August 25, 2008
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The Car
Imagine for a second that you are starting school in either high school or college. Imagine that your parents offered to let you have the extra family car to drive.
Now imagine that the car looked like this:
Would you drive the car to school?
Comments (200)
I have a friend who does just that, but hers is white.
Yup.
Ours was blue and sure! if it had wheels.lol
hells yes. it’s totally retro cool. even looks kinda mag’d out.
As oposed to walking? Hell yes.
Girls dig the station wagon.
i drove an orange 1973 datsun pick-up truck to school my junior year …
Yes. Who is so spoiled that they wouldn’t?
hell yeah, i remember my first ride. just think of the system you could put in the back of that thing
If it could make it down my dirt roads without breaking down or getting stuck in the winter then sure
I didn’t have a car in high school!
oh yes.
YES!
Imagine: The back seats fold down…an old friend of mine had a yellow family station wagon like that….we’ll just say he was known to have some “fun” in the back.
i’d still drive that to school.
Well.. more importantly than what it looks like… what’s the gas milage on it?
Yep.
We used to have a big old blue van that was falling apart.
But I homeschool, so I don’t have to drive to school.
Any car is better than no car at all!
yes
Sure! Of course, my first car was a horrid little Plymouth hatchback that shook if I drive over 40 mph.
One of my good friends inherited a “woody” station wagon like this. It was practically our mascot!
Yes. That might actually be an upgrade from the lovely family car I got to take to college back in 2000. My lucky ride was old enough to have a driver’s license.
HECK YEAH! Haha it’s a classic. ^_~ And, because I go to school in Baltimore, I can park wherever I want because that says “don’t steal me” all over it. Heheh.
hell yes
Yes. That’s what I did in high school. My dad bought himself an F-150 for work, and so I was allowed to drive the beat up shitty car to school. I did. I even drove a friend to school. My car became fairly well known among my friends, and it was even named “The Bluick” because it was a blue buick. It rattled on the interstate, but it got me back and for to school fine, as I lived about a mile and a half away from my high school.
In a weird way, I kinda miss that car. Not gonna lie.
Oh gosh, a woodie station wagon. I suppose if my only option was to drive then I might take that one… but no way. Noo way would I drive a clunker like that. Because it’s got to be a clunker, too. Just look at it! You’d be laughed out of school!!
Then again, if you drove an shiny brand new 09 Mustang, the chances of it getting broken into or stolen might elevate… hmm. Maybe the woodie would attract less attention.
Nope. No way. Not gonna do it. I’ll take the bus!
I loathed my ’72 Dodge Dart Swinger when I was driving it to college in 1979. Now, I think they look great whenever I see one…
I’m ashamed I was ever so spoiled… we’ve got to get over ourselves.
No, I was proud to ride that big yellow bus. My parents owned a station wagon, i ues to lay down in the back and fall fast asleep.
Heck yes.
Totally!
Hells yeah. They call ‘em shaggin’ wagons for a reason…
Depends how far, but sure, why not.
Yes!
It’s wheels! My awesome personality would make up for it. I’d call it my “ghetto jet” or “loser cruiser” and invite all my friends along for a ride.
I’d be thrilled! I grew up with those cars (My dad and mom both had one). They are awesome
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station wagons FTW
It would get horrible gas mileage, but, yeah, I’d drive it. It’s kind of retro-Brady, too!
Kathi
Yes! I’ll bet the floor isn’t even rusted out and that the brakes work! And I’ll bet those headlights don’t get frozen shut after dark! Dude, first cars are supposed to be ghetto!
I wouldn’t. lol. my uncle and aunt still have that in their garage and it still works!
heck yeah, a car is a car… bonus that you can fit more people in there lol
Heck, I would have been so happy that my parents gave me a car to use, I would have driven anything! We gave my daughter my old Malibu when I got a new car, and she thought she should have a ‘cooler’ car. So we gave her two choices…take it, or leave it. Not surprisingly she took it, and realized she is lucky to have a free car to drive.
HELL YES. i hate medium cars. cars should either be fucking rad (my personal favorites are beamers and corvettes) or so bad that they come full circle and are actually really cool. like said car.
Sure. Why not? Some car is better than no car. I didn’t have a car until after my freshman year in college.
It was a ’97 Saturn. I actually drove it up until I got my new car a couple months ago. It was still doing alright. The AC hadn’t worked for like 3 years which is not that great in the Texas summer. It might have been ok but in College Station you didn’t really have to drive much so there never was much of a breeze and when we first moved to Houston I lived like 10 minutes from work. In the afternoon when I would drive home the car would be way hot, I could hardly touch anything to drive, I wouldn’t be going fast enough to get a breeze and the sun would be really bright because it would be shining right on me through my open window. The winter wasn’t any better because the car wouldn’t ever have time to heat up (it would take about the 10 minutes of driving time… so by the time it warmed up even a little it was time to get out).
