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Ah, Jeff Carter

The cause of all my Porsche buying

Reading his tales in Wheels and Sports Car Wofld set my passion for Porsche in motion

By the time I started the European delivery system had finished and the nearest I could come up with was buying in the eastern states, having a driving holiday, and heading home to WA with a new 911 and a handful of good memories

The first trip was to buy the 964RS now owned by Kerry.

I rang Jeff to have a chat in his last few years. He was terribly ill but very gracious. By then I had read all his photographic and travel journals and become an ardent admirer of his talents with a pen and more importantly a camera. He chronicled Australia during times we will never see again.

I recall him saying that I was far from the only person to call him and blame him for their Porsche affliction, so there are more admirers of Jeff out there somewhere.

I so nearly called our farm Foxground like Jeffs property in NSW. What a guy and what a ride he had. Fantastic!

Thankyou for posting that article.......

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Thanks Simon for the well written reply. I can remember hanging off word that Jeff wrote!

He is the reason I would read through the car advert section of The Age every Saturday morning as a young teenager, dreaming of a day I could too own a 911.

I have a few other articles that I shall scan and post when times permits.

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Time for my confession.

 

I was only 12 at the time.

 

My brother bought a copy of this magazine.

 

Even though this happened 35 years ago, I still remember it like it was only yesterday.

 

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I was able to find a copy of this very same magazine for sale on ebay.  I had cut my brother's original copy up so I could stick the pictures of this car in my school port (suitcase).  I remember my brother wasn't very happy when he found out what I had done to his copy...SCWAug-Oct1978Page8_zpsbf740a0f.jpg

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