Slipstream - January 2010
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Upcoming Events<br />
• Father’s Day Picnic<br />
• Sunday Drive<br />
• Rally School<br />
Past Events<br />
• Wild Wildflowers<br />
• May at Mayo’s<br />
• Results<br />
<strong>January</strong> <strong>2010</strong> - Published by the Maverick Region<br />
June 2007 -<br />
Porsche Published<br />
Club by<br />
of the<br />
America<br />
Maverick Region<br />
Porsche Club of America
http://mav.pca.org<br />
Departments<br />
Zone 5 Presidents.........................................1<br />
Drifting (President’s Column)......................2<br />
Maverick of the Month.................................2<br />
List of Officers/Board Chairs.......................4<br />
Windscreen (Editor’s Column).....................5<br />
Maverick Minutes........................................8<br />
Cliff’s Ramblings.......................................17<br />
New Member Spotlight..............................21<br />
New Wheels...............................................31<br />
Anniversaries..............................................31<br />
Unclassifieds..............................................32<br />
Advertiser Index.........................................32<br />
Upcoming Events<br />
Calendar of Events.......................................1<br />
Time Trial School MW................................3<br />
Member’s Party............................................3<br />
Lunches........................................................5<br />
Autocross School Penn................................5<br />
Driver Education EC...................................7<br />
Board Meeting..............................................8<br />
Happy Hour at Blue Mesa..........................24<br />
<strong>2010</strong> Porsche Parade..................................31<br />
Past Event Recaps<br />
Hare and Hound Night Rally......................14<br />
Happy Hour at Trinity Hall Pub.................24<br />
Charity Autocross.......................................26<br />
Crazy Water................................................26<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
Goodie Store................................................9<br />
Feels Like Home........................................10<br />
The Longest Road to Porsche Happiness...12<br />
The Perfect Guy Trip..................................18<br />
Trivia Contest.............................................20<br />
Porsche Palooza..........................................28<br />
Volume 48 <strong>January</strong> <strong>2010</strong>, Issue 1<br />
Go Online for Latest Updates on Events<br />
http://mav.pca.org<br />
Day <strong>January</strong><br />
1 HAPPY NEW YEAR<br />
6 Board Meeting<br />
12 Lewisville Lunch<br />
21 Happy Hour<br />
28 Southlake Lunch<br />
31 Member’s Party<br />
Day March<br />
3 Board Meeting<br />
6 & 7 Driver Education ECR<br />
9 Lewisville Lunch<br />
14 Autocross School Penn<br />
18 Happy Hour<br />
20 Time Trial #1 MW<br />
21 Autocross #1 MW<br />
25 Southlake Lunch<br />
28 Sunday Drive<br />
EC - Eagle’s Canyon, Slidell<br />
MW- Mineral Wells Airport, Mineral Wells<br />
MSR- Motor Sport Ranch, Cresson<br />
RS - Ranger Stadium, Arlington<br />
TMS- Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth<br />
Penn- Pennington Field Stadium, Bedford<br />
Day February<br />
3 Board Meeting<br />
9 Lewisville Lunch<br />
18 Happy Hour<br />
25 Southlake Lunch<br />
27 Time Trial School MW<br />
Day April<br />
7 Board Meeting<br />
11 Sunday Drive<br />
13 Lewisville Lunch<br />
15 Happy Hour<br />
17 Time Trial #2 MW<br />
18 Autocross #2 MW<br />
22 Southlake Lunch<br />
24 & 25 Drive Education MSR<br />
Cover Photo by<br />
Richard Bradley<br />
GT3 RS<br />
times four!<br />
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ARK-LA-TEX<br />
Kenneth A. Chandler<br />
(318) 222-4400<br />
bad968@bellsouth.net<br />
COASTAL BEND<br />
Rene’ Molinia<br />
(956) 789-5469<br />
rmj951@swbell.net<br />
2009 Porsche Club Zone 5 Presidents<br />
LONE STAR<br />
Lynn Friedman<br />
bromilia@hal-pc.org<br />
MARDI GRAS<br />
Richard Martin<br />
rmmhr@cox.net<br />
OZARK<br />
Rick Daes<br />
(501) 565-5113<br />
rdaes@aristotle.net<br />
WHISKEY BAY<br />
Mike Hamza<br />
mhamza1@bellsouth.<br />
net<br />
CIMARRON<br />
Jay Jackson<br />
jjackson@<br />
benefitinformatics.com<br />
HILL COUNTRY<br />
Adrienne Boer<br />
president@hcrpca.org<br />
LONGHORN<br />
Ron McAtee<br />
rmcatee@satx.rr.com<br />
MAVERICK<br />
Mike Brodigan<br />
972-786-6246<br />
president@mavpca.org<br />
WAR BONNET<br />
Louis Lackey<br />
louis.lackey@<br />
anheuser-busch.com<br />
ZONE 5 REP<br />
James Shoffit<br />
C - 972-786-6246<br />
james@shoffit.com<br />
<strong>January</strong> 1
Drifting<br />
Mike Brodigan, President<br />
Lose weight, put the toilet seat<br />
down (not my idea), exercise<br />
more, make the bed everyday<br />
(also not my idea), eat healthy food (good<br />
luck with this one, only if hamburgers are<br />
deemed healthy), pick up my clothes and<br />
keep my closet neat (you guessed it, also<br />
not my idea!)<br />
OK, you get the idea. These are all my New Year’s<br />
Resolutions. It is a safe bet that most, if not all of them will<br />
have been broken by the time you are reading this. That<br />
is ok, but it is nice to have goals and dreams to keep me<br />
focused and going in the right direction even if there is a<br />
stumble or two along the way. In that spirit, there are a<br />
couple of resolutions I do plan on keeping.<br />
I absolutely pledge to do everything I can as President to<br />
improve the quality of events and activities of the Maverick<br />
Region and do as much as I can to see that every idea is<br />
heard.<br />
Sunday, <strong>January</strong> 31st. is our “Member’s Party.” We<br />
used to call it the New Member’s Party, but it is more than<br />
that. The Member’s party is the perfect place to renew old<br />
acquaintances, and make new ones. It is also a time to learn<br />
about all our events and let us know what we can do to make<br />
them better. This year we will have a suggestion box. I am<br />
counting on you to fill it up with ways to help us make this<br />
club even better!<br />
Last month I talked about the<br />
Huffaker-Hughes Hope House (HHHH)<br />
and our goal of making the backyard of<br />
the home a pleasant and safe place for<br />
the moms and children. Well, we are<br />
going along at full steam. Linda (spit<br />
the bit) Bambina is taking the lead. As<br />
of this writing, plans are being drawn,<br />
and equipment and materials are being<br />
selected. If you would like to help us,<br />
there is plenty of ways to get involved.<br />
Just contact Linda, Clara Lewis or<br />
myself. We will find a way to get you<br />
in the game.<br />
Tracey started the “new member of the month” and helps<br />
with everything from driving events to Founders’ Day.<br />
For being the Maverick of the Month, The Silver<br />
Fox in Grapevine is giving Tracey dinner for two at<br />
their award winning steak house.<br />
Tracey thanks for all you do!<br />
See y’all soon, Mike<br />
Mav of the Month<br />
Our Mav of the Month is Tracey<br />
Gross. Tracey is a contributor in<br />
almost everything that goes on. She<br />
was the Social Chair and more recently<br />
held the club Public Relations position.<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 3
President<br />
Mike Brodigan<br />
H-817-488-8520<br />
C-817-233-0068<br />
president@mavpca.org<br />
Mike enjoys the Maverick social events,<br />
is a Drivers Education instructor and<br />
does a little Club Racing as well. His first<br />
Porsche is a 1999 Boxster that he intends<br />
to own forever. He also has a track<br />
prepared 1989 944 Turbo S (Chouncey).<br />
Position Milton, James Chairperson<br />
AX Chair Tannia Dobbins<br />
Lewisville Milton, James<br />
TT Chair Travis Howard<br />
AX/TT Lewisville Registrar Andrea Bell<br />
AX/TT Rules Charlie Davis<br />
AX/TT Safety Chuck McCoy<br />
AX/TT Schools Bryan Bell<br />
& Lisa Steele<br />
AX/TT Tech Insp Jeff Herrmann<br />
AX/TT Timing Darron Shaffer<br />
AX/TT Workers Mike Lockas<br />
Club Race Co-Chair Joel Nannis<br />
Club Race Co-Chair Bill Miller<br />
Club Race Ads/PR Lori Mauthe<br />
Club Race Registrar Wendy Shoffit<br />
Concours Jack Griffin<br />
DE Chair John Hamilton<br />
DE Chief Dvg Instr. John Sandusky<br />
& Keith Olcha<br />
DE Registrar Joel Nannis<br />
DE Safety Bob Benson<br />
Email List Modr. Bob Benson<br />
Goodie Store Christy Payne<br />
Happy Hours Monda Hanna,<br />
& Mentors Mike Lockas<br />
& Bob Lewis<br />
Membership Joel Nannis<br />
Past President James Shoffit<br />
Public Relations Andrea Bell<br />
Rallies<br />
Carey Spreen<br />
<strong>Slipstream</strong><br />
Advertising Jan Mayo<br />
Editor Richard Bradley<br />
Event Ad Design Mark Gluck<br />
Mailing & Tech. Andy Mears<br />
Printing Fran Ussery<br />
Staff Wendy Shoffit, Matt Platts,<br />
Andy Mears, Jan Mayo<br />
Tannia Dobbins<br />
Socials<br />
Sponsorship<br />
Sunday Drives<br />
Swap Meets<br />
Tech Sessions<br />
Trivia Chair<br />
Web Site<br />
Zone 5 Rep.<br />
4<br />
Christey Payne<br />
Keith Olcha<br />
Clint Blackman<br />
Robyn Howard<br />
Ed Mullenix<br />
Jerry DeFeo<br />
Denny Payne<br />
James Shoffit<br />
Vice President<br />
Bryan Bell<br />
C-214-789-6895<br />
vp@mavpca.org<br />
Bryan bought a 1999 996 and joined<br />
PCA in 2003 after longing for a 911 his<br />
whole life. Then fell in love with driving<br />
one! He is active in Drivers Education,<br />
Autocross and Time Trial. Bryan<br />
works at Digital Print, Inc. located at<br />
Motorsport Ranch in Cresson.<br />
Andrea Bell<br />
H-817-270-4132<br />
pr@mavpca.org<br />
Bryan Bell<br />
C-214-789-6895<br />
drivingschools@mavpca.org<br />
Bob Benson<br />
H-817-457-8833<br />
bbenson1@airmail.net<br />
Clint Blackman<br />
W-214-696-8000<br />
cb3law@sbcglobal.net<br />
Richard Bradley<br />
C-214-763-5338<br />
editor@mavpca.org<br />
Chris Christensen<br />
817-442-9809<br />
hh@mavpca.org<br />
Jerry DeFeo<br />
972-240-5800<br />
trivia@mavpca.org<br />
Tannia Dobbins<br />
C-254-338-9392<br />
ax@mavpca.org<br />
tldobbins@embarqmail.com<br />
Mark Gluck<br />
C-817-706-9061<br />
mark@markgluck.com<br />
Jack Griffin &<br />
Frank Briggs<br />
concours@mavpca.org<br />
John Hamilton<br />
C-817-907-7823<br />
de@mavpca.org<br />
Secretary<br />
Lisa Steele<br />
H-214-709-6418<br />
secretary@mavpca.org<br />
Lisa has been a member of Maverick<br />
Region since 1995 and has had several<br />
Porsches currently driving a 1999 red<br />
911. She is active in Drivers Education,<br />
