What made you fall in love with a 911?
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For me, funnily enough it was owning a 1600cc Beetle (see profile), and getting hooked on the air-cooled engineering. That and having a drive of a 964, which blew me away.
Did anyone else evolve like that, or was it straight to a 911? Was it via something else, like a Lotus/TVR?
Just curious.
(Hoping to get either a 993 or 964 by the end of the year, if business picks up a bit!)
Did anyone else evolve like that, or was it straight to a 911? Was it via something else, like a Lotus/TVR?
Just curious.
(Hoping to get either a 993 or 964 by the end of the year, if business picks up a bit!)
First passenger run in one. I was about 11, it was a silver 79 SC targa owned by a mate of my father's.
With the roof off, we did some fast twisty country roads and then proceed to do about 120mph down a dual carriageway. I was in the front passenger seat giggling.
DAZ
>> Edited by dazren on Wednesday 27th April 12:29
With the roof off, we did some fast twisty country roads and then proceed to do about 120mph down a dual carriageway. I was in the front passenger seat giggling.
DAZ
>> Edited by dazren on Wednesday 27th April 12:29
For me I've always been a Porsche fan ever since my dad put up all those Porsche Turbo pictures on my bedroom wall when I was a kid and as he's a car nut it was inevitable I'd be one too.
I've always said to myself if I have the means I'll go for that 911 I've always wanted. I'll be looking to scratch that 911 itch next year when I get around to buy a 996 Turbo/GT3. Here's what I've owned so far:
Golf GTi 2.0 MK 4
S2 Elise 111S
E46 BMW M3
I've tried FWD, Mid-engined RWD, Front-engined RWD so that just leaves one more unique layout to try out.
I've always said to myself if I have the means I'll go for that 911 I've always wanted. I'll be looking to scratch that 911 itch next year when I get around to buy a 996 Turbo/GT3. Here's what I've owned so far:
Golf GTi 2.0 MK 4
S2 Elise 111S
E46 BMW M3
I've tried FWD, Mid-engined RWD, Front-engined RWD so that just leaves one more unique layout to try out.
I lived in Wapping in the 80s and saw plenty of yuppie posers in their 911 convertibles (remember Bruno Brookes?), I therefore assumed they were just fast poser's cars that looked a little too much like a Beetle and with stuff that no 'modern' car should have such as air cooled, rear engine, crap interior etc.
Then I drove one - a 964 RS in fact for over 50 miles on fantastic B roads like the B660. I knew I had to have one (well a 911 at least of some description).
I guess the saying is true '911s are like children, you won't understand it until you've got one.'
Then I drove one - a 964 RS in fact for over 50 miles on fantastic B roads like the B660. I knew I had to have one (well a 911 at least of some description).
I guess the saying is true '911s are like children, you won't understand it until you've got one.'
vixen1700 said:
For me, funnily enough it was owning a 1600cc Beetle
Yeah. Beetles for me too - a long time ago. Nice bug Mr V! (Always wanted BRM wheels on mine but found a good set of Porsche Fuchs ones and fitted those)
I'm looking to buy a 993 right now. To me they're the perfect Porsche
Whilst I had been in a few porkers as a nipper (the old man had a 3.2 and a couple of 928’s) the lure of Porsche passed me by. That was until a couple of years ago. I had just bought a Griff 500 and also met a new girlfriend (mmm I wonder if there is a connection there). Anyway the girlfriends father had a 993 Ruf BTR……………oh my lord. I wasn’t expecting much from my first passenger ride, certainly nothing more brutal that the TVR. I was wrong.
The 500 went shortly after, kept the girl though, in fact were getting married in a couple of weeks.
The 500 went shortly after, kept the girl though, in fact were getting married in a couple of weeks.
I did a week's 'work experience' at an OPC in 1989 when I was at school. I was in heaven...
The mechanics at said OPC weren't afraid to give customers cars a damn good thrashing with me in the passenger seat. I think my fave car at the time was a 964 3.6 Turbo. They also gave me a Porsche bonnet badge, which I still have on my desk to this day :-)
I said to myself then, "you must get yourself a 911 by the time you are 25", and I just managed it a month before my 26th birthday. Unfortunately the goals just get bigger though, and I'm now saying to myself "You must get a 996 TT X50 before you're 30".
I've been wondering actually: Those guys who have TT's or GT2's. i.e top of the range Pork. What do you lust after??? Or when you get to that stage is it just, more power and RUF etc???
The mechanics at said OPC weren't afraid to give customers cars a damn good thrashing with me in the passenger seat. I think my fave car at the time was a 964 3.6 Turbo. They also gave me a Porsche bonnet badge, which I still have on my desk to this day :-)
I said to myself then, "you must get yourself a 911 by the time you are 25", and I just managed it a month before my 26th birthday. Unfortunately the goals just get bigger though, and I'm now saying to myself "You must get a 996 TT X50 before you're 30".
I've been wondering actually: Those guys who have TT's or GT2's. i.e top of the range Pork. What do you lust after??? Or when you get to that stage is it just, more power and RUF etc???
my entrance into the porsche world i think is somewhat unorthodox. i never really drooled over these cars at all. i had had (in my opinion) some reasonable cars... esprit turbo se, 355, clk, elise, xkr.
the xkr was the last 'decent' car before buying my first porsche at the target beating age of 29. i was so fed up with the wallowy barge feel of the jaguar with its uninspiring steering that i woke up one sunday morning and said to my (now wife)quite literally, 'do you mind if i go and buy a porsche today' (the theory being at the time that porsche ownership was an unticked box). having got the thumbs up i drove off down to afn in chiswick and bought my first 911 (black c4 as per my profile). mightily impressed, but for some daft reason that i still can't fathom, i sold it about 18 months later. after a year or so in the wilderness, got back into a c4s which i have just changed for a....
gt2...
and your question has been worrying me since i took delivery of it... the scary answer is nothing, which is very unaspirational.
bottom line is 911 are the best cars in the world and i love them all to pieces.
the xkr was the last 'decent' car before buying my first porsche at the target beating age of 29. i was so fed up with the wallowy barge feel of the jaguar with its uninspiring steering that i woke up one sunday morning and said to my (now wife)quite literally, 'do you mind if i go and buy a porsche today' (the theory being at the time that porsche ownership was an unticked box). having got the thumbs up i drove off down to afn in chiswick and bought my first 911 (black c4 as per my profile). mightily impressed, but for some daft reason that i still can't fathom, i sold it about 18 months later. after a year or so in the wilderness, got back into a c4s which i have just changed for a....
R1_JON said:
I've been wondering actually: Those guys who have TT's or GT2's. i.e top of the range Pork. What do you lust after???
gt2...
and your question has been worrying me since i took delivery of it... the scary answer is nothing, which is very unaspirational.
bottom line is 911 are the best cars in the world and i love them all to pieces.
A fine question. For me it is simply the £ound : engineering ratio - spot on for my taste. By engineering I mean, handling, grunt, reliability, practicality etc. If I was (but am not) after posing a Ferrari does it much better. Pure bang then a TVR does it better etc. For decades the 911 does everything well above average, always ahead of the game and justifiably a great sports car. That’s all the motivation I need. What amazing value they are now too –a LHD 993 for less than 18K !!! What do you get for that on the high street – a new BMW 118D ? No comparison.
R1_JON said:
I've been wondering actually: Those guys who have TT's or GT2's. i.e top of the range Pork. What do you lust after??? Or when you get to that stage is it just, more power and RUF etc???
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DAZ
For me it was a 500 mile in day drive with a friend (who is an awesome driver) in a 964 C2 in Scotland when I was 25. I'd never experienced anything like it - the intoxicating engine noise, the light, bobbing nose, the sense of hewn-from-granite engineering.
If you'll forgive a short anecdote, the drive was rather longer than planned. We were on an organised HPC trip and were paired in the car(not ours) for the morning. But we left our roadbook in the hotel and so never made the lunch RV! And in the afternoon my infamous navigation skills meant we threw in one or two loops (code for got lost). I was confident we were ok, however, as we headed for Crieff and the hotel. Until, that is, we arrived in Crieff and I realised the hotel was in Cleish about 60 miles south! When we finally arrived back, the trip organiser was not amused and the owner ran out and kissed his car! We'd, however, had the day of our lives!
Although it's corny to say it, from that day on I knew I'd always want a 911 and I was lucky enough 8 years later to fulfil that dream.
If you'll forgive a short anecdote, the drive was rather longer than planned. We were on an organised HPC trip and were paired in the car(not ours) for the morning. But we left our roadbook in the hotel and so never made the lunch RV! And in the afternoon my infamous navigation skills meant we threw in one or two loops (code for got lost). I was confident we were ok, however, as we headed for Crieff and the hotel. Until, that is, we arrived in Crieff and I realised the hotel was in Cleish about 60 miles south! When we finally arrived back, the trip organiser was not amused and the owner ran out and kissed his car! We'd, however, had the day of our lives!
Although it's corny to say it, from that day on I knew I'd always want a 911 and I was lucky enough 8 years later to fulfil that dream.
stefan1 said:
For me it was a 500 mile in day drive with a friend (who is an awesome driver) in a 964 C2 in Scotland when I was 25.
Actually, when I still had the TVR and hadn't moved to the 911's - I had a not too dissimilar story - I think it may even have been the same "awesome driver".
I was passengering (after jumping out of the TVR) in a 964RS (on the Hog's back, I think) and I looked across at the speedo - I then asked the natural question - "how come the car has a KM/H speedo" - it didn't and was reading 140 - I simply couldn't believe the ease and lack of drama that it could do double the legal limit.
While the Griff's would do 150 - you just didn't want to - the doors flapped, etc etc.
>> Edited by Joe911 on Wednesday 27th April 17:33
Exposure to the breed itself: can't say I ever lusted after one, since they never tweaked the kneecap of desire the way the Italians did, or indeed the Blackpudliddians did, ito pure, visual drama.
However, it took me about 2.5 seconds in the passenger seat of what proved to be my then barely pubescent 993 to realise why the Prussians were so damn good at annexation.
Although I couldn't tell the difference between a Bourdeaux and a Claret (ho, ho!), it wouldn't surprise me at all if there existed an intense similarity between driving the 911 and indeed being a connoisseur of the boudoire of the grape: both being pastimes where the object of desire improves immeasurably with time's inexorable passage.
So it was the acceleration.
However, it took me about 2.5 seconds in the passenger seat of what proved to be my then barely pubescent 993 to realise why the Prussians were so damn good at annexation.
Although I couldn't tell the difference between a Bourdeaux and a Claret (ho, ho!), it wouldn't surprise me at all if there existed an intense similarity between driving the 911 and indeed being a connoisseur of the boudoire of the grape: both being pastimes where the object of desire improves immeasurably with time's inexorable passage.
So it was the acceleration.
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