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[Neil924]

[924guy]

[924turbo_sout_africa]

These storie's are great ....

Well my first time was when i was 16 thats what 6 years ago when i started to get into car racing and whent to watch the 924 challenge.my mother worked for a porsche insurance company and she had a 82 924 for a company car.Well one early morning she told me to take it and put fuel into the car so well that was it i was hooked ...turned 18 startewd to look for one and when i came a accross a 924 turbo.I just had to have it.Well i only got the purschase my 931 when i turned 21 last year and i'm telling you i will never forget the day i stopped at work and the director told me she thinks i'm getting paid too much ...hahah

I just have to say all these stories makes me think how crazy we all are !!
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Porsche ...where dreams are a reality
'79 924 turbo canada spec
'98 Formula Vee (M3 eater)

Time in the 931 is a dream come true !!

[Mike924]

The first time I saw a 924 when I was at college.

There was a brand new Guards Red example parked at the back of the physics dept. It belonged to one of the Saudi students (at a time when, if you had a 20-year-old beater as a student, you were doing well!)

I never really gave it much thought after that; except I always thought the 924 was the prettiest car Porsche ever did.

I wasn't until nearly 25 years later that one turned up for sale, literally across the road from me. The rest, as they say, is history...
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1985 Porsche 924 'Lux', Kalahari Beige (my ex)
1993 Porsche 968 Coupe, Midnight Blue, 6 spd

'There is no substitute for a little grease under your fingernails.' - Chrenan, 924board.org

[Patrick]

My earliest memories of a 924 was when i was stationed on Mcguirre AFB,NJ. This was in the late 80`s when some airman drove around a Martini edition 924. I assumed it based on the side stripe of course. Although then i didnt know the different types of 924`s. I admittedly(BACK THEN) thought the 924 wasnt a real Porsche because the engine was water-cooled and in front. Of course i was driving my beloved 2L 914 then. Now i`ve been driving my BELOVED 924 for 12 years now!

[5150]

I can remember seeing a 924 on some TV prog as a kid and liking the look of it, always have had a thing for 70's and early 80's cars. Then in my late teens a black 924 pulled in at the hotel I was working at, side decals had been replaced (tackily) with the name of the female owner. I remember thinking how beautiful she looked... the owner wasn't bad either but the car had me drooling more. Skim forward and over the years they'd slipped from my mind, wife and I were looking for a cheap old car to clean up as a fun weekend toy and had initially thought of the Opel Manta. I was sat on Autotrader and boredly looked at Ferrari's, Lambo's etc and then got to Porsche - well I had the listing sorted on price so the first cars that popped up were 924's. Knew nothing about them so went to have a closer look at one and a chat with the local independant Porsche mechanic, walked in and sat in the corner covered in dust from the workshop and screaming to be washed and polished was a sweet little mars red 1978. That was October 2001, car cost me £900, most it's had spent so far was a motor for £200, rest has been wear-and-tear parts. Body is shot now and it's sat in my mums garage while I plan out the repairs.
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Mars Red '78 Euro 924 n/a
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Graphite? Grey Metallic '85 (late model) 944 2.5

There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

[agfisher]

I still remember the day. It was in the spring or early summer of 1977 and my mom & dad took me to pick up their new car in upstate New York. It was a 1977 Martini and ever since then, I have loved the 924. Now, 31 years later, the same car is sitting in my garage in Boston getting ready to be worked on and to be returned to its glory days!
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1977 924 N/A Martini Edition

[Raceboy]

I'm not exactly sure when I saw the 924 first. I guess it was in the mid-eighties (I'm born in 1978) in one German car magazine.

But I saw it first in real life in 1997 and it was the one I bought few weeks later
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'83 924 2.6 16v Turbo, 470hp
'67 911 2.4S hotrod
'90 944 S2 Cabriolet
'78 924 Carrera GT replica
'84 928 S, sold
'91 944 S2, sold
'82 924S/931 "Gulf", sold
'84 924, turbocharged, sold.
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[Khal]

Where to start..?

I've been a Porsche nut since I was very young. Got an R/C 935 (in Martini colours ) for Christmas one year. Obsessed ever since.

Had probably a dozen Porsche books when I was a kid. Still got 'em all somewhere, probably. So I'd read pretty much every word that was available (to me, at the time) to be read about Porsches and 924's before I ever saw one in the metal. Knew what they were, wasn't overly keen on them, had understood the implication that they weren't 'real' Porsches (although I did think they looked cool, but I think all Porsches look cool... except Cayennes...).

Anyway, my best mate, his old man had an NA, yellow one. I think it was back when I was about five or six years old, so I don't really remember it, but I know I must've seen it 'cause his family lived literally around the corner from mine. Don't know how long his old man had the car. But later, when I was about 12 or 13 I guess, his old man bought a silver Turbo. Took us for a spin in it... I was hooked! Fastest damned thing I'd ever been in! Tiny, low, jet-fighter interior (black)... the roof came out! It had everything! I actually got to drive it a couple of times once I got my drivers licence -the very height of awesomeness for a lower-middle-class suburban Aussie kid. Done and done. Had to have one.

Got one. Still have it. Very cool cars, them 924 Turbos
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'80 924 Turbo

[tom!]

I was ten years old when it was introduced. To a car-mad guy like me in a country of boring family cars, this car looked like it came from outer space.

I never saw one for real, until years later. Everybody told me it was a wannabe Porsche, VW LT coupé or whatever. I still liked the looks and read that it drove great. The wish to own one remained...

The Majorette 1:60 924 is still in my collection. Looks a lot better than my 1:1.
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1980 924 2.0, Saturn metallic

[968rz]

Driving home from work about 9years ago (already a Porsche addict for some time) I looked up into a liquor store parking lot and saw a 924 looking very sad on 4 flats covered with tree sap . I just had to go in and ask about it; 3 days later it was (and still is) mine.
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Rick
79 924 coupe Petrol Blue 3spd auto (wife's DD)
93 968 coupe Amazon Green 4spd Tip (my DD)

[Neil924]

[mgatlag]

Well my addiction really started when I was about 5 years old. My dad remarried and his wife had a 77.5 NA that she bought new. So dad used it as his daily driver for probably 10-12 years. I can remember loading my hockey gear in the hatch and going on long trips for AAA youth hockey. I loved everything about the car as a kid, the look, performance, and especially the smell. I know that sounds weird but it had very unique smell to it that I loved.
I got to drive it for the first time to my senior prom and I though I was the shit! That was 1992 and I remember dad saying, "now be easy on it, it's 15 years old." Yea right! After seeing how he drove it and how it handled all those years and I was finally sitting in the driver seat at age 17, lets just say I had a blast driving it!
Shortly after that time dad parked it in the garage and there it sat for many years. Neglected and nearly 130K miles on it, I said to dad, "alright, you're not doing anything with it, I want it." He said ok but I could never sell it. That was all I had to hear. The next day I drove 6 hours and trailered her home through the sleet and snow and now it's mine. A great xmas present! I've been bringing her back to life for the last 3 years and loving every minute of it.
The best part of it... still has the same smell to this day...mmmmm!!!
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Michael
'77 1/2 924 N/A- 5 speed Audi box
'04 Ford Taurus - gone!!
'92 Jeep Cherokee Laredo - gone!!

Porsche... better than tea with Miss McGill
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