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CoastalaireOctober 2014

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Porsche Club of America - California Central Coast Region

A Drive to Ragged Point Inn Octoberfest - New Member Event

2014 Holiday Party

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Departments4.... .Club and Coastalaire Information4......CCCR Board Meetings5......Board of Directors5......Prez’s Corner6......Calendar of Events7......Editor’s Exhaust18....Porsche Tech11....Board Meeting Minutes22....Anniversaries ~ New Members 23....Advertiser Index-Rates 24....Breakfast ClubClub Events9......Oktoberfest / New Members9......Ragged Point Lunch10....2014 Holiday PartyPast Club Event12.....Pomar Junction PCA Events11.....Escape 201411.....Club Racing16.....Santa Barbara Regional Concours17.....Cayenne / Macan Adventure Tour

Feature Story14.....My 356 Restoration

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COVER PHOTOby Craig R. Smith

This Porsche 919 Hybrid was on display at the 25th annual Monterey Historics Races at Laguna Seca

October 2014

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CoastalaireOctober 2014

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Porsche Club of America - California Central Coast Region

A Drive to Ragged Point Inn Octoberfest - New Member Event


Chuck Jennings - [email protected]

Andy Winterbottom - Vice-President

[email protected]

Ken Finney - [email protected]

Sanja Brewer - [email protected]

Jim Collins - Activity [email protected]

Chuck Stevenson - Activity [email protected]

Eric Ruzius - Driving [email protected]

Joe Korpiel - [email protected]

Gary Thies - [email protected]

Board MeetingsAll members are welcome to attend the CCCR Board Meetings. Time is available for non-board members to have input during these meetings.

Location DateandTimeSan Luis Obispo First Wednesday of the monthCountry Club at 6:30 PM255 Country Club Dr. San Luis Obispo

Board of Directors Prez’s CornerChuck Jennings, President

Rich Halvorson - [email protected]

By the time you read this, our elections of the members of the 2015 Board of Directors will be essentially completed. Most of the 2014 Board members agreed to stay on for 2015. And the new candidates bring a lot of positive energy and promising potential to the Board. Regardless of the outcome, I consider the slate of candidates as a very good sign for 2015.

For the past 20 months, the CCCR Board of Directors has increasingly operated as a selfless team, each Director enthusiastically sharing responsibility for the functions of the club. That spirit of cooperation and mutual support is the most important reason I continued for a second term as President in 2014, and the reason I chose once again to candidate for the 2015 Board.

Recently, one of our Board members told me that Larry Lloyd volunteered to help organize one of our social events. Larry is a relatively new Porsche owner and a member of CCCR for the last two years. He is not a member of the Board, and yet, he’s a good example of the initiative I’d like to see from our general membership. Anyone of our members is more than welcome to propose an activity, take the lead to plan and organize it, with the support and assistance from the members of the Board. There is no reason that our team cannot be expanded to include the general membership. Several of our members, such as Bob Bruington, Tom Dobyns, Garry Enoch, Dave Mills, Jon Milledge, Paul Provence, and Warren White, have contributed significant support and effort to assist with autocross and DE events.

If you have an idea for a fun, celebratory, and/or educational event, your Board of Directors would be very pleased to hear from you. Or if you would like to take the initiative to help organize an already planned event, we would love to hear from you. Or if you would simply like to help with any of our activities, please contact me or Jim Collins or next year’s Director of Activities. We welcome your involvement, your gusto, and your honorable support to the success of CCCR.

Thanks, Chuck


2014 Calendar of Events

2014 Activity Directors Jim Collins 805-602-2056 [email protected]

Chuck Stevenson 805-459-9493 [email protected]

DATE TIME ACTIVITY LOCATION INFO / CONTACT

10/1 6:30 PM Board Meeting SLO Country Club

10/4 4-8:30 PMOctoberfest / New

MemberShell Café

10/12Santa Barbara Region

ConcoursWestlake Village

10/25 9:30 AM A Drive Up the Coast Ragged Point Lunch

11/5 6:30 PM Board Meeting SLO Country Club11/6-11/9 Varies PCA Escape 2014 Orlando, Florida

11/8 11:00 AM Brunch Club Loading Chute

12/3 6:30 PM Board Meeting SLO Country Club12/7 6:00 PM Holiday Party SLO Country Club

