May 2015

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May:

2nd: Saturday No Fly Zone, and All German Affair at Minter Field, Shafter

2nd: Saturday Breakfast at Minter Field Air Museum, 8am –10am. Lunch at Noon. Both museum fund raisers.

3rd: Sunday, GEM/PCA Zone 8 Spring Autocross at the Minter Field Airport

11th: Monday, Streets of Willow, Hosted by the Orange County Region of the PCA

16-17th, Sat-Sun Lilac Festival at The Pine Mountain Club

19th, Tuesday, Social Dinner at Bill Lee’s Chinese Restaurant. 1203 18th Street, 6:30pm

31st, Sunday, San Luis Obispo Concours d’ Elegance, Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo

June:

16th, Tuesday, Social Meeting at Goose Loonies Tavern and Grill

19–21st, Fri-Sun, Mammoth Lakes Driving Tour

Our Next Social Dinner Meeting will be held at Bill Lee’s Chinese Restaurant.

1203 18th Street, Bakersfield, Tuesday evening, May, 19th at 6:30

Business Meeting at 5:30p with Dinner to follow at 6:30p

Crest RV Park, Every Saturday Morning at 8:am for Breakfast and Chit Chat , 5025 Wible Road

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Porsche Club of America

Golden Empire Region

Board Members and Chair Persons

Webmaster

Anton Khatsanovich

Newsletter Editor

Michael Thomas

gemgrapevine@gmail.com

Safety Chair &

Insurance Coordinator

Mike McGregor

Membership Chair &

Communication Chair

Loren Stumbaugh

PCA Membership While our cars are very exclusive, our club is not.

Did you know that you can add a family member

or other interested person as an affiliate member,

at no additional cost? The family or affiliate mem-

ber must also be 18 years of age or older.

For all of the details contact our Membership

Chair:

Loren Stumbaugh

Porsche Club of America

Golden Empire Region

Membership Chairman

Loren7025@gmail.com

(661) 747-4416

Please join us online at our newly remodeled

Website and on our Facebook Group page:

http://gem.pca.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/

PCA.GoldenEmpireRegion/

And please send any Newsletter comments

or content contributions to :

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Treasurer

Betsy Wadman

Vice President

Pat Wadman

Secretary

Chuck Anderson

President

Linn Christopher

Autocross Co-Chairs

Greg Fullmer

Charles Rook

Omar Olivas

Social Coordinators

Sandy Anderson

Maggie Chow

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Our Donation presentations to M.A.R.E.

The Golden Empire Region of the Porsche Club of America

Is honored to present the M.A.R.E. therapy riding center a $5000 gift

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Our Donation presentations to Minter Field Air Museum

The Golden Empire Region of the Porsche Club of America

Later that day we were pleased to present the Minter Air Museum with $1000

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Way to Go, Tammy Jo !

First Place Win in her division with her new Boxster !!

It’s not just an AX car, It’s a show car too !!

Way to Go, Tammy Jo !

Looks like Girls get flowers when they win !

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Festival of Speed, The Biggest Porsche Event in So-Cal . Thanks goes out to all the GEM membership who volunteered their assistance !!

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June 2015

May 2015

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 An All German

Affair, Charles’

hanger Party

3 GEM AutoCross

MinterFieldAirport

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10 Mother’s Day 11 Streets of

Willow hosted by

OCR/PCA

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Pine Mountain

Club

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Pine Mountain

Club

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Concours d’

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Porsche Tour

20 Mammoth

Porsche Tour

21 Father’s Day

Mammoth

Porsche Tour

22 Porsche Parade

French Lick

23 Porsche Parade

French Lick

24 Porsche Parade

French Lick

25 Porsche Parade

French Lick

26 Porsche Parade

French Lick

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French Lick

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August 2015

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Friends in San Luis

All European Car

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Five PORSCHE “SUPERCARS” from 5 Different Decades

No matter how you define “SUPERCARS”, Porsche has made a number of them with at least one getting developed each decade.

