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August 2009
theSacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America
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On the CoverThis photo was taken at Niello Porsche in Rocklin at the Zone 7 Concours #3 on June 14th, 2009.
Many thanks to everyone at Niello for their continued support of our organization!
Photo by: Doug KleinSVR Membership Director
New and improved SVR calendar
Go to the SVR home page atwww.derporsche.net and take a look at the new and more func-tional calendar, which includes listings of regional, Zone 7, and national PCA events.
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2009 Board of DirectorsPresidentCookie Anderson [email protected]
Vice PresidentBill Keegan [email protected]
Secretary &Niello Event CoordinatorKim Nelson [email protected]
TreasurerBetty Silva [email protected]
Social DirectorBabette Hatten [email protected]
Membership DirectorDoug Klein [email protected]
Competition & Safety DirectorFrederick D.Rauch [email protected]
WebmasterJohn Murphy [email protected]
Past PresidentMike Willis [email protected]
Drifter EditorJR Evinger [email protected]
Zone 7 RepresentativeGolden Gate Region Sharon Neidel [email protected]
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Sacramento Valley Region, Porsche Club of America (SVR), publishes the Drifter monthly for its members. Written contributions and photos are welcome and should be e-mailed to the editor. The deadline for material is one month prior to the month of publication. SVR members should notify the membership director promptly of an address change to insure uninterrupted delivery. All material in this newslet-ter is protected by copyright. However, newsletter editors of others regions chartered by the Porsche Club of America may reprint any article provided that credit is given to the author and Sacramento Valley Region and that The Drifter is cited as the source.
In This IssueUpcoming Events
03 - SVR August Breakfast
04 - GGR Thunderhill - DE and TT
05 - Anchor Steam Beer Tour
08 - SVR Calendar of Events
09 - SVR August Dinner
09 - GGR Zone 7 Concours
12 - SVR Autocross #4
12 - MBR Historic Auto Race Week
16 - SNR Silver State Concours
18 - 2009 Mendocino Tour
18 - Preston Castle Tour
Features and Reviews
06 - The Heat
11 - SVR/Zone 7 Niello Concours
13 - Water, Water - Everywhere!
Columns and Departments
02 - Cookie’s Crumbs
07 - Drifting Back
15 - SVR July Board Minutes
17 - SVR August Membership Rpt
19 - SVR Goodie Store
19 - The Last Word
20 - SVR Classified
Information and Committee DirectoryAutocross ChairBob Peake [email protected]
Drivers Education ChairFrederick D. Rauch [email protected]
Charity ChairTambra Kroetz [email protected]
Concours ChairKent Brandon [email protected]
Dummkopf ChairLarry Wilson [email protected]
Goodie StoreTom Sisson [email protected]
Rally ChairHelen Ashuckian [email protected]
Technical ChairRoger Walker [email protected]
G24 ChairLee Deter [email protected]
Advertising ManagerMike Willis [email protected]
Volume 47, No. 8 August 2009
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Cookie Crumb’sby Yvonne “Cookie” Anderson, 2009 SVR President
Since becoming a Porsche Club member in 2005, I’ve been impressed with the large number of volun-teers who step forward and make the Club a success. Whether it’s hosting a dinner, organizing a tour or serving on the Board of Directors, dedication and enthusiasm is the norm.
Even though were just half-way through the year, it’s time to begin planning for 2010. Four members of the ten-member Board of Directors will be “termed out” (i.e. served two years) later this year. The positions are Vice-President, Social Director, Treasurer and Secretary.
Perhaps you’ve considered getting involved by contrib-uting your time and talent to Club operations. This is your opportunity to help chart the course of our Club through 2010. You’ve no doubt enjoyed many club events. You’ll find that serving on the Board is even more rewarding.
In the next few months you will see articles written by the Treasurer, Vice President, Secretary and Social Director describing their duties.
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Golden Gate Region Presents
Driver Education and Time TrialSaturday and Sunday, August 1st and 2nd
Thunderhill Raceway ParkLots of Track Time - Saturday: four 30-minute run sessions planned; Sunday: three 30-minute run sessions planned plus time trial at end of day.
Pricing - Both days: $415; Saturday only: $315; Sunday only: $225; Saturday night dinner at the track: additional $20.
Student Pricing – Both days: $465; Saturday only: $365; Sunday only: $275; Saturday night dinner at the track: additional $20.
To register, contact the GGR DE/TT Registrar at [email protected]
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Anchor Steam Beer TourMonday, September 28, 2009
The brewers at the Anchor Steam Beer brewery in San Francisco have agreed to show us how they make their beer and why they believe it to be the best beer on the planet. Then, to prove their point, they will let us taste the result of their efforts in their beautiful tasting room. (Note: their samples are generous.)
