1st Porsche

[Adam Wright]

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Mine wasn't a 356, but I bet many of you guy's 1st Porsche was, so I figure this will be on topic fairly quickly.
Let's all share pics and stories of our 1st one.

Mine was 75 911S Targa I bought at 19, made payments! It quickly bankrupted me and within a couple of years I was back in a Jetta, but the disease had taken root, and while there is medicine, there is no cure...

Also, another early shot of Matt, me, and Jeremy "Bone" Jones, trying to figure out how to put a clutch in his SC. And yes, Matt was blond that year!

[Ron LaDow]

Adam,
I couldn't afford a camera when I bought my first 356. Priorities and all that.

[Adam Wright]

Yeah, but everyone had a mom, and possibly a girlfriend, they are the ones with cameras.

[Richard Higley]

You are so right Adam, my mom took pics of me with my newly acquired 58 speedster but I suspect it was because she wanted one to give to the cops ifn (sic, Harry P) I failed to return home!!

In my case, the seller was my boss and I think he believed he was dumping a funky car on a kid who didn't know better! I paid the princely sum of $6000 for her in 1977. I immediately enrolled at the local junior college in a VW repair class where the VW mechanic taught me how to tune it. The other guys thought it was some kind of Karman Ghia.

Again, Adam, thanks bunches for the pics you seem to have an unending supply of and the amusing times your sharing them generates for all of us.....

Regards, Rick

[Mike Grant]

Unfortunately no pics, but mine was a 72 911S Targa that I bought while still in college in 77. I was working as a waiter and making payments on the car and it turned in to a huge financial drain so I sold the car and bought a VW. Not a good experience, but I loved the power hit that car had at 4200 rpm. Also, that car introduced me to snap oversteer...many times.

[Vic Skirmants]

First 356, April, 1963.

[Ned Gorski]

My first porsche is my 55 continental found her
in a tobacco barn on senior skipday I was 17 still
Had a thick head of hair

Regards ned
55 cab
56 coupe

[Adam Wright]

Vic, I can understand you were probably an awkward teen, but your first girlfriend took the shot? Little old for a first girlfriend....

[Wes Bender]

OK, here's the first one, photo taken in '61 on the road to Lassen Nat'l Park:

Same car, same year in Nevada City, CA.

Second 356, about '65, also Nevada City.

[Alex Mestas]

My first Porsche was a 1963 T-6 B. Picture era 1980. Those were the days.... when the car was used rain or shine. It was truly a daily driver that I parked and left in the driveway.

33 years later the car still looks and runs great. The driver unfortunately has since lost all its hair and gained 40 lbs. Still love driving her around. It now resides securely in my garage and only used in nice weather.

[Jeffrey Gamble]

faithful,,,then (1967)and now and a Great Journey in between...

Jeff Gamble
Tucson

[Russ Myers]

No pictures I'm afraid. I had my priorities in order. I had two cars, a band, and I rented a room in a big house. Who has time for cameras and a consistent girlfriend when you're on top of the world!

[Allen Henderson]

My first Porsche was an Irish Green 1964C (216129). I bought it in 1970 from a Navy Captain in Washington D.C. Driving back to NAS Patuxent River where I was temporarily stationed as a newly minted Ensign I heard a knocking sound! Yep, it had a bad rod bearing which proved to be a mixed blessing. The enlisted guy who ran the hobby shop was an experienced VW-Porsche mechanic since he and his dad had a shop somewhere in Maryland, I think it was. Having no real experience but being mechanically inclined, the shop guy helped me repair my engine. We didn't totally disassemble but took off the bad rod and I hand polished the journal (it wasn't "too bad") and we put it back together. We did a valve job while we were at it. I got a $100 refund from the Captain for parts. I benefitted greatly from this experience as the 356 went with me to Rota Spain where I did my own repairs and it was repainted a period correct 914 color (didn't know better in those days). Then it came with me to Pensacola Florida where it was painted again, this time yellow. Finally ended up in Los Angeles area, via Durham (pictured with my 914-6) where I sold it to a well-known couple (I've forgotten their names, Linda and?) who restored 356s out of Canoga Park, as I recall. This 356 is where my Porsche hobby began 43 years ago.

[Paul Hatfield]

My wife and I in front of my first Porsche that I bought circa 1974. Photo taken about 1978.

[Allen Henderson]

Geez! I see snow and more snow in some shots and ski racks on the back of a coupe in another. I guess these 356s were daily drivers back in the day and we actually used them. I sure did mine. In it's original Irish Green guise, I drove it all over the Eastern U.S. I found its "natural cruising speed," was 80 mph. Back then the limits were higher, but not 80 except in a couple western states; never got a ticket though.