First car was a 1969 Karman Ghia purchased for $1,500 in 1979...
My best buddy had a '71 and I just had to have one of my own. Man, I loved that car. The dizzy sorority girls thought it was a Porsche... Drove it from Seattle to Minissota and back to get married. After we had our first baby, I removed the rear seats and bolted in the baby seat facing the rear. She was our little "tail gunner". Eventually got rear ended, so the whole back end drooped down about four inches.
Drove it that way for almost a year 'till the tranny gave out, then sold it for almost what I'd paid five years previous.
I guess the 'Ghia started me on my inexorable path to old German cars. My current 79SC is almost the same color as that car was and sort of feels like a reincarnation.