Cool picture

The employee parking at the restaraunt that I worked at with a bunch of high school kids like me:
My 70 383 four speed road runner, a Petty blue 340 3 speed Demon, 70 Charger RT 440 4 speed Dana, 69 Mach I with 4 speed, nice looking red 6 cyl Nova one of the girls drove. a mid 70's Firebird with 3 speed.

Probably some others I missed.

I graduated from high school in 1979 and there were some cool cars at my school. I had a '56 F100 with a 351C in it. My best friend had a '70 RoadRunner 440+6 four speed car with air grabber hood and Dana 60. Another buddy of mine had a 396 SS Chevellle. There was a guy who had a Hemi Cuda but I only saw it a couple of times, he didn't drive it very often. My brother had a '69 Torino Cobra with a 428CJ and a four speed. These were just all used cars that could be bought cheap. My brother only paid $300 for the Torino Cobra and it was a nice car. No rust, never been hit, engine ran okay but smoked a bit, the interior was clean, everything worked on it.

I graduated in '83. My high school parking lot had a '70 428 Mach 1 that got the 428 swapped out for a 427, a '70 Burnt Orange GTX with air grabber and four speed, a '69 Mach 1 with a 351 Cleveland, my '72 340 Challenger, another '73 340 Challenger, '68 Firebird with 350 Keystone Klassics and N50s, '70 Camero with N50s.

Before I bought my Challenger for $1200, a couple cars I went to look at in the same price range were a '69 Torino Cobra with a 428 SCJ, 4 speed, and 3.91s and a '67 400 GTO - both nice cars.

I left high school in 1975 and didn't graduate. There were only 600 students in the entire school so there weren't many cars there to begin with. I had a 66 Plymouth Satellite with a poly 318 I paid $45 for. One buddy had a 69 Mach I with a 351C and another with a 68 Camaro SS convertible. Another had a 69 Torino and another with a 67 Cutlass, but the winner was a blonde named Mickey who had a blue and white 442 4-speed that she wouldn't let any of the boys drive! And one of my teachers had a 68 442 with the cool ram air ducts under the front bumper!

Yep! Great times! I had a 70 Chevelle but there was Road Runners,Super Bees, couple E-bodies,couple A-bodies(my cousin had a wicked 340 Duster),one buddy had a 69 Z28(302 car) his little brother had a split bumper Camaro, couple Mustangs, etc. Then there was the 4x4s. A good friend had a badass 69 GMC 3/4 ton. Most of the trucks had the gun racks in the back window and nobody got shot....crazy right??

I was the odd man out in '84. The school wasn't big, but there was still a good mix of cars, Chevelles, Cudas, Camaros, Firebirds, etc, etc and me with my former NY State Police car......

*sigh*

Dang man, you were the cool one in my book

That is a great picture!

Yeah, I'll call Bullschitt, someone has to : The polished Cragar wheels on the first two cars are mid 80's to early 90's, no arguing there.

What 17 year old kid figures out how to put a 6-71 on a car or has a Parent that gave it the go ahead? I shouldn't ask: I'm sure one of you will reply that you went to school with some 17 year old genius that flunked every subject but could build a Nascar engine in a weekend while drinking a keg and did half the Cheerleaders.

Fun to dream though isn't it?

This is some lame '90's car show somewhere. Admit that when you showed up to school in the morning all of the Mopars never all parked together. We parked all over the place just to see who could park closest to the door. It was a disorganized free-for-all every day.



Hottest car in our parking lot was a 4 cylinder '89 Mustang (Her Dad was a Doctor) and a decent '81 305 Trans Am (His Dad was a bank manager). The cool vehicle was any Blunder Motors long box 2 wheel drive with 5 spoke Cragars, 295's, tinted light covers and "blue bottles". We attached a saying to it: "tint, boots, mags, 'n stereo". Losers that drove these Slowmobiles usually had a pillow on the seat to make themselves look taller or pulled the seat really far ahead to hug that steering wheel.