The tour will start at the brewery at 11:00 A.M. on Monday, September 28th and, with the tasting, will last about two hours. Consequently, we will be leaving Sacramento at 8:30 A.M. for a leisurely drive to San Francisco. The meeting place is the Tower Theatre parking lot, Broadway and Land Park Drive (16th Street), behind the theatre, across the street from Starbucks.
At the conclusion of the tour/tasting we will have lunch in the area, or, for that matter, you are free to have lunch anywhere you wish. It is San Francisco, after all, and the sky’s the limit on good eating there.
Since these tours are very popular, and sell out early, the good folks at the brewery have requested that we notify them the number of our party by September 1st. We have only ten spots available, so get your requests in early.
Call Jan and Herb at 916.424.5163, or email them at [email protected]
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The HeatBy SVR Member Rob Sime, RN, Ph.D.
Summer is in full swing and we Porsche people are spending more time outside in the heat. While we normally take care of our basic needs almost reflexively we tend to neglect or delay taking care of these needs when we are absorbed in competition.
A true athlete seldom forgets hydration, and neither should you. An autocross or DE (Drivers Education) event that takes place in summer temperatures will quickly put the body into a fluid-volume-deficit. In fact, we can sweat liters of fluid during these events.
How do we lose heat? When the temperature is very high and we are very active, we produce heat much like our engines do when it is hot and we demand more of them. To cool ourselves, we do a couple of physiological things. First, we sweat – blood vessels near the skin surface dilate and pores bring the sweat to the skin surface. Some of us glisten while others drip.
The cooling takes place when the air evaporates the sweat. The second way we lose heat is to breathe just a little faster. Both of these methods of shedding the excess heat take place at the ex-pense of body fluid. We sweat we lose water. We breathe and lose water with each breath we take.
The signs and symptoms of a fluid volume deficit range from the annoying to the life threatening. The first sign is thirst which is our body’s way of telling us to drink. But what happens when thirst comes at turn 5 at Laguna Seca and your run group session is just starting?
If you ignore thirst, it eventually leads to a dry mouth. Ignore this, and body aches and headaches will come. Beyond this, diz-ziness, confusion and other more serious symptoms can occur. The literature states that we can lose up to a third of our blood volume before symptoms occur. In the case of heat and activity losses, we don’t lose actual blood but the volume contracts as fluid is lost to sweat and breathing.
What might be as much as 5 liters in some of us can contract to 3 or 4 liters. Besides making us feel bad and perhaps more impor-tantly to many of us, perform poorly, this can be life threatening as the incidence of heart attack and stroke goes up when blood is thicker.
So how much fluid do we need to drink? The average person who weighs 154 pounds or 70kg (lots of above average people around these days!) wakes up about 880ml short of a balanced fluid volume. They have a continuous need of about 110ml per hour throughout the day. You can easily see how the pressure to get ready and get going to an autocross or DE event can defer our fluid needs for later, sometimes much later.
The take home message is to drink before you’re thirsty and enough so you have to urinate at least once every couple hours.
We chose to drive Porsche because we expect the most from our cars. We carefully check everything before we enter an autocross or a DE event. Which of us would autocross without knowing precisely what our tire pressures are? Who would autocross low on brake fluid or oil? Why would we not keep the driver in tip-top condition? Top off your fluids and perform at your best and enjoy the events even more.
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Drifting Back – August 2009by Larry Wilson
30 Years Ago (August 1979)Over 100 SVR members and friends experienced the August 5 SVR Charity Picnic/Auction at Bess Feil’s home overlooking the American River in Fair Oaks. Betty Fielding did a terrific job coordinating the event and making sure that quality items were available for the club’s auction and its well-motivated bidders. Betty’s helpers included Ken Fielding, Marie Smith, Dolores Weddle, Sally (Weddle) Boeck, Rod Craig, Pat Wilson, Delores McKinnon, Liz Stafford, and the auctioneers Kirk Bradford and Larry Wilson with help on the junior items from Colin Rueb.
Over $2,500 was raised for SVR’s charity, partly because of the great turn-out for the event, and partly because of the spectacu-lar artwork donated for auction by SVR-member Dave Marek (later chief designer for Honda car company), and by Clayton Turner, internationally known quadriplegic artist whose work was made famous by Great Western Savings and Loan calendars and illustrations in “California Heartland,” published by Capra Press, Santa Barbara.
The event was featured by an article in the November 1979 issue of PANORAMA which was re-printed in the book, “Porsche PAN-ORAMA, The First 25 Years.” Betty wound up her DRIFTER article quoting from 1 Corinthians 13-13 (American King James version): “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: But the greatest of these is charity.”
