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COMMEMORATING PORSCHE FELLOWSHIP IN THE ROCKY … · 45 YEARS Steven McConnell & Susan...
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VOLUME 63 | EDITION 01 COMMEMORATING PORSCHE FELLOWSHIP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION | RMR.PCA.ORG | January 2021
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VOLUME 63 | EDITION 01
COMMEMORATING PORSCHE FELLOWSHIP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION | RMR.PCA.ORG | January 2021
Disclaimer: The HighGear staff believes this list to be inclusive. Note, we did not intentionally leave anyone out.HIGHGEAR2
COVER PHOTOMike Pappas snapped this photo during Eiskhana 2020 on Georgetown Lake, Georgetown, CO.
FEATURES My Journey to the Championship 18
Track Personalities: Matthew and Jennifer Taylor 22A Conversation with...Csaba Csere 24
Brand Loyalty – Part 1 25Book Reviews for Porschephiles 26
Porsche Artwork by Greg E Russell 31A New ICE Age 32
DEPARTMENTSBoard of Directors 04
Region Coordinators / Technical Resources 04Membership Anniversaries and Updates 05
Presidential Impressions 06Editor’s Tidbits 07
Members’ Corral 08Upcoming Events Calendar 11Rocky Mountain Road Trips 13
Track Talk 14Advertising in HighGear 35
Advertiser Index 35I Get Around 36
In the Zone 37Classifieds 38
Dear Tire Guy 40Creative License 41
In The Rearview Mirror 42
Volume 63, Edition 01January 2021
HighGear is the Official Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Porsche Club of America
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The award-winning HighGear (ISSN1061-1746) is produced as a digital version only for publication on RMR’s website (rmr.pca.org) and reaches nearly 3,000 members. It is the official newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Region Porsche Club of America (RMR/PCA) and is published monthly. The opinions and views appearing in HighGear are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the official opinions of the RMR/PCA, PCA National, or this newsletter as an official RMR/PCA publication. Additionally, none of these organizations nor this publication assumes any responsibility for the accuracy of material provided by individual writers and contributors. Submit article and photos to Tom Champion at [email protected]. Submissions may be edited for grammar and length.
HighGear entire contents copyright © 2015–2021 by Rocky Mountain Region Porsche Club of America, Inc. All rights reserved. Articles and photos are the copyright of their respective creators and are used with permission. POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to PCA National Office, P.O. Box 6400, Columbia, MD 21045. Periodicals Postage Paid at 3608 E. Euclid Avenue, Centennial, CO 80121 and at additional mailing offices. HighGear is produced at 7019 South Marshall Street, Littleton, CO 80128. Non-RMR subscriptions are $35.00 per year. 3
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Monthly board meetings are always open to club members. See the list of upcoming events for schedule. You may contact the entire board at [email protected]. To volunteer to be an RMR Board member, submit your intent by September so the Nomination Committee can add you to the ballot in November for club voting in November. Most positions are two-year terms.
CAMA Walt Fricke (303) 499-6540 [email protected] and Good Works RJ Stapell / Greg Casals (716) 870-4447 [email protected] Driving Instructor Dan H. Carlson (303) 520-4567 [email protected] Race/Solo DE Doug Bartlett (970) 214-7279 [email protected] George Strimbu (303) 736-9114 [email protected] Education Scott Henderson (303) 521-9007 [email protected] Harry B Jones / Tim Berg (970) 372-8852 [email protected] Store Mike Hebert (360) 202-5830 [email protected] Historian Amy Legg-Rogers (970) 310-8343 [email protected] Harry B Jones (970) 372-8852 [email protected] Erik Behrendsen / Holly Jackson (303) 840-7361 [email protected] Nancy Warren (720) 556-0806 [email protected] Scott Henderson / Bo Jensen (303) 521-9007 [email protected] Inspection Scott Pedram (719) 650-3800 [email protected] Doug Bartlett (970) 214-7279 [email protected] Erik Behrendsen (303) 840-7361 [email protected] Scott Rogers (970) 690-8343 [email protected] 9 Representative Rich Sanders (801) 231-0400 [email protected]
356 Tom Scott (303) 819-0101 [email protected] Dave Stribling (303) 238-8101 [email protected] – Volunteer to be the RMR 912 specialist and help others! –914 Dale Tuety (303) 670-1279 [email protected] Dan Semborski (303) 884-7913 [email protected] Richard Winnick (303) 429-5213 [email protected] Zach Schroeder (970) 229-0990 [email protected]/Cayman Doug Bartlett (970) 214-7279 [email protected] Zach Schroeder (970) 229-0990 [email protected], GT3, Cup Cars Chris Cervelli (303) 809.6173 [email protected]
REGION COORDINATORS
TECHNICAL RESOURCES
Newsletter EditorTom [email protected]
SecretaryEric Elliff [email protected]
Second Vice PresidentRuss Rydberg [email protected]
PresidentVicki [email protected]
Vice PresidentScott Henderson [email protected]
Membership ChairHolly [email protected]
TreasurerTom [email protected]
Past PresidentJim [email protected]
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NEW TEST DRIVE MEMBERS — Welcome!
Zak Boca Edwards, CO 2007 911 Turbo
Theo Civitello Greenwood Village, CO 2008 Cayman S
Matthew Davis Brighton, CO 2016 Cayman GT4
Tom Fitch Fort Collins, CO 2006 911 Carrera
Glenn Fuller Centennial, CO 2021 911 Carrera S
Dan Gilbertson Morrison, CO 2019 Cayenne
Brent Hultquist Parker, CO 2003 911 Carrera 4S
Gregory Krauland Denver, CO 2021 718 Cayman GT4
Kimberly Lockhart Vail, CO 2010 911 Carrera
Alan Neben Aurora, CO 1999 911 Carrera
Matthew Perna Aurora, CO 2014 911 Turbo S
Robert Smith Denver, CO 2014 911 Carrera 4S
Craig Stark Littleton, CO 2003 Boxster S
John Yang Littleton, CO 2020 718 Boxster S
Jack Young Gypsum, CO 2008 Cayman
Daniel Fesenmeyer & Ryan Fesenmeyer (Son) Evergreen, CO 1987 944 (Transfer from Peachstate Region)
Charlie Shilling & Natalie Edwards Englewood, CO, 1985 911 Carrera and 1977 911 (Transfer from Carolinas Region)
Merle & Karen Varney Arvada, CO 2006 Cayenne (Transfer from Hudson Champlain Region)
Jeff & Chelle Williams Eagle, CO 2018 911 GT3 and 2017 911 Targa 4S (Transfer from Pacific Northwest)
45 YEARS Steven McConnell & Susan Halter-McConnell
25 YEARS Ken & Lynne Fossey
Max Schmidt Cory & Renee Stirling
20 YEARS Leonard Boyer
Michael & Patricia Ferguson David Glaser & Mary Norbury-Glaser
Scott Rogers & Amy Legg-Rogers
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BERSHIP UPDATESPCA ANNIVERSARIES — Congratulations!
NEW RMR MEMBERS — Welcome!
1,937 Primary RMR Members
2,983 Total RMR Membership
130 RMR PCA Juniors
Ailbe Astor Evergreen, CO
Noah Kaufman Louisville, CO
David Lewis Steamboat Springs, CO
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2021Happy New Year fellow Rocky Mountain Region members!
I think we are all more than ready to welcome 2021 and put 2020 behind us. While 2020 did not turn out quite the way anybody would have ever expected, RMR did have some bright spots. In person Board meetings transitioned to Zoom meetings. Although t h e s e w e r e n o t a s satisfying as in-person meetings, we could at least see each other, making them much better than conference c a l l s . We qu i ck ly re a l i ze d t he Z o om plat for m would b e a great way to host D a n C a r l s o n’s “A Conversation With...” programs. Through Dan Carlson’s and Brian Bobich’s efforts, three such presentations have been held already (the recorded presentations can be found on the RMR website in case you missed them). RMR hosted another successful Club Race/Solo HPDE as well as two Solo HPDEs and one Autocross. We were also able to offer a late-season Off-Road Tour. While none of these events were exactly normal, all the participants enjoyed getting out, seeing and talking to friends (socially distanced of course), and enjoying their Porsches.
Of course, none of these events could have happened without all our wonderful volunteers. This year required some creative solutions, and each of you stepped up with ideas that were instrumental in allowing the events to successfully occur. Many of the solutions were such an improvement over the way we always did things that they will be implemented going forward. I enjoyed brainstorming with each of you this past year to find solutions to the issues brought forth by the COVID restrictions. Thank You, Volunteers! Thanks for all your time, ideas, and hard work to make our events successful.
In the works for 2021 are more “A Conversation With…” presentations. Later this month, we will be presenting the Enthusiast of the Year award, while the CDI committee will present the 2020 Drivers’ Awards during a Zoom social. Tours will also be resuming in 2021. As with our other events, tours might have a different look from previous years, but we
will find ways to get back out to enjoy the beautiful Colorado scenery. Currently in the works is an effort to revamp the Goodie Store – watch for an eblast once it is “open for business.” Already scheduled are four HPDEs and one Club Race/Solo HPDE for this year’s track season. Plus, we are
incredibly pleased to offer instruction once again for novice drivers after a year’s hiatus (see Dan Carlson’s article i n D e c e mb e r 2 0 2 0 HighGear). The season will begin with lead-follow instruction, and depending on how the pandemic progresses, wil l , hopeful ly, end with our award winning i n - c ar i ns t r u c t i on . Scheduling is currently underway for several Autocrosses as well.
