I saw a thread on 914World where someone was talking about meeting the owner of the car that got him hooked on 914s over 30 years later. That got me thinking about how I caught the bug.
When I was a kid, there was a guy down the street from us who had a later model (assume 1975) in Laguna Blue. He had a son that was two years younger than me, so I really didn't hang out with him, but I was at their house a few times. Besides the 914, they also had an air hockey table and their own pinball machine in the basement! I was so jealous.
That was the height of large living to a middle schooler in the 70's.