Average age of a 356 owner

[Norm Miller]

It all started in 1959 when I sold my 56 Healey and bought a 58 Speedster.
I was 23 it seemed that most owners were old farts.
Now I are one and have been active all these years. Was 84 last month.
I've noticed that I'm rapidly deteriorating whilst the cars are being resurrected.

A short version of a long story,
Norm

[Richard Emerson]

It all started in 1959 when I sold my 56 Healey and bought a 58 Speedster.
I was 23 it seemed that most owners were old farts.
Now I are one and have been active all these years. Was 84 last month.
I've noticed that I'm rapidly deteriorating whilst the cars are being resurrected.

A short version of a long story,
Norm

Cheers and good health Norm! What a wonderful story and heritage!

[Martin Benade]

I bought a rusty B when I was 20. Still addicted at nearly 66, on my third 356.

[Wes Bender]

Norm, if you and I were as valuable as these cars have become, some good looking chicks would see to it that we were properly "restored". (You've got me beat by a year.....)

[Spike Jones]

I think I bought my first 356,a '56 coupe, in 1976 or 1977. Then bought my '58 cab in 1983. Took over a year to get each one restored and running.
Sold the "56 to my wife's brother about 1987. Big mistake! Still have the '58 cab at the age of 74,working on getting my '69 XKE roadster back together and drivable.

[Leo Dreisilker]

At what age does old fart begin? I am 62 and found my 62 B Coupe 20 years ago.

[Martin Benade]

You are not there yet

[GregVandenbussche]

37, bought mine when i was 30 was my only car for 5 years, now sharing drives with 66 westy

[Mervyn Hyde]

My car was made the year I was born. Neither of us have been repainted.

[George Walling]

Bought my 55 Speedster in 1965, It has been with me every since and is and has been the only 356 or Porsche I've owned. Now at 74yrs. of age I still enjoy driving it and Grand kids love getting riders in it and have had fun giving home coming queens rider around the track at high school home coming games and events.

[Dave Wildrick]

Bought my 64C coupe in 1976 for $1800 from a gas station lot in Houston. It was in sad shape, but with a new cheap silver paint job, and was the first 36 I ever saw in Houston. Forty-three years later, at age 75, I've still got it. Over the years I've put a lot of sweat equity and money into it, but it's now in the best shape it has ever been in. I also have a very nice 65C coupe that I bought from a fellow Lone Star 356 Club member in 2000 for a price I could not refuse. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment from both of these cars, especially on cross-country trips.

[Bill Tate]

My history is a lot like George Walling's. I bought my '58 Speedster in '66 when I was 24. I still have it and it's more fun than ever and yes we still get wet in the rain.

[Don Gale]

. . . it's more fun than ever and yes we still get wet in the rain.

Ha! Reminds me when I worked in Atlanta and took one of my secretaries out to lunch in my "fake" Speedster back in the '80's. On the way back, I timed it just right such that the Rainbird sprinklers on the adjacent lawn shot into her side as we rounded the corner to the office on a nice sunny afternoon with the top down (no, not her top, I wish!) I remember the side curtains were just about worthless in the rain. It quickly became my fair weather only car and I rarely put the top up.

[George Walling]

A roll of paper towels becomes standard equipment in a speedster if your going to drive it in fowl weather. lol

[Adam Wright]

A roll of paper towels becomes standard equipment in a speedster if your going to drive it in fowl weather. lol

Roadster too!