Some of your parking lot descriptions make it sound like slant six Volares, Newports, Datsuns, big 4 door Fords, and station wagons never existed? Is today's high school parking lots full of GT350's, Hellcats, Nissan GTR's and SRT's? Nope.

Must have been a "safe" parking lot where the windows are left open & all the cars are parked "precisely" spaced.

My high school parking lot had more Datsuns than Mopars

Im glad Im not the only who who thought BS on the pic. Apps, programs, Photoshop and clickbait really fill the internet world with BS. But my HS had some nice original valuable cars owned by a students dad and lots of bondoed up pop can metal repaired posers with big rear tires. Great memories though.

Why am I not surprised to see this kind of post by Grizzly?

Whether the pic is BS or not (I'm one who thinks it is), late '70's early '80's there were cars close to this in our parking lots at school. Not EVERY car, but enough to make you long for those days.

And at my school at least, cars that were close to this caliber, were because the kid worked his a$$ off, not because it was funded by mommy and daddy. Where my school was, there were a lot of farms around, and it was usually the guys that lived and/or worked on those farms that had the better cars. Even if the pay sucked, they had the advantage over others in the experience they gained working with their hands and having to repair things to get a job done. Most farms had their own sort of shop usually giving the kid experience working with tools beyond a basic socket set.

One such kid had a '77 El Camino he built up. No blower, but it did have a tunnel ram on it. Car had been hit in front, he fixed the damage, painted it black, built the engine, and called it 'Second Chance'. No it wasn't a SEMA quality show car, but it was pretty impressive for being done by a teen.

To the other extreme, was the kid that had a mid-'70's Mustang Ghia (notchback) that looked like crap, but ran like stink because he swapped out the 4 banger for a V8 (used a wrecked cobra for parts).

And, a lot of the better cars would be parked off by themselves so that they wouldn't get damaged by regular cars and idiots that didn't care, so it kinda did give an appearance of a 'car show' at times.

Just my perspective from the school I went to. Your results will vary depending on where and when you went to HS.

I agree with Satellite73. If the hottest car in your parking lot was a 4 cyl Mustang driven by a girl, you went to the wrong school. That pic is BS but our lot was full of cars we all would like to have back today. Sure there was the junk piles but there was some hot stuff as well. Reading the replies here reminded me of a couple I forgot in my 1st post...like the Judge and the tunnel ram 66 Chevelle(last I heard that guy STILL has that car) Oh and the guy with the 69 GMC?.......his current stable consists of a Hemi Coronet Conv, a Hellcat and a blown alcohol Hemi powered 63 Dodge that runs in the 7s.

If that picture is a HS parking lot, it’s a weekend car show held in a HS parking lot. Note the car in the next row with the hood open for example.
But I call bullchitt on the contention that cool Mopars never parked together back then. I always parked my T/A in the far row adjacent to the road that my HS was on back in ‘79-‘80, and my friend Marty often parked his 70 F8 Roadrunner next to me, along with my friend Johns primer gray ‘70 Charger 500. We were sort of the outcast row at my snobby Chicago north shore suburb HS. Some of the rich spoiled kids had new Trans Ams. One kid had a 71 Superbee white with custom painted panels reminiscent of how many 70s custom vans were painted. A super quiet kid I never got to know drove a ‘69 Buick GS with slicks to school, since I never knew him I don’t know anything about the motor but it sounded healthy. Another kid had a brown 69 GTO. One rich kid I knew who didn’t have a new Trans Am drove a blue 69 Camaro RS, and one day he tells me he kept seeing a 69 pace car Camaro vert parked in front of a house in Chicago, and tracked down the owner and bought it from him for $4500. Then there was a azzhat jock who had a 71 Chevelle SS 402, one evening he was picking up his girlfriend after work at the grocery store I worked at, and shot off his cocky mouth at one of my friends who was a bag boy out retrieving carts, my friend went by his house in the middle of the night not long afterward and attacked the car with his wrist rocket and trashed it pretty good. I didn’t condone that activity, the car didn’t deserve it even if it was a Chevy. As for the jock, I have no sympathy for him, he really was an azz. But thankfully not an azz who was into Mopars!
When I was a freshman there were 2 grabber green 70 Boss 302s being driven to school by upperclassmen.
My T/A and me both somehow survived HS and still are around, but sadly several Mopars owned by classmates didn’t. One crazy kid named Scott bought a ‘71 B5 roadrunner he totaled within a couple months. The one that really bums me out was a solid Vanishing Point lookalike Challenger R/T 383 4 speed missing a fender that turned up sitting in front of a local gas station for sale for $800. My cars front seats were ripped up, and if nothing else I wanted the car just for its mint interior. But I wasn’t in a position to buy another car, and parents wouldn’t have allowed it in the driveway. This loser from my class named Jeff bought it, and shortly afterwards some of his “friends” attacked it with hammers and wrecked it. I went over to his house after I heard that to see if he still had it and would sell me the seats but his dad told me to go away when I knocked on his door.
I hated my HS and most of the snobby kids there, but do have fond memories of some of the cars! I wish I had borrowed my dads camera and took some pictures...