12/13 9:00 AM Breakfast Club The Shell Café

1/7 6:30 PM Board Meeting TBD1/10 9:00 AM Breakfast Club Scotty's

2/4 6:30 PM Board Meeting TBD2/7 TBD Pozo Run and Grub Pozo Saloon Brunch

TBD TBD Porsche Santa Barbara Santa Barbara

3/4 6:30 PM Board Meeting TBD3/7 9:00 AM Breakfast Club Carla's Country Kitchen Morro Bay3/21 TBD The Parkfield Rumble Parkfield CaféTBD TBD Gimmick Rallye

4/1 6:30 PM Board Meeting TBD4/4 9:00 AM Breakfast Club Loading Chute

TBD TBDCalifornia Festival of

SpeedFontana

TBD TBDTeststrecke Porsche

AutocrossSanta Maria Airport

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Editor’s Exhaust Bob “Kit” Kitamura, Editor

The election for the 2015 CCCR-PCA Board of Directors will probably be complete by the time you receive this issue of the Coastalaire. A group of members were running for election again. In the future if any of you are interested in running it is a great opportunity to serve our great club.

The Pomar Junction trip was a great success, hopefully it will be on the event list for next year. For those of you that did not get to go can read about it in this issue. This year our Octoberfest / New Member BBQ will be at Shell Café, it will be great time where you can meet a a lot of club members. A drive and lunch at Ragged Point Restaurant is another great event happening this month that you don’t want to miss. Make sure that you RSVP for our annual Holiday Feast coming up in December. It is one of our popular yearly events that always fills up quickly.

In this issue, I finally had a chance to tell my story about restoring my ’63 356B early in my ownership of Porsches. It’s not a tech story but more about the experience you deal with as an inexperienced owner doing something for the first time.

The motor is finally in Jason’s Gruppe R 911 Porsche. Hopefully by December the car will be ready to put through its paces. It has been fun to follow this car as he built it piece by piece.


Club Event

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Everytime you enter a 2014 CCCR autocross event or our DE via motorsportsreg.com, you get more chances to win. You will receive two chances to win for enter-ing the Autocross Academy on April 26, three chances to win if you enter our DE event at Buttonwillow on May 9, and one chance to win for each of our three autocrosse events: April 27, July 26, and September 20. That’s eight chances to win. Drawing will be held at the final autocross on September 20.

But wait! There’s more! 20% off of helmets over $300.00 and $20.00 off helmets under $300.00 as an ongoing 2014 promotion. Go to thehelmetman.com to review their selection and decide on what helmet you may want for the upcoming season, color size , brand etc. When you decide, call 800 341-5834 with your order, tell them your name and that you are a member of the CCCR and simply sign up for thehelmetman.com monthly news-letter. Jeff or Mike will hand process your discount on the order.

Here is a great opportunity for CCCR-PCA members participating

in our track driving events in 2014!!!!


Club Event

and New Member BBQ

Saturday, October 4that Shell Cafe in Pismo

Beach

drive & lunch to

Ragged Point InnRestaurantat Big Sur

October 25

Meet at Taco Temple in Morro Bay at 9:30 AM, we will depart at 10 AM. On our way up we will have a half hour stop to see the elephant seals near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse. Arrive at Ragged Point at 11:30 AM with lunch at 12 Noon. The restaurant will reserve a block of parking spaces for Porsches Only. We will order off of the menu.

RSVP to Chuck Jennings at [email protected] by October 20.


Club Event

Holiday Party 2014Sunday, December 7th, 6pm

San Luis Obispo Country Club255 Country Club Drive, SLO

Please join us for an evening of Holiday Music,

Food and Cheer!

MENU

Butterleaf Salad - toasted almonds, cucumber, pea sprouts, tomatoes & brie crostini with lemon vinaigrette AND

Center Cut Top Sirloin - 8 oz. oven broiled, served with creamy Yukon Gold whipped potatoes and market vegetables

ORGrilled Salmon - Served with rice pilaf and market vegetables

ORVegetarian Polenta Stack - with fresh roasted farmer’s market vegetables and balsamic reduction ANDCarrot Cake

All Entrees $65.00

No Host Bar

You may bring your own bottle of wine for a corkage fee of $10 (you will be billed directly by the Country Club that evening)

Please make your check payable to CCCR/PCA. Send your check and entree selection to:

Sanja Brewer1270 Peach Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Email: [email protected] or call: 805-541-9245 for additional information

Here’s to a Great Time!


