coolest car in high school

[Foreman72]

when you were in high school, what was the coolest car in the parking lot?

in mine, its a buddy's totally tricked out 98 BMW M3, sweet car...but it won't compare to the charger when its done    if its done while i'm still in high school...

[Mike DC]

 
The coolest car at my school was a rough "General Lee" replica made out of a 383/727 '69 Charger. 


And it was mine.   

[mikepmcs]

I ain't afraid to say....it was mine.  Went to a richy rich school that I didn't belong in(dad was in the Air Force and somehow went to this school due to where we lived)

Lots of rich snobby pieces of....kids that had all kinds of brand new junk, but when you looked over all their crap, way in the back row all by it's lonesome with an occasional 72 olds cutlass my other white trash buddy owned(actually the only kid I ever hung out with in high school) sitting near by was a 1970 Dodge Charger 500 (plum crazy baby)


v/r
Mike

[bordin34]

I'm gonna have to say that it is a 1997 Supra. Totally stock, silver, and it looks like it just rolled off of the assembly line. Everything else is a pickup with straight pipes or something really boring.

[mikepmcs]

Dan, fix your car, drive it to school and then repost.

[Charger-Bodie]

My Gold 68 Charger was for sure the coolest thing at my school. The late 80s were a crumy time for car people and there wasnt much competition at my school.

[Magnumcharger]

My friend Lynn's '69 440 4 speed Charger. No question.

[WingCharger]

Nothing too hot here.

[71ChallengeHer]

There was a 71 Duster 340 , 4 speed and a 70 Limelight Green Cuda 383 magnum , 4 speed and of course my 71 340 Wedge Duster and my best friend's boyfriend had a 69 Roadrunner 

[Brock Samson]

Balboa H.S. 1975.



Besides the drug dealers? well we won't count them and their chevy and caddy lowriders...
There was Val's boyfriend Dave's '66 Convert 427 Vette - all red in and out...
and one of dudes in our group "stoners unlimited"    had a sweet jade green '56 Nomad with a black tuck and roll Int. a real tijawanna job and cragers w. micky thompsons, that was my fav between the two. but i never rode in the vette (he hated me cause Val liked me)  which he traded for a '68 Shelby 500 after graduation.
one of the guys also had a nice '73 Dodge van, that was what sold me on them and why i sought out one as soon as I could afford to in '82.
those are the ones that stand out in memory, my best friend fred "crazy fred" got to drive his mom's 318 Gold Duster it was baby blue with white stripes and blue int. a couple years later he got one of the new downsized mustang II mach 1s, it was also baby blue... i didin't like it but that duster sure hauled ass...
great thread idea... 

BTW: Crazy Fred now has a candy apple red '69 428 super cobra jet that's been in pieces since the third time it got wrecked about 15 yrs ago... 

[dodgecharger-fan]

My 73 Charger, I guess...
about the only other car I actually remember is the 4-door Chevy something-or-other that showed up to football practice with a wet paint job...
that was rolled on..
and it was ship hull red oxide paint...

[miller]

My friends drove the coolest cars: 1997 Z3, 2003 3 series, 1997 5 series, 1986 Rx-7, 1983 944, 2000 celica, 2003 Tiburon, my 1998 SHO, and then the muscle cars, 1971 chevelle SS, 1970 hemi cuda, and 1969 Dodge Charger.

The kid that owns the Cuda also owns the 3 series, and use to have a AMG Mercedes, and a Delorean.
He is also the kid that sold me my car (it was his 16th birthday present, he wanted a hemi cuda instead so they sold the charger to me)

[Dodge Don]

71 Charger R/T

[Rolling_Thunder]

My 68 Charger....    i would guess....   not the fastest but the coolest to be sure

[Charger_Fan]

The coolest cars at my school were;
a '69 Judge (all beat up...still cool),
a '78 Macho T/A,
my friend's '68 396 Cramaro,
two different '69 Z28's,
another friend's '70 GTO (we rebuilt his 455 in his garage),
some chick had a white '71 Olds 442 convertible,
one kid got to bring his Dad's '67 Vette (small block) to school now & then,
a "new" kid had a beautiful '73 'Cuda senior year,
and I drove this.



