My Dad has a 65 911 that he bought when I was very young. We spent hours in the garage working on it together, great memories.

The car sits in my garage now, hasn't ran in years.

My family was poor and all we ever had were junkers. At least they taught me how to work on cars. :D

Didn't get bit by the foreign car bug until I was in the Army and got transferred to Germany. I had no idea all of these wonderful, quirky kinds of cars even existed! Then our company executive officer shows up with a bright orange '71 911T. I was awestruck. Then he let me drive it. Course I still couldn't afford a 911, but I could afford other quirky cars. Most of a British variety. It wasn't until 34 years later that I finally came full circle and drove another 911.

You might be a little off, but not much.
From what I see (and the internet can be wrong) is your dad won his class, GTU, in 1971 in a 914/6

http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Por..._05_Por_01.jpg
1970 Porsche 914/6 Images, Information and History (914-6 GT, 914/6GT) | Conceptcarz.com

Jezabel 911t was also a cool car with a history
Porsche 911 Jezebel

Still very cool

My intro was bugs and buggies from my brother and dad, my brother took me every race weekend to Mosport. He had a formula vee then a formula ford. I also saw Mark Donahue race at Mosport.

914-6
 

Hi Mark , yes I could be a little off on dates, I wrote this from memory , thanks for clarify. here is a picture of Jezebel today . will try to come up with old photos later on.... +

enjoy http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1330993188.jpg

Think it started at birth. But the point of no return was a 912. First car I can remember doing over 100mph in.

Sure I was in the back seat, and about 8 or 9 years old, but it was OVER 100mph.

Love the home-built starter car. Here is my 1st sports car - my Super Tot Rod! It was pedal powered, but it was RWD & guards red! With "Chain Speed Drive"!

I love my hand position. All joking aside, I LOVED that car! Wish I still had it.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1330998394.jpg

You Win!!!!!:eek:SmileWavy:D

OK Doug, I lied,..I can go back a little further....Here is my first car!
Cheers.
Dave.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1331003530.jpg

That car is amazing.

My cousin and I first started to drive when we were 9-10 in Grampa's first car that he bought through his Chrysler dealership it was a 1948 Dodge Desoto Deluxe. We'd go with grampa to check the grain in the fields and he'd set the hand throttle and walk through the field to meet us on the other side, it took both of us to work that big sterring wheel in the corners but we were so proud to be actually driving even though it was only at 3-4 miles an hour. Grampa gave me that car to drive when I was 12 but only on his propery and the pasture, sometimes we'd have 8-9 kids in the car going round and round on that 1/8th mile oval track, I was hooked on cars from that point on, didn't get my first Porsche until 34 years later, was always saving for one but something else got in the way, there was also a 15 year open wheel racing addiction that ate up any money I was saving but I have a 930 now and love it.
Keep the story's coming.
Finn

what started it?
 

Steve McQueen- LeMans (and the Gulf 917...)

What a cool car!!!

I had an English teacher in Jr. High School with a 912 that looked like this one. I had a ride in it and was hooked on Porsches ever since.

http://www.hamlinmedia.com/912/6oclock.jpg

As a sophmore in high school (14 years old) I talked my father into fronting the money to buy a car that a neighbor had in his garage ($300 in 1968) . The neighbor had died and his wife did not know what to do with the car -it needed a full restoration. The owner had pop riveted in sheet metal floors, lots of bondo in the shell - the car had no interior, no windshield, no top, but did run. It was a 1957 Speedster. I only drove it in the back yard at my fathers house in a big oval (very large backyard), leaving drift marks all over the lawn, which did not make my father happy - but was a lot of fun.

It was too overwhelming for me and I sold it to my Brother in law-where it collected newspapers for the next 5 years. Finally sold to a friends brother for $500. No idea what ever became of it. I assume it had a VW engine in it, and would have cost a very significant amount to restore.

Same family sold my father a Maserati 3500 GT in 1971. Did not run, paid $1,000. Used the wrong mechanic to get running and the car leaked a quart of oil onto the floor every time it was driven - a horrible job of putting it back together. Sold it to the mechanic for $2700 to recover everything we had in it in 1975 - he had the last laugh as he still owns the car - and it is worth a lot more than what he paid.

This has led to a lifetime of buying cars - over 45, including 7 porsches (latest is a 1994 964 C2 coupe- which I purchased last september in Minnesota. I drove it home a few weeks ago to Texas - what a great 1300 mile road trip). I had been looking for a 1992-1994 964 C2 for over 3 years.

My other cars have been classic, sport, family cars, only one was a complete disaster a Fiat Dino coupe with the very nifty ferrari designed v-6. Big money loser for me- should have kept the engine/drvetrain for the future and given away the body. It was an impulsive purchase - one that reminds me today to always walk away and sleep on it before buying.

Have done the PPI thing infrequently - had a full one done by Auto Edge in the Twin Cities on the most recent purchase and it proved out the quality of the car - green over tan (no red silver black or white for me). Then had them go thru the car and do everyting in order to feel ok on my eventual drive to Texas. My purchases of a 356b, 914, 912, 911 Targa, 928 were all done on the basis of a tire kicking - and crawling all over the car to see overspray or hidden damage, caught many a car being misrepresented by the seller - but never used a ppi to screen or buy until this latest purchase.

My very first car that I bought (in my name) was a 1957 Triumph tr3 - I still own it - just fininshing a proffesional restoration.

It is a great hobby/pasttime- spent many hours in junk yards and on used car lots or in peoples garages - wife thinks I am crazy.

Oh, my goodness.... my first car, aircooled flat 6 or otherwise was a 1960 Corvair I got in 1967. I learned a lot on that car and in about 1969 Hot Rod magazine published an article called Corvair - Poor Man's Porsche, all about hot rodding Corvairs. I got some of the parts from J C Whitney and fabricated the rest in High School shop class. I could do 0 - 60 in 9 seconds and 16 second quarter-miles at 80+ MPH. I moved on to Porsches and never looked back. But I've always wondered what I could do w/ a Corvair now that I have the budget. The problem is that a buddy of mine bought a restored 1965 Corvair, really a very nice car but w/ carburetors and pushrods and a 4 speed w/ an awful shifter, no matter how much money and time and creative effort you put into it, it's still a Corvair. At least the grease I have under my fingernails now is Porsche grease!

I don't remember exactly where it was... it was either riding with my dad when he came to Columbia on his sales route or riding in the back of my bud's mom's Vista Cruiser on a middle school field trip to the planetarium in Chapel Hill.

A small flash of red and chrome caught my eye on the left side of the street... it was parallel parked about a half a block ahead in the afternoon shade of some big oak trees.

It looked something like this, but I couldn't really see it until we drove past.

I was in love.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1343623298.jpg

'64 Corvair for me.

http://www.gruv.org/smandrew356.jpg

This 356 is the car I came home from the hospital in when I was born.... pic is of my son about 1 year old

Argh yes!!......The Triumph TR5, one of my early favourites as well. I was maybe 12 years old, on holidays with my parents and I saw a white one turning in front of us. I thought it was a fantastic looking car and almost purchased a TR6 many years later.

I got my first car when I was 15. It was a toss up between my parents 1969 VW Bug and a Triumph TR4a. The Bug won me over. Sometimes I wish I could have afforded both. Would love to have a TR4a! Since having my 69 Bug, I've never been without an air cooled beastie.