Anyone still have their High School ride?

[1KoolBee]

Yep, got her me senior year, Sept ‘75 for $400 after my ‘67 4-speed GTX fell through due to insane insurance obstacles. By a series of miracles she survived my youth! Original drivetrain intact.

 

[Hey-O]

No, she had already finished high school when we met.

I was thinking the same thing. That ride is history. LOL

 

[XS22J8R]

I'm impressed to see a lot of people here beside myself still have their HS rides!
I think I'll stick with registering my convertible to celebrate its 55th birthday/SBD-day. Then I'll check in with Bob Ashton in coming months to see how things are going for the Still own their High School Ride feature display. If he's having trouble recruiting a lot of good cars for the feature, I'll sign up the T/A to help out. If he's getting a bunch of interest, I'll just stick with taking the one car to the show. My T/A sort of got lost in the crowd last time I had it at MCACN in the 20 or so cars that ended up in the 2021 AAR/TA feature and Id rather not go through the hassles of bringing it if it'll not get much attention.
Though I haven't heard if there will be a Malaise feature happening this year after my Malaise muscle display in 2022 and follow up smaller GM colonnade feature last year. With my luck he'll decide to have a Malaise era Mopar display and I'll have to sign up the Magnum...

 

[turbine68rt]

Bought the Charger when I was 19 while I still had my first car, a '72 SSP.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Bought the Charger when I was 19 while I still had my first car, a '72 SSP.
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Awesome car... To bad it doesn't have a little badge between the scallops.. Though honestly, I owned one Hemicar... It really wasn't my cup-O-tea...

 

[turbine68rt]

Awesome car... To bad it doesn't have a little badge between the scallops.. Though honestly, I owned one Hemicar... It really wasn't my cup-O-tea...

Thank you sir, by the time I got this one the prices for just about any Hemi car were way out of my league for a blue collar worker. The original 440 is plenty of fun though.

 

[Coelacanth]

I still have my '70 Charger, the first car I bought back in 1986, I was in Grade 12. My father bought a Buick Grand National in 1986 and I got to drive it to school a couple times, and drove it to my grad. I also still have that GN, bought it from my dad about 15 years ago.

 

[SteveSS]

Lord-a-mercy I wish I did. I've spent a fortune trying to relive those days. I can't afford my main car a 1966 Mustang 2+2 fastback 289. Midnight blue.

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

My stepdad still has his, a blue and white ‘68 Sport Fury Fast-Top with a 318. He wanted this car ever since he opened up the 1968 sales brochure. He bought it in 1980 and graduated in 1982, it was a gas station find. It was in the high school Mopar display at Carlisle last year….

 

[XS22J8R]

It sounds like the MCACN high school rides feature is turning out to be a popular idea. There are over 30 cars registered for it. I can't wait to see the cars that people still have from their high school days when at the show in less than 2 months!

 

[6PKRTSE]

It sounds like the MCACN high school rides feature is turning out to be a popular idea. There are over 30 cars registered for it. I can't wait to see the cars that people still have from their high school days when at the show in less than 2 months!

I was invited to take mine. I just don't have the time or money to travel 4-5 hours each way just for a car show....

 

[XS22J8R]

I was invited to take mine. I just don't have the time or money to travel 4-5 hours each way just for a car show....

MCACN is far from being "just a car show". It's "the" car show as far as 60s and 70s musclecars go. Some call it the Pebble Beach of Muscle car shows, a concours of sorts.
I get it though, it's a pain trailering a car from 100s of miles away. Move in on Thursday and Friday are a pain in the azz between sitting in line to get in the hall, then having to park the trailer in the marshalling yard etc.
But every year I see all the people trailering cars from all over the country to be there, or paying Reliable 1000s of dollars to deliver their cars there, then they fly in to O Hare, spend the weekend, fly home Sunday night or Monday morning, and Reliable shows up at their house a few days later bring their car home. Some collectors even have more than one car there, they must run up close to a $10,000 tab to have their cars in the show for the weekend between Reliables bill, hotel, and plane fare!
On the other hand, I meet locals with cool cars that would be great cars to display at MCACN, who act like it would be the biggest imposition in the world for them to try to get their car 20 or 30 miles to the convention center and then get it back home Sunday evening or Monday morning.
Some people fly in from Europe and Australia to see the show.
You get all types I guess, people who can't wait to bring their cars 2500 miles to be in the show, others who can't be bothered to bring their cars 25 miles to be there! To each his own. I'm lucky I am close enough I've driven my car there, or hired a friend who does car deliveries to take my car there if the streets are wet. I've seen other locals who hire tow companies to bring cars on roll offs.
I'm sort of bummed my high school ride T/A won't be in the feature, but it's already been in the show 3 times. Bob as a rule doesn't want a car in the show more than 2 times with rare exceptions, so its for the best the limited space isn't taken by my car that's been in so many past years shows. And I have to decide if I want to spend the bucks to get my convertible detailed and ceramic coated for its time in the Mopar Alley display this year, time is running short to do that!

