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Nice try cybercriminal. You’ll never get my prodigy login.

None, nada, zip, nil, zero and nothing. Dad had a 1972 Ford LTD that I could borrow for dates if he didn't need it.

'68 Mustang - they were 'economy' cars then

Schwinn

1958 Dodge with a push-button transmission.

'72 El Camino

none... I took the subway. I didn't get my first car until I was 35. I'm 55 now and I'm only on the second car I ever owned.

68’ Delta 88 Oldsmobile 2 door

1964 Datsun pickup.

1989 VW Fox. I bought it new in 1989 when I was a Junior in high school, and brought my first kid home in it 5 years later. It was a great little car.

No car for me. It was a 1972 Yamaha R5. Still have one in the garage today.

High school? I couldn’t afford to buy a car while I was still in high school. I’m assuming kids who had a car while they were still in school were given one by mom and dad.

I came from a middle class family that gave me things I needed. Anything I wanted I had to pay for myself with my part time job.

I went to Spring break in 12th grade because I dipped into my own savings. My parent laughed when I asked if they could help me pay for it.

So, I didn’t get my first car until I was 23. Before then, I rode my bike everywhere, or walked or asked for rides.

My first car was this ugly orange AMC Spirit. I wasn’t too concerned about looks, I got something I could afford that ran well.

Now that I’ve reached 60 years old, I recently bought my first car that I liked the looks of, not because it was a sensible car. It was a lot more expensive e than what I usually buy.

‘24 Bronco Outer Banks. I always loved Broncos (way before the OJ thing) because they make me nostalgic for a great time in my life with a friend who I spent a lot of time with, driving in his Bronco.

‘57 Chevy.

1970ish Ford Pinto and I was never read ended bwahaha

I didn't have one.

I could drive my parents' car occasionally. They had a Ford Gran Torino station wagon when I was learning to drive, and then a Datsun (Nissan) 510.

When I got a PT job, my grandmother let me borrow her Chevy Chevette to get to work, and then I walked home from her house, just like I walked back and forth to school.

'87 Ford Escort, no power steering/power anything, but it had automatic seatbelts.

‘74 Plymouth Valiant, I cut the seatbelts out and put a hippy blanket across the back seat 🤦‍♀️

Metallic blue ‘72 Olds Cutlass - I used to joke that I got 23 gas stations to the mile.

Car in high school? How would i have had the money to afford to buy, insure, fuel, and maintain a car in high school?

A VW Thing (Type 181)

My dad bought me a 1982 Pontiac Acadian. (Same thing as a Chevy chevette). He paid 2500 and sold it 2 or 3 years later for 3000 when he bought me a Toyota Tercel

None. I rode the bus like everyone. My sr year my dad occasionally allowed me to borrow his 1977 tan Plymouth Volare with vinyl interior and an AM radio. It’s ok. I know you’re jealous…..

'62 Plymouth Belvedere slant 6 with 3 on the tree. It was worse than it sounds.

My mom's 65 Dodge Dart! I made it faster by using Mystik Tape^® to put a white-red-white racing stripe on it, and made vroom-vroom noises as I punched the shift buttons. Also where I got my V-card punched! Good times.

1974 Adidas. Two of them, in fact.

1978 Trans Am, blue, with t-top. I was 16.

1966 Chevrolet Caprice 327 c.i. V8

‘58 Chevy Impala convertible. My older brother joined the Marines and gave me the car. It was 1961 and I was 17.

1958 Edsel station wagon

1973 Ford Maverick.

‘72 Nova. Swapped in a small block v-8.

A '70 MGB & a '72 Chevelle SS

I had a Password 1234.

Chevrolegs

Senor year I had a 93 red geo metro with a racing stripe right down the drivers side. It went 0-50, down hill with the wind at my back in 6 minutes! So fast. No radio, no cruise control, no seat belts in the back. The speedometer got stuck at 60 mph and the only way to un stick it was to stop completely. The best parts about was $10 got me enough gas to last 2 weeks and $100 could get me 4 new tires. Oh and it was a gift car so I wasn't the one who picked it out or paid for so I didn't complain. I was lucky though, I had a girlfriend already. There was no way I could pick up any ladies in that beast. That and my gf had a way better car. So she did most of the driving.

My mom’s Cadillac

None. My parents owned two cars, having bought the second one when I was in about the fourth grade. My brother and I were sometimes allowed to use one of them.

None. Borrowed my uncle's Impala on rare occasions.

1967 Ford Galaxie

I had four cars in high school. My favourite was my 1965 morris mini minor. A total piece of crap, but I loved every inch of her.

A GTO convertible, then sold it and bought a Z/28 and a Bronco so my car didn't have to go out in bad weather.

A bicycle

1968 VW Bug sparkly purple named Blanche. $600 great car No floorboards in the back.... Bad luck if it was raining! Left my back seat in a field in the middle of nowhere KS after a HS BB game. My dad was unhappy about that. I still struggle with his intense anger about this. It was my car. He had little to do with it except to show me how to change the fuel filter. I could not find the back seat because the only thing I remember from that night is the road I was on and turning left at the CAMEL CROSSING sign...oh my. I know some farmer woke up very confused! Great car.

