(This is a resurrection of a popular TTD entry from a couple of years ago).
I had a 1972 purple AMC Gremlin. It managed to be both cool and dorky at the same time -- dorkily cool, I guess you'd call it. No radio, three speed manual transmission, and it only weighed 300 pounds, it seemed, but had something like a 75 gallon gas tank. The combination of so much fuel and so little weight in a place -- Ann Arbor, Michigan -- with so much ice made it, in effect, a purple bomb on tiny wheels. Never thought about it at the time, though.
It was my mom's car for a a couple of years until they gave it to me when I was away at college, and I kept it until 1980, when we moved to California and in the first month there the Santa Ana winds blew a tree down on it and totaled it. Totaling meant more than 450 dollars worth of damage. Saw it a couple of months later, more unpainted bondo than purple, in downtown Santa Ana.
What was your first car, and what happened to it?