Autocross and Time Trial. For the past<br />
year Lisa’s 911 wore number 11 identifying<br />
her as the Ladies Top Driver of 2007.<br />
Monda Hanna<br />
W-972-450-3835<br />
monda.hanna@opco.com<br />
Jeff Herrmann<br />
C-254-338-1758<br />
Rider81@embarqmail.com<br />
Carl.G.Herrmann@us.army.mil<br />
Robyn Howard<br />
972-679-0112<br />
ax@mavpca.org<br />
red86944@yahoo.com<br />
Travis Howard<br />
C-214-616-6152<br />
tt@mavpca.org<br />
thoward914@yahoo.com<br />
Bob Lewis<br />
972-255-8629<br />
hh@mavpca.org<br />
Mike Lockas<br />
W-972-540-0245<br />
mikeldean@earthlink.net<br />
Jan Mayo<br />
C-817-313-9406<br />
ads@mavpca.org<br />
Chuck McCoy<br />
H-972-956-0776<br />
Andy Mears<br />
H-214-394-5857<br />
andy@mavpca.org<br />
Bill Miller<br />
W-972-830-2676<br />
cr@mavpca.org<br />
Ed Mullenix<br />
C-972-231-5356<br />
techcorner@mavpca.org<br />
Please help us to keep growing!<br />
Treasurer<br />
Jim Falgout<br />
W-972-669-2370<br />
C-972-345-3009<br />
treasurer@mavpca.org<br />
Jim just joined Maverick Region in<br />
August, 2008. He drives a 1992 968<br />
cab and has recently enjoyed several<br />
social events. Jim is looking forward to<br />
participating in all the driving events.<br />
Joel Nannis<br />
H-972-722-2735<br />
membership@mavpca.org<br />
Keith Olcha<br />
W-817-706-7678<br />
H-817-251-6865<br />
keith.olcha@verizon.net<br />
Christy Payne<br />
H-817-909-0966<br />
social@mavpca.org<br />
goodiestore@mavpca.org<br />
Denny Payne<br />
webmaster@mavpca.org<br />
Matt Platts<br />
C-817-919-1253<br />
W-817-440-2090<br />
Matt@Platts.net<br />
John Sandusky<br />
W-817-777-0421<br />
john.c.sandusky@lmco.com<br />
Darron Shaffer<br />
H-972-390-9709<br />
C-972-898-3002<br />
darron.shaffer@gmail.com<br />
Wendy Shoffit<br />
H- 972-506-7449<br />
C- 972-977-9821<br />
crreg@mavpca.org<br />
James Shoffit<br />
H-972-506-7446<br />
C-972-786-6246<br />
James@shoffit.com<br />
Carey Spreen<br />
C-817-422-3480<br />
rally@mavpca.org<br />
Fran Ussery<br />
W-972-438-8344<br />
H-817-481-8342<br />
fran@usseryprinting.com
Windscreen<br />
Richard Bradley, Managing Editor<br />
As we start another year, I for<br />
one have to admit <strong>2010</strong> is<br />
going to be a good year if I<br />
can help it. I know many of us were forced<br />
to make some adjustments last year, but<br />
we made it to the dawn of another. I hope<br />
each and every one of you made the most<br />
of what you were blessed with. Hopefully<br />
you came out and made some new friends at an event or two<br />
and enjoyed your car for the many reasons you bought it.<br />
Look over the calendar and make some plans to enjoy what<br />
we have with other Mavericks even more this year. I know<br />
I plan to.<br />
I hope you enjoy this issue as it’s packed full of a variety<br />
of stories that normally don’t appear between these covers.<br />
This isn’t because I wouldn’t like to see it more often, but<br />
because a number of our good members stepped up and sent<br />
in a slice from their world. Don’t you love hearing what<br />
others are up to? We are fortunate to have articles that take<br />
us from Germany to Arkansas, to the love of cars, to the seat<br />
of Porsches newest creation. Man, I have to get a drive under<br />
my belt before I pass judgment. From everything I have<br />
heard, the Panamera is a four door like no other!<br />
<strong>January</strong> 5
Selected Highlights:<br />
- Bilstein RSR Series Threaded Body<br />
Coil-over Shock and Strut Kit<br />
- Blueprinted & Balanced 3.4L Engine<br />
- Billet Camber Plates w/Spherical<br />
Monoball cartridge bearings<br />
& triangulated Strut Tower Brace<br />
- Billet sway bars; front through-body &<br />
rear with reinforced mounts &<br />
adjustable spherical drop links<br />
- Front Control Arm & Rear Spring Plate<br />
PolyBronze bushing kits<br />
- Turbo Tie rod kit w/anti-bump<br />
steer adjustment<br />
- 930 Turbo Front Calipers and Rotors<br />
- Period-correct RS ‘long hood’<br />
Factory fenders, hood, etc.<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 7
Maverick Minutes<br />
Lisa Steele, Secretary<br />
Mr. President started off<br />
the meeting with saying<br />
that “November was an<br />
AWESOME month” and he confirmed<br />
several chair changes for the upcoming<br />
year. Tannia Dobbins will be our<br />
new AX Chair with help from Robyn<br />
Howard. Robyn plans on attending<br />
Board meetings and reporting on AX activities. Christy<br />
Payne will be the new Social Chair. Our new PR Chair<br />
will be Andrea Bell while Chris Christensen will be<br />
helping out with Thursday night Happy Hours. That was<br />
about all from Mike and now on to our round the table<br />
reports from each Chair.<br />
Carey Spreen was up first with a report on his Night<br />
Rally. He had about 5 cars join him but quickly found<br />
out that someone (not a MRPCA member) was following<br />
the route of glow sticks and decided to pick them up for<br />
themselves…how rude! Carey learned an important<br />
lesson: Use less portable markers when marking a route.<br />
Carey is still in search for a new volunteer to take over as<br />
Chair or Co-Chair for Rallys. He also had a great idea<br />
about trying out the SCCA Rally to get some ideas to<br />
implement for a Maverick Rally.<br />
Bob Lewis reported that November’s Happy Hour<br />
at Trinity Hall Irish Pub was good with about 25-26<br />
people. It was a lively place and the food was nice. Bob<br />
announced that December’s HH will be at Big Buck’s<br />
Brewery and Steakhouse. Bob also reminded the group<br />
that the Hope House Christmas Party will be on Dec.<br />
19th at the Presbyterian Church in Mineral Wells. A live<br />
German band will be providing some lively entertainment<br />
and Larry Ramsey will be dressing up as good ol’ Santa<br />
himself.<br />
Chris Christensen was present. He has recently been<br />
writing those wonderful articles telling us about all of<br />
the fun they are having at Happy Hours. WELCOME<br />
Chris!<br />
Richard Bradley reported that <strong>Slipstream</strong> is going<br />
well. He did make mention that the information on the<br />
website had the correct date, but incorrect day for the<br />
Christmas Party. If you read and I mean “really read”<br />
<strong>Slipstream</strong>, you already had the correct information.<br />
Keep those articles coming in.<br />
Jan Mayo announced that she has a possible new<br />
advertiser. His name is Kevin Fortier with KAF Systems.<br />
They specialize in really cool functional art furniture.<br />
Look for them coming soon to a possible ½ page in<br />
<strong>Slipstream</strong>. We welcome our newest advertiser Invisibra!<br />
Believe me when I say that there were several people in<br />
the room that got the wrong idea on this product…it had<br />
to be explained that it is a high quality paint protection<br />
film that helps protect your car.<br />
Wendy Shoffit started her report with a many thanks<br />
to all who helped make Founders’ Day a success. The<br />
Silent Auction went really well and had a net profit of<br />
$2,840 all going to the Hope House. Wendy also wrote<br />
out “Thank You” notes to all sponsors who gave to the<br />
auction and raffle. Before Wendy hands over her Social<br />
Hat to Christy, she has the Holiday Party all planned with<br />
Macaroni Grill catering. There are only 15 people who<br />
have signed up to attend so an email blast will go out to<br />
encourage more people to get signed up.<br />
Linda Bambina had two items on her agenda to share<br />
with the group. She announced that Clara and Bob Lewis<br />
will not be able to attend the Christmas Party, so Linda<br />
will be bringing the cute little “Hope House” Clara made<br />
to hold the Wal-Mart gift cards. The second item Linda<br />
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talked about was Round-Up. She is investigating some<br />
different possibilities to change up Round-Up so that it<br />
will not require so much time and preparation for this<br />
event. Apparently, the 356 Club goes to some great<br />
places (mostly touring and places to eat) without giving<br />
goodie bags, shirts, and there are no competitive events.<br />
It would be a very “organized tour.” Jack Griffin spoke up<br />
and reminded the group that PCA has a wonderful event<br />
every year called Porsche Palooza in Arkansas. Linda<br />
loved the idea of maybe “piggybacking” on their event.<br />
Stayed tuned for the latest updates!<br />
Lisa Steele gave big thanks to Jack Griffin for<br />
helping make our last DE a success with Hooters as our<br />
caterer. Everyone really liked the food and the price was<br />
absolutely unbeatable. I plan to see if we can get them<br />
back out at the track again and maybe even for our Club<br />
Race.<br />
Christy Payne will be officially taking over as Social<br />
Chair for the Member’s Party in <strong>January</strong> (with some<br />
helpful guidance from Wendy.) She already has some<br />
ideas for some social events for next year. One being the<br />
idea to combine Founder’s Day and the Christmas Party<br />
combining both of the budgets in to one…sounds like this<br />
could be a great idea! Christy also shared an idea that<br />
James Shoffit had. It was suggested that we start having<br />
a Thursday lunch at Kincaid’s in Southlake. Apparently,<br />
this place has some awesome burgers.<br />
Pat Friend wanted to talk about some possible changes<br />
we could make to the Goodie Store website. Pat spoke<br />
with National about how they do their goodie store and<br />
he found that most regions use a company that sets up<br />
the website and manages pretty much the whole thing but<br />
does take 80% of the net profit. Since we make no profit<br />
as is, if we went with this type of service, we would start<br />
making 20% on all of our goodies sold. Pat is going to<br />
investigate this further with the help of some information<br />
that Christy has on a company that provides this same<br />
type of service. They will compare notes and see if this is<br />
the direction we want to go with our Goodie Store.<br />
Jack Griffin (my hero) reported that the Concours at<br />
the Cooper Aerobic Center was a good event. The food<br />
was furnished by Rockfish and was loved by all. Jack<br />
mentioned that the Cooper Aerobic Center would love to<br />
have more events at their place.<br />
Bryan Bell, Mr. Vice President, will be “running”<br />
the next board meeting and rumor has it that it will be<br />
finished in record time. I can’t wait!<br />
Travis Howard announced a schedule change for the<br />
Time Trial at Motor Sport Ranch from May 16 to 23rd.<br />
