Please share story of first time you saw a 911 or similar.

[Scott A]

I searched for a thread about first sighting. But came up empty.

Can some of you share the story of the first time (or early memories) of seeing a 911?
I was interested in older stories from the 1960s early 70s.

Perhaps include your age at the time, and the year, the car, etc.

I have been in the automotive design industry for 35+ years...and cars are designed/styled to attract their buyers. So I am interested in what caught a person's heart.

For me, I was 5 years old, in 1969, when my father took us, 3 brothers, to a dealership in Long Beach, California. I saw the cars, brand new, inside a full glass dealership.
There must have been about 3 to 5 smooth and intensely colored cars inside. I remember running from one to the other. (Later, one was in our home garage, a canary 912)
I was taken by the colors, and the smallness of the car and smooth shape...but a VW beetle didn't do the same thing for me.

The other cars in our family were large Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, they were sharp, and large, and lacked color. They were not cars I wanted to touch.

Maybe once a month in those years we would see a 911/912 in the wild driving or parked in Southern California, which was a family treat. (I have no memories of seeing a 356, the first time I really started looking at those were in the early historic races of Sears Point and Laguna Seca)(by the time I could drive myself to a dealership, the 914 had come and gone, and that's when I started seeing 924s and the 928, I thought the 928 was a marvelous creation)

I rarely feel the same about the new cars I see today....I think they are just too similar....and have lost the colors. It is very uncommon that I am attracted to a modern car.
50 some years ago bring nice memories to me.