My folks gave me my first car, a 1966 Mercedes Benz that dad had bought used in Germany. We drove it around the continent for about three months when I was seventeen. Dad then shipped it back to the states, and I inherited it after it broke down somewhere in Texas.

I drove it up to Illinois, got married, moved to New Hampshire, and it ultimately and sadly died of neglect due to my being an impoverished young married... :( I sold it for junk to a local garage.