a few years earlier. Bob Hines built it into the street gasser shown here with a small block Mopar/Torqueflight...there is a photo of that Anglia as I found it on my "Public Profile" Album: Yesterdays rides...
Its hard to see the yellow Model A next to the Anglia, but that was Eric Vaughn's (Real Wheels founder)...we were all in the Vintage Tin Car Club

 

In 1987 right before I tuned 16 I tool posession of a 1967 Camaro SS 350. One of the only kids in school to drive at all and suddenly I also had the coolest car. I paid for it with my own money, was a 90% complete redone car with minight blue paint, black top and black bumblebee stripe on front...original marina blue interior. 350 with the muncie rockcrusher 4 speed with a Hurst long throw on it. Had some good times in that car...sold it and bought a 1983 280zx a few years later...

 

The first few months of school after getting my drivers licence I rode a Triumph to school ..and had to park it near the principals office next to the bike rack..kinda sucked acctually. Than winter set in and the Bike had to stay over a friends garage (parents didnt want it at home all winter in the garage)..I bought a light green 68 Charger off a school teacher and drove that for the next 4 years ..wish i never sold that one., good times

 

still got one of my high school cars... 49 chevy coupe. my second one was a 69 GTO Judge.

being the class of 78 made the parking lot look like a muscle car show. GTO's Roadrunners, SS chevelles, 67-69 Camaros. couple of Mach I's. there was a kid from another school who actually had a 67 Shelby GT500.

my buddy had a 67 442. another buddy had a 32 Plymouth and a 56 F-100. the coolest car by far was my other buddies 55 chevy. painted a real nice silver laquer with blue scallops and a silver pearl roof.

I only lived a block away and still drove my 49 to school.

 

307's are fast only when you throw them off the side of boat for an anchor, or pull the crank out and put it into a real block. My high school car was the 64 Impala SS pictured to the left. I balanced the 327 and ran a DZ302 cam with a 750 double pumper (92¢ premium gas, how I miss that!). I thought my car was the coolest at my high school in the late 1980's, it sure was the fastest big car. There were a lot of heavy door 78 Camaros and Tran Ams and Mustang IIs running around. I still have my Impala and will never sell her.

 

Garaduated in 69, only hot rod in school 37 ford coupe bright red merc flathead, other "kids" thought i was nutz!

 

I had 2 rides in my senior year (1960) The '39 Buick Special had the rare optional side mounts, and I installed the '41 dual carbs and split exhaust. The '52 convert was all show and no go. cut coils & lowering block, '54 upper grill bar & custom grill bars, Packard parking lights, cruizer skirts, wagon rear bumperetts, 1/2 tonneau.
I never thought of either as the coolest rides in the parking lot...but I wasn't driving klunkers either.

Twenty years later my son used the '31 roadster to wow the kids at Waverly High in Nebraska.
IT WAS THE COOLEST CAR IN THE LOT BY 1000%

 

Sadly, I did have one of the coolest vehicles in my High School. A 1972 Chevy 3/4T 4x4 pickup. It was nice and pretty quick, but nothing real special. Everybody knew that truck in town, including the cops. As a matter of fact, that pickup got into my Senior year yearbook more than I did! Lots of good memories in that thing, thats why its still in my grimy little hands.

 

My school was a combo Jr and Sr High School. So, I was there from 7th grade to 12th grade, 1975 to 1980. My older brother graduated in 1976 and had one of the fastest cars in school. A 1973 Nova that he bought stripped with a straight six and three on the tree. With in one week he had the motor out and a REAL 302 DZ in place with a Muncie M22, 12 bolt with a 411 gears.

All the cools cars left around 1977.

In 76-77 the nice cars were:

62 vette with a 327 and tunnel ram

2- 62 Chevy II

1- Big Block 67 Mustang

1- 56 Belaire 2 door with a 327 (I almost bought this car for $1,600)

2- Big Block 68 Chevelle's

1- 67 Charger

After 77 it was pretty much junk or Big 4x4's (that would be me).

 

My high scool years saw cars come and go for me. The first car I owned was a 1953 Chevy Bel Air. I ended up selling it to buy a 1958 GMC pick up. I sold that and bought a 1968 Mustang. Then a 1968 Buick Skylark. The list goes on and on but the car I drove the most of was my 1963 Impala SS. It was all original number matching with a 327 and automatic. It was the first car I ever decided to rebuild and keep for a while. I sold it about 10 years ago but damn it was a nice car. Now I own my 51 Chebby. I like the older cars better

 

I had a 56' Nomad with a 327/400 and posi rearend. Body was perfect just needed paint. I kick myself in the ass evertime I see one. It hurts to know what i sold it for and to know what i would get for it today. Not to mention that they are such cool ass cars.

