air eater

I knew I had to buy a 993 when the 996 was introduced.

Derek_C

It was 79'-80'. I was about 11 or so. I would read motor trend and c&d every month religiously and had been for several years. 'Performance cars' of the day were pathetic performers due to the new emission standards and 'oil crisis'. I would always pour over the numbers for all the car reviews I read. I remember that the 0-60 times were in the 6 second range and loved the look. From that time on I always had 911 posters or ads that I cut out of magazines on my bedroom wall. I currently have a 911 poster in one of my offices and my rennlist 993 calender in the other.

six gun

Dad took mom for a ride in a 1977 turbo Carrera when she was pregnate with me!!

993_Pilot

My dad always loved Porsches, but the obligations of raising a family kept him from that goal until I was about 16 and just learning a new obsession. He bought a 1960 356B Cab, and unfortunately for him, he actually let me drive it. I managed to fishtail in the gravel a bit after trying to avoid hitting a rabbit on a narrow mountain road, and I side-swiped a cliff. To this day, I still can't believe that he took it so well. While my dad was a guy who appreciated the classics, I always liked the more modern 911's and knew that one day I would get one. When the 996 came out, It just did not appeal to me the way the earlier cars did, and so my desire was stuck on the best looking classic "911", the 993. Amazingly enough, my taste has not changed and I love the car now, more than ever.

GabiOsz

Since my dad bought one of these when i was 4.

911

I knew I had to have one when I was 3! My parents used to drive with the POC and we went to the track all the time. Although we had a 356, I always loved the sound & look of the 911.

luvmy356

I was always a fan of Corvettes until my oldest sister went to Germany on a high school band exchange and gave me this model in the picture when I was in elementary school. I played with this model for hours, driving it around and such, thats when I decided that I would rather have a Porsche.

Fortunately for me, by the time I got to high school, they did the exchange w/the same school in the suburbs of Stuttgart which was near the Porsche delivery center in Ludwigsburg. There they had a cutaway of the 959 and other cool 911 related items on display as it was the 20th anniverary of the 911 at that time.

On the way out of the center, my buddy and I noticed that the flagpoles with the Porsche flags were just inside the gates, and we started making plans to return at night to "take" the flags. Well, someone heard about our plans, told our host families, and they made it very clear that we were not to proceed with our plans. Instead, they contacted some friends who worked at Porsche, and for $30 let me buy a factory flag, and they gave me about a dozen huge posters, stickers, and keychains as well. The posters are a bit worn as I hung those up in my dorm and various apartments over the years...now they are rolled up and stored in the basement.

Ash

I had always grown up drooling over Ferraris but it wasn't until '97 during my first job as an intern architect that things turned upside down. My boss bought a black 993 C4S....I used to take a detour and walk through the parking garage (I didn't own a car at the time), just so that I could spend time looking at it. Things haven't been the same since....

mii..

I used to actually dislike Porsches and I always thought they looked like frogs. Then my uncle moved to Oregon two years ago and gave me his Euro Spec 84 carrera cabrio with only 52k miles to sell for him. I sold it within 24 hours because I let it go for only $16k.

I didn't think it was that fast, I thought it was loud and rough, and I didn't understand why there was no power steering. Once sold, the taste remained on my toungue and I have since had a 66 912, 68 911 with a 2.7, 76 Euro Spec SC, 81 SC Targa, 95 993 cabrio, and now, my 97 Euro Spec "S" with only 18k miles. I'm selling my 97 to upgrade to a 996 turbo.

95 C4 993

It started in Jr. High when I did a paper on James Dean and came to reality when I accidently bid $350,000 on the car I own today, which was on Ebay. The $350k bid with 6 seconds left triggered the $36k reserve, which no one outbid me.

tropheus

Well, I was always thinking that all the guys who drive a Porsche have an issue with there ego which they try to compensate. Too much money for a car which you can’t use in normal life. And in the end of the day it’s just a VW beetle with some steroid.

Last summer then I drove an old 964 and a 928 when I visited my former Professor from my old university. We kept in touch over all the years and she is still a person where I count on to get some advice for life/career. After 15 minutes during hilly and curvy forest and at the German Autobahn the bug bitten my. Yes, and after a a good year end gratification the rest was history.

Ed Burdell

I never really had serious Porsche lust, although 911's and their kin always seemed to percolate to the top of my awareness over the years...as a boy, I made a model of a 914...as a teenager, I recall throwing the term "Porsche Turbo Carrera" around to impress friends, even though I had no clue what it really meant...years later while being stuck in traffic, I recall being mesmerized by the retractible spoiler going up and down in the car in front of me...my friend in SF drove me around in his SC back in '98 (we got stopped with just a warning on that outing!)...I started noticing Boxsters on the road...I bought Randy Leffingwell's Buyer's Guide...I started shopping the Web for real, actual cars...I bought my C2S a year and a half ago...now I spend all my time driving and hanging around here...I have been assimilated!

OldGuy

When I was 5 I wanted a Corvette. Then when I was 10 my uncle Air Force officer John Carpenter went to Stuttgart to pick up his 1970 targa. Porsche thought he was the Astronaut Air Force officer John Carpenter and threw him a big party. He told me that story over and over and I knew one day I would have a 911. Now that I have had a TT and 2 GT3's ( I am keeping this last one) I want to start building a collection 914, 73 RS clone or 74 RSR clone and then a 356 and a 356 outlaw. I am looking for my 914 or 73, 74 911 now.

csertich

I was 18 and big into muscle cars (this is 1968). And then a friend's brother, who was in the Air Force, bought a brand new 911. After one ride, I was ready to sell my '65 GTO for a 911. A few years later, I compromised and bought a '73 2002. But I always knew I'd own a 911 someday. Finally bought a '73E in the early 80's and kept it until we had our first child in 1989.
In financial retrospect, I should have kept my GTO while acquiring these German cars.
chuck

ARM993

When I was a kid in the 80s I remember riding in my parents car past the Porsche dealership in Ithaca, NY. The dealership is long gone now. But at the time I remember staring at 911s sitting in the show room wondering what it must be like to own one. Fast forward to 1998 and my first Porsche weekend at Watkins Glen. I took some free tickets to go up and watch. That was the day I knew I had to have a Porsche. I was amazed at how many perfectly stock vehicles were being flogged around the track with license plates on them at race speeds. Bought mine in 2005 and hoping to get out on the track soon. Life is good.