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Volume 53, Issue 9, September 2015

Find event updates at http://mav.pca.org Join our Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/mavpca/ Departments Zone 5 Presidents..........................................1 Shifting Gears (President’s Column).............2 Maverick of the Month.................................2 List of Officers and Board Chairs.................4 Around the Bend (Editor’s Column).............5 Maverick Minutes.........................................6 New Mavericks and Anniversaries..............35 Advertiser Index..........................................36 Unclassifieds...............................................36

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Features Trivia.............................................................7 “... it’s the People”.........................................8 Destination Restoration...............................12 First Porsche: Pick Up in Zuffenhausen......18 Errata: August issue....................................19 The Accident: Paying it Forward.................22

Upcoming Events Autocross 8 and 9: LSP.................................5 September Board Meeting............................7 Drivers’ Education (DE): MSR.....................9 Swap Meet..................................................13 Time Trial....................................................14 Saturday Drive: Ben Wheeler.....................14 “Brew Run” Rally.......................................14 Maverick Lunch Series...............................25 September Maverick Social: Arthur’s.........27

Past Event Recaps DFW 928 Owners Club: Spring Fling........16 Forever Amazing: Edward Chin..................25 Maverick Social: Hilton Garden Inn...........26

Day September 2 Board Meeting 6 Autocross 8: LSP 8 Lewisville Lunch 11-13 Boxstoberfest 17 Mav Social: Arthur’s in Addison 19 Saturday Drive: Ben Wheeler 24 Richardson/Southlake Lunches 26-27 Drivers’ Education 5: MSR

Day October 4 Time Trials: MSR 7 Board Meeting 10 Rally: Brew Run 10-11 Drivers’ Education 5: MSR 11 Autocross 9: MMS 13 Lewisville Lunch 15 Mav Social: TBD 17 Swap Meet: Zim’s Autotechnik 18 Sunday Drive: Lake Worth start 22 Richardson/Southlake Lunches

Day November 4 Board Meeting 7 Founders Day Celebration 8 Autocross 10: LSP 10 Lewisville Lunch 13-15 Club Race & Solo DE: MSR 19 Mav Social: TBD 21 Sunday Drive: Oct. Rain Date 26 Richardson/Southlake Lunches

Day December 2 Board Meeting 8 Lewisville Lunch 17 Mav Social: TBD 24 Richardson/Southlake Lunches

Driving Event Venues COTA Circuit of the Americas, Austin ECR Eagles Canyon Raceway, Slidell LSP Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie MMS Mesquite Memorial Stadium, Mesquite MSR MotorSport Ranch, Cresson MW Mineral Wells Airport, Mineral Wells

Slipstream (USPS 666-650) is published monthly by the Maverick Region, Porsche Club of America, 155 Jellico Southlake, TX 76092. Subscription price is $24.00 per year. Periodical postage is paid at Fort Worth, TX. Postmaster: Send address changes to Hiram Saunders, Slipstream, 155 Jellico, Southlake, TX 76092.

On the Cover: The Autos in the Park Concours brought out an amazing array of Porsche models as captured by this 356 image. Photo by George Luxbacher

Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily endorsed by the Club’s membership or officers. Contributions will be printed on a space available basis. Chartered regions of PCA may reproduce items from this issue provided the author/ artist and Slipstream are credited. Slipstream is printed by Ussery Printing Company in Irving, Texas.

2015 PCA Zone 5 Presidents and Zone Representative ARK-LA-TEX Kirk Bristol kbristol911@gmail.com

COASTAL BEND Bryan Kerrick

LONE STAR Michael Globe president@lsrpca.com

MARDI GRAS Rick Payton rpayton35@aol.com

OZARK John Bullen johnc8551@yahoo.com

WHISKEY BAY Henry Carter hjcarterod@gmail.com

CIMARRON Randy Kaplin rwkaplin@swbell.net

HILL COUNTRY Robert Price president@hcrpca.org

LONGHORN Jack Merrell president@longhornpca.org

MAVERICK Jim Falgout president@mavpca.org

WAR BONNET Grady Buckhalter grady.buckhalter@ gmail.com

WHITE RIVER Leonard Zechiedrich whiteriverregionpca@ gmail.com

ZONE 5 REP Lynn Friedman zone5rep@pca.org www.zone5.pca.org

Shifting Gears: September Activities By Jim Falgout, Region President

y the time you read this the worst of our summer will be over. If the past is any indication, the weather is still warm, just not frying-eggs-on-the-sidewalk hot.

