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moby33 · 21 January 2009, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MrRetep

Actually I pay for gas and insurance and i paid for the wheels. and half of the car payment every month. I respect your opinion but I would appreciate if folks didnt make assumptions about my life.

Life is filled with assumptions others make about you - right or wrong, that's the world we live in. I guess I'm wrong, even a brand new $40K ride is capable of teaching life lessons.

Good for you in helping to pay for the cost of your ride, growing up in Newport Beach I know your experience is the exception and not the norm. Cheers.

gmh1013 · 21 January 2009, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by moby33

Life is filled with assumptions others make about you - right or wrong, that's the world we live in. I guess I'm wrong, even a brand new $40K ride is capable of teaching life lessons.

Good for you in helping to pay for the cost of your ride, growing up in Newport Beach I know your experience is the exception and not the norm. Cheers.

Hell my parents we trying to off me I think with all the motorcycles...
Any parent that would buy their kid a Yamaha RD350 2 stroke rocket..
is trying to kill the kid....and todays bikes are 2x's faster.
For a car I had a '70 455 Skylark GS that would smoke just about any car and would do 130.....I know, I tried .....a few times.
I wonder how I lived sometimes.

HoustonRider · 21 January 2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MrRetep

Actually I pay for gas and insurance and i paid for the wheels. and half of the car payment every month. I respect your opinion but I would appreciate if folks didnt make assumptions about my life.

so basically its a FREE truck...lol...

Boopie · 21 January 2009, 02:43 PM

1976 AMC Hornet. It was some odd electric blue color. It cost about $1,000, and was 8 years old when I got it, in 1984. My parents got it for me for my 16th birthday. I was so excited to go to one of our local department stores (the now-deceased Fedco, I believe) and buy a cassette tape deck for it. It felt great to have a car to drive around.

Pretty much ever kid I knew got a used car for their 16th birthday. Remember, Hyndais didn't debut until 1985 or so, I believe, so unless you had $$ (and my neighborhood was very solidly middle class) pretty much everyone got a used car. I remember seeing one or two "honeybee" Datsun B-210s in our high school parking lot. (Anyone remember those?) One of my friends got a new car in our senior year, an Audi Fox. He thought it was the coolest thing to get a new car and not a used one.

gmh1013 · 21 January 2009, 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrRetep

Actually I pay for gas and insurance and i paid for the wheels. and half of the car payment every month. I respect your opinion but I would appreciate if folks didnt make assumptions about my life.

I was kinda of a spoiled kid myself with nice fast car and any motorcycle i wanted....I had 3 bike at the same time in H.S...this was 1972-1976
A 350 Yamaha was 900.00 bucks....
250 husky WR about 1050.00
Suzuki TS 125 cost 500 bucks....those were the days

Bisquitlips · 21 January 2009, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MrRetep

Im currently a junior in high school and drive a 2008 Chevy tahoe

This is it

You should be ashamed of yourself young man!

Crap! Driving this ride as a junior in HS?????

I want to be you when I grow up!!!

moby33 · 21 January 2009, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bisquitlips

You should be ashamed of yourself young man!

To be honest...my finger pointing is not aimed at the young man in question...we all know what we would have said if given this choice in HS.

My parents could have afforded to buy me pretty much any car I wanted, but told me on my 13th B-day if I wanted a car in 3 yrs, it was up to me to work & save for one. That $4K rusty Mustang I bought at 15 was one of the proudest moments of my young life and I'm glad my parents pushed me.

At the time I didn't realize how much that experience would shape my outlook on life, but looking back I now realize how great it was. No doubt I plan to do the exact same things with my kids someday. Oh crap, I was sure I got rid of that soapbox!

Mrdi · 21 January 2009, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MrRetep

Im currently a junior in high school and drive a 2008 Chevy tahoe

This is it

And.... a chick magnet to boot.
Wahoo aren't you a fortunate boy.

jas55 · 21 January 2009, 03:29 PM

I wouldn't like to have to pay the petrol bill every week for that car!

zseriessub · 22 January 2009, 02:59 AM

Here she is, a 1988 model, but this was circa 1999. I put those rims on it, they were cool then, but small and pretty crappy by todays standards. I traded it in on the Jeep when I graduated HS, because I got a lot of flack from people telling me the Bimmer was a "girls car," and drove it throughout college, it was a 1999 model. It had over 200,000 miles on it when I finally sold it.

rainman_16 · 22 January 2009, 03:25 AM

I drove my parents mad in HS. I wasn't an exemplary student or child for that matter

I did ride my bike about 8 kms to school or if there was inclement weather, took public transit. Didn't get my first car until I was in my second year of university and it was a POS VW Rabbit. It leaked all sorts of fluid, the clutch slipped and the brakes weren't great but it certainly gave me an appreciation for what I had.

catman · 22 January 2009, 03:39 AM

A new 1976 HD FLH Shovelhead, sold it after 22 years of use..
This pic was the 22 year.