The 2021 Board of Directors has one new member, Eric Elliff, along with a little rearrangement of our returning members. Listed below are your 2021 Board of Directors:
President Vicki Cox-Jones
Vice President Scott Henderson
2nd Vice President Russ Rydberg
Treasurer Tom Radow
Secretary Eric Elliff
Membership Chair Holly Jackson
Newsletter Editor Tom Champion
Past President James Thorburn
We are all looking forward to working for you, our fellow RMR members.
Vicki Cox-Jones, RMR PresidentHG
Vicki Cox-Jones President
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PRESIDENTIAL IMPRESSIONS
Looking ahead to 2021 from the seat of a Porsche GT3 RS
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SOMETHING TO PONDER, CRY ABOUT, AND REFUTEThank goodness it’s 2021! We’ve
all been through hell in 2020 and very recently. We’ve been continually bombarded with info (true or false?) about COVID-19, local, governmental, and CDC mandates and restrictions regarding how to live and interact with each other during these exceedingly difficult times. Who do you believe and what do you believe? Damned if I know! So to escape this daily insanity, I put on my headphones and listen to the music I like which is, usually, Russian classical and classical from the Baroque and Romantic eras. Of course, I like many other types of music and movie soundtracks and vocals and music of the 40s, 50s and early 60s, but absolutely NO hip hop and rap which is utter trash. So how do you escape from our current reality? Plug your ears for a few minutes and read and think about and digest the 20 tidbits of information I’ve given here. There’s, probably, something here for everyone to ponder, cry about, and refute. Enjoy!
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite number of times!
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the earth each year.
Our earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at liftoff.
The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
Tom Champion Editor, RMR’s Newsletter (HighGear) [email protected]
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EDITOR’S TIDBITSTom Champion
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Holly Jackson Membership Chair
HELLO 2021, PLEASE BE BETTER THAN 2020We made it through this rough year together.
We have learned to adapt and roll with things more than ever. We really want to have more in-person events, but we have to follow state and county orders. We want to keep RMR members safe as well. If you have any ideas for virus-safe activities please contact the RMR Board and share! If you want to volunteer to run a remote activity, please step up. Did you know that we could use more volunteers? The more there are the less work for everyone!
I have decided to start a new project. I want to improve my garage space for my Targa. I want to start with having finished and freshly painted white walls; then to add some nice storage cabinets. And finally, we must do the floor. There are so many options, and all I see is a lot of homework ahead! The outcome will be worth it. Then to add some memorabilia to top it off. And I can’t wait to have friends over to hang out in the new space. Hopefully all will be done by summer!
Looking forward, I am hopeful to see events start up again and even get back to full swing with our social events. It may take a while but we will get there. Seeing how people came together in 2020 and how some people were so ingenious to solve some of the problems they faced, I think we’ll have a year of fun and creativity in 2021. I would like to see the creative members in the club share their creative ideas or talents with all members. Please write in and tell about your creativity!
Let’s fill ourselves with hope of getting back to normal this year. Here is to a good year with the new Board of Directors and all the best to Vicki Cox-Jones, our new President of RMR!
Stay healthy RMRers.
Prost!
Holly JacksonRMR Membership Chair
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If you have any ideas for virus-safe activities
please contact the RMR Board and share.
What: Eiskhana 2021 Where: Georgetown Lake, Georgetown, CO When: January 17, 2021 Register: www.msreg.com/eiskhana2021 Questions: Event Chair Scott Pedram at [email protected] Note: This event is subject to weather, ice conditions and COVID restrictions Ph
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SOCIAL EVENTSFebruary 6 RMR Breakfast Club – North – Cancelled – First Watch, 2809 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525
February 6 Cars & Coffee, Lafayette (Tentative) 7:00 am—10:00 am
February 9 RMR Board Meeting – via Zoom conference call 7:00 pm—9:00 pm
February 13 RMR Breakfast Club – Cancelled – The Perfect Landing Restaurant, Centennial Airport, Englewood, CO 80112
March 6 RMR Breakfast Club – North – Cancelled – First Watch, 2809 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525
March 6 Cars and Coffee, Lafayette (Tentative) 7:00 am—10:00 am
March 9 RMR Board Meeting – via Zoom conference call 6:00 pm—8:00 pm
April 3 RMR Breakfast Club – North – Cancelled – First Watch, 2809 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80525
April 3 Cars & Coffee, Lafayette (Tentative) 7:00 am—10:00 am
April 10 RMR Breakfast Club – Cancelled – The Perfect Landing Restaurant, Centennial Airport, Englewood, CO 80112
DRIVING EVENTSJanuary 17 Eiskhana 2021 All Day Georgetown Lake, County Road 303, Georgetown, CO 80444 (details on page 9 and via eBlast on 12/16/2020)
Dates TBD Four HPDEs and one Club Race/Solo HPDE (details to come) Scheduled for the 2021 track season
Dates TBD Autocrosses (details to come) Scheduling currently underway for several 2021 Autocrosses
DRIVING TOURS No RMR Driving Tours until April 2021
SPECIAL EVENTSJuly 11–17 Porsche Parade 2021 French Lick Resort, 8670 West State Road 56, French Lick, IN 47432 More information at: www.PorscheParade.org
MORE EVENT INFORMATION Visit the RMR website at: rmr.pca.org/calendar
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CO Rally Style! Jeff Zwart headed out on a cold Colo-rado morning in rally style! Jeff drove this C4 in the 1993-1994 Michelin US Pro Rally Championship and won the Open Class at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in 1994.
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Ever since RMR hosted the first Club Race ever at Sec-ond Creek Raceway in 1992, our Club’s members have been very involved in PCA Club Racing both as volun-teers and racers. 2020 was no different.
RMR had five PCA Club Racing National Champions plus another podium finisher! That’s right…six podium finishers!
Walt Fricke 1st Place – Stock D Class (Older Stock 911s)
Alan Benjamin 1st Place – GT5 Class (Cars Modified Beyond Stock - Typically ‘65-‘73 911s)
Joe Bank 1st Place – GTA3 Class (991s)
Dale Hartzell 1st Place – GTA1 Class (996s)
Adam Jaspers 1st Place – SPC Class (Spec Caymans)
Dale Tuety 3rd Place – SP1 Class (944s / 924s)
This past year’s accomplishments are the “tip of the iceberg.” PCA Club Racing started its national champi-onship competition in 2012, and since then, Alan has won eight national champions in various classes! And the only year that he didn’t win was because he was racing in mul-tiple classes with different cars. Walt has been champion four times with two additional podium finishes. Joe has three national championships and another podium finish, and Dale Hartzell has won his class in each of the four years that he’s been racing!
Walt, Alan, and Dale Tuety participated in that first-ev-er club race hosted by RMR, and they have never missed a year since – what a streak!
All have won numerous Workers Choice Awards, and most hold track records for their class at several tracks. Adam set Spec Cayman lap records at the three tracks where he raced this year – Road America, Brainerd International Raceway, and High Plains Raceway (HPR), where he bested the previous mark by two seconds.
Plus, three of them are very active vol-unteers. Walt is Club Racing’s Technical and Rules Committee Chairperson – that’s a huge responsibility. Adam attends club
races around the country as a Scrutineer, the race “ref-eree” who enforces the car setup and racing rules; in addition, he has the “fun” job of reviewing/assessing fault when there’s car contact. Then there’s Alan – he is a national Advocate Committee Representative for the GTC1- GTC2 classes.
It was a COVID-19-shortened racing season, but each had a separate path, challenges, and stories. Here are three of them.
For Walt Fricke, the joy of just being out there on the track still runs strong. At High Plains Raceway, despite little sleep after working through the night on his car, he was ready to go on race day, and he was fast. Walt raced at Brainerd in the heart of Minnesota lake country, where he survived a 125mph spin exiting turn 2, and he also drove for the first time at the challenging and twisty Eagles Canyon Raceway outside of Dallas. He readily admits that there isn’t as much competition in his class as in the past, and he misses the days of racing nose-to-tail for an entire race with RMR drivers such as Rick Gon-calves and Jim Widrig. But he loves concentrating on keeping ahead of the 944s like Dale Tuety’s and mixing it up with the Spec Boxsters, all of this while watching his mirrors for the likes of Joe, or Dale H., Adam, or Alan in their higher horse-powered cars.
Joe Bank said that it was a challenging year but re-warding in new ways. For the first time in five racing seasons, his Dad was playing it safe with COVID-19 and wasn’t on the radio or in the paddock. Racing started for him at the technical, fast, and brake-eating Formu-la 1 track in Austin – Circuit of the Americas (COTA). While he finished 6th overall and stood on the podium
FIVE RMR/PCA CLUB RACING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!
