Small world, Like you, my first car was a 65 MGB in 1975, Paid $600, Loved that car, learned how to take apart a car and put it back together! Drove it for years. It died in a very boring uneventful way, lost traction in gravel, hit a curb which by chance hit directly on the frame and bent the frame. Sold it to salvage for nearly nothing, went back to salvage yard two weeks later to get something off of it and found it had been *completely* picked clean! Only thing that remained was the bent frame! No body, no engine/trans, no interior...nothing left! I was shocked my baby had been completely cannibalized by vultures.
1973 Mercury Capri, sold to me for the princely sum of $1 by my dad. Just like this example, minus the black hood stripe. 2.6 V-6, rally package, and crank open sunroof. Amazingly quick and handled very well. Lunched the engine when the distributor seized and stripped the cam gear. Step dad refused to let me invest anymore money into it, so it languished out back of the property by the chicken coop until it was sold to a neighbor that was going to convert it into some sort of three-wheeler thing, but it just sat and rotted on his property until he sold it for scrap.
The first car i ever owned i still own, i bought it in 1971 i was 13 years old, i paid £7 for it in perfect running and driving order but stripped and in primer, it still runs and drives /stops and steers, its been in the same shed i put it in in the same condition i bought it in for 49 years. Its a dry but drafty old building, but this helps keep it free of condensation and relatively rust free, i check it every now and again and run it round the field keep it free and clutch unsiezed etc, its still rock solid and i spray it with diesel underneath every year or so. 1953 Ford prefect E493A 1172cc side valve. . it was this colour originally and will be when i start work on it when i have had it 50 years. Next June. First car i ever had in the road when 17 (legal age here) Was a 997cc Ford anglia 105E. 1961. I fitted a 1500cc pre crossflow engine in the anglia with ford classic front struts and disk brakes. Ford 105E anglia. At the same time i had the angla and for 16 more years i had a series 1 80 inch wheelbase Land rover like this one with a 1.5 BMC diesel engine in it top speed, about 40/45MPH.
My grandfather bought my aunt her first car in about.... oh geez... Must have been about 1963 for $100. She still has it out in Georgia. I went to visit her last year - this is what it looks like now
89 Turbo Ford Probe. It was lightly modded, and purchased it from a friends cousin. I didn’t know how to drive manual, so someone had to drive it home for me. I also didn’t even have a full license at the time. This was 16 years ago! Where the hell has time gone?!
Mine was an 87 Crown Vic ex cop car. I got into trouble constantly with it until I totaled it a year later.
57 Olds super 88. Same color as this one. P/S and A/C. I bought it for $300 in 1973 with 30k on the clock from a little old lady on my paper route. The things I put that poor car through. It was dead and gone within a year.
1967 Chevy Biscayne, bought in high school, early 80's. Paid $200. Wasn't a square foot on the body that wasn't dented, but reliable as a stone axe. 250cc inline six with a three-speed column shift. Probably still on the road, but my moto-ADD started early, I was on my fourth car by the time I graduated.
1997 GMC Sierra 1500 Ext Cab. It was the first brand new vehicle my dad ever owned and I got it 9 years later. I really liked that truck and some days miss it.
That was almost my first car too! There was one in the family but it went to an uncle of mine. Believe it's in a junk yard now