First Porsche Car Owned
#31
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Parents got me an old used 1987 944 Turbo bought for $3k back at age 15 that needed a ton of work to get in shape. I had to put in the work before I could start driving it on a provisional license at age 16. And that was my only Porsche until I picked up my 2015 GT3 a couple weeks ago.
#34
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2012 Cayman R, gateway drug. 32 yr old
I had been following Porsche for a while, but I never really understood the appeal. One day my wife and I were strolling through a Porsche/Mercedes dealer and saw a used black boxster spyder. We had no intentions of driving it, but while we were looking at it the salesman suggested we go for a spin. That was the turning point. We almost bought that car, but the timing just wasn’t right for us. At the time, we were a BMW family. After that test drive, I got my first track experience in a Porsche as a ride along with an instructor in a 2011 GT3RS. Shortly thereafter, I ordered a Cayman R. In hindsight, I should have just bought a GT3RS new, but I wasn’t ready to spend so much. Since then, I have bought and sold enough Porsches to easily exceed what that initial purchase would have set me back. It took another year or so before my wife got out of her BMW X5 and in to a Cayenne GTS and I recently sold my M3. I have no plans to return to BMW.
I had been following Porsche for a while, but I never really understood the appeal. One day my wife and I were strolling through a Porsche/Mercedes dealer and saw a used black boxster spyder. We had no intentions of driving it, but while we were looking at it the salesman suggested we go for a spin. That was the turning point. We almost bought that car, but the timing just wasn’t right for us. At the time, we were a BMW family. After that test drive, I got my first track experience in a Porsche as a ride along with an instructor in a 2011 GT3RS. Shortly thereafter, I ordered a Cayman R. In hindsight, I should have just bought a GT3RS new, but I wasn’t ready to spend so much. Since then, I have bought and sold enough Porsches to easily exceed what that initial purchase would have set me back. It took another year or so before my wife got out of her BMW X5 and in to a Cayenne GTS and I recently sold my M3. I have no plans to return to BMW.
#35
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Soon after, I switched from selling Audi's to Porsche, and never looked back.
#40
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Fiirst Porsche was a beautiful original silver 1970 911T sunroof coupe. I was 19.
#42
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Mike, do you still have the plates?
#44
Race Director
#45
Three Wheelin'