My 1st car was well... free.
I knew an old fella when I was a young teen that has an old 68' Plymouth Satellite I think it was? Grass was all around it from lack of lawn maintenace. I asked him what were his plans with it. Do you want to sell it? He said, "I'll tell yah what young fella.. if you can get it to run, it's yours." With some help from friends, who knew a little about cars, we were able to do so. It would always stall at stop lights when it rained and blue a bit of blue, but it was a good car. And the price was right!