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

Class of '72. I bought an all steel '41 Willys coupe ex-drag car for $100 my junior year. I helped pit for the guy that ran the Arby's A/F dragster and bought most of his 392 hemi stuff when he switched to 426 hemis. Always short on funds for the Willys, I drove a '68 Torino Gt fastback that I eventually got to run high 13s. Shortly out of high school I got married and the Willys project never got completed. I parted it out in 1976. Wish I still had it. I have been fortunate to have owned some 63 or so muscle cars, hot rods and trucks since the Willys and I'm building a 31 A coupe and a 39 Olds coupe gasser right now.

 

I drove a 1962 Chevy...similar to what I have now...327, 350HP, 4.11 gears, and a 4 speed...went 13.70@109 in the quarter

 

Graduated in 1970. This is my 1931 Dodge Brothers 3 window business coupe I drove in high school....still got it. NO....I am not going to chop it.

 

1970 I owned a 1966 GTO 4 speed 389 V8 . I paid 750.00 which was a gret deal at the time. It took every dime I had, White with a black vynl top ,black interior. American spokes all around. I street raced, took it hunting, dated, graduated from high school, drove the living hell out of it. Was the Muscle car era. Then got drafted. Was in the Army, my dad traded in on a 71 Buick Skylark. What a great time in life..... Hope to replace it one day..

 

I had a 57 chevy 2 door sedan ,i put a 327 turbo 350 and a 68 nova 10 bolt w/355's .Cad firemist red,black rolled n pleated int ,and cragar SS's . It was the quickest car in the parking lot.thanks im going to find the old pics and reminess.

 

Look familiar?

 

Not me but my brother Doug in his senior year. I think it was around 1966.
His grades were good ( mine sucked so my dad relieved me of my 57 Bel Air convertible).
Anyhow..... dad gave him a Studebaker Golden Hawk coupe that some local traded into dads used car lot for a used Corvette.
It was mildly hopped up under the hood, had dual glass packs and an awesome purple lacquer paint job.
Doug had some pin striper gold leaf the quaters "Purple People Eater".
He was suddenly BMOC with that ride. Chicks swooned over it and guys thought it was the berries.
Doug had an excellent senior year with that to ride around in.

 

65 chevelle SS with 283 and a powerglide but it was cool!

 

In 1965,I had a 54 Chev hardtop

 

This is a sweet thread, it brings back some great memories. I can't believe I did not see it sooner! My senior year, 1988, was a great finish to an otherwise crappy school experience. My brother was gone to the Army and ordered to go to Korea. He drove his 1955 chev back home to Washington from Kansas, then he was on to Korea. He told me to drive the car and take good care of it!!! My shop teacher told me "you are in your element", "this car is what you belong in"... I look back and smile, it was a super cool moment in time.

 

1986, 65 MUSTANG GT FASTBACK. black on black pony interior, 4spd, 289, magnum 500s. etc. the only car that I was truly foolish to sell.

 

I had my -66 Volvo Amazon (that I got as a parts car), and a -75 Trans Am with a Olds W30 -455. And just before graduation I sold the Pontiac to buy my -56 Ford F-100. This was in Sweden -05 -06.

 

@ swell: I have an old neihbor selling his xR7 clone project if u really miss it. Lol

 

This was my 'senior project'. A 64 Chevy Bel Air 4 door with a 283 and powerglide. My Dad, friends, and neighbors all helped me freshen the motor, rebuild the front suspension, replace the entire brake system, and touch up the finish. I learned so much on that old Chevy.

She was a great car and a few months after it sold when I went off to college...I saw it back on a used car lot for $1000 less than I got for it. It was trashed beyond belief. Heartbreaking.