 

[6PKRTSE]

MCACN is far from being "just a car show". It's "the" car show as far as 60s and 70s musclecars go. Some call it the Pebble Beach of Muscle car shows, a concours of sorts.
I get it though, it's a pain trailering a car from 100s of miles away. Move in on Thursday and Friday are a pain in the azz between sitting in line to get in the hall, then having to park the trailer in the marshalling yard etc.
But every year I see all the people trailering cars from all over the country to be there, or paying Reliable 1000s of dollars to deliver their cars there, then they fly in to O Hare, spend the weekend, fly home Sunday night or Monday morning, and Reliable shows up at their house a few days later bring their car home. Some collectors even have more than one car there, they must run up close to a $10,000 tab to have their cars in the show for the weekend between Reliables bill, hotel, and plane fare!
On the other hand, I meet locals with cool cars that would be great cars to display at MCACN, who act like it would be the biggest imposition in the world for them to try to get their car 20 or 30 miles to the convention center and then get it back home Sunday evening or Monday morning.
Some people fly in from Europe and Australia to see the show.
You get all types I guess, people who can't wait to bring their cars 2500 miles to be in the show, others who can't be bothered to bring their cars 25 miles to be there! To each his own. I'm lucky I am close enough I've driven my car there, or hired a friend who does car deliveries to take my car there if the streets are wet. I've seen other locals who hire tow companies to bring cars on roll offs.
I'm sort of bummed my high school ride T/A won't be in the feature, but it's already been in the show 3 times. Bob as a rule doesn't want a car in the show more than 2 times with rare exceptions, so its for the best the limited space isn't taken by my car that's been in so many past years shows. And I have to decide if I want to spend the bucks to get my convertible detailed and ceramic coated for its time in the Mopar Alley display this year, time is running short to do that!

I agree. It is the world's best musclecar car show. I would drive mine there and back. I just don't have the time to spare or money as mentioned.

 

[XS22J8R]

Understood. It's a big commitment for most people. Those guys who use Reliable to bring cars in from the other side of the country most likely are multi-millionaires whose decision to spend that kind of money to be in the show, is to them like deciding to spend the money to go to a concert nearby and go out to dinner beforehand for most of us regular folks!
Close to 25% of the cars at the show are brought in by major car transporters, mostly Reliable.
Here is a picture of near the beginning of set up on a Thursday, these huge rigs move in by the dozens to unload. After that, the smaller personal rigs with one and two car trailers come in for the next day and a half of setup.
Lot of money out there....

 

[Belvedere408]

Not my car I drove to high school, as I didn’t drive. But I do have my first car, my 1969 Dodge Dart custom slant 6 Bought it for 225$ in 1999. It’s a full on project car at this point.

 

[RemCharger]

Not my car I drove to high school, as I didn’t drive. But I do have my first car, my 1969 Dodge Dart custom slant 6 Bought it for 225$ in 1999. It’s a full on project car at this point.
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I had one just like that red/ white paint top. Turns out it started life as a hertz rental car

 

[Belvedere408]

I had one just like that red/ white paint top. Turns out it started life as a hertz rental car

Mine is original beige with green interior.

 

[gdrill]

Unfortunately, 35 years ago isn't when I was in high school! It was a little longer. But I recovered this car in this condition a bunch of years back and I owned it and gave it away 35 ago. You may notice it isn’t Mopar.

 

[threewood]

Great cars and I'm happy to see most of you still have them. I sold mine a few years after high school. It was an orange rusty 68 Charger 383 auto. I loved that car but it needed new metal back then and I was broke without a lot of tools or a welder.

 

[3sloppydogs]

A good friend of mine still has his. Here’s the story
Way back in 1972 or 73 the county through his neighborhood and installed public sewer. Everyone had to connect within a certain time. His neighbor’s house was in a crazy location and plumbers were to expensive to do the job. This is the time before skid steers and mini excavators.
So the neighbor told my buddy if you dig the trench I will give you this car. He hand dug the the whole trench so the plumber could do the connection.
He still has his 1957 Chevrolet 2dr 210 model, turquoise and white
That he dug a trench for