The Countdown has BEGUN Escape 2014 is now just weeks away Have lunch with an astronaut at Kennedy Space Center, tour the Dali Museum, prep for the people’s choice concour, visit Daytona Int’l Speedway and see for yourself what a $400 Mil-lion facelift looks like, get in a few HOT LAPS at Sebring, or just hang out at the resort pool. There are activities for the whole family, so bring them along.

You’ll get discounted rates at Disney’s luxurious Coronado Springs Resort, so plan to stay a few extra days and enjoy Florida in winter—that’s why they call it ESCAPE! For more information, got to www.escape2014.pca.org Register for Escape at: www.clubregistration.net Book your hotel stay at www.disneyurl.com/PorscheClubofAmericaEscape2014

So...what are you waiting for?

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Past Club EventFive miles East of Templeton in the rolling hills of our North county wine country you’ll find a little jewel called Pomar Junc-tion Vineyard and Winery. At the junction of El Pomar Drive and South El Pomar Road, its thematic identity is part real and part fantasy, a synthesis of the Merrill family’s fascination with wine and trains. It’s not an actual railroad junction, but at the entrance and as you drive up the tree-lined road to the winery, you notice old rail cars and vintage railroad signals as part of the architectural genre. And you feel transported to another place, another time.

On the late afternoon of Saturday, September 6, you would have also noticed 25 of your fellow CCCR members happily enjoying the taste of several of the winery’s prize-winning vino.

But let’s back up to where all this fun started.

At 2:00 P.M. the Porsche troupe gathered at the recently opened San Luis Obispo Train Museum, just a short walk South of the Amtrak Depot. Two enthusiastic and eloquent docents conduct-ed us on parallel tours that detailed the history of the narrow-gauge and standard-gauge railroads that were significant in the growth and development of San Luis Obispo. If you are inter-ested in our local history, this museum is a must-see.

by Chuck Jennings

Before we entered a partially restored private rail car, Anita and Terry Hunt and other CCCR members listened as our docent, Tom, talked about San Luis Obispo’s railroad history. >

Prior the modern airplane, private rail cars were the private jets of the rich. Each private car was designed and decorated to the specific desires of the owners. Most were lavish and the ultimately comfortable way to travel. Today, private rail cars are a novelty, but some have been collected and restored by folks who want to return to the days of leisurely and exquisite rail travel. This car, part of the SLO Railroad Museum’s collection, has the extravagant feel of the Madonna Inn.


Past Club EventAt 3:30 we made the short walk to the depot where we boarded one of Amtrak’s impressive observation cars for the ride up “the grade” through the tunnels to Santa Margarita. It was a perfect day for vistas to be experienced only from the train. Laughter and great conversation filled the observation car as a few of us got a head start on the wine tasting, and chat-ted with friendly folks on their way to Oregon. It was a smooth and pleasant ride. John and Jan Kepler lead the cheer from the observation car. >

A twenty-five-passenger van met us at our stop in Paso Robles. From there we were treated to a comfortable twenty-minute ride through the golden hills and rolling green vineyards to Pomar Junction.

Sitting outside under the welcomed shade trees, it didn’t take long for us to settle into that California ritual. We were certainly well treated, sampling three whites and three reds before many of us “retired” to the tasting room to add a few more experiences to our taste buds.

Several unopened bottles of Pomar Junction’s finest made it onto the van for the happy ride back to our cars parked at the museum.

Rene Dobyns > and all of us thank you, Andy Winter-bottom, for arranging this wonderful day of railroad-ing and wine tasting. Let’s do it again next year!