The August 4 Practice Autocross and School at Cal Expo, chaired by Stan Breyfogle and Geary Lyons, gave seven students a terrific learning opportunity and plenty of laps for the 20 drivers who signed-up for the practice sessions. A week later, on August 11, a tech session at Wyn Robertson’s Continental Auto Service featured Wyn, Dwight Mitchell, and Ken Fielding in a comprehensive discussion about paint, waxes, cleaners, and methods of keeping a Porsche in presentable shape.
A few days later, on August 18, Linda Mitchell and Launa Craig presented the Wine & Culture Tour which offered a “gas-saver” opportunity to visit the Crocker Art Galley and the California Railroad Museum, and then a fine private wine tasting, all within walking distance. The $3.00 entry included the wine tasting.
20 Years Ago (August 1989)August 5 SVR’s Zone 7 Autcross, Dwight Mitchell chair, drew 79 competitors. SVR drivers were Ray Clements, Larry Wilson, Greg Peart, Ken Mitchell, Bruce Westrup, Dwight Mitchell, Rich McGlumphy, Bob Peake, Kern Breaux, Nikki Duncan, Pat Wilson, Marcella Mitchell, Sue McGlumphy, Kelly Miller, Cookie Pacelli, Cathy Wolfe, Linda Mitchell, Don Girard, Mike Browing, Kevin Alioto, Tom Kroetz, and Gary Stratton.
The fine administration of this event so moved SVR-member Phil Lawrence that he wrote that he wrote a letter to the DRIFTER editor: “Just a note to let the membership know what a profes-sional job Dwight Mitchell did with the Zone 7 Autocross, August 5. From having Gate 10A open, to printing an instruction sheet, to setting up the course the night before -- a fine job. Tech was handled by our Tech Director, Herb Hoover, and it was “by the
book.” Grid bosses had headset communications to timing and even the number board person was ‘wired.’ This event was an example of how all SVR autocrosses should be staged.”
The August 26 Anheuser-Busch Plant Tour, Jim and Sheila Mc-Dade chairs, had something for both beer and wine fans. Jim and Sheila arranged for SVR members in 23 cars to see how Bud is made (and tastes), and then a nifty picnic lunch at Cusvaison with a bit of their product. Kirk Bradford was pressed into service at the Anheuser-Busch tasting bar. After lunch, the group visited Inglenook Winery in Rutherford.
10 Years Ago (August 1999)The August 8 Progressive Dinner had its 11:00AM start in Raley’s parking lot at El Dorado Hills, and made four stops (hors d’oeuvres, salad, barbecue, and dessert). The hors d’oeuvres served at Jude and Tom Sisson’s home in Sutter Creek were accompanied by drinks made from roasted and ground beans from a tropical plant, fermented juice of grapes, fermented liquor brewed from malt, and the juice of the poor lemon mixed with water. All mixed together, I think.
Next stop was salad, and Kim and Jeff Kinder in Rescue were the hosts. In no time it was back in the cars and head for the Judy Hanna/Rich Swenson abode in Cameron Park for the barbecue. Phil Lawrence arrived early giving himself lots of time for com-muning with wild turkeys (or, was it consuming lots of Wild Turkey, I don’t hear good). Rich Swenson had two barbecues going and Dan Catherwood was the ribs squirter. Bob Jacobson did kitchen police duty, then off to Carol and Ira McKee’s home in Latrobe for cakes. . .lots of them (chocolate, double chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, whipped cream, coconut, and fruit).
SVR odds ‘n’ ends: Nearly two dozen Italian food enthusiasts attended the August 12, SVR Dinner Meeting at Il Fornaio restaurant in downtown Sacramento with Joan and Jose Uranga in charge. Tambra and Tom Kroetz won a bottle of Italian wine by getting the most answers correct to a quiz about Italy. A $40 gift certificate from Il Fornaio was raffled off. At the August 22 Zone 7 concours at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, SVR member Phil Lawrence won the Early 911 Wash and Shine class with a near-perfect score of 199.50. Other SVR winners: Greg Keith first in 914 Street class, and Joe Pitta second in 914 Wash ‘n’ Shine class.
