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Brazilian VW Puma?

Note the Fiat 500 on the barge...

Augustus Davies

I liked the 993 NB since it arrived. I was driving a 1969 911S which I bought new and still own...I wanted the 993 then but didn't want to let loose the cash and deviate from my big plan. My big plan has been reached so I bought a 1995 OBD1!...PSS10, a chip, DACH cat and muffler and now all I need is a set of Ruf wheels..1995 911 Carrera simple and elegant!

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pirahna

I had the picture on my wall as a kid, this one as well...

Matt Lane

Vividly remember the yellow introductory car in a 1994 Excellence mag.

I was sold on both the pictures and specs. Quite a number of perceived improvements over the outgoing 964. It really seemed like they had gotten it "right".

Unfortunately, took me 10 years to save up!

Matt

Edward

It started with HotWheels, no kidding; the obsession was real (just ask my mother ).

Then I think it was 1980, I got a 911 Turbo poster, then another one, yeah and the 308 too, but I swear I never watched an entire episode of Magnum.

Fast forward to when my good buddy since the wee days got a used 78SC (I was in college and he got into film and was making great dough, if not sporadically). He let me drive it ...and often! I was toast; game over. I knew I had to have a 911 or a 308 one day ...that one of those would be my dream car.

Adulthood, responsibilities, then house and family. Years go by, but not too many, thank God! I finally got the green light from my lovely CFO. As I research F-cars and 308/328s, I was aghast at the cost of ownership. I was always a wrench from my 5-speed Schwinn to every motorcycle I owned. But Ferraris were just not for this mere mortal. So I "resigned" myself to a Porsche. ...I "settled" ...haha! Little did I know what a great choice destiny had handed me.

I searched out my Dream car and found it in a 95 993 ...the pinnacle of 911 engineering. That was 2001. Then the track. Then more madness. Then the 82SC-Trackmeister. And here it is, 2010, and I am the most Blessed soul on the planet! Best to you, my Rennlist family! Enjoy your beauty in the best of health and serenity!

Edward

ABCar

In the mid 70's drove my sisters 69 bug...hooked on aircooled wierdness and german simplicty (I was the only 16 year old that seemed to get it.

1ST Porshce mistake...1982 SC (only because I over paid and "under got")

2006 Cayman S came and went (cry cry) do to $ loss...FELL IN LOVE WITH PORSHCES

2ND Porsche mistake... last August, my 2002 996 TURBO X50!!!!!!!! Wow! Loved it...but only for about 2 months. Nice power but couldnt love it. Sold it 5 weeks ago after only 3 months owned...much releived as it was not the car for me, even though it was a very good car for some others.

Then I Drove a 993 and was reborn into my sisters 69 VW bug...except the Porshe way...the 993 way. The way this little group really gets. I got it and expect to bond with this car for many years to come!

By the way, I think the Rennlist forum is an important part of the ownership experience, at least for me. There is a certain connection to our cars that we share here and I dig knowing there are others that appreciate it all too.

Good idea for a thread!

Evan Fullerton

Well my story is a bit different than most. My Dad has always been a Car guy and had a 356 that he fully restored before I was born. As a cool father-son project my Dad thought it would be a nice to restore a VW bug for my first car. One weekend while out and about we see a 914 on a trailer with a For Sale sign. That car became my 12th birthday present, and a 3 year restoration. During that 3 years while looking for parts on Ebay, a 76 912E followed us home.

By the time I turned 16 my Dad and I now had nice driver 70's Porsches but then the slippery slope really started to take effect as we started autocrossing. It was shortly determined that a 914 was not a suitable DD and was converted into a full on track car for me with yet another motor built, making it the 4th engine in the 914 under my ownership, all before I was 18. As my Dad and I got more involved in racing, he determined that the 912E was not fast enough so we put together a 75 911S with 76 euro Carrera 3.0L for his track car.

This leads me to the 993 purchase, while my 914 was very fast, its reliability left something to be desired as the engine at this point was tuned to producing more than double the stock power and every system on the car had been upgraded with the inclusion of a full cage and all the fancy suspension bit but it still was not much more than a autocross/hill climb type car. Enjoying my Dad's 911 when my 914 was down for an engine refresh or broke something at the track, even though the 911 was slower and much easier to drive at the limit, I decided it was time to start looking for a 911 of my own as a racer.

I decided that I wanted some what more modern suspension, 914s are quite lacking in this area, and ABS in my next track car so I started to look for a nice 964 to convert but a somewhat basket case 993 that had already been converted into a full on track car and came with a short but cool Pro driver history just sort of fell in my lap so to speak and the rest is history.