Keep Raising the Bar Higher
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Dan H. CarlsonLeader, Chief Driving Instructor Team
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FIVE RMR/PCA CLUB RACING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!
for his class, he never felt comfortable in the new-to-him 2018 991.2 GT3 Cup. By the time the HPR race weekend came, he was ready and had epic battles with Les Long in his 991 GT3R, which is a faster class. He was most proud of his consistency and set his personal best lap of 1:45.2 – that’s flying! His biggest comeback was at Sono-ma Raceway. In the third Sprint race, he was still in the paddock waiting out a 20-minute delay from a previous race when he heard the cars on grid for his race enter-ing the track for their out-lap! So instead of starting P3 overall, Joe started dead last, and he was fired up to say the least! He drove fearlessly saying that he no longer saw the intimidating walls at every corner…he just drove all out! Within six laps Joe caught the P1 car and ended winning the race overall. While it was an unusual race season, he said that it will be one that he’ll never forget.
Adam Jaspers participated in three PCA races – at Road America, Brainerd, and High Plains. He absolute-ly loves racing in the upper Midwest, where the friendly people remind him of our race weekend at HPR. All six of these drivers raced at Brainerd. Why? The locals call it “God’s Country” as it is in the heart of Minnesota’s lake resort region. One can race all day, park your car at the track’s indoor paddock, and stay on a lake at a resort in the evening. Several RMR racers and HPDE drivers annually make the trip to these two destinations. Road America is one of the best tracks in the country and it’s
another great venue to experience. While they weren’t allowed to do the traditional drive to town in their race cars with police escorts due to COVID-19, the racing was exceptional, and Adam logged a 2:29 lap – a track class record. And like the others, he absolutely loves racing at our home track – “it’s like family and always a good time!” And again, he was lightning fast setting a PCA class track record of 1:55.4.
And these are just a few of their stories!
Thank you for carrying on the RMR tra-dition of racing with class and volunteer-ing/giving back.
Congratulations to our 2020 podium finishers – we’re so proud of you!
Are there any topics that you’d like covered in a future Track Talk column? Email Dan Carlson, RMR’s Lead CDI, at: [email protected].
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Walt, Alan, and Dale Tuety participated in that first-ever Club Race hosted by RMR, and they have never missed a year since – what a streak!
Adam Jaspers’ SPC Class Spec Cayman
J.B.’s 2018 991.2 GT3 Cup car
Dale Tuety with his SP1 Class 944
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TRACK TALK (CONTINUED)
COMMENTS FROM RMR’S CLUB RACING NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
DALE TUETYThanks for the recognition. I attended three race
weekends this year totaling nine races Brainerd, Mid-Ohio and High Plains. At Brainerd I ended up with three 2nd place finishes. The races were quit busy with only one race group, over 55 cars. Kept it very interesting. I was unable to stay with the first place SP1 car Steve Cooms running about a second slower than him. Upon post race inspection I found an accelerator cable prob-lem. It was not reaching wide open throttle. Repaired the problem and off to the next race at Mid-Ohio. At Mid-Ohio the car was performing better as I was running .3 to .5 seconds faster than Steve. He would jump me on the starts but I was able to stay with him through the race, finishing .25 and .5 seconds behind him at the finish line in the sprint races. The enduro was the same scenario. I chased him for 45 minutes until he pitted. At this point I was able to run unobstructed for about 20 minutes un-til I pitted. Upon coming out of the pits I found myself about 4 seconds ahead of him and was able to maintain this lead to the finish. I left Mid-Ohio with two 2nd place finishes and one 1st place finish. High Plains Raceway was my third weekend. I finished 4th, 2nd and 2nd in the enduro. The photo below is exiting Turn 7 at Mid-Ohio during the enduro.
Dale Tuety’s SP1 Class 944
JOE BANKIt was a challenging year racing in 2020 but rewarding
in new ways. For the first time in five racing seasons, my father wasn’t on the radio or in the paddock. Instead, he enjoyed racing in the “passenger” seat in the new Cup car.
Racing started at COTA where I earned a 6th place overall (podium in Class) but never felt comfortable yet in the new-to-me 2018 991.2 GT3 Cup car. By the time High Plains Raceway came I was ready and had epic bat-tles with Les Long in his 991 GT3R. I most proud of my consistency. Over 17 laps I averaged a 1:48.0 and set my personal best lap of 1:45.2. The biggest comeback was at Sonoma Raceway in Sprint 3. It was communi-cated to me that there was a 20-minute delay to Sprint 3. There were two other series racing that weekend and many crashes so I didn’t think anything of it. I was still in the paddock waiting out the 20 minutes when I heard the cars on grid entering the track for their outlap! So instead of starting P3 overall, I started dead last. I was fired up! I no longer saw the intimidating walls at every corner and just drove! Within six laps I caught the P1 car and ended winning the race overall. It was an unusual race season but one I’ll never forget either.
J.B.’s 2018 991.2 GT3 Cup car
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TRACK TALK (CONTINUED)ALAN BENJAMIN• Photo of my car at Daytona (HSR event, not PCA,
so no front or rear spoilers allowed, 156 MPH with no spoilers at all teaches one to look far down the track and be very smooth with all inputs, hands and feet).
• 2020 ran PCA Sebring (race 1), PCA BIR (first post- Covid race) and one day PCA High Plains Raceway.
• Sebring, my car was already in Florida from prior HSR Daytona and Sebring events so made sense; BIR I drove in the tow vehicle there and back and at HPR I could only due one day due to Rosh Hashanah being same time as the race. So, for HPR, zero Friday or Sat-urday time, just Sunday warm up, Enduro and sprint two. Get in and GO. With no qualifying times, I had to start last, P35 and finished 16th in Sprint 2 and started 25th and finished P10 in Enduro, both first (and only) in class, got Worker’s Choice (went thru all the traffic fast, no issues, passed about 15 cars by lap two).
• Co-driving with Barry Waddell at BIR, his first time at BIR, gave him two sessions Friday, he get’s in to close out Enduro Sunday, goes two seconds faster than me at end with light load and breaks the track record for GT5 by over 1.5 seconds. Even at age 57, once a pro, always a pro.
• I ran the three PCA and two RMVR races and four test days between Pueblo and HPR, so no complaints on a difficult season for many.
Alan Benjamin’s GT5 Class modified 911
Racers Bob Jones, Walt Fricke, and Ed Mineau show-ing off their air-cooled stock class cars running at High Plains Raceway in 2020. These three guys were in the very First Ever Club Race at Second Creek Raceway in 1992 in these exact Porsche’s. The Porsches AND the drivers are still running after all these years!
• Bob Jones has been a PCA Steward for over 20 years.
• Ed Mineau has chaired the UT Club Race for over 18 years.
“I think they are pretty amazing individuals and have given so much for the success of the PCA Club Racing program.” – Kathy FrickeLeft to right: Bob Jones, Walt Fricke, and Ed Mineau
WALT FRICKEThe year started out on the low note experienced by
everyone - the race at the convenient Hastings track was canceled due to COVID, as was the race at Heartland Park in Topeka. I hadn’t raced there since it was recon-figured 10 or more years ago, and missed it in 2019 due to a pelvis broken skiing, and was really looking forward to racing there. A sort of high point of racing at Brainerd was spinning exiting Turn 2 at 125-130 MPH due to a slight miscalculation. A special treat was racing for the first time at Eagles Canyon in Texas. The track was re-configured and repaved, and is a twisty, challenging race course. I do miss the days when Rick Goncalves, Jim Widrig, and I would race nose to tail all race long. Not much competition in my D class, so I mainly concentrat-ed on keeping ahead of 944s like Dale Tuety’s, or trying to harass Spec Boxsters whose drivers were new to the track involved, and watching my mirrors for Joe Bank or Dale Hartzell, or realizing it was Adam Jaspers or Alan Benjamin who had just passed me. The joy of just being out there on the track still runs strong.
Walt Fricke’s Stock D Class 911
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GUEST COLUMNIST
Year 2020 was going to be a great year! It would be my fourth year in PCA Club Racing, and I felt I had made good progress getting faster in the 996 Cup and improving my race-craft during the previ-ous year. 3R Racing had repaired all the damage caused by the sheared axle at the High Plains race in 2019, and I had high hopes of check-ing off more bucket-list tracks during the year – maybe a Mid-Ohio, Watkins Glen, or VIR. Joe Bank had a new car and was go-ing racing again, so we started making plans on where to race together, with the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin being our first destination in late February.
COTA is a big deal – an F1 track that draws a couple hun-dred PCA racers each year. I hadn’t been there since 2018 and felt confident going in that I could knock a few seconds off my lap times and enjoy some competitive racing. The first practice session I somehow wound up as the first car on track in our 50+ car group with Joe following behind me. What a way to start the season – the weather was perfect and the track was just as I remembered it – a glorious winding ribbon of 20 corners with fast esses and faster straights fol-lowed by massive braking and downshifting through three or four gears for slow turns. The car felt like an old friend and just wanted to run as we turned the first laps of the season. Practice was going well with my times steadily improving and then during a later practice session it happened.
Anyone who races will tell you that an uneventful week-end is the exception rather than the rule. I was getting brake lockup on a car that has ABS – something wasn’t right.... Practice now became testing to find and fix the issue. After some quick phone calls with Luke Zinn and additional trou-bleshooting, I found the culprit – the ABS sensors on a couple of the wheels had worked themselves loose and were causing the ABS to shut itself off. Fortunately, I was able to fix this before qualifying, so on went the new sticker tires and off I went, qualifying 24th out of 52 cars.
