CSK 911 C4S

For me it was when the Audi Club of Ga had a drive to the North Carolina Museum of Art for the Porsche Exhibit where I was brain washed from reading and seeing video clips from the era explaining the Porsche history from beginning to current times. (Nov, 2013)








Few months later Feb 2014:

CPO 2013 C4S w/2700 miles came into my life with more options than I would ever have ordered if buying new.

thomnellie

My wife figured we owed me.

todd92

My 991 is my 1st and most likely last Porsche. I bought it because I was tired of the crude aspects of my GT-R. I also wanted a manual vs the auto-manual. While it is much more refined than the GT-R, I find it to be a boring car.

Valkuri

Out running for track practice in 1975, I hear a car wind up a few hundred yards behind me on a long straight. I moved over onto the gravel, just as a duck tailed signal green Porsche hurtled past me. It never stopped accelerating. I can still see that car receding into the distance.
My first thought was, "I have GOT to get one of those some day."

My first one was in 1992; fifth one is sitting in the driveway.
Someday, I still want that signal green '73 911.

Duke I

A sincere question and not meant to offend, but why not sell your Porsche and move on?

Duke I

I went to a used car lot with my dad in '72 and saw the MY 1970 914 (built in 1969) and I was hooked. 40 years later, my second.

911sccab

I enjoy driving.

jmh981

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NoGaBiker

I was inspired by the introduction of the 934 and 935 lines for Group 4 and Group 5 IMSA competition when I was a freshman in HS. Suddenly they were everywhere in the pages of R&T and I couldn't get enough. Back then, when this sort of racing wasn't EVER on TV except for maybe a few minutes of LeMans coverage on Wide World of Sports, you had to wait till the annual event at Road Atlanta to get a taste. Conned Dad into taking me to Camel GT race and couldn't stop thinking about 911s till I got one, which would be quite a few years later, and after detouring into the 986S camp briefly.

NoGaBiker

Nope, he's saying the GT-R is crude, but the Carrera is boring. And compared to one another, I can see his point in both cases.

jmh981

You're right - I re-read and deleted, but not in time!

Anyway, on topic, seeing the 917K for the 1st time in the film ''Lemans'' got me hooked on racing Porsches - followed by a love of the 956 / 962 and the TAG-Porsche Maclaren engines.

Car and Driver's review of the 1984 Carrera really planted the seed that I needed to own a Porsche someday.

Penn4S

Grew up in the 60's and 70's (still growing up) which was an era of pony and muscle cars. Saw my first Porsche when I was about 10 or 12 years old. Couldn't stop looking at. I'm on Pcar number 13, several iterations, always happy see no reason to switch.
Saw someone post "the car is boring". If this car is boring, you don't know how to drive it to get what it has to give. That doesn't mean you don't know how to drive, it means you don't how to get from this car the enjoyment that right there for the taking. If you want to go lightning fast in a straight line, get something else, or if you wallet will allow a TTS does all of it.

subshooter

I grew up listening to my Dad telling stories about his 1962 Signal red 356B that he bought for $3600. He was a naval aviator and flew to Stuttgart to buy it. Drove it around Europe and then put it on a ship back to the US. The original European Delivery.


He only had it for 10 months, then got my mom pregnant with my older sister. Sold it for $3600 with 18,000 miles on the odometer and bought a VW and a house full of furniture.


I had to buy one! Hence my 2014 Red Boxster S that I also picked up via European Delivery. Working on a 911 European delivery next year.

Vise

Had a poster of a Guards Red 930 Turbo on my wall when I was a kid, say 9 or 10 years old... similar to the pic below. Also a hardcover Porsche 911 book that I was obsessed with around the same time. Have loved the 911 from a young age but never thought I'd be able to get one myself until things went the right way for me personally/professionally the last few years.

Now that I'm here find it hard to think of another real world (ie. daily driveable) car I'd rather have too.

DerekS

I was young, single, debt-free and made the mistake of test driving a Boxster. That was it, I had to have one (and did.)

Now on my 6th Porsche.