I am very much looking forward to the joys of racing a 993 for 2010 and spending more time with my Dad at the track.

ABCar

great father and son story...love the mouth on that car! I hope you make it live up to it's look!

verhag

Started autocrossing in college, So Illinois..roomate talked me into entering a stock VW Bug. We won. After a few weeks, thicker sway bars, stiffer shocks, we were driving over to St. Louis running SCCA events. The bug used to lift it's inside front wheel through tight turns and the butt end would always come around, oversteer...sound familiar anyone?.....air cooled, less hp, great handling...hell, I've wanted a Porsche all my life.

Was so set on a Cayman S, but waited and watched resale value drop....continued to drive my brothers pristine 94 C4S when the opportunity would come around and ....the final straw..being passed at the Nurburgring by a bright green GT3 going into Kallenhard....knew right then and there I was going to get home and begin my search for a 993. Last of the air-cooleds, research regarding reliability, etc...and of course that S wide body look.
Denny

NC TRACKRAT

Much abbreviated version: It's all my college roomate's fault. He had a brand-new '60 Porsche 356, I, a lowly Triumph TR3. When I got out of the Navy, after driving a '60 VW, then a '63 Karmann Ghia, I treated myself to a new '66 912. Then, in '72 to a 911T. For some reason, I left Porsche in the mid-'70's for BMW until 3 years ago. I had been instructing at PCA DE's for a couple of years and the close proximity finally got to me. After much research, I determined that a '95 Carrera was "it"...air-cooled, OBDI, power, classic looks and handling. It took over a year to find the right one but, after that, I was sliding down the slippery slope. A year later, we added the '98 C2S. The "prodigal son" has returned...never to leave!

timothymoffat

Couldn't agree more. This place has been a tremendous source for anything 993 as well as great entertainment. I've had the opportunity to meet several from here and talk to several more on the phone from time to time. Great to be able to talk to others who "get it" as I'm sure many of us have bored our significant others to tears on a regular basis.

BTW ABCar, really liking your car, the Arena Red/Cashmere sport seat combo is really classy. More pics in the spring please.

race911

Watching the IROC series, and Donohue spank everyone when I was about 12. Then the 930 came out and rewrote the rules for production cars. Last semester of High school had a teacher with a T-5 356 Super 90 Roadster, and he'd always bring Panorama and The Nugget (Golden Gate Region) to school. Three weeks out of school I found what I could get for under $6K, a '68. (Funny how my newest Porsche is now older than what I had when I was 18.) Screwy combination of engine parts led to a holed piston after about three months. Rebuilt it, led to a job at a local shop, made good money, and got exposure to racing. Turned that '68 into an IROC/930 wannabe, and successfully autocrossed and time trialed in in AZ and So Cal during my college years. (But I raced an affordable Scirocco.)

Too many 911's (and basically everything BUT a 356) have come and gone. I've owned shops, built race cars, run amateur teams, full tilt PCA involvement (AZ Region President when I was 23?), come and gone from racing..........but absent a sports racer/formula car, I'll pick a 911 over anything else to run on track.

So if I don't get killed IN a 911, I'll be the oddball who says to tighten me in the harness and bury me in one.

ilko

My grandmother bought me a a red 930 Turbo when I was 4. That became my favorite toy! I've loved 911s since then.

When it was time to buy my first Porsche I went by the saying by the one in the best condition you could afford. The car was flawless. 32K miles, it still smelled new. It was a 1986 944 Turbo. Soon after I purchased it I was bitten by the track bug. I took that pristine car to a few DE days, but felt bad turning it into a track car. Not that it didn't feel at home there, but I just didn't want to be the one responsible for it...

So I sold the 944 and bought my first 964. Bone stock, I transformed it into a fairly capable track car. A year later unfortunately I saw its demise at Lime Rock. By then I was seriously hooked.

Then came my RSA. That car was a complete monster in every way imaginable. I had it for a couple of years and loved very minute in it.

After the birth of my son I decided I need a family car so out went the RSA and in came the C4S. I really hope the C4S is going to be with me for a long time, I'm in awe every time I drive it.

ABCar

Thanks. the spring will yeild more pictures with a better suspension PSS10.
On another note, I met a great enthusiast when I had my 996tt on 6 speed, also a good place for 996 guys. Even though we are in different Porsche generations now, we both appreciate the love of the marke...and I know he will come to understand the "real" Porsche connection after he drives my 993!
(Can you hear me over there, FRANK!!?? )
I also included a "spring is almost here" pictue from this morning!

Here are a couple of photos from the fall just before it snowed!

Smoke

Yes Brazilian, though not a Puma, it had a steel body over flat four 1.7 liters. Of the 2 cars in the country, it was stolen.