Edgy01

What Porsche image was it that got you really getting serious about buying a 911 or any Porsche? I recently ran across several of my old collection of paper things on Porsche and found their 1973 brochure on the 911 line that got me started. I had that silly picture/brochure pinned up in my room in 1973, and wound up purchasing a used 914 the next year,--and the rest, is shear financial lunacy!

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Edgy01

Of course, this image from their 1974 brochure didn't help me much, either...

Edgy01

And then, you have that 1975 cover look...

JV911

my eldest brother is a fair bit older than me...he used to have a guards red 930. when i was a kid i had a big poster of it on my wall and knew early on that there would be 911s in my future

Edgy01

And then the 1976...with something unattainable,--a turbo Carrera!

Germancar90

Going for rides in my dads 928 and playing the need for speed computer game "Porsche Unleashed". Great memories

Edgy01

Their most uninspiring cover image...1977.

por012773

For me growing up, it wasn't so much an image of Porsche, but more cars in real life. I was 11 years old and two of my neighbors each had a 911. One had an '82 Euro SC coupe, and the other had a '73 911S targa. I would always beg them for rides and I quickly became addicted to the sound of an air cooled flat six engine.

rfloz

As a kid, I saw a 356 coupe from the back - lowered, big meats (ha, big was probably 195), lotsa negative camber and little chrome nerf bars. Someday, I told myself, someday.

jwilson95

Let's not forget Risky Business.

Not a 911, but the 928 chase scene with the Tom Cruise quote, "There is no substitute." was great.

The Road and Track covers with the RUF car top speed tests also.

Jeff

TT Oversteer

When I was in high school I had a 40 horse VW motor on a stand in auto shop. A kid came up to me and asked if I would help him put a clutch in his dad's Porsche. I said "uh, sure". When the garage doors opened there was a yellow 356 coupe, white 1970 914 six, and a black 1974 Targa Carrera parked inside. We put the clutch in the 356 and became good friends. Over time I got rides in all three Porsches and I knew from that point on there was only one car for me. Looking back now it's hard for me to imagine letting my high school aged son and friend take one of my Porsches out. Maybe he knew he was turning on the next generation of Porsche fanatics........pretty cool! We used to watch LeMans with Steve McQueen and turn up the volume on the TV to hear the flat 12 wail of the 917. The visual images of the Gulf Porsche 917 at LeMans will always be very definitive for me.

Amber Gramps

A purple 912 longhood lives just a fiew blocks away. It looks like it hasn't seen repairs in 10 years. I so want that car.

Peter Zimmermann

What a thought-provoking post! I don't think an image, other than the one in my head, was responsible for my P-car lunacy. At a very tender age I drove my dad's '56 Beetle through Decker Canyon in the north end of Malibu, didn't roll it, and that was it. I was hooked, and from the beginning felt that the Beetle "felt" like a car should. For some weird reason, even then, I brake in a straight line, get the car into a corner, usually feathering the throttle, find the apex and accelerate. For me, moving into a '64 356SC, brought from Germany for me courtesy of my older brother, Karl, iced the deal, and I've never looked back.

Chris M.

This is the one I remember.

abe

...maybe if I can get what is under the hood...I can get whats on the hood

Ooops...wife is coming, got to go.
abe