At any rate, your club has several activities for you to choose from this month to enjoy your Porsche. There is an autocross on Sunday, September 6. Boxstoberfest, a very popular event put on in Fredericksburg, will be held September 11-13. The Mav Social will be at Arthur’s in Addison on Thursday, September 17. The Saturday Drive to Ben Wheeler will be on September 19. Our fifth Drivers’ Education Event of the year will be at MotorSport Ranch, September 26-27. We will also have our normal monthly lunches. So get your Porsche out and come enjoy one or more of these activities. Some of you may have received a solicitation letter from a member. It is and has always been the policy of this club that the membership directory is not to be used for commercial, i.e. solicitation, purposes. The sender was not made aware of that when they were given the directory. They have apologized and confirmed that no more solicitation letters will be sent. I want to reassure everyone that your board will do everything in its power to prevent such a situation from reoccurring. Another Porsche-related event will be taking place in Austin at COTA (Circuit of the Americas) on September 17, 18 and 19. During the Tudor SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship, also known as Lone Star Le Mans, PCA and Porsche Cars of North America have arranged for a special ticket package, known as Porscheplatz. You can purchase a Porscheplatz package which includes a 3-day Multi-Turn pass, access to exclusive PORSCHEPLATZ hospitality tent, beverages, closed circuit TV, exclusive “Porsche Only” parking, merchandise bag, paddock assess, and much more. You can contact Austin Clement (austin.clement@circuitoftheamericas.com) to purchase tickets. If you want to volunteer for a part of a day, you can contact Lynn Friedman, our PCA Zone 5 Representative (zone5rep@pca.org). She may be able to get you a one-day pass. Speaking of volunteering, we still need volunteers in almost every area. You may recall that a member who was a key component of our Drivers’ Education program passed away in March. Well, one of the volunteers who stepped up to take over some of his responsibilities is experiencing some serious medical issues, so we 2 September

SAUL FRAIRE, Chef-Proprietor 1235 William D. Tate Ave Grapevine, TX 76051 817-329-6995 need more help in that area. YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU . . . to get involved. You will really be glad you did.

Mav of the Month There are some members of our club who are amazing. This person has done so much for our club and PCA. She has been Slipstream Editor, continues to be Club Race Registrar and DE Registrar, has been involved in Founders’ Day, and many other activities. If you need something done, she is always ready to help. I am sure I have left out many things she does to make sure your club is functioning the best that it can. She is also a really good DE and autocross driver. The Mav of the Month is our Secretary, Wendy Shoffit. I really appreciate all the support she has given me and continues to give to our club. Thanks Wendy.

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Vice President Gareth Maurice C 817-821-2940 vp@mavpca.org

Gareth still remembers the cover of the car magazine that drew him into a lifetime of loving cars. He spent many afternoons riding his bike as a young kid to the local newsstand to buy and read everything he could. He now owns a Midnight Blue 911S and enjoys driving it in wonderful Texas!

Secretary Wendy Shoffit C 972-977-9821 secretary@mavpca.org

Wendy and husband James joined Maverick Region in 1997, when their daughter was only 9 months old. Jasmine is now 17. They own 3 Porsches including a 1978 911SC as a dedicated racecar, which she enjoys autocrossing. Her daily driver is a 2000 Boxster. She also serves as the PCA National Newsletter Chair.