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SVR August/September/October Calendar of Events
August Event Location Contact1 SVR Monthly Breakfast Waffle Square Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.51632 Concours - GGR - Zone 7 Carlsen Porsche Larry Adams [email protected] SVR Monthly Board Meeting RPM Cookie Anderson 916.988.653410 SVR Monthly Dinner Evan’s Kitchen Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.516321 Driver’s Education Thunderhill Frederick Rauch [email protected] Taste of Para Vi Tour Eldorado County Bob Peake 916.353.1369
September2 SVR Monthly Board Meeting RPM Cookie Anderson 916.988.65345 SVR Monthly Breakfast Waffle Square Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.51635 Tour - Following Breakfast Amador & Calveras Counties Kramer/Sisson jkflhtc@!volcano.net11 Driver’s Education Thunderhill Frederick Rauch [email protected] G-24 Tour TBA Lee Deter 916.391.995613 SVR Charity Auction/Event TBA Tambra Kroetz 916.989.195414 Driver’s Education Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca Frederick Rauch [email protected] SVR Monthly Dinner Fins - Madison Ave, Fair Oaks Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580
26 SVR Series Autocross 4 Stockton Bob Peake [email protected] Anchor Steam Brewery Tour San Francisco Jan & Herb Hoover [email protected]
October3 SVR Monthly Breakfast Waffle Square Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.51637 SVR Monthly Board Meeting RPM Cookie Anderson 916.988.6534
8-9 Driver’s Education Infineon Frederick Rauch [email protected] New Member/G-24 Tour TBD Doug Klein 916.791.486413 SVR Monthly Dinner TBD Kevin Dougherty [email protected] Wine Tasting Jacabson’s Garage, Loomis Bob & Beth Jacobson
[email protected] Mendocino 2009
Tour & Weekend GetawayMendocino Rik Larson 916.481.6084
Check out the latest calendar information available online at: www.derporsche.net
PCA-SVR Dinner Meeting - Monday, August 10th, 2009
Evan’s Kitchen855 57th Street, Sacramento, in Antiques Row. Easiest access is from H Sreet.
916.452.3896Cocktails at 6:30 • Dinner at 7:00 P.M.
The restaurant will be open only to us. Its capacity is 74 persons so only the first 74 people who make reservations will be admitted. There is a selection of three different meals:
(1) Wine Merchant’s Steak. Balsamic marinated NY Strip Steak, in shallots, garlic, red wine, Dijon mustard sauce, sautéed mushrooms w/sour cream potatoes & sautéed vegetables. $28.00.
(2) Cheese Tortellini w/chicken, prosciutto, and fresh herbs in parmeson cream sauce. $ 20.00.(3) Burgundy Chicken w/ button mushrooms, pearl onions, smoked ham, w/sour cream mashed
potatoes, and vegetables. $20.00
All of the above entrées include salad or soup, bread and dessert. Other non-alcoholic beverages are $1.00. All of the above prices include tax and tip. Beer and wine are available
To make your reservations, call Jan Hoover at 424-5163 before August 7th. Please bring a check made out to PCA-SVR, or exact change. And make Herb’s day by bringing a Share-the-Wealth gift. Wine is good, car-related stuff is better, Porsche stuff is best. If you need to contact us just prior to the dinner, call our cell phone at 402.5163.
CARLSEN PORSCHE CONCOURSPresented by Golden Gate Region, Porsche Club of America
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Carlsen Porsche Dealership3636 Haven Avenue, Redwood City, CA
Entry fee - $30.00 per car • Display 0nly - FreeEntry fee includes a catered buffet lunch for two
Entire proceeds from entry fee donated to charity
Directions: From Highway 101, exit east to Marsh Road and turn left ontoHaven Avenue. For information, call Larry Adams at (650) 345-2232.
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Another Great SVR/Zone 7 Niello Concoursby SVR Members Kent Brandon and Kim NelsonPhotos by: Doug Klein, SVR Membership Director SVR’s Zone 7 Concours seemed to have something for everyone this year. Niello’s generous offer for test drives of new Porsches was a huge hit with our club members. The 997 with PDK trans-mission was the most popular car tested with the Cayman com-ing in a close second. New to the Concours weekend this year was a dinner on Saturday evening.
Scheduled for the evening was a presentation by The Racers Group, but a last minute race schedule conflict kept them from our event. Everyone seemed to take the change in stride though and with 65 club members attending the dinner there was plenty to talk about.
The Concours on Sunday went on without a hitch. 37 Zone members entered the Concours and a full list of award winners can be found on our Zone website. We had a beautiful display of about 20 special interest Porsches inside Niello’s service area. The cars here ranged from early 356’s and 911’s, 914’s, a factory slant nose 911 Turbo and even a few racecars.
To top the day off, Niello offered club members a 20% to 25% discount on Porsche Selection Merchandise and Jim Weber, Ni-ello’s Service Manager, announced that in July he will be offering a special of 50% off labor for Air Cooled Porsches and 20% off parts and accessories. Not a bad way to end a wonderful day.
We would like to thank the many club members who helped make this event such a success and also the staff at Niello for al-lowing us to use their wonderful facility. If you missed the Con-cours this year you’ll want to be sure to make it next year as we are already planning an expanded schedule of events.
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SVR Region Autocross #4Saturday, September 26, 2009
San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, Stockton, CA
Registration and tech from 7:30 A.M. to 8:30 A.M.
