Similar here.. in my class there was me with a 70 440 Cuda (46 willys as a winter car) and one kid had a 70 GTO, other than that /6 dusters and alike. bunch of pickups too

My dad told me of a similar story, a 6-pack 71 RR or challenger, forget now. The guy was out at the street race spot doing solo passes but kept going, or the throttle hung and went straight off the end of the road into the trees and died. They developed the area now but even back in the early 2000's you could still see all the trees in there the car cut in half when it went in.

Guy named Bob O. had a really mint low-mileage 69 GTX 440 - green car. I think it had less than 20,000 miles on it. This was back around 1974. It got stolen out of his parents' driveway & never found. I remember hearing about many nice musclecars back in the early-mid 70's that were stolen. One of my wife's uncles worked for Ford & bought a new 71 Mach 1 351. That car was stolen 3 times, & recovered all 3. He finally traded it in - too much stress!

In the early 90's at my school there were only maybe 5-7 old muscle cars. Some were junkers and a couple were father and son projects and were pretty decent. The school I went to was in a well-to-do area so many kids had newer cars their parents bought for them. Many of those kids thought old cars were for poor, or people too dumb to be like them. Today at the same school I bet there are zero muscle cars in the parking lot. They can't afford them and/or are not interested in them.

My high school parking lot was limited to a certain amount of spaces and you had to apply for a permit. If you didn`t have a permit then you had to park along the street in the neighbor hood. Most of the muscle cars were not in the school parking lot so the photo of the late 70`s parking lot probably never happened at my school. We did have Nova`s, Camaros, Torino's etc outside the school at different times but not many mopars. I do remember a cool 72 Duster I always liked. I`m sure it could of happened elsewhere but not likely at my school during those years.

I graduated in 79 and it seems like everybody had a muscle car in high school. I had a 70 road runner, airgrabber, 4 spd, console and buckets. Other examples were a guy with a 67 R/T built to the max but driven at 20 MPH most of the time, a 440 'cuda, loads of mustangs and Torinos.

Thinking of muscle cars in a school parking lot brought this photo to mind though:

Graduates in 1987 - no musclecars of note at all in a good sized parking lot. One slant 6 duster and one small block Chevelle. By my time, friends had Mustang IIs, EXPs, an Impala, even I only had a /6 Valiant sedan.

My school car.
1973 Duster as had the E body but was working on it
And the year after.
The funny thing was I sold a member here a set of Small block X heads ready to bolt on his dad came with him. They said they used to go to the same street races I did.
He says they had a really crappy Challenger that was beating up cars left and right.
I said what it look like? He said bad no front bumper front was dark gray or black and rest was light gray primer. But had a large cam and lots of gear. It would float the fronts if it had the cheater slicks on and if not just smoke um.
I grabbed some pics and said if this was the car that was me

Stopping on way home from school to remove the evidence....





And from there you might have drove by and saw this...

I graduated in '83...so one friend had a gold '69 camaro SS, another had a tan '73 nova 350 (got it from his gramma), another friend had a green '72 gremlim, I had a burghundy '75 Newport 2 dr. with the cool Indian aztec cloth seats! Another friend from auto shop class, had a brown lifted, early '70's F250 long bed truck, and a 460 with loud exhaust, along with another classmate from shop, that owned a pea green '72 notchback mustang....he added a nitrous kit to the bone STOCK 302...LOL and the typical station wagons, and rusted out piles dotting the parking lot.

That picture pops up on Facebook all the time. Not to burst anyone's bubble, but that was a pic from the 1982 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Springfield, IL. Here's another pic of Larry Pelt's Road Runner from that same day.

Larry passed away a few years ago, but his daughter Maggie is now the caretaker of the car.

Went to school out on Long Island, early 70's. I remember seeing a lot of 4 door Chevy Impalas, Ford Galaxies, big Buicks and Oldsmobile. Only Mopars I remember seeing were Valiants, Furys. Basically, if you could afford a car, you were driving in an old 4dr family sedan. Only cool car was a guy owned a'63 2dr Impala. Don't know what he had under the hood, but he could do a burnout with little effort.