High school beaters
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From: Perkasie, Pa.
My HS car was a 1981 Ford Fairmont Futura. Had a 6 cylinder with a whopping 90 hp. The car weighed about 5000lbs. It could hit 80mph after about 30 minutes on the highway. That was before one of the cylinders took a crap. Then I had a five cylinder fairmont, it wouldn't die though. Started everytime and ran rough (sounded like a tractor) but it would not die. I used it to take a cemented Basketball pole out of the ground after all else failed. I rammed it and put a nice dent in the bumper ,but it came out of the ground. Aaaaaahhhh.......Good times!
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From: SE, Michigan
I still have my truck that I drove in high school, I graduated in 2000. Its my 1982 F100. I had one of the oldest vehicles. My dad gave me the truck after he bought his 1992 F150. I had to do a little work to it and started driving it Febuary 13, 1999. I drove it for a year and a half til I bought my 1995 F150 in September 2000. Check my gallery for my 1982 F100 and the 1995 F150. Im glad I still have both of the trucks. My dad bought the 1982 F100 in 1991 for $1000. Fred
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I had a 68 DartGT in high school, ugly green, however it was my shredmobile. And I restored it Then got a three year old Fiero which I sold after a year and then right after I graduated I got a 66 Bronco, Man I loved that bronco. Lifted, Lights, Hurst fLoor shifter, headers w/ tubo mufflers out the side. I couldnt afford the Gas with all the driving I was doing. But I would have kept it if I would have been able to afford two cars at the time.
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From: shepherd
i had a 91 subaru legacy with a magnaflow muffler. it was fast as hell and the loudest 4 banger with a polished exhaust around. we had another subaru that was a 5 speed wagon. it was an 82 and the color was a tan color. it stank, the inside was dirty and ripped and the clutch slipped. it had a 1.6 liter horizontally apposed motor. anyway i bolted the muffler on it and ran it for a week.
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From: Surrey, BC, Can.
Originally Posted by FlaresideGlenn
1963 Pontiac Acadian - all steel dash - no seatbelts - good thing the inline 6 wasn't fast enough to get into trouble - I might have banged my head 
That was kind of a cool car - not many people - even the GM people - had even heard of a 63 Acadian - it was a Canadian model only I think - sister to the Chevy II I belive. It was given to me by an uncle of mine - sometimes I wish I still had it.
Anyone else ever heard of it or did I have a REALLY rare car when I was a kid and not know it
Glenn
That was kind of a cool car - not many people - even the GM people - had even heard of a 63 Acadian - it was a Canadian model only I think - sister to the Chevy II I belive. It was given to me by an uncle of mine - sometimes I wish I still had it.
Anyone else ever heard of it or did I have a REALLY rare car when I was a kid and not know it
Glenn
My first was a 69 Fairlaine 4 door then a 2 door, then my 71 mustang
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From: grand rapids
Those were the days,my first was a baretta but thanks to gm and there 2.4l quad four "boat anchor" the recall got me out of that loan in four days, so my first was a 80 f-150 and man its still difficult to determine who was the actual beater but I learned how to run amanual,extract chevys,roll your truck back over,replace countless parts,and take a good laughing at school,but still even when its made jarring cluncks from the rear end , or at the gas station filling the oil and checking the gas,I loved that truck,even won 100 bucks for my school drag racing at the track(minus the front drive shaft&tailgate)Geo THIS!And man talk about birth control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: shepherd
Originally Posted by f100guy
i had a 91 subaru legacy with a magnaflow muffler. it was fast as hell and the loudest 4 banger with a polished exhaust around. we had another subaru that was a 5 speed wagon. it was an 82 and the color was a tan color. it stank, the inside was dirty and ripped and the clutch slipped. it had a 1.6 liter horizontally apposed motor. anyway i bolted the muffler on it and ran it for a week.
i stripped the differential in the 91 suby so while i looked around for a new vehicle i drove the suby station wagon for a week and decided to make it fun so i bolted the magnaflow muffler system to the station wagon since they were the same, it bolted right up and i used a rubber strap to hold the pipe up. it sounded pretty cool but all my buddies at school would mess with me. they backed up to it in the mud at school and put mud all over the front of it and also pushed it around the parking lot. i did not mind though, it couldn't hurt it any more. i then got my 82 super cab that i have in my gallery and it had sidepipes that shot 3 foot flames out.
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From: CT
My first car (well, truck 
) was when I was a senoir in HS (Last year ) . It was a 2002 F-350 Larait. Not a bad truck 
It had the 7.3L Diesel engine, and it was a supercab long bed.I bought it used, it had about 32,000 miles on her, and I paid about $23K. When I got rid of her about 1 year later, she had about 58,000 miles. I was the only kid in school with a diesel truck, and had to set the record straight with some of the ricer kids Ahhh the HS days . . . . .
) was when I was a senoir in HS (Last year ) . It was a 2002 F-350 Larait. Not a bad truck It had the 7.3L Diesel engine, and it was a supercab long bed.I bought it used, it had about 32,000 miles on her, and I paid about $23K. When I got rid of her about 1 year later, she had about 58,000 miles. I was the only kid in school with a diesel truck, and had to set the record straight with some of the ricer kids Ahhh the HS days . . . . .
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From: Woodland Hills, CA
My first car was a 93 Nissan Quest. Got it at 162K and brought it up all the way to 205k before trading my grandma for an '82 Mustang that'll make a great sleeper some day. Got ****ed off that I ended up with my dad's old p.o.s. so I took out the whole interior behind the front seats and used it as a pickup. Then I got really bored one day with a wrench so I took out the bolts after the cat and before the muffler so I could have a psuedo straight-piped car. REALLY loud for a 3.0 SOHC V6. Louder than most ricers and with the V6 (with all of the goveners removed) and no weight in the back pretty fast too. Got better gas milage than my Bronc too but it was still a minivan. Rented it out to a buddy a few times because it had a lot of rear room too so I had spending cash! After almost losing that thing in a rainstorm once, I'll never go back to front-wheel-drive ever again.
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From: Kuna ID
My first truck was an 83 F-100 with a 300/4spd, pretty clean truck, with only 88k miles when I got it. Had air shocks, overload leafs and the axle mounted coils. Needless to say, all the heavy hauling was done with my truck as opposed to my mothers new 95 F-150. It was 2wd, but I put 4x4 coils on the front, which let me put 33" tires on it. I went from 250 miles on a tank of gas to 150. I traded it for a 95 F-150 a year after I graduated, and a year later found it at a used car dealer, where it had been repoed, but it had also been wrecked in the front and the side. It broke my heart to see it that way.
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My fisrt car was a 94 Caprice with a 283 and 115,000. One time I jumped it at 90+ mph and somehow landed. Another time I took a curve to fast and slid into a feild. I sat there while the dust cleared then pulled back onto the road. It was also the first car I ever hit a pedestrian in. I was hauling out of the parking lot at school when some kid ran into the side of my car. He was running as fast as hecould and bounced of the fronte fender and windsheild. It was fun for about six months, then winter hit and somehthing shorted in the computer. From then on it would only go six miles before the computer freaked out, the check engine light came on. When that light came on you had less than a minute to pull over and shut it down. The fun part was I lived six and a half miles form school. So every mornign it quit on me in almost the exact same spot. I finally got rid of my senior year and got my F150.
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The first?! Have there been many? Remind me not to walk anywhere around where you're driving! LOL!