Alex Stylianou · 3 March 2009, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by zseriessub

Here she is, a 1988 model, but this was circa 1999. I put those rims on it, they were cool then, but small and pretty crappy by todays standards. I traded it in on the Jeep when I graduated HS, because I got a lot of flack from people telling me the Bimmer was a "girls car," and drove it throughout college, it was a 1999 model. It had over 200,000 miles on it when I finally sold it.

is that the straight six or V8 (jeep) ?

oneillba · 22 January 2009, 04:07 AM

it was purchased for the princely sum of $100 and had been sitting in my uncle's back yard for more than a year or so. It had weeds growing out of the engine block where the water pump should have been. It was a rust bucket, but the interior was clean and boy did it have a lot of chrome and electrical goodies to play with. I kept it for a year and it really did live up to the FORD acromym: Fix Or Repair Daily.

Here are a few pictures of what a restored bird looks like. Wish it was mine!

Thomas · 22 January 2009, 04:38 AM

Times sure have changed since high school and what some of us drove. At least where I live, and many other I am assumng, the highschoolers tend to drive, Vettes, Lexus, Infiniti, Jag, even a Porsche or two is seen on the parking lots these days. When I was in H.S, 30+ years ago it ws mostly
old already used up muscle cars, a few of the "rich kids" drove Monte Carlos,
new Camaros and Mustangs. Almost makes me want to go back to high school.

DSJ · 22 January 2009, 01:41 PM

1980 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Diesel (until it blew one head gasket too many) - my friends called it "Tank 1"
1983 Honda Civic S (outstanding car!)

My Olds was Ivory...

Rockrolex · 22 January 2009, 01:51 PM

I drove a 1959 Buick Invicta convertible in HS. It was the family car. Like the one in the pic, but ours was an iredescent green.

clbcpa · 22 January 2009, 02:04 PM

74 chev camaro.

Dan Pierce · 3 March 2009, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockrolex

I drove a 1959 Buick Invicta convertible in HS. It was the family car. Like the one in the pic, but ours was an iredescent green.

Beautiful!

In 1975 I turned 16 and bought my first VW, 1971 Super Beetle in baby blue. 11 VW's later I'm driving a 2003 Passat Wagon.

dP

Trurolexer · 22 January 2009, 10:39 PM

Toyota SUV and Honda Civic Estillo in Collage.

doc_colton · 22 January 2009, 11:06 PM

1969 Norton 750 Commando "S". God I loved that bike, wish I still had it.

Dr.B · 22 January 2009, 11:08 PM

Honda 500cc Interceptor motorcycle.

A1000 · 3 March 2009, 05:59 AM

My parents up the wall ;-)

fuente858 · 3 March 2009, 06:13 AM

79 Dodge Omni and an 86 Kawasaki 250 Ninja

Lion · 4 March 2009, 11:15 PM

I used my feet to get to high school through junior year. My senior year I used my mother's Toyota, can't remember the model(1970), so I could ditch school and party everyday!!!

Lisa · 5 March 2009, 12:41 AM

1975 Grand Prix, in this same color (called Persimmon) but without the landau top.

Every now and then, if my parents were feeling generous (a VERY rare ocurrence) my dad would let me drive his 1979 Trans Am... it was dark blue. I remember his had the very same wheels.

Dr. Blump · 5 March 2009, 01:05 AM

my first car in high school was a 1976 pontiac lemans. god did that thing drink the fuel!

chenx15 · 5 March 2009, 01:11 AM

adiddas

NCIS · 5 March 2009, 05:11 AM

A 1972 AMC Gremlin that was orange and black. I had to drive to school with a bag over my head, and you can guess no chicks for me.
I also had a Honda SL125 trail bike.

BLACK DIAMOND · 6 March 2009, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by NCIS

A 1972 AMC Gremlin that was orange and black. I had to drive to school with a bag over my head, and you can guess no chicks for me.
I also had a Honda SL125 trail bike.

haha!! Sweeeet! Bring back some memories for ya NCIS?

& wasn't that a Gremlin in the 1992 Waynes World flick, or was that a Pacer? Anyway, close enough.

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