Feature Story

My 356 Restoration Story

story & photos by Bob Kitamura

I believe that every serious (or slightly mad) Porsche owner needs to go through at least one Porsche restoration in their lifetime. If you have the where-with-all and the patience, a 356 restoration project will become a life-changing experience and a lesson in economics. This is the story of my quest for the holy grail of Porsches—a beautiful shining restored 356. Although it was fun doing it once, the process turned out to be enough “fun” to last a lifetime. My first Porsche was a 1972 914/4 I bought right after I graduated from CalPoly. After driving the 914 for a couple of years, I wanted to move up to a more advanced Porsche and the 911 seemed to the right choice. I started looking for an early 911S to restore, thinking that it would save money and be a fun project. How naïve! After a few months of looking through all the media, my wife found a Ruby Red ’63 356B for sale in Atascadero in Photo Ad. Now just so you understand, at the time, my wife did not know the difference between a 911 and a 356, but the ad said Porsche and it was less than half the price of what I was expecting to spend. So I changed my idea of a dream Porsche from 911 to 356 and bought the car. It was inexpensive because it was in poor shape and I barely made it down Cuesta Grade because the brakes needed more than restoration; they needed replacing---my first practical lesson in turning a junker into a safe, drivable jewel. After bringing my 356 up to a safe driving condition, I used it as a daily driver—meantime I began planning

my restoration strategy and more importantly, putting aside money.

After driving my 356 around for a couple of years, I finally bit on the bullet and went full bore into the restoration project . My 356 was not a numbers matching car so I did not have to worry about keeping everything original. Even back in the late 80’s the price of parts for a 356 were starting to climb especially for OEM parts. For those of you that know my car design tastes, I focus a lot on the color, stance, suspension and street-look. So after a couple of years of thinking about it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

It was not my first car rebuild but I as I said I was very naïve at what it takes to do a Porsche, especially a 356. If I had I known Craig S. Smith at the time, I might have taken a different tack. There are many times I wanted to just hand it over to someone and pick it up when it was done. I was lucky that some friends of mine who owned Ken’s Body Shop and who did most of the final bodywork and interior painting. I had the engine worked on by Richard Fanning. The interior lining, seat and door upholstery were done by a local upholsterer.

Once we had stripped off all of the paint down to bare metal, we found where all of the real damage and bondo were. But the body structure was actually in better shape than I thought it would be, and although there were still many places where


Feature Storymetal had rusted away, they had to be re-built. Since I had planned on taking the body to bare metal, I could choose a color that I liked for the exterior and interior. A friend of mine had a beautiful white 1965 Porsche 911 that I had always admired so I went that direction.

While we were working on the body, which took about 9 months, Richard Fanning rebuilt the upper half of the 1600 cc engine. Because it was going to be a daily driver, I opted for a more comfortable seat upholstery style and fabric. I also decided on keeping the 6-volt system and no radio. But later 20/20 hind-sight told me that I should have converted it to the 12-volt system. This upgrade was especially important for the headlights, 12 volts makes a huge difference when you want to see the road at night.

Even after replacing all of the trim and rubber, I still found it to

leak here and there. All I would hear from fellow owners was: “welcome to the club or why are you driving it in the rain?” After the restoration was about 95% complete, I decided to start using it as a daily driver. After a few years, I had an offer for the car I couldn’t pass up and so off it went to England. Right before I had the car shipped, I decided to take it for one final drive with my oldest son, who was 10 at the time. I did not know how much it meant to him until I told him this was going to be the last time to ride in the car because I sold it. He had tears in his eyes and he told me that he loved the car and was hoping to get the car when I was done with it. I bought a 944 soon after that but it just wasn’t the same to him. You know, I think he was right.

Its been 20 plus years since I sold it and the ‘63 356B is still the car that I miss the most!

~ Bob


Concours Questions? - Kenny & Tara Brundrett at [email protected] or (805) 405-5733To register: Fill out the registration form (also available at pcasb.org), make check payable to PCA/SBR and mail to: Tara Brundrett, 1064 Burtonwood Ave., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

Concours Pre-registration $80 - includes one buffet lunchDisplay Only Pre-registration $55 - includes one buffet lunchExtra Lunches $45 each ($50 day of event)Schedule Car placement 7:00 a.m. Judging begins 10:00 a.m. Awards presentation 2:15 p.m.

Cancellations within 48 hours of this event will not receive a refund.

