How long have you been---

[shadowjack1]

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

[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.

[Seahawk]

Ownership?

1979. It was a 912 so it may not count

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I took delivery on my 74 914 2.0 on September 13th 1974.

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.

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[IROC]

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

[speeder]

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.

[JackDidley]

Noob here. Only 5 years.

[Bill Douglas]

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

[speeder]

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



And the '73 2.0:




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

[osidak]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[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.

[Joe Bob]

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

[fastfredracing]

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 .

[Sooner or later]

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!

[svandamme]

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...



it looks better on picture then it was up close

the current one

[jcommin]

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

[Bill Douglas]

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