For some reason I miss that car.
Heck yes. I’ll drive anything with a radio and air conditioning.
Yes! An extra hour of sleep is always welcomed. I can’t stand taking the bus. But that car has to run perfectly fine and can’t make any noise. That’s my limit.
hell yeah. that care would be super cool loaded up with friends…i have to say it would not be NEARLY as cool as the 1979 Toyota Celica GT that my parents bought me to drive when I turned 16. So. definitely yes to the car.
Absolutly a car is a car. Currently I don’t have one and I’ll take what I can get. Plus it would be great for towing your friends around in. lol
I’d drive it to Wally World
Doesn’t look much worse than what I drive now, and I’m sure it gets better gas mileage. So, yeah!
no
I’d probably get it repainted one solid color, nice and shiny and maybe see if I can’t get some body work done.. maybe make the back end look a little less like a hearse and a little more like something that won’t freak the ladies out.
Aw yeah
pretty well all students have beat up or old cars
heck yes. that thing pwns
Dude… my car still looks like that after high school.
Heck yes. It’s a rite of passage for a kid’s first car to be the old family beater. My brother drove me to school in a ’56 Ford Victoria. Actually, that was a really cool car. My mom drove me to school in the car you pictured. We gave our daughter my husband’s old ’98 New Yorker. She named it The Ghetto Blaster, put little stuffed animals in the back window and had a blast with it until it got squashed by falling trees during a wicked thunderstorm.
If it’s in working condition and gets me from point A to point B, I would drive it. I drove a minivan in college! I almost started charging people for rides. =P
I don’t have to imagine. My parents gave me a white Saturn wagon which I did drive all through college, and still have now. I hated that car when they gave it to me. HATED it. But even after all the soccer mom jokes, I love my car now.
Seeing as how (1) I didn’t have my license when I went off to college, (2) I was prevented from getting the license by parents who thought I’d be irresponsible and who wanted to avoid the significant hit their insurance would take with a teen driver, and (3) my first car was a heavily rusted, yellow-green ’74 Oldsmobile Omega, sure, I’d have driven that station wagon to college. It was far more of a car than I had access to during my four years in a to-remain-unnamed school in the midst of farmland in western New York. (Let’s just say it was 40 miles from the nearest McDonalds, movie theatre, or shopping mall.)
As my grandpa used to say, “As long as it has a wheel in each corner and gets you where you need to go, that’s all that matters.”
Besides, any girl who would allow her impression of me to be determined by the car I drove would not be worth dating.
Sure . . .”party wagon”
If it has a V8!!!
Yeah.
Hell, I would drive a cardboard box to school if I had to.
I’d probably rather walk until I could get my own car, personally. It’s not strange to see cars like that at the school I go to but I wouldn’t want to do it.
yes! i have a good friend who drove the family mini van for three years of high school, and he seemed to get along just fine.
on the other hand, there’s this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSGrrWMjQg
Of course. I’m struggling to get enough money to get a car as it is, so if I was offered a free one, I’d take it no matter what,
chya. gets me from a to b
kickin it old school
what a pimp mobile!
Hell no.
To each his own, but first impressions do count!
i don’t like that car at all. and i’d cry if i had to park next to the lexus my ex’s ex drives. women have egos too. i’d be so embarassed. but i guess there are better things to worry about. i’m sure i’d get over it. shrug
of course… how spoiled do you have to be to not accept the offer?
If they’re just outright giving it to me? Heck yeah!
Yeah I guess if thats all my parents had and they gave it to me for free, fuck it (I didnt get my first car until I was 18 and I bought that shit myself, haha). But I’d definitely be saving up my money to buy a better ride by the time I got to college.
Heck yes.
I drove my parent’s minivan in high school, but when it came to getting my own car in college, they wanted me to have a safe car more than anything. I’d be happy with a piece of crap car, but they wouldn’t let me.
Hell yes! I would imagine that you get a lot more attention in one of those than you would in a cliche Civic or Taurus.
I will pretend to be enviromentally friendly and say no.
No. If I was in a different time, yes. Are you making your kid drive this car?!
x0x MK
Yeah, I could totally rock that thing! It’s almost cool looking. But most kids in school have old family beaters, it’s expected.