Just keep an eye out for the calendar because next year’s<br />
events are posted and filling up dates quickly.<br />
Speaking of calendar…Robyn Howard said that the<br />
calendar is good and all Autocross and Time Trial dates<br />
are all on it.<br />
Mike finished up the meeting with three more items<br />
of discussion on his agenda. First, he received an email<br />
from 5th Gear telling him they would love to have a Swap<br />
meet or Concours at their new facility. Everyone really<br />
liked this idea. The second item really sparked some<br />
excitement in the room. Apparently, the backyard at the<br />
Hope House is in shambles. Mike thought it would be<br />
nice to create a garden area for the mothers to sit and enjoy<br />
a peaceful place and have a nice play area for the kids.<br />
Linda Bambina immediately volunteered to get some<br />
quotes and line up some possible landscape architects.<br />
The goal for this project to be complete is some time in<br />
Spring…just in time to see the flowers bloom and enjoy<br />
the beautiful weather. The last item on Mike’s list was<br />
announcing Mav of the Month…here it comes…are you<br />
really ready…well, if you have already read this issue<br />
of <strong>Slipstream</strong>, then you know that Tracey Gross is being<br />
honored for all that she gives to this club.<br />
Meeting Adjourned around 8:30.<br />
<strong>January</strong> 9
Feels Like Home<br />
by Bob Beck<br />
Porsche likes to speak of its DNA. Study the<br />
Porsche family of cars and you’ll understand<br />
what Porsche’s DNA is all about. It’s a family of<br />
technology, passion and proportion in motion. It is perhaps<br />
best said that nothing drives like a 911. If you are going to<br />
build the ultimate sports car it goes without saying that it<br />
will be compared to a 911. Introduced in 1964, the archetype<br />
911 defines the sports car.<br />
On the other hand if you are going to build an ultimate<br />
sports sedan it would typically be compared to an Audi/<br />
Mercedes/BMW/Maserati-ish sort of thing. There are a lot of<br />
good choices in the luxury sports sedan category – A8, M5,<br />
CLS AMG, Quattroporte. At one time it would have been<br />
hard to choose, but no longer. Today there is really only one<br />
choice and it is unequivocally the Porsche Panamera. It’s that<br />
good. You simply<br />
need drive it to<br />
understand.<br />
As a born<br />
skeptic, I traveled<br />
off to sample the<br />
new Panamera<br />
as a 911 man.<br />
On the roads of<br />
Milwaukee and the track at Road America, I would test the<br />
Panamera as a 911 devotee. Being a 911 man I really don’t<br />
do automotive change well. With apologies to Porsche, I<br />
haven’t even completely accepted the Cayenne. I have owned<br />
or driven every type Porsche made and enjoyed them all but<br />
I’m a 911 man at heart. There is something intangible that<br />
gets in your blood with the 911. It is driving perfection.<br />
Now, frankly, my automotive world order has been<br />
rocked. A middle age fog could be clouding my vision but<br />
I’m rethinking the whole 911 man thing. Maybe a Panamera<br />
could fit in my garage, too? Maybe I’d like to take the wife<br />
and kids when I lap the Nürburgring. No, my manhood is<br />
not withering as we speak. I am still loyal to the 911 but<br />
the Panamera is an amazing car. Perhaps it’s even worthy of<br />
consideration as the perfect Porsche.<br />
The technology and numbers of the Panamera have<br />
been well documented by now. It brings a lot to the game<br />
with an efficient direct injection engine mated to a smooth<br />
7-speed PDK transmission with all of the suspension and<br />
engine tuning buttons one could dream of located on the<br />
center console. S and 4S versions sport a 4.8-liter, 400 hp<br />
V8 engine, while the Turbo version pumps out a conservative<br />
500 hp to all four wheels. When the launch control feature<br />
activates, it’s nothing short of amazing. Prices range from<br />
$90K to over $130K.<br />
Porsche Panamera, embrace the moment.<br />
All this tech goodness delivers stunning performance.<br />
The performance is beyond the sports sedan expectations.<br />
It’s really a super sedan. The Panamera Turbo has a Porsche<br />
stated zero-to-sixty of 3.8 seconds, only three-tenths slower<br />
than the 911 Turbo. In usual Porsche fashion, these numbers<br />
are a bit conservative as the street times are rumored to be<br />
3.5 for the Turbo Panamera. The 400 hp normally aspirated<br />
Panamera turns in a healthy 5.2 second zero-to-sixty. Tie<br />
this together with the legendary Porsche chassis and brakes<br />
and we’re off to the races.<br />
But numbers and factoids don’t make a Porsche. (Heck,<br />
the Corvette has good numbers but it ain’t no Porsche, my<br />
friend.) The roads and race tracks of the real world is where<br />
Porsche has earned its’ reputation. My Panamera test drive<br />
came with real world extremes. Milwaukee has some of<br />
the worst weather rutted roads in the world. Contrast this<br />
with Road America, just outside of Milwaukee, one of the<br />
best driving, well-storied tracks in the country. So how does<br />
it drive? As expected in a six-figure car, the Panamera is<br />
prefect for a long haul drive in the city or country. The long<br />
wheelbase and sophisticated suspension tuning make for<br />
a perfect compromise of supple ride and top of the class<br />
handling. With smooth PDK transmission, efficient direct<br />
injection power in the 400 or 500 hp range, it takes off like<br />
your favorite executive jet. To complete the experience,<br />
Porsche adds to that what it calls an “executive class interior”<br />
(think Bentley meets lear jet).<br />
Porsche is very, very good at most things, but they have<br />
yet to master Mother Nature. So I tackled Road America in<br />
the wet... very wet. An ark would have been more appropriate<br />
for the biblical proportions of rain. Chassis dynamics and<br />
physics come to play much earlier in this kind of weather.<br />
Fortunately for me I had Porsche factory driver Patrick Long<br />
riding shotgun to help temper my driving skills.<br />
Belted in a six-figure car with 500 horsepower on a very<br />
wet track I had never driven, Patrick and I paddled up to<br />
10
Feels Like Home continued<br />
by Bob Beck<br />
speed. Once settled into the cockpit, I would have sworn<br />
I had jumped into a 911. It felt like home. The IP and<br />
cockpit are designed to feel like home for the 911 driver.<br />
The power and handling are world-class good. The car<br />
feels completely neutral and begs to<br />
be pushed hard even in the wet. The<br />
steering is precise, but a little numb<br />
on feedback compared to the 911, but<br />
this is understandable with the large<br />
engine up front. The Michelin Pilot<br />
Sport PS2s offered amazing grip as<br />
I found out when I unleashed the<br />
500 hp Turbo on the back straight.<br />
The thrust was astonishing. The only<br />
thing that felt out of sorts were the<br />
sweet engine sounds coming from<br />
the wrong end of car. Oh well, lots of<br />
Le Mans winning cars have had the<br />
engine up front.<br />
A lot has been made of the exterior design. Some say it’s<br />
not the best looking car ever made. Certainly, the same was<br />
said of the original Beetle and even the first 911, the 901. The<br />
Panamera looks like a Porsche and one must see it in person<br />
to judge how well form follows function. My experience<br />
is that when you see it in person and drive it at speed and<br />
the Panamera morphs into a thing of absolute beauty. Form<br />
so very much follows function. The proportions of the car<br />
in motion define its beauty. Porsches are not static objects.<br />
Touch the Panamera, drive it, and you will see the beauty.<br />
Whether driving on Road America or up to your favorite<br />
valet parking event on Saturday night and you are front row<br />
material.<br />
The most important design feature of the Panamera is<br />
the interior. Fittingly this is the first Porsche that focuses<br />
on passengers as well as the driver. It is a unique interior<br />
synthesis between sports car and luxury sedan. It is a<br />
distinctly Porsche interior with a splash of English-like<br />
coachwork and luxury to boot. This the most luxurious<br />
interior seen from Stuttgart. Four things immediately stand<br />
out: first, the ascending center console, reminiscent of the<br />
Carrera GT; second, the four individual seats, all 911-style<br />
sport seats for great support; third, the amount of space in<br />
the rear, where even taller passengers will find plenty of<br />
legroom and headroom (with room for those well over 6 feet<br />
tall); and fourth, the versatility of the luggage compartment,<br />
thanks to the folding rear seats. The driver feels coddled<br />
by all the dynamic features of the Panamera interior - seat<br />
position, pedal placement, instrument panel and so on.<br />
Fortunately the dynamic luxury the driver feels is shared<br />
with all the passengers - the experience is indistinguishable<br />
Reprinted with permission from PCA.org<br />
from one seat to the next. The center console extends into the<br />
rear seats, so the rear passengers can access their individual<br />
gadgets for climate control and seating options. Every<br />
surface can be covered in the rich leather with wood and<br />
metal touches. In fact<br />
the only people who are<br />
not going to enjoy this<br />
interior are the folks at<br />
Mercedes or Bentley. It<br />
is stunning.<br />
I sense a paradigm<br />
shift coming and it is the<br />
Panamera. Perhaps this<br />
is the first archetype for<br />
the super sedan. Porsche<br />
definitely built a better<br />
sedan and in the process<br />
they may have built one<br />
of the best Porsches ever. Sixty plus years ago, Dr. Ferry<br />
Porsche built the car he wanted and the world loved. Now<br />
Porsche has built the car you and your family will want. The<br />
Panamera has arrived. Embrace the moment and take a trip<br />
to your local Porsche dealership.<br />
HONEYMOON<br />
E X P E R T S<br />
Owned and operated by Jay Walker, II,<br />
maverick region member since 1997.<br />
940-565-8111<br />
800-441-2431<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 11
The Longest Road to Porsche Happiness<br />
by Marty Lumpkin<br />
Hello everyone! Last I let you all into my head<br />
we were getting ready to start the autocross<br />
season, now we are in the summer break part of<br />
the season. My 10 mm wrench left a second-degree burn on<br />