Sprint races are always interesting when there are that many
cars on track, especial-ly when starting in the middle of the pack. The first race I spent half the race chasing a modified 997 Cup that had more horsepower, giving him a big advantage on the long straights at COTA. Even though I was able to get past him twice in corners, he would always motor by me on the straights. Eventual-ly we were separated by traffic, and I concentrat-ed on moving through the cars in front of me,
eventually finishing 21st overall.
The second sprint race I started next to my “nemesis” in the 997 Cup that I had chased during the first race. I was determined to put him behind me at the start because I knew I could use the traffic to keep him behind me if I was suc-cessful. I was able to get a good launch to the inside at the start and had two car lengths ahead of him going into turn 1 – just keep pushing! During the first lap, I was able to also get position on another good driver that I have raced against many times, holding off three challenges from him and wind-ing up with clear track ahead so I could run my pace while the others fought behind me. I was extremely happy with the results, finishing 15th overall with only the very quick 991 Cups and modified 997 Cups finishing ahead of me. Things were working out! I felt really good heading into the Enduro the next day.
I was starting the Enduro in 16th, which put me behind the rabbits that would pull away from me at the start and give me room to get away from the more closely competitive cars behind me. When the green waved, I was able to get a great start to the inside and headed into turn 1 well positioned to open up down to turn 2. As I made the sharp left in turn 1, the rear of the car jumped to the right a little – I must have caught the “turtle” curb going around the corner. Unfortu-nately, it was much worse, although I didn’t know it at the time. As I headed for turn 2 the car felt off and wasn’t han-dling well. By the time I got to turn 9 there was faint smoke trailing the car, and my pace had dropped as I was fighting the car to get it to handle properly. I managed to adapt to the odd handling and wrestled the car through the first stint until
MY JOURNEY TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP by Dale Hartzell
PCA Club Racing GTA1 Class National Champion and PCA Instructor
Photo courtesy of Dale Hartzell
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the pits opened for our mandatory pit stops. When I pulled into the pits, Joe came out to check tire pressures and found damage to the left wheel and that corner of the car; I was done for the day. During my visit to the Race Stewards, I found out that I had been hit by a Cayman in turn 1 on the first lap, bending the left rear wheel, dam-aging the suspension, and folding the bumper onto the tire. Not the way you want to end a weekend.
The car was banged up and had to go back to 3R Racing to re-pair the same corner of the car that we had just fixed before COTA. And then COVID-19 lockdowns began, but it was OK since the car wasn’t going anywhere for a while. The unexpected challenge be-came getting parts during the shutdowns. With Germany locked down, it became impossible to determine when part orders would be shipped so we could finish the car. Finally, in June the car was done and testing was planned for RMR’s July DE at High Plains.
The July DE was very cathartic. RMR’s CDI Team and Event Chairs did a stellar job finding a way to put on events in the world of COVID-19, and they deserve sincere thanks from everyone in the club. The car was put back together again and I was on track again with my RMR friends and able to (mostly) put aside everything else happening in the world for a weekend. I think we set a record for the number of 996 Cups at HPR that weekend. It was great to welcome a new group of drivers into the Cup-car cult and even convince one (Steve Keisling) to get his PCA racing license before the RMR Club Race, which was only a couple of months away.
The RMR Rocky Mountain Thunder Club Race is always a great time – racing on the home track with and in front of all the people that have supported and guided me during my time in the club as a student, an instructor, and a racer. RMR has a large and active DE and Club Racing family that always have your back, whether it is words of encouragement, a spare part, the right tool, or a helping hand. This year was a bit different with only the volunteers, racers, and crews at the track, but the racing was cranked up to 11 on the fun and challenging dial.
The 991 Cups set the bar and led the field – meanwhile behind them the rest of us were intensely focused on winning that last po-dium spot. I spent the majority of the weekend trading places with Robert Ames in his 996 Cup and futilely attempting to get past Dar-ryl Troester in his modified 997 Cup. There were no easy passes among us, and we had to keep on our toes as we danced through the other 35 cars having their own duels on track. The intermittent clouds of dust hanging across the track from off-track excursions made it interesting – especially the time I headed up turn 7 and ex-ited a cloud of dust to find a Boxster stopped directly in front of me pointed downhill! I can only imagine what that driver was thinking as I jinked around them to avoid a collision. I managed to finish the
weekend capturing the coveted overall 3rd place in Sprint 2 and the Enduro, with a 4th overall in Sprint 1. All-in-all it was a very good weekend.
At this point in the season I entered the “what-if” phase of planning. I needed at least one more race weekend to win another championship, but there was a guy in Califor-nia that could beat me if he ran the two remaining races in California at Thunderhill Raceway Park and Sonoma Raceway. I’d probably need two weekends to get enough points if he ran both weekends. I could see that he was registered for Thunderhill, so depending on how many points he earned there I would need to race Sonoma and
Eagles Canyon if I had any chance of winning. Fortunately, he can-celed out of Thunderhill and took the pressure off me. All I needed to do now was get one more race start to qualify for a national po-dium, so I headed down to Eagles Canyon Raceway northwest of Dallas, where I met up with Joe Bank and Walt and Kathy Fricke. Joe, Walt and I could lock up our championships during the weekend and didn’t have any competitors in our classes to deal with.
Of course, it is never that simple. Eagles Canyon is a genuinely nice facility with a newly paved track, so everyone was learning during the weekend, with over 50 other racers on the track. Teeth-ing pains for a new race facility and faulty timing loops made it a bit chaotic during the first practices as they sorted out where everyone was gridded. I steadily improved my times during practice and then threw on my “better” set of tires for qualifying. After the first two laps of qualifying, I headed in without a good lap, as the rear of the car was violently shifting from side to side during upshifts, so I never really got up to speed. We eventually determined that one of the wheels hadn’t seated properly, causing the unusual handling. Without posting a real qualifying time, I was gridded 36th for the first sprint. Fortunately, they did a split start so the large group of 944s was behind me.
I switched back to my old practice tires for the race and headed out with two objectives: get the race start I needed and avoid get-ting a 13 that would disqualify me from a championship. A 13 is a 13-month probation or suspension from club racing for causing on-track contact with another car. As the race started, I quickly wound my way through the pack of slower cars in front of me, passing 16 on the first lap. I managed to work my way up to 11th place by the mid-dle of the race and found myself chasing the same 997 Cup that I had battled in my first race at COTA seven months earlier. Fortunately, this track didn’t offer him much of an advantage, but it was also not an easy track to pass on, so I had some work to do if I was going to get by him. I doggedly chased him for a number of laps – closing in, getting separated by traffic, and closing in again to keep the pressure on. Finally, with a few laps to go he made the mistake I was waiting for when he drove wide on a corner and wound up off track in the dirt. I jetted by him and never looked back on my way to finishing 10th overall, 26 places from where I started.
That evening we celebrated because Joe, Walt, and I had clinched our championships. Kathy Fricke presented me with a bottle of wine that we polished off while wandering around the paddock talking to other racers we knew. It’s great to win, but it is especially rewarding when you can share it with your RMR-racing family.
I’m looking forward to getting through this winter so we can do it all over again next year!
Photo courtesy of Dale Hartzell
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Matthew and Jennifer Taylor joined PCA in 2017. They attended the DE 101 program that March, along with their high school-aged daughter, Kimber. They learned about Driver Education (DE) events, including autocrosses. Matthew and Kimber decided autocrossing sounded like fun. In April, with Jennifer watching, father and daughter had a great time attending RMR’s Autocross School.
A longtime admirer of Porsches (his mother owned a 912, a car he loved), Matthew bought his first Porsche, a blue 2006 manual-transmission Cayman, after the family moved to Colorado in 2006. He used the Cayman as a daily driver. “I drove it like you’re supposed to drive a Porsche—I drove it downtown. I drove it in snow. I had chains for it. It had a roof rack—I used to take it skiing, and people would laugh at me when they’d see me drive up in it,” he recalls.
Other Porsches followed. In 2009, he bought a manual Cayenne that he kept for a few years. Then in 2012 he bought a 2010 Panamera 4S. But by 2017, he decided he wanted a newer 911. At Prestige Imports, Matthew picked a black 2017 C4S 911 with red and black interior and a PDK transmission. By this time the Prestige sales staff had come to know his love of Porsches. They suggested he join PCA.
Matthew followed the April autocross with his first High-Performance Driving Event (HPDE) in early May of 2017 at High Plains Raceway (HPR). Regarding his first DE, Matthew jokes, “That was the beginning of the end.” He was hooked! No stranger to speed, Matthew had driven motorcycles for many years before he and Jennifer had children.
Both Matthew and Jennifer share a love of manual transmissions. Although his first DE was driving the PDK 2017 C4S 911, he and Jennifer realized they didn’t want to continue to track that car. As an accountant, Jennifer had concerns about the cost of wear and tear on the car. For his part, Matthew explains, “The C4S is really fast. The car did so much for you. I wasn’t a good driver. I know that now. I didn’t know it then. The car would save me.” Matthew decided to search for an older Cayman that both he and Jennifer could drive on the track. He found a 2010 987.2 Cayman S with a manual transmission. The car checked all the boxes: lower value and operating costs, manual transmission, a good car to learn with, and one that Jennifer was comfortable driving.
