your first time... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Lobo1186 · 10-29-2009, 07:00 PM

Everyone remembers their first time. For some it was magical for others it was just another car. Either way we all have one. What was the first Porsche you ever sat in? drove? owned?

for me im just a baby in the porsche world... i have wanted one for years. i never sat in one til september at laguna seca. (i know this will sound heretic) a panamera turbo... it was my first p-car to ever sit in lol. i know its crazy! but true maybe that is why iam fond of them. the first p-car to drive was a 2001 boxster, shortly after that... it was mine.

So how bout all of you? what were your firsts and when?

tnoice · 10-29-2009, 07:07 PM

For my first time, I flew down from Illinois to Arizona and drove it 1700 miles back. Fell in love for those wonderful 3 days!!

sd_boxster · 10-29-2009, 09:00 PM

I sat in a well-worn Carrera on a used car lot sometime in the middle of last September. It was expensive and in crappy condition. I drove back to the lot, went to a Porsche dealership, test-drove my Boxster, and bought it three days later.

On my birthday.

941MXVET · 10-29-2009, 09:18 PM

The first Porsche I ever drove was a used 914, I test drove back around 1989-1990. I looked at it a few times, but ended up buying a MGB instead. :ah:

Ahhhh, the fobles of youth!

Anyway that 914 must have left an impression, because,well we own a midengined Porsche today!

edevlin · 10-30-2009, 02:09 AM

It was 1970 I was in college and most of my buddies had muscle cars, but I was driving a 1958 Karmann Ghia, as thats all I could afford. One of my friends got a new 914 and most of the guys gave him a hard time for not getting a "real" car with a big V-8.

But not me, I really enjoyed my version of VW's "sports" car. Anyway, when I got in the 914, first with my buddy driving and then with me, I had no idea that a car could stick to the road like that and handle the corners like it was on rails. That was a far better experience for me than ripping along in straight lines like the muscle cars did. Unfortunately I had to wait another 35 years until I got my Boxster, but now its :dance: .

Ed

d18mike · 10-30-2009, 04:19 AM

I grew up in a very small town and there was only 1 Porsche (a 911) in a 50 mile square radius. So it really stuck out. It belonged to the area's most wealthy lawyer. Now as I look back I can only think how much of pain this poor guy must have had getting it serviced!

GTA_G20 · 10-30-2009, 07:27 AM

Back in '90, my friends dad had a shiny red what must've been '85-6 944. I thought he was a god. He cooked the tranny and wanted to sell it for $5k. I pleaded with my dad at the time to buy it. I was only 10 but already a gear head. Needless to say I never bought it.
Two years ago my other friends brother sold his e46 m3 and got a caymanS. I thought he had made a huge mistake and downgraded. Then I drove it and compared to the M, realized he had made a correct decision. Now I am in!

eightsandaces · 10-30-2009, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by GTA_G20

Back in '90, my friends dad had a shiny red what must've been '85-6 944. I thought he was a god. He cooked the tranny and wanted to sell it for $5k. I pleaded with my dad at the time to buy it. I was only 10 but already a gear head. Needless to say I never bought it.
Two years ago my other friends brother sold his e46 m3 and got a caymanS. I thought he had made a huge mistake and downgraded. Then I drove it and compared to the M, realized he had made a correct decision. Now I am in!

Haha Fear not, you weren't the only "dad beggar".. I pleaded with my dad to buy this:

http://www.dinospider.com/

It was sitting at the speedy transmission shop, (as if they had a prayer of fixing it). They wanted 5k for it in 1980, that was exactly one half of my annual gross that year, might as well have been one million. Now days it's a hot collectable, would have been worth many times more than five K, if only we knew the future sometimes...

gerrygug · 10-30-2009, 08:08 AM

1967 912
Wish I still had her.

Bladecutter · 10-30-2009, 08:37 AM

My first time was 2 years back.
My gf and I were driving through Boulder, kind of just killing a day, and not sure what the rest of the day was going to involve.

As we were diving up 28th Street, we passed by the Porsche Dealer, and I said to her "Feel like looking at a Porsche for a little while?"

So we popped in, started looking at the different cars, and I was talking to the salesman about the Boxster. Next thing I knew, I was sitting in the drivers seat, seeing if I could fit in comfortably in an '05 S.

Fired it up, and my gf and I zipped on down the road, to get a feel for it.
It had so many different options and buttons that I didn't know where to start, so I decided to concentrate on just driving the car, and get a feel for what she could do.