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AX Chair Wesley Lincoln TT Chair Travis Howard TT Registrar Robyn Howard AX/TT Rules Travis Howard AX/TT Schools Robyn Howard Charity Chair Chris Hamilton Club Race Co-Chairs Jim Buckley Pat Heptig Joel Nannis Club Race Registrar Wendy Shoffit Concours Chair Andy Kay DE Chair Chris Tabor DE Chief Drvng Instr. John Sandusky DE Equip. Mgr. Wesley Lincoln DE Registrar Wendy Shoffit DE Safety DE Sponsorship Daren Kirbo Email List Moderator Goodie Store Pat Friend Histographer, Tenured Charlie Davis Membership Susan and Tom Froehlich Monthly Socials Stephanie Ho MemberWelcome Chair Stephanie Ho On-line Calendar Brendan Eagan Past President John Hamilton Public Relations Linda Bambina Rally Co-Chairs Don Sebert George Luxbacher Slipstream Advertising Pat Friend Editors Carey Spreen Jim Hirsch Event Ad Design Jasmine Shoffit Mailing & Tech. Andy Mears Printing Fran Ussery Content Wrangler Linda Bambina Mentor Wendy Shoffit Social Chair Tracy Robertson Sunday Drives Tom Martin Neill Flood Swap Meets Robyn Howard Tech Sessions Ed Mullenix Trivia Chair Jerry DeFeo Website Denny Payne

Richard joined Maverick Region in 2012 when he fulfilled a 30+ year dream to own his first (of many) 911, a 2009 Silver Carrera! Although fairly new to the club, he is excited about being more involved and meeting more Porsche fanatics!

Jim Hirsch 972-740-7377 editor@mavpca.org

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Robyn Howard 214-991-0873 drivingschools@mavpca.org

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Travis Howard 214-616-6152 tt@mavpca.org

Tracy Robertson 817-944-5490 social@mavpca.org

Andy Kay 817-948-8538 concours@mavpca.org

John Sandusky 817-777-0421 john.c.sandusky@lmco.com

Linda Bambina 214-616-1936 pr@mavpca.org

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Pat Friend 214-616-2477 ads@mavpca.org

Wesley Lincoln 940-597-7152 ax@mavpca.org

James Shoffit 972-786-6246 james@shoffit.com

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Carey Spreen 817-422-3480 editor@mavpca.org Chris Tabor 817-371-4888 de@mavpca.org

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Around the Bend... By Jim Hirsch, Managing Editor

e belong to a car club to get together with members in keeping with the PCA motto - “it’s not just the cars, it’s the people”. And we offer a multitude of social opportunities with the monthly social, lunches, informal meets, and even a Porsche DFW Cars & Coffee event. But, don’t forget the primary reason you’ve entered the Porsche mystique - to get the most amazing driving experience available anywhere. With these cars, you’re immersed in the driving/owning experience. Isn’t that the very definition of “enthusiast”? So, let’s talk about driving opportunities this month. Within our region we offer a wide variety of driving events and each is tailored to provide a specific Porsche driving experience. Our Sunday (and at times, Saturday) Drives are mapped out carefully to ensure that all roads traveled are well maintained and yet offer a range of hills, sweeping corners, “s” curves, a hairpin corner or two, and of course, straight sections - given that we are driving in North Texas. In addition to a relaxed pace on public roads, our drives always have an interesting destination! Our club Rally program also uses a mapped route on public roads but provides a bit of competition, not in speed, but in navigating and being observant of landmarks along the way. The

end result is a fun time for drivers and navigators alike with the destination providing a time for all participants to share their stories. Our club Autocross program began a new chapter this year based on our partnership with Equipe Rapide. ER provides the course location, design, and specific classes just for our Porsche club. It’s hard to find a driving activity that provides as much excitement in about 60 seconds as our autocrosses! Your stock Porsche is more than ready to tackle these autocross events. Finally, our Mav Drivers’ Education (DE) and Time Trial programs give you the opportunity to get out on road courses in a safe, controlled environment along with a highly qualified instructor to help you learn more about your Porsche and driving dynamics than you thought possible. Beyond our Maverick Region, there are many wonderful driving opportunities within our Zone 5, which consists of 12 individual Regions. If you’re looking for a driving opportunity along with other Porschephiles, check out the Zone 5 calendar at http://www.zone5.pca.org/ and you will find quite a few options to consider. Get out and drive this month! We’ve added four additional pages to Slipstream this month. This allows us to provide you with additional member-authored stories to read and enjoy. I encourage you to consider writing about your own Porsche ownership experiences and sending those to editor@mavpca.org.

