Mine was a silver 1977 Toyota Celica. It was 1987 and I paid a whopping 750 dollars for it.
Had it for two weeks and wrecked it on oil slicked roads. :|
I did get it fixed but it was murdered in February 1991 by a car bomb while I was deployed in Desert Storm. (First car bombing in my hometown since 1974)
I used to joke afterwards that someone turned it from a coupe to a converible in 1/100th of a second.
I wrecked a 1979 Celica in Fairfax, VA back in ‘88. BAD accident.
It was a great car except for the bald tires (wet road = hydroplane)... wasn’t my car, but I was driving at the time and had no idea about the tires.
The fastbacks looked like little Mustangs and the notchbacks looked like little Challengers. I had a '75 notchback in '90. Seems like we picked it up for $1200. Cool little cars.
I also owned the same celica, boy was that a fun car to drive... Needed something bigger once our first son came along but that car was a winner!