There were three of us with hotrod trucks back then, the fastest was an indian kid with a 350 shortbed '76 Chebby.
Not once in all my years of high school did any student bring a 2nd Gen Charger to school.

[Foreman72]

My friends drove the coolest cars: 1997 Z3, 2003 3 series, 1997 5 series, 1986 Rx-7, 1983 944, 2000 celica, 2003 Tiburon, my 1998 SHO, and then the muscle cars, 1971 chevelle SS, 1970 hemi cuda, and 1969 Dodge Charger.

The kid that owns the Cuda also owns the 3 series, and use to have a AMG Mercedes, and a Delorean.
He is also the kid that sold me my car (it was his 16th birthday present, he wanted a hemi cuda instead so they sold the charger to me)

man...why can't some of that car luck spread to me huh haha...but really tho, i've been blessed w/ what i have.  and someday, my 72 will be done, in high school or not...

and man i love the SHO

its right up there with the merc marauder as my fav cars from the Found On Road Dead company 

really tho, they're bangin cars

[Ghoste]

There were a bunch, the 70's were not so bad for car guys in high school.  They were just cheap used cars no one wanted.  I had a 69 Super Bee in my senior year and an unmentionable (but quick) Ford before that.  A buddy had a Road Runner GTX, there was a 69 Firebird in the lot, a bunch of Z28's and Mustangs.  All the usual stuff I guess. 

[Harlow]

There were a few 60's mustangs a 72 chevelle and I drove my '68 Satellite a few times. There were some nice newer cars but I don't think anyone actually owned the car, they were they're parents cars...real nice cars though. There was one kid that got a new FJ cruiser bought for him when they first came out.

[uud looz]

I'm not saying that mine was the coolest car but I can say that it was the only car in the parking lot with a hood scoop, it was a 78 buick regal that I stuffed a pontiac 455 down into. My dad used to say it would pass anyhing but a gas station. At the time all the kids with the mustang 5.0's sure didn't like me.

[2much2learn]

my friend jack's 75 corvette stingwray, all red with matching interior, and stacy's dodge ram "RUMBLE BEE"

[dpm68]

Truman H.S. 1982 or 3? We remember some senior stoner dude that had a jacked-up - sittin high in the back, that is, '69 Charger and we though he and his car was cool as snot.

[Kevin68N71]

My 1968 no doubt.  One guy had a Road Runner but he was always trying to put a race engine in it and was in his garage more than driving.  Another guy had like a 1976 Chevelle, but it wasn't much.  The closest thing is a guy had a new 1979 Trans Am, but his mommy and daddy obviously bought it, it was probably his mom's car.

[BigBlockSam]

this was my high school car , great gto

[SFRT]

1978:

the 'coolest' car was a tricked out 240z some rich dude owned.

the 'baddest' car belonged to a dude called Buddy and was a  AMX with a blower.

I had a real nice 69 Nova, burnt orange with blue pearl and a white interior. very clean car. it was a lowly 305 ac car, but a set of crappy headers and some cherry bombs magically transformed it.....

[dads_69]

I owned 9 or more 2nd gen chargers during h/s. My '70 R/T was my daily driver, but my '68 charger w/a 440 wedge held the record for being fastest car during that time as well, most likely to this day as well. 23 years later.

[Finn]

The college I'm at now has a lot of classics (no mopars though, Im hoping to be the first ) but I dont remember any car that really stood out in hs...

[Dans 68]

Early 70's, a Mach 1, brand spanking new, that a friend/classmate of mine had (given to him by his adoring Dad). I will never forget the first ride in that brand new car (loud and fast) nor the first time we almost passed a CHP doing over 100 mph. Oh, the good old days....

Dan

[TruckDriver]

In my high school, there was a LOT of Mopars. But the coolest (and the one I remember the most) was a all black '70 Roadrunner built 440 6pak, 4spd with the air grabber hood and aluminum slots. That car was bad ass! To bad the owner was a jerk. There was another guy who had two '73 SE Chargers with keystone mags and built 400s.

