Your last day of high school at the afternoon bus ride

[Louie Detroit]

It was surreal, several people I hardly knew bumped up to me and wished me well before our yellow submarines got us home.:shots:

[JRD77VET]

I drove to school in my '67 Mustang Fastback. Morning at the high school and my Co Op job in the afternoon.

[MadInNc]

no bus, drove

[Swany00]

I drove a pick up

[Rikki Z-06]

No bus, left high school in cloud of tire smoke in my 66 Dodge Charger.

[slewfoot]

Had a 68 Camaro. Going in the Army, sold it just before graduation and bought a motorcycle. was down in Alabama starting flight school and went back home to bring the bike down on a long weekend.

Wrecked it about 5am just outside of Dothan and set me back 2 weeks in school to heal up. Took the insurance money along with some cash and bought this.


https://i.imgur.com/oEzWjmu.jpg

[Rodnok1]

Last day was uneventful as left school half way through the year, probably buried my camaro in the stone parking lot and swigged cheap liquor if had to take a guess. It was our usual post school activity. No buses for me except kindergarten.

[Vandelay Industries]

I never had to take the bus as we lived less than 2 miles from every school. I rode my bike every day of the year until I got my license. :seasix:

[Humanoid 3.0]

Always walked to school, never road a school bus

[Anjdog2003]

https://youtu.be/Ua16eqsoNwY?si=F4Q5cw9ULdqRdkqw

[Louie Detroit]

Around the time I was riding the last bus home a Lansing Police officer went end of watch responding to a bank robbery at a Frandor bank.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/4186-police-officer-mac-j-donnelly-jr

Last I know there is a Mac J Donnelly 1000 inch shooting range near to Grand River and Waverly in Lansing.

I visited that place a few times with Charlie Company.

[jw38]

I drove to school in my 1968 C3 427.

[ratflinger]

No bus - '67 GTO clone. Actually a LeMans that had OHC6 on the fender and a 400ci mill from a '68 GTO under the hood. Surprised many people with how powerful that '6-banger' was.


30' burn out down the main walkway.

[Bruze]

In my senior year, 1967 - '68, I was driving my $75 '61 Corvair to school.

[IB4TL]

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In my senior year, my neighbor Henry used to let me drive his inventions to school as a crash dummy :yesnod:


:cool1:

[Yadkin]

Always walked. Crossing the railroad tracks cut the distance to less than a mile. The town put up a high fence (with barbed wire on top) between the tracks and the school but there was always a break in it.

[Anjdog2003]

Drove my 55 Chevrolet Convertible that i paid $300 cash for.

[Bruze]

:cool1:

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[PLRX]

We used to sign others' shirts, rip sleeves off, and so crazy shit. The last day of class was unique.

[higgyburners]

we always had our limo driver take us and pick us up...:kick:

[A/E]

It Was A Day Like Any Other ~ Just Did a L O N G E R ~ Louder ~ & Smokier Burnout leaving the Parking Lot in the '72 Mach 1

[ptindall]

I drove my '67 Falcon. That was in 1998 though, not the late 1960's or early 1970's like the rest of you.

[Frankie the Fink]

I drove to school in my '67 Mustang Fastback. Morning at the high school and my Co Op job in the afternoon.

'55 Buick in my case and yeah most seniors went with Distributed Education and got 1/2 day off to work. Any senior still riding a school bus ? Can't think of any.

Was going to go to my 50th class reunion but it was cancelled - the other guy couldn't make it:)

[CurtP]

7 miles to paved road, another 4 to get to school. My last day was months before everyone else's - joined the Navy at 17. Birthday in August, I was at boot camp in September of my senior year.

[MikeB]

I drove to school in my '67 Mustang Fastback. Morning at the high school and my Co Op job in the afternoon.

'62 Grand Prix for me.
Wish I had that car today.
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[Onebadcad]

Do not remember the final day of high school, as may not have been there.

After taking my last college exam, Finance 40??, final exam was 50% of grade, I aced it, as went to study hall 12 hours prior.
Went to Chili's after with about a dozen classmates, good time, happy hour 2 for 1, I bet I drank twelve beers, back then I was a very experienced drunk driver.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

I drove my ‘69 Hemi Z/28 Mustang senior year.

[Yesfam]

I drove to school in my '67 Mustang Fastback. Morning at the high school and my Co Op job in the afternoon.

Same here, except it was a '69 R/S Camaro. I think I had 2 classes, English and typing, Then off to work.

