No problem, I always forget that I have a photo of that car in my annual. It wasn't until this thread that I remembered. That picture is 17 years old!
12 years of Catholic school - I wasn't in a click - we had a group of friends. If you weren't an ass, you could hang with us. We were neither popular nor unpopular - just a group of friends. We had geeks (both "brainy" and in the traditional sense), nerds, jocks, ROTC, drama, band, etc. We had a little bit of everything.
Oh, you poor thing. :ball: I hope you're now making up for all of the fun you might have missed out on back then. :Brow:
This is only a year ago, but I've been fortunate enough to keep the same friends since about the 6th grade. I wasn't in much of a group, kind of the quiet type. My two best friends were football players, and through them I met most of the football team and made friends with all of them. They were a great group of guys, and I still hang out with many of them on a daily basis. I wasn't much with girls until senior year, when I made a couple really good girl-friends. The ones that want to talk to you at 3:00 in the morning but nothing to do with you relationship wise... I put up with that for about a year and then layed down the law. Another good girl friend, who I had a crush on forever, went to school in florida and didn't tell me until she came back over winter break that she felt the same way. One of those deals where neither of us said anything at the right time, and now chances are pretty slim. I loved High School though, short days, no homework, and plenty of time to hang out and goof around with cars and stuff (I was the only one with a musclecar, the rest had trucks that we went muddin in). I wasn't real popular, most people didn't know my name, but with my friends I wouldn't have traded those times for anything. :TU:
Class of '79 Ran with the crowd that was known as the Burnouts. No regrets, they were good people. Got along with most everyone though, with a few exceptions.
right on chris.. i was kinda the same way... i was the only one to have a muscle car too... course, the 350 wasn't much back in highschool.. damn that single exhaust.. i shoulda got a job and replaced that.. once the exhaust was changed man... that was a blast
People who didn't know me or my car always called it the "loud black car." I had 3 cars in high school, a Bamboo Cream '70 GS455 which I didn't get a permit in time to park it up there, the '70 GS455 I have now (was black with the GSX spoiler and hood tach) and once that went to the body shop (where is still is :ball: ) I picked up my Aqua GS350. I find that the girls that like cars... all have boyfriends already. Those go pretty quick. :laugh: I'll have to find a girl who likes cars, or someone VERY understanding (no really, I need 3 cars.)
i was explaining somewhere else.. oh it was to adam on AIM last night.. in my communications class we had to answer various questions about ourselves.. one was "what would you do if money was no object and why" ... my answer was simply to be like john schmidt.. build a '96 riv into a monster like he's doing... that was one of them... "what do you have pride in seeing" ... "some jackass who's talking trash at the track get his ass canned by a buick" ... etc etc.. a lot of my answers were car based... at the end we all had to talk to the people we thought were "most like you", "least like you" and "most suprising"... i had one guy come up to me and say he was suprised how much i knew about cars and that he was now more interested in it after hearing me talk a little bit", and 3 girls came up to me and stated that i was least like them because i liked cars and knew a lot about them... *sigh* oh well...
