First Car?

1970 Dart Custom four door, 225 slant w/ 67K, bought in March '93 for $500. I drove it pretty much every moment I was awake for a year and a half before blowing the engine. I had bought a '73 Dart for 100 bucks, which I drove for six months before blowing the tailshaft seal. (I was a maniac, apparently) Engine was swapped into the '70, and about a month later, I was T-boned. The remains of the '70 sat in the barn until my father was sick of sidling past it to get stovewood, then it was junked. I've been trying (without success) to find another solid, runnable A-body for 500 bucks ever since. Doesn't seem likely to happen.