Porsche Club of America – Santa Barbara RegionAnd Rusnak Westlake Porsche Proudly Present

At the beautiful Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362

Our 38th Annual Concours d’EleganceSunday, October 12, 2014

PCA/SBR 38th Annual Concours d’Elegance Registration Form

Name: ____________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________ City/ST/Zip: _____________________

Phone: _______________________ Email: _______________________________

Concours Class Entered: ________ Porsche Model: __________________________

Model Year: __________ Body Type: _______________ Color: _______________

PCA Member? Yes:______ No: _______ Region: __________________________

Additional Lunches: __________ TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: _____________

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FULL CONCOURS DIVISION C-1 All Closed 356 C-2 All Open 356 C-3 911, 912 (1965-1973) C-4 911, 911 Turbo, 930, 912E (1974-1983) C-5 911 Carrera & Turbo (1984-1989) C-6 911 Carrera & Turbo (964, 993, 1989-1998) C-7 911 Carrera & Turbo, GT2, GT3 (996, 997, 1999-2011) C-8 914-4, 914-6 C-9 All 924, 928, 944, 968 STREET DIVISION S-1 All Closed 356 S-2 All Open 356 S-3 911, 912 (1965-1973) S-4 911, 911 Turbo, 930, 912E (1974-1983) S-5 911 Carrera & Turbo (1984-1989) S-6 911 Carrera & Turbo (964, 993, 1989-1998) S-7 911 Carrera & Turbo, GT2, GT3 (996, 997, 1999-2011) S-8 914-4, 914-6 S-9 All 924, 928, 944, 968 UNRESTORED STOCK DIVISION UR-1 All Closed 356 UR-2 All Open 356 UR-3 911, 912 (1965-1973) UR-4 911, 911 Turbo, 930, 912E (1974-1983) UR-5 911 Carrera & Turbo (1984 -1989) UR-6 911 Carrera & Turbo (964, 993, 1989-1998) UR-7 911 Carrera & Turbo, GT2, GT3 (996,1999 -Y-10) UR-8 914-4, 914-6 UR-9 All 924, 928, 944, 968UBERGANG DIVISIONUG-1 BoxsterUG-2 CaymanUG-3 911 Carrera (991, 2012-On)UG-4 CayenneUG-5 PanameraWASH & SHINE DIVISION W&S-1 All 356 W&S-2 911, 912 (1965-1973) 911, 911Turbo, 930, 912E (1974-1983), 914-4, 914-6 W&S-3 911 Carrera & Turbo (1984-1989) 911 Carrera & Turbo, (964, 993, 1989-1998) W&S-4 911 Carrera & Turbo, GT2, GT3 (996, 997, 991 1999-On)W&S-5 All Boxster, Cayman W&S-6 All 924, 928, 944, 968W&S-7 Cayenne, PanameraSPECIAL CATEGORIES DIVISION SC-1 Special Interest SC-2 Current Competition SC-3 Limited ProductionComplete rules at Zone 8 website: http://zone8.pca.org/rules/2012/2012Z8Rules.pdf

SPACE LIMITED TO 40 CONCOURS AND 25 DISPLAY ONLY CARS.NO “DAY OF EVENT” REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Zone 8 Event


Cayenne / Macan Adventure TourSunday — October 19, 2014

Hosted by the Porsche Club of America — Zone 8

Registration: http://msreg.com/CAYMACTOUR $25.00 per person (includes a wonderful sitdown lunch)

Information: Vince Knauf [email protected] (619) 944-4334

Lake Silverwood (other non-Porsche 4-wheel drive vehicles are welcome)

PCA Event


PORSCHE TECHTrivia 64

by Pedro P. Bonilla (GCR PCA)

In the fall of 1950 the Austrian ex-pat and adoptive New Yorker Maximillian “Max” Hoffman became the first Porsche dealer in the US when he took delivery of two 1.1 liter 356 coupes and put them on display at his showroom on 430 Park Avenue. This fall marks 64 years of Porsche in America.\

To celebrate, here are XX Porsche fun-facts that you can use to impress friends on trivia night.

1.- The 1898 Lohner-Porsche Elektromobil was the first car in the world with brakes on all four wheels.

2.- Prof. Ferdinand Porsche chauffeured Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a Lohner-Porsche in 1902.

3.- During WWI, Prof. Ferdinand Porsche designed heavy transport vehicles: flatbed trailers with the wheels powered by individual hub-motors.

4.- The very first 356 (356 #1 - prototype) was a mid-engined car. The rest of the production had a rear-engine layout.

5.- Beutler Carrosserie turned closed 356s into open ones – completing its first

custom cabriolet in 1947, three years before Porsche came to America and a full seven years before the 356 Speedster was introduced.

6.- U.S. importer Max Hoffman displayed the first U.S. Porsches in his New York City showroom by late 1950.