By 2018, Matthew convinced Jennifer to try track driving. Jennifer says she was “super intimidated,”
but with Matthew’s continued encouragement she agreed to attend RMR’s Ladies’ Day. Jennifer recalls, “I said, ‘Fine. I’ll try this out. That way I can say I did it. I’ll be the good, supportive wife. Then I’ll never have to do it again!’ ” Laughing, she explains, “I had a plan! It did not work! I had no idea [Ladies’ Day] would be so much fun!” Jennifer recalled the large number of Ladies’ Day attendees who, like her, had never done track driving before. “I didn’t feel out of place,” she says.
Jennifer followed up her Ladies’ Day appearance with a day at HPR in October of 2018 with Debbie Keisling as her instructor. Jennifer said it was “really great” to have a female instructor. “It made me feel comfortable,” she recalls.
MATTHEW AND JENNIFER TAYLOR: HOOKED ON HIGH-PERFORMANCE DRIVING
by Lynda Love
TRACK PERSONALITIES:
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“It’s Not Just the Cars... It’s the People.”
By the end of 2018, both Jennifer and Matthew were hooked on HPDE driving. But more changes were coming. Over the winter Matthew turned to research and YouTube learning. His concerns over value lead him to 996 GT3 prices. In February of 2019, he purchased a yellow 2004 GT3 that already had some track modifications. Then he bought a trailer/RV combo he could use to haul the GT3 to the track and use for sleeping. He also bought a more powerful truck to haul the trailer. Finally, he sold the 2010 Cayman S.
Matthew and Jennifer’s first DE in 2019 at Pueblo Motorsports Park led to a distressing “Uh oh!” moment. While Jennifer had fun driving the GT3 at Pueblo, Matthew discovered he was uncomfortable with the car. He found himself wondering if spending the money on the GT3, the trailer, and the truck had been the right thing to do. To help resolve his doubts after the Pueblo weekend, Matthew took the GT3 to Prestige Imports and had the car looked over. Some suspension changes were made, and Matthew took the GT3 to HPR the next month. He continued to progress with the car, got used to it and even fell in love with it. “The GT3 on track is so light and nimble and playful! I love it!” he exclaims.
Matthew and Jennifer continued to enjoy driving the GT3 on the track in 2019. In early 2020, racing seats and harnesses were installed in the GT3. But Matthew and Jennifer’s HPDE plans for the rest of 2020 were changed by the coronavirus pandemic. Although Matthew participated in RMR HPDE’s in 2020, because Jennifer wasn’t yet a solo driver, she couldn’t drive on the track too.
At RMR’s Club Race in September 2020, the GT3 had unexpected brake and tire issues at the end of Saturday’s runs. To get a second day on the track, Matthew sourced brake pads and tires at the track on Saturday night. He bought Nitto NT01 tires from Nick Shumaker and Pagid Black brake pads from the Keislings. He had not used either on the track before. He was grateful to On-Site Tires for installing the new tires and to Dave Stribling (from Prestige Imports) for installing the new brakes. On Sunday, he says, “Everything came together! The car felt amazing!” After that, his next track weekend in October 2020 reinforced everything he had learned.
Earlier in 2020, while doing more research, Matthew discovered the recent GT3 Touring model. This model was missing the GT3’s characteristic fixed wing, instead having a classic pop-up rear deck. The interior was classic with leather finishes and houndstooth cloth on the seats. The only transmission available was a six-speed manual. Matthew’s original intent was to buy the GT3 Touring model and sell the older 2004 GT3. He found and purchased a beautiful silver 2018 GT3 Touring model. But
his love of driving the 2004 GT3 meant he couldn’t part with the older car. Currently, his plan is to track the 2004 GT3 and for Jennifer to track the 2018 GT3 Touring. But the plan is still in negotiation. Jennifer says, “I haven’t agreed to that. But I usually don’t win.”
Both Matthew and Jennifer are inspired by the number of couples who both participate together in HPDE events. “When you’re at the track, you’re 100% focused on that,” Jennifer says. Matthew agrees, “When we’re at the track for a weekend we can just be us, together.” Even while driving home from the track they compare notes on HPR’s different turns.
Jennifer advises those RMR members who want to participate in track events not to be intimidated. “Everybody is super nice. There’s a wealth of wisdom out there. The instructors are great and will keep you safe. Ninety percent of people out there are teachers at heart. With the exception of changing brake fluid, you can take your Porsche to the track just as it is—you don’t have to modify your car.”
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Happy New Year! In late December we were incredibly happy to present another episode in Rocky Mountain Region’s “A Conversation With…” series.
Dan Carlson, RMR’s lead Chief Driving Instructor, interviewed former Car and Driver Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere. The evening was an interesting and entertaining conversation diving into the legendary Porsche 959.
In case you missed the live interview – or would like to watch it again – the video has been posted on RMR’s YouTube channel. See: https://youtu.be/41eH5aMzeEk
A CONVERSATION WITH…Former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver Csaba Csere
A CONVERSATION WITH…
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Dan Carlson continues RMR’s “A Conversation With . . .” series interviewing Csaba Csere, former Editor-in-Chief of Car and Driver.
Watch the interview at: youtu.be/41eH5aMzeEk
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PORSCHE PUNDIT
Brand loyalty. What every company spends untold dollars working to create. They build the essence of their brand around it. Really, they love this concept. Why? Big prof its. It can be a status symbols like Louis Vuit ton or Tory Burch or something simple like your basic “double no-whip-no-foam, skinny pumpkin latte” from Starbucks that you always order. We love what we love.
So how far does brand loyalty take us? Here’s one example: How about the never ending Ford versus Chevy or Chevy versus Mopar battle and all the possible permutations therein? There are some folks that swear by Toyota or Honda and will buy nothing else (members of my own family fall into one of these two camps). Ever try having an automotive conversation with any of these people? Take a Ford guy for instance: “Don’t even get me talking about Chevy, because you know, those cars suck.” Personally I find those people very open minded, as long as you stick to how great Ford products and how sucky Chevy products are, that is. This is just an example, I’m not picking on anyone here. Not me.
So do German cars fall into this brand loyalty trap? Heck yes! BMW guys? Check. Mercedes guys? Check. Audi guys? Ah, I think you get it—check please! And Porsche guys? Well we are probably the worst, at least when it comes to brand die heart’edness. Come on, as a group we are so loyal to our brand we even get into sub categories of brand fanaticism – as in air-cooled versus water pumpers or all fifty-three ‘924’ guys versus everyone else.
So does that apply to you? Hmmm. You are reading this in a Porsche Club magazine right? And me? What do you think? Hate to pigeon hole myself into any particular
category, but I gotta be honest with myself here; yes I am a Porsche-brand geek. Says so right on the shirt I am wearing right now, writing this piece: Drivers Education February 2003, Maverick Region PCA. OK, maybe the shirt is a bit threadbare...but I love it. Yeah, guilty as charged.
My own Porsche adventure started early, a really terrible (or terribly rusted) 914 I drove in college. It was an awful car and taken as a singular ownership event, should have scared most people (namely me) away from the Porsche brand forever. But then something magic happened. It was 1990, I was recently married. So one Saturday morning, as me and my bride read the local newspapers—just to set the stage here, my wife loves to read the paper cover to cover, she still does—she looked up from her paper and asked: “Is $14,000 for a 1987 Porsche 944S with low miles a good deal?” (Remember – this is 1990 money we are talking about here) I put down my section of the paper. She had just totally captured my attention. Brand loyalty was about to strike again! And a rather large rabbit hole had just magically popped into existence, right in the very
fabric of my living room. Brand loyalty had just made it presence felt in the Turner household big time.
And on that exhaust note, see you next time.
RL Turner is the author of The Driver, a series of action adventure novels, available in both print and ebook on Amazon (more info at www.thedriver-series .com). Having owned a dozen Porsches and driven hundreds of laps on racetracks throughout the southwest, author Turner knows a few things about going fast in a Porsche and then fixing them when he breaks something.
BRAND LOYALTY – PART 1by Rob Turner, Maverick Region PCA
Rob TurnerMaverick Region PCA
This Porsche 914 has certainly seen better days
1987 Porsche 944S
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BOOK REVIEWS FOR PORSCHEPHILES
Bruce Herrington Orange Coast Region PCA
Never Stop Driving – A Better Life Behind the WheelEdited by Larry Webster
Published July 23, 2019 by Motorbooks, Beverly, MA
Do not be put off by the cov-er – there are three pictures of Porsches in the first 15 pages.
This book is not about driv-ing per se, but is rather a paean to owning and loving automo-biles. It is a collection of an-ecdotes, from four different authors about buying, owning, wrenching on, even the psy-chology of, as well as driving or taking trips in automobiles. Racing is barely mentioned. If the car is an endangered spe-cies, this book provides a ratio-nale for why it must be rescued from extinction.
