How long have you been---

[gsxrken]

Originally Posted by 71T Targa

I bought my '71T just before I found Pelican and joined here in '01.

I had never ridden in, much less owned, a Porsche before that. Seems crazy to say that but it's true.

Same here. Bought the only Porsche I’ve ever had in 2002 and still have it. Registered on Pelican almost immediately (out of necessity).

[Jeff Higgins]

It's coming up on 20 years for me. I "found" Porsche a little later in life (I was about 40) after a life-long infatuation with late '60's American muscle cars. I wanted to try something different, so I did. I very much feel like I have found my "home", automotive hobby-wise.

Another, relative question would be just how much you have driven Porsches. Ownership is one thing, actually driving them is quite often an entirely different matter. I know a lot of motorcyclists, for example, who will tell you they have "ridden all of their lives", or "have been riding for 40 years" and have scarcely put 1,000 miles per year on their motorcycles, if that. I know a few guys who have owned Ferraris for decades, and have not accumulated 5,000 miles of use across all of the ones they ever owned.

So, I'll start - I'm approaching an honest quarter million miles on my '72 in just under 20 years of ownership. I'm on my second motor (its original 2.4 found a new home in my younger son's '68), which I have torn down twice since first building and installing it. Its current iteration now has 85K on it. One transmission rebuild, three or four clutches, a couple of suspension refreshes/upgrades, untold brake pads, several sets of discs, and on and on. I've probably averaged about seven or eight track days a year the whole time as well.

I just love driving the darn thing...

[rfuerst911sc]

As an owner about 28 years but got hooked in the early 70's when my older brother owned a 1969 912 .

[Les Paul]

Summer of 85 I was 30 my daughter 3. Obviously jumped in big time. 1990

[Les Paul]

2000 senior prom
2014

[GH85Carrera]

I put 160,000 miles on my 914. I have put 100,000 on my 911. I have driven my Porsche in 40 states. I plan to get to all lower 48.

[URY914]

Bought my first 914 in 1979. Several more have come and gone but I still have the first one.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

32 years and more than 20 cars later. Only regretted selling one, a 69E I bought in CA and drove back to Boston in 54 hours flat. What an amazing little car that was.

[regency]

Bought a 1973 914 2.0 FI in about 2001, loved that car. In 2004, my Uncle gave me his 1973 911 T MFI Coupe that had been sitting in his garage since 1980. Took me about 9 years to restore it.

Steve

1973 911 T MFI Coupe, Aubergine
1970 FJ40, 2F / 4 Speed, Toyota red

[faverymi]

Originally Posted by id10t

Well, I'll be 49 in March, and 3 days after I was born I came home from the hospital in what is now my 356 ...

So 49 years as passenger and eventually (when I was 12) driver.

Kudos to you.... Hats off. You are the real Porsche royalty...

[LakeCleElum]

Bought my 73.5 in 1990, put about 24,000 miles on it since then. Joined Pelican in 2004.

Had a 912 Rust Bucket back in the Mid- 80's.....Put in a front pan, did a bare metal paint myself and pedaled it.......Wanted more power and a Targa top.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by shadowjack1

driving Porsches??
I opened a thread about Porschephiles and realized I have been driving a Porsche for almost 50 Years.
How about you?????????

I hot-rodded VWs right out of high school, and always wanted a Porsche.
In 1967 I bought a '64 coupe that had been hit in the front for $800 in St Louis and drove it home to Ohio. Can you imagine buying any three year old Porshe for $800 and driving it 300 miles home? I bought a junk yard '63 coupe that had been hit in the rear, cut the front 1/3 off my "new" car and welded them together in an embarrassingly crude way. I probably scrapped enough parts then to have paid for the whole project in today's dollars.
I drove my Frankencoupe 64/63 coupe on a lap of the country in 1969 - Ohio, Seattle, San Diego, some damn place in Lousiana, and home. I sold the Frankencoupe to a Duesenberg collector who always had a 356 winter car and needed another one. He died before the Frankencoupe rusted into oblivion and the last I heard it still lives out there somewhere.

So, bottom line, I bought and drove my first Porsche in 1967.



This is the '63 front clip I scabbed onto my '64.



My '63/64 Frankencoupe and my girlfriend somewhere in Wyoming on our lap of America in 1969.



Random. I bought 356s in the area when I could find them. I paid $100 for this '65 just to get it away from the guy before he ruined it. There was not one piece of unbent sheet metal - not even the gas door - and both the transmission and engine cases were cracked. The driver walked away.

[RKDinOKC]

25 years, several different models. 914, 944TS, 928GT, BoxsterS, 951, 928GTS, CayenneS, CayenneT, CayenneT, CayenneS TE

[petrolhead611]

I bought my 924S new in '86, and it's still in my garage 129000 miles later.

[rusnak]

Patrick, great story and pics.

Driven? 1963 356B Cabriolet in 1985. T6 I think (squared hood opening). The floor was completely rusted out. You could see the ground passing underneath your feet. I had to rebuild the carburetors to get it to run.

Owned? I bought a 1978 SC after college, around 2000. I had been working and saving for years to buy that one, then a 914-6. I bought an '84 3.2 Carrera in 2001. Still have it.

Miles? I would guess I put probably a half million miles on Porsches. Daily drive my 987.2 Cayman S, and have since 2017. Just bought my girly a Macan S. Actually I bought it, and she claimed it.

[WPOZZZ]

Bought my first Porsche in 2006, so 14 years.

[IROC]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Another, relative question would be just how much you have driven Porsches.

Good point. Only ~100k miles for me, but a few thousand of those are track miles.

[slow&rusty]

Bought my first Porsche in 2005, 15 great years thus far and look forward to the next 15.

[imaircooled]

I started with this:


Bought this in 1993 while serving on the USS Kitty Hawk in San Diego.


So, I've been driving my Porsche for almost 27 years and 145,000 miles.


It's a family thing now....although it's pretty tight in the back.

[NY65912]

Bought my first in 1981, a '65 356C in Irish Green and Tan corduroy interior.