I do know my high school on some days would of made people think, some of the easy ones to recall is a nice blown chevy II, my tunnel rammed hemi bee, or my six pack 70 runner. My friends daily driver a 440-6 in a 73 cuda and on nicer days his 70 shaker 440-6, that one his dads car. One car I was always racing after school was a early 70-s camero with a nash 5 speed and some soft tires for the day and ran well. A boss 351 mustang, like a 71 mach1? maybe. A few 340 a body 4 speed cars. And although the gearhead crowd wasnt too big for a school of 800 kids there were about 20 muscle cars on any givin day if you count the couple early-mid 70-s trans am-s. A old Monte Carlo with a 427 tri power vette motor we put in (he later went on to crash it and kill three female riders he just met in that car and did 5 years for that) wish we would of geared it alot lower.

So there was almost always a grudge race or two at the end of the school week, I recall going to the chrysler dealership on a friday night to get me a 4:10 ring and pinion because the nash camero would holeshot me by two cars and hold it with my 3:55 gear, I did beat him but it took the old school 727 launch and a chipped ring gear in the end but i got him.

There were a good many CJ jeeps, ramchargers and other 4x4s that were the in thing, It had to be like 78-79 cause one rich kid had a new jean machine truck and would try to beat it senseless.

No vans I can recall, GYM teacher was hot and she drove a challenger t/a and a smokey and the bandit t/a on nicer days.

Them were fun times.

buddy of mine had a '68 Camaro. Nuther had a '69 Mustang. I had my '69 Firebird with the SOHC Six. The rest were everyday grocery getters. Had one teacher that lived close to the Jr High and would drive his 'stock '57 Chevy to school occasionally, and another that had a '70 T Bird, but our lot never looked like that one.

I am one who didn't take it as necessarily literal, but maybe what you'd call a caricature with cool cars and using exaggeration to show how times have changed.

Let's see - going back to 1975 in our old HS parking lot on a given day: Yoksich brothers were big Mopar guys: one had a mint really low-mile 1969 Hemi RR (car got stolen out of the parking lot one morning & never found), the other had a Vitamin C 70 Cuda 440-6 shaker 4-speed, Bob O. had a mint original 1969 GTX - that car also got stolen & never found, Doug M. had a '69 Chevelle 396, Mike D. had a 70-1/2 X-28, Kevin F. had a 71 Barracuda, George K. had a gold '69 Mach 1 428 CJ - he would always win the-burn out contest with that car, Joe P. had a yellow 1971 Mach 1 with Mickey Thompson 50's & traction bars, Rob.R. had a new 1974 Trans Am. Yeah, there were some really cool cars kids could afford. Someone near our high school had a 1969 Trans Am convertible, there was a yellow Superbird parked in a driveway, there was a white 1971 Mach 1 I'd walk past every day on the way to school - had "351 RAM-AIR" on the hood - I remember these things like it was yesterday.