1st Porsche

[Max Handley]

1966, 57 Super , Roger Bursch header.

[Adam Wright]

Ok, this is moving again, first 356. Bought while living in an apartment in Brooklyn, had no where to store it or work on it, luckily I rented the alley next to our magazine office.
If I look a little rough in the picture it is because I had quit drinking about 10 days before, I literally threw myself at the car and worked to exhaustion. So in a sense, 356's saved me from myself.

[Paul Hatfield]

Some years ago I wrote an article on my first Porsche (a 356) for our local PCA magazine. I have now posted it on my website. Click on the site listed below my signature and it is in the "Our Journey" section.

[Ibrahim Kuzu]

1988.. than was using the original jack ....now days, no way....
IK

[Ned Hamlin]

Here's my first 356 that I bought for $800 in Germany. The registration said it was a '60 sunroof coupe, but I found out much later that it was indeed an A coupe that had a T5 nose grafted on, T5 bumpers, and the shine up license light removed. I learned that it was a common occurrence where the factory would install later clips to damaged cars. It was rusting away from winters in the Alps, but it would have been fun to have now.

[gregorycampbell]

My first Porsche was a '60 Roadster. The year was 1980 and I was 16. I didn't have any money or welding skills so I patched the floor with fiberglass.

[Adam Wright]

More stash than I could grow at 16.

[Jay Wiener]

My first Porsche was a 1981 Gold 928, looked just like the one in "Risky Business." The year was 1996 and I was 16 years old. I bought it out of the recycler (pre craigslist) and I paid $2500 for it. I had just sold my 66 bug and needed a new car. So I went for this! The front engine V8 was fantastic, and I had a Porsche parked in the upper school parking lot! Fast forward I bought a 83 SC cab, a 96 993 coupe, 993 TT and then finally my first 356- 1963 super coupe (About 3 years ago)

[Ned Hamlin]

Here's my first 356 that I bought for $800 in Germany. The registration said it was a '60 sunroof coupe, but I found out much later that it was indeed an A coupe that had a T5 nose grafted on, T5 bumpers, and the shine up license light removed. I learned that it was a common occurrence where the factory would install later clips to damaged cars. It was rusting away from winters in the Alps, but it would have been fun to have now.

I forgot to mention that the year was 1969.

[steverestelli]

Great picture Ibrahim,
Nice to see these old pictures of us with out cars. And you are right about using these old jacks, I have seen damage done from jacking up these old classics. Too many of our cars have VW jacks that are wrong for a 356 too.
Hope you restore that notch with a sunroof.

[Adam Wright]

I think we should revive this thread, anyone else have pics of their 1st Porsche.

[Doug McDonnell]

In 1980 I was stationed at Myrtle Beach AFB and visiting some of my wife's family who lived 30 miles South of Columbia SC. Columbia paper had a 356 for sale so I drove up and looked a it. The owner(? Ed McDonald?) had 3 or 4. I ended up making a deal with him and the next weekend we took engine from one car,transmission from another and put them in a 3rd body to get one running 356. It was a LONG weekend. But my dream since age 13 was realized. I drove that car 7 years then sold it to a German engineer who was at a local Recaro factory and retiring back to Germany. It was to be his retirement project to restore. I replaced it with a 65 SC that a Chicago member had built as a short track racer with airport gears,12 volt conversion via Zener diode board and souped up engine.

[Bob Forman]

Winter 1968

[Jon Schmid]

My avatar Roadster is my first Porsche. My dad bought it new. I literally grew up with this car and it's been (and will stay) in the family forever, or else! LOL.

[David Jones]

I never had many pictures of my first Porsche and this is probably the last. 1980 and I was going through a divorce and the car was being repaired from 7 years of rampant UK rust. I never finished it and I moved to the USA and my ex sold it for 100 pounds sterling. Terrible picture but conveys the misery of working on a car in a tiny garage in the UK in 1980.
Amazingly this car is apparently still on the road in the UK, BMM935A where are you?