my hand: that will teach me to leave it outside for 10 whole<br />
minutes.<br />
As shocking as it may seem I still have the same car!<br />
and I have touched just about every bolt it has at least once.<br />
I have even had other Porsche club members touch them<br />
hoping their blood mixed with mine would create a DNA<br />
sequence the car would accept as the correct sacrifice. I have<br />
worked very hard to make it the perfect compromise, street,<br />
autocross, time trial car. The 944 Turbo does multitask well,<br />
but it is the hardest car to drive smoothly I have ever been<br />
in. The power comes on like a switch and the throttle is not<br />
directly connected to the motor, (i.e.) lag. It is a wonderful<br />
streetcar with AC that blows cold, handles bad roads fine and<br />
has no problems passing anything including the gas station.<br />
I now have a little more time on my hands as I am not<br />
searching for my car anymore, so I thought I would run down<br />
some of the cars I have raced with all of you. You must now<br />
set your mental clock back to 1977 (if you were not born<br />
yet good for you! keep it to yourself! and rent the movie!)<br />
I was a 10 year old boy when family went to the Drive In<br />
Movies (a place you could see a movie on a huge screen from<br />
the comfort of your car while the mosquitoes get their fill<br />
of free O+ as I lived in Pensacola, FL) to see a movie called<br />
Smokey and the Bandit, you may have heard of it. Sure there<br />
were some famous people in it, I think his name was Burt<br />
and I had a little crush on Frog, and then there was “IT” that<br />
1977 black SE Trans Am I had more than a crush on that. So<br />
what started as a seed with Speed Racer was now blooming<br />
into a car love addiction. I joined the navy in the late 80’s<br />
and worked on cars on my off time, my first car was a 1972<br />
Camaro, beige with a brown vinyl top and yes it was that<br />
ugly. It ran on a weekly basis and broke on a daily basis.<br />
Most notably the car had a hood scoop not because I need<br />
more room under the hood but because it back fired though<br />
the carburetor and lit the air cleaner on fire. As there are few<br />
carburetors anymore I will try to get you a visual. You are<br />
sitting at a stop light you hear a POP under the hood and<br />
the car stalls, your first instinct is to try to start the car so<br />
you turn the key the starter engages still turning, you check<br />
the gas gauge hmm still has gas?? Pump the gas a bit then<br />
you notice smoke (NOT GOOD) and bubbling paint on the<br />
hood. (Do not attempt the following, as this was when I was<br />
young and still had a bucket of luck.) You then leap from the<br />
drive’s seat (this car accounts for 98% of my total assets the<br />
other 2% would be the tools I have to work on the car) open<br />
the hood to give the fire more oxygen (BIGGER FIRE), in<br />
a moment I reacted, grabbed the radiator over flow tube and<br />
vented the radiator cap, now I’m a fireman!!! New fuel line,<br />
rebuild carburetor, cut hole in hood to remove bad paint, rivet<br />
bad hood scoop on!! Sold the car, road my motorcycle for 2<br />
years and picked up my first Trans Am not the 77 I wished<br />
for, but a black 1979 SE (SE’s were black and with gold birds<br />
and the John Player Special style pin stripes) with T-tops. I<br />
was uber cool in my little world (Still am).<br />
I Left the Navy and moved to Dallas. A Black Trans Am<br />
with T-tops in Texas is also known as Shake-n-Bake; it was<br />
traded in on my first sports car an ‘83 RX-7 GSL. I traded that<br />
car for a very rare 1977 Trans Am SE black on black, but this<br />
car had a 4 speed which was one of 1251 made. Worth quite<br />
a bit today, Burt would be so proud. Traded that for a Buick<br />
Grand National, very cool, but still had a T-top fun car.<br />
Next I went drag racing, built a 1978 Trans Am this time<br />
white with baby blue bird a 7.4 liter, sleeper if there ever was.<br />
That car was running 12 second quarter miles when I got<br />
beat by some very loud red necks in a 55 Chevy. My pride<br />
then built a 605 hp 1970 Camaro bright yellow. This car was<br />
anti sleeper, when I drove it, bricks fell out of buildings, and<br />
mothers gathered the children in storm shelters. It was SSF<br />
(scary stupid fast). I still did not own a trailer so I drove the<br />
car to work, put the slicks in the back seat and drove to the<br />
motorplex, the car ran a best of 10.98 at 124 mph, the 55<br />
Chevy ran a not so close 11.84 at 111, pride was all better!<br />
One last red neck note, they used that car on Walker Texas<br />
Ranger, no really, it was Chuck Norris tough.<br />
With pride restored I went back to Pontiac, but this time<br />
I wanted a GTO. While driving a friend to look at a V8 Vega<br />
a glint of gold caught my eye, it was a 1970 GTO! She was<br />
running on 7 of her 8 cylinders, but the price was right and<br />
after I purchased the car the old man said “Oh I forgot to give<br />
you the wing for the back,” I smiled and sputtered home in<br />
my 1970 GTO Judge. The Judge was built to my liking after<br />
5 months of hard work, competition yellow with tan cloth.<br />
The original engine was hurt so I replaced it with a 468 cid<br />
brute. I owned this car for longer than any other and “The<br />
Judge” was directly responsible for me meeting my wife,<br />
Alicia (it was a very good car!). While working on the Judge<br />
and many of my other projects, Mike Underwood’s 944 turbo<br />
gave me that 1977 giddy 10 year old crush on a car and after<br />
a lot of attempts and failures, I have built, with the help of my<br />
Porsche Club friends and my wife, another uber cool car.<br />
This is just a small review of happy memories, I have owned<br />
over 100 cars over the years. This is my 5th Porsche and I am<br />
very happy with it. I have noticed there are 2 kinds of Porsche<br />
drivers/people, those who keep them and those that build<br />
them. I am the latter. As a parting note, the Turbo is resting<br />
well in the garage and there is a 1970 Cougar Eliminator<br />
Clone in my front yard so I can build without selling this<br />
time. Looking forward to seeing all of you soon.<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 13
Hare and Hound Night Rally - Lesson Learned<br />
by Carey Spreen<br />
I<br />
am not sure when Maverick<br />
Region last put on a Hare and<br />
Hound Rally, but I know it has<br />
been a few years, so I decided to do<br />
one this year. And as a twist, based on<br />
suggestions from previous participants,<br />
I planned to run it at night. I was able<br />
to enlist the assistance of Betty and Clay<br />
Perrine, who agreed to run the “sweep” car, departing<br />
after the last participant, to help in rounding up strays and<br />
picking up markers.<br />
You may be wondering what a Hare and Hound Rally<br />
is. Also known as a Lime Run, it is basically a Road<br />
Rally (on public roads, at legal speeds, driving licensed<br />
vehicles) in which the Rallymaster (the Hare) drives a<br />
route from point A to point B, going as straight as possible,<br />
but marking any intersections at which he or she makes<br />
a decision to turn... or NOT to turn. It is the job of the<br />
entrants (the Hounds) to find the route that the Hare took.<br />
At the end of the event, the Hound whose elapsed mileage<br />
most closely matches that of the Hare wins. Speed is not<br />
a factor in an event like this; it all boils down to miles<br />
traveled.<br />
The intersections at which the Hare makes a decision<br />
are marked somehow, typically with bags of lime (hence<br />
the traditional name “Lime Run”) that are thrown down<br />
on the pavement so that they break open and spread lime<br />
on the road. To confirm the correct direction away from<br />
the intersection, another bag of lime, thrown down less<br />
than 3/10 mile from the intersection, marks the direction<br />
that the Hare took. For a night rally, broken bags of lime<br />
are not visible until you are right on top of them, and even<br />
then are easy to miss, so the idea was to use Glow Sticks<br />
to mark the intersections. I bought a few 10-inch-long<br />
Glow Sticks as a test, and found that, once lit, they glow<br />
brightly for almost 12 hours, and are visible from at least<br />
1/10 mile away in the dark. Additionally, Clay and Betty’s<br />
Maverick Region Rally Chair<br />
experience with a recent Hare and Hound night rally also<br />
indicated that the Glow Stick plan should work.<br />
The night of the event, we had 5 cars show up at the<br />
meeting point, and after the drivers meeting, we left en<br />
masse on the Odometer Check leg. An odometer check<br />
allows the calculation of the difference between the<br />
Hare’s odometer reading and that of the Hounds, so that<br />
differences in odometer readings can be accounted for by<br />
mathematically adjusting everyone’s reading to the same<br />
standard.<br />
Once we all arrived at the end of the odo check leg,<br />
the Hare (that’s me) continued on to put out markers,<br />
while Clay and Betty held the entrants to give me a 15<br />
minute head start, and then began releasing the Hounds<br />
at 5 minute intervals in order to keep them spread out.<br />
All seemed to be going well until I started receiving calls<br />
on my cell, indicating that markers were missing and the<br />
Hounds were all gathered at one particular intersection<br />
with no idea about which way to go. Not a good sign.<br />
As it turned out, the Glow Sticks were just a bit TOO<br />
easy to see in the dark. Someone apparently happened to<br />
see the Hare putting out the Glow Sticks, and decided they<br />
were just too attractive to pass up. As they were sweeping<br />
the route, Clay and Betty actually saw someone with their<br />
car mired off road and walking around with a Glow Stick<br />
as a souvenir. Hope it was worth it!<br />
Eventually, all but one Hound had to open their<br />
emergency bail-out instructions in order to make it to<br />
the end. Not the way I had hoped it would turn out, but,<br />
against all odds, everyone seems to have had a good time.<br />
At least they said so at the Ice Cream Social and Trophy<br />
Presentation, hosted by Linda and Dan Ruehs.<br />
So the take-away? Next time use markers that are not<br />
quite so portable!<br />
Thanks to all who braved the rain, the heat, and the<br />
darkness to attend Maverick Region rallies this year!<br />
Hare and Hound Results:<br />
Place Driver Navigator Vehicle Corrected Mileage<br />
1st Allan Jacobs David Sparks Porsche Carrera 74.19 (did not open Bail-Out Envelope!)<br />
