Anyone still have their High School ride?

[70runner]

Don't have the car anymore but still got the pic.

 

[Billccm]

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.

In 1986 I contacted Dave at Totally Auto in Bensalem PA about restoration of my first car (1969 Coronet). At that time he wrote a feature in MoPerformance magazine and was considered the poor man's Mopar resto shop. No AMD repo metal in those days.

I ended up driving my Coronet up to a show in mid Ohio that Dave was attending so he could assess my car. I'll keep the story short by saying a complete trunk floor fab, floorboard patches, rust repair around the backlight corners, lower quarter patches, paint, and a new vynil top, and a few other items was estimated at $25,000. That's in 1986 money which is about $77,000 in today's dollars. This didn't include motor and transmission work which my neighbor was going to do around $2,000 (he was a master mechanic at Jake Sweeney Chrysler in Cincinnati).

I was making around $34,000 a year in 1986.

Regretting the decision is easy today, but all things considered I let my car go to a guy who was basically parting it out.

It would be a dream come true to have it back.

 

[cosgig]

My first ride. I’ve had this since I was 11 years old. Every kid in my neighborhood has grown up riding this. I call it “old blue”! Not a Mopar, true, but it’s still a cool ride!

 

[58belvedere]

No picture, but I still have my 1958 Chevy Cameo pickup from 1977! Senior in High School.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

No picture, but I still have my 1958 Chevy Cameo pickup from 1977! Senior in High School.

Well there should be... Cameo's are pretty rare, cool truck..

 

[threewood]

In 1986 I contacted Dave at Totally Auto in Bensalem PA about restoration of my first car (1969 Coronet). At that time he wrote a feature in MoPerformance magazine and was considered the poor man's Mopar resto shop. No AMD repo metal in those days.

I ended up driving my Coronet up to a show in mid Ohio that Dave was attending so he could assess my car. I'll keep the story short by saying a complete trunk floor fab, floorboard patches, rust repair around the backlight corners, lower quarter patches, paint, and a new vynil top, and a few other items was estimated at $25,000. That's in 1986 money which is about $77,000 in today's dollars. This didn't include motor and transmission work which my neighbor was going to do around $2,000 (he was a master mechanic at Jake Sweeney Chrysler in Cincinnati).

I was making around $34,000 a year in 1986.

Regretting the decision is easy today, but all things considered I let my car go to a guy who was basically parting it out.

It would be a dream come true to have it back.

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Cool car. That girl in the back is admiring the car, too.

I still have my Nissan Pathfinder that I bought from Jake Sweeney in 2008.