#inhighschool: What Was Your High School Dream

I wanted a 71 Boss 351 Mustang

1994 toyta supra... a black one with one of those super spoilers.

#inhighschool I was a complete and utter Porsche freak. My dream car was a 1972 911S 2.4 non-sunroof coupe.

Nissian Pulsar NX. Looking at it now, I feel a little ashamed but i loved it back in the day!!

Exotic: NSX (duh!)

340 Cuda or Challenger. They were less the 10 years old then, easy to find and you could buy one in good shape for 2 or 3 grand.

Always wanted to, never did.

The brand new 2004 Subaru STi... and now I have one. :)

Blame GoldenEye.

http://blogs.edmunds.com/karl/2010/01/editors-personal-car-introduction-riswicks-1998-bmw-z3-28.html

And now I have it.

A 2002 Chevrolet Camaro SS. In my eyes, it looked fast but not too gimmicky, and it WAS fast, which is even better.

I also wanted a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. I test drove one with my dad, who had been a prototype driver for BMW, and he drove the hell out of the car. When we got out, we were laughing so hard practically drunk off the speed and handling. My mom balked at the fact that it was so fast, and that it had an oil leak, but it was only $2500. When my dad and I finally talked her into it the next day, the car was sold. I still want one!

a_pip +1! While 1994 was quite a bit after I graduated, that's one of my all-time favorite cars.

I'm almost embarrassed to say, but I didn't have a high school fantasy car because I was driving one. In my senior year, my parents bought a 1965 Mustang convertible for me, black on black with a tan top. I sure had a lot of fun lunch dates with that car! Drove it daily for eight years, but I finally couldn't take the abuse anymore. I have a lot of stories about that car, most of them bad. But anyway...

It looked very much like this:

http://www.winterimports.com/wps/wse_pics/intranet/pics_54/t/3/Teaserbild_1965_Mustang_Convertible__black_-_NEW.jpg

1992 300ZX Twin Turbo.

Regrettably, I had the unfortunate pleasure to have been born in the late 80s…High school cars that were popular were anything that you could bolt an ugly body kit to. I’m getting a headache just thinking of all the scoops, side skirts, bondo and wings that classmates would bolt, screw, and superglue onto their lowly Honda civics and Ford Contours. Not to mention the giant tach-gauges with shift lights in automatic cars.

Though my generation wasn’t the most car-savvy or tasteful automobile aficionados, I’d have to say there were a lot of cool affordable sports cars the Acura Integra and early Toyota Supra defiantly topped my list. The early Prelude with the 4 wheel steering and the Subaru SVX were novelty cars that I would have jumped at the chance to own one.

My brother's 1971 Oldsmobile 442 Hardtop Coupe with console mounted shifter (auto) in Sienna with White interior trim and stripes. He had bought used but mint off of a young single woman who's father had cared for it. He sold it cheap before I had a shot at it in high school (1977-1980).

I wanted an S2000 but ended up getting a STI :)

I wanted a Firebird Firehawk. I ended up ordering a 2002 Firebird (Formula) Firehawk 6 years after graduating, as my first new car, just the way I wanted it! Still have it, and it will be rolling over 8K miles sometime next summer when it comes out of storage.
I missed the Turbo Grand Prix that it replaced...and then had to purchase beater after beater...blah blah.

Acura Integra... GS-R or Type-R. I had a GS and loved it. Still one of my favourite cars of all time to drive.

In the late 1970s i liked to hang around the guys with muscle cars. My favorite was a red 1972 Dodge Challenger 340 R/T, with black top, interior, and rally stripes. I also liked my pe teachers 1976 Cadillac Seville. High school was still cool then.

Facel Vega

As my name implies, I wanted (and still do) a '68 Ford Mustang California Special. Obviously a 4-speed shifter bolted to a 390 cu in V8. Al the bells and whistles. I got close. Throughout my junior and senior year, I had a '67 Mustang with some bells and whistles but only a straight-6 and a 3-speed auto. She gave me some trouble, but she was my first and favorite car so far.

