Who all had motor-bikes, motor-scooters, motorcycles and/or a car during our HS years?  Tell the what, when, where and what happened.  Yes, this vehicle could have been shared with siblings, but NOT your parent's primary ride.

I did not get my "wheels" until senior year, and only because I would be commuting to Lamar and had to have a vehicle. My dad went to Harmon's used car lot and picked out the perfect car! Not! He brought home an old Rambler, no radio, it was pretty bleak. I told him it just would not work, he went back, and came home with some big old boat, again, no radio. Finally, my mother told him to just take me with him and let me pick one out. He was not too happy, but we went down there. I saw a blue, 66 Malibu, and knew that was it. Had a radio, had AC, ran good. It had a price tag that was more than he wanted to spend, but after haggling with Don Harmon, we finally got it. I had died and gone to heaven! That car took me many places, and as Vickie L. Hannan will tell you, we had some very interesting times in it.

I had a 53 chevy that needed a paint job, had a cracked windshield, the trunk had to be tied shut, and it wouldn't go over 40 mph because it had a bent crankshaft, no a/c and it was 3 on the column.  All of that and I couldn't get a date...go figure.

I never had a car of my own, of any type, until my sophomore year in college, but Pat and I occasionally got to drive my dad's 1965 Mustang.  In fact, most of us Ryan kids learned to drive that car - 3 speed, stick, 289 cu. in. engine, very cool.

I was a Junior at Lamar before I got wheels.  Dad took me to the car lot.  I knew how to drive a stick, cuz my brother Kenny have a Carvair.  I got a 60-something Plymouth Valiant.   I became adept at changing out water pumps.

It was tan in color, I loving labeled it the Tan Turd.  It wa a riot to hear my mom talk about the Tan Turd.  I dove it until I graduated from Lamar and got hired on by Levingston Shipbuilding as a Hooker.  That was the most money I had ever made.  I traded in the Tan Turd for a new car on the market called a Celica - yeah that was a major upgrade.  It was lovingly known as the Copper kettle.

If I remember right, Carolyn called her car Jessica.

Jerry,

When did Levingston start hiring hookers???? I thought they worked on Front Street!

When my brother got his driver's license, our grandfather gave us his old 1952 Cadillac,  faded green paint job, electric windows that didn't work, heater didn't work.  Not sure how long he drove it before it died.  But it was the only one in town and easibly recognizable.   My brother, David and a friend of theirs who worked at Weingarten's would cruise around town in that big green bomb when I was babysitting, etc.  The other guy had been saving back eggs for quite a while and they went egging one night.  One of the lucky eggees was Herman's Service Station.  It wasn't hard for the culprits to be identified once the witnesses described the getaway car.  The following Sunday morning, #8 Circle Q got a visit from the boys in blue about it.  David was not very popular at my house for a while because my parents blamed him for corrupting my brother!  lol  They had to clean up the mess.

Wow~ Good memory!  Yes John you are correct, Jesse had no AC but did have a radio.  If we wanted to greet someone by honking, we had to shift into 3rd and push back on the stick to get it to honk.  Go figure!  But it worked.  Loretta and I both shared it until she left then it was mine, sort of.

Hey Jerry what about our Senior trip???

I had a 1958 blue chevy Belair...It had no ac, power steering, or gas peddle...just the bar that stuck out...Myself and my sister Pat drove it thru High school...When Pat graduated in 1968 it was all mine!!! I drove it to all the out of town football games....One day it broke down on Green Street and my Mom sold it to the gas station for $50.00. in 1970.  I wasn't too heartbroken though as then I got to drive her 1970 Malibu Sport car!l