7.- In 1952, US auto maker Studebaker contracted Porsche to develop a new car and engine.

8.- Hoffman conducted Porsche 356 test drives on Park Avenue, an accomplishment that could not be proficiently duplicated today.

9.- Hoffman’s Porsche dealer showroom was designed by famous Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It is now a modern office building with a Mercedes-Benz dealer on the street level. Hoffman also contracted Wright to build his home in Rye, NY.

10.- In addition to importing the first Porsche models to the United States, Max Hoffman also raced Porsches. Several of Porsche’s initial U.S. racing victories can be

attributed to him.

11.- Hoffman is also credited for the birth of the Porsche Speedster, with the intention of producing a lower-cost Porsche to compete with the Austin Healey 100, Triumph TR-2 and MG models in the United States.

12.- In 1952, Hollywood dealer John von Neumann wanted to race a Porsche, so he ordered a 356 without paint or upholstery to modify it himself.

13.- The Porsche logo/crest was designed in the USA in 1952 by Dr. Ferry Porsche on his napkin as he sat opposite U.S. importer Max Hoffman in a New York restaurant.

14.- In the original 356 Speedster, a tachometer was not standard, nor were padded seats, sun visors or heaters.

15.- An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 featured 10 automobiles, including a

1952 Porsche 1500 Super.

16.- The first Porsche to appear at the New York Auto Show was in 1954 and was called “a snappy Porsche roadster.”

17.- The Porsche Club of America was founded in 1955, only five years after Porsche was introduced to the United States.

18.- The word “Continental” appeared on the side of the 1955 Porsche Coupe and Cabriolet, but only in North America.

19.- The Porsche of America Corporation was founded in 1956, taking over national representation of the brand from Max Hoffman.

20.- The inaugural Porsche Parade took place in greater Washington D.C. on August 29, 1956.

21.- The first appearance of a Porsche at the historic 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race was in 1956, piloted by Hans Herrmann.

22.- One of the first U.S. Porsche brochures in the 1950s featured a pair of woman’s gloves on the cover with a set of Porsche

keys. The tagline read: “The keys to miles of pleasure . . . “


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23.- British automotive weekly publication Autocar became the first outlet to test a Porsche in April 1956, a Porsche 356.

24.- The first Porsche series-produced roadster was aptly named the America Roadster for its intentional distribution entirely within the United States. It was completely unpublicized in Europe and only 16 models were ever built.

25.- The first vertical-drive German inline engine was displayed at the 1958 New York Auto Show along with several other “firsts”, including the first diesel outboard motor.

26.- Jean Behra drove the first single-seat Porsche race car in the 1958 Formula 2 race at Rheims, France.

27.- The “D” in the 1959 “Speedster D” takes its name from the Drauz Factory of Heibronn.

28.- The 1950s Porsche airplane engine (based on the 356 1.6 L) could power a helicopter when mounted vertically.

29.- Rear seats, headlights, and higher bumpers were the prime accessories fitting a new Porsche in 1960. The starting price for one of these new models was a whopping $3,400.

30.- Porsche withdrew from the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race in 1960 in protest over organizers requesting that the manufacturer use a particular brand of gasoline.

31.- Porsche’s production of diesel tractors peaked in 1960/61 with 150,000.

32.- The first American citizen to win a Formula One Championship victory at a U.S. track while driving a Porsche was Dan Gurney in 1961.

33.- Dan Gurney also won Porsche’s first World Championship Grand Prix

with a victory at Rouen, France in 1962.

34.- The 911 was originally the 901, until Peugeot informed Porsche of its trademark rights on cars named with a “0” between two numbers.

35.- At the end of its production in 1965, Porsche 356 models were being produced exclusively for the American market.

36.- 1966 was the first full production years for the 900 series Porsches and one-half was shipped to the United States, while one-quarter stayed in West Germany.

37.- The 907 prototype, developed in winter 1966/67, was the first Porsche to go faster than 300 km/hr (186 mph).

38.- In 1967, a Targa version of the popular-selling 911 model was introduced. It included a stainless-steel rollbar to provide a solution to suspicions that the United States would outlaw open-top convertibles.

39.- Porsche’s 914/4 model was sold as the “VW-Porsche” in Europe but only had the Porsche crest in the United States.

40.- More than 100 dealerships marked the increasing popularity of Porsche models in the United States by opening simultaneously on November 1, 1969.