Which ONE? Ha! I wanted a stable of cars. Any Porsche (except a 924) would have worked (though I was partial to the last-years of the 944T and the 81-83 911SC), along with the original Audi Quattro coupe and a VW Vanagon Synchro (Westie, of course). And man oh man I looooved that BMW 850 luxury GT in alpine white.

#inhighschool the dream was a BMW E39 M5. The BMW film with Clive Owen only made it worse. Hopefully the new coming out with renew the dream. Got to have something to strive for...

My cross-the-street neighbor had a 1969 Buick Skylark convertible - blue with white top and white interior. I dreamed about it and the 1972 Buick Skylark GS400 - green with white top and white interior. I had a 1977 VW Rabbit that I liked, but I dreamed of those Buicks.

Back in '94, I wanted a Trans-Am or Z28 but for some reason also loved the late '80's IROC-Z's. Reality was farther apart, however. I ended up driving around a brown Chevette with no radio, no power steering and a 4spd trans! My first car I purchased was an '83 Mustang GT. Luckily now, I have a bit of that dream owning both an '04 Cobra Conv't and a 71 Trans-Am.

I loved those Firehawks too!

I always want the JDM Integra Type-R with roll caged that a girl drove to school all the time. I think she still believes I was looking at her at the time, but the car was much more alluring.

Early 90s MR2.

WRX Sti. I feel young saying that.

Side note - Insideline,

If you guys are going to do more posts like this in your attempt to "Jalopnik-ize" Straightline, then you need to update the blog to allow for embedded pictures/videos, like Jalopnik does. While you're at it, you should apply this update to the LT blog as well.

Just some friendly suggestions :)

I am almost embarrassed to say now, but in high school I really wanted a 4wd blue, Nissan Xterra. I really had no true reason for wanting one other than it always caught my eye. Then I drove one and realized the error in my ways.

So thinking back to a year ago...I wanted a 2004 Mustang SVT Cobra more than anything. A close second would have to be a 2002 Pontiac Trans-Am WS6 Ram Air.

To be honest I would still love to have either one of these cars

In High School, I wanted a Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R V-Spec II. Ten years later, I have an Evo X GSR. Close enough right? no... not really. I know.

1966 Dodge Charger, gold.

I bought a new 1974 Monte Carlo my senior year. I really wanted an Alfa GTV 2000, a 2002tii, a 260Z or a Jensen Healey, but my Dad was co-signing and wanted me to buy a domestic car with a nearby dealer. Insurance was too high on the Z28 and the Mustang II was unadulterated crap, so I settled for the Monte Carlo, mainly because all of the car magazines were stating that it drove and handled very much like a European sports sedan.

In high school, 56-59, I wanted a '57 Studebaker Golden Hawk! Several years latter I did pick up a '57 Studebaker Silver Hawk V-8.

In high schooL, early '80s, I wanted a Buick Regal Grand National, an SVO Mustang or Mustang GT Convertible. What I had was a 1957 Bel Air Sport Coupe which I realized was pretty cool at the time, but with the clarity of age I understand that what I lusted for was pretty much junk. The hours (and hours and hours and hours) my dad and I spent restoring the Chevy showed more love than a gift of a new Corvette...but I'd have taken it if I could have gotten it! I actually tried to buy a 454/4-speed Corvette roadster but Mom and the insurance man said "No way on earth" when I was 15.

I wanted a AMC Rebel Machine, a guy in my neighborhood had one. That car sounded sweet!

3000GT VR4. almost got one too but it didn't turn out, probably for the best though

I'm with blueguydotcom.

1990-1996 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. Without question no doubt.

I still cant afford to both own one of those and maintain it like it should be maintained.

I never had a cool car in HS but my friends all drove Camaros, Trans-Ams, or Mustangs.

