old model supra's non turb's are nice lookin and go pretty shit hot for a non turb.
ae86's have full street cred. but are pretty rare to pick up (so if ya can I'd go for this)
even for a first car I'd pay around 2k for an 84 rolla sedan manual, where he can go out thrash the pants of the thing and it wont die and he'll still have money for all those thing's little p platers want for attention, boomin stereo and small mods, double barrel webbers and that sort of stuff...
pulsars are pretty similar too but there front wheel...
honda CRX's aren't too bad and I think look sweet for a hatch...