You're taking me back here!
I remember when my father bought us a 1957 Jaguar Mk.VII (in '59 I believe) and drove it for a couple of years. The only problem is that it cost him as much to maintain it over two years as it cost to buy the damned thing! Nice car, though, leather and real wood, as well as those door-frame pop-up turn indicators.
After that it was an early Plymouth Whatever with the slant-six engine and a push-button transmission. When my parents divorced in '66, he bought my mum a 1957 Morris Minor, which I got my driver's license on in 1969. In '70 I bought my first car - a 1959 Austin-Healey ('Bugeye') Sprite, for $100... I sure wish I had the damned thing now!!
After that I got into motorcycles...
