I would have written about "Girls I Lusted After" but I don't think that would enhance my marital experience so I will stick  to cars.  As a kid at Garner and Mac I admired and lusted after several classmate cars:

Cars I admired:

Court Thielman's 1965 Black Plymouth Barracuda

Roger Teagarden's 1964 yellow Pontiac GTO

Lynn Moody's Chevy Impala convertible & Red VW Convertible

Eddie Olsens 60's Grey Triumph Sports car

Edgar Becks 57 Chevy (with the FUBIMO decal in back window)

Barry Bartz'   Willys Jeep

Glen Perkins yellow Corvair

Butch Wilson's yellow Corvette

CARS I LUSTED AFTER:

Roy Isom's 1966 Red Mustang convertible w/black top & interior

Mark Besch's 1965 Red Mustang convertible w/white top & interior

*Bad boy Besch drove that sucker with a white cowboy hat that matched his interior.  I dreamt about that car for years and in the 1990s my Dad came into a few bucks and offered to buy me a restored Mustang like Marks to try and even things out between us.  I turned him down because I could see it would dollar me to death on parts and insurance.....besides ...the dream was better than the reality.

Anyone else remember any cool cars from the old days at Garner/Mac?

Cars I admired:

Court upgraded from the black V-6 Barracuda to the simply gorgeous 1967?, classic 289 cu.in. Mustang (must have been after you moved Roger).  It was this beautiful shade of very, very, light coral green color.  The 4-on-the-floor and glass pack mufflers "roughed" it up just right.  It was our car of choice to cruise around San Antonio in.  In our senior year I think he traded it in and got a red Mach I fastback Mustang, but I liked the 289 better.  The Mach I had a larger engine, but the car seemed heavier and bulkier, and even a bit less responsive.  He didn't confer with me however.

Barnhill managed somehow to end up in his mother's hot yellow and black striped Dodge Bumble Bee.  This came loaded with Chrylser's big 340 cu. in. engine, 4 bbl carb, and ran like a bat out of hell.  It clanked, rattled, shook, and vibrated so loudly while just idling in neutral that you knew this machine didn't want to sit still.  This car got no miles to the gallon.  It did get us some trouble later on in Austin.

Junior sprinter Ray Ince had a big luxurios Olds 442.  Fun to go to Port A in.  Ray needless to say, lived in comfort.  No telling what he drove while swimming for SMU. 

You boys and your toys! I can see what really gets attention on this website!

I have absolutely no memory of ANY cars from High School. However, raising boys--I saw how important the first car--and every one thereafter --would become. My sons and my husband still lust after cars.

I did not have a car until Michael and I were married. We bought my first car--a brand new yellow Vega--while we were still in college. My Dad had to co-sign. I needed it to get back and forth from student teaching.

My Mother, on the other hand, was a car lover! I can still see her in her turquoise Torino--and later in her white Corvair. For some reason, my sister would have her let her out of the car about a block away from MacArthur--so, she could walk the rest of the way in. I don't know if she was embarrassed of the car--or the fact that Mom was driving us to school.

Bren/Court...All I got to say is that for Courtney to have negotiated not one but TWO new hot high dollar cars from his notoriously thrifty parents he must have gotten straight "A" grades or more likely forged a "Mark Sptiz poster deal" to show his parents.

My Dad, Guy Prince, taught over in the Occupational Arts building, a place I rarely visited. But sometimes, after school, when I was waiting for a ride home with him, he would take me over to the Car Arts classroom and show me the insane cars that the classwould "trick out." Quite a show, if I remember. Wish the guys from that class would tell us more!

     A man at my church had a '64 (?) midnight black, gull-wing door 'Vette. Why, I wondered, would that "old guy" be driving such a fine car? At the time, he was probably about my parents' age.

     About the same time, a young couple from my church (about 3 years older than us) got married and bought a brand new, gold metallic Chevy SS 396. How in the world did they afford such a machine?

      I always liked the '64-'66 GTO. As I recall, Randy Merkin's older brother (Mac Class of '66) had one such beast, as did Anne Whitmore Masley's husband, David (Mac Class of '65).

    What about Lee Tindall's '68 Corvette with the L88 engine? Somebody surely must have witnessed his racing that animal.

    Terry Kohutek had a maroon Olds 442, as I recall--great car/butt-ugly color--burnt orange would have been much better. Terry Maxfield had a green 442--much easier on the eyes.

     I always liked the style of the '62-'64 Chevy Impala and wished I could have afforded one. Just before my daughter was born in 1978, Gay Lee and I bought a fam sedan 4 dr Impala and my wish came true (sorta).

     My favorite HS car that I owned was my '56 Chevy Bel Air: 4 dr.; 6 cyl; no a/c and the windshield wipers slowed down to almost nothing when you accelerated, since they worked off a vacuum pump. A pic is on my profile page.

Jim Schwinds white Rambler station wagon. I remember him running off the road into a fence, scraped up the front end, but he fixed it with some appliance paint. Of course he didn't have his license at the time either...

Briscoes, blue bomb? Was it a little Ford of some kind? It could burn rubber in all three gears (from the fan belts).

First date with Jeanne was in our big pink Dodge Seneca, with huge fins and push button automatic. Ran over a lit smudge pot that got wedged under the tranny, trying to cross a low water crossing. oh, the wonders of the teenage brain.

Neugebauers baby Italian fiat that couldn't go over the new speed bumps at school (so we brought picks and made two grooves in the speed bump that fit his tires).

Loved those old push button trannies in the Plymouth/Dodge cars.  Courtney had one....i think it was Dodge Dart station wagon like Click and Clack joke about...and we used to have fun with it.  Degges "Blue Goose" Plymouth Station Wagon had the buttons and Tony would "goose" the RPMs about as high as Plymouth would allow in neutral then grin and punch the "drive" button.  All while in front of his own house with his Dad taking a nap inside.  Amazingly he never dropped the trans or left the drive shaft laying in the street like I had while conducting similar experiments.   

Which teacher had the Super Bird - the big NASCAR spoiler and the whole package?  I think she taught math.  It stood out in the parking lot.

Actually, it was a green F-85 Oldsmobile, affectionately known as the "Green Turd". But it ran great and it was mine!! The summer before college my Dad bought me a 1964 GTO, white with black interior, red lined wide ovals, four speed. I drove it all through college and sold it for $600.00. Wish I had it now.

I didn't do justice to Barnhill's Dodge "Bumble" Bee in my last month's post.  While waiting for service on my old Honda yesterday, I picked up a magazine about the old hot cars in the 1964-1970 era.  The Dodge line of cars were included.  In the first place, it wasn't called a Bumble Bee (even though the paint job looked like one), it was a Super Bee.  It also had a 383 cu. in. engine, not a 340.  The write up on it said it came standard with the 383 V-8 with the heads right off the big 440 Magnum, and had 335 hp @ 5200 rpm.  Two hood scoops fed directly into the 4-bbl Holley carb.  I just remembered it was fast, and that after about 1/2 hour you were out of gas; it didn't matter how far you had driven.  That calculated a gas mileage of about 2 minutes to the gallon. I guess the hood hinges meant business.  Sorry Bill, you should have spoken up.

A lot of cops/highway patrol ran around in the Dodge Coronet with the 440 cu. in. Magnum engine back then.  I suppose you wouldn't have tried to outrun one of those guys.