How long have you been---
 

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

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.

Ownership?

1979. It was a 912 so it may not count:D

I took delivery on my 74 914 2.0 on September 13th 1974. I had made several payments already since I ordered it the way I wanted, and not what was on the showroom floor. So pretty much 45.5 years. I have never been without a Porsche since.

That's one year after I stopped delivering the Toledo Blade newspaper. I lusted after a doctor's 912 on my route and that was it for me. Then when the Turbo Carrera came out I was totally gone.

Took till '95 to be able to afford an SC.

I was a puppy at the time. By law one had to be over 21 to buy a car, so my mom had to co-sign the loan. She never paid one cent for it and when I moved to Oklahoma I had to get a title. I had to get a bill of sale from her for "one dollar" and other considerations. I didn't give her the buck.

I was working at a full time job and photographed weddings in the spring, and also filmed football games on Thursday night for Jr. High, Friday nights for high school, and Saturday's for Alabama State. I used a 16 mm Bolex camera. This was in the stone ages before video cameras. I made lots of money on those coaches films. My social life sucked, because I was always working. The 914 was $6,750 as delivered. $154 bucks a month for payments. It was my only car for 17 years.

Since 1993, so 26.5 years. I went to my first DE 6 weeks after I bought my car.

Bought my first Porsche, (second car overall), in 1976 for $500. It was a 1971 914 that had been in a minor front crash/bump, the hood still closed but it was sprung a little. I was 16 and had been working since childhood, shoveling snow/mowing lawns/paper route/etc..

The seller was our neighbor David Durenberger, a lawyer who went on to become one of the U.S. Senators from MN. a couple years later. He would resign in disgrace a couple years after that due to a campaign finance scandal. He was a really nice guy, though, seriously:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Durenberger

My second one was a 1973 914 2.0, (MUCH better car), bought in the same year. I had both of them for a while. I think I've had 4 or 5 911s since then, unless I'm counting wrong. I don't have one presently but always on the hunt for the right one, within my budget.

So that is about 44 years ago. :)

Noob here. Only 5 years.

I raced one and lost about 40 years ago, and bought one about 25 years ago.

This thread made me search through an old album for the photographic evidence;
the '71 914, (you can see the sprung hood):

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580931003.JPG

And the '73 2.0:


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580931137.JPG

EDIT: I have no idea why photos print sideways on this forum sometimes? :confused:

First time driving one 13
Bought my 911 at 21
Now almost 47

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580931608.jpg

his is me driving my 914 in about 1979.

The rear coil springs were shot, and the Bilstiens I had on it were pretty stiff. The springs would compress on a dip, and the shocks would not let the suspension extend.

I replaced the springs and I could not catch air anymore.

I have a 16x20 of that on my wall right now.

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.

1974, I had a raggedy ass 356. Wish I had kept it.

Put a 2.0 from a 914 into my bus in 1993, does that count ? Bought a project 928 in 1994, I was 24 years old, and doing O.K in life . Bought my SC in 1995 ( I count that as the first really ). Still have the SC. I plan on piling some miles on it this year . so, 25 years now .

Paid for it on 9/7/2001. Flew one way to Manchester, NH 9/14. Drove back to Tennessee in one day on the 15th, my birthday. 1,275 miles!

almost 17 years

bought the first one I ever drove
it was a b1tch whore of a 73 Targa S.. and it taught me many lessons.
I was glad to be rid of it, but I kinda miss the rawness of MFI...

That being said my current Cayman has given me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more actual driving fun..
It's faster, more reliable, handles much better, and gives me the confidence to go places , drive round in circles all day and take off my helmet and drive back home ... It's a doozy...


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580936066.jpg
it looks better on picture then it was up close

the current one
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Since 1983. I'm the original owner of my 944

As a school boy I used to hang around a place called the sports car center. I nearly cried when the impact bumper cars came out in 1974 LOL

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

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...

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

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580945290.jpg
Summer of 85 I was 30 my daughter 3. Obviously jumped in big time.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580945378.jpg 1990

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2000 senior promhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580945833.png
2014

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580958094.jpg

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

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580958094.jpg

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

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580958094.jpg

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. :eek:

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

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

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.

Bought my first Porsche in 2006, so 14 years.

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

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

I started with this:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580992348.jpg

Bought this in 1993 while serving on the USS Kitty Hawk in San Diego.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580992674.jpg

So, I've been driving my Porsche for almost 27 years and 145,000 miles.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580992348.jpg

It's a family thing now....although it's pretty tight in the back.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1580992348.jpg

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