Late registration and tech from 11:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
First car out at 9:00 A.M. No open exhaust“One and two” format with eight to ten timed runs
Instructors and loaner helmets availableFee: $35.00 per driver; no fee for spectators
The SVR Bistro will provide a grilled brat lunch for $5.00RSVP to Bob Peake at [email protected]
Directions: From I-5 or Hwy. 99: Take Highway 4 (Cross-town Freeway) toward Downtown Stockton. Take the Wilson Way exit and turn South onto Wilson Way. Turn left at Charter Way and then right through the gate into the fairgrounds. Follow the access road, bear left at the Y-intersection, continue straight, and turn right to enter the parking lot.
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Water, Water ----- EVERYWHERE!!!!Porsche Parade 2009by SVR Member Rik Larson
Keystone, Colorado
The 54th Porsche Parade organizers had been preaching to us for weeks and months before the event to make sure that we drank LOTS of water before we arrived in Colorado (9300 + feet). And if that was not enough prodding, there were water bottles, water glasses, and pitchers of water everywhere you went ----- the conference center, goodie store, at the social hours ---EVERYWHERE!!!! And because of the elevation, drinking much alcohol was likely to make you tipsy very quickly. Needless to say, the alcohol con-sumed at this Porsche Parade did not set any records.
There were a couple of major surprises at the Porsche Parade : the “preview” of the Panamera (more like the North American intro-duction that will occur at the Pebble Beach Concours in August); and the lack of Porsche AG representatives and Porsche family at the event. Seems that the discussions between VW and Porsche as to who was going to own who were in deep talks. The Panamera “preview” is up on YouTube (check out the information at www.pca.org, and click on the PCA News button).
More than 800 cars (1800 people) attend the event hosted by Alpine Mountain and Rocky Mountain Regions. Zone 7 had more than 50 cars attend. Loma Prieta Region put together a “Posse to the Porsche Parade” while other regions traveled to the event in small groups and some even flew. One place that was not to be missed was Mom’s café in Salina, Utah ----- outstanding breakfasts and lunches.
(Photo by Greg Adams from GGR of Zone 7 folks that cleaned house by winning 3 of the 4 classes in the TSD rally)
Many of the Zone 7 entrants got together on Sunday night to socialize and get acuminated to the altitude (giving new meaning to the term “attitude adjustment”). Parade “check-in” occurred on Monday with the traditional welcome party held that evening. It was a buffet style event. Things took a while to get started so some eagle-eyed folks noticed that the dessert buffet table was unguarded and started ‘sampling’ early.
The concours was held on Tuesday (everyone essentially bussed out to the site). Two cars from Zone 7 were entered: the Johansens from SVR with their 928, and Su Kemper and Cam Warren with their yellow ‘pretzel’ Targa. The TSD rally was held on Wednesday and Zone 7 repeated their performance at the 2004 Fort Worth Parade by winning 3 of the 4 classes. Thursday was the autocross (can you believe the performance problems at 9300 feet?). It was a first and second gear course. And if you took your Cayman and left it in first gear (rev limiter time), then you won your class in the Showroom Stock category. Friday was the tech quiz (I took dead last again in class). It was also the day for numerous tech sessions. Terry Zaccone made a presentation on “Your Porsche was born to autocross”. You can check out all the events (results, photos, etc.) at www.porscheparade2009.com. The September issue of PANORAMA should have most of the issue dedicated to the Parade.
The 55th Porsche Parade (July 2010) will be held in St. Charles, Illinois (take Interstate 80 east for 2000 miles and turn left about an hour before you get to Chicago). The 2011 Porsche Parade will be held in Vermont.
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July 1, 2009 SVR board meetingby Kim Nelson, SVR Secretary
President Cookie Anderson called the meeting to order at 6:37PM.
Attending: Cookie Anderson, Mike Willis, Kim Nelson, Doug Klein, JR Evinger, John Murphy, Betty Silva, Lee Deter, Helen Ashuckian, Bob Peake, Frederick Rauch, Robert Sime
Minutes: The June minutes were reviewed and accepted.
OLD BUSINESS: None.
NEW BUSINESS:Articles for the Drifter: Cookie expressed a desire to see more articles in the Drifter summarizing events that members have put on for the club. It was noted that to be eligible for year-end awards articles must be written and published in the Drifter. It was agreed that Babette should call or email event organizers be-fore their event and remind them to write articles – a few lines – and send them to JR.
New Membership Directory: SVR’s 2010 Membership Directo-ry will come out in January and to accommodate this time frame the cut-off for inclusion in the Directory will be the October Membership Report.
Board Positions for 2010: Cookie noted that three current board members will be termed-out at the end of this year and they in-clude Betty Silva – Treasurer, Bill Keegan – Vice-President and Kim Nelson – Secretary. Cookie plans on writing an article for the Drifter and also getting her Nominating Committee together to look for potential candidates.
