I hope someday to get pictures of my actual cars up here but meanwhile here are some close approximations from the Net to kind of give you the idea.
Austin-Healey. The car of my dreams, along with the 1957 gull-wing Mercedes 300 and a Maserati Ghibli, (dream large, dream large).
The first car I ever bought, 1956 Buick Roadmaster four door hardtop. Price $160, paint, primer and blue. Everything chromed that could be, power seats and windows, signal seeking radio, 8.00x16 tires, four speed automatic, four barrel, centre armrests front and back and a trunk bigger than the room I rented at the time. Power to pass everything but a gas station and a good initiation into North American male cardom.
After I sold the car the motor was crammed into a "52 Chev coupe and burned up the country for a while leaving black streaks, dust clouds and some frustrated Mounties. The body got bodyworked and repainted red with a black top and looked so good it may still be around car shows.
Reality at the gas pump and a return to school led to the trade of the Roadmaster for a more realistic specimen of carhood, to wit, a 1951 Ford Custom 4 door sedan. Three on the tree and the old reliable flathead eight under the hood. Traded for the Buick and got ten bucks to boot. The colour was sort of a mucosal green which probably had a fancy name when it was new.
The car I owned and loved. A 1965 Corvair Corsa, sexy European lines, white with a red interior, four on the floor, 140 HP flat six with four carburators. Easily cruised at 80 mph. Hard on rear tires and for some reason, batteries. Expensive to insure but a great boy toy. Cost me $1800(my first purchase from a car lot) in 1967, and sold eight months later for $1450. Worth it all for the fun of driving.