High School I was in the class of 1984.Man were those the good years,loud music,fast cars and fast women,well two out three wasnt bad.I started high school out driving a 71 then a 74 pinto then came the cool one my 69gs stage 1 4-speed.I spent more time thinking about my next stereo upgrade and what concert I was going to next than I did school.Had to work most of the four years full time along with school but had a blast.I had a friend that all we did was cruise around in my gs or his camaro jamming out(that was a hip term back then)The cops sure liked me in my buick you know anti-acc,anti-noise,speeding,speeding,speeding and so on.But then I grew up well,atleast I think so,Im still jamming and thinking about cars and the wild women(a wife and two daughters:close enough).:grin:
It wasn't so bad - more just boring. The nuns weren't the mean ones that my Dad had in Catholic school. They were fun. One liked rock music and played 12-string guitar for folk masses. Another nun collected penguins. Yet another nun, a chemistry teacher, had a page full of Avogadro jokes (What tooth did Avogadro's dentist pull? What did Avogadro have to give his ex-wife?) - now that was torture. Remember, private school kids aren't "better"... they're just better at not getting caught, LOL. My parent's weren't strick, and we had our fun. Putt Putt, movies, bowling, and cruising around were what we liked. Also going to parks and such. We weren't really into drinking or stuff back then. We really didn't miss out on much - after all, school only went until 2:32. But that doesn't mean I don't "make up" for it anyway :Brow:
I never really fit into any group...did my own thing, never worried about anyone else. Was certianly not a jock though.... Funny too, my 71 Stage 1 was a hit in the parking lots. It was in primer at the time, but still a very cool car in that age group. Still have it. later Tim
Highschool for me was overall alot of fun. I have ran into old class mates over the years and most of them remember me as a jock that got along with everyone. I still am close with the same guys from HS. We are all married with children now except for one, maybe he is the only smart one out of the bunch of us. Football and wrestling was my passion in school. I was pretty focused on sports, until half way through my senior year when I found out how much fun drinking was. After my last game my senior year we lost , costing us a trip to state. I went to a party a team mate had at his house and proceeded to get blasted. I had a steady girlfriend the last two years but she didn't go to that party with me. I was life of the party girls hanging on me all night I had no idea what to do. Until my girlfriend showed up, there I was barely able to speak with a sophmore girl sitting on my lap in a lazy boy. Party over. :spank: After that night I realized that there are alot of things I want to do before I get married. Off to college to let the party begin. I did not get married til I turned 28. It was not to my HS girlfriend. To all you young guys that are not married here is a little advice, party like there is no tomarrow and do everything you want before because there is nothing like going to Mardi-Gras with you buds or Cancun for spring break. I would go back to Highschool again only if I could take what I know now with me, All those girls that told me they had crushes on me in school better watch out.:Brow:
did some one say burnouts? Yea those are my people. We also got in alot of trouble for performing burnouts in the faculty parking lot. Back then my ride was a 73 Olds Delta 88 Royale Convertable. We could pack eight people in that thing. It was later used in a Catholic Charities anti drug short film...if they only knew. D
Robert your a riot! Robert, It is often said timing is everything. The way you transitioned from your parents to the high school years was hilarious.:laugh: I am afraid I am guilty of acting like a child in front of my children. They are always looking at me sort of funny and the wife tends to lead the disrespect. Being Homer Simpson can be sad but hey the :beer is cold! Sorry to hear of the parents divorce. Do you still speak to them? How were your siblings affected? Just curious and don't feel obligated to answer. PS: Love the Carmen Electra and the tanning booth line!
Wow..high school. I remember some of that. Class of 85. I was in the popular. cheerleading, jock, pot smoking, speed taking, straight A student clique. I did the prom thing my freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years. Always had a ton of dates and surrounded by a group of good friends that I grew up with in my neighborhood. For some reason....I also got voted the biggest flirt in my high school and the vocational school that I attended....hmm....can't imagine why High school was a ton of fun until my 3 best friends all got pregnant our senior year. My parents seemed to not let me hang out with them as often after that. Those were some good times. .
High School was mixed for me. I had been living in Brooklyn going to private school, Poly Prep, from 5-8 grade, but it got too expensive and I just missed the cut for Styversant, so I moved to the Poconos and went to the public HS there. Knew not a single person, which really, really sucked! Didn't really start making some friends until late sophmore/early junior year. Hung out mostly w/ band, honor class, cliques, but acquainted w/ most of others, too. Never really bullied. Joined the Chess team junior year and spent a good amount of time w/those guys (not really different from the band/honor clique, same people). Yeah, I was one of the smart guys in school. Able to roam the hallways w/o a pass and not worry about getting stopped. Never dropped below 15 in class rankings, got as high as 8 I think.
Well...I started out as a "jock" and actually played soccer for 3 years... but, my "Buick" itch got the best of me and I ended up one of those JOCKS who "crossed over". I was still athletic, yet I had met a "gearhead" (who's STILL my my mechanic and a good friend) who turned my on to the ways of the musclecar world. Keep in mind this was 1989 and the musclecar boom was in high gear, so to speak. My friend (the mechanic) was busy building big block Chevys, while I was "quietly" turning him on to the smooth, comforting, neck snapping ways of the big block Buick. To this day, he still raves about the tourque of 455 Buick!!! Below is a picture of me in a car he, another friend and myself bought back in the VERY early 90's, back when musclecars were still plentiful, which we turned over for a bit of a profit...ah, I'll let you read the story behind it... Please, don't mind the MULLET!!!! Remember, it WAS the early 90's!!