The foreword refers to a car as a “four-wheeled escape pod” providing hands-on analog pursuits as a respite from the overstressed, overworked and underslept modern world of 24-hour news cycles and digital workplaces. Throughout this book, cars are dis-cussed as virtual beings, with character; something to be involved with (the opposite of the current trend toward self-driving cars and PDK-only Porsches). It describes a fading world, an antidote perhaps to a future where the driver, formerly participating actively in the travel, has become a dumb lump just riding along.
Never Stop Driving is composed of a number of very readable, personal stories of car ownership told in a di-rect, personal, captivating fashion. These stories of past automotive-related events are presented in large type, helpful to mature eyes. The series-of-anecdotes struc-ture makes this a good book to read in snatches, with no requirement for keeping track of characters or continuity. There are many interesting color pictures of cars in ac-tion (everyday actions, not racing), but the pictures do not relate directly to the adjacent text.
The stories are collected in four chapters starting with “The Commitment” dealing with finding and buying a car. “Peace in the Wrenches” deals with the Zen of work-
ing on and socializing about cars. “The Joy of Driving” is more about the trips than the actual steering of the car, but the satisfaction that can be ob-tained by clipping the perfect apex is not ignored.
The last chapter consists of four sections dealing with cars as art objects or personal expressions and ending with some personal thoughts of prominent people (from Jay Leno to Peter Egan to Bob Lutz), about the “last drive” they would like to take be-fore they, let us say, had to stop driving. These comment-ers also discuss the car they would most like to take on that last drive. They provide interesting descriptions that really stimulated bucket-list
thoughts in this reviewer. There are four special articles inserted in (and somewhat disruptive to the flow of) the narration. These recount personal experiences for four additional car enthusiasts, buying/selling, trouble shoot-ing and wrenching on cars and, by Sam Posey, drifting a race car.
All-in-all this book is a collection of true stories that any Porschephile can enjoy and relate to because they in-volve having an automobile as an integral part of one’s life. A book like this may soon become a classic of a bygone era as autonomous vehicles and computer-con-trolled engines/transmissions eliminate (or at least min-imize) the do-it-yourself aspects of both driving and maintaining/repairing automobiles. It is non-technical, not specifically Porsche, but great entertainment for any automobile enthusiast.
Never Stop Driving is hardcover, with 192, 7 x 9 inch pages, printed on heavy weight matt paper with numer-ous pictures (some full page). It should be available for $28.00 from your favorite bookseller.
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PORSCHE ARTWORK
Greg Russell has been a PCA/RMR member since 2002, joining a year after purchasing his first Porsche, a 1974 911 Carrera, which he still owns and drives today. Over the years he has also acquired a 1972 914 and a 1998 Boxster.
Always interested in art from an early age, Greg received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Northern Col-orado in 1975. Other than teaching high school art and photography for ten years, and a stint as a pre-press artist for a printing company, his day-job rarely involved producing art – but it has always been a passion and a hobby. He has worked in pencil, paint and photography for most of his life, and eventually pro-gressed to creating digital imagery.
Since retiring late last year, and staying at home a lot during 2020, Greg has been generating prints from photographs he’s taken and manipulated through soft-ware to produce unique images of several differ-ent models of our beloved marque. His Porsche car prints are currently available for viewing (and purchase) at www.FineArtAmerica.com/profiles/1-greg-russell.
Questions? Contact Greg at: [email protected]
PORSCHE ARTWORK BY GREG E RUSSELL
Porsche 904 – Silver #36 Porsche 904 on a race track.
Greg has created original art since high school and obtained a BFA.He currently still produces work in
acrylic and watercolor paint,
and digital photography.
911 GT3 RS – Patrick Long competing in the 2009 ALMS race at Miller Motorsports Park in a 911 GT3 RS for the Flying Lizard team
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GUEST COLUMNIST
I was more than a little concerned when reading the remarks of VW Group’s (our marque’s Master Cylinder) CEO Herbert Diess at its September shareholder’s meeting. He said, “Volkswagen needs to change from a collection of valuable brands and fascinating combustion-engine products that thrill customers with superb engineering—to a digital company that reliably operates millions of mobility devices worldwide.”
As proof, VW plans to spend $32B(!) by 2025 to advance digitization (aka electrification) in its cars, including ours. That’s double their estimate from just a year ago. The other big auto makers have announced similar spending/engineering plans. That’s a lot of optional, deviated stitching.
But “fascinating”…”digital company”…“mobility devices?” My last article debated the F1 Greatest of All Time or GOAT, but did Dr. Diess’ discourse disclose DNA-editing plans for our cars to turn them into GOATs or rather, Generic Operating Automobiles of Tomorrow? Will our cars become just another domesticated digital device or a boring MODE (mobility device) of transportation? Will VW’s digital DNA editing devolve into Drivers Not Applicable? For now, our fascinating internal combustion engines (ICEs) are still hot and thrilling to hear when we drive. Yet, consider Diess’ disclosure a declaration that our ICE age is almost out of gas…or has that low-fuel, gas-pump icon merely blown a fuse?
That gas-pump icon’s unwelcome glow now takes on a new existential meaning as the great ICE showrooms begin to calve; three of our marque’s 65 different model/body/fuel types are now electric, and almost every other major marque’s ICE machines may be mere memories by mid-decade. The soft buzz of the future’s electric $erenade mesmerizes most mortal CEOs and boards. Even today, consider these electrical/hybrid harbingers, confirming the melting of our ICE age:
1. Porsche’s target is for half of its sales by 2025 to be electric or plug-in hybrids. That’s aggressive, but have you seen the new Taycan assembly factory? R2-D2 and C-3PO would feel right at home.
2. Tesla’s market value today is greater than Toyota, GM, Ford and VW’s combined. The S&P 500 will include Tesla in late December as the company is close to selling 500,000 battery-powered cars this year.
3. As of 2019, there were 635 electric vehicle (EV) companies, at least on paper, planning to start in China.
4. As the Moody Blues rock group appropriately sang (well, almost): “Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
headlights fade from every (show)room.” About 150 (out of ~880) U.S. GM Cadillac dealers recently dealt themselves out of the game, having made the agonizing decision to sever ties with GM by declining it’s ultimatum and taking a GM buy-out instead. The ultimatum: “You will invest (heavily) in your dealership to provide electrical and other upgrades to support the imminent e-Caddie’s, or else.” Else = no e-Caddie’s for you. The (now former) dealers cited many unknowns, e.g., when exactly would such cars arrive; who would really buy them (in their markets); how would they make money off an e-car other than initial sales? While the “take-it-or-leave it”-offer lasted, GM’s buyouts ranged from $300K to > $1M.
• WWPDD (What Would Porsche Dealers Do)? There are only ~190 U.S. dealers today. Will we have even fewer places to pursue new dreams soon? Will our dealers face such utopian ultimatums?
5. The most serious ICEbreakers about to set sail are:
• Lucid Motors founded in 2007 (as Ativea), plans a battery-powered luxury sedan.
• Rivian Automotive founded in 2009, plans an EV pickup.
• NIO founded in 2014 plans an electric SUV.
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• Nikola founded in 2015 plans a battery-powered semi-truck.
• Faraday Future plans an electric luxury SUV.
• Xpeng founded in 2015 plans a battery-electric sedan.
• Li Auto founded in 2015 plans a plug-in, hybrid luxury SUV.
• Arrival founded in 2015 plans an electric passenger bus.
• Fisker founded in 2016 plans a compact electric SUV made from sustainable materials.
• Canoo founded in 2018 plans an electric microbus-like van.
• Lordstown Motors founded in 2019 plans a battery-electric pickup truck for commercial fleet use.
Will all these ships safely sail the silicon seas? Seriously? Certainly not. In fact, will they actually make these vehicles or contract out the work? Will any be accepted and succeed in the U.S.? What will be their range? What if a company doesn’t have charging stations; how would people get home? What’s the cost to retrofit a charging port in a garage, if I have one? What if I live in an apartment? These are a few of many uncertainties and scary situations for investors and buyers to consider.
It will be a dangerous sea to navigate, filled with the scariest of Krakens: an uncertain public. Clearly, capsizings and catastrophes are coming. But to who? When? Well, that’s what many a CEO, money manager and investor would love to know. So, can you make out any lighthouse beacons on this gloom-e horizon, steering us to a safe harbor? Possibly, thanks to Porsche/VW.
First, if I were an investor, I’d wonder/ask, are there any success stories or business models to thaw out from the past, during that old ICE age, that could pilot these new e-ships to safe harbor? A model that provided valuable, reliable results, with superb engineering that thrilled its customers? If only. Otherwise, we will all soon see who seized these and other lessons of history to safely survive the coming ICE melt.
But wait, that beacon, that familiar sound? Could it be our marque isn’t mounting a full-scale mutiny and won’t set our cars
adrift on these silicon seas, but instead is investing in a familiar lifeboat: the e-fuel project (EFP)? Could this new technology keep our speedboats from joining the mothball f leet? Where/How/What? In the U.S. you ask? In Canada? In Mexico? Of course, in Germany? Nein. The planned location for this experiment perfectly fits its icy intent: to preserve our ICE in Chile. Let me thaw out the plan:
Porsche/VW, in partnership with Siemens and other international companies, plans to develop and implement the first integrated, commercial plant in Chile for making a synthetic, climate-neutral fuel known as e-fuel. The commitment for now is just $24M to initiate a demonstration plant. The plant would be powered by wind energy and the e-fuel produced by a complex process using water, hydrogen and CO2. The CO2 is filtered from the air and combined with hydrogen (from water) to produce synthetic methanol. Next, the methanol will be converted into something called gasoline using a technology to be licensed and supported by Exxon/Mobil.