Found a nice little road nearby with a good series of sweepers, and let loose.
The engine note was intoxicating. The steering response was instantaneous. The brakes were ferocious.

To say we were impressed would be unkind.
I was sold, but that car was not in my future.

Over the next year and a half, I test drove at least 5 other Boxsters, 2 Mercedes SLK's, my gf's Crossfire (5 minutes into that test drive this time last year, and she was ready to buy!), an Infiniti G35 Coupe, an '07 Carrera, and a Nissan Z. Nothing captured my thrill of driving like the Boxster did.

So this past February, when I found my '98, I was sold.
11k miles later, mostly in the mountains here in Colorado, including several track days at HPR, and I'm not going anywhere for a while.

BC.

AreaOne · 10-30-2009, 08:45 AM

About two years ago, my friend bought a late 90's Boxster and let me ride in it when he went to buy gas, it wasn't a bad ride at all even from the passenger seat. Then he asked if I wanted to drive it and intially I said "no not really, thanks anyway" but he insisted and with me not having driven a German car since 1986 I decided to take him up on his offer. After a short drive I told him it was "okay" and thanked him but inside I was saying "that was cool".

A few days later I went to a Porsche dealership and with the intent to test drive a late 90's or early 2000 Boxster and saw a black 987 on the showroom floor. I sat in it then decided "I gots to have it" and a few days later that car became mine and have been enjoying it since then.

Gougoushu · 10-30-2009, 10:25 AM

Rode to school in the 60s in the back of Dad's 356B, silver/red. After he wrecked it in '69, he waited until '72, and then bought a dented-up 1966 912.

He restored it [painted white], then again in the 80s [painted red], and just completed the THIRD resto in 2003 [white again], and it's now a show car. Sometimes he talks about selling it, but doesn't mind parking it in the driveway just to admire it.

We'd sit in all of 'em, unable to see over the dash, pretending to drive, practicing shifting while making engine sounds! I'll sometimes drive the 912. Not fast, but still elegant. Nostalgia of the old 356B no doubt gripped me when I bought my ratty silver/red 986 last year.

Lordblood · 10-31-2009, 09:04 PM

My first experience being in a Porsche was the very Boxster I own.
Before then any "real" experience I had was watching a 911 here and there and watching all the reviews.

The guy selling it started her up, and I feel in love with the deep purr of it idling. Then he took me to the main road and blasted it down, 70 degrees outside with the top down and the wind in your hair (was my first time in a real convertible as well) was what won me over. Soon after I bought it.

I wouldn't say it's the best Boxster to own, it's riddled with faults but I still love getting into it every morning, brings back the same emotion every time.

s2kguy · 11-02-2009, 08:22 PM

My '63 Corvette Stingray Convertible was stolen in 1965. I ran across a cream colored 356 1600 Coupe while visiting at home and drove it back to SD where I was stationed. The first winter in SD with a 356 was a real learning experience. It wouldn't start after sitting out in bitter cold wx until it was warmed up for a whole day in a gas station garage. The heater was a joke- on me. The engine used so much oil I had to add a quart every 100 miles. The oil bypassing the valves ended up coating the windshield. I drove with one hand on the wheel and the other with a rag wiping the inside of the windshield. After going to Vietnam, I had my dad sell it. Damn, wish I had it now. It was the only car I ever learned to adjust the valves. For all the problems it gave me, (just rememberd driving in SD crosswinds) it was a joy to drive.

02box · 11-03-2009, 05:58 AM

my neighbor had a ratty speedster back in the early 70s. they were pretty inexpensive then. this in a town of 2000 in iowa. my first to own was a early 924.
got it from a friend of a friend from texas. it was beat. the odometer had quit at 80,000. carpets all faded and various mechanical problems. but it was still cool and fun to drive. got lots of attention. not very fast tho. from there I found and early intermeccanica speedster and drove it for years as a daily driver. sold it and years later went looking again and found it for sale in hemmings so I bought it back. later sold it and bought an intermeccanina convertible D. that was a cool car too.
went looking again and decided to get the real deal this time. the cost of a replica 356 is now equal to what I got my 2002 boxster for. this makes all of my motoring moments happy

roman · 11-03-2009, 07:03 AM

My first ride (I was 17 at the time) was in a silver Carrera of some sort. I'm sure it was top of the line since it was driven by my sister's boyfriend at the time - O.K. folks, remember the Wayback Machine? - Kirt Knight, the place kicker for the Washinton Redskins. He scared the ******************** out of me, but I realized, going around an exit ramp marke 35 mph at about 70 mph or so, that this thing certainly gripped the road!!