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Sacramento Valley Region Calendar of Events July 2012 1 Zone 7 Concours Carmel Valley, Monterey Bay Region David Aliotti 831.658.0356 7 SVR First Saturday Breakfast Waffle Square, Citrus Heights Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.5163 8-14 Porsche Parade (National) Salt Lake City, Utah pca.org 10 SVR Board Meeting RPM Motorsports, Sacramento Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 14 356CAR Breakfast Marie Callender’s, Citrus Heigths Jim Hardie 916.972.7232 22 SVR AX Mather Airport, Sacramento Bob Peake 916.353.1369 28 SVR Tour Bruce Canepa Museum, Scott’s Valley ggarymyers@aol.com 916.771.3929 28 SVR Dinner with Yosemite Stockton, Angelinas Restaurant Norm Swanberg swan04@ymail. com August 2012 4 SVR First Saturday Breakfast Waffle Square, Citrus Heights Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.5163 4 Annual CAM Car Cruise CAM Sacramento knelson356@gmail.com 916.337.7716 5 Zone 7 Concours Redwood City, Golden Gate Region Larry Adams 650.345.2232 8 SVR Board Meeting RPM Motorsports, Sacramento Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 11 SVR High Sierra Summer Tour Sierra’s Michael Dunn 916.837.0203 11 356CAR Breakfast Marie Callender’s, Citrus Heigths Jim Hardie 916.972.7232 17 DE by TrackMasters Thunderhill, Willows Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 19 SVR AX Mather Airport, Sacramento Bob Peake 916.353.1369 25 SVR 50th Anniversary Deavers Vineyard, Plymouth Ron Riley 916.366.8834 26 Zone 7/YR Concours San Joaquin Delta College, Yosemite Region Paul Czopek 209.531.1942 September 2012 1 SVR First Saturday Breakfast Monthly at Waffle Square, Citrus Heights Herb & Jan Hoover 916.424.5163 8 356CAR Breakfast Marie Callender’s, Citrus Heights Jim Hardie 916.972.7232 8 SVR New Member Tour Sierras w/New Member Lunch newmembergroup@svrpca.org 8-9 Zone 7/GGR AX Marina Marina Airport, Monterey zone77.org 8-9 DE by TrackMasters Sonoma Frrederick Rauch 916.989.0580 12 SVR Board Meeting RPM Motorsports, Sacramento Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 16 Zone 7/SVR Concours Niello Porsche, Rocklin Kent Brandon 916.663.1702 22 SVR Rally Carrera de Sierra, Rocklin Richard Wetzel 916.419.4334 23 SVR AX Mather Air Field autocross@svr-pca.org 916.353.1369 28 DE by TrackMasters Sonoma Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 30 Zone 7 Concours Sonoma, Redwood Regiion James Heisey 707.542.7722 Check out the latest calendar information available online at www.svr-pca.org Information regarding Zone 7 events for 2012 is available at www.zone77.org Page 10 the drifter - Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org
The Social Corner: Dreams during a flight to Sacramento By Eduardo Ortega Jr., 2012 SVR Social Director Got Comments? Write to social@svr-pca.org “Hello, this is your Captain. We have reached the 40,000 feet cruising altitude. We will arrive in Sacramento in about 40 minutes…” - Heard two days ago over the intercom of the Boeing 737-700 Airplane in my return trip to Sacramento from Burbank. Prior to my intense love affair with Porsche automobiles in my teenager days, there were other two passions that had captivated me during my childhood: Spaceships and Airplanes. Oh boy! My generation, which became of age in the 1980s, still participated fully in the excitement of the 1960s space race. The Apollo 11 landing in the Moon, the still fresh space race against the Soviet Union, the supersonic flights of the Concorde, the magic of commercial jet travel. Way before I even knew what a University education was, I dreamt in my elementary school years that I wanted to be an Astronaut or an Aircraft Pilot. By the way, I have observed over the years that many Civil Engineers like me also wanted to be Pilots. Coincidence? I think not… At 40,000 feet cruising altitude, the words resonated in my mind. That is 7.57 miles above the surface of the Earth. Less than 110 years ago the dream of flight was harbored by generations of humans that melancholically had to resign themselves to watch the birds fly. We took off from Burbank, the plane made a quick 90-degree banking turn and we were headed towards Sacramento. Sitting by the window, I gazed at the heavily populated San Fernando Valley below. The Grapevine Mountains quickly appeared, and I was amazed how two-dimensional they looked, like the topographic maps we use in engineering. Following the ridgelines, I saw complicated curving roads that lead to individual homes right at the top of many ridges. It reminded me of the many SVR members that live in the foothills. Distances look so much shorter from the air, were the third variable of height has been removed, thus giving the impression of two-dimensional surfaces as I described before. Having completed about 15 minutes of detailed observations of the ground below, I retrieved my May issue of Panorama, and read the “Ontogenesis of a Car Chick”, followed by “The Monumental Sale of the Drendel Turbos”. They are two very different articles that have in common similar Porsche Dreams. One is about a lifelong PCA member that has won About the drifter the Enthusiast of The Year Award, while the other is about a very lucky man that in his lifetime amassed the greatest private collection of turbo Porsches. I liked both articles a lot. After I completed my reading, I began to daydream. I started to wonder if my single PCA raffle ticket entry could be lucky enough to win me the grand prize this July. Then I switched to my observations of the last 48 hours in Santa Barbara, of how I have seen only a couple of 911s. By contrast, I remembered that in our family vacation last year in Los Angeles, during the day we drove to the Getty Villa Museum in the Pacific Coast Highway, I lost count of the many Porsches that I encountered in the road. Most of them were 911 Cabriolets, by the way. Southern California is the capital for sunbathing lifestyles, after all. Finally I wondered when I was going to take my own 911 SC driving in the coast from San Francisco all the way to Newport Beach. We are lucky that the PCH is one of the most beautiful highway rides in the world. Maybe only the travelling around the Mediterranean Sea may rival the beauty of our Pacific Ocean and the glorious Pacific Coast Highway. In the subject of dreams, Beth Jacobson told me during the Fats Asia Bistro Club Dinner, that after reading my column “Keeping an Eye for The Future of Car Clubs”, she also wondered how to spark the interest for Porsche automobiles in the young people of today. She lamented that in the schools, the car shop classes have been cut in most High Schools due to budget issues, and normally that would have been an ideal place to share our passions for Porsches. I said that after the article was published, I thought that an easy way to start the passion could be to have small “Wash and Shine” style Concours or demonstration in selected high schools of the region, to give the chance to the young students to admire the cars and talk Porsche with the proud owners. I also read in Panorama (must have been in 2011?) the article about the family of the year. In the article they described that over the years that family would buy a nonrunning 914, and have local teens rebuild this car until they were ready to participate in local races. My insurance company for my Porsche, Hagerty, currently has a teenager employed as a reporter. He attends events, takes pictures, and writes some articles. There are many ways to incentive the new generation to have an interest in Porsche cars, and in turn, PCA-SVR. This topic needs to have a unified vision in the future, so we can form teams and come up with an action plan. Finally, look at the SVR calendar in the website. There are many activities scheduled for the next couple of months. And keep on dreaming … the drifter is an award-winning monthly publication of the Sacramento Valley Region, which is affiliated with Porsche Club of America, one of the largest and most prestigious marque automobile clubs in the United States. Arranging Advertising Advertising in the drifter is arranged through Sacramento Valley’s Advertising Manager. For more information about advertising, please contact: Frederick Rauch 916.989.0580 advertising@svr-pca.org the drifter - Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org Page 11
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