2nd Mike DeJong Emily DeJong BMW 325i 67.71<br />
3rd Jim Bowen Janet Pelchat Porsche Carrera 73.96<br />
4th Mark Luxbacher Jimmy Luxbacher Porsche Boxster 88.54<br />
5th Wayne Elliott Megg Elliott Porsche Turbo DNF<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 15
16
Cliff’s Ramblings<br />
by Cliff Blackshear<br />
Every now and then something shows up in the<br />
shop and we need Porsche to help us in getting<br />
to a correct resolution. There are times that<br />
only they can find an answer. It does not happen often, but<br />
it can happen. I was involved in one case that could only<br />
be solved by them in a reasonably timely manner.<br />
It was a check engine light issue on a 04 Boxster.<br />
Owner says that check engine light is intermittently<br />
flashing while driving. It doesn’t do it every day but it<br />
happens pretty often.<br />
So we check the DME (fuel/ignition microprocessor)<br />
for fault codes. No faults recorded. I drove the car and after<br />
awhile I experienced it. Duplicated the symptom. Brought<br />
the car into the shop. Kept it running to preserve everything<br />
possible in system software and interrogated with system<br />
tester. No faults...<br />
This is not supposed to ever happen per EPA<br />
mandated OBD2 requirements. OBD system is there to<br />
help keep cars running clean. Combustion process has to<br />
be very complete under all circumstances. The monitoring<br />
software is designed to be very sensitive to any minor<br />
abnormality. A flashing light is supposed to be the highest<br />
priority warning. It means that a problem has occurred that<br />
can damage catalytic converters and totally compromise<br />
not only emission output, but also the performance level<br />
should be greatly reduced. With a flashing light there is a<br />
high probability that one or more cylinders are misfiring.<br />
This 04 Boxster ran like a scalded cat. It never<br />
exhibited any uneven running problems for me. I get John<br />
Gladwill involved and discuss this with him. His ability to<br />
think out of the box is unrivaled in my world and I look<br />
to his thoughts often. We help each other out all the time<br />
and it’s kinda fun. He drives the car a few times and looks<br />
at data as I had and also came up blank. He did however,<br />
establish a way to drive the car and reproduce the event<br />
more consistently. Which happened to be “Drive it like ya<br />
stole it.” There is a surprise (If ya know John yer chuckling<br />
about now.)<br />
In our shop we take a lot of pride in getting things<br />
done without any help. It is important to us that we get it<br />
done correctly and then report to Porsche what we found.<br />
We are one of 20 monitoring dealers and reports flow from<br />
us all the time.<br />
Yet this car had us stumped. So I file request for<br />
technical assistance. The reply was “That cannot happen.<br />
The design of the software will not let that happen,<br />
ever! Are you positive it is the check engine light that<br />
is flashing?”<br />
That’s Not Possible!<br />
After a few phone conversations we are told someone<br />
is coming out to see this and lend a hand.<br />
The gentleman that came out (and I will not name<br />
factory people here ever) was amazing. He told me about<br />
writing the software for the 02 vario-cam plus application.<br />
The system that not only varies cam timing, but also valve<br />
lift. Indicated that the variable valve lift was the hardest<br />
thing he ever dealt with. Trying to get smooth engine<br />
operation when a system goes for 4mm to 9mm valve lift<br />
was quit an undertaking... now I ramble.<br />
So anyway, he brings his own laptop to plug into the<br />
car and John takes him for a drive. He finds the root of the<br />
check engine light in minutes.<br />
In Germany in 04 (I dunno about now,) they had<br />
an emission inspection process that was way different<br />
from ours.<br />
In the trunk of a Boxster is a relay board on the left<br />
side behind the trim panel. Not all of the relay positions<br />
are occupied by relays. Some are open positions. When a<br />
vehicle is due for an emission/safety inspection across the<br />
pond, the technician accesses that board. They apply a 2<br />
pronged jumper wire in one of the open relay positions.<br />
This puts the system into diagnosis mode to ensure all<br />
systems are on line and functioning in the fuel ignition<br />
world. When the pins are jumped, the check engine<br />
light flashes to indicate the DME is running a self<br />
diagnostic routine.<br />
So guess what? Inside the wire harness that exited that<br />
board and went straight to the DME, was an intermittent<br />
short between these two circuits. We did not find any place<br />
on the harness that showed any signs of pinching, incorrect<br />
routing, nothing. When nothing was found with the harness<br />
the DME became suspect. So we eliminated these two<br />
circuits to the DME and test drove. Over and over and over<br />
and over. Problem was eliminated. We monitored every<br />
input to the DME while driving and found everything to<br />
be absolutely spot on. Car was declared right and has not<br />
had a single problem since........<br />
I cannot say definitively that only a factory engineer<br />
could have found that, but the information about those<br />
circuits and their purpose has never surfaced on this side<br />
of the Atlantic. In our wiring diagrams at that time, the<br />
wires and their connections were innocuous to us. They<br />
had no meaning and no explanation. I have not looked<br />
lately to see if maybe the connections have at least been<br />
given a name. Like ROW emissions or something.<br />
Love what I do!<br />
Cliff<br />
<strong>January</strong> 17
The Perfect Guy Trip<br />
by Bob Kuykendall AIA<br />
Last June, my wife had this great idea.<br />
She dearly wanted to take our daughter to<br />
New York this fall to see the sights, catch some<br />
Broadway shows, and even sign up for the “Sex and the<br />
City” tour. A true<br />
Cosmopolitan ladies’<br />
weekend, drinking<br />
Cosmo’s of course.<br />
Luckily for me I said<br />
“yes, that sounds like a<br />
dream trip.”<br />
She was excited,<br />
and as I helped her<br />
book a nice NY hotel,<br />
and find the best airfares and show tickets on the internet,<br />
it dawned on me to ask “hey- this is a world class trip, so<br />
where do the guys get to go?”<br />
And then it hit me…..my son Robert and I would go<br />
to Germany and visit car museums, including the new<br />
Porsche museum at Zuffenhausen. Yes, a perfect guy’s trip<br />
- Autobahn, German cars, Porsche, and Oktoberfest. My<br />
wife agreed, that sounded like a good idea. So, we had our<br />
green light. Yes!<br />
Open Itinerary. That’s the way my son and<br />
I prefer to travel. No advance reservations,<br />
no pressure to be anywhere at any time, free<br />
to roam and stay where the staying was good.<br />
All we had to do was catch that flight back on<br />
Monday. Five days of German bliss and open<br />
road adventure.<br />
I’ve decided that planning and dreaming<br />
about a trip is almost more fun than actually<br />
being there. Let’s see, we land in Frankfurt<br />
and need an Autobahn worthy car. But at 1.6<br />
dollars to the euro, I’ve got to go easy here.<br />
Just a cheap ride, like a VW Golf, is going to<br />
run about $500 for 4 days. No Porsche Carrera<br />
S on this trip, although Avis did have them at<br />
the airport. Luckily, I used my upgrades and at least moved<br />
us up to a Mercedes C class, a C180 Kompressor with built<br />
in navigation. This would do….our Autobahn warrior was<br />
ready.<br />
As soon as we land, we are southbound to Stuttgart.<br />
When the gray circular sign with a diagonal white stripe (no<br />
speed limit) finally appears, we are immediately hammer<br />
down, but not for more than three to four kilometers at a<br />
time due to heavy traffic. Aaargghhh- we are finally on the<br />
autobahn, but can’t go maximum speed just yet. Patience!<br />
photos by Bob Kuykendall<br />
After touring downtown Stuttgart, we go to bed early<br />
so that we would be fresh for tomorrow’s two museums-<br />
Porsche and Mercedes. I could barely sleep!<br />
As Clint Blackman reported in a previous issue of<br />
<strong>Slipstream</strong>, the new Porsche museum is world class and you<br />
can easily take the train to within 300 feet of the front door.<br />
Robert and I spent all morning there, and after about 3-1/2<br />
hours of seeing every important 917, 962, Gmund no. 001,<br />
Carrera RS, RS Spyder, and development history of all the<br />
early cars, I told my son we needed to leave. Did I just say<br />
that? I simply couldn’t take any more, as I was mentally<br />
wiped out- too much, too great, beyond mere mortal sensory<br />
overload. You have to see this place!<br />
But don’t leave Stuttgart without seeing the Mercedes<br />
museum on the other side of town. After a quick lunch and<br />
another train ride, I was gaining my strength back. As we<br />
approach the MB museum, I am taken by the architecture.<br />
Yes, it’s the building you see on the US commercial where<br />
they crash the new E-coupe through the lobby glass. So<br />
industrial, high tech, over-engineered, and Bauhaus inspired.<br />
Yes, this is Germany all right.<br />
At the Mercedes museum, it’s all about development of<br />
the automobile over time, as each ramp takes you down thru<br />
the next decade<br />
of world history<br />
and the evolution<br />
of Daimler-Benz<br />
products. The<br />
race car display<br />
is phenomenalusing<br />
a banked<br />
track section<br />
to display all<br />
the important<br />
race cars from<br />
300 SLR to<br />
H a m i l t o n ’ s<br />
Formula 1 world<br />
championship<br />
McLaren. In fact, a simulator ride puts you in the McLaren<br />
at Monte Carlo. Wow!<br />
That evening, it’s on to Bavaria. As a respite from<br />
automotive heaven, we will spend the next day going<br />
“castleing” as we spent the night at Füssen near the Austrian<br />
border at a Zimmer Frie. The food was unexpectedly 5-star<br />
at our cheap inn. The bacon-wrapped venison was typical<br />
German cuisine. The next morning, it’s on to the castles of<br />
Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau. Maybe I’ll add a<br />
throne room to my house!<br />
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Bavaria to Munich, what great country roads, green<br />
meadows that look like the Sound of Music, flower<br />
balconies, and cows wearing bells. Wooden barns and<br />
the friendliest people on earth<br />
(except for Texans of course.)<br />