I did have a friend that had a '72 Olds Cutass with a 350 & 4spd that was a candy metal flake gold and had SS stripes in candy root beer color. The car had Keystone Classic mags with '60s all the way around. Too bad a drunk driver rear ended it and totaled it a few years later. Another cool '71 Olds got killed in front of the school when the guy who owned it let his girlfriend take it out on lunch break, and she wrapped it aound a telephone poll. Another friend had and still owns a blue '78 Trans Am.

[Old Moparz]

Cool topic, it makes me think back about a few things I've forgotten about.   

My school wasn't that big compared to some, so the amount of cars were low, therefore, lowering the "cool car" number dramatically. I think my graduating class in 1980 was about 204 students & it seemed that it was a very small percentage that drove. Nobody that I graduated with were Mopar fans but there were two guys that were ahead of me that graduated in 1979, & both had 1969 Chargers. One of them was owned by the auto shop teacher (A Mopar guy who also had a 1971 or 72 Satellite Sebring) & sold it to him. It was a light copper or tan, but the kid only had it a few months before he caved the passenger quarter panel in from an accident. I never saw the car again after he graduated.

The other Charger was bought by a friend of mine named Alan. He said the reason he bought it was because he like the other one that the auto shop teacher had & sold to the other guy. His was also a light gold with a black vinyl top, 383-4V, automatic, & Cragar SS mags. He bitched about the low mpg & swapped to a 2V, but I doubt he saved much. I rode in that car & loved it. It was the first time I was ever in a Charger, but I had liked them before that. We lost touch after high school so I have no idea what became of the car. The one thing I remember most about it though, was that it looked great even just parked.

There were the usual daily drivers back then that were boring, like mine, but this was when trucks & CB radios were the big deal, & the ones that I remember were....

A mid 60's Chevy step side a guy named John owned. It was done up in primer, but looked cool. He kept it simple with not much added & did have a lift kit & larger tires.

Another car was an early 70's Mercury Comet that was just a 6 banger, but it was mint. Mike's Comet was bright orange, black interior, Cragar SS mags, & one of those 2 story tall CB whips on the back....LOL

Another guy, Danny, had a mid 70's Ford F-150 that was lifted up & had all the accessories added to it. It was a rolling ad for whatever JC Whitney sold....LOL. Like a chromed, non-functional roll bar with a gazillion lights on it. Mud flaps with chrome trim & chrome naked ladies, push bar, grab handles, bed rails, tow hooks, tow chains, toe nails, & other towing features that you need to drive 1.2 miles on paved roads to school. It looked great compared to the POS I had, a 1972 Datsun 510 station wagon that could barely get out of it's own way & full of dents.   

This isn't mine, but it's the exact same car, even the color. The only thing cool about mine was, I had a stereo that was worth three times the car & a Pink Floyd sticker on the back.   

That car was bad ass! To bad the owner was a jerk. 

That was exactly what I thought too. The Danny character with the F-150 was like that & I don't think we ever spoke in the entire 4 years of high school.   

[hemi68charger]

My '68 Charger........ It made my 2002 20th HS Reunion's "top-10" list of things remembered.. My Charger was number 6...    This was back in '82...

Remember Andy?

[41husk]

I graduated in 79 and there was a 79 pontiac TA, every one thought was so cool all the decals.  Several 55-57 chevys in student parking lot.  Don't see any of those in the lot any more.

[The70RT]

I was in high school in 78-80. As far as I am concerned it was my 70 RT other that the 69 GTS Dart I drove then too. There was a Vega with a 350 and some other SS Chevelles and Monte's but not many mopars. I rememger a 69 Road Runner and some other Darts.

[Joshua]

1989-90, Wasilla Alaska......I had my '68 Charger R/T, and most of my freinds had musclecars.... an '66 Chevelle SS396, '64 SS Impala, '67 Mercury Comet, a couple of '67 Camaros, a KILLER '70 GTX, white with multicolor purple stripes and a fully chromed engine called "Purple Haze", and THE baddest was a '70 383 Superbee. A four speed car with fresh air hood, yellow, Centerlines and a wicked built engine. That Superbee is the reason my Charger is now yellow.
When I moved to WA in the summer of 1990 for senior year, everyone had minitrucks, except one kid who had a '70 Mach 1......it was very depressing leaving AK. AK has always been "behind the times" so to speak, which, is not a bad thing in this case....hahahaha!

