It all started when I was 8 years old.
I saw this car racing at a small hill climb track in Victoria Australia.
Its the 1974 Paris motor show Turbo Prototype.
After that my dad had a series of 911s
One of them a Silver 930 he had in the late 80s.
Its the same car I now own after tracking it down 20 years latter.
Bottom pic of Dad and I , with the 930 we have both loved. :)


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Great stories guys, I must have watched that commercial 10 times now.

!978. Met a girl driving a 914. It wasn't hers, she had borrowed it from a friend. Married the girl two years later and bought the 914 three years after that.
Still have the same wife and car after all these years.SmileWavy

I guess this isn't what is being discussed

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Jim

I remember that commercial! I believe there were three guys in the commercial and they we're supposed to be spray painters at the factory. They were standing next to the spray booth. They would each come up with a different item and the next shot was the car in action in the color of the item they used to "choose" the color. One of the items was a blue jelly-bean.

I loved that commercial....

OK my memory is foggy....they wern't near the spray booth....

check it out

PORSCHE commercial - YouTube

When I was about 11 and walking through the back alleys, I came upon a a wheel in a metal garbage can sticking partially out of the top.
I picked out the mag and took it home. It had a fracture around it's radius.

I figured it was one of those mags from the hotrod magazines. American Mag?

I kept it in my room and thought it was the coolest thing ever. If it wasn't so heavy and it was actually very light I'd wear the thing on a chain around my neck.

I found out then it wasn't an A.Mag and was a FUCHS.
I was very curious on what this beautiful wheel came off of.

I then found out from the library what the wheel came off of.

I was stuck.

Mike, great story! Do you still have the wheel?