Don't know if it was actually the coolest car at my Highschool but it certainly stood out among all the new cars my fellow students had, 1974 VW Type 181 Thing. I really wish I still had that car, it was stupid cold in the winter, leaked like the proverbial sieve in the rain and wasn't terribly quick, but it was FUN and the girls liked it in the summer.
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March 9, 2011 6:34 p.m. LopRacer New Reader
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March 9, 2011 6:42 p.m. RexSeven Dork
I didn't have a car in H.S. CVS didn't pay very well.
Most kids drove whatever they could afford, though one kid's daddy bought him a brand-new 2002 WRX. Everyone in school was jealous of him. Then he got pinched while blowing the doors off of a ricer Civic.
As for OP, I'm less worried about the owner wrecking it than some other student banging into it with his rusty '91 Pontiac Trans Sport, or a jealous girl or jilted guy keying every panel on it.
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March 9, 2011 6:44 p.m. MitchellC Dork
ArthurDent wrote:
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:
How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?
Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
My street is a testament of this. I live in a dumpy neighborhood right across from campus, but the cars parked on the street are 3-Series BMWs, Lexuses, Mercedes, etc.. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I have heard that a lot of students have the choice of an out-of-state, private education, or an in-state education that's still pretty dang good and a nice car. The car's probably a lot cheaper.
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March 9, 2011 9:51 p.m. MrBenjamonkey HalfDork
AngryCorvair wrote:
In college I had an Eagle Talon, a MKIII Supra Turbo, an 88 Civic, a 74 International Truck, and an Escort ZX2. I would just sell my car whenever the parking ticket pile got too high.ArthurDent wrote:
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:
How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?
Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
not shocking to me. while i loved the '72 monte carlo that i drove through seven years of undergrad ('84 - '91), all the time i spent working on it and all the money i spent pushing that 12 mpg pig through the air could've been spent studying and making the note on a 4-year-old civic. when my kids go off to college, they're getting relatively new cars, whether they like it or not.
In high school it was all 1980 Volvo 240D. Aka "the sexy Volvo."
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March 9, 2011 10:48 p.m. HiTempguy Dork
A lot of people didn't know what to think of the slammed turbo firefly that was meticulously waxed on 15's with a bitchin' stereo system in it. Was definitely one of the "nicest" cars in the lot, if not the newest or "coolest". Of course, by the time I graduated I had had something like 10 cars, so everyone knew I was nuts!
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March 9, 2011 11:18 p.m. mtn SuperDork
slantvaliant wrote:
One girl I knew in HS in the late 70's drove a Model A Ford sedan on occasion.
I drove a '63 Belair, which was considered a chalky, slow,, ancient POS by most of the kids. It was only in its mid-teens!
Dads first car was a 1963 Belair, 4-door post sedan. Straight six, no options. He got it when it was about 8 years old with 2,300 miles on it from his grandparents.
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March 12, 2011 9:11 p.m. wlkelley3 Dork
I drove a 1965 Chevelle, 4-door post sedan. Straight 6, powerglide and no options as in no power steering and no power brakes which were also drum front & rear with a leaky rear window that would pool water in the back seat floor and trunk. The car was also only 9 years old at the time. Tremendously slow, got beat at a stoplight to stoplight by a Pinto with 4 adults in it once. But I did use the bench seats.