Sure! I got the old family station wagon when I went to high school. Wasn’t a woodie though. That was the current family car at the time. I’d have driven that too. I don’t recall anyone knowing or caring what I drove to school. I certainly didn’t keep track of what they drove — still don’t.
why not? a cars a car! don’t whine you spoiled brat! at least that is what i would say, if i had a child to send to school. i owned my own car-bought and paid for-in both high school and college.
A car is a car if it’s free.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have been too proud to drive that car.
Yes!
If I were the student, I’d say, “Do I look like I’m stupid? Of course I’d drive that car.”
If I were the parent, I’d say, “Yes, you may have a different car, so long as you go out and buy it yourself.”
No, I would be stubborn and ungrateful and either walk, beg rides from friends, or ride the bus until I could save money to buy my own vehicle that is decent and presentable.
Give me a break, of COURSE I would drive it. It’s better than nothing, right? I mean, seriously, what is WRONG with kids today? When did the world start to owe you a living? Grow up, and drive it or deal with the fact that you are too arrogant to accept the privilege granted to you.
I had an 89 honda civic, paint totally chipped off, etc, and i looooved it, great gas mileage and it was always fun to joke about
HECK YEAH! And GRATEFULLY! Walking in AZ is just not acceptable, the public transit system is laughable…gimme that station wagon any day!
Of course! I drove a hatchback for a couple of years (until it died).
Hell yeah I would! My grandpa has a green ’94 or ’95ish Ford Escort station wagon… We all call it the pickle, lol… I always kinda wanted to drive it to school one day, just to see what people would say, lol.
um it’s better than the bus.
It’s better than riding the bus. But when I was in high school, most people drove junk mobiles anyway so no one would really judge you for it.
Why not…If you are so shallow as to not want to drive it then you don’t deserve to have the opportunity to drive…Spoiled brat who rejects it!
I did! Pontiac Bonneville Station wagon, with the same wood paneling on the outside! Back then kids weren’t as into the type of car you drive, as they are now. We could pack that car on a Friday nite for the $5 per carload drive in. (for the youngsters, that’s a movie, outside, that you sit in your car and watch)
I am in high school.
And I walk.
Heck yes!! I inherited an old Chevy Blazer in High School. In college I upgraded to a new honda.
@heartbeatofmusic_x - ”Yes. Who is so spoiled that they wouldn’t?” I agree wholeheartedly.
I went off to college with the station wagon. It was fantastic for those long trips between Missouri and Texas. We would load up as many as would fit at breaks and split the driving/gas. Party on wheels!
where i live i’d be the laughingstock of school. but if its parked a street or two away then i might take it.
It looks like a funeral vehicle.
I’d rather walk.
Yes! I need a car… oh yeah and a licence.
Well I live about 20 minutes walk from college so I’ll take the healthy / cheap option and walk =]
Plus I can’t drive yet xD
Most definitely. Its free! =D
That’s the perfect car to have in high school. Head on over to Makeout Lane, fold down the back seat and have at it!
why not?
I drove a rusty 1972 Pinto… and was grateful to get that.
’nuff said.
Definitely. I actually am very attracted to guys with shitty looking cars. There’s something so classic feeling about letting a guy get to second base in the back of an old ghetto-tastic car.
As long as it gets me anywhere in one piece, of course I’d drive it! I’m too lazy NOT to.
I think I did. I know I drove a Chevy Caprice station wagon… DIESEL, no less! to college for a semester or two. And, no, I didn’t fit a keg in the back; although I’m fairly certain I could have.
Yes I certainly would. But I drove a minivan throughout high school and my first couple years of college though.
Yes. Any car is better than having your parents pick you up at 18 years old.
Yes.
In my opinion, anything is better than riding the school bus
I did drive that car to school.
Hell yes! I think it’s “cool” in a dorky way to own an old car like that. People just know it’s YOUR car. However, if there’s no air, there’s a problem.
Why not?
Hell yeah, beats walking and the bus!!!!
Besides lots of freinds can fit in that thing lol.
no way.
Absolutely. I never had a car to drive during high school, but when I graduated…my mom gave me her 85′ Firebird Trans-Am so I guess all those bus rides/car rides was worth it in the end.
yeah, a car is a car is a car and i aint walkin/biking to school!
Totally would. A Car is a car.
Yes.
fo sho! vintage is so cool now, didn’t ya hear?! lol.
anytime someone gives you a car, it’s a good thing.
