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What did the rich kids in your high school drive?

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Sorry for that poor sentence structure. I'm a believer in the theory that the cars you wish you had as a young person are the cars/trucks you will pay big money for later in life.

I graduated in 1975 so kids were driving late sixties early seventies muscle cars. We all know what happened to the price of these cars. What did you lust after during your formative years? My daughter is 29 and already misses her Nissan Xterra. I bet one day she buys a restored one.
 
"Rich kids".. my Mother beat me if I tried to snag a second glass of OJ and thinned our milk with powder crap thinking we wouldn't notice... but grade 12 (1979) I drove the very same car to school that I drove around town on Sunday!
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I never paid attention to the rich kids or what they were driving. I drove my parents' '76 B210 or '77 Ranch wagon until I got my first car. Then I drove that until graduation in '81. It had a 440 - 6bbl out of a '69 RR and a 4-speed. When it came time, my Dad told me he'd lend me some money for either a killer stereo or a car. I made the right decision. A stereo wasn't going to change my life, but this car sure did.

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70 ‘Cuda. New at the time. 340. Yellow. He was nuts.
 
1970 R/T Challenger Yellow/black vinyl top
69 Firebird 400
69 Mach I 351, Seafoam green (Girl owned)
71? Firebird 455HO

Nice cars
 
Interesting topic ! Graduated in 82. The rich kids then were driving newer camaros, & mustangs. I wasn't rich but LOVED my first car. It was a triple green 71 challenger with air. At 15 my parents came home one day & said, we saw a car you might like. I asked what it was. When they told me, i had no clue. When i saw it, it was love at 1st sight.
 
a new red 76 4 speed trans am
and he was also nuts..
 
Iroc Z's and Mustang GT's Oh yeah I forgot about Cutlass Supreme. I was a RX7 guy they hated the fact that my little 2 rotor 12a would spank them...
 
I went to a vocational HS for auto mechanics. I don't think there were any rich kids that I knew of, but plenty of performance cars. One guy had a '55 Chevy with a 383 Mopar engine with long ram intakes. He had a tilt front end and I think the carbs sat under the fenders. A '62 421 Grand Prix, and a '61 406 Ford were the hot cars. A lot of nice cars in the parking lot. I had a '60 Impala, 348 3x2's 3-speed that was a great first car. This was '64 to '68 so muscle cars were all anyone could take about. Great time to be a motor head.
 
No rich kids in my high school. The more affluent kids went to other local high schools. I worked with them at a supermarket and they poured their weekly paycheck into the cars and mods...and insurance!

'62 Vette convertible, manual
'66 Sport Fury, 383, automatic
'66 Galaxy 500, 390, automatic
'67 GTO, manual
'68 Mustang, 6 cylinder
'68 Sport Satellite, 383; automatic
'69 Firebird convertible, 400-4V, 4 speed
'69 SS 396 Chevelle, 4 speed
'70 Fury I, 440-4V
'71 Satellite, but a few perf mods (mine)
'71 Fury I, 440-4V
'71 340 Duster, automatic
'71 LTD
'71 Torino, 351, automatic
'71 Maverick, 351, automatic. Girl
'71 Shelby Cougar. Yes, I said Cougar. Maybe he had someone drop a Shelby engine in it. Automatic w/shift kit. No matter, it was scary quick and fast.
'72 Fury I, 440-4V
'72 Fury I, 440-6V (mod by owner)
'72 SS Chevelle, automatic
'72 340 Duster, automatic
'72 TransAm, 455; automatic
'72 Vette coupe, manual
'72 Challenger, automatic
'72 K5 Blazer
'72 Vega GT, manual
'72 Torino, automatic
'73 Roadrunner, 400-4V. Girl
'74 TransAm, 400, automatic
'74 Camaro, 350, manual
 
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I graduated in '74 and can remember several European cars, MGs, Datsun 240s. Seemed to be the trend with the upper class kids.

Then I remember a guy who's parents bought him a brand new 1969 Super Bee, 440 4spd. He immediately took it to a custom paint shop and had the panels painted with lace patteren. Pin striped the boarders, darker color inserts on the hood and trunk lid. Bought all new aluminium slots and 60 series tires. A real day two classic, '70s paint job and all. We all thought he was crazy but it looked good.

Remember identifying kids by what car they drove? You couldn't remember their name but you could remember their car. "You know, the guy with the '67 Nova"
 
I was a grad in 73, There were no rich kids that I can remember. Nicer cars were usuall somebody's mom's car. First I had a 64 Ferd Van... learned how to drive stick the day I bought it. Made a bed in shop class for it. My shop teacher was really suspicious about that. Then I had a 64 Sedan Deville, Big front and back seat and lotsa fukkin room too. After graduation was my first MOPAR
 
Only rich kid I knew was the daughter of Alan Grant.. He drove for Shelby in 63 till he got drafted...

