DOTS Highschool auto shop yard

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
12/12/2019 at 22:40 • Filed to: None

Damn, kids have nice cars these days. That 540i, mustang, taco and V6 Accord. Yum.

DISCUSSION (20)

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 22:49

Naw, those are just Vancouver beaters.

dogisbadob > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 22:51

ooo o there’s a green Corolla, an Envoy XL, and a Mazda-badged Ranger :p

no really though, Nice to see a high school that still has an auto shop

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
12/12/2019 at 22:52

Not a lie

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 23:03

Well entry level beaters, the true Vancouver beaters (Bentleys, Ferraris, etc) are parked out front.

Longtime Lurker > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 23:22

Kids these days are so spoiled, I went to a high school that had no student parking.

fintail > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 23:24

Good course of study for someone with an aging German V8.

Nibby > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 23:40

Kinja'd!!!

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/12/2019 at 23:43

I went to school with a kid who had a GLK. He was, unsurprisingly, terrible at driving and nearly ran over me twice. Much preferred hanging out with the guys with the pur ple Town & Country, affectionately called the Purple Shitbox.

Alternative comment: I walked uphill both ways to school! In the snow! I didn’t have a car! Rabble rabble rabble!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB
12/12/2019 at 23:48

Can confirm, people with shittier cars were way more fun.

I went to a remote country school, having my truck made me very popular. You could give kids rides

someassemblyrequired > CB
12/12/2019 at 23:51

I was teaching university for a while, and two kids had bought a Town and Country to share , complete with VANTASY plate. It started out as a joke, but there was drama when graduation rolled around and they both wanted the van.

CB > someassemblyrequired
12/12/2019 at 23:54

My cop friend found a grad van once, parked at the side of road. There was a penis drawn on one side, a vagina on the other, and the seats inside were replaced with lawn chairs.

We should probably ban young people from owning vans. It only leads to trouble.

someassemblyrequired > CB
12/13/2019 at 00:05

Yep, they either turn into hippies or investment bankers.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CB
12/13/2019 at 03:48

Sounds like my nephew, who was given a BMW X2 as his first car. Wrecked it on the way home from the dealer, and he wasn’t even 16 years old.

I was perfectly content with mom’s old station wagon. Having a car, any car, meant freedom, and that’s what it was all about.

duurtlang > Longtime Lurker
12/13/2019 at 06:55

I went to a high school that had no* students with cars. Mostly because you had to be 18 for your first driving lesson, so you were realistically at least 18.5 when you got your license.So, in most cases, after high school graduation.

I think we had about 20-30 parking spaces at school, total. Most (local) teachers preferred to use their bicycle. They would only drive when the weather was especially shitty.

*) I remember 1 student who had a car, a few months before graduation. He was a year older than the rest of us.

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/13/2019 at 07:21

I grew up on a wealthy area. There were far more students who had been given new cars, than there were students like me, with old cars they bought themselves. Most of them did not appreciate it at all, and some of them did their level best to kill themselves in their fancy rides.

One girl received two new cars for her 16th birthday. One from each of her (divorced and rich) parents. She rolled one of them a week later.

Another girl wrecked her convertible LeBaron SEVEN times! Her parents kept fixing it and giving it back to her.

The king dumbass was a guy in my grade. He wrapped his new Blazer around a tree. Didn't quite total it. A few weeks later wrapped it around the same tree! This time it was done. So his parents bought him a Camaro. He somehow landed on top of a fire hydrant. Then they bought him an Escalade.

benn454 > duurtlang
12/13/2019 at 08:38

The population density in the US is way lower. We go everywhere by car unless you live in an urban area. Bicycles are for wealthy middle aged white guys wearing Spandex bodysuits and children.

I do wish the standards for driver's licenses was higher, though. Kind of hard when you've got 50 different territories with 50 different sets of rules. You guys took 7 years to do it.

benn454 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/13/2019 at 09:03

I grew up in a rural area that was part of a wealthy school district. So we had the rich kids and the farm kids. When I was in high school at the turn of the millennium, our lot had just about everything. The rich kids had mommy and daddy’s BMWs and Mercs, brand new F-bodies and Mustangs, and all kinds of JDM madtyteyo. The farm kids had old pickups and other domestic h and-me-downs .

The ones that stand out in my memory are one rich girl’s brand new 99 3000GT VR4 and one guy’s pristine 67 Camaro his dad gave him. I thought both their parents were crazy.

duurtlang > benn454
12/13/2019 at 10:37

I did live in a rural area. Some of my classmates cycled 12 km (7.5 miles) to school every day. One way.

This is what cyclists look like here. Leisurely cruising along. Or less leisurely currently, as electric bicycles have become very popular.

My parents (late 60s) spend more on bicycles than they do on cars. When they cycle they look like what you see below, so no spandex and no carbon. No helmets either, because the Netherlands and proper cycle infrastructure. It’s simply a way to go from A to B.

Kinja'd!!!

(no, we don’t all look like the ‘boomers in this picture )

benn454 > duurtlang
12/13/2019 at 11:04

In the area I grew up, 7.5 miles was one side of town to the other. My house was 20 miles from the nearest edge of the town I went to school in. Then another 3 or 4 to get to my school. This took almost half an hour in a car, one way . At ~60 MPH (or ~100kph, if you prefer).

The kids in town walked or biked like European kids. That just wasn’t practical for the rest of us. Their parents all drove because they had jobs in the city which was another half hour or so away. So we have such a strong culture of driving everywhere because it’s the most practical choice for us since everything is so spread out. Cycling is only practical for Americans in densely populated areas. Otherwise, it’s simply a hobby.

Longtime Lurker > duurtlang
12/13/2019 at 18:28

The high school I went to was opened in 1923, so students owning cars wasn’t ever accounted for.