The only emissions would be the same amount of carbon pulled from the air. Thus another science-based, life-saving solution (like the COVID-19 vaccine rolling out today as of this writing!) providing a carbon-neutral, life-preserving fuel allowing our current ICE machines to continue to thrill us into the electric vehicle future. Shockingly good news.
So, does this mean we’ve been saved by VW spending a mere 0.0000075% of its $32B “digitization” investment? Only time and some of that same superb engineering and continued confidence in our marque will tell if this planned e-fuel will allow our current “valuable brand” machines to continue driving far into the warm glow of a new ICE age.
NOTE: This article was written at the beginning of December 2019. Since then, there’s been breaking news that’s pertinent. Consider the following: On December 15th, VW’s top shareholders (including the controlling Porsche family) and union leaders publicly backed Dr. Diess’ electrification strategy causing VW’s stock to rise almost 8%. The labor-union endorsement was key, as, by German law, half the seats on its board of directors
must include labor leaders. A management member said that Dr. Diess now has the full support of all the board members. A key concession to obtaining this consensus was to transform the company’s main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, into a model factory for producing its most-advanced electric cars; a move that would secure thousands of jobs. (Wait, more advanced than the new Taycan factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen? Hmm.)
Even Wolfgang Porsche himself and Hans Michael Piëch were quoted as supporting Dr. Diess’ vision and new direction. It seems an electric future is plugged in now, so a new Chile-based ICE age for our cars can’t come soon enough.
For now, our fascinating internal combustion engines (ICEs) are still
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I know I’m not the only one suffering from Pandemic Malaise. But it’s got me bad. I just bumped into a neighbor I hadn’t seen for a while. She asked me if I’d been traveling. I laughed through my mask and said, “are you kidding?” She shot back, “I’ve been away a lot. New York, North Carolina, my place in the mountains. You just wear that mask and don’t touch anything.”
Uh, yeah. And I’ve also got friends who won’t leave their house. Others who leave their groceries in the hot sun for a few hours, in the theory that solar radiation will somehow rid the produce of any vestiges of the virus. I know a couple who rented an RV to go visit relatives. The vehicle acts like a mobile motel room. Then there’s my mother, still sharp as a whip at 92, who suffered the ignominy of having Thanksgiving dinner brought to her door, in the retirement community where she lives. I haven’t seen her since last January.
Whatever works for you, right? For me, the day hasn’t changed much. I still work from home, as I have for some 10 plus years. But the evenings, the weekends. What do you do, when that favorite restaurant just announced they’re not reopening? Ever? Find programming on the big flat-screen TV, that’s what.
I recently upgraded my Apple TV box to the latest generation. And what did I discover? That you could download Internet-based TV outlets in the form of programming “apps.” Hmm, I thought. There was Netf lix, there was HBO Max, there was Amazon Prime Video. I wondered if … yes, there was Motor Trend TV.
Yes, it costs a few bucks a month but, hey, how much is my sanity worth? I went searching for programming and what did I f ind? Glad you asked. I found 38 individual programs with “new episodes.” Despite the fact I have no idea what “new” means in this context. I also found some 22 “must watch” programs. Nine “Trending on Motor Trend.” One
“new release.”
You know what most of the programming is like. Videos of guys racing, in the dead of night, for “pink slips.” How-to programs showing, step-by-step, what you do to rebuild the differential on a late ‘60 ou do? Exactly, that’s what I did. I started with Season 1, Episode 1. From 2002. And it was fascinating. Because what I found was an experiment, sort of a first draft, of what was to become what I remember about the series. Jeremy was Jeremy. Deliberately iconoclastic. I know, he can be a bit brackish, if you know what I mean. But there’s no denying he’s one of us … or, as they say across the pond, a true “petrol head.” Same for Richard Hammond. But the third presenter was a heavyset “bloke” named Jason Dawe, whose role seemed to be to surprise everyone with the great used-car deals he was able to dredge up, on cars about which you’re probably not really interested.
I was curious about him. So I fast-forwarded to Episode 1 of Season 2. From 2003. Jason was now gone. Who was I now introduced to? The one, the only James May whose first segment was on a big, over the hill Bentley that he said he actually owned. There was no word on the fate of Squire Dawe.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to Episode 1 of Season 1. There was The Stig. Thrashing a first-gen Pagani Zonda and a Noble around that crazy test track. Only…he was dressed in a black-driving suit. Also, there was no classic intro about how some say he was found in a manger, thumbing the shift paddles on a Porsche steering wheel. But I did learn that that crazy test track was actually scoped out by engineers at Lotus, as
their own Weissach or Fiorano. It sounds very Lotus, doesn’t it.
Ye s , t h e y p o s t e d The St ig’s t imes on a whiteboard. And, yes, t h e y h a d c e l e b r i t i e s d r iv ing a sensible car around the t rack. And they posted those times, too. And they did begin the t rad it ion of doing crazy things, sometimes with crazy cars. In the first episode, they tried to see how fast you had to go, for a speed camera to not register your speed. After a few unsuccessful tries, they succeeded; 170+ MPH, in a TVR Tuscan R. On a closed track, their track, they were quick to point out.
I watched a few more episodes. The oddball
stuff was already off to the races, so to speak. They tried to find out if a London double-decker bus could jump 14 motorcycles. This they called role reversal…get it? For the record, the bus destroyed all but three. And they invited grandmothers – “grannies” – to do doughnuts in a Honda S2000.
See what I mean? Nothing like what was to come later, like trying to convert camper vans to sailboats, in order to cross the English Channel, for no good reason. But the bones, the DNA, was there from the start. And, and this may be the most salient point: they knew what they were talking about.
Oh yeah. So here I sit, with 177 episodes yet to go. Brings new meaning to the term “binging,” doesn’t it. I don’t care. I’m now on a marathon mission. To find out when The Stig switched to a white-driving suit. Virus? What virus? Maybe I’ll buy an Apple TV box for my mother. It’s the least I can do.
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Denise JordanPCA Zone 9 Representative
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The RMR Board of Directors and the membership will miss Rich Sanders whose last day as our outgoing Zone 9 Representative was 31 Dec 2020. He graced a num-ber of our events (social and track) for the past four years, and we sorta got to know him and we learned from him. Rich was (and still is!) a fine gentleman and we’ll miss his monthly IN THE ZONE com-mentary, and we look forward to seeing him again at some of our future events. We wish him much success as a mem-ber of PCA’s National Audit Committee and his continued involvement with his own PCA Intermountain Region club in Utah.
Effective 1 Jan 2021, our new Zone 9 Representative is now Denise Jordan from the PCA Alpine Mountain Re-gion (AMR) club. I confess that I met Ms. Jordan only once at a joint AMR/RMR Board of Directors’ meeting in Colorado Springs a number of months ago. So I can’t give you much information about Ms. Jordan from the AMR club other than to say that she’s the Past President of the Club. However, I offer you some of Ms. Jordan’s history within AMR as given in Rich Sanders’ last IN THE ZONE column in the December 2020 edition of HighGear.
From Rich Sanders’ last IN THE ZONE column in the December 2020 edition of HighGear…
“Denise is currently com-pleting her third year in her role as President of the Alpine Mountain Region. Denise has been involved with the Board of AMR since 2014, serving as Secretary and So-cial Committee Chair prior to becoming President. And even as President, she has maintained her role as Social Chair. While growing the quantity and variety of events in the region, she also created a focus on increasing the en-gagement of female members. Outside of PCA, Denise owns and runs a small business which accessorizes those who love horsepower. But in this
case, it’s the real horses and their riders! Year 2020 has presented Denise with challenges in both roles as Club and Company President. And through the pandemic challenges of keeping business doors open and club ac-tivities rolling (especially tours and DE activities), I can attest to the fact that both organizations are doing quite well. Congratulations, Denise!”
So to Ms. Jordan, the RMR Board of Directors and membership warmly welcome you as our new Zone 9 Representative. We look forward to seeing and meeting you at some of our social and track events, hopefully, in the near future. And we wish you much success and pleasure in your new role as the Zone 9 Rep within PCA.