We enter the Autobahn west<br />
of Munich in an unrestricted<br />
section. Whooosh- a screaming<br />
black M6 goes by at what<br />
looked to be 300 kph. OMG!<br />
It takes three kilometers before<br />
we dare enter that 3rd lane.<br />
We push our little 4-banger to<br />
230 kph (about 143 mph) and<br />
are finally able to stay up with<br />
the big boys. But, that M6 is<br />
probably already in Munich.<br />
Oktoberfest! Yes, it’s the<br />
last weekend and it’s Friday,<br />
so I booked a hotel in advance,<br />
which was smart. The whole downtown area is sold out.<br />
We are staying out by the airport, and the train stop is not<br />
far away. The perfect logistics for getting to/from the beer<br />
festival.<br />
I had no idea! We arrive at the Theresienwiese only to<br />
find about 200,000 people already there. They have been<br />
drinking beer since 10:00 in the morning. Just imagine a<br />
Texas State Fair and two Cowboy games letting out at the<br />
same time. And this size crowd every day for three weeks!<br />
But, we are taken by the fact that the Germans are<br />
there to have fun, not just drink, so there are no fights<br />
or drunken brawls. Just singing and chanting. Yes,<br />
I’ll have another liter of Augustiner. Prost!<br />
Our last day takes us to the BMW museum<br />
near the old Olympic grounds. Here we go again!<br />
Unbelievable architecture, world class displays,<br />
fantastic cars. The fabric Z car, my old 3.0 CS,<br />
M-class development, history of the aviation<br />
engines. It’s all here, in an underground sustainable<br />
building with a green roof. We are so far behind in<br />
the US!<br />
Alas…it is time to go. But we still have a few<br />
hours before our flight from Munich to London,<br />
then home. What could we do to kill a few hours?<br />
AUTOBAHN! we both say at the same time, so we<br />
head north on the A9 towards Berlin. After wringing<br />
out the C-class for all she had, we were finally done.<br />
Everyone wondered why we were laughing and smiling so<br />
much as we boarded the plane. What’s wrong with those<br />
guys?<br />
I didn’t have the heart to tell them – after all, this was all<br />
my wife’s idea!<br />
<strong>January</strong> 19
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<strong>January</strong> Trivia<br />
It’s Easy to Play:<br />
Play here for Fun and Education and find the<br />
Answers below<br />
OR<br />
Play for Prizes on the Web at http://mavpca.org<br />
with the<br />
Answers and Winners to be posted at the end of<br />
the Month<br />
Thanks to Jerry DeFeo for putting this and the<br />
Web Trivia together!<br />
Congratulations to our November Web Winner<br />
Josef Stuhlreyer<br />
getting all five correct and will<br />
receive a $25 Gift Certificate to<br />
Zims Autotechnik<br />
Honorable Mentions for getting all 5 answers correct;<br />
Carey Spreen, Cyril Reif, and Mark Hanna. The Tie-breaker is by a Drawing!!!<br />
1. The Maverick Region is in Zone 5 of the PCA. How many Zones are<br />
there in the PCA<br />
a. 5 b. 10 c. 11 d. 13<br />
2. In the Porsche World we have lots of initials that stand for something.<br />
Just as we learned PDK, we now find there is ‘PTV’ which stands for?<br />
a. Porsche Torque Vectoring b. Porsche Transmission Velocity<br />
c. Porsche Transaxle Velocity<br />
d. Porsche Timing Venturi<br />
3. The newest special 3.8L car to come out of Porsche is the 250 Limited<br />
Edition 911 Sport Classic. You will be able to order one unless you live<br />
in the _____?<br />
a. UK b. USA c. Middle East d. Netherlands<br />
4. One of the rarest Porsche’s ever built was the one-off Hispano-Aleman<br />
Vizcaya. It was a re-bodied ______?<br />
a. 1967 911 ST b. 1973 911 RS c. 1970 914-6<br />
d. 1970 908/3<br />
5. A new Porsche Driving Experience has now opened at the Silverstone<br />
Track in the UK. A Half-day YouDrive@Porsche course cost just<br />
_____ per person and you can book this for yourself or as a gift. Just<br />
visit the Website at www.porsche.co.uk/experience for all the info.<br />
a. 115 GBP b. 135 GBP c. 165 GBP d. 195 GBP<br />
Answers: 1) d 2) a 3) b 4) c 5) c<br />
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New Member Spotlight: Rich Wiegard<br />
by Andrea Bell<br />
This month’s spotlight is on Rich<br />
Wiegard. Rich says he’s always<br />
been a sports car nut. After<br />
graduating from college, he had a 1994<br />
Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo and helped start<br />
the Twin Turbo Z’s of Dallas club. After<br />
that he owned several BMWs. He thought<br />
he’d stick with those for a<br />
while, until a friend told him he should drive a<br />
Porsche. Always one to love a good test drive,<br />
he didn’t think it would hurt to just drive one.<br />
That started a search all over the country for<br />
just the right car. He ended up finding his 2002<br />
911 Turbo with X50 package with only 8,500<br />
miles on it just 15 miles away from his Frisco<br />
home. This proud Porsche owner was already<br />
attending his first DE event at Motorsport<br />
Ranch within a month of owning his Porsche.<br />
Rich is originally from Houston, where his<br />
parents still live. He’s been mostly in the DFW<br />
area since graduating from Texas A&M in 1994. He has a<br />
sister living in Frisco about a mile away with her husband<br />
and twin children. Rich got engaged back in August with<br />
wedding plans in Kauai in March. She’s attended two DE<br />
events with him and loves the “P-Car,” so he figured she was<br />
a good catch. He says he just needs time to convince her to<br />
trade in her VW Beetle for her own “P-Car.”<br />
Besides being a car nut and participating in DE events,<br />
he enjoys a wide variety of other activities. He played<br />
racquetball competitively in college and still plays a couple<br />
times a week. He<br />
loves to travel, see<br />
new places and<br />
try new foods. In<br />
his spare time, he<br />
enjoys playing on<br />
his Xbox 360. He<br />
enjoys entertainingfamily<br />
and friends,<br />
going to movies and<br />
landscaping. He’s<br />
been told he is pretty<br />
good in the kitchen<br />
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shares many of the same hobbies.<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 21
Experience Your Porsche in a New Way!<br />
By driving on a real North Texas racetrack<br />
Eagles Canyon Raceway is the beautiful culmination of years worth of<br />
research, planning & design into the rolling hills of North Texas near DFW.<br />
Eagles Canyon Raceway features 2.55 miles, 4 straights over 1,300 feet long, 11<br />
turns, and 340 feet of overall elevation change. Eagles Canyon is a true driver's<br />
track, and is planned to host all classes of events from the top level racing series<br />
to club racing and private HPDE days.<br />
We are proud to receive PCA events including Club Racing and look forward to<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 23
Happy Hour at Trinity Hall Pub<br />
by Chris Christensen<br />
Okay, so you say you’re tired of<br />
Mexican Food and would like<br />
to try something different?<br />
Well, at this month’s Happy Hour located at<br />
The Trinity Pub, there were an assortment<br />
of options ranging from Irish fare such as:<br />
Corned Beef and Cabbage, Bangers and<br />
Mash (Pork Sausage) – or a French Dip<br />
(not sure how that got there), burgers or a Pulled Pork BBQ<br />
or Texas BBQ or Lamb Chops. Nothing was left out and it<br />
seemed everyone was satisfied with the food.<br />
But food is not the only option on the menu – how about<br />
157+ choices of brews, 22 Irish Whiskey’s and 22 different<br />
wines. Now if beer is a comfort food for you – and I think<br />
there are a few of us who would admit to that – then this is<br />
the Pub for you. Some of the ale’s have rather interesting<br />
names such as; Arrogant Bastard (who knew), Double-Wide<br />
– India Pale Ale (US housing in India?) and The Sixth Glass<br />
– Quadrupel Ale (we would walk home). We passed on the<br />
whiskey, to avoid negotiating the local law enforcement in<br />
our Porsche, but if you have a ride and like the Irish Mash<br />
you shouldn’t be disappointed.<br />
Somewhat concealed directly off Mockingbird Lane in<br />
Mockingbird Station – the Pub is relatively easy to find. But,<br />
parking can be a problem; the best bet is to use the parking<br />
garage while the restaurant is a short walk up a couple of<br />
flights of outdoor stairs to the front door. Seating outside<br />
is available weather of course permitting, where smoking is<br />
permissible, and<br />
plenty of seating<br />
for even large<br />
groups.<br />
This month<br />
we had a few new<br />
members join us.<br />
It’s nice to know<br />
Ed Boudreau with Robert & DebbieThompson<br />
the Maverick<br />
Region continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Madhu and<br />
Roshni Rao, the owners of a new 911S coupe joined in the<br />
festivities along with Dan Boudreau (recently purchased a<br />
928) – so with our new members we had a little over 25<br />
enthusiasts sharing Porsche stories at dinner.<br />
So, to diverge for a moment and talk about the new<br />
Panamera, a sports sedan that is too cool. We are sure some<br />
of you have been curious and seen one of these sedans<br />
close up- perhaps at Parade? In our view seeing a new car<br />
on the road is a telling sign of its proportions and overall<br />
attractiveness. Since its “behind” seems to be the talk of<br />
most enthusiasts – this writer is interested in seeing the back<br />
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photos by Bob Lewis<br />
end on the road along with the rest of it of course. Internal<br />
seating and other features are something akin to the seating in<br />
a high performance aircraft-only better. But of course, only<br />
time will tell if the Panamera is a success. It certainly has<br />
once again sharpened<br />
the comments of all<br />
Porschefilles, but then<br />
so did the Cayenne<br />
when it was launched.<br />
Now Porsche is<br />
scheduling a new<br />
mini-version of the<br />
Cayenne. Hopefully<br />
the new Panamera<br />
will be the kind of “Change” we can all live with.<br />
Once again we look forward to the holiday season and<br />
wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving – it is upon us<br />
again. Why does time seem to go faster the older you get?<br />
We hope to see you all at next month’s Happy Hour<br />
which will be held on December 17, 6:30pm – 9:00pm at<br />
Big Bucks Brewery and Steak House, located at 2501 Bass<br />
Pro Drive, Grapevine. As always everyone is welcome….<br />
see you there.