[TeeWJay426]

Graduated HS in upstate NY in 1976, even beat Bob, with a graduating class of 85...

There were several Mustangs, Camaros, a couple Chevelle SS's, a 67 Fairlane GTA 390, but by far my personal fave was a brown 69 GTX 4 speed car. Mopars weren't that well represented in the school crowd, but there were some nice ones in town among the other residents. Back then, they were just used cars with big engines though. I'll never forget the first 'gas crisis' in 74, when everybody panicked as gas approached a buck a gallon... a lot of the musclecars were for sale CHEAP.... I coulda had a pristine 68 Hemi 4 speed GTX, asking price of 1100 bucks.... he ended up taking 800 for it... course I was just 16 at the time, had just gotten my license, and my Dad said NFW to that one... ended up in a 70 4 door slant six Dart. Needless to say, my high school ride wasn't one of the cool ones!

[TK73]

Marshall HS, Falls Church VA. '79 to '82

A REAL Shelby GT350 that a guy put in a ditch...

Just like this one (just a pic I found on Google):

[Rallye]

Best car in the parking lot at my high school was my '74 Gremlin X. 
Most everyone else in school would have disagreed. 
But I thought it was cool. 


   

[General_01]

I remember 3 really cool vehicles driven by my classmates. The first one was a '71 or a '72 Cuda driven by Troy Hradsky. I am not sure about the engine and drivetrain. It was a Slivver metallic in color. He went to quite a few parties and I remember after one weekend he came to school and the center of the hood had a nice half-circle dent in the front edge from running into a small post os a tree. I was not in the same circle as Troy so we did not converse that much.

The second vehicle was a '55 Chevy stepside pickup owned by Trevor Swift. That thing was Cherry. He redid that whole truck, installed a beautiful oak bed and painted it a nice Blue metallic. Awesome truck.

The third was also a 1955 Chevy owned by Elliot Radescher<?>. Can't quite remember his last name right now. His was not quite as nice as Trevor's, but still very, very nice. His was Maroon in color.

Those vehicles are the ones I remember at high school. The car I fell in love with and would probably try to get if it went up for sale is a nice maroon '69 Charger with a 440 six pak in it. His license plate was "SIX PAK". My Brother in law knows the guy and says he still has it to this day. This guy was not in high school. He was just a Saturday night cruiser I saw on the streets on the weekends.

EDIT: I totally forgot my buddy Conrad's car. He had a 1972 Buick Riviera with a 455 and the wrap around rear window. We used to always joke that Conrad had the fastest car, but drove like a Grandma. He never, ever, not even once, tried to lay rubber with that car.

[oldgold69]

At my school we had new 72 trans am ,455 69 gto ,69 427 vette, 69 440 rt , 69 torino 427, jag v12, 59 vette, 67gta fairlane, my 63 sport fury and 69 charger.  Shop teachers had a 72 427 vette , 55 chevy gasser.         when my son was in school in 03 he had a 69 ss 396 chevelle as a daily driver. At graduation you should have seen all the parents  drool when he left the lot in it

[TruckDriver]

Best car in the parking lot at my high school was my '74 Gremlin X. 
Most everyone else in school would have disagreed. 
But I thought it was cool. 

I love Gremlins. I used to have a friend that owned 6 or 8 of them including a factory V8 (304ci) / 3spd on the floor Gremlin. That car was a Mustang/Camero killer.

[Old Moparz]

Best car in the parking lot at my high school was my '74 Gremlin X. 
Most everyone else in school would have disagreed. 
But I thought it was cool. 
 

You got beat up a lot & stuffed in lockers, didn't you?   


I just thought of another car that a guy about 2 years ahead of me had. It was a rough 1964 GTO Ragtop with a brand new, tan leather interior installed. It needed some body work, a new top, & probably a lot of other things, considering he had a Vise-Grip as a battery terminal & a bungee cord holding the battery down. 

