In the beginning...
Before I even had a car, I had a '67 Sears 106SS motorcycle, (yes Sears sold motorcycles). The Sears was a street bike I set up to run on trails. You can just see my Rupp Sprint minibike peeking behind the door. The 106SS was an Italian motorcycle sold through Sears stores and the catalog. I had a head on accident with another cycle on the trails, and rebuilt the whole front fork assembly from ordering out of the catalog! This pic is before the accident, afterwards I painted it blue and gold and I ordered the correct badges for the tank.
My dream was to own a Norton Commando just like this... AHH maybe someday still.

My first car...a 1968 Pontiac Firebird. Two bbl 350 V8 with 2 speed powerslide.
It was black with white interior, and that 350 V8 got 8-10 Miles per gallon while I flipped burgers to pay for the gas. Loved the dash and bucket seats. I sold this car within a year just because the two speed transmission was horrible. I could have swapped in a three speed auto or a four speed stick and had a hot car but it was beyond my skills at 16.
Instead I sold it for a '70 Opel Kadette with a four on the floor! What a dope! The irony is the Opel's transmission self destructed about a month after I bought it.
This is the 1974 AMC Gremlin X I had my senior year in High School. It had a 232 straight six cylinder with a three on the floor! The X package was the sporty option, with "hockey stick" stripes on the sides, a engine turned dashboard, front disc brakes and special rally wheels and goodyear polysteel radials. I could smoke the tires with ease, but that meant it couldn't move once there was snow on the ground! I got the car in February '76 and when it snowed- the Gremlin invariably either was stuck or went into a ditch! Still I kept the Gremlin until just before I was married.
This is my 1971 MGB "the flexible flyer". We called her the flexible flyer because with all the rust it flexed over bumps. I bought this car for $1500 about 1977 and had it for about three years. It had the 1800 cc high compression four cylinder. Just about everything you can imagine went wrong with this car mechanically and body wise but I loved it. I learned a lot about working on MG's from this car, like how to do roadside repairs to the slave cylinder and the need for a good toolbox in the trunk.
This was my wife's Datsun 1600 Fairlady. The Datsun 1600 was a Japanese copy of the MGA and drove and felt like an MGA, but with roll up windows and a real trunk. We had a fiberglass hardtop for it. With the 1600cc four cylinder, twin hitachi carbs (copies of SU's) and four on the floor it realy moved! She got the Datsun when I still had the '71 B and we sold it after we got our '73 B.
By now the Gremlin was just a winter car and it got really rusty and started breaking down a lot, so I got a 'vette...actually a '76 Chevette, with a little four banger and automatic. It was OK enough that I bought a new '81 Chevette with a four speed after a few years. About this time I found the love of my life, Peggi and got married! We're still happily together for more than twenty years, and she puts up with all this car addiction!