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January 2007
SDR- The Way We Were
John Straub, Archivist
Happy 50th Anniversary San Diego Region 2007!
Now we’re at the second half of 1976. However,
before I get into that, I forgot to tell you our Spring
Holtville event that year was the debut of our very first
club trailer. This was really a big deal. Remember the
club did not have the finances to just go buy one, so we
built it. Bill Bartee was in charge of the project, but this
is a list of how we made it happen. Doug Clarke was
the chief welder, Jerry Witlock the chief electrician, Jim
Hauhart the painter, Jim Noe did the insulation, Art
Wrightson did the metal siding, Dave Naple donated
tires and wheels along with Virgil Beasley, Wally and
Bea Cole did the registration desk and cabinet doors
were donated from the kitchen remodel of Jim and
Shirley Douthit, and Tom and Grace Hauseur put the
lettering on the sides. Now you see how the club did
things back in 1976.
In July of that year, we had our Zone 8 Rally. This
event was put on by Wally Cole and Art Wrightson. We
had 46 rally cars, 23 from San Diego Region and 23
from Orange Coast, Riverside, Los Angeles and Santa
Barbara Regions. First place went to Joe Boucher. Slim
Durham, a long time rallyer and autocrosser in cars
other than Porsches, was instrumental in helping lay the
course out. He was about to become a Porsche club
member. Why do I tell you about this, well he was to be
the Rally Chair for our Porsche Parade in 1977. His
Parade Rally was to be the longest Parade Rally in the
Porsche club history.
August was our Zone 8 Concours. This was held at
Fashion Valley Shopping Center in Mission Valley. The
Chair was our by now famous, Pat Scanlan. Why do I
say famous, well he was winning more concours awards
with his black 1968 911L than any other Porsche club
member around the country. We had 45 entrants and
each entrant received a bottle of Liquore Galliano
compliments of one of the show sponsors. Trophies
were a silver tray with the new San Diego Region crest
engraved on them. This crest is basically the same crest
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we have today. Cars included Joel Naive’s 1950 356 to,
get this, a “new” 924.
In September, we had our Grossmont Car Show to
help raise money for the club with about 40 cars and a
picnic and softball game put on by Doug Clarke and
myself, held at Morley Field in Balboa Park. The cost of
that event was $.50 per person. It was the four cylinder
drivers against the six cylinder drivers.
October we had our Latin Okoberfest Mit
Margaritas which was really a Mexican Fiesta at the
Tom Hauseur’s house. Mexican food was served, with
shredded beef tacos, beans, hot quesadillas and Tom
Sr’s. “secret sauce”——better known as Jose Cuervo
Tequila Gold. We also held our Fall Holtville event
sponsored by Dave Naple’s Porsche Care.The cost was
$5 per person for two days of driving. Some of the
members running were: Bill Shaffer, Bruce Osterberg,
Steve Miller, Dieter Vongher, Don Anderson, Paul
Haas, and Wayne Baker with Bill Roberts taking
TTOD.
In December that year was our Installation Dinner
held at the Town and Country Hotel. The reason we
held it there was it was going to give us a pre-run for
our Porsche Parade Banquets the next year. The cost
was $12.50 per person for dinner and dancing.
And last but not least, one of our drivers, Rug
Cunningham, competed at his first IMSA Race at
Ontario Motor Speedway, driving not his Porsche
Convertible D he now drives in Vintage Events, but his
BMW 2002. He ran in the GTU Class for cars under
2.5 liters. Rug ran many PCA Holtville events in his
Porsche and found the transition from PCA Time Trials
to SCCA and then IMSA surprisingly easy.
See you next month.
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