April 2013 - Porsche Club of America – Northeast Region

Around The Cones
Steve Ross
Back to the history of the region, I see the
November 1962 issue of the Northeast News
mentions that the number of members not mailing
(the predecessor to e-mail) their ballots was
disturbingly high. Fortunately for us in the 21st
century, on-line voting will be coming soon.
In driving event news, the club participated
in the Harvard University SCC event at Orange
airport, with a total entry of 64 cars. FTD was
taken by Al Alden driving a Carrera with NCR’s
own Ed Broadhead placing second in a Spyder;
little did they know how valuable these two cars
would be today. Other autocross sites that year
were Pleasure Island in Wakefield, Mass. and the
Babson Institute parking lot in Wellesley, where
Bud Lyon placed first in all of the Gymkhanas, as
they were called then. Interestingly, publicity for
auto events could be found in the Sunday Globe
and Record American (what the Herald was called
then) in columns written weekly by Cameron
Dewar (Globe) and Arthur Kelly (Record American),
which covered the local motorsports scene.
The October 1962 issue announced a fall tour
to the Yankee Atomic plant in Rowe, Mass. for a
tour of the facility.
The October 1962 issue announced a fall tour
(see they are not a new idea) to the Yankee Atomic
plant in Rowe, Mass. for a tour of the facility.
In the classified section of the newsletter (still
written with a typewriter), was a red ‘59 Convertible
D that was listed as “acceptably priced” — an
interesting term.
Also in the October issue was mention of a tour
to Canada, where members from CVR, NER, and
some Midwest regions numbering 35 participants,
and 15 more from Quebec and Toronto
regions, visited Montreal and drove thru the
Laurentian mountains (near Mont-Tremblant)
on beautiful back roads.
In the same issue was an ad for a 1955
Speedster, with many new parts and a rebuilt
transmission — no-winter, rust-free car offered
for $1,395. Guess what that car would be worth
now.
The financial statement showed the club in the
black to the tune of $888, a few dollars short of
today’s balance.
Late racing news from Thompson Speedway,
where we will be doing DE events next year, listed
Bob Holbert winning with an RS61, Bruce Jennings
taking class B in a Carrera, and Joe Buzzetta
from NY winning in his RSK. Not a bad collection
of name racers for a local race.
Locally, we have had a winter event held on
March 17th. The folks at Auto Engineering in Lexington
hosted a tech session titled “Easy Fixin’s”
where the Porsche tech, Justin Becker, demonstrated
an oil change, brake and clutch fluid flush
and answered many questions of the 40-plus
participants.
Full story next month by our ace report Margo
Otey and pictures from the editor elsewhere in
that issue of THE NOR’EASTER.
The prior weekend saw an overflow crowd at
HMS in Danvers for the annual Ground School;
see elsewhere in this issue for the write-up and
pictures from this event.
With spring, the DE and autocross season begins,
as does our Spontaneous Dinner series and
Coffee and Porsches get-togethers at various
dealers and other locations throughout
the region.
I’m looking forward to seeing fellow
members at some of our upcoming
events.
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