I bought a 69 GTO with 58K miles on it in 1977 for $250. Ran it hard for years, sold it to pay for a babys birth and hospital care.
Had a ‘68 Mercury Cougar GT-E with a 427 and Hurst manual transmission. So much fun to drive until a snowplow hit me in a blizzard in 1979. Men don’t fall in love with women, but we fall in love with our first car!