My 1st car was a blue Austin Allegro which I bought from an auction. I thought it was the dogs at the time as the front seats folded flat and made it almost into a bed (very useful!)
Then the head gasket it went and it used to smoke like one of the red arrows so it had to go. I traded it in for a Fiesta from Gordons of Bolton and after agreeing a price with them I took it home and swapped all the tyres for bald ones with on my mates datsun.