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

Class of 78. Had a turquoise 63 Olds Holiday 88 coupe (394, reverse all the way down) that sat 7 or 8 in a pinch and a cherry 67 GTX 440/auto/column shift air car (shoulda kept it!) that my uncles Chrysler dealership took on trade with 29k original miles, gold with black stripes, interior and vinyl top. miss both of them.

 

class of 73 65 impala white ,,whitei,,nterior -- 327 four speed in the back yard was a 48 austin small block 4 speed and a 55 posted i beam olds rear 421 pontiac

 

class of 84 66 ss 396 chevelle and a 78 kz 900 kawasaki

 

'64 c10 short step, 283 4 speed.

 

I still have my High school car a 64 Dodge Polara 500 conv. It is the anniversary edition, gold body and gold int with white roof. 383 4spd. Still under 30,000 mil

 

1927 ford T roadster pick up made out of a sedan with a 289 . It was pretty crude but way cool. Oh but it really*****ed in the oklahoma winter!

 

Class of 86' I had a 65 Sport Fury that I had transplanted the 413 out of my New Yorker into it. Shift kit and dual glass packs... Neighbors hated me.

 

Class of '84. 69 Pontiac Catalina 2-dr, 400/400. I learned armor-all is not meant for your front seat in that car.

 

Im not a senior yet but i have a 81 chevy pu, 49 more door plymouth, 56 chevy pu, 72 buick skylark, and the body of a 34 ford tudor.

 

1968 mustang 6cyl 3 speed still have it!!!

 

In 1978 had a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Did good front wheel burnouts.

 

1970 Nova SS,396,4 speed, Black on Black,bench seat Deluxe interior.I ordered new from Tom White Chevrolet. My friend bought one just like mine ,only Fathom blue, .Mine first one is long gone, Now I have my friend`s. Almost as good as my first one and a lot faster. Now has a L-88 427 instead of the 396. Forty years later still feels good to row that BBC through the gears.

 

Class of 1980 Torrington ct. I had a 66 old 442 455 4spd with a big cam and a 850 holley. Thank god it did'nt have posi or I probably would'nt be here today!! I also had a 65 f100 352 3spd. Still have her.

 

Class of '93

'81 VW Rabbit.

Dont laugh, I won best car of my graduating class and I was going up against some nice ones.

 

Cool car in your Junior Year would qualify too.
Throw some more at us.

 

Class of '70
61 Ford Starliner

 

I don't know how cool it was but in 1980 it got me where I needed to go. It was a 70 Chevell Malibu w/ a 307, auto trans and bench seat. Which came in handy...nudge nudge Oh and it also had the AM radio w/ the FM converter. Cost me $1000.00 bucks

 

1940 Ford Coupe. 324 Olds Rocket V8, Caddy LaSalle three speed , Olds rear.

 

Class of 65.
55 Chevy HT 327/Beefed Powerglide
Wish I still had it.

 

A guy I knew had a 1967 Ford Torino GT 390 that was bad****. I had this*****ty CRX that everybody wanted because I went to a rice burner school. He wanted to trade me that car for the CRX. I thought about it for about two weeks and didn't do it because his Torino needed a new carburetor. I didn't know***** about any cars back then. I turned it down then sold the CRX a short time later. What a waste...

 

68 Impala SS396 I still have it today. I got the car in 83 off of my cousin who bought it new in 68. I graduated in 1986

 

class of 89, 63.5 Galaxie 500XL fastback, 390. Still got 'er too--it's my avatar.

It was funny--I went to a huge high school. When I was a freshman, the seniors all drove total*****--late 70s stuff, or borrowed their Moms' volvos and stuff like that. No pride at all--they were the "I put gas in and it goes" crowd. By the time I was a senior, we had tri-five Chevies, SS Chevelles and El Caminos, hopped up pickups from the 50s and 60s, a big 56 Caddy, Impalas, an old Stude, tons of Mustangs, etc rolling around campus. My brother had a 65 Ranchero V8 and my buddy had of all things a badass stock 68 Javelin with a 343. One guy had a 56 F100 with a blown SBC, and one guy even had this crazy more-door 64 Impala with stock skinny**** tires and bottlecaps, but sporting nitrous! I don't know what the hell was wrong with the earlier crop of folks.

 

70 chevy pickup restored by me and my grandfather
got pictures to prove

 

56 Olds 88 2dr post with factory three on the tree.

 

'87 Cutlass with a Ford 302 and C4.

 

That would be a Schwinn 10 speed, pops said no cars until after we were done with school. I've made up for it ever since.

 

Class of 1965. Drove a '49 Chevy Fleetline Deluxe 4-door sedan, all stock, with a Deluxe accessory steering wheel, and was kind of embarrassed about it then. Would LOVE to have it now. The good news is that, from time to time, I also drove my Dad's '46 Chevy half-ton, all stock, with a 216 and a floor-mounted top-shifter three-speed, and I still drive it today, but the drive train and the paint are all different now. The truck has been in my family since 1949, and I am friends with the guy that bought it new, and I graduated with his wife (who is much younger than he). Life is strangely marvelous, sometimes.

 

A white '68 Camaro convertible.. 327/275 with a 'glide...

 

its been done but ill play along....
in high school everyone had a brand new safe, reliable POS....with the exception of some rich kid with a brand new (at the time) BMW M3...there was a friend of mine that had a 350 chevy in a 80s S10 who thought he was a bad****...
I drove a 88 IROC with a 383...fun times! but at my school the majority of the students cared more about the decibles in their trunk than to cubic inches or 1/4 mile times..
everything pretty much O/T, the chicks where hot though.
CLASS OF 1996!

 

If you had a car and could drive to school in ANY year, not only senior year you were a looser.
It meant you were thought of as a dumb*****, hopeless looser.
We cant get our license until 18. So if you were 18 in senior year you obviously were held back a year or two.
the only exception was the very rare person that started school at a much older age than what was normal.

Odd isn't it, being the other way around?

Doc.