I grew up in a small western Kentucky farming/coal mining community. The school I attended from 6th thru 12th grade(it was K-12) was just as small, I graduated in 1986. I had 41 students in my graduating class, so maybe 180-200 high school students. There were zero "exotics", everything pretty much made in USA, maybe a random VW, Toyota, Honda. For such a small world, I think we had our fair share of cool cars. These are what I can remember, thirty something years later:
'60 C/10 SWB V8/4spd
'67 Camaro, red, white nose stripe, 283/3spd, later upgrade to more cid/4spd
'69 Camaro, orange, V8
'67 Camaro convertible, white, white top, blue interior, 327 auto. really nice
'67 Mustang, 289, auto
'71 Dodge Demon, white on black, 340/auto
'70 Chevelle, red on red, 350/4spd, two owner car
'70 Torino, yellow, 351C/auto
'79 T/A , black, 6.6L(403Olds), auto, mild mods
'73 Nova, red, V8, same guy had '72 C/10 SWB stepside later
'66-67 Nova hardtop, blue, v8/auto
One guy had a succession of cars, '63
Impala, Vega hatchback, '71 Nova, all V8/manual trans
'67 Chevelle, blue, 396/4spd, 4:10's, ladder bars, probably the fastest car I've ever been in, it would rip
Not many "new" cars. There were two girls, cousins, one year apart, they were next door neighbors, that had nearly identical Monte Carlo SS's, one an '85 with steel wheels, the other an '86 aluminum wheels, maroon, bucket/ console cars.
And my best friend's '79 Monte Carlo, 305/auto., black, red interior, red 1/4 vinyl top.
Yeah, I've always paid attention to cars.