If you drove to school, do you remember

[RadishRose]

High school bussed, then boyfriend drove me.
Before then, we all walked.

 

[Trade]

I bought a 1955 Olds Super 88. I spent more money fixing it up than what I paid for it.

Yeah but they were beautiful cars. After I sold the 52 Dodge I bought a used 1956 98 that was a money pit too.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Unfortunately I couldn’t afford a car in school
And usually walked the 3 miles there and back. My brother had a chslleger; a really nice car.

 

[squatting dog]

Are you sure that was street legal lol lol

You’re right. If you didn’t have to sell it, you should have never sold it.

That’s another thread to start. What was the car we all sold that we shouldn’t have. I had two of them.

It was street legal..... barely.LOL

 

[Naturally]

Only drove to school my senior year, fall 1970 / spring 1971
Drove a 1969 Chevy Biscayne. Had a 250 cu. in. 6 cyl engine, with a 2-speed automatic transmission.
Top speed was about 80 and it would get there if you gave it a minute to think about it.

 

[squatting dog]

That’s another thread to start. What was the car we all sold that we shouldn’t have. I had two of them.

My list would be wayyy too long. Be darn hard to choose just one.

59 cars,
34 trucks motorhomes and busses
27 race cars
15 motorcycles
4 boats
16 trailers and tractors
15 unfinished cars, trucks and bikes

 

[seadoug]

I rode the bus up until senior year in high school. It was '76 and my dad bought me a '73 Opel Manta that had been in an accident. He knew that because it was traded in by one of his business associates. It had an add-on air conditioning unit and the dealership had replaced the Manta engine with a smaller GT engine. Every time I would go in for an oil/filter change the mechanics would say "it takes an Opel GT filter".

When I would try to go fast I would roll down the windows, turn off the A/C and ask any riders to paddle their hands outside the windows. I would then yell "turbo" and we would still barely move. It was a cool-looking car nonetheless, imported by Buick at the time. It was burgundy, like in the pic.

I kept that Opel for 4 years. Even though it was painfully slow, there was something special about it, and I'm sure I was the only one in my high school class with a German car. Today I own Audis, so go figure.

 

[HoneyNut]

Oh no, another gap in my memory. It's so disconcerting to have no memory of something. I do remember driving to school my senior year, but I don't remember driving my car, I think I drove my mom's. She had gone to a one year training for work in 1973/74 halfway across the country (from Missouri to Virginia) and I went with her and did my high school senior year there. Now I'm wondering if I left my 1965 Mustang at home for my dad to drive and Mom & me took the Dodge Dart with us. Nobody alive to ask now.

 

[dobielvr]

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[oldman]

Yeah but they were beautiful cars. After I sold the 52 Dodge I bought a used 1956 98 that was a money pit too.

Brings back a lot of good memories. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Veronica]

Inner city kid. We were poor so no car. I would walk to school and save my bus fare. I didnt learn to drive until after I was married.

 

[Trade]

Brings back a lot of good memories. Thanks for sharing.

If I had unlimited money I think a fully restored 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 would be my dream car.

 

[Imogene]

If I had unlimited money I think a fully restored 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 would be my dream car.

If we’re going big, I once had a 1959 Cadillac coupe Deville for a winter beater, if you can believe that lol lol

That is what I would want to restore. I love those big wings.

And of course, that would be assuming I had more money than brains, so I would want Derek Bieri, of Vice Grip Garage fame, to restore it for me since he only lives an hour or so away from me

There would be some interesting stuff going on underneath the hood of that car

 

[Rae]

I didn't have a car to drive to school but my Mom let me drive her car sometimes. She was a nurse at the hospital and I had to go pick her up when her shift was over. I took other kids with me. I think it was a Ford sedan but can't remember the name.

 

[C50]

I actually had three cars during high school, I already mentioned my first, a Buick Lasabre.

My second car was a Plymouth Barracuda I purchased for $75 dollars from a Hells Angel, a friend of my brother. When I bought it the trunk was completely filled with dirt, the guy said it was the only way to get traction in the winter.lol

Then my senior year I bought a Ford Torino off one of my teachers, of course it was another rust bucket but it did great burn outs. On graduation day us seniors were all doing burn outs as we left and I stopped right in front of the teacher I bought the car from and did a nice power brake burnout and smoked up the entire area, my way of saying "later".

 

[stretch5881]

My Dad pointed out very strongly, "I pay for the big yellow taxi, you're riding the big yellow taxi!"

 

[Lilac]

Dad always had old beaters to drive to work & the last one he had before he retired was a 1972 Ford Pinto station wagon. After I got my license, the car was mine. He retired just before my senior year, so I got to drive to school then.

 

[Veronica]

All this car talk made me remember that after we moved to the country the husband bought this really cool old car.
I think it was from the 1950's but Im not sure. Now its bugging me cause I cant remember what it was. Anybody have a clue.

What I liked most about it was the speedometer. Instead of a dial it went in a straight line. It had a colored line that changed colors
as your speed increased. I wish the new cars came with one. I would love to have an old car but then I would have to snag a guy
to work on it and thats not going to happen.

Neither of us are mechanical so he lost interest in it and we decided to sell it. Parked it out front and some lady hit it.
Insurance company paid us for it and took it.

 

[squatting dog]

All this car talk made me remember that after we moved to the country the husband bought this really cool old car.
I think it was from the 1950's but Im not sure. Now its bugging me cause I cant remember what it was. Anybody have a clue.

What I liked most about it was the speedometer. Instead of a dial it went in a straight line. It had a colored line that changed colors
as your speed increased. I wish the new cars came with one. I would love to have an old car but then I would have to snag a guy
to work on it and thats not going to happen.

Neither of us are mechanical so he lost interest in it and we decided to sell it. Parked it out front and some lady hit it.
Insurance company paid us for it and took it.

The American car you're describing is the Oldsmobile from the late 1950s to early 1960s (primarily 1959–1962 models, such as the Dynamic 88, Super 88, and Ninety-Eight).
This design was a short-lived GM innovation, discontinued after 1962–1963 in favor of conventional gauges.

 

[Veronica]

The American car you're describing is the Oldsmobile from the late 1950s to early 1960s (primarily 1959–1962 models, such as the Dynamic 88, Super 88, and Ninety-Eight).
This design was a short-lived GM innovation, discontinued after 1962–1963 in favor of conventional gauges.



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Thats the one. Thanks ever so much.
I still wish they offered that speedometer. You cant get in the zone with the new ones.
JMO but I think it was a lot more "readable" than the conventional ones.

 

[oldman]

If I had unlimited money I think a fully restored 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 would be my dream car.

I wish I still had my pictures. As I posted in the past, our home burned to the ground a year after I retired. Losing our pictures was painful.
I would like to have this car back and my 1962 Impala.