41.- The 1970 Porsche 914 was initially ruled as unsafe for driving in the United States because it lacked proper side marker lights on its front end.

42.- The first ever Porsche “drivers’ school”, a precursor to the current Porsche Sport Driving School, was conducted on May 29, 1971 at Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY.

(The other 22 trivia items can be found on Pedro’s website)

For more information on Porsche trivia, facts and more, visit my website: www PedrosGarage.com.

Happy Porsche’ing,

Pedro

Most of the trivia facts courtesy of Porsche.Ⓒ2014 Technolab / PedrosGarage.com


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CCCR-PCA Board Meeting MinutesSeptember 3, 2014

Meeting was called to order 6:30 pm

In Attendance:

Sanja Brewer, Jim Collins, Ken Finney, Chuck Jennings, Joe Korpiel, Eric Ruzius, Chuck Stevenson, Andy Winterbottom and Guest Members; Jon Milledge and Susan Foreman-Lewis

Absent:

Bruce Bero, Rich Halvorson, Gary Thies

August minutes were approved by Joe Korpiel and seconded by Ken Finney.

Historian :

No report

Treasurer:

We ended the month with $16,902.57. Treasurers’ report was approved by Sanja Brewer and seconded by Jim Collins.

Membership:

This month we have 316 Primary Members, 223 Affiliate Members and 529 Total Members. Joe sent welcome letters to 6 New Members.

Safety:

No report

Driving:

Teststrecke VIII will be held on September 20, at the Santa Maria airport. We will have a meeting on September 5 to plan the event.

Activities:

Jim Collins discussed the calendar of events for the remainder of 2014 and a draft schedule for 2015.

Vice President:

Andy reported that we are ready for the Pomar Junction train ride and wine tasting this Saturday, September 6.

Nominees for the 2015 Board are;

Chuck JenningsAndy WinterbottomSanja BrewerKen FinneyEric RuziusJon MIlledgeJoe KorpielGary ThiesTom DobynsChuck StevensonBob DeVries

President:

Chuck discussed that we are still looking for a Coastalaire editor and we are reaching out to our membership for a potential candidate.

Meeting adjourned at 8:05 pm

Respectfully submitted by: Sanja Brewer


NEW MEMBERSANNIVERSARIES

New Members for JulyOCTOBER

SHEP ADKINS 58

Lynn Watkins 26

Janice Kitamura 24

Greg La Cava 23

Virginia Umphrey 22

Frank Pekar 17

Dorothy De Vries 16Jennifer Knecht 16

Bruce Crawford 15

Susan Lewis-Foreman 14

Pam Woodworth 13

Kelvin & Erin Malin 10

David Tibbitts 9

Kevin & Hope Nichols 7/4

Joseph Kuntze 6Ward Reed 6Deborah Smith 6

Jeff & Adrienne Melton 5Mike Taylor 5

Rebecca Pratt 4

Randy & Lori Betts 3/2Renie Elliott 3Peggy Tiernan 3

Chuck Pratt 2John & Beth Schroeder 2

Arthur Foley 1Mike Frost 1Joe Geiger 1Jennifer Karanian 1Jeremy Lansford 1

Darly CruserPalmdale, California1977 Green 911

Michael MoenstermannOsnabrueck, Germany1967 White 911

Carl MosleySan Francisco, California2004 911 Turbo Cabriolet


ADVERTISER DIRECTORY

COASTALAIRE 2014 Yearly Advertising RatesAll rates are for 12 monthly issues from the date started.Full Page.....$ 950 / year Half page..............................$ 600 / year 1/4 page.....$ 400 / year 1/8 page or Business Card $ 300 / year

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS. Their support of our club is greatly appreciated so you are encouraged to to make your first call to those advertising in the Coastalaire. Let them know that you saw their ad in the Coastalaire. We also encourage you to advertise your business in the Coastalaire.

If you are interested please contact Sanja Brewer at 805-541-9245 or [email protected].

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SecretarySkip [email protected]

ZONE 8 STAFF

Autocross ChairDavid [email protected]

Club Race CoordinatorVince [email protected]

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CCCR Breakfast Club

NO BREAKFAST CLUB FOR OCTOBERdue to the

Oktoberfest / New Member Event

See you in November at The Loading Chute in Creston

Documents

The Coastalaire - October Issue