Serj22
07-11-2009, 05:05 AM
...you're high-school clunker car, if you had one.
If it was too long ago to have a picture, or cameras weren't invented yet, then just share about it. I had two high-school cars and they were both GM P.O.S's. The first was a 1991 Sunbird: Same exact one in the pic, same color but the interior on mine was all white pleather vinyl stuff. It was a horrible car, but it was pretty, and it would start and stop randomly. I would drive it off campus at lunch, then it wouldn't start to drive it back, then I'd go to the spot I went after school to drive it home. The engine block eventually melted into a singularity, and the car would run no more. I got $44 for it from a junkyard. It cost $43 to tow it away. I received a check for $1.00... I bought the car from an auction for $1200.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/%2793_Sunbird_Convertible.jpg
Then I had a Jimmy, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I know I wasn't on drugs but I could not resist the urge to take that nice candy green paint job and just redo the whole thing flat black. It also had bull horns. There was a bolt in the hood where an ornament used to be, so I put a pair of horns there sometimes when I was bored. The first set got stolen, so I told the guy I bought them from, and he gave me a new pair of black ones for free. He was a nice guy.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/G-M-C.jpg
The Jimmy went through many-many-many creative stages of mine, the first was just to make it black, then I had a friend make a huge stencil of skull and cross(guitars) for the sides. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/carnight.jpg
Then I painted a checkered pattern on the back, it was really hard and I can't remember why I thought that was cool.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/carbehind.jpg
And of course it had pinstripes and purple underglow, I revamped the hood all the time, and even had a design at the end of its life that covered the whole hood.http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/underglow.jpg
I used this car basically as practice for painting different designs and styles. MY favorite was when the front looked like a dog fighter.
The coolest part was that's the car started making custom stuff for interiors on. I made two sub boxes that fit over the wheel wells, and left the subs towards the back of the car. The back seat folded completely flat, and I mean completely, it was awesome, and I had purple fluffy carpet covering the whole deal, so it was a place you could "sleep" in. My girlfriends loved it! ...because it was so soft of course... yeah, that's it.
Oh, and the whole interior was painted black and bright red, I can't find a pic of it, but when I do, you will be amazed at how much I "cared" when painting the interior. I took stuff out... but still, I think I sprayed the dash black without covering anything, oh well, OH! and I had a tiny red fan that sat on the dash because the blower fans were busted and the A/C lines were broken.
Also, a story about that license plate frame on the front of the Jimmy in the first pic. I kept it even though it looked stupid from the Sunbird, because I was young and thought it would be funny that since my friend's were making out in my rear seat, I back up for no reason on an empty road. They stopped it of course, but the car did not have very good stability at all. At about 10mph I lost control of it and backed it up into a concrete pole. I went "oh my... I'm F-(long slury of curses)" I got out of the car and saw the pole, I had knocked it out of the ground. I figured that can't be good at all for the car, it was going to have a huge pole indentation, the top wouldn't close right, etc... I look, and the only damage is a little scratch on that ugly license plate frame, and that's literally it. So when I dumped the car, I figured I'd keep the frame, I installed it on the front of the Jimmy, and the day I bought the car, I got in an accident trying to get to the 101 interchange in Emmeryville. I hit the back of a minivan while going almost 2mph after a car scraped the side of me because he was hauling ass (about 50) in stopped traffic, while I was trying to merge, I felt the scrape, and moved back to my lane, but traffic hadn't moved yet, and so I hit the back of the van. The rear of the van was DESTROYED!!! I had tow hooks, and they beat it up pretty bad. WHen I pulled over alongside the guy who side-scraped me I got out to look, little bit of messed up paint, hood didn't close quite flush, and the license plate frame was bent in half, but the bumper was just fine... I forget what happened to that frame... but it was a good insurance policy.
If it was too long ago to have a picture, or cameras weren't invented yet, then just share about it. I had two high-school cars and they were both GM P.O.S's. The first was a 1991 Sunbird: Same exact one in the pic, same color but the interior on mine was all white pleather vinyl stuff. It was a horrible car, but it was pretty, and it would start and stop randomly. I would drive it off campus at lunch, then it wouldn't start to drive it back, then I'd go to the spot I went after school to drive it home. The engine block eventually melted into a singularity, and the car would run no more. I got $44 for it from a junkyard. It cost $43 to tow it away. I received a check for $1.00... I bought the car from an auction for $1200.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/%2793_Sunbird_Convertible.jpg
Then I had a Jimmy, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I know I wasn't on drugs but I could not resist the urge to take that nice candy green paint job and just redo the whole thing flat black. It also had bull horns. There was a bolt in the hood where an ornament used to be, so I put a pair of horns there sometimes when I was bored. The first set got stolen, so I told the guy I bought them from, and he gave me a new pair of black ones for free. He was a nice guy.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/G-M-C.jpg
The Jimmy went through many-many-many creative stages of mine, the first was just to make it black, then I had a friend make a huge stencil of skull and cross(guitars) for the sides. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/carnight.jpg
Then I painted a checkered pattern on the back, it was really hard and I can't remember why I thought that was cool.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/carbehind.jpg
And of course it had pinstripes and purple underglow, I revamped the hood all the time, and even had a design at the end of its life that covered the whole hood.http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/underglow.jpg
I used this car basically as practice for painting different designs and styles. MY favorite was when the front looked like a dog fighter.
The coolest part was that's the car started making custom stuff for interiors on. I made two sub boxes that fit over the wheel wells, and left the subs towards the back of the car. The back seat folded completely flat, and I mean completely, it was awesome, and I had purple fluffy carpet covering the whole deal, so it was a place you could "sleep" in. My girlfriends loved it! ...because it was so soft of course... yeah, that's it.
Oh, and the whole interior was painted black and bright red, I can't find a pic of it, but when I do, you will be amazed at how much I "cared" when painting the interior. I took stuff out... but still, I think I sprayed the dash black without covering anything, oh well, OH! and I had a tiny red fan that sat on the dash because the blower fans were busted and the A/C lines were broken.
Also, a story about that license plate frame on the front of the Jimmy in the first pic. I kept it even though it looked stupid from the Sunbird, because I was young and thought it would be funny that since my friend's were making out in my rear seat, I back up for no reason on an empty road. They stopped it of course, but the car did not have very good stability at all. At about 10mph I lost control of it and backed it up into a concrete pole. I went "oh my... I'm F-(long slury of curses)" I got out of the car and saw the pole, I had knocked it out of the ground. I figured that can't be good at all for the car, it was going to have a huge pole indentation, the top wouldn't close right, etc... I look, and the only damage is a little scratch on that ugly license plate frame, and that's literally it. So when I dumped the car, I figured I'd keep the frame, I installed it on the front of the Jimmy, and the day I bought the car, I got in an accident trying to get to the 101 interchange in Emmeryville. I hit the back of a minivan while going almost 2mph after a car scraped the side of me because he was hauling ass (about 50) in stopped traffic, while I was trying to merge, I felt the scrape, and moved back to my lane, but traffic hadn't moved yet, and so I hit the back of the van. The rear of the van was DESTROYED!!! I had tow hooks, and they beat it up pretty bad. WHen I pulled over alongside the guy who side-scraped me I got out to look, little bit of messed up paint, hood didn't close quite flush, and the license plate frame was bent in half, but the bumper was just fine... I forget what happened to that frame... but it was a good insurance policy.