His Daughter drove a 70 Shelby Mustang 428 with 2x4 that ran like crap.......

Most of the kids I went to school with had ordinary old cars, there were some muscle cars but there was also tuna boats & VW buses, one guy had a beat to death 59 Corvette... There were lots of 40's & 50's vintage cars & trucks.. There was a 36 Ford & a 23 T bucket... There were Vega's & Pinto's... There was a BMW 2002.. There was a 64 GTO, a few 66-67 Chevelle S396's The was two 69 Chevelle SS396's, There was a 69 Z28 & a 69 Camaro SS350.. There was a 60 Imperial, a 67 New Yorker... Just allot of old cars...
 
Rich kids, 70 396 SS, 72 SS 350, 72 Cutlass convertible, 63 Impala SS.

Poor kids, 74 Nova, 73 Laguna S3, 73 Montego, and the baddest car ever, at that time, in that place - 67 GS 400 4 speed, primer grey, yellow interior, Cragar G/Ts, huge smoking loud burnouts on demand.

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I had a Henry J . 327 2 spd.. Not much for a start in school.. but it gave other kids cars a run for there money.. when I left school.. I earned up enough for a Used 67 GTX and gave a whopping 2500 cdn for it.. .. sold that, and graduated to a 73 Pantera. that took all of 2 weeks to loose my licence in.. it sat for 2 years.. :)

other than that the other kids were all about equal for there starter cars.
 
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Remember identifying kids by what car they drove? You couldn't remember their name but you could remember their car. "You know, the guy with the '67 Nova"
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Nothing has changed I can go to local car shows and someone will ask if I know a certain person by his name. My usual answer for most of the people I have met a few times is: I'm not sure, what does he drive? My mind just works like that, I identify people by their cars.
 
My twin brother and I graduated in 91. We got school permits and drove to 8th grade in a 71 chevelle that we repainted when we were 14. When we got to high school in 87 in a small town it was the in thing to cruise and have a muscle car. The wealthy families bought show quality muscle cars...the poor kids fixed them up. There were 5 69 and 70 gto's, . 67 lemans, 68 roadrunner, 65 malibuSS, 70 chevelleSS, 69 barracuda formula s, 69and 78 z28's 69 chevelle, buick t type, and 80,81 trans ams, 72 monte carlo, 73 challenger. We had the 71 chevelle, 69 charger(PICTURED) and a 72 satellite. We painted all three cars ourselves before we turned 16, paid a couple hundred dollars for each car..have all 3 yet.

I remember one girl had a yugo...the starter must not have worked because every day she would get behind and push it while her boyfriend drove...she wasn't 5' tall and pushed it on the flat about 10' before it fired and they were off....never found out why she did the pushing...but it was a site to behold.

The wealthy kids car of choice was the new trans ams and iroc Camaro's. In the satellite we came up behind a new trans am on the way home from school. While we were behind him we saw the back end of the trans am go down as they floored it, so I dropped it down to second turned on the turn signal and passed him...a guy in the back seat of the ta turned completely around as he watched us go by. We couldn't even tell they were on it. Later that week. A friend said the guy in the trans am asked if he knew someone with white car with a black strobe stripe over the roof that blew his doors off....I guess we embarrassed him in front of his friends in his new car. Fond memories.
 
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I graduated in 65, the number of cars in the school parking lot was probably less than 10 student owned cars. Most of those were 10-15 year old cars. My best friend had 56 Chevy, others I remember was a 55 Ford, a 50's Volkswagen, etc. I had a 51 Buick that I was allowed to take to school the last half of my senior year. I worked after school and on the weekends from the time I was 15 to pay my parents back the $250 that it was purchased for. Picking cotton paid 10 cents a pound when I was 15. Had a neighbor that hired me to help him on the weekends which amounted to Friday after school, all day Saturday and Sunday until dark. I got in the neighborhood of $10-$12 dollars for this. Some of the guys that had graduated a year or so earlier were getting their first new cars. It was a thrill to go to the local hangout on the weekends and see those guys with 62, 63 Chevy's, early 60's Thunderbirds, and the first 64 1/2 Mustang. I don't remember any Mopars. When I got my first new car no one appreciated it until I started beating the crap out of them street racing.
 
Your responses reminded me of one car. After high school, I went to the University of Kansas. There was one hilltop with all the major dormitories. The one next to me was McCellean Hall. It had a reputation of more global students. Lots of oil money. I remember the drive in front of the hall. Fifteen bumper to bumper new Trans Ams in every color available.
 
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