Almost.
I bought a '67 Austin Healey Sprite when it was 18 months old and had 19,000 miles on it.
It was bascially perfect.
For $800.
At the time, I was an almost destitute undergraduate student at Trenton State College, so $800 was a lot of money. The seller was a beautiful Princeton graduate student who I'd met. She had just finished her PhD and was returning to South Africa.
Oh well....at least I got a car out of the deal [/sigh]
I drove that car to college.
I slept in it at Watkins Glen in '69 (next to the bog).
~I Autocrossed It~
I eventually stripped the Sprite down and built it into a ~Race Car~
(I'd bought an old Mini for the street)
I did lots of laps at Bridgehampton with it in the early '70s.
After many years of neglect (while I was fooling around with motorcycles and airplanes), it became a parts-car.
I still have the tub squirreled away in an old shed.
My present ~Spridget Vintage Racer~ still wears one front and one rear fender from that car as well as most of the front suspension. The engine, trans and other stuff is in another car I have.
By the way, your kind of limiting yourself to the "old guys" with this question. 
Unless you want to include cars like the new Miata I bought a few a few years ago. 
