The coolest kid?

I graduated H.S. in 1969. Cool cars on campus back then were Mustangs, Camaros and the like....
One geeky guy (not me) had a Nash Metropolitan. Most had their parents hand-me-down cars though. In actuality, very few students had their own wheels back then......

 

In HS, I drove a 1960 Bel-Air, a 1995 GMC Jimmy (my parents, now my sisters), a 2003 Crown Vic Interceptor, and a 87 Caprice Estate.

My dad had a 1966 Caprice Wagon, a 65 Impala SS, a 69 Roadrunner, and a 68 Impala SS 427.

 

I'm in the graduating class of 2011 (SENIOR!) and I took my wagon as a limo for a whole group of friends to our "Snow Ball" winter dance at school this past Saturday night. We were all commenting on how the wagon is typically the car no kid wants to take to a dance, but we all enjoyed it.

 

Sounds like a great time had by all.

 

As long as no Beer is involved, right???

Kids just watched "That 70's Show"; a rerun of one of the very first episodes where the main character is given the keys to his dad's '69 Vista Cruiser. He and his buddies road trip it to a concert, in Canada I think? No way, eh?!

i'd place that Wagon on the other thread about the #1 best looking wagon
along with the other hundreds of wagons on my list...

Nice looking Plymouth, by the way, marcar1993

 

When I was in high school I was "forced" to drive my parents' 73 Coronet wagon until I got my own car (a 70 Barracuda). Both are gone now, but if I could get one of them back I'd take the wagon.

 

I took my wagon to a lot of dances, and Graduation. Burned the tires on the way out of the lot on my last day. I had so much fun back in school with that car. We'd take it to lunch and have that thing packed to the gills with people.

I only didn't take it to a dance on one occasion, I took Dad's Stingray.

 

mg:I'm old. I graduated in 1970.

 

My Dad Graduated in 78, my Mom in 83, and me in 09.

 

You are a youngster, TB!

 

Update: The other day, my son said the kids at school have rejected the "Swaggin' wagon"
in favor of the "E-Dub" Where's Chip Foose when you need him?

 

Had to figure out the lingo. Same car, different name.

Man, the WWW is full of definitions for E-Dub. From a rap singer to a girls basketball team. E-Dubya! I'm gettin' old, and luvin' the ignorance!

http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/users/akins/

 

"Dubs", apparently, refers to the large diameter wheel, chromed up, spinners optional.
Like the scale replicas of the same name, "Dubs" sold at your local truck stops and convenience stores. 'E' is in Honor of our 'sir name', remember that antiquated term?

 

My mistake...
Ian informs me that 'E-Dub" is a play on words he came up with. He's more clever than I thought, tho, I should have picked up on his sarcasm. A gift he inherited from my side of the family.

"E" = Estate
"Dub" = "W" = Wagon

as simple as that.

So One of the other nick names for the car is the E-wagon. They still come back to our last name tho, I'm sure. He continues a tradition started with my brothers and our family wagons as well as our old Postal Jeep by having one of the most unique cars,
with the most personality, of any, at his school.