skierd wrote: My God I hope she drives better than teenage girl stereotypes. Or any of the ones I've met in person or been in the car with. Seriously cool car though.
thestig99 wrote:Vigo wrote: The fact that that car is being driven by a teenager makes me VERY VERY sad.Hey now, teenagers aren't ALL retarded. The vast majority, yes, but a few are smart enough to appreciate things.
The caliber of girl that would see this as cool will probably be against the grain of a normal teenage girl.
Datsun1500 wrote: 1971 Mercedes 250C that is dead on original including paint. Garage kept since new...
...and it will likely be a shadow of its former self in another 2-3 years. 
I hope she doesn't drive like I did at 16.
I bet this car never saw a french fry on the floor.... but it will soon.
A few kids get it.
Our shop rat is 16 and he saved up to buy his first car.
He just bought a beautiful (for a Dodge) 1967 Dodge Dart 340 4-speed.
It's in great shape and he takes great care of it.
I sure wouldn't have had the determination to save over $10,000 for a car when I was his age.
He knew exactly what he wanted and went for it.
Shawn
I have a dissenting view...
When I was in high school, the kids with the really cool cars were either spending all of their free time working two or three jobs so they could afford the coolest car or their rich daddy just gave them the car. Some still long for the days when they thought they were the coolest kids around, all because of the car they owned. Their status disappeared when everyone went to college and moved on to more important things.
While the original post is about a girl, for boys I'd recommend getting a young teenage boy something boring, four door, plain, cheap and safe and leave it at that.
plance1 wrote: I have a dissenting view... When I was in high school, the kids with the really cool cars were either spending all of their free time working two or three jobs so they could afford the coolest car
I didn't spend all my time working, there was a good bit of it devoted to washing and waxing. It's not easy keeping black clean.
How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?
don't feel quite so bad, my high school parkinglot is littered with civics and volvos and various Jeeps, with the occasional base model/entry level BMW, and last year there was a nicely sorted SW-20 MR2 that had a certain Ferrari 308 GTM flair to it, and this year there's at least one Fiero (ok not high class cool but it's been appearing in more or less the same spot all 4 years I've been here so the owner must either like it or not be able to give it away). of course, this is coming from the guy driving the wheels off a '04 Cooper S during the week and a '94 Miata track rat (read: money pit), so perhaps I'm not the best to judge the appropriateness for teenagers of the cars in the school lot
When I went to high school we all drove clunkers and jalopies that we worked on ourselves and paid for by ourselves with part time jobs. Times have changed.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?
Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
pinchvalve wrote: No B-Pillar is the shiznit.
I agree, mercedes definitely got that right!
ArthurDent wrote:92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
A LOT of Asian (usually Chinese) kids have cars that belong in a $100k+/yr demographic. I'll never understand it.
gamby wrote:ArthurDent wrote:A LOT of Asian (usually Chinese) kids have cars that belong in a $100k+/yr demographic. I'll never understand it.92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
Because it is quite common for an entire asian family to pool all their money. Mom, Dad, son, daughter, grandparents...all pool their monies.
ArthurDent wrote:92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
not shocking to me. while i loved the '72 monte carlo that i drove through seven years of undergrad ('84 - '91), all the time i spent working on it and all the money i spent pushing that 12 mpg pig through the air could've been spent studying and making the note on a 4-year-old civic. when my kids go off to college, they're getting relatively new cars, whether they like it or not.
In high school I had four vehicles, mostly all at the same time. The first was a 1979 Chevette, second was a 1966 Pontiac Tempest 4 door post, the third was a 1983 (iirc) Chevrolet K Blazer and finally a 1977 Oldsmobile Starfire 3.8L oddfire V6 auto hatch.
The Blazer was bought to pull around the landscaping gear I had to make money for my father to throw into his failing bar, so outside of a weekend thrash that resulted in an injected big block Chevrolet nestled between the fenders it was all but stock.
The Chevette had a nitrous kit built for it, the Tempest was built into a 4 door GTO clone and the Starfire... well the Starfire had a white vinyl interior.
I had the least interesting cars in high school.
I had a 1974 Beige VW Superbeetle.. with a type 4 engine sticking out from beneath the rear decklid. Aside from the rear sheet metal being cut away to make room for the pancake style cooling shroud.. it was disgustingly stock looking..
At least it was faster than the school snob's 1973 911T that decided to race me one day...
It also used to shoot flame out of the exhaust when accelerating and would pop flame when downshifted.
In reply to mad_machine:
Your VW sounds like a cool high school car. I am picturing the snob with the 911 as the guy in Bachelor Party.
I was considered a little weird in high school because I had an Austin Mini, mostly stock but with racing stripes, when almost everybody else at my h.s. was into Detroit iron. I remember one guy with a MG 1100 sedan and another with a Fiat 850 coupe, but we were the foreign car club, all three members. This was back in the late 1960's and the Japanese hadn't really arrived on the scene yet. By the time my brother went to high school five years later everything was different.
I was considered a little weird in high school because I had an Austin Mini, mostly stock but with racing stripes, when almost everybody else at my h.s. was into Detroit iron. I remember one guy with a MG 1100 sedan and another with a Fiat 850 coupe, but we were the foreign car club, all three members. This was back in the late 1960's and the Japanese hadn't really arrived on the scene yet. By the time my brother went to high school five years later everything was different.
One girl I knew in HS in the late 70's drove a Model A Ford sedan on occasion.
I drove a '63 Belair, which was considered a chalky, slow,, ancient POS by most of the kids. It was only in its mid-teens!
Don't know if it was actually the coolest car at my Highschool but it certainly stood out among all the new cars my fellow students had, 1974 VW Type 181 Thing. I really wish I still had that car, it was stupid cold in the winter, leaked like the proverbial sieve in the rain and wasn't terribly quick, but it was FUN and the girls liked it in the summer.
I didn't have a car in H.S. CVS didn't pay very well.
Most kids drove whatever they could afford, though one kid's daddy bought him a brand-new 2002 WRX. Everyone in school was jealous of him. Then he got pinched while blowing the doors off of a ricer Civic.
As for OP, I'm less worried about the owner wrecking it than some other student banging into it with his rusty '91 Pontiac Trans Sport, or a jealous girl or jilted guy keying every panel on it.
ArthurDent wrote:92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
My street is a testament of this. I live in a dumpy neighborhood right across from campus, but the cars parked on the street are 3-Series BMWs, Lexuses, Mercedes, etc.. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I have heard that a lot of students have the choice of an out-of-state, private education, or an in-state education that's still pretty dang good and a nice car. The car's probably a lot cheaper.
AngryCorvair wrote:ArthurDent wrote:not shocking to me. while i loved the '72 monte carlo that i drove through seven years of undergrad ('84 - '91), all the time i spent working on it and all the money i spent pushing that 12 mpg pig through the air could've been spent studying and making the note on a 4-year-old civic. when my kids go off to college, they're getting relatively new cars, whether they like it or not.92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: How/why are highschoolers getting cooler cars than what i own NOW?Go visit a college - its shocking how nice a lot of the cars are. Then employee lot is usually where the rusted out turds are.
In college I had an Eagle Talon, a MKIII Supra Turbo, an 88 Civic, a 74 International Truck, and an Escort ZX2. I would just sell my car whenever the parking ticket pile got too high. 
In high school it was all 1980 Volvo 240D. Aka "the sexy Volvo."
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