Slipstream - January 2017

Kruder’s Cars & Conversations
By Bill Kruder, Region Advertising Chair
Photos courtesy of the Author
ason and I first met
J
about a year ago at a
very cold and dreary
Porsche Cars & Coffee
in Addison. Well, as luck would have
it, I ran into him again a couple
months ago at an “impromptu”
Saturday coffee gathering and he
invited several of us to stop over
at his garage to see his ‘76 911. It
was that Saturday that Julia Cleath
nudged me and said “this guy’s
your next interview,” and so he
is. Here is the next in my series
of “conversations” I would like to
share with you . . .
Jason Morski, owner of
1976 911S and several others,
member since 2010
Bill Kruder: So are you guys originally
from the Dallas area?
Jason Morsky: We are from the
New York/New Jersey area; my job
brought us here back in 2006. I
was working for an investment firm
and they offered us a promotion of
sorts, telling us that after training
we would have to move; but as luck
would have it we landed in North
Dallas.
BK: Did you wait to move here to get
your first Porsche?
JM: No, we bought our first while
living in New York; it’s a 2001 Lapis
Blue Boxster S.
BK: And you guys still have it? I
think when we met you were driving a
911S? So you have both?
JM: Actually we have been very
fortunate and we have five now. But
yes, I was driving the 911S all the
time for about four years.
BK: What else do you have then?
JM: We have our first Porsche the
2001 Boxster, the ‘76 Grand Prix
White 911S, a 2005 paint-to-sample
Riviera Blue 997 Carrera S, the ‘89
Guards Red Carrera, and lastly our
2013 White Cayenne S.
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BK: So what’s the favorite to drive?
JM: Well that’s a hard one, as
they are all a blast to drive, but the
‘76 and ‘89 are the most fun to
drive. The Cayenne, for an SUV,
just might be the most impressive.
The power and handling you get
out of the Cayenne; it does so many
things well.
BK: How did you go from one to five?
JM: Well that’s kind of a funny
story; I may have to blame a trip to
Jack Griffin’s house for that.
I had been looking for about six
months for the right car and had
gone up to Cars & Coffee in Plano
back in 2010. Jack was driving the
‘76 911S and was about to put it on
the market. I had left C&C and decided
to turn back and talk to him
about it. So we talked and pretty
much agreed on the details but he
said he had plans and wouldn’t be
around for several hours. Well at
that point I had to have the car so
I must have called him constantly
from 9 am to 1 pm that day. I was
like a stalker! So we met at his
house, he took me out back to the
garage, and I thought I had died
and gone to heaven. I didn’t even
know how many he had at the time
but I was hooked.
BK: What made the 911S so special?
JM: Well, the
Grand Prix White
over red was a
knockout. Then
the records showed
it had come from
the Porsche dealer
in Manhattan only
blocks from where
I was born; thirty
five years later it
comes full circle to
me. Guess it’s those
little connections
that we make with
a car that only we
understand.
BK: So this is the car we saw in the
garage several weeks ago?
JM: That’s the one! It was in
great shape. It had a respray I think
that needed a little work but the
combo of the Grand Prix White
over the red interior, again, was just
too much.
BK: And when we saw it you were
well into the restoration. How did that
come about?
JM: Well, as I drove, I would
tinker with things, cleaning this,
replacing that, and then one day
I thought, what the heck, why not
just tear it down and start from
scratch. At that point the frame-off
restoration began.
BK: And are you bringing it back
to its original or doing some modifications?
JM: Oh, it’s going to be modified,
kind of what you might think
of as an “outlaw.”
BK: What kind of things are you
planning?
JM: I’ve tinkered with the body
some, making it look a bit more balanced
from the front hood to the
bumper, and also at the rear, and
am doing some things to the brakes
and suspension that will make the
handling much like today’s cars.
And of course the engine: the
Jason with his 76 911S “outlaw” restoration