My first car was a Morris Marina Coupe that my Mum bought for me. I loved that car though i did have to rebuild the engine to stop it drinking a gallon of oil every 100 miles.
Wrote it off twice first time someone ploughed into the back of me, one of those i saw it was going to happen in the rear view about 20 seconds before it did and had plenty of time to get scared.
Second time, going for a bit of a play down the lanes near home where there was a slight bump in the road that if you hit it at about 75 you went airborne. Suffice to say such a game, in a single track usually empty lane, doesnt go well when the once in a blue moon car coming the other way occurs!