I lost the gears letting friends practice driving stick shift, then the clutch fork went because because of rust. Pretty much every surface of the car was rusted when it went. It only had 65,000 miles on it, not bad for something that was 20+ years old, but it spent the first 15 years of its life getting snowed and rained on relentlessly at my grandparents house with no cleanup.
Honestly, the last five years I had the thing the only maintenance we did on it was replacing the exhaust pipe when the old one snapped in half and exhaust fumes were coming up through the floor.