Each and every Porsche on the list below was ahead of its time, performed better than all or most of its peers and are still highly

prized to this day. Sure, you could argue that other models should be on the list, but each of these Porsches below have the

following in common:

The brought/bring racing technology to road users

Successful for achieving the best times in their respective categories and eras

Featured trendsetting designs and technologies that were ahead of their time

Used ideas and concepts that drove key innovations in other Porsche models (and even for the automotive industry as a

whole)

THE 1950'S: PORSCHE 550 SPYDER

Designed by Ferdinand Alexander

"Butzi" Porsche, the 904 marked 2

"firsts" for Porsche. It was the first

time in Porsche's history that a

closed-top, mid-engined model

would be sold to the public as well

as the first Porsche model to have

a plastic body. Available with ei-

ther a four, six or eight cylinder

engine, the 904 could produce as

much as 240 hp. Five months after

it was released it went on to win

the Targo Floria and performed

well at both the Monte Carlo Rally

and Le Mans.

THE 1960'S: PORSCHE 904 CARRERA GTS

The 550 Spyder holds the distinc-

tion of being the first Porsche built

specifically for racing. Sure, you

could drive it to the track on the

streets it was street legal after all),

but it's 110 hp four-cylinder, four-

cam engine was more at home on

the track. Weighing in at only

550kg the 550 Spyder managed to

take a class win, and an overall

ranking of third, in the 1954 Carre-

ra Panamericana, despite the com-

petition being equipped with much

larger engines.

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THE 1970'S: PORSCHE 911 TURBO

Sales of production 911 Turbos

didn't start until the 1975

model year. However, prior to

this, Ernst Fuhrman -using the

knowledge gained with turbo

chargers on Porsche's race cars

- thought it would be possible

to transfer that technology to a

911. His early experiment with

a turbo charged 911 was first

displayed in Europe at a num-

ber of automotive shows. The

first production turbo to go on

sale in 1975 was powered with

a 3.0 liter flat-six that made 260

hp and had a top speed of 250

km/h.

THE 1980'S PORSCHE 959

The Porsche 959 was so far ahead of its

time that's it's only within the last five to

ten years that we've seen some of its

technological features (kevlar and fiber-

glass-reinforced plastic body panels,

aluminum doors, zero-lift aerodynamic

package, all-wheel-drive with adjustable

torque split, 6-speed manual transmis-

sion, variable shock damping and ride

height, etc.) make their way down into

the rest of the luxury and sports car

market. It's sub 4-second zero to 60

times would make a number of new

sports cars blush and its limited build

numbers (292 production units) have

driven prices so high that most of us will

be lucky to ever see one let along drive

or own one. This technological bench-

Designed as a purpose built race-car,

rules required a street legal version be

built for homologation purposes.

Porsche obliged with the creation of 20

units, each hand built by the racing

department in Weissach. Like the 959

before it, the 911 GT1 Straßenversion

hit 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds on its

way to a top speed of 191 mph. As the

engine on the GT1 was "mid-mounted"

this makes them the only non rear-

engined 911s to be produced.

THE 1990'S: PORSCHE 911 GT1

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As near as we can tell, the first Porsche Hot Wheels car was produced in 1975. Known as the P-911, this miniature

Porsche was part of the Flying Colors lineup from Hot Wheels and stuck around in one way, shape or form until

2001. Since then, and in the years between 1975 and 2011, Hot Wheels parent company, Mattel, produced a

number of Porsche die-casts ranging from the "Upfront 924" to the 911 GT3 RS as well as everything in between.

Last week we got word of a new collection that will be available this June at Walmart. Titled the "Porsche Series"

there are a total of eight cars to choose from:

Porsche 914-6

Porsche 917K

Porsche 918 Spyder

Porsche 935-78

Porsche 959

Porsche 993 GT2

Porsche Boxster Spyder

Porsche Carrera GT

NOW YOU CAN BUY YOUR NEXT PORSCHE AT WALMART!

Tammy and I are probably the only ones excited about this story !

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PORSCHE HOT WHEELS COLLECTING IS BIG BUSINESS

Surprisingly, a number of these Porsche Hot Wheels have all been produced before, just with different colors and

under a different series. While all the Porsches in this series get a fresh look (and some of the color choices leave

a little to be desired in my opinion) the only really "new" style will be the Porsche 918 as this is the first time it

will be offered.

Just check out the listings on Ebay if you want to see for yourself. The new Porsche Series becomes available at

Walmart this June. While we don't necessarily love all the colors/liveries, I'm sure we'll still grab a set to add to

our growing collection. It really is the least expensive and most accessible way to get into die-cast collecting.

Great Porsche Driving Tour that is held in a gorgeous mountain area of California.

Several GEM members attended this event last year. But when they driving group

leaders ask which driving group you want to drive with, tell them the slower group !!

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