My first “real” racing car was a Porsche RS/R, which I bought in the mid-1980s.
Previously, I had done quite a lot of Hillclimbs in England with, first of all, a variety of Jaguar XK120s and then a 1974 Porsche RS 3.0, (911 460 9034), which was followed up by an Autofarm-built “clone” RS 3.0 (much faster than the original, with a twin-plug RSR engine). Those cars from Autofarm deserve articles on their own.