tkrtape12

I love that commercial..showed my 8 year old daughter...she also liked it..good find

Floodj

I got my first 911, a 66, while I was in high school. I guess I got it mostly because the price was right and I wanted to be cool. But I loved that car. It needed an engine rebuild, so I switched to a Jeep Wrangler for college.

Right before we got married I was talking to my wife-to-be about a motorcycle. She said he really didn't think motorcycles were safe. I offered to skip motorcycles for a Porsche--she agreed.

Fast forward to 2004, I had just returned from my first tour in Afghanistan. I was very surprised when my wife asked "When are you going to start looking for a Porsche?"

I bought the second one because I love the way the cars perform and the pure joy I get driving it. It was worth every penny.

After our deployments to Iraq we bought a new Ford Edge and a used F350. I am considering another deployment in about year, and cannot help but also consider a 356 outlaw...

--Joe

Floodj

The commercial reminds me. I took my 3 year old son to the Porsche Museum last Sunday. He totally feel in love with the green on white 73 RS. I guess he is the truly afflicted now...

kilodawg

I was 18, it was 1973, and my father was going to buy me my first car (yeah spoiled) either a 240Z or a 914 2.0. The Z was a 3 month wait the 914 was on the lot. My dad had a business associate a German fellow named Gunther Faas, who knew a fair bit about cars. He was in our RC car club and gave lectures on suspension setup and other technical topics. He came over one evening as I was looking over the brochures for each car. My dad told me to ask Gunther which car to get so I did and I can still here his answer today. In a thick Swabian accent he replied: I'd get za Porsche.....Turns out he had raced for the factory and the rest as they say is history.

CorrdoBrit

To ween me off 2 wheeled fun. It was time and the Porsche gives me an excuse.

hal m

The guy detailing my Jeep Grand Cherokee drove up in a 911 and I said that if this guy can have one, so can I! After an extensive search in 1999, I found a 1989 Silver Anniversary 911 coupe with 14,000 miles and one owner who had taken European delivery. Since then have owned a 95 C2 and now 96TT

RS man

user 70801213

My Delorean was too slow, so I bought the 993.

Michaelc

The A/C in my 79 SC forced me to reconsider what direction I was headed. Loved the SC for sure, but needed A/C that worked. Ended up with a 1995 cab with A/C that works better than most. Miss the SC, love the 993....

Ed Burdell

I don't know how I wound up with one...I had built a model of a 914 when I was a kid, but that didn't do it...rode in a friend's SC in '98, but that didn't do it, either...started researching sports cars when the money started getting better...actually made up a spreadsheet of contenders...vetted some picks with the pretty admin in the office...if she said a car was "cute" off the list it came...wound up with Randy Leffingwell's "Porsche 911 Buyer's Guide" and the years with the 993 on it seemed just right...I would like to claim it was a wise choice, but in truth it was just a FANTASTICALLY LUCKY ONE!!!!!

rome

My neighbor had a son who was in his late 20's. He was a young lawyer in DC. He had an early 70's 911. I'd check it out when he came to visit his mother. He had long hair and was really cool. He usually had a hot chick with him. Car was so cool. He's take me for rides in it. I was probably 12 at the time.

Steve 96C4S

I was forced to buy one by my ego.

993Brendan

My passion unfolded due to the following five events: (i) purchase of a Porsche book at the school book fair when I was 8, (ii) watching Risky Business, (iii) sitting in a friend's father's 928 when I was 17 and (iv) renting a 80's 911 cab with my brother while vacationing in Hawaii and (v) going with a friend to the dealer in 1994 and taking home a complimentary copy of the "Are You Listening" VHS tape about the 993 from the showroom. It was the latest event that made me love the 993. Happy that 9 years later I could put one in my garage!

FGL28

I was addicted when I was put in our 356 in the mid 60's.

I took my drivers test in a 1973 911 T so, like a crack addict, I am hooked.

ryano

Ive been a car guy since I was a little kid.... I knew every car make and model and lusted after countach's, 959's, and F40's. When my dad came home in a mint 87 944S in 1989 I was hooked. Since then I have always had a thing for all things Porsche and the 911... Particularly the 993s in the 90s. When I finally was in a place last year when I could purchase one naturally I was drawn to these air-cooled cars over the newer ones.