 

He didn't go to my high school, but around the late 1980s there was a guy in Northern VA with an '66 Olds Cutlass. The license plate was "RodRipr" and he used to street race a lot......anyone remember the car? I know it ran a big block, but that's all we knew about it (looking back, I'm sure he had a jug in it). Short of the license plate, it was a real sleeper.....very stock looking without that menacing a sound. Wide open though the car was deadly.

-Lee
Atomic Radio
www.atomicpinup.com

 

Mazooma, I remember thinking how cool it was and taking pictures of your Miracle Pie Wagon at one of the shows held at Great Western in the mid-60's...was it the one that had both the Beach Boys and Dick Dale as entertainment?

 

North Hollywood High, No. Hollywood, Ca, 1974. Car I drove wasn't much, '63 Chrysler 300 4-door, 383 2bbl Torqueflite. Lots of cool cars in school. Lots of kids parents were in film or TV so there was some money around. In the auto shop class we had a '52 Hudson Hornet with Twin-H that never seemed to leave. One girl's dad owned a Buick dealership and she had her pick of the used cars they took in trade. One was a BMW Glas 1600 and another was an Italia. The wood shop teacher had a nice 383 Road Runner and a Model T with a hopped up banger. The drafting teacher had a nice Model A. One guy in my class drove a Morgan +4. Another guy had a split window VW with a Porsche engine. Senior year the guy with the VW showed up in auto shop with an Aston Martin DB2/4 coupe with a busted crank. He got it for $600. damn I feel old.

Kurt O.

 

That was April of 1967. It was in with the Early Times Car Club group. I used to go to their meetings and hang around with them, but I couldn't be a member. You had to be 18 and I was 16.
I'd love to see those photos, if you ever find them...
Thanks for the memories and yes, it was Dick Dale...

 

I was too poor to have a decent car. Had a lot of fun in the P.O.S. given to me free, a rusted out convertible. My dad gets credit for putting a used engine in it and a plywood floor. I drove it in junior and senior year, broke every traffic law there is and learned alot about car control and driving sideways in the turns on gravel roads, something I still enjoy. Skipped school and took my friends swimming at the gravel pits with the top down. We had a lot of fun, no money.

The coolest car was my sister's boyfriends car. 57 Chevy, 4 door, 283, 3 speed manual with a floor shift conversion. It had blue stick on window tint with Maltese Cross decals on the passenger windows. He would burn rubber at every opportunity, it was great. Then he had a badass 58 Ford, and even came into possesion of a chopped and channeld 32 Ford pickup with a 312. Radical!

 

probably not the coolest car/truck but it was allright 1971 chevy 2wd with a h/o 396 out of a 67 chevelle. I would kill just to have the motor back in my hands.

 

I would be just wrong if I did not include my buddy Glen, who knows he may read this. White 63 Nova, 283 4 speed, rippin car. He also had a red 63 Fury Golden Commando 383 with push button torqueflite, tire burning champ, fast car. He would skip school and burn rubber going past the school for a block. He would drive us anywhere too, great guy.

 

that would have been awsome to own in high school

 

I had a 69 nova with chlorox lines run in front of the rear wheels ........nice show!

 

I pulled that stunt the day I graduated..after the red and blue lights made it thru the smoke..he decided to give me my first ticket,,6 points on my licence....glad i didnt lose it, actually it was a dumb thing to do..and i never did it again..(in front of the school)

 

Glen was legendary at high school for burning rubber. So was David. David once spun the tire so hard on his 58 Ford it blew out!

1968 -1969, smaller towns, more personal freedom, the good old days.

 

Drove a hot rod primer gray 65 GTO, 68 400, Tripower, 4 speed, 390 gears to High School

Jerry

 

Not me, I was the poor kid. Although most of us were back then. I paid $500 for my first car when I was 15. It was on the payment plan and I had it paid off by the time I was 16. Wish I still had that car. 1967 Mercury Caliente 2 dr. hardtop. 289 with power nothing, all the hp went to the back wheels. Those were the days...

 

The guy I sat next to in science class had a chopped 57 Buick with a louvered hood and trunk.
His dad was heavy into buicks, this was around 1980 so without a doubt it was him.