H.S. car pics

[balthazar]

Who had what? Post 'em up (diggin' mine up...)

[ocnblu]

There WERE many photos of the Catalina but sadly I am not in possession of any of them.  Not sure if they've been preserved by my cousin along with other precious family photos from the farm.

[Robert Hall]

Alas, my old pics are mostly all pre-digital and somewhere in my parent's house.  Eventually I will clean the house out and digitize some.  

But I do have this pic from around 1990.   My '86 Mustang LX (college car) and '87 Mustang GT (high school and college fun car).   I had the GT in Florida (high school), Ohio (college and grad school), Michigan (grad school), in Colorado for 6 years, and since 2002 it's been stored in the barn in the background.   The gray LX was totaled in July 1994 right after I moved to Ann Arbor, Mi. 

 

 

This pic is from May 2009.

Edited October 23, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[William Maley]

I'll have to see if I have any pictures of my 2001 Grand Prix that sadly met an unfortunate end with all of its engine oil in my work's parking lot.

[ccap41]

I'm not sure if I have any pictures of my 1995 Beretta Z26 but I can sure try and look. 

[G. David Felt]

Will Find my 1976 Chevrolet Luv Pickup Truck and get it scanned in. Still wish I had that truck, it was awesome. Isuzu made a good truck that would last if you took care of it.

[ocnblu]

5 hours ago, dfelt said:

Will Find my 1976 Chevrolet Luv Pickup Truck and get it scanned in. Still wish I had that truck, it was awesome. Isuzu made a good truck that would last if you took care of it.

??? You were only 4'11" then?

[balthazar]

14 hours ago, ocnblu said:

There WERE many photos of the Catalina but sadly I am not in possession of any of them.  Not sure if they've been preserved by my cousin along with other precious family photos from the farm.

Family discord, or is your cousin in the witness relocation program?

[Robert Hall]

59 minutes ago, ocnblu said:

??? You were only 4'11" then?

Must have had a growth spurt

[ocnblu]

3 minutes ago, balthazar said:

Family discord, or is your cousin in the witness relocation program?

Well I just don't see her much any more.  No problems, per se.  I'm in PA, she's still on a subdivided part of the farm in MD.

[Robert Hall]

Re: family discord

In my case, i do have some family discord w/ my brother and the family farm.  After the whole will and probate fiasco after my mother's death in 2016,  I and my 2 siblings own the farm (130 acres in rural Ohio 90 miles from here) equally, my brother lives there, pays 1/3 of the taxes.  Been in the family 50 years, so no mortgage.

I've only visited once since I moved back to Ohio last year, I need to get my stuff that is still there and my Mustangs, but due to various legal issues it's not practical at this point.. alas, you can't choose who you are related to. 

Edited October 24, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[balthazar]

Family discord sucks. My father's sister poisoned their father against his son (my father), I believe to gain his assets. Karma stepped in tho, and the aunt died of a brain aneurysm 2 years before my grandfather (who made it 6 weeks shy of 101). Not that any of us cared about it, but my brother, sister & I were cut out of his will anyway. Her 2 kids (my only first cousins) were/are just as shitty as the aunt.

Bill- you're a car guy, don't you need copies of those early motoring pics?? You're in a neighboring state- not like she's in Nebraska.

[balthazar]

OK- here's me & my first vehicle : '64 Grand Prix. I still own this car. I'm 20 in this pic ~

 

Being 20 tells the story- I didn't actually have a car in HS, but shortly after. My father wouldn't allow it then, tho I tried numerous times; the '64 Studebaker GT Hawk and the '59 Catalina come readily to mind.

Edited October 24, 2018 by balthazar

[A Horse With No Name]

8 hours ago, dfelt said:

Will Find my 1976 Chevrolet Luv Pickup Truck and get it scanned in. Still wish I had that truck, it was awesome. Isuzu made a good truck that would last if you took care of it.

How did you ever fit in a Chevy LUV? Just have had one hell of a sunroof.

32 minutes ago, balthazar said:

OK- here's me & my first vehicle : '64 Grand Prix. I still own this car. I'm 20 in this pic ~

 

Being 20 tells the story- I didn't actually have a car in HS, but shortly after. My father wouldn't allow it then, tho I tried numerous times; the '64 Studebaker GT Hawk and the '59 Catalina come readily to mind.

Guy sitting next to me in the training class I am taking is still the proud owner of the 65 Plymouth he and his dad restored back when he was in high school.

[ykX]

I didn't have car in HS, where I grew up it is very expensive to own a car and driving starts at 18, so no cars in high school.

When I started working in US I bought used 1996 Mazda MX-6 with almost 100k miles in mint condition. 2.5L V6 (!), 5-speed manual transmission.  It was a great car, but unfortunately designed for people under 6 feet tall (I am being 6'1" was somewhat an issue).   Loved that car and drove it till it had 200k miles, than got a better job and was getting married so needed something more sensible.

Not exact picture of my car but it was just like this one.

[A Horse With No Name]

4 hours ago, ykX said:

I didn't have car in HS, where I grew up it is very expensive to own a car and driving starts at 18, so no cars in high school.

When I started working in US I bought used 1996 Mazda MX-6 with almost 100k miles in mint condition. 2.5L V6 (!), 5-speed manual transmission.  It was a great car, but unfortunately designed for people under 6 feet tall (I am being 6'1" was somewhat an issue).   Loved that car and drove it till it had 200k miles, than got a better job and was getting married so needed something more sensible.

Not exact picture of my car but it was just like this one.

We had a similar car for my wife.

[G. David Felt]

MX-6 seemed to be very popular cars for the ladies.

[Robert Hall]

I remember back in '97 a Korean grad student I shared an office with at the U of Michigan bought a dark green MX-6 w/ a tan interior.  Nice car...

[G. David Felt]

1 minute ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

I remember back in '97 a Korean grad student I shared an office with at the U of Michigan bought a dark green MX-6 w/ a tan interior.  Nice car...

U of M is beta testing our latest version of Isilon Storage and hardware.  Cool Peeps! 

[Robert Hall]

8 minutes ago, dfelt said:

U of M is beta testing our latest version of Isilon Storage and hardware.  Cool Peeps! 

Cool....when I was there I heard they had the largest installation of Sun Microsystems workstations in the US at the time.  They had them all over campus. I had a Sun workstation and a NeXTStation on my desk.   Fun times...back in my mid 20s when I had the energy to work insane hours every  week doing PhD research and still go out w/ my buddies to bars and guzzle beer and vodka several nights a week.. 

Edited October 24, 2018 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[G. David Felt]

Just now, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Cool....when I was there I heard they had the largest installation of Sun Microsystems workstations in the US at the time.  They had them all over campus. I had a Sun workstation and a NeXTStation.   Fun times...

LOL, Dell Technology now owns the campus and is all over with DellEMC storage.

[daves87rs]

Will have to hunt some pics down of my 87 Cavalier RS (been my name handle for two decades now) As it pretty close dates the pre dig era. Might still have that pic of it that I had on facebook.... ? 

[Cory Wolfe]

As I near 30, it's a strange feeling to realize that many of you may remember this photo I originally posted here in 2005.  

Edited October 30, 2018 by Cory Wolfe

[Drew Dowdell]

I'll have to find and scan a prom photo of me, my girlfriend(!!), and my black '85 Toronado.

[ocnblu]