<strong>January</strong> 25
Charity Autocross<br />
by James W. DePetro<br />
First impressions of a Minnesota guy racing a<br />
Porsche in Texas: First, the Boxster is much<br />
more responsive than a snowmobile. Second,<br />
I enjoy having the instructor sit in the seat next to me<br />
rather than behind me with his hands wrapped around<br />
my waist. Third, the Porsche will actually spin in a 360<br />
whereas a snowmobile that spins out usually results in<br />
being buried under the snow with the sled on top of<br />
you. I have decided that the Porsche is the preferable<br />
mode of transportation.<br />
I would like to thank Michael Pelletier for inviting<br />
me to the event, allowing me to drive his silver bullet,<br />
and being my driving instructor. Michael, you provided<br />
me with a phenomenal experience and I thank you. I<br />
know that I was initially hard on your clutch, given the<br />
white smoke pouring out of the car during my spinout<br />
into the cones not to mention the rancid stench that<br />
persisted all the way home, and I appreciate that you<br />
didn’t punch me. My favorite quote in the car was<br />
when you yelled “two hands on the wheel, quit driving<br />
like a gangster.” Even today, I am cognizant of the<br />
Crazy Water<br />
by Clint Blakman<br />
Maverick Region members took a “West<br />
Texas Sunday Drive” to Mineral Wells. I<br />
teamed up with the Mad Maps Company<br />
and ran the “Sidewinder” route of the Mad Maps “Get<br />
Outa Town” series. This “Wild Wild West” tour started<br />
in Weatherford by their 100 year old courthouse and<br />
snaked through the northernmost part of the Texas Hill<br />
County. Thirty two Porsche cars crossed the high plains<br />
to enjoy scenic vistas of big blue skies and Texas “Wide<br />
Open” spaces. From the<br />
mesas to the meadows...<br />
smiles came with every<br />
curve. After two hours<br />
on the trail, the we arrived<br />
in Mineral Wells; famous<br />
for mineral “healing<br />
waters” in the 1930s.<br />
Judy Garland, Clark<br />
Gable, Marlene Dietrich,<br />
all came to Mineral Wells<br />
to “take the waters.” The<br />
three and nine positions as I drive my SUV down the<br />
highway.<br />
I would like to thank the Maverick Region of the<br />
Porsche Club of America for allowing me to drive<br />
at their Charity Autocross. The members of the<br />
organization seemed to relate to each other like a family<br />
and I felt welcomed as if one of them. You provided<br />
me a professional and safe experience.<br />
Lastly, I thought y’all would like to know the song<br />
that was running through my mind throughout each of<br />
the ten laps. Check out the song “Going the Distance”<br />
by the band Cake. If you don’t, here is a little snippet:<br />
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line~Engines<br />
pumping and thumping in time~The green light<br />
flashes, the flag goes up~Churning and burning, they<br />
yearn for the cup~They deftly maneuver and muscle<br />
for rank~Fuel burning fast on an empty tank~Reckless<br />
and wild they pour thru the turns~Their prowess is<br />
potent and secretly stern.<br />
Thank you all, my bucket list’s one line shorter!<br />
Mavs stopped at the “Famous Mineral Water Company,”<br />
home of the world famous “Crazy Water!” The name<br />
stuck when a known crazy lady became sane after<br />
drinking this famous mineral water. After a glasses of<br />
Crazy Water No. 3, we all reported we were “Rarrin to<br />
Go!” So if you find yourself near Mineral Wells, Texas<br />
stop by and have a glass of “Crazy Water”.... “you’ll be<br />
glad ya did!”<br />
Additional information about the Crazy<br />
Water Co. can be found at<br />
www.famouswater.com<br />
Additional information about Mad<br />
Maps can be found at<br />
www.madmaps.com<br />
photos by Clint Blackman<br />
Save the flash!<br />
Owning a Porsche is a unique experience.<br />
Do your part to preserve the experience...<br />
keep the flash alive!<br />
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<strong>January</strong> 27
Porsche Palooza<br />
by Brian Shiu<br />
I<br />
love November. With it comes cooler weather,<br />
Thanksgiving and Porsche Palooza. This past<br />
November my very understanding wife, Maire<br />
Shannon, and I were fortunate to be able to attend Porsche<br />
Palooza for the second<br />
time. If you’ve never<br />
heard of Porsche Palooza,<br />
it’s a weekend long feast<br />
for the Porsche junkie.<br />
The annual event is based<br />
in a quaint, tourist town in<br />
northwest Arkansas called Eureka Springs. Back in the day,<br />
someone must have discovered both gold and water there<br />
and then named the place accordingly. I haven’t used my<br />
mad interweb skills to verify that though.<br />
This year, 294 people brought 173 cars to Palooza. One<br />
attendee came all the way from North Carolina and one of<br />
my best friends and his son came from Colorado. I was glad<br />
to see several others from the Maverick Region attend for<br />
the first time.<br />
Palooza has<br />
something for<br />
everyone from a<br />
car show to tech<br />
sessions to my<br />
personal favorite,<br />
the “spirited”<br />
drives. Imagine<br />
miles and miles of<br />
curves of all types – high speed sweepers, hairpins, uphill,<br />
downhill and yes, blind - that hug the topography of the<br />
Ozark Mountains. Now imagine them lacking expansion<br />
joints, potholes and all other sworn enemies of our tightly<br />
suspensioned cars. Now imagine virtually no traffic (except<br />
for the occasional deer). You getting the picture?<br />
These drives provide more fun than my limited<br />
vocabulary can effectively communicate and for a native of<br />
Dallas, where the roads are patterned after a sheet of graph<br />
paper, they are pure nirvana. Four of your five senses are<br />
on the “giddy” setting as a train of 60 or so Porsches rip<br />
through the Ozarks. They’re so much fun that I chose to<br />
forego most of the other events, instead opting for more pure<br />
driving pleasure. These roads are the kind that the good<br />
doctor had in mind when he created the first Porsche……..<br />
and every one since then.<br />
Another personal highlight was that for the second year,<br />
we offered the use of our Carrera GT to Palooza’s organizers<br />
to benefit a local non-profit organization. The idea was to<br />
sell raffle tickets where the winner of a drawing would go<br />
for, you guessed it, a spirited drive in the car and all the<br />
proceeds raised by selling tickets would go to the non-profit.<br />
The organizers chose Morning Star Wildlife Rehabilitation<br />
Center as their non-profit. Morning Star takes in injured<br />
wildlife with the goal of<br />
rehabilitating the animal<br />
to where it can be released<br />
back to its natural habitat.<br />
As it turns out, each<br />
year, a senior citizen won<br />
the raffle. Now driving the<br />
CGT is often an exercise in sheer terror even if you take it<br />
easy on the volume pedal. Having warned the winners that<br />
I have scared myself senseless more times than I care to<br />
admit, I was surprised when both of them wanted to really<br />
experience the capabilities (within my lame driving skills<br />
of course) of the CGT. I was more than happy to oblige,<br />
but when the rides were over, I’m not so sure they were.<br />
I’m happy to report that both winners are still upright today<br />
and it’s been a privilege to help out Morning Star in a small<br />
way.<br />
Most importantly, Palooza is about the people. That<br />
same phrase is repeated about every Porsche event, so why<br />
should Palooza be any different? I’ve met a lot of people<br />
at Palooza and many now go way beyond being mere<br />
acquaintances. These are genuine people who don’t care if<br />
your Porsche’s a Carrera GT or if it’s radio controlled, and<br />
don’t care if you’re an air cooler or water cooler. These are<br />
the kinds of friends that I now stay in touch with throughout<br />
the year and can share life’s victories and concerns with and<br />
are without a doubt the best part of Palooza.<br />
All too soon,<br />
the “depart for<br />
home” alarm on the<br />
iphone is chiming<br />
and it’s back to<br />
reality. Now a<br />
month later, I call<br />
on my failing<br />
memory and feel so<br />
blessed to have been able to attend Palooza. I got to spend<br />
the weekend with my aforementioned very understanding<br />
wife and great friends driving some of the best roads this<br />
great nation has to offer. How much better can it get? It<br />
can’t until I can figure out how to stuff our 3 kids into our<br />
cars and bring them along. The Good Lord willing, Porsche<br />
Palooza will be an annual pilgrimage for us. November<br />
can’t get here soon enough. I invite you to look up and see<br />
what Palooza is all about at www.pca-palooza.com.<br />
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- 11,000 sq Feet of the Top Technology<br />
- Comfortable Waiting Area with WIFI<br />
- 100+ Years of Technician Experience<br />
- Fully Air Contitioned Shop<br />
- Green Building, Eco Friendly<br />
- Convenient Location<br />
- Competitive Pricing<br />
- Same Friendly Service<br />
Specializing in: Porsche<br />
www.fifthgear.com<br />
We service all makes and models • Come see us in our new shop!<br />
1975 Archer Way • Lewisville TX, 75077 • 972-317-4005<br />
1 mile West of I-35 behind Sonic!<br />
<strong>January</strong> 29
German Engineering With Southern Hospitality<br />
Personal Service.<br />
At Nine-Eleven, we’ve built a reputation for understanding our customers’ needs —<br />
quality service, convenient location, state-of-the-art diagnostics, and personalized<br />
service that is unmatched in the Metroplex. When you trust your car to us, you will<br />
have the peace of mind that it will be serviced correctly the first time. Every time.<br />
Access.<br />
We strongly believe in access to those who will actually work on your car. Our<br />
technicians are available in person, by phone, and even by pager if you have questions<br />
or need timely information about your car.<br />
Facility.<br />
Our clean shop, well-stocked parts department, and comfortable waiting room ensure<br />
that you and your car will get the kind of service you deserve. Maintained tools and<br />
equipment. Clean cars. We are meticulous about details.<br />
Parts.<br />
Our parts department is also second to none. Our knowledgeable staff will assist you<br />
in finding that necessary part or after-market option you require. We are an authorized<br />
