coolest car in high school

[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.