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Modern cars vs. what you drove in high school

Derek69SS

Veteran Member
I had an interesting conversation with my Dad and brothers over pizza and beer yesterday...
We all realized, what we drive today is older and higher mileage than the "beaters" we had in high school.

When I was in HS, everything I drove was about 7-10 years old and had 110-130k miles on it. They were cheap beaters from the early-90s (I graduated in 2001)
Today, my truck is 11 years old with 175k on it. My wife's car is 14 years old with 180k.

The used-car market sure has changed in 20 years...
 
My High School car is in my garage, my Bronze 72. We kids always got the oldest cars and it had 150,000+ on it when I started driving it.

My 2018 Fusions both have about 50K miles on them. My son is driving our 2013 Fusion with 150K on it, my daughter drives the 2005 Vibe with almost 290K on it.
 
Up here the body disappears. My high mileage vehicle is my Monte 125K, my 11 truck has about 65K, 19 truck has 90K, wife's car is a 13 with 70K.
My high school cars went back to the earth or to make another car.
 
I still drive my 70 (16K mi on new engine) throughout the week. Though my current 70 is vastly different from my High School 70 (120K mi when bought and 20k mi on engine) in 1992. Almost all is new tech. I still drive my 75 Silverado (378K mi on truck and engine) as well. We just did a freshen up (AFM and V VT Delete) on my sons 2012 Silverado 5.3 @ 198K mi and now 218K mi. .

I remember when no one wanted to keep a car past 100K mi or worried about driving long distance in them. 200Kmi may be the new 100K. Though Id think with great care and upkeep, id drive way more these days.
 
Had 3 cars in high school all were jalopys 😂🤣85 ford escort t-boned by a old man driving behind me. 84 ford tempo engine blew, 84 ford ltd got me through 11,12 grade got the pit maneuver executed by a drunk guy on I75 in Michigan. (That was scary lol) no wrecks since then. 1997
 
I have made great efforts to get back to some of the cars I had or desired back in my HS days.
Took me 48 years to obtain a Lotus Europa, dealership would not even talk to me when they were new.
About to go and get a hacked up Bugeye Sprite, which was one of the first running cars I ever owned.
Current Alfa Romeo is a 78 Spider, cannot afford another 65.
Current El Camino is a 68, cannot afford another 59.
So I have mostly had to move to newer only because the price of my preferred older cars has gotten so crazy.
Have also begun building from scratch as resto parts are just too expensive.
 
Funny and true. When I was in HS and 16 it was 1996. I had a 1991 Mustang LX 5.0 5spd. So that was 5 years old and I paid 6500 for it. Look at what a 5 year old mustang costs now! My daily though was a 89 Ford Escort GT 5spd. For as big of a pile of junk that thing was I loved it, and the best part was I paid 700 dollars for it!

And now as you guys saw my daily is the 1986 cougar but it has 54k miles and i paid 4k for it :)
 
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