[GTOguy]

'68 Honda CB350 in my sophomore year of high school, and a '75 RD 350 my junior and senior years. Sometimes our old '69 C-10 Suburban, which had kill stickers on the driver's side front fender, and a KSAN The Jive 95 bumper sticker.

[MY03C5Z]

Only losers were still riding the bus by my senior year…lol. Never rode a school bus to school, lived 1/2 mile from my elementary, MS & HS. Walked every day from 1st grade, yes uphill both ways in rain and snow. Drove my 70 SS Nova in 11-12th grade. Voted coolest car in the yearbook both years :D

[Yadkin]

'68 Honda CB350 in my sophomore year of high school, and a '75 RD 350 my junior and senior years. Sometimes our old '69 C-10 Suburban, which had kill stickers on the driver's side front fender, and a KSAN The Jive 95 bumper sticker.

I had a very well used and rusted out '72 Ford LTD. I dubbed it the Urban Assault Vehicle, terrorizing my fellow Masshole drivers. :yesnod:

[GTOguy]

'62 Grand Prix for me.
Wish I had that car today.
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IMO, perhaps the most beautiful Pontiac ever produced. I found out decades after his passing that my maternal grandfather had one. With tripower. And he was a real asshole passing people and road raging.

I've always been a GTO guy (still have 3--65-66-67), but the Grand Prix was a much nicer car....exceptional build quality, jewel-like interiors, and not a bad line on the car. I've tried to buy several of them over the years, last one was a black/red interior 4 speed car I missed by a day or two. Someday.

[GTOguy]

I had a very well used and rusted out '72 Ford LTD. I dubbed it the Urban Assault Vehicle, terrorizing my fellow Masshole drivers. :yesnod:

There's a member of a group of friends I'm involved with who drive south to the Bakersfield March Meet and Hot Rod Reunion in October each year. One year he drove his motorhome, which was named 'INTRUDER' on factory call-outs on the rear above the window and on the front above the windshield. Huge black letters. Some joker in our group took a roll of black electrical tape and very professionally spelled out "ANAL" above "INTRUDER" on both ends of the RV. The poor guy didn't notice it until he got home to Sacramento 300 miles later. Said he wondered why people were honking and waving like he was a celebrity. We never found out who did it. :)

[roadpilot]

Last day of HS i drove a look-a-like Sox's and Martin 64 gasser Mercury
Comet. It was not my first car. I totaled a supercharged Olds .

[Louie Detroit]

Only losers were still riding the bus by my senior year…lol. Never rode a school bus to school, lived 1/2 mile from my elementary, MS & HS. Walked every day from 1st grade, yes uphill both ways in rain and snow. Drove my 70 SS Nova in 11-12th grade. Voted coolest car in the yearbook both years :D

Come to think of it I was about the only senior who rode the bus.:confused5:

[Unsuspicious]

Come to think of it I was about the only senior who rode the bus.:confused5:

Found the footage to confirm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCTFWG7208o

[Vince Clortho]

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[69camfrk]

I have not one recollection of it. I remember after graduation pretty well though.

[Frankie the Fink]

In June of 1969 when I graduated, not that long after the Tet Offensive, all male seniors had a lot to think about, war, the draft, not-so-hot job market, maybe how to afford college or a trade school.

There was no living at home for most of the middle class back then. Turn 18 then you were out of the house - one way or another...

I believe I was driving this car that last year in high school (sold the 55 Buick):

[Murray]

Had a car before I turned 16. 71 Duster. When I left halfway through grade 11 I had a 74 Camaro

[Frankie the Fink]

Had a car before I turned 16. 71 Duster. When I left halfway through grade 11 I had a 74 Camaro

Future wife had a72 Ruster (err... Duster) back then, indestructible slant 6, the body, not so much...

[MikeB]

I've tried to buy several of them over the years, last one was a black/red interior 4 speed car I missed by a day or two. Someday.

This is what the pictured car was, except it was a 4 bbl. I had picked up a
tri-power manifold with carbs from a friend who took it off a '63 Catalina,
but I never got around to putting it on.
I got the set-up shortly after I had loosened up the manifold to replace the timing chain and gears. Would've been nice, but that's life of a high school kid.

I've been meaning to ask, as a GTO dude and being familiar with the early
389s, did you ever run across rocker studs popping out? I had one on the
'62 - I'm guessing cylinder #4, that kept popping up. I'd take the valve cover
off, and whack the stud with a hammer. It would last a week or 2, before I had
to whack it again.

[Texan79423]

I rode the short bus all three of my senior years. Got to sit right behind the driver since I drooled.

[Louie Detroit]

I rode the short bus all three of my senior years. Got to sit right behind the driver since I drooled.