• ER Membership is NOT required to participate. • Single event member entry $35 • PCA membership is acceptable in lieu of an ER membership • Porsches run in Porsche classes • Prizes given at each event!

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Gimme a Minute: August Board Meeting By Wendy Shoffit, Region Secretary

he meeting was started promptly at 7:00 pm by President Jim Falgout. We welcomed guests Christina de la Torre, Lou Jenkins, and Steve Pounders. Treasurer Richard Solomon brought guest Christina from the charity “Boot Campaign” to give a presentation about her organization. Founded in 2010 by five women wanting to make a difference, this organization helps military families in need. Eighty-three to eighty-five percent of all donations go back into the hands of veterans using the military recovery program. They are looking to partner with PCA in some way (TBD). More information can be found on their website www. bootcampaign.com. Stay tuned. Secretary Wendy Shoffit reported that Parade in French Lick, Indiana was a great success! She plans to attend Porsche’s Rennsport Reunion V at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, immediately followed by PCA’s Escape to Mount Rushmore. She will report on that in October. She also will not be able to be the active DE registrar on site for the September event at MotorSport Ranch, but Les Carmichael will be an excellent stand-in. Concours Chair Andy Kay will be traveling via invitation to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to help show an unusual right-hand-drive 928 Club Sport. He will be attending the Friday event, Carmel by the Sea, and is also helping Boxstoberfest for their 16th event with sponsorship giveaways. PR Chair Linda Bambina said that Charlie Davis is having his Photo Workshop on Aug. 15, despite his wife, Teri, having a stroke on the way back from Parade. Teri is recovering nicely, but still in rehab. Linda 6 September

echoed how wonderful Parade was, and will be looking for someone to write articles about upcoming events, including the Tudor USSC/ FIA WEC races at COTA, Rennsport Reunion V, and PCA Escape. Brenda Dranow attended as her guest and future partner in “wrangling”. Slipstream Editor Jim Hirsch is ready to move forward with the membership directory for a November printing time. He is also going to work on the calendars for a Founders’ Day distribution time. Cost will be in the $20 range to cover all printing and postage and give a portion of proceeds to charity. Both July and August issues were out on time, complete with links to additional photo content. Goodie Store Chair Pat Friend mentioned we use the same merchandise store as PCA National. If you order a new style item with our logo, you get 20% off, and we get it added to our region’s catalog. As Advertising Chair, he reported we have about 30 advertisers per year. We lose a few and gain a few each year. We need to support our advertisers and let them know where we saw them. Rich Solomon reported we have about $120K in the bank, including our share of the COTA Club Race and the PCA Quarterly rebate. Our income is down from this time last year, and our expenses are up, primarily due to increased track rental fees. Charitable donations are down from last year, which we will address soon. Drivers’ Ed Chair Chris Tabor reported that the first half of the year had DEs with tentative financials. Fortunately May’s DE had a surplus. Track rentals are up by 33% over last year. He has altered some dates for the fall events, cancelling the late October one at ECR and adding one over Oct. 10-11 at MSR. The Club Race and Solo-only DE will be

August 5, 2015 Nov 14-15 at MSR. He mentioned the possibility of having a single day weeknight track social event to encourage newbies to try out the track without a huge time commitment. Sunday Drive Chair Tom Martin said that the Rancho Sereno event went very well, netting the club a modest surplus for charity. He encouraged photo sharing for Slipstream and the cross-promotion of DEs. The next event is a Saturday drive to Ben Wheeler, TX on Sept 19. October plans will be to Rough Ridge. He and John Harvey will be at Boxstoberfest as drive leaders. Membership Chairs Tom and Susan Froehlich reported we have 1,569 primary members and a total of 2,484 members, continuing to break our own records. Tom wants to get the membership brochure updated for distribution. Rally Chair Don Sebert said we will have a rally on October 10, including lunch at the end. Details still to be determined. Brendan Eagan maintains the online calendar for the year, mentioning that details are very accurate for about three months out at a time. This would keep us from being able to print out a yearly calendar with EVENT information on it. Time Trial Chair Travis Howard conveyed that we have been storing the Truxster at Zims Autotechnic for a while, but we now have to move it to the same place as the club’s storage locker. He will perform annual maintenance on it when he moves it, and will get new registration tags. Sunday, October 4 will be the next Time Trial at MSR, on the 1.3-mile track. He will salvage old DE radios to make a full set for the event. He, Robyn, the Shoffits, and Zone 5 Rep Lynn Friedman recently instructed ladies at the War Bonnet Region’s first ever Ladies Autocross School in Oklahoma City.