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PORSCHES1983 911SC $34,000Platinum Metallic. Brown interior. 105K Miles. Folder of all maintenance records since 1993. Always well m a i n t a i n e d w i t h a l l n e c e s s a r y maintenance upgrades, ie pop-off valves, etc. New turbo tie rods. Continental DW tires with only 7,000 miles. Porsche COA. AC delete but have all parts.Jason McGowin (303) [email protected]
1972 911E Targa $73,500 NegotiableHoly Grail of 1972 oil-door 911s. #14 of 861 E Targas built for 1972. Black Recaro buckets, kept the original factory tartan seats in storage. Cookie cutters, kept the original Fuchs wheels in storage too. Engine rebuilt by Eisenbuds. Runs strong, shifts smooth. Driven couple times per month, weather permitting. Garaged since we bought it in 2012. Most records from 1984 on. Minor rust in a couple of the usual E Series spots, but very solid throughout. Excellent, nearly complete, restoration candidate. VIN: 9112210014Matt Goudy (303) [email protected]
2004 911 GT3 $69,000Arctic Silver / full Black Leather. 31K miles. All stock, all original – still smells new. I’ve owned it for 7 years, and it has been “adult” driven and well maintained. Happy to arrange a Face-Time walkaround for serious buyers.Mike Chott (303) 324-4562 [email protected]
2008 Cayenne GTS $14,000114,205 miles. Silver with Leather Interior in Black Alcantara. Adaptive Cruise Control, Bose, 21-inch Sport Edition wheels in black. Custom steering wheel, Tow package, New tires, brakes and rotors. Inter ior very good, no smoking. No Accidents, Clean Title. All Service Records – through Prestige Imports and Stevinson Imports. Very, very good condition.Doug Owen (720) 255-4451 [email protected]
2017 911 Carrera $80,000Night Blue Metallic/Black Leather. 6,800 miles and super clean. PDK, Lane Change, Park Assist, Camera, Moon Roof, Sport Exhaust, Extended Warranty. Owner has long history with Porsches, especially 911s, and knows how to take care of them.Roxanne Lenny (303) 881-5968 [email protected]
1979-1982 911SC WANTED!Mint condition. Low mileage. One owner. Looking for Chiffon White/ Lobster Red interior. Thank You!Vince Vranesic (303) 888-5087
2010-2013 Cayenne WANTED!Wanted! Cayenne 2010 thru 2013 with both reasonable mileage and price. We are reasonably f lexible as to how the vehicle is equipped and of course, color. We would be more interested in maintenance records and meeting the owner personally. We would also want to be able to have the car inspected to determine its condition. I currently have a 1988 944 Turbo which I will sell when I get the Cayenne. As much as I love the 944, it’s getting a little difficult for me to get in and out of it.Wally Weart (303) [email protected]
MISCELLANEOUSSnow Tires and Wheels $900Four each of the snow tires and wheels.All the tires are 255/40R20 – Continental Part #TS830P. Tires are very new. I was using them on a Panamera Turbo S.Scott Jefferson (303) [email protected]
Continental ExtremeContact Tires $250(Two Pairs) A pair each of 235-40-18 and 265-40-18 Continental ExtremeContact DW tires with about 1/2 tread remaining.Tires came off a 2006 Cayman S. Price: $250 for all four tires.John Samilian (303) 747-7514
Centerlock Wheels for 991 Turbo $1,500Velo s X X C u s t o m 2 - P ie c e 2 0 ” Centerlock Wheel Set for 991 Turbo SFu l l s e t of Velos X X / 2 -P ie ce Configuration (50/50 chrome hardware).20×9 fronts. 20×12 rears. Finish: Gloss Porsche Silver. Used for 1 full season for shows – excellent condition, no curb rash. These were a custom order from Velos for a 991.1 Turbo S centerlock manufacture. I don’t know offsets, but they were fitted f lush with no spacers. I sold the car with the original wheels. These have been sitting in storage at Stevinson and it’s time to move them out. Stevinson Imports (Chance Chenoweth) assembled, mounted then removed the set. You can find these exact wheels on sale from Velos and on eBay regularly for $5,000 for the set. I am a long-time PCA member, so you may have seen this car with these wheels at one of the shows. “Fire Sale” price for local pickup. Please pick up in Evergreen, CO.Ero Johnson (303) 526-6541
19” Classic Wheels from 997 4S $1,300Wheels…I have two 8×19 (57mm) and two x19 (51mm) wheels for sale. I sold my 997. No TPMS sensors. There are some very minor scratches on several wheels. The set was lightly used in the winter. They were cleaned, waxed and bagged for indoor storage during the summer.Ti res…T he wheels a re cu r rent ly mounted with Pirelli Sottozero Serie Winter 240 N1 tires. The sizes are 235/35VR19 87V and 295/30VR19 100V XL. Although the tires have excellent tread, they are rather old.The car was always garaged. Photos upon request. Located in Highlands Ranch, CODoug Wiebe (925) 786-8772 [email protected]
Michelin Pilot Alpin PA4 Winter Tires255/40R20 front and 285/35R20 rear. 4,000 miles on these that were on a 2014 Panamera Turbo Executive for one season. Any reasonable offer accepted.David Bachrach (720) 201-8075 [email protected]
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20” Cayenne 958.1 Wheel/Tire Set $2,500Winter set. Shipping not included. Nokian Hakkapeliitta 8 SUV studded tires mounted on Spyder wheels. Wheels are in very good condition. Tires have 6-7/32” of tread. Tires are 275/50. Item is located in Cherry Creek.Denny O’Connell (303) [email protected]
19” Wheels for 2017 991.2 Carrera $1,500A complete set of OEM wheels for a 2017 991.2 Carrera. These wheels are in excellent condition with less than 10,000 street miles. Have also done two track days and are currently fitted with well-used Goodyear Eagle F1s in front and used-up Yokohama Advan Sports in the rear. TPMS was working fine last summer. High-res photos available.The specs (for rear-drive Carrera):991.362.510.00 8.5J x 19 ET50 2017-2020 mfg. by Speedline991.362.560.00 11.5J x 19 ET76 2017-2020 mfg. by SpeedlineCsaba Csere (303) [email protected]
Michelin Pilot Alpin 20” Winter Tires $1,000Excellent condition – used one season (<1,000 miles). Rear 295/30R20 and front 245/35R20. Make your Carrera a year-round pleasure!Jep Seman (303) 638-7000
Hoosier R7 18” Racing Tires $600Only ten(10) sessions on the set. Front 18 x 255 x 35, Rear 18 x 315 x 30, used 2 days on my GT3. Jay Kurts (303) [email protected]
Roll Bar by DAS Sport $1,250 OBOHD bolt-in custom fit for 964, 993 Cabs only (Model RB6); like new. Pic 1: roll bar front — Pic 2: roll bar rear. Bolts into existing seat belt attachments. 3′ x 3.5′. Can deliver within 100 miles from 80908.Patrick O’Brien (303) [email protected]
Racing Seats, Rollbar, Harnesses, TiresAll Brand New in Box / Wrapper…• OMP First-R Racing Seats $900
2 racing seats• GMG Seat Base Sliders $1,000 2 seat base sliders• GMG Harness/Rollbar – Harness $2,000 Rollbar painted silver• Sparco 6-point Racing Harnesses $600 2 racing harnesses
• Tires: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 $100 Low tread, good for another track or autocross. 235/35ZR19 (2), 295/30ZR19 (2). Selling because I no longer have my Porsche 911 Carrera (997)Kurt Himes (303) 218-0528 [email protected]
Sparco Eagle RS 8 Driving Suit $900In excellent condition. Worn three times.Particulars:• Size: Euro 54, US: Medium• Single Layer Construction. Three Layer Protection. The Eagle RS-8 has patented a technology cal led HOCOTEX® Single Layer Fabric which has the protection of what is normally achieved by a multi-layer fabric. One of the lightest racing suits in the world. It is comparable to the Sparco Superlegerra. The Eagle RS-8 is FIA 8858-2000 homologated. When new, suit cost $1,900Rome Chelsi [email protected]
OMP Tecnica Evo Race Suit $700 OBOBought new 2014. Size 54. Barely used, as new condition. Silver/Black/White. It doesn’t fit me. I blew on the tailoring. Will fit male approx. 5’7″ – 5’8″, 165-185 lbs. New retail $1,300. Jay Kurts (303) 859-6779 [email protected]
F.A.S.T. Alpha Cool Shirt $200 OBOSize Medium. Black & Red. Barely used, as new condition. This is the newer lycra/spandex type that you want (NOT cotton). Will fit male approx. 5’8″- 6’0″, 155-175 lbs. Compare new at $340.00. Jay Kurts (303) 859-6779 [email protected]
Becker Europa MU TR Radio $1,300Brand New radio. This 1960s vintage AM/FM radio (ser # C078006) still in original box with documentation in
German plus unused warranty card. For Porsche, Mercedes, Ferrari, etc. Stored by me inside since 1960s. Should be in perfect form for a proper vintage radio for those restoring late 356s or early 911s.Tedd Harshaw (303) 641-4001 [email protected]
Harmon/Becker OEM Radio/Nav $500and CD Player with Bose. Removed from 2006 997 with 52,000 miles. In perfect condition, removed 9/2020.Gene Neiges (719) [email protected]
Hardtop From 2002 Carrera 4 $750Seal Grey Metallic, Black Headliner. Should fit all Porsche 911 Cabriolets (996) 1999-2004. Great condition.Landon Capdeville (303) [email protected]
Porsche Car StorageDry, secure individual garages for storage and maintenance. 10 minutes from downtown. 24/7/365 access.Jep Seman (303) 638-7000
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In ant icipat ion of another great year for RMR, the club star ted 1981 with their f irst membership meeting on January 8 during which Bob Hagestad gave a presentation on his 924 D Production racer. The other event for January was the Tech Session at Rennenhaus where Grady Clay showed how a 911 engine is put together by taking one apart.
HighGear, 1981Rocky Mountain Region’s January Events
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