I had a chubby for my bus driver, Mrs W, she was a MILF.

[Vince Clortho]

I had a chubby for my bus driver, Mrs W, she was a MILF.123988
Nice

[owc6]

I was driving a Volvo 244. And proud of it!

It had already demolished the front end of a Cordoba with just a little scuff on the back bumper. (not my fault, got rear ended on the 91).

That car was a tank. A dog, a trooper, an embarrassment, when all is said and done. or not.

[Murray]

Future wife had a72 Ruster (err... Duster) back then, indestructible slant 6, the body, not so much...

Same slant 6 (bullet proof) lime green ext and brown int 🤮

[A/E]

I drove my '67 Falcon. That was in 1998 though, not the late 1960's or early 1970's like the rest of you.

80's Braaah . . . .

Don't go all Assuming A/E be an Old Fugger . . .

Well, some 40 years ago . . Maybe on a the Verge of being an Old Fugger

But I'm a Young Old Fugger

[Yadkin]

I was driving a Volvo 244. And proud of it!

It had already demolished the front end of a Cordoba with just a little scuff on the back bumper. (not my fault, got rear ended on the 91).

That car was a tank. A dog, a trooper, an embarrassment, when all is said and done. or not.

The Brick. :seasix:

[Bruze]

I had a chubby for my bus driver, Mrs W, she was a MILF.

We mostly had farmers, as during the winter especially they needed the income. Never had a woman driver.

I only recall two, one was just a normal guy, he wouldn't put up with BS but was otherwise okay.

The other one was a prick, and this is how things were back in the day, around the 1960 - '62 era before the modern "kids are always right and are always victims/disciplining is evil" era.

Some kid was doing something wrong, throwing spitballs, snowballs, standing up (no seatbelts) or something, don't remember. He probably got one warning then the hammer came down.

The driver, farmer Jack, went back and grabbed the kid by the shirt collar, dragged him to the front, opened the door, and threw him out onto the snow bank.

I don't know how far he had to walk home (1/2 mile, maybe a mile (?) but that's what he had to do.

Imagine that happening today, and what would happen to the bus driver.

[Louie Detroit]

We mostly had farmers, as during the winter especially they needed the income. Never had a woman driver.

I only recall two, one was just a normal guy, he wouldn't put up with BS but was otherwise okay.

The other one was a prick, and this is how things were back in the day, around the 1960 - '62 era before the modern "kids are always right and are always victims/disciplining is evil" era.

Some kid was doing something wrong, throwing spitballs, snowballs, standing up (no seatbelts) or something, don't remember. He probably got one warning then the hammer came down.

The driver, farmer Jack, went back and grabbed the kid by the shirt collar, dragged him to the front, opened the door, and threw him out onto the snow bank.

I don't know how far he had to walk home (1/2 mile, maybe a mile (?) but that's what he had to do.

Imagine that happening today, and what would happen to the bus driver.

When I was in about 7th grade I had a bus driver called Brownie. He was a tight-ass martinet who ruled the school bus as his own personal empire. Some kid had taken some kind of cutting implement and carved up a bus seat.

The next day, after all the morning bus stop pickups had been made he pulled the bus over and went on an unhinged tirade. He offered a whole crisp $5 reward for the name of the miscreant who defaced his sacred bus. His face was beet red and the veins on his neck protruded as he shook in anger as he made his proclamation. He scared the shit out of me, what a ****ing psycho.

Of course the perpetrator was never found out.

[GTOguy]

This is what the pictured car was, except it was a 4 bbl. I had picked up a
tri-power manifold with carbs from a friend who took it off a '63 Catalina,
but I never got around to putting it on.
I got the set-up shortly after I had loosened up the manifold to replace the timing chain and gears. Would've been nice, but that's life of a high school kid.

I've been meaning to ask, as a GTO dude and being familiar with the early
389s, did you ever run across rocker studs popping out? I had one on the
'62 - I'm guessing cylinder #4, that kept popping up. I'd take the valve cover
off, and whack the stud with a hammer. It would last a week or 2, before I had
to whack it again.

Yes, the 389's of that era had press-in bottleneck studs. A high lift cam or stiff valve springs, or simply revving them to the moon often could cause them to pull out. The cure was to pull out all the way, knurl the stud, and press it back in, or drill and pin the studs through the stud boss. Starting in '67, they went to screw-in studs for performance applications. Not hard to retrofit the early heads to screw in studs, and many do. The cool thing about the old bottleneck studs was how easy it was to set the valves. Torque to 20 foot pounds and you were done. A guy on- line had a legit black/red 421 4 speed '62 about 12 years ago for 50k. I thought it was overpriced, but, looking back, it was a good deal. That would be over 100k now. :cert:

[Vandelay Industries]

we always had our limo driver take us and pick us up...:kick:

I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked

[dvarapala]

I have a limo, ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked

Sounds like life's been good to you so far.