 

I had two during my senior year. The first was a refugee from the junk yard. Summer of '69 between junior and senior years. 1955 Chevy 2dr hardtop. It was used as a play car jungle cruiser. Running it and abusing it on a farm in the fields etc. My Dad heard about it and bought it for me for $75 bucks. Bad part, almost total rust thru everywhere. Good part. Someone had dropped a 348 350 HP, 3 duece, solid lifter, engine in it. My first car so I had to learn setting lifters and everything. It ran like crap when I got it because they never took care of it. Just a junk play car that they would even run the old drain oil from their good cars in it. 3 speed stick on the floor and 4:11 non posi. Once I learned to tune it, including going thru the carbs (had an old expert working at the garage across the street from my house) it really ran strong. Started dating my wife Sept '69 and her brother had a car that I bought around Christmas '69, middle of my senior year. 1964 Pontiac Catalina, 2 dr sedan, ex-police captains car for the city of Brookfield, WI. 389 2 barrel, three on the tree, gray taxi cab interior, but it still had the drivers side windsheild post mounted spot light, (lots of fun with that). The 389 was shot so I got a '65 four barrel 389 GTO motor and Muncie 4 speed trans and put it in during Christmas break. Local racers donated a 3:89 posi center for the rear. Turned into a really nice fast car. Mark L

 

Mine was a 49 fordoor Ford, 50 Merc engine with a 3 spd. Best $20.00 car I ever owned.

Lee

 

Well it being my senior year now.. 2012. Ready to graduate and go to college to be a machinist and later have the possibility to go on my own and build cars.
My everyday car to school is a 1987 El Camino V6 with cowl hood- ready for V8 swap.
1960 Chevy Kingswood 9-pass Stationwagon -easy project engine/tranny swap and brakes.
1963 Bel air 4door- soon to be driving to school!
And Last a 1937 Plymouth Coupe GASSER - winter project built engine swappin tranny and doing the chassis over and body work - making original front clip tilt nose.

 

49 Ford Coupe and 53 Olds 88 Rocket....... Russ

 

Class of '83, ran a 69 Firechicken. Medium blue metallic, kinda faded, black vinyl roof with some cracking. PMD wheels w/o trim rings, rears cut n widened to run 10 inch cheaters. 12 bolt posi with 4.11, built Turbo 400, 400 .30 over, 12.5/1 forged slugs on crower rods, wild cam, 455 SD stage 4 heads decked .30 for about 13/1 final compression. Edelbrock torker and an 850 dbl pumper mechanical secondaries, GM HEI ign. Had to drive from Milton to Streetsville almost everyday to fuel, with VP 104. Would lift drivers side front wheel a foot and passenger side would juuuuust touch the road on launch.

Used to run the big dollar guys from Toronto out on James Snow Parkway before it was finished. Fresh asphalt, straight as a die but good brakes were key cuz you'd run out of road out the back end of a pass. (overpass not installed yet lol)

Saw more kitty than the SPCA

Cheers
James

 

I didn't drive crap in my senior year. Didn't drive the whole time in high school.

 

I had a 70SS Chevelle 396 4spd. It was a color you don't see all that often a burgandy with white stripes. Also had the Cowl Induction package.

 

Forty coupe

 

i drove the biggest turd rambler american convertible know to man. on a good day it maybe would go 55-60mph. drooled most of its fluids on the ground. would go for 0-60 in about a week and a 1/2. but hey it beat walking. then i got a equally fine ford falcon. had to carry a spare starter. they would last about 3 months then fry. wonder if i had either one of these cars now could i figure out there problems

 

I drove a 68 Dart GTS 383/4spd. It was wicked fast and a handful to drive. I also had my first old car project....a 40 Ford coupe I bought for $600 in 1977.

 

Don't laugh....12 second '76 Pinto 302, tunnel ram, c-4, shortened 9 inch, 50 series tires.....very 1978

 

I was a senior in 1975, I had a 64 dart gt 273 4 speed and I ran the crap out of that car, it was fun!

 

This was my ride lol

 

1967/68. '53 Chevy pick up. First of many AD trucks over the intervening years. I'm driving number seven, a '51, now.

 

1992 Nissan Patrol 2 doors. I'm from out the states so we have a few cars the US doesn't import, and vice versa.

 

2000 Jetta VW VR6.... eh not that cool I guess.