'56 T-Bird, and not just because Boberdz mentioned it. Always has been. Always will be.

Coulda had a '57 T-Bird for my first car. My mom's hairdresser had one for sale. But my parents wisely figured that since just about every kid wrecks his first car it'd be stoopid to give such a nice car to a 17 year-old idiot. And, anyway, I wuzn't enough of a motorhead to keep a 12-year-old T-bird runnin' right. So Mom gave me her '63 Impala SS and I wrecked it instead. Wuzn't my fault, I just hadn't learned all those defensive drivin' tricks yet. But it wuz wrecked just the same and if it'd been that T-Bird, it woulda been just as wrecked and I'da felt a lot worse about it.