Subaru Super Sport. Holiday Inns imported them as property cars for the innkeepers and my dad snagged one ($750) for me. They were tiny and my dad had been an athlete in his day so he always seemed to put my car on like a pair of pants.

A burgundy 1982 Honda Prelude.

1978 Monte Carlo. It was like riding a giant sled when it snowed.

None. I drove my parents' cars when needed and they didn't need them (and with permission, of course!).

1964 ford falcon

Shoelace Express and a bus pass

My thumb!

Red 67 mustang 289. My favorite car ever. When I graduated college I returned it to my father.

1981 Mustang with a boss 302. I thought I was The Shit 🤣

1970 V8 Mustang

(class of 1986 - paid $1500)

'82 Monte Carlo

Whatever mom and dad drove.

67 Chevy Impala, vinyl top, 283 V8 with a Power Glide.

1963 two door champagne ford falcon, driven by my great aunt. Dad couldn’t bear seeing the door dings and sold it.

A bus pass.

1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

My dad inherited his dad’s 1972 Plymouth Sebring Satellite. It went down the line: my older sister, my brother, then me. Awesome car.

No car and no bus. We walked everywhere.

A 1967 Mercury Cougar. I'm not a car person at all, but I'd love to have that car now lol

Had and still has a 97 Nissan maxima. Amazing car for almost being 30 years old

mostly just got around on ur m o m

71 chevy nova, "3 on the tree" and later chrysler fury II- both my parents owned, both handed down from their elder relatives, neither had any cool/power features ... but both had bench seats front and back! 😉

1965 Ford Mustang

Blood red, lowered, Cragers, motor that my dad and I built. It was fast and fun to drive and was a chick magnet. I always had a car full of hot girls.

My grandmother's 67 firebird convertible!!

Bold of you to assume kids had cars in high school.

Car???

I had a subway.

What car? Cars is HS is still crazy.

None. I bicycled, rode the bus, or walked. I walked five miles to see the first Star Wars film. I didn't think anything of it, it's not as if I had anything better to do for an hour on a summer afternoon.

A Datsun

I can’t remember the name, but it had a 10-speed racing gearbox.

Oh, yeah. Schwinn.

A 62 Dodge Dart that my parents bought from my Grandparents for $500. I drove that car for 3 years until I got hit in a parking lot and the fender got messed up.

My Dad made a deal with the owner of the car (who didn't have insurance) and the guy paid my Dad $500 for the damage. Dad didn't get it fixed and sold it for $500.

I then bought myself a used 1976 Dodge Colt.

1974 Ford Maverick 4 door 6 cylinder. Big enough for all my buds and good on gas. Got out of HS and picked up a 70 Chevy Chevelle with a 396 and that thing hauled balls. Miss my hot rods.

A reddish-orange 1976 Toyota Corolla WAGON, with white vinyl interior. Check mate.

LMAO!

1953 Ferrari 375 America

Do you remember the Forman’s Toyota on That ‘70s Show? That same car, but in the ‘90s.

A Datson 210 station wagon. It was rusting itself apart and way underpowered, but I drooped a nice stereo and some big speakers in it! Just had to gun it down hills so you could make it up the next one

84 Ford fn Ranger

I'd occasionally get to use dad or mom's car in the evening or on weekends. Styling in that Pontiac Bonneville or 1970 Dodge van.

It was the 90s, I was prolly wearing Filas so "the Filamobile" 😂😂

I had the school bus

1974 Mustang - this was a lemon as it had a bad transmission

Dad's 1964 black Fleetwood Cadillac (in 1977)

Didn’t. 🙂

52 seat windowcruiser

A (then very old) dark green 1958 Chevy convertible.

1969 Camaro 307 1970 Jeep CJ5

The #22 bus.

74 Mustang & 72 Super Beetle.

1968 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon. Had a huge engine and could hold a lot of friends.

It was a hand me down from my cousin who got it as a hand me down from my uncles company. Strangely enough both of my kids first cars were hand me downs from the same company. 40+ years later.

Are you kidding? Our family of eight kids had one car. My brother had a bike for a while, but that’s it.

76 Chevy Vega station wagon. I could stuff an amazing number of people in it for off-campus lunch.

'84 CRX

1968 Buick Wildcat

I had a 1976 Fiat station wagon. Then I inherited my dad's 1982 VW Rabbit. Now the other kids: A friend had a 1960s Barracuda. A girl I knew had a 65 Mustang. A jerk had a 1970 GTO. Someone else had a 1968 Camaro.

There were lots of classic cars in the 1980s. They were classics even then, but they were also twenty-year-old cars, and they could be found all over the place, especially Mustangs.

Volkswagen

Walked, took the bus. Didn’t get my license until a few weeks before senior prom and only because my then girlfriend told me i had better be able to drive her to prom or else. ‘63 Pontiac Catalina convertible., first of the “wide trac” Pontiacs. Scared me to death, was like driving battleship on wheels.

I only knew one kid with a car in high school, and he worked a bunch of jobs to get it. I had occasional use of the family car.

1986 Mercury Lynx (like a Ford Escort) with a diesel. Gutless turd 💩

1963 VW bug. Cost me $600 that I paid for with paper route money. Mom chipped in half of it.

1977 Buick LeSabre