80 is just a number if not your age and also the number of Porsche cars that one person has owned over the years. Meet Ottocar J, a Vienna resident who recently bought a Spyder Boxster in a shiny blue color to finish off 80 Porsche cars purchased over the past few decades. At an age when most preferred a rocket seat, a cigar in hand, Ottocar is more than content driving around in his Porsche cars, steering in his hand, open roads ahead.
If anyone ever decides to create a list of Porsche fans, maybe his name is at the top, very high.
Ottocar says his interest in Porsche began nearly 50 years ago when one such car overtook him. As the cars raced past, something moved deep inside. Over the next few years, he started saving money and eventually bought a 911 E in Speed Yellow. This was the first of many, many more to come.
In later decades Ottocar added 917, 910 with a rare eight-cylinder engine, 904 with its original Fuhrmann engine and 956 engine. In total, it bought as many as 80 Porsche cars and currently owns 38 “I can drive a different one every day for a month – and two on the weekends,” he says.
The passion, of course, is not just in buying these vehicles but in driving them and when they are not moving, they have a proper garage. Or in this particular case, an entire building. Yes, Ottocar built a separate building for his Porsche cars and it is called his ‘living room’. Every member of his Porsche collection is on display here, along with a toy store, antique store and cinema screen as well. Where photos would normally be expected, Ottocar has posters from races and the decoration is completed with a number of parts, prizes and souvenirs.
The Porsche cars are lined on all sides and there is precision here as well. On the left are race cars, ordered in the form of an ascent while the right side starts with a Jagdwagen armored vehicle, an early 356 Coupé with a curved windshield, and then several early 911, 911 RS 2.7, and a series of 930 Turbo.
But Porsche is going to be driven, not just on display.
As a result, Ottocar is often out with some of its cars. Is there a favorite among them? He won’t say yes, but he does admit that the Spyder Type 981 Boxster is outperformed by others. “The noise, the way it drives, the noise, everything it does – it’s the only one of my road-legal Porsche that reminds me of my 910,” he says saying.
So Austria is fascinated by Porsche cars but admits that these beauties are just machines if they don’t get a human grip. “Without the people, the cars are just cars. They are people who bring life into them,” he says.