Slipstream - November 2004

Boxstoberfest 2004
by Tracey Gross
One Great Run, Two Hits and a Fan Belt!
The PCA Hill Country in conjunction with the Maverick
and Lone Star Regions hosted another Boxstoberfest on
the second weekend of September. And, for the second
year in a row there was no rain! Temperatures were in the
mid-eighties to the low-nineties for the whole weekend
under partly cloudy skies out in the Texas Hill Country.
Events kicked off with the traditional Friday night
social at the Auslander restaurant in scenic downtown
Fredericksburg. It was great to see some old friends and a
marvelous opportunity to meet new ones.
Saturday morning started off bright and early at 9:00
with the whole crew meeting behind the Fredericksburg
Courthouse. In addition to the 23 Boxsters who showed up,
we had visitations from four pristine 356's from the
Fredericksburg area, a white Carrerra, a Seal Gray 996
Cabriolet, a Cayenne S and a 944 Turbo. We had an hour or
so of time to meet our fellow Porsche owners, admire the
Boxsters and ooooh-aaahhh over the 356's.
... visitations from four pristine 356’s ...
By 10:45, the drivers' meeting was over and we were off
to Hunt for lunch. One of the 356's even went with us for
lunch (well, his heart was in the right place but the car
dropped a fan belt on the way, so he didn't quite make it)
and we were joined by a Nissan...er...ummm "Porsche 999
Prototype" piloted by one of the nicest guys out there.
Lunch was at the Hunt Country Store during which we
fended off a Miata group by sheer numbers :). After lunch,
we headed out on to Leakey, passing through Vanderpool,
Medina and Kerrville on the way back. We crossed the Frio,
Pedernales and Guadalupe river valleys, each time rising up
on to the surrounding escarpments for sweeping vistas of
the Hill Country.
While traversing the switchbacks between Medina and
Kerrville, two drivers heroically defended the rest of the
group from a rampaging guardrail on a decreasing radius
turn. Fortunately, nobody was hurt and the whole group
Photo by Michael Shassere
rallied around the drivers to make sure everyone got home.
Our motto was and is "No driver left behind!"
Saturday night was the big event with drinks at the very
cool Hanger Hotel Officer's Club followed by dinner at the
Cotton Gin restaurant. The food was excellent and a great
time was had by all.
Sunday, a small group of survivors gathered for breakfast
at the Airport Grill and started thinking about how
much fun next year is going to be!
Pre-staged... ready for launch!
Parade Posters
Photo by Michael Shassere
The Hill Country has some great twisty roads
We have a limited number of these posters left
featuring Bill Dugan’s famous Panorama cover photo!
Available sizes in stock are 8x10, 11x14, 20x26 and 24x36
$10 $12 $15 only $20!
Driver’s Education Car Numbers as low as $8 each!
These are heavy duty individual 10” tall magnetic numbers and are
available in white, black, red, yellow, orange, blue or green.
Custom work is also available in any color . . . including metallics!
Coming soon!
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