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Please post your best one. It's the one that you liked the best while looking, or the one that you drove first. What made you be a Porsche fan?

The car that got me interested was an early 911. My dentist owned it. I circled the car 7 times with Novocain still in my mouth (I was in high school). I decided then to buy one that day.

As go back, it was a 1970's car. It was later when I had enough money to buy one: I bought a modified 1973.5 Porsche Carrera with a 2.7L engine (PMO's replace the original FI injection system).



It's been a great few decades since then. I would not trade my experiences for anything.

Back in 1980 or so, we went to a family reunion. One of Dad's cousins showed up with a 911 and Dad, being a life-long car guy (to this day - he's got 7 street rods in his garage at the moment. At 80, he's running out of time to drive them all... but I digress...) talked himself into a ride. I managed to finagle my way into the back seat (last time I'd ever fit in the back seat of a 911). All I remember is having my ear pressed against the rear seat to listen to the engine howl as the cousin ran it through the gears.

It took me another ~40 years to acquire my first - a used 991.2 4S earlier this year. And I have a 992 GTS on the way, whenever Porsche gets around to building it. (October, fingers crossed.) The only regret is that it took 3 decades longer than it should have.

And sorry, no pics of that old 911. Black, with chrome.

Memories are interesting things, though. I remember being shoved back into the seat of that old 911, hard. And it feels the same when I push the go button on my 4S. Objectively, a modern Honda Civic would beat that old 911 around a race track. Prior to the 911, I had a Subaru WRX and then an STI. Both of those would easily beat the old 911. But they don't compare to my childhood memory...