Mike Brodigan, representing the Nominating Committee (John Hamilton, chair, and James Shoffit) announced that Jim Falgout, Richard Solomon, and Wendy Shoffit are willing to continue in their board positions. Gareth Maurice will not continue as Vice President. David Robertson has agreed to be on the ballot as VP candidate. Any other nominations can be presented to the committee (nominations@mavpca. org) or secretary in accordance with the bylaws by September 1, 2015. Cindy Bliss was also in attendance, and told of her recent vehicle accident after a blown tire where her DE training saved her from becoming involved in a much worse situation. We encouraged her to write about her experience for Slipstream. Monthly Social Chair Stephanie Ho said that there were over 90 people who attended the event at the Hilton Garden Inn, with about 2/3 staying for dinner. The August event is at the Wildwood Grill in Southlake, and September’s will be at Arthur’s. She is trying to include the western portion of the Metroplex more with locations. Jim Falgout wanted to discuss another charity option, but because of time (meeting ran longer than normal because we didn’t have a July meeting) will postpone it to September. Mav of the Month was Wendy Shoffit. Meeting was adjourned.

JULY TRIVIA It’s Easy to Play! Play here for fun and education and find the answers below OR Play for prizes on the web at http://mav.pca.org, with the answers and winners to be posted here after each month’s contest has closed. Thanks to Jerry DeFeo for putting this and the Web Trivia together. Congratulations to this month’s winner: JIM HIRSCH, getting ALL 5 out of 5 correct. In case of a tie, the winner is selected by random drawing. Jim, please contact Kirk at Zim’s to claim your $25 Gift Certificate. Thanks to all for playing!

1. In 1964 Porsche came out with the 356C. It still had the 1600cc OHV Engine, but they had dropped the 60HP Normal version leaving only the top two from 1963, the 75HP Super and the 90HP Super 90. But now the 75HP was known as a C Model and the 90HP was bumped to 95HP known as an SC Model. What did Porsche do to get the extra 5HP for the SC Model from the old Super 90? a. Fuel Injection b. Higher Compression c. More Radical Cams d. Twin Plug Distributor Source: Porsche, A Tradition of Greatness, p 65 2. The 1964-65 Porsche 356C was considered “as good of a car that could be built”. It was so reliable that the average Warranty Cost to Porsche for each one built was only $_______? Remember, this was some 50+ years ago. a. $8.38 b. $16.76 c. $52.25 d. $76.12 Source: Porsche, A Tradition of Greatness, p 65 3. Back when the 911 first came out it was known to swap ends fairly quickly. According to Jalopnik, which 911 was known as the “Widowmaker”? a. 67 ST b. 73 2.7 RS c. 74 3.0 RS d. 76 Turbo Source: Jalopnik, June 5, 2014 issue 4. The very first one of these cars was given as a Gift to whom? a. Ferry Porsche b. Ferdinand Piech c. Butzi Porsche d. Louise Piech Source: Jalopnik, June 5, 2014 issue 5. This first car was very unique with a lot of special features. Which of the following was NOT one of them? a. Clear Windshield b. Red Plaid Interior c. 10,000 RPM Tach d. Automatic Transmission e. Badge Delete Source: Jalopnik, June 5, 2014 issue

Answers: 1) b 2) a 3) d 4) d 5) d

“. . . it’s the people”: Al Zim – an Original By Al Zim Note from Linda Bambina: Last month we discovered that Al Zim is our first 50-Year (still active) PCA member, having originally joined PCA in another region. He will soon celebrate his 50th year as a Maverick as well.

