How long have you been---

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by imaircooled

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

Great pics. I bought my first Targa when I was stationed at NAS North Island in the 1980's.

San Diego is the perfect Targa Town!

[Halm]

Bought ours 6 weeks before we got married in 1971. So, I guess that makes it 48+ years now.

[imaircooled]

Great pics. I bought my first Targa when I was stationed at NAS North Island in the 1980's.

San Diego is the perfect Targa Town!

I have some older pictures of my car around the base. I'll have to find them. I was saluted just about every time I drove onto base with that car....even though I was only a Petty Officer!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by imaircooled

I was saluted just about every time I drove onto base with that car....even though I was only a Petty Officer!

That is awesome!

I sold the Targa to a friend when I got orders to Patuxent River...he begged me for the car!

When I got to Pax, 1988 time frame, I bought this 1983 911SC and drove it almost ten years until I got another Targa, a 1994 964.

[Les Paul]

1990, 2010, 2020. 30 years for this one.

[Robert Adams]

Great thread....nice to know I'm not the only old guy on here.
Been driving p-cars for 48 years. Got me searching around for some old pics. All I could come up with at the moment.
Started with '65 356SC Cab in 1972.
It's the little white spec! Wish I had more pics...or the actual car. Back then it was just another used car so nothing special. Bought it for $1500; sold it 3 years later for $2000 and thought I did good. LOL.


Rolled some of that $2k into a beat up '71 sunroof coupe. Competed a total restoration with the help of my uncle and an old friend Troy. Sold it for $9k 6 years later...another lol.


Moved on from there to a variety of other sports cars, but always came back to the Porsche family.
'82SC Targa Chiffon white-brown interior. Gorgeous color combo.
'86 Carrera Sunroof Coupe in Alpine White w/Blk interior
'87 Carrera Targa Marine Metallic w/Linen/blk interior
'89 944S2 Alpine white with matching factory color wheels-Linen interior
73.5 Targa Light Ivory-Blk almost road ready for this Spring. Older pic.

Nice to go down memory lane! Great run of owning and driving some fantastic cars.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by imaircooled

I have some older pictures of my car around the base. I'll have to find them. I was saluted just about every time I drove onto base with that car....even though I was only a Petty Officer!

I was Air Force. When I drove past the gate in a 356 the Airman on guard stopped me and looked inside to make sure I was wearing a seatbelt. All the modern cars had shoulder harnesses so it was obvious the belt was on so they didn’t get stopped. Speed limit on base was 25 mph, so it was really important that everyone was belted in.

[GH85Carrera]

This is me in my 914 1974 probably in 1976 or 77. I had the leather visor by then and I got that on a road trip from Montgomery, to New Orleans, then to Houston, then to Oklahoma City. That was my first fun road trip not for business just for vacation.

I grew a mustache shortly after this picture, and a full beard a few months later.




My toy since 1995.

[shadowjack1]

The only picture of my 914. Check out dive 1982. All other pictures lost to Katrina.
We took the 914 because all the dive gear would not fit in the 911.
Wife in foreground.

[speeder]

Shadowjack, it looks like you married well!! +++

[IROC]

Since we're posting olde pics... A mid-'90s picture of my car when it was still stock, with the Cookie Cutters I bought off of porschephiles and painted orange using Rust Oleum "Allis Chalmers Orange" paint:

[imaircooled]

Seahawk,

I found some of those older pictures. Bought my car in 1993.



Glad this picture is blurry! Who is that guy? This was on the base at Miramar.


The golf course.


Coronado....I think.


WD,

Speed limit on base was 25 mph, so it was really important that everyone was belted in.

I know what you mean. Some of the guys at the North Island gate would check seat belts and look all around the inside of my car.

[shadowjack1]

Originally Posted by speeder

Shadowjack, it looks like you married well!! +++

Thanks. I like to think so.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by imaircooled

I found some of those older pictures. Bought my car in 1993.

Wow - brings back some memories.

I was at the SH-60B hangers across NAS, but a lot of my friends flew H-3's and 46's out of the "double domes".

I have about 15 hours in the H-46. Interesting aircraft!

I am going to go through the oldies and scan some more.

Thanks!

[RWebb]

the above pic brings up the interesting question of whether a 911 will fit in the back of a Chinook?


or do you have to sling load it?

[rusnak]

Oh my, I just love these old pics.

[Evans, Marv]

1990.

[lsf911]

I bought my first Porsche in 1984, it was a 944. I drove that as my daily for 10 years before selling it in 1994. At that point I had 2 kids which made that car very impractical so moved onto SUVs. It wasn't until 2012 I bought another Porsche, this time my 83sc and then again last year I bought myself a project 68 911, can't help myself...

[porsche tech]

First Porsche: '63B convertible purchased in 1968 in Germany when I was in the army. I brought it home with me in '70 and sold it a couple of years later for a ham sandwich.

[71T Targa]

My last days with the T. Feb '09.

Before the long hoods skyrocketed in value.