[Martian R/T]

There wasn't alot of really cool cars in the little farming community in Utah that I grew up in, circa 1985, I was driving a fully restored 1965 Mustang Fastback, my first project, man I miss that car, I never should have parted with it, my buddy had a 1967 Mustang Fastback with a Boss 302 in it, that car was scary fast, there was a 1972 Camaro Z28 it was all show no go, lots of jacked up chebby trucks, nothing really exciting, until one day I was sitting in English class (zzzzzzzz) I heard tires squealing, engine revving and a green flash go by, I was in love, I kept seeing it around, it belonged to my soon to be sister-in-laws brother, well it took 3 years and a lot of bargaining but the Charger was mine, and She still is to this day. 

[73TXRallye440]

[TeeWJay426]

One that I forgot was the shop teacher at school. He had a burnt orange 70 Challenger R/T he bought new, and still had the last I had heard.

[oldgold69]

i was thinking about this thread thought of other cars that were at our school or the ones nearby. two brothers i knew had an sc rambler and a rebel machine . a buddies brothers had a 68 and 69 road runners  69 el camino 454 , 72 elky 402, 66 67 gtos.  A guy i knew used to go to the dealers  on friday night and cruise the town in their hot cars.

[keepat]

I think my 66 GTO was 2nd best to a 61 Ford Starliner that was Awesome. But my car was the fastest!
Pat

[Manfred318]

When I was in High School from '01-'05 it was mostly Honda Civics and Mitsu. Eclipses so, Id have to say my '68 Charger was the coolest. I had a buddy with a '69 Satellite 4 door that was pretty freakin cool too. I think we had the only mopars at school for a pretty good while until another guy I know came rollin in one morning with a '69 383 Fury. He wrecked it doing 110mph on his way home one night about 2 weeks later. 

[Steve P.]

Graduated HS in upstate NY in 1976, even beat Bob, with a graduating class of 85...

Where in UPSTATE NY?  I am from Rottenchester. Da' Rock.........

I graduated Jan. 1978. I thought my 70' Chevelle SS was the coolest, but there was a pretty nasty 69 Camaro SS too.  BUT,,,,,  I graduated 1.5 years early and the guy with the Camaro had already failed 12th grade and then dropped out..  I feel that I won..    A few years ahead of me was a pretty cool Cudafish and one of the schools shop cars was a chopped and channeled 61 Caddy.   Our competition wasn't much. Only about 20-30 student cars..

[Tilar]

Probably the one that stood out to me was a friend of mine had a 52 Hudson Hornet that looked like it had just came off the showroom floor.  I had a 67 F-100 Ranger with a 352 and a 3 on the tree.

There weren't many Mopars other than a nice GTX and someone had a Road Runner that looked like it had been rode hard and put up wet.

About the time I graduated in 75, a friend of mine had fixed up a 70 Camaro that ran pretty hot. About that same time I had bought a 71 AMC Ambassador that had been a New York police interceptor. It had a 401 that you just couldn't kill. This friend of mine with the camaro had never been beat in his car and I had never been beat in the AMC. Everyone kept wanting us to race but neither of us wanted to lose that winning streak. 

[TeeWJay426]

Graduated HS in upstate NY in 1976, even beat Bob, with a graduating class of 85...

Where in UPSTATE NY?  I am from Rottenchester. Da' Rock.........

Little town called Richfield Springs. The population of the dairy cows outnumbered the people. The closest city was Utica; the closest place anyone has actually heard of is Cooperstown (about 20 miles away).

[69grad]

We lived in a small town in okla. POP.20,000 as a freshman I  :drool5:drooled from the 3rd story window down too a yellow 63 split window vette of a rich SOB senior!
that was 65'  Things got better thou ! As a friend of mine in Auto Mech. got a 67 Ply. Belv. GTX 426 Hemi 4 Sp. "WOW those were the days" 69 grad.

[69*F5*SE]

My graduating year was 1984 and that year there was a guy who had a red 69 Superbee he drove to school daily.  Everybody thought he was weird but c'mon he had a 69 Superbee................FREAK!!!   

[kamkuda]

this was my high school car , great gto

sweet  and the 66 , way cool.  Love the old goats

[69bronzeT5]

I hope I can finish my car by the time I graduate.

[bordin34]

If I finish mine it would be mine, some kid with a 34 Coupe that is his but not his, or a kid whose dad has a 71 or 72 440 4 speed 'Runner.