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Old 06-25-2008, 12:19 AM
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Movie for me too, "No Man's Land" (http://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-D.../dp/B00007EFIK), even bought it on VHS. When I was in college I valet parked and drove my first 911, an SC, and while to that point I thought Porsches were cool, after that drive I KNEW I had to have one someday.
Old 06-25-2008, 01:48 AM
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Loving the pics!

I don't have a particular image in my head...but a memory of a black 964 flying by me one day when I first started driving and saying "I want one of those. Bad"
Old 06-25-2008, 12:34 PM
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I've been around them all my life, so not one image, but everything about them. The looks, smells, sounds, the feeling in my neck each time I twist around just to see one drive by. The idea that
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE! If I had to pick one, it would be the BRUMOS 1973 RSR that won Daytona.
Old 06-25-2008, 02:42 PM
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Anyone remember the TV commercial for the Braun electric razor, with the silver/grey turbo whizzing down the road in low lighting? Do I recall fall leaves being whipped up in his wake?
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I remember back in 1974 a test report by Motor Trend about a Porsche 2.7 with a duck tail. I can remember the car being blue in the test report and it had the Carrera in black on the side. I was 16 or 17 and just fell in love with it. Then later on the 930 Turbo coming out.
Old 06-27-2008, 04:14 PM
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For me, it wasn't so much an image as it was an impression. I was 16, just got my drivers license and my neighbor came over, "Hey, I heard you passed your driver's test, come on over, I'll let you drive my car..." It was a 1970 Porsche 912.... I was sold. (Same color as pictured.)
Old 06-27-2008, 04:19 PM
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don't know what happened to the pic. I'll try again. (had to resize.)
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Old 06-27-2008, 08:27 PM
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One of the neighbors bought a new 1978 911SC, it was Guards Red with no tail. Absolutely beautiful. I can rememeber waiting for this car to come by my house. The sound was glorious and I had to have one. Cant remember the year exactly (maybe 1979), but I was looking at a car mag and came across this "Grey Market" 930.
It was the color of this one...


Ever since the late seventies I knew that one day I would have one.
Old 06-27-2008, 08:48 PM
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Heres a few that had me squirming in my chair for years before i found one




Old 06-27-2008, 09:19 PM
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Yup, those pictures still work the magic.
Old 06-28-2008, 11:58 AM
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It wasn't so much pictures for me, although I always loved when they were in Road & track.
As a kid, when I was at the track on weekends playing with my own car, I would go hang out behind the 911s while they were tuning and warming up.
The sound, oh that sound like no other.
Then to see these guys fly out of corners like they were shot from a gun.
I was hooked.
Old 06-28-2008, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris M.
This is the one I remember.
That's the one I had on my wall when I was a kid.
Old 06-29-2008, 05:04 PM
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"No man`s land". Interesting movie with Charlie Sheen (1987) and a lot of Porsche action scenes.
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It was something like this one.



Any every time I picked up a production car race result, a Porsche had won.
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When I graduated from college in 1972, I bought myself a bright orange, year-old 914 1.7. I also picked up a brochure at the dealership, and this image was in it. BTW, I have the early Carrera 3.0 version of that tail (sans extra vent) in my shop, waiting to be painted and installed on my '88 Carrera.
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