My first car was 300 dollars (75 Grand Prix), second was well, expensive (87 TA when came into some money, was young and dumb), third was 450 (77 Mustang II) , fourth was a 2500 dollar truck (79 Chevy with a strait 6 Nova Motor in it).
First "New Car" was a Nissan Pick up, 14K brand new with an extended cab and basically fully loaded. That was a 1994 model. You could get a base model standard cab at the time for about 9K.
That Nissan was 0 down, traded in the beat to shit Chevy I had on it, payment was under 300 and I had no fucking credit worth shit at the time.