Tech Articles: The board discussed its desire to have more Tech Articles published in the Drifter and noted that at the SVR/Zone Concours Jim Weber, Niello’s Service Manager, indicated an in-terest in having a column where he would answer club member’s tech questions. Cookie agreed to contact SVR’s Tech Chairper-son, Roger Walker, and ask him to follow-up with Jim and coor-dinate the articles.
BOARD MEMBER REPORTS:Charity: Tambra KroetzTambra submitted a budget for the September 13 Charity Auc-tion. After a lengthy discussion a motion was made and seconded to subsidize the event by $100.00 so that all the proceeds from the auction could go to the Charity. The motion passed unani-mously.
Competition: Frederick RauchFrederick reported that the recent DE at Laguna Seca was inci-dent free. He also noted that progress is being made on getting the Autocross trailer back in tip-top shape. Mike suggested that at the end of every Autocross season the Competition Chair take a year-end inventory of the trailer’s contents and any maintenance items that need to be fixed.
Mike made a motion for Bob Peake to be authorized for up to $300.00 to purchase 6 new fire extinishures for the Autocross trailer. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved. Frederick noted that we do have a December 18th DE event scheduled for Laguna Seca. September 26th is the next Autocross date.
Advertising: Mike WillisAll of our advertisers are paid up.
Drifter: JR EvingerJR noted that the July Drifter is done.
Financial Report: Betty SilvaBetty reported that the club is financially strong and has money in the bank.
G24: Lee DeterAfter discussion Cookie asked Lee Deter and Doug Klein to work together to bring a recommendation back to the board for com-bining the G24 program and New Member Program.
Goodie Store: Tom SissonNo report
Membership Director: Doug KleinSVR has 578 primary members with 475 affiliate members for a total of 1053. The club also has 3 dual members. SVR had 8 new members last month. 2 members transferred-in and 5 transferred to other regions.
Social Director: Babette HattenCookie reported for Babette and 4 Dinner and Tour budgets were discussed and approved by the board.
Webmaster: John MurphyJohn reported that hits on the website have stabilized around 55,000 per month with nearly 20% representing visitors from over 50 countries. The Classified Ads, Drifter and Photo Page are consistently amongst the most popular destinations. Clearly the Drifter is being read by folks other than SVR members. The July Drifter was visited nearly 1600 times in the first two days it was posted. SVR only has about 1050 members.
Vice President: Bill KeeganBill updated the calendar for board members.
Past President: Mike WillisNo report.
President: Cookie AndersonNo report.
Meeting adjourned: 8:45 P.M.Next Meeting: RPM Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 6:30 P.M.
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For more information and registration form, visit the Sierra Nevada Region website at http://snr-pca.org orFor more information and registration form, visit the Sierra Nevada Region website at http://snr-pca.org or
contact Julia Lynn at 775.852.5329 or [email protected]
The Historian Inn, 1427 Hwy 395 N, Gardnerville, NV 89410, 877.783.9910, http://www.historianinn.com/, is holding a block of rooms (Fri & Sat nights) for our event at a 10% discount ($88.11 per night). To receive the discounted rates, participants should tell the hotel that they are with the Porsche Group.
The block of rooms will be held for our group until August 15th. *** Again this year - Participants in the Concours will be able to wash their cars in the back parking lot area of Historian Inn for free. Hoses and buckets will be provided.
Sierra Nevada Region, PCA - Silver State Concours WeekendConcours #6 - Zone 7 Series
Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13, 2009
Tech Quiz/Hosted Meet & Greet Party Saturday, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Historian Inn, 1427 Hwy 395 N, Gardnerville, NVMeet and greet friends and members from other regions in Zone 7
(refreshments provided)Prizes awarded to Tech Quiz winners
Basque Dinner – Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 PMJT’s Basque Restaurant, 1426 Main St, Gardnerville, NV
Cost: $30 per person**$7.00 corkage fee to bring your own wine,
otherwise wine included with dinner
Zone 7 Concours #6 - Sunday, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PMSponsored by Bill Pearce Porsche
Lampe Park on Waterloo Drive, Gardnerville, NVFee for judged cars: $25 per car
BBQ luncheon served by Sierra Nevada Region • Cost: $15 per personBBQ’d on site by Gilbert Dayao from Gilson Auto Body
**No alcoholic beverages, glass containers, or animals except Seeing Eye dogs with masters per Lampe Park regulations
August Membership Report by Doug Klein, Membership Director
The Sacramento Valley Region of the Porsche Club of America has 578 regular members and 475 affiliate members (husband, wife, son, etc) for a total of 1,053. This past month, we had 9 new members plus 1 transfer-in from the Intermountain Region in Utah for a total of 10 new SVR members.