<3
Its a lot better than not having anything to get from point A to point B.
yeah
i probably wouldn’t complain
Not a chance in hell.
oh yes! a car is a car, as long if it runs, dosn’t make loud noises and dosn’t stop for no reason. i can fit more then 4 people in it.
i remember my parents had something like that when i was growing up.. it was a blue ford and i remember my parents forever had problems with it. i loved that car, the seats on the back were soft to fall asleep in. ^_~
I WISH mine had been that good!
You only asked this question because of the average age of your subs, didnt you , Dan..
Just kiddddding.
But to answer your question:
I want to sleep in a coffin sometime just to see what it feels like so hey, I wouldn’t mind driving a HEARSE. haha
Sure enough….and I’d be plenty grateful for that generosity!
Hellz YEAH!!! Put some spinnahs on that shiyat…
I like how there’s almost unanimous agreement.
And as long as the interior is okay, yeah, why not?
yes, i would as long as its drive-able and reliable. i wouldn’t care because i’m at least driving a car instead of riding the bus that takes 30 mins when you can get to school within 10 mins. it would save a lot of time waking up lol. plus, you could go anywhere with it……… freedommmm lol
not sure….with high school I’d probally ride the bus. Gas is rediculous no matter what car it is.
@ButterflyBlew - my car makes loud noises
it’s quite embarrassing
there is that comfy space in the back that one (or two) could use to stretch out in. hell yeah i’d take it.
I did!!
I’d be forced to–who else is gonna drive the kids to soccer practice?
What’s funny is the fact that two of my friends drive really nice, relatively new sportscars.
Hm. Maybe if I could get it a new paint job and spinners.
Oh Hell yea! That car probably has a V-8 engine, (V-8 = easy HP) paint the inside of the back windows black, and get creative with some spray paint on the wood, and you got a pretty cool sled.
that car is badass
I don’t find those cars embarrassing at all. I’d actually rather drive that than my 2008 Nissan Sentra… don’t exactly know why, it’s not because it’s “retro” just because it seems roomier and just plain more fun to drive.
heh, reminds me of a story my mom told me when she started driving.
that would be an awesome ride to school! nice wheels!
a car is a car. if it was that or don’t drive at all, hell yes.
no..
Absolutely! I drove my parents’ old Dodge Coronet that was yellow with a brown vinyl top. It got me where I needed to go, and I never complained!
Yes. If I did not have a car to drive previously, I would be happy to have any car. In high school, I don’t think I would have cared too much about what car I drove and if peers saw me driving it. I wasn’t popular anyway.
No man, I’d hit the open highway and cruise that puppy all the way out to Wally World.
Hello i would drive it …
FUCK YES I would drive the station wagon. I would also be the guy who drove everyone around. Carpooling is sexy! And it saves gas. And that thing could probably fit like, nine people in it.
The coolest senior my freshman year drove around in a station wagon on bald tires (in Michigan, mind you), blasting hip hop through a shitty subwoofer. Seriously, if people really care about the car you drive, to the point where they think you’re “uncool,” fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em right in the head and find some friends who aren’t tools.
I have to be the spoiled one and say no. That is just one of the ugliest cars I’ve ever seen and I would not be caught dead driving that on a daily basis.
Maybe I have odd tastes, but I swoon for cars like that.
When I was 15 my dad asked what kind of car I wanted- anything was a possibility as far as I knew. I could have asked for a porsche. He probably would have laughed and told me to be realistic, but I could have asked.
I asked for a station wagon. And I got one. It was love at first sight- I awoke one snowy february morning and noticed a large snow covered, egg shaped lump on the trailer that was still hitched to the truck. I didn’t have to ask. I knew it was mine. I threw a coat on over my pajamas and ran into the yard, brushed the snow off of the driver’s side window, and peered into the most magnificent car I had ever seen.
It was a 1996 Saturn SW1, dark green. I named it Bean. It was my favorite thing in the world, and I always stood up for it when people smirked at it. As far as I was concerned, they weren’t good enough for Bean anyway.
A guy I dated called it a “piece of shit” and I retorted that at least MY car wasn’t dying every other day like his poorly cared for ’92 Accord (which he never changed the oil on), in fact it still behaved as though it was new- until someone stole a part from it in a parking lot one day, after which it almost caught on fire…
and then the transmission was starting to slip (but dear old Bean was nearly 13 years old by this point, with 131,000 miles on it)
and so that is how Bean and I came to part. I bought an ’05 Sunfire which I like well enough…
but it will never be Bean. I feel a pang in my heart every time another SW1 drives past me on the road. Everyone tells me my new car is beautiful, all shiny and silver and barely even broken in-
but Bean was my first love, and nothing can ever replace it. Though I have been thinking of trading in the Sunfire for another Saturn… not now but someday… because then at least it would be of the same family as my beloved Bean was.
