I had a '57 Hillman Minx...the second car I ever owned.
I did a lot to that car and was terribly proud of it.
Sold it before we got married...we've been married 48 years now...and I still feel a pang about what the next owner did to that car.

He married a concrete wall side on, front left hitting first, the left side a split second later.

And that was fifty years ago. Left to a natural life-span the car would be well and truly dead by now...but to die like that...it still hurts...