dealer for high-performance Recaro seating, Yokohama Tires, Bilstein Shocks, Bosch,<br />
and many others. This ensures that whether you are a casual driver or an enthusiast who<br />
needs race prep assistance, Nine-Eleven has the experience and knowledge to keep your<br />
car running at peak performance.<br />
Newkirk<br />
Crown Rd.<br />
Cindy Lane Lane<br />
IXXI<br />
Royal Lane<br />
Joe Field Field Rd. Rd.<br />
Emerald<br />
I-35<br />
Nine-Eleven Enterprises, Inc.<br />
Service, Accessories & Parts for BMW,<br />
Mercedes & Porsche<br />
2120 Cindy Lane, Dallas, Texas 75229<br />
972-241-2002<br />
www.nine-eleven.com<br />
Convenience.<br />
We are conveniently located near the intersection of Stemmons and LBJ Freeways<br />
in Dallas. We offer emergency towing service 24 hours a day and have arranged<br />
for special rental car rates with area rental agencies. Come by for a visit between<br />
7:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, or call for a service appointment.<br />
911/930- 1969 to 1989<br />
AIR CONDITIONING!<br />
•<br />
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Technically Superior!<br />
RetroAir/<br />
800-840-6162…For More Info..<br />
www.retroair.com /sales@retroair.com<br />
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New Wheels<br />
by Joel Nannis<br />
Alkier, Chris<br />
Dallas, TX 75204<br />
2006 911<br />
Baker, Jon (Laura)<br />
Dallas, TX 75214<br />
2003 911 4S<br />
Anniversaries<br />
Martelle, Edward<br />
Neil, William<br />
Webster, Jerry<br />
Williams, Tom<br />
Wood, Stuart<br />
Fisher, William<br />
Houghton, William<br />
David, Mary & Shanti<br />
Denton, TX 76208<br />
2002 Boxster<br />
Hershman, Bill (Betty)<br />
Flower Mound, TX 75028<br />
2000 Boxster<br />
35Years<br />
15Years<br />
10Years<br />
Euless<br />
Dallas<br />
Richardson<br />
Hurst<br />
Southlake<br />
Fort Worth<br />
Coppell<br />
Pepper, Chris<br />
Grapevine, TX 76051<br />
2001 Boxster S<br />
Reid, Brian (Suzanne)<br />
Lantana, TX 76226<br />
2006 Carrera S<br />
Sample, Ron<br />
Arlington, TX 76010-7418<br />
1999 Carrera<br />
Potadle, Mark & Maria<br />
Roanoke, TX 76262<br />
1998 993<br />
Barnett, Robert<br />
Blanchard, Andrew<br />
Danielson, David<br />
Del Monte, Betsy<br />
Del Monte, Richard<br />
Hatton, Peter<br />
Miller, Candy<br />
Schange, Sandy<br />
Schange, William<br />
5 Years<br />
If you have any changes that<br />
you would like to make to the<br />
MRPCA membership guide, call<br />
Joel Nannis at 817-329-1600.<br />
Atkin, Edwin<br />
Dallas, TX 75230<br />
2001 Boxster<br />
2009 Carrera<br />
Plano<br />
Murphy<br />
Flint<br />
Dallas<br />
Dallas<br />
Lewisville<br />
Southlake<br />
Roanoke<br />
Roanoke<br />
Start Packing!<br />
The <strong>2010</strong> Porsche Parade<br />
St. Charles, Illinois · July 3-9, <strong>2010</strong><br />
PCA’s National Convention offers:<br />
Autocross · Concours · Rally<br />
Driving Tours · Tech Sessions<br />
Social Events · and more!<br />
Explore the beautiful Fox River Valley<br />
and nearby Chicago-area attractions.<br />
Learn more and<br />
register at<br />
parade<strong>2010</strong>.pca.org<br />
Registration opens<br />
March 9, <strong>2010</strong><br />
so start planning now!<br />
<strong>January</strong> 31
Unclassifieds<br />
Unclassifieds are available free to Maverick Region members and are $5 to all others (contact editor for payment details). Please limit size to no more than 6 lines. Ads will run for 3 issues, then<br />
removed unless you request that it be run for an additional 3 issues. E-mail your ad to classifieds@mavpca.org by the 10th to have your ad run in the following month’s <strong>Slipstream</strong>. Be sure to<br />
include car year, make and model, its mileage and asking price, as well as a contact name, phone number and /or e-mail address. All parts will be advertised on our website. Check your ad for<br />
accuracy the first time it runs. Contact the editor to have your ad pulled sooner. Due to space constraints, photos may or may not be included.<br />
For Sale: 1984 Porsche 911 Carrera, Beautiful example of a rust free Texas/<br />
Florida Carrera Coupe, Guards Red/Brown Leather Interior 91,000 miles. All<br />
original except for newer cup wheels. Have many records and original window<br />
sticker. Great daily driver, runs and drives wonderfully. In a pinch and need to sell.<br />
Asking $19,500 OBO Steve Wright - 972-359-9425 wrightmr@sbcglobal.net. (1)<br />
For Sale: 2000 Boxster, black,black, 35,000 miles, tiptronic, 2nd owner, always<br />
garaged, 30kmi maintenance done, no mechanical issues, new frt brake shoes, back<br />
shoes and rotors excellent, top excellent, minor front apron paint chips, battery<br />
and spare excellent, tool kit complete. Asking $16,500 for outstanding original<br />
example, contact Howard by email: wardno42@netzero.net. (1)<br />
For Sale: 2000 GT3 Cup Car, ‘04 brakes, shocks, air box and rear quarter vent<br />
windows. Lexan windshield, Aim dash. 3 sets wheels (2 dry, 1 wet). Gurney flap,<br />
monoboall front control arms, current PCA logbook, consistent podium finisher.<br />
Sealed engine, fresh oil, one race on pads and rotors... ready to race today. Tie<br />
downs included. $71,500. Street trades considered. Carl Amond 817-481-8371<br />
or carlamond@verizon.net. (1)<br />
For Sale: 2002 C4S, WPOAA29912S623410. Seal Grey metallic/Graphite grey,<br />
no dents, dings, scrapes or scratches. 27k one non-smoker owner miles. Turbo<br />
(genuine hollow spoke) wheels. “Clear bra”, LoJack, Certificate of Authenticity,<br />
Advanced Technic Package, surround sound with 6pack CD, colored crest wheel<br />
caps, lumbar support leather seats, floor mats, carbon trim package, Gel cell<br />
battery. Always garaged. Zero track days. $41,500. Street trades considered,<br />
but I am not generous. Carl Amond, phone (817) 481-8371 or email carlamond@<br />
verizon.net. (1)<br />
For Sale: 2008 Boxster S, black/black, 9500 miles, 6 speed, red dials/seat<br />
belts, Cayman S wheels, Bi-Xenons, chrome exhaust pipe, clear side markers,<br />
Bose, Preferred Package, Porsche Windstop, auto climate control, Cert of Auth.<br />
Orig MSRP -- $62.5. Sale price -- $42,900. Contact Mike at 972-824-4470 or<br />
email at mika28@verizon.net (2)<br />
For Sale: 1985 Porsche 911 Carrera Targa, 100,000 Miles-Asking<br />
$20,500.00 Brian 832-618-0056, stroubesound@mac.com (2)<br />
For Sale: 1984 Porsche Carrera Cab, white with black top, 71,400 miles.<br />
Pirelli tires with only a couple 1000 miles on them. Excellent condition, only<br />
driven on sunny days. $17,900. For information call 817 - 301 – 8140 Gunter<br />
Pawlowski eaglesrus@gmail.com (2)<br />
For Sale: 1990 911 C2 Cabriolet 5 spd, White with blue. 66,000 mi., 2nd<br />
owner (first CA, now TX). Always garaged. No mechanical issues what so ever.<br />
Serviced at Mayo and Zim’s. Body & Paint (9/10). Original Top (8/10). Completely<br />
rebuilt AC including in dash module (Remanufactured by Otto’s in Venice, CA).<br />
New Brakes, rotors, and lines. Over $30K invested. Asking $21,500.00 Contact<br />
Frank Labriola Office: 817-812-3166, Mobile: 516-384-4987 or srcfl@att.net (3)<br />
For Sale: 1997 911 Carrera Coupe, Glacier White with Classic Gray leather<br />
interior, 88,000 miles, sunroof, power seats, 17” wheels, top end rebuild at 63,000<br />
mi, AC rebuild at 82,000 mi, orig recs, car orig from Texas. $32,000. Contact Paul<br />
at 214-930-4697 or BueterPaul@gmail.com (2)<br />
For Sale: 1999 996 Coupe, Triptronic, Alpine White, leather, Navigation, 6<br />
disk CD, new wheels and tires, SS lower engine shield, car is bone stock except for<br />
new areo front bumper, 34K miles, Email for pics and info. $26000 mudduck0@<br />
swbell.net, Home phone 817-921-2468 (2)<br />
For Sale: 2005 987 Boxster , Guards Red $25,500, 37K 5 speed, Bose, auto<br />
climate control, power seats, black leather, wind deflector excellent condition.<br />
Owner is now working in Kuwait and has no need for this great Porsche. Call: Bob<br />
Nordin at 817-806-1616, cell 817-821-9051 bob.nordin@Lhoist.com (2)<br />
<strong>Slipstream</strong> Advertiser Index<br />
These advertisers support the Maverick Region... the Mavericks support these advertisers!<br />
All State Insurance (972) 377-7788 Page 21<br />
Autobahn Motorcar Group (800) 433-5602 B.C.<br />
Autocrossnumbers.com (972) 670-2483 Page 25<br />
Autoscope (972) 867-7467 Page 16<br />
Boardwalk Porsche (214) 576-1911 I.F.C.<br />
Boxster Spec (817) 896-5825 Page 13<br />
Buckley Racing (817) 239-7969 Page 23<br />
Eagles Canyon Raceway (940) 466-9775 Page 22<br />
Fifth Gear Motorsports (972) 317-4005 Page 29<br />
German Technologies Inc. (817) 540-0712 Page 27<br />
Invisibra (214) 704-9299 Page 27<br />
Istook’s MotorSport Svcs (817) 332-6547 Page 25<br />
Jerry DeFeo Designs (972) 240-5800 Page 20<br />
James L. Falgout, P.C. (972) 669-2370 Page 13<br />
Louden Motorcar Svcs (972) 241-6326 I.B.C.<br />
For advertising rates and information contact<br />
Jan Mayo at ads@mavpca.org<br />
Mayo Performance (817) 540-4939 Page 19<br />
Mean Green Travel (940) 565-8111 Page 11<br />
Mullenix Motorsport (972) 231-5356 Page 22<br />
Mustard Racing (817) 366-1678 Page 20<br />
911 Enterprises (972) 241-2002 Page 30<br />
Park Place Porsche (800) 553-3196 Page 6<br />
RAC Performance (214) 269-1571 Page 15<br />
RetroAir (972) 960-6899 Page 30<br />
Silver Fox (817) 329-6995 Page 2<br />
Soundwerk (817) 281-9381 Page 30<br />
State Farm Insurance (214) 387-0003 B.C.<br />
UPS Store (972) 420-1250 Page 21<br />
Ussery Printing (972) 438-8344 Page 13<br />
Zims Autotechnik (817) 267-4451 Page 23<br />
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<strong>Slipstream</strong> Advertiser<br />
for 25 years!<br />
Louden Motorcar Services has been<br />
servicing fine European motorcars in<br />
Dallas since 1977. From the moment you<br />
drive in, it is apparent that quality is our<br />
number one priority. From the comfortable<br />
waiting room to the well-kept workshop,<br />
Louden Motorcars exhibits professionalism.<br />
We’ve been winning awards for the quality<br />
of our service for years. Louden has been<br />
rated “Best in Dallas” twice by D Magazine,<br />
“Best in Texas,” “Top Ten in the U.S.” and<br />
“Best in the West” by the Robert Bosch<br />
Corporation (worldwide leader in fuel<br />
injection and electronics).<br />
And we’d like the opportunity to show<br />
you why.
Hiram Saunders, <strong>Slipstream</strong><br />
155 Jellico<br />
Southlake, TX 76092<br />
Periodical Postage<br />
Paid at Fort Worth, TX
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