When I graduated high school in 1999, it was a reasonably prosperous upper-middle-class campus, so a lot of kids had cars. It was a couple years too early for

When I graduated high school in 1999, it was a reasonably prosperous upper-middle-class campus, so a lot of kids had cars. It was a couple years too early for the Koreans to have a serious market presence, and a couple years too late for Geo and really cheap Japanese cars. As I recall the default new cars there were either Chevrolet Cavaliers or the old Mitsubishi Mirages (the ones also sold as Dodge Colts) for the kids whose parents were subsidizing stuff. Of course there were also plenty of random hand-me-down 80s and 90s stuff that was clearly "all I could get for $2000." But there were quite a few 'car kids' who had obviously either taken their parents' projects or started their own, so you'd see one or two IH Scouts in the parking lot on any given day. They were bigger and bulkier than anything else around at the time. So these kids are now mid-40s, and saying "we did the minivan phase, I want something cooler." Will they remember the kid with his restored Scout in the parking lot?