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Your first memory of a Porsche?

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robbosliding

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I'm very fortunate to own a car I saw as a kid that made such an impression on me at the age of about seven that I've wanted one all of my life. I'm not the only one (Ubertub has made the same admission!). I remember seeing my first Porsche on a spoof super bhero film starring Gene Wilder called Condorman........I'm not the only one I know I'm not!
It was a black 911 (I have no idea what year or model but I'd love to know) driven by the baddy in the film dressed not dissimilar to the Stig in black but this fella would wind down his tinted window and flip up his mirriored visor to reveal his steal eye ball......evil! He was followed round by his posey in matching 911's, I don't think it was the PCGB though!
I'm sure others will have far more sane first memories. It is nice to achieve ambitions isn't it?
 
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I too remember watching Condorman as a teenager. But it was Michael Crawford who starred in the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082199/
 
Mine was when my father came home in a Blue 911 SC i was 6 years old, i wemt to France in it squashed in the back never will forget that car, even my mother loved driving it, he then went onto a newer gold one, its all his fault i am hooked. He now drives a 206 diesel somthing for me to look forward too.

Phil
 
Thanks so much to the both of you for your efforts!!! Indeed it was Micheal Crawford, my how time affects the memory & I would have been nine years old not seven. Those cars looked so fast and modern at the time. I'd love to have a drive of one of those models! Thanks for that guys, much appreciated!
 
My first memory is easy to recall. It must have been 1961 or 2, and I was standing-by a ship on Tyneside, very bored.Someone mentioned that a WW2 bomber base called Croft had just opened as a racetrack and a meeting was being held that weekend.So I hired a car and eventually found the place outside Darlington.As I parked I could hear the most amazing banshee wail, rising and falling and drowning out all other sounds.It came from a small, white coupe which was lapping all the other sportscars at a ludicrous rate. Turns out it was a 906, owned and driven by Tony Dean and being shaken down ready for the upcoming Le Mans.
I have never forgotten those sights and sounds, which set me on the path to 911 ownership.

JohnC
993turbo
 
my first awareness was a beautiful swoopy 928 parked outside my offices in Yeovil many moons ago. It was the first time that I had seen one and as I walked around it I just couldn't believe the size of its ass ....huge .I fell in love at first sight but it was 25+ years before I got to own and drive one.
 
I used to drive along Totteridge Lane North London every day on my way to work in the mid seventies. I saw a 911 for the fist time being driven by the Pop Impresario Micky Most who I later found out lived on the lane. I was, like most of us, hooked immediately. With no interweb in them days it took me an age to find out how much they cost. Had to wait a while before I could drive my own.

RB

 
Micky Most's Porsche had the registration number 'RAK 8' (RAK Recordings was his company). I only know this because when I bought my old SC from Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate (yeah I know, name dropping!), the history file contained a picture of my SC with 'HC 3' registration sitting next to Micky Most's 'RAK 8'. I vaguely I remember Micky Most's Porsche was a Light Burgundy coloured 930 Turbo in the pic.

I believe HC1 was on Errol's Rolls Royce Corniche, and HC2 was on his Ferrari. [;)]
 
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