[Vandelay Industries]

Sounds like life's been good to you so far.

Sure, but I lost my license, now I don't drive.

[Yadkin]

Yes, the 389's of that era had press-in bottleneck studs. A high lift cam or stiff valve springs, or simply revving them to the moon often could cause them to pull out. The cure was to pull out all the way, knurl the stud, and press it back in, or drill and pin the studs through the stud boss. Starting in '67, they went to screw-in studs for performance applications. Not hard to retrofit the early heads to screw in studs, and many do. The cool thing about the old bottleneck studs was how easy it was to set the valves. Torque to 20 foot pounds and you were done. A guy on- line had a legit black/red 421 4 speed '62 about 12 years ago for 50k. I thought it was overpriced, but, looking back, it was a good deal. That would be over 100k now. :cert:

I rebuilt the heads in my HS (and college) car back in the day. Similar design- press in studs, set by the factory to torque and forget. I wasn't getting the correct lash so I pulled them all, cut a bit off the bottoms and pushed them back in. Set the lash and used second nuts to lock them in place. The machine shop suggested some type of glue to use on them before pushing back in, which I used. That engine ran perfectly for another 90k miles before I sold the car. I wish I had that engine now...

[04 commemorative]

I walked from kindergarten to senior year High School.

[Bruze]

I went in this building for first grade. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton's_Corners_School) It was the proverbial one-room schoolhouse. I lived a mile away, so at 5-6 years old I did not walk there, rode the bus.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Penfield_-_Dayton%27s_Corners_School.jpg/375px-Penfield_-_Dayton%27s_Corners_School.jpg

I can remember the teacher had the colors of the rainbow above the chalk board so we would easily learn it. Little did anyone know what "rainbow" would mean 70 years later. :(

Kindergarten and all other grades the schools were 5-6-8 miles away so rode the bus also.

[GTOguy]

I went in this building for first grade. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton's_Corners_School) It was the proverbial one-room schoolhouse. I lived a mile away, so at 5-6 years old I did not walk there, rode the bus.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Penfield_-_Dayton%27s_Corners_School.jpg/375px-Penfield_-_Dayton%27s_Corners_School.jpg

I can remember the teacher had the colors of the rainbow above the chalk board so we would easily learn it. Little did anyone know what "rainbow" would mean 70 years later. :(

Kindergarten and all other grades the schools were 5-6-8 miles away so rode the bus also.
From a little school house in the woods to a little machine shop in the woods.
IMO, that's doing alright.
Amazing how people can live decent lives when they are taught values and skills early in life. :cert:

[Unsuspicious]

From a little school house in the woods to a little machine shop in the woods.
IMO, that's doing alright.
Amazing how people can live decent lives when they are taught values and skills early in life. :cert:

Decent lives that could only be seen as decent in a vacuum. Social media showing you how much better off others have it ruins the illusion. Status quo is always seen as decent when isolated from relative deprivation information.

[GTOguy]

Decent lives that could only be seen as decent in a vacuum. Social media showing you how much better off others have it ruins the illusion. Status quo is always seen as decent when isolated from relative deprivation information.

Which is why the world is so ****ed up today. Everybody wants shit they don't need that the media tells them they do need.

I see nothing wrong with being isolated from crap. If not for the organized religion aspect, I could happily live as Amish or Mennonite.

[Bruze]

Which is why the world is so ****ed up today. Everybody wants shit they don't need that the media tells them they do need.

I see nothing wrong with being isolated from crap. If not for the organized religion aspect, I could happily live as Amish or Mennonite.

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[BADRACR1]

Started my senior year ('79) with a '67 Malibu. Ended with a '76 Rally Sort Camaro.

Bought my first car in July '77, a '69 Camaro, for $400. Remember, it was a ten-year-old Chevy and cheap. Four months later (Nov) I bought my second car, a '67 Charger, for $550. Sold the Camaro a couple months later. In March '78 I bought the Malibu and sold the Charger a month after that. A year later I traded it in on the RS.
I was the only kid in school with two cars, on two occasions. I reckon that set the pattern. Forty-five years later I have had 250 total. And shopping now.

[Yesfam]

I rode the short bus all three of my senior years. Got to sit right behind the driver since I drooled.

Did you have your own window to lick?