On the other hand, it’s the time of year when people pack up and move. Five members transferred to other regions, the largest number of any single month this year. Compared to one year ago, membership has de-clined a remarkably small 5.7%, a testament to Porsche owners’ camaraderie and love of their cars.
New Members: Dustin AydtSacramento CA [email protected] 1975 911 S Red
Matt and Dorothea CasnerElk Grove CA [email protected] 2008 997 C4 Cab White
Burce CouryGrass Valley CAA [email protected] 1989 911 Red
Robert HaneyGranite Bay CA [email protected] 1967 912 Tan
Dave HigginsSacramento CA [email protected] 1987 Carrera Gray
Rui [email protected]@sbcglobal.net916-600-7686 2004 996 Silver
Peter and Michael MoreElk Grove CA [email protected] 2004 Cayenne Black
David and Janan PattersonRoseville CA [email protected] 2006 Boxster Black
Clay and Erin PelfreyChico CA [email protected] 1986 911 Red
Transfers In:Jon and Christine GreenallFolsom CA [email protected] 1969 911From: Intermountain Region, Utah
Changes:Bill and Gina Bartok916-952-1400
Doug Chalmers209-943-2614
Clinton and Pat De [email protected]
Lee and Janice [email protected]
Leon and Josh [email protected]
Larry and Suzanne [email protected]
Rachael JohnsonShingle Springs CA 95862
Congratulations to the following on their:One Year Anniversary:Gloria and John CelluciKevin and Brooke ChangClaude Duplat and Barbra SchackClinton and Patricia Lorimer
Terry and Jerri McAteeJohn Yeatman
Five Year Anniversary:Michale AtmoreRobert and Anna MasonDon and Cathy Tollefson
Ten Year Anniversary:Larry and Linda AdamsWilliam and Adam BrownRichard BurkeBill and Sharon Sanford
Fifteen Year Anniversary:Robert and Bev Phillips
Twenty Year Anniversary:Randy Gray and Joan Black
Thirty-Five Year Anniversary:Bill and Lynn King
Interested in having fun with other Porsche enthusiasts? It’s easy! Join at www.pca.org (credit cards accepted) or email Doug Klein at [email protected] or call 791-4864 for a paper membership application.
The new SVR database has space for two email addresses for each member. Want SVR emails sent to both your home and work addresses, or to another family mem-ber? Email the second address to [email protected], and I’ll include it in the database.
When changing your mailing address, email address, phone or any other information, remember to update both PCA (the national organization) and SVR (your local club). The two databases are separate and indepen-dent. Update PCA by logging on to the national web site, www.pca.org. Update SVR by emailing changes to Doug Klein at [email protected].
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Mendocino 2009 TourOctober 30th – November 1st (Three Days, Two Nights)
This is a 3-day, 2-night tour to the Mendocino area. And because Hallowe’en occurs that Saturday, we will have a party. And then take an extra hour of sleep because it is also the end of daylight savings time.
This is a very informal tour. We will have some kite flying (weather permitting), miniature golf, and some socials activities. We have several hotels/inns that we work with to house our group. The 2007 tour had over 65 cars.
We manage a block of rooms at the Hill House (contact is Tom and Tambra Kroetz at 916.989.1954), the MacCallum House Suites (contact is Frederick and Susan Rauch at 916.595.3371) and the Little River Inn (contact is Rik and Lettie Larson at 916.481.6084). We suggest that you make reservations early as the coast area tends to fill up on the weekends (even during Winter).
Schedule: Leave Niello Porsche in Rocklin on Friday morning; lunch stop in the wine country; social on Friday evening. Saturday is open for kite flying, golf, shopping, etc. followed a Saturday night party. Sunday is also open, with folks generally returning home in groups.
Don’t miss out on this popular tour; we even have members from other regions join us for a good time.
And remember: Don’t turn your back to the ocean. [email protected]
Preston Castle Wine Tasting, Hors d’Ouvres and Castle Tour
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Been curious about the magnificant brownstone that dominates the Ione skyline? Now’s
your chance to explore this 1890s Romanesque Revival building, while having a grand
time noshing, tasting and socializing.
Castle Tour. We’ll start with a docent-guided tour just for our group at 1:30, before the
Castle is opened to the general public at 3:00 (and closes at 6:00).
Drink. Fourteen Amador County wineries will be providing their best at tasting stations
throughout the castle. Nibble on a variety of chocolate treats.
Food. In abundance! Bring an appetite. This year’s menu hasn’t been released, but the
food has always been delicious.
Music. A band on the patio will be complemented by a roving accordion player inside.
Meet at Starbucks in Town Center Mall at the southeast corner of Hwy 50 and El
Dorado Hills Blvd at 11:30.
Cost? $37 donation/person, which includes castle tour, food, wine tasting, and a
commemorative wine glass. All proceeds are used by the Preston Castle Foundation for
continuing restoration of this historic structure.
