Rich kid cars.

[halfafish]

We didn't have any rich kids where I grew up. We were all "OK" on the good side, to a bit less than that for some families. The coolest car in high school was a kid in my class that had an Olds 442. It was either green with gold accents or the other way around. It was a beauty, one I've not forgotten in all these years.

 

[cosgig]

I grew up in a small farm town, no rich kids in sight. One kid I knew drove a Porsche but it was the ugly long hood short tail car. He was a nice kid and only drove it because he was given the car. I do remember that when the new rock station had a contest to win every single record they had as the prize, he won. He had 1000’s of albums and we would go to his house and listen to albums. His dad was a turtle biologist, and he lived in a house in the U of M sanctuary. Some of us drove “works in progress”, most drove farm trucks. We rode our dirt bikes to school down the old railroad bed after they took the tracks. Horses were also a big source of transportation for us as well. It was a good life!

 

[Armyvet25]

The only car I really noticed or drooled over in my graduation year of 79 was my buddies green 69 2dr 300

 

[YY1]

My neighborhood was absolutely "car people" though.

On my street alone-

1963 fairlane 390 four speed
1070 monte carlo 454 blown, tubbed
1965 chevelle ss
1977 mustang cobra II four speed
1977 firebird formula
1966 comet cyclone
1967 mustang
1975 hurst olds (five Hurts olds cutlasses in my neighborhood!)
1957 bel air restomod (in 1985)
1970 skylark gsx clone

...and my 66 Coronet, 72 skylark, and 66 olds 98 425

 

[6PKRTSE]

I was definitely not a rich kid. However, I was working under the table as they say as a kid until I was 15 and could get a work permit. I continued working and worked hard for my money in a constuction/steel erecting and material handling job. I saved and bought my current 70 Charger R/T S.E. as a kid in school that I still own today and that is still unrestored now with like 259,000 miles on it. Looking back at things now. I did have more money as a teenager than I do now after working 40 years....

 

[threewood]

I had a few classmates that had new IROC Camaros, one with a newer Monte Carlo, i remember a white Mustang GT convertible, one had a new Alfa Romeo Spider. The rest drove normal cars and beaters.
Class of 1991.

 

[YY1]

Most of my school was in awe of the one girl whose parents bought her a brand new chevette!

90% of our families couldn't afford a brand new anything.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

We had the kids of farmers and ranchers, all the ones I knew worked hard before and after school... So it's not like they were given anything...

We did have a pretty hot girl that drove a 69 Shelby Mustang, 428 4spd, her dad was Allen Grant, he'd been a team driver for Shelby but by the time his daughter was in H/S he was a big general contractor here in Modesto...

 

[SteveSS]

This was in college, but in my first year at KU there was a hot girl that drove a white 1969 Camaro SS convertible with orange stripes and the hound's tooth interior. We made fun of it as being ragged out. it was only 6 years old. That car is worth a fortune today.

The dorm next to mine had all the Middle-Eastern students and in front of the dorm there was always a line of new Trans Ams in all different colors.