(I apologize for this being an absurdly long comment)
Yes. That’s actually a really awesome car depending on your tastes.
@Irish_Russian - I would hate to see you try to merge onto a freeway with the back windows spray painted black!
a car is a car as far as I’m concerned
I did. I was glad to have it. I also won a drag race at a stoplight with it. Go V-8′s!
Almost everyone said yes.
I feel like most everyone just doesn’t want to look like a spoiled brat…
I’m not going to lie, it’s not the type of car that I’d like to drive around, but deciding between driving that and not having a car–well, I’d deal with it.
…I’d rather walk.
Absolutely!
if my friends were making fun of me [back when i wud have been in school] i wud get back at them and say “at least ur two doors car cannot offer enuff room for backseat sex. mine does!”
lol…
YESSSSSSS
I would love to have a station wagon
but mine will do : )
It’s boring but not bad.
Hm. sure, as long as they pay for insurance. haha!
Heck yea!
Probably not honestly, but I have a little red sporty car so I don’t have to worry.
yes
most def…a car is a car…could car pool and make lots of gas money
yes. i had a prayer car in school. i appreciated that car, i tell ya.
It’s encouraging to see how few people here are spoiled enough to turn down a free car
No, not unless I desperately needed a car.
I would sell it and buy a Honda Civic. Better than that.
better than no car
It will be my honor. When I was in high school my parents did not allowed me to drive to school nor have a car. They think those who does are spoiled by their parents. Plus, car insurance cost too much. They believe I should take the school bus as long as I can so I can save money for future use. Yeah, my parents are cheap but, I learn how to be a hard worker because of them.
yes. it’s a car, it runs. who can be picky? probably crappy gas mileage though… I guess it would really depend on the mpg
Heck yeah, I’d rock that sucker all over town! It has room in the back for instruments and amps and friends that don’t fit in the seats, that sweet wood paneling, and it’s almost theft-proof… The perfect car!
Takes me back to my youth, when those cars were all over the place. Today, yes it would look outta place, but if it runs?
sure.
Er….No
My excuse is the heavy carbon emissions it releases. 
The real question is; what’s its gas mileage, then we’ll talk.
why not? it’s so cool!
but i’d save on carbon emission and take the public transport haha.
Hell yea! I’ll drive anything that was given to me for free!
Yes! I actually drove my grandmothers old 89 poniac grand prix for several years before it was hit by a drunk driver and I had to buy a new car… It had an ugly maroon interior, was a gas-guzzler, and was HUGE! I didn’t care though! I was one of the few of my friends who actually had my own car to drive.
A car’s a car. I’ve learned that the hard way
In Britain they’re called “estate cars”.
I used to drive one. Kinda, idk if the Mitsubishi LRV counted as one, but if it had wheels and I had to be somewhere, I’d use it.
totally would. Then again, I’m a girl and don’t care about stupid cars
As long as the car’s running, I have no problem driving a station wagon.
Fuck yeah! Right now im so poor i cant eve afford a friggen tricicle! id drive anything! lmao
@Permanent_Green - People do it in panel vans every day.
I am glad to see that most of your answers were from people who are not shallow. How many didn’t answer because they are? I would drive what I could. I drove a Ranger for 13 years.. brand new when I got it.. but didn’t sell it until someone else wrecked it.. It was time for me to have a car pymt i guess.
Sure. I mean, a car is a car. It’s better than walking.
Totally! Station wagons are awesome!
oh heck yes I would!!!
station wagons make me smile!!
I think the only way it could get better is if it was fuel efficient and had a surfboard inside! (granted, I still don’t know how to surf…)
@Irish_Russian - That’s true- I guess what I really mean is that I would certainly be terrified of trying to drive one without being able to see out the back windows. More power to you if it doesn’t phase you.
Well…I always bought my own vehicles in highschool. But no way would I drive something like that.
I wouldn’t care. It’s better than my car. lol
I drove a 10 year old dodge caravan when in college. It was maroon. It didn’t have A/C (this was in Austin, mind you). It also didn’t have power windows, so I had to lean all the way over to the passenger side to roll the window up and down. I hated that car, as it was the biggest piece of crap I have ever driven. But I almost liked driving a minivan in college. It was unexpected.
think about how many kids you could fit in that.
of course i would
ahaha
Yeah. I used to drive the mini van. It was just as bad.
Fuck yes, that thing is a beast! <3
Yes, id drive a station wagon w
imitation wood to school. My Buddie Vito use to picke me up in one every morning
for high school
thank you
Andrew