have been an afflicted car guy all my life! By a series of coincidences, all somewhat beyond my control, I ended up in the Porsche and German car business. I passed my driver’s test exactly when I was 16, even though I had been at the wheel since I was 13. My family started with upscale Fords and quickly descended to the Falcon, which, in South Florida, came equipped with only a radio. My family had taken steps away from the responsibility of my affliction. The other significant happening during this time period was that the parents of one of my classmates had a Volvo 444 -this was the car for me. College started the second week in September, 1960 in Wilmington, Ohio. The trip from the Florida Keys to Wilmington was orchestrated via a prep school in Eastern Pennsylvania and the fact that our family were Quakers. I ended up in a house instead of the dormitory, and met Ed Mayo on the first day. We joined the same fraternity and roomed together for three years. Ed majored in Industrial Arts Education, while I started out in mathematics but quickly switched to psychology. At the end of my freshman year my parents bought me a used Volvo 544. Since there was only one shop in Wilmington that serviced sports 8 September

Photos by Al Zim and Linda Bambina cars, including mine, I hung around until they hired me. While we serviced European cars (Japanese cars were not here then) their emphasis was on Porsche and VW, so I became indoctrinated. At the end of my Wilmington career I had managed to acquire a Porsche Speedster, a Porsche-powered VW, a Plymouth, a BMW R50S, and a Formula Vee race car, in addition to the aforementioned Volvo. I was finally 21 and could race SCCA. I continued racing through 1965, when my last race involved wearing a parka and coveralls.

Al and Ed, circa 1976 After Wilmington, I attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I received a Master’s Degree in Personnel Management, and, as a last minute thought, a wife. The writing was on the wall and I began selling my toys. By June everything but the DeSoto and the Volvo were gone. Returning to my wife’s family home on Long Island after a European honeymoon in July, I spent time looking for an employment opportunity in a college setting. No luck! The second week of August my father’s secretary called and told me that my application to North Texas State University (now known as the University of North Texas) had been

accepted. I flew down the following week, completed my application and rented an apartment. I had a $300 a month Trust Fund, which was more than enough to live on, so Christine packed up everything we owned in the DeSoto and we headed west. A stop in Wilmington got the Volvo on a tow bar and the rest of my belongings, then it was “Denton, here we come!” I completed my course work and was accepted as a doctoral candidate. We purchased a home in Hurst in June, drove to the Florida Keys, and picked up a load of furniture from my parents. On July 1, I was gainfully employed as an Associate Professor at TCJC, as Tarrant County College was known at that time. My house payment was $181.00 per month, my take home salary was $608 per month, and I was in tall cotton as the highest-paid hire with no previous experience in 1968. In 1970, Ed came down for a vacation. He talked me out of a Speedster for $750.00. “Send me a check when you get home,” I told him. The next year he moved here permanently. He began working for the Porsche dealer here, first in Dallas, then in Fort Worth. We also began working on a car in a large garage in my backyard.

The first shop logo - aptly named!

In 1972, I parted company with TCJC. At this time the city began pressuring Ed and me to move to a business location,

Al at work in his office and the current Zim shop logo and that’s when we began doing serious work. Our first shop, named POR-SHA (soon to come under of scrutiny of Porsche), was on Raider Drive at South Pipeline Road. After

court proceedings and a threat of the judge to put me in federal prison (serious stuff) we changed our name. In 1978, my father loaned me the money to purchase the land that Zim’s Autotechnik currently occupies. In September 1979, we moved in. As an aside: both the shops that I previously worked in became bars.

Lexus, and David from yet another shop. We also have Brian and Doug in the service department. Porsche 356 vehicles are still the love of my life. Currently I own 1957 and 1961 Coupes, along with ‘85, ‘86, and ‘88 911s, and two BMW motorcycles, all of which are air-cooled.

Life has been quite a ride! Would I Zim’s employees come from a var- do it again? YOU BET. ied background. Dennis Butts, previously a plumber, came here as the parts man shortly after we moved in. His writing was so terrible we had no choice but to purchase our first computer. Kirk began working for us when he was still a junior in high school. Darren came from Ford, Jeremy from The Porsche 356 vehicles are still the love of Al’s life

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Destination Restoration: Race to Inspection By Ash Seidl-Staley

y least favorite day of the year, not counting International Eat Your Brussel Sprouts