I remember trying to talk my dad into getting a Ford SHO for the family car (which I can't believe no one has mentioned). For it's time it was an awesome car. The other contemporary dream car was the Grand National but financially was out of our league. I'm pretty sure in the 80's I had never even seen a BMW and Porsche was so exotic it was beyond comprehension (something I would imagine only CEOs of industry and pro athletes would drive).

When I started driving, the Corvette entered its third generation in 1968. I wanted one!

In high school, I started with a 55 Chevy pickup (straight 6, 3 speed manual), then a 66 Mustang (straight 6, 4 speed manual), and finally, a 66 El Camino (straight six, 3 speed manual) that I continued with through college.

@lvgti: Yeah, I forgot about my love for the Hawks. My buddy's brother had one-- a Silver Hawk, I believe. But I always wanted the Golden Hawk.

But the Hawks were obtainable for many people. Not so for the Facel Vega, which then became a fantasy for me. Unless... I will need to Google to see what years the FV was made; maybe it was past my High School years.

Facel Vega: a luxury sport coupe made in France from 1954-1964. Many had Chrysler Hemis.

(info from Hemmings)

I was in high school 79-83. What I wanted was the '65 Impala 396 convertible parked and never moved in the driveway of the house behind mine. I passed it everyday for years on my paper route and always stopped to look.

Then, out of nowhere, my dad buys it when I am 15 and brings it home. The body was solid, but it didn't run and needed some mechanical work. Under the hood was glorious, big block V8 with a 750 Holley double pumper. About 3 months after buying it he managed to chip a tooth off the flywheel (I don't recall what he was doing). He didn't want to fix it and sold it to the mechanic down the street. I never even got to hear it run.

I was (and 28 years later remain) heartbroken.

I graduated in 2005 and Id say my dream cars of the time were the 02 Camaro SS or an 01+ Olds Aurora, loved those cars and still do, just question their current day reliability...

Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon. Still want one bad.

'87 or '88 Volkswagen Scirocco 16v. My dad took me to test drive one and it was a fantastic machine to my 17 year old brain.

I'd still love to get one and restore it back to showroom condition. However, job, kids, and life have a way of getting in the way.

wanted - '85 (E24) BMW M6

drove - '68 Camaro convertible (327 V8); not a bad runner up

Fourth generation Camaro SS!

My highschool dream car was an E36 M3. I also really loved the GMC typhoon.
I drove an 87 Cavalier Z24.

1992 VW GTI 16V, with the double round headlights, BBS rims, and Recaros, in black

Eagle Talon TSI awd. When my brother told my dad how fast it went...it was a no-go.

Was it the ultimate car? No, but it was damn fast and had awd to get me through the winter. Good enough for me!

MB 190E Cosworth
Preferably in DTM livery

In middle school and high school (95-99) my dream car was a 94-96 Impala SS. I ended up buying a 93 Caprice 9C1 in college in 2001 and it's still on the road with 262k.

My dream cars in high school are still my dream cars today. Porsche 928 in the dark chocolate brown (I think it was only used from '79 to '81) or a '67 AMX in burnt orange metallic.

I know it's going back aways, but my H/S dream cars were the 69' Camaro Z-28, 70 Corvette LT1 Coupe and a 65' (Lt Blue/White Top) Corvette Conv.

) Corvette Conv w/327/300 HP SB.

Class of '85
Wanted: Chevelle SS
Drove: '68 Chevy Estate Wagon 396

GMC Typhoon totally. I drove a 2-door Explorer and a Typhoon was like the ultimate upgrade.
A few that others mentioned too, especially the 190E 2.3-16. Plus some other badass Benzes like a 500E since my dad had one, or a 300SEL 6.3 or 450SEL 6.9. And of course an E30 M3, who hasn't ever wanted one?

1995 VW Corrado SLC!!!

Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole
1986 Mustang SVO

Plus a few designs I had from my own imaginary car company.

I wanted an Audi A6 4.2 or an Acura RL, but now I have a BMW and am just fine with that :D