First car was an 86 Plymouth Turismo. Red hatchback that looked like the Dodge Charger of the era. Except this was a 4 cylinder front wheel drive.
First car was supposed to be a 79 Chevy Monza. We had pulled a pozzi rear end out of a sunbird and swapped that in. Had a 400 small block that needed to be built and a 3 speed manual trans ready. The issue was finding the correct exhaust manifold to use but found we had that too. Just had to pull them off an old pickup and throw a set of headers on it. One had to dump in the middle and the other had to dump in the back. Can remember which was which though. After putting it all together a driveshaft and clips to keep the back window in place and a frame connector at some point and it was done. Mothers boyfriend should it to someone else instead even though I had put tons of hours in labor on it.