Rich kid cars.

[toolmanmike]

I grew up in the early 70's. (graduated in 73) In high school there inly a couple Mopars. Jim Holmes had a black 63 Polara and I had my 69 Road Runner. There was a couple Camaro's, one a 302 Z car, a Boss 302 Mustang, one farm kid drove a Shelby 350, another farm kid had a 67 396 Chevelle, a cool Bahama Blue 67 Chevy II with a hot 327 and one kid bought a black Maverick new. A 302 car when they first were available. Day 2 it got Cragars and headers of course. One guy had a purple 54 Chevy. My friend Dave had a pale yellow 67 Fairlane, a 390 4 speed car that I could easily wax with my 383 Road Runner. Not bad for a small town with a population of around 2000. What a great time to grow up in. (well I never really grew up) I need to get on Facebook and see if I can round up some photos. We still had farm kids driving a pick up to school with a shotgun in a rack in the back window. LOL

I started a Facebook post and have received a few comments and some photos. I'll post some up later. Fun to see those old cars again.

 

[ESOXER]

 

[kiwigtx]

The burning question remains...... how is that lawnmower going Steve ? ...

 

[440 PHIXX]

Back when I turned 16, I remember a few guys my age got new cars. Datsun 280ZX, 2nd gen Trans Am, Bronco… I wasn’t impressed with any of them.

I’m still not. And have to laugh at someone paying $50k and up for those T/A’s.

 

[ESOXER]

 

[Coelacanth]

I graduated in 1986. For my era, the rich kid cars were the Foxbody 'Stangs, IROC Camaros and one guy had a brand new...*cough* Honda Prelude. One girl surprisingly had a Starsky-and-Hutch-painted Torino. I had my rusty F8 green '70 Charger, my buddy had a '71 Charger the same color. I never lusted at other people's cars. I probably never would've thought I'd one day be restoring that high school Charger, but I never considered selling it and had a lot of fun and memories driving it.

 

[kiwigtx]

...I know my rights !!!!

 

[autoxcuda]

Kids in my HS had “older money” so they were careful how they showed it. I was actually from another district.

One had a new 5.0 GT. His dad owned one the biggest realtor groups in LA area. He had a mini bike too he would run around campus during school hours. His mom was a Bel Air trophy wife. His brother was in and out of rehab before his junior year.

Others had new Jeep Wanglers, a few 3-4 year old BMW 318’s.

The kids that were movie stars were pretty low key: Patti Dukes’ 2 kids, older brother on The Wonder Years, one of the lifeguards Baywatch.

 

[eldubb440]

I don't recall any rich kids; a few of us had jobs lol......... one dude bought a new 83 5.0 mustang........ it was a slug at best

 

[Phantomx]

I graduated from a rural school just south of Sacramento in ‘90. The one rich kid had a new bmw 2 door 318 I think it was. Other kids had their parents or grand parents hand me down mid size sedans. There were about 6 kids with various 65-68 Mustang coupes, half of which were very clean/restored. A couple guys had late model mini trucks that were lowered with “rims”. One was a pretty custom 85 ext cab Toyota that was slammed, custom paint, targa top, and expensive wheels. There was a guy who had an early 80s chp Mustang, carb’d 302 and 4 speed. He was good at e-brake turns. My bro had a 66 elcamino and I had a 66 valiant signet hardtop, but we were poor so they weren’t particularly nice or fast.
Travis..

 

[BDF6]

A couple of middle eastern sisters drove an Excalibur, an investor's son showed up in different things like a brand new Delorean, Porsche 928 & a blown 427 Corvette.

 

[JackR]

My 64 falcon with plywood floors wasn’t that for sure.

 

[chargervert]

I have been out of High School for 43 years and I finally bought the car the rich kids had back then!

 

[Mackman]

I graduated high school in 1973. A girl in the class behind mine drove a Bricklin to school.

 

[YY1]

Nobody really "rich" in my HS.
The best neighborhood in the township was one, maybe two tax brackets higher.
Class of 86.
One girl got a new 82 camaro rs for her 16th birthday.
Lots of kids had cutlasses, both older and newer.
One kid had a newish black square body 2 door impala with corvette rally wheels.

One of my friends who's dad worked on the B-1 project had a nice factory red and black 1970 nova ss 350 four speed car, which he wrecked and tried to replace it with a bondo bucket 307 car that had been brown/gold and poorly painted red. They were by far, the richest people I knew.

We did have the sons of a local drag racer and engine builder. The Kammer brothers.
One had a bronze Hemi Challenger, the other a B5 69 V code Super Bee.

 

[mmissile]

I remember the coolest cars in school, were 3-5 years old and very fast. If there were kids with new/expensive cars...I don't remember them.
I graduated in `74. There was lots of muscle, floating around.

 

[YY1]

Girl down the street wasn't rich, but had some rich friends.
She, herself went through a 73 cutlass, 76 monte carlo, and finally a fairly nice 73 nova.
One of her friends was given a new olds 98 2 door for graduation.
She hated it and after 2 months, traded it in on a new 84 cutlass.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Growing up in a predominantly blue collar area during the 70’s, “rich kids” had nice second hand muscle cars, tri-5 Chevies or punked out pickup trucks. Most everyone else drove rusted junk or a family car. It was something to see though, the student parking lot resembled what today would be considered a car show…

 

[68BabyBlue]

A generation after I graduated from high school, my daughter was one of the rich kids in her high school. I was doing my corporate general counsel gig, and my wife was director of marketing for a community college. I set my daughter up with a 1991 twin turbo Dodge Stealth R/T, after she built her accident free driving hours on her initial beater, a '79 Cadillac Seville. I didn't give it to her, she was required to make a payment of $200 a month, and keep her grades up. When neither happened, I took the Stealth away, and put her back in the old Cadillac.

She went down a bad road for the next ten years, and my wife held me at least partly at fault for allowing the Stealth. My daughter finally reached the point of being able make the connection between actions and consequences. In adulthood, her dream car is a turbo Stealth, not the GTXs she grew up with.

 

[guy gadbois]

Only a couple of rich kids in my high school - two gorgeous girls a year behind me. [I graduated in 78] They had late model Camaros and each got a new Corvette upon graduation.
The 'fairly comfortable' kids and those with overindulgent parents had late model F bodies mostly; I bet there were a dozen Firebird Esprits in that parking lot, all owned by girls. Their male counterparts usually had Z28s, unless they were in to dirt bikes - which many were- and they had new vans. One guy had a new extended Dodge with TWO Maicos in it!
Most of them either had parent hand me downs, beater mid 60s domestic sedans or older VWs. The 'rural kids' all had pickups, ranging from mid 50s beaters to pretty nice early 70s stuff. Those of us who were interested in cars all got a job and bought interesting stuff; in my immediate circle of friends/acquaintances there were a 70 RoadRunner, a 71 340 Duster, a 67 Camaro, a 65 Impala SS, 66 Impala SS, a 70 Corvette and a 40 Ford Coupe, plus one mildly customised Ford van.
68 to 72 Olds Cutlasses were very popular and an 'aspirational' vehicle for many - "Cutlasses are Dece" was a common phrase.