My first camera was an Agfa instamatic-type camera. It was a handsome little thing that took flash cubes and was better built than the consumer-level Kodaks. I used to shoot black and white and do my own processing. You had to physically destroy the cassette before you could wind the film onto the reel for processing!
Next came a real camera, a Yashica Lynx 1000. It was a really sweet rangefinder with 1/1000s top speed and a 45/1.8. It had built-in metering via a selenium cell (no batteries required) and took really great pictures. Unfortunately I left it unattended at school for 5 minutes and it walked away.
I saw one on eBay a few months ago and it was so tempting to bid. The thing that stopped me was the knowledge that finding a competent repair guy for a CLA would probably be very difficult and parts equally difficult to find.
Steve