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    Love the 928 since risky buissness when that car went in the lake lmao

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    First car was red 1968 Fiat 850 Spyder. It was a total POS (Fiat is an acronym for "Fix it again, Tony") held together by rust, but it was great fun, and at 50 MPG was the thing to have during the gas crisis of 1973. I sold it to some guy who planned to turn it into a racecar (hillclimber). Appropriately, my first Porsche was red 1967 912 vintage racecar, which blew the engine and I then converted to a 911S (see avatar).

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    First car: 1955 Ford F100 Stepside Pickup (OK, that's a truck...my first car was a 1984 BMW 318i that I bought off the showroom floor)
    First (& only) Porsche: 1972 911S Targa that I bought from an ad in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1985
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    First car was a 72 Chevy Camaro, yellow with black vinyl interior. First Porsche was a Sienna Metallic/cork 77 911 Targa.
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    My first car was a 1959 TR3A - bright yellow with a red leather interior... went well until it blew up!!! Paid around 200GB pounds for it... first Porsche was 6 years ago when I picked up 304598 for $15kCAD... still in restoration...
    1966 911 Coupe - Slate Grey - 304598 - still in restoration!

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnjohn68 View Post
    First car was a 1979 Oldsmobile delta 88 coupe tan with tan interior. First Porsche was a 1999 Carrera coupe. Black with gray interior. Tiptronic.love that car. Always got thumbs up bye people when I was driving .didnt understand why.back then.i just bought it to be slick.it was a blast owning that car.out of all my Friends. Our crew . They all drove mercedes. I was the first in my group to buy a Porsche .it was a blast. Took it to Vegas the first week I bought it forget about it.anyway that’s my first Porsche story. Look at me now ma. Top of the world with my wanna be ducktail. Things could definitly be worse 😉
    It's all beginning to make sense now!

    JohnJohn68 said: " They all drove mercedes. I was the first in my group to buy a Porsche"
    You are the long lost love child of Janis Joplin!

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    My first car was a '54 VW I bought in '68 from my sister-in-law's 78 year old grandfather (he was the engineer that designed the crane and derrick for the A-bomb test in New Mexico) I bought it for $100 without a straight piece of metal on it, (he kept hitting things, except the roof, he never rolled it), drove it for a year, ran it out of brakes, sold it for $75, new owner put $25 worth of brakes on it, and sold it for a $100... sometimes I dream it's still making the $75 to a $100 rounds to this day....

    My first Porsche is the '73S I drive today... Found it in the 'Valley Recycler' newspaper in Feb. '89 for $10K or best offer....

    Later I found that the 'new alloys' were repops, and the 'engine rebuild' was a simple top end in about '76...
    Guess what? .... I'm still not complaining..........

    ... and so it goes

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    My first car (that I bought with my own money) was a 1955 Truimph TR2. Fun car but broke all the time. That was followed by a 1958 Metropolitan Convertable which morphed into a 1960 Austin Healey 3000. My first Porsche was a 1968 912 that I bought just after getting out of the service in 1970. I bought my first 911, A Sepia Brown 71 911T in August of 1973. I've still got it. Owned a bunch of them since but none can compare with my old brown 911.

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    Chuck, hows this for deja vu.
    In 1978 I started my apprenticeship and needed a car. All I could afford was a VW. So I bought a 56 Oval. Drove it for the 5 years of my apprenticeship and came to the conclusion that it was not doing me any favours in catching the girl of my dreams. (I was always the last to arrive at the party).
    Tried to sell it but no one wanted it for love or money,, ( certainly not the love ). I put the car on my uncles farm in a massive utility shed in Northland NZ and bought a Ford Escort and forgot all about the "dry" times in the VW. Fast forward to 1998 and my uncles passes and my auntie Judy asks me if I could come and get car which after years abroad I had forgotten about. 6 months ago after almost 39 years of ownership I sold it.

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    Good thread John. Ill play.

    First Car
    1984 Chevrolet Caprice Classic.
    I came straight from over the pond to buy the car in NJ and driving it all over the States to LA.

    1987 AMC Eagle sedan 4x4.
    My New York City car to conquer NY winter blizzard and Long Island Beach parking lots reserved for 4x4.

    1989 BMW 325i Touring
    Back in Europe and with some german bullet I regret selling since.

    2005 Audi A6 Allroad
    Back in Switzerland needing a car for Swiss Alps and behond.

    1971 911T
    Still with me, after 12 years. A Beauty.

    2014 Audi Q3
    Family hauler, sold recently and waiting for replacement.

    2006 Porsche 911 (997)
    Daily driver, still with me after 2 years. A Beauty.
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