RSVP with Doug Klein at [email protected] or call 916-791-4864. Also check
out www.prestoncastle.com
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Good grief, it can’t be Au-gust already. Oh but it is. The big stores are starting
to show winter clothes! Macy’s has already put winter clothes on sale! Well, the GOODIE STORE is still selling our usual cool stuff- T-shirts, caps, and polo shirts.
The big news is a large number of special items that we can close out for much less than usual-really!! You may have seen some of them being sold by Cookie at the last AX. Cookie has the inven-tory and if you Email her, I am sure she will give some ideas on size, etc. Don’t miss this sale!
Warning-wearing our shirts can make members of the opposite sex chase after you! Maybe it makes them as horny as a four horned antelope. What, you say there is no such animal—well, I beg to differ! Yes, there is such an antelope, in India, named the four-horned antelope (not very imaginative). The creature has the usual two horns between his ears and a smaller pair just over his eyes.
Notice I wrote “he” and “his”. It’s the male who has the four horns, while the female is hornless (wouldn’t you just know it!). With the male extraordinarily horny but the female not horny at all, isn’t it amazing that they ever have any little four horns? Aren’t these ads educational—it’s enough to make you honk!
For Goodie Store merchandise, go to your friendly Goodie Store people! See Tom Sisson or Cookie Anderson at meetings and events, or contact them (see the Drifter masthead.) Remember to allow sufficient time as many things need to be ordered.
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Can you believe it’s August……..by Tom Sisson, SVR Goodiestorekeeper
The Last Wordby JR Evinger, Editor
Happy August everyone! I am finally able to inclue some photos of the SVR/Zone 7 Concours held at Niello’s in June! I acutally had too many photos to choose from! I hope to include more photos from Porsche Parade in July in our September issue. Check out web site for a far greater collection!
I am continually looking for portrait photos of you and your cars for the cover and as always I want to solicit your feedback as this is your newsletter. Please feel free to drop me your comments at [email protected].
JR
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Drifter ClassifiedsDrifter Classifieds for Porsches and/or Porsche-related parts or accessories are available at no charge to PCA members. Non-members may submit ads at $20.00 per ad. Make check payable to PCA-SVR and send to PCA-SVR, P.O. Box 254651, Sacramento, CA 95865-4651. Commercial ads are not accepted. Please contact our Advertising Manager for commercial advertising information and rates. All ads must be submitted by e-mail to the Newsletter Editor and received by the editor by the 1st day of the month prior to the month of publication. Ads may be shortened to fit available space. Editor is not responsible for content and reserves the right to reject any ads submitted. Not responsible for any errors or omissions. As an additional benefit to our members, all ads are included in the classified section of our web page. Ads are not verified for content. It is the buyer’s responsibility to verify the information in the ads. Ads run for three months unless cancelled.
Parts for Sale996 Carrera 18-inch full set of wheels:
Factory take off part numbers993.362.134.06 18x7.5” ET50 offset993.362.140.04 18x10” ET65 offset
Wheels are all straight but with some curb rash. These will look sharp on a 986 Boxster or good for a set of winter wheels.$375 o.b.o. call Rich Tsai 530.219.8125 or e-mail [email protected]
Cayenne S 18-inch Wheel:
Factory take off part number7L5.601.025 A 18x8” ET57 offset
No curb rash or bend, but slight scuffingon the wheel face (can be polished or touched up). Perfect to replace damaged wheel or use as a full size spare.$80 o.b.o. call Rich Tsai 530.219.8125 or e-mail [email protected]
Porsche 993 Chrome 17” Cup Wheel Set
Set of 4 17” chrome Cup wheels from my Porsche 993. Straight, non damaged, as removed from my car, except for the one wheel that has curb rash.
The tires are still mounted, however, the rear tires are bald. Although the fronts have some tread, they are now going into the wear bars.
Part Number: Wheel Sizes: Tire Sizes:993.362.128.00 9Jx17-ET55 Rear 255/40ZR17
993.362.124.06 7Jx17-ET55 Front 255/55ZR17
What this all means is that even though the tires are still mounted, I am selling this set for the value of the Chrome wheel set. $600. Please let me know if you have any questions. Jeff Kinder (916) 765-2801 [email protected]
For Sale
1992 Carrera C2 CabrioletThis is an exceptional example of one of the last air-cooled 911’s. Completely original, only 75,000 miles. Second owner since 2005. Guards red with tan leather interior.
All the amenities, A/C, power windows, seats, etc. Factory stereo/cd player. New ZR
rated tires, New top/boot, car covers (2).Maintenance records available. Asking $23,000 Call Ken at (916) 342-2546 (06/09)
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Sacramento Valley RegionPorsche Club of AmericaPost Office Box 254651Sacramento, CA 95865-4651