I’ve gotta ‘ave Porsche’s in my life.
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... as per the title, what was it that got you to that, “I gotta have Porsche’s in my life” moment?
Me? Well, imagine a spotty eighteen year old, a gofor , with a shiny new driving licence: budding Mirling Stoss; deffo not a Stirling Moss. Imagine if you will, an ancient Austin A40 van: column-change: 3-speed box: slipping clutch: 50bhp, but probably only 40 knackered horses on tap: marginal drum brakes: van overloaded with drums of paint, sliding around in the back. Now, picture beautiful empty rolling country roads with said teenager giving the A40 the proverbial nuts: a real b***s out jobby
. Nothing was going to overtake this driving god, so he no looky in the rear view mirror for... hours. Then suddenly, like Toad of Toad Hall when he first saw a motorised vehicle - wallop - a purple (Aubergine?) 911 came careening past at twice the speed of sound. Smitten! The birds stopped singing & the Earth skipped a rotation - gotta get me one of those.
Not a bad dream for someone earning diddly-squat at the time, & definitely feeding at the shallow end of the trough. Took me ‘til age thirty-five to get my mits on a Porsche - a brand new silver 944 - magic; 911s followed in due course & the rest may be familiar to a lot of you, here on Pistonheads - addiction. Oh, I’ll admit, I’ve been promiscuous, who wouldn’t be? I’m no angel. A Ferrari here; a Quattro there but I’ve always returned to my first love. Must get an early 911 at some point; a purple one, me thinks.
Over to you all. What’s your story?
Me? Well, imagine a spotty eighteen year old, a gofor , with a shiny new driving licence: budding Mirling Stoss; deffo not a Stirling Moss. Imagine if you will, an ancient Austin A40 van: column-change: 3-speed box: slipping clutch: 50bhp, but probably only 40 knackered horses on tap: marginal drum brakes: van overloaded with drums of paint, sliding around in the back. Now, picture beautiful empty rolling country roads with said teenager giving the A40 the proverbial nuts: a real b***s out jobby
. Nothing was going to overtake this driving god, so he no looky in the rear view mirror for... hours. Then suddenly, like Toad of Toad Hall when he first saw a motorised vehicle - wallop - a purple (Aubergine?) 911 came careening past at twice the speed of sound. Smitten! The birds stopped singing & the Earth skipped a rotation - gotta get me one of those.Not a bad dream for someone earning diddly-squat at the time, & definitely feeding at the shallow end of the trough. Took me ‘til age thirty-five to get my mits on a Porsche - a brand new silver 944 - magic; 911s followed in due course & the rest may be familiar to a lot of you, here on Pistonheads - addiction. Oh, I’ll admit, I’ve been promiscuous, who wouldn’t be? I’m no angel. A Ferrari here; a Quattro there but I’ve always returned to my first love. Must get an early 911 at some point; a purple one, me thinks.
Over to you all. What’s your story?
It’s seems starkly apparent, for a lot of the reasons given in the replies, that a Porsche addiction is rooted in prepubescent ( with some exceptions), not to say rising testosterone influences. Now those are all predictable marketing feeding protocols, but what is it that keeps the addicted.. err, addicted? What maintains the addiction into maturity & beyond (sorry, Buzz-Lightyear)?
Right, my take is that the constant development of the 911 brand offers & maintains a crucial link to the past. A 911 from one’s youth has been smoothed/honed/modified, but, crucially, & in essence, it connects me with the past - my past: my history!
Other opinions/theories/put downs have equal, or greater, validity
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Right, my take is that the constant development of the 911 brand offers & maintains a crucial link to the past. A 911 from one’s youth has been smoothed/honed/modified, but, crucially, & in essence, it connects me with the past - my past: my history!
Other opinions/theories/put downs have equal, or greater, validity
.av185 said:
Early 2009 seeing a 2 year old nice spec low mileage Guards red 997.1 C2s going through a BCA Bank of Scotland repossession sale struggling to make just £35k following the recent financial meltdown. Bought the car then and there.
Never again would Carreras be that cheap...relatively.
Planted the 911 seed.
And whilst there are many interesting and rapid contemporary cars around especially atm, many are too detached and have grown way too lardy and wide, and whilst a 911 has put on a few pounds, no car imo interacts and rewards you quite like a recent 'manuel' GT3 can.
Too right, mon amie!Never again would Carreras be that cheap...relatively.
Planted the 911 seed.
And whilst there are many interesting and rapid contemporary cars around especially atm, many are too detached and have grown way too lardy and wide, and whilst a 911 has put on a few pounds, no car imo interacts and rewards you quite like a recent 'manuel' GT3 can.
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