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Growing up in Ohio, I scarcely knew what Porsche's were.   I had seen a few 914's running around and thought they were cool, but 911's were the stuff of movies and never seen on the road where I grew up.  

I was really into cars as a teen but if you asked me to identify a Porsche by model number, I probably could not have done it.   In contrast I could name every 60's muscle car by year, tell you what size engine it probably had, and rattle off bits of trivia specific to the car.   I had a 1969 Pontiac Lemans, but always lusted for the GTO.   Ohh that Boss 302 is cool.   Damn, if only I could get my hands on a Chevelle SS with the 427!

I am sure that there are a lot of you who grew up in California lusting after 911's, but I think most people throughout the country had an automotive experience similar to mine.   The muscle car price bubble is, in my estimation, driven by the nostalgia of the masses.   The 911 is excluded from this because it is not part of the collective mass nostalgia.   After all it is hard to be nostalgic about something to which you had little or no exposure.  

I stumbled upon my 911 because I was looking at Boxster's, which at the time, were a little out of my price range.   I drove the 911 one block off the dealer's lot and knew I was buying the car.  

On the outside the 911 is beautiful and even looks cute with innocent eyes and it's smiling bumper.   To get behind the wheel is to be alone with a seductress who will have her way with you; fenders heave cleavage, your hands tight to the leather wrapped hips of her steering wheel, whispers of obscenity goat you on from behind and reward you with action.   I was hooked.  

I remember thinking to myself that I hadn't been this excited about a car since I was a teenager.   "This is what all those big bulky muscle cars should have been" I said to myself.   Blasphemy!

I am glad that the 911 never made it to the mass collective nostalgia.   If it had, then I am sure it would be out of reach like so many muscle cars today.   It's ironic that yesterday's exclusivity has lent itself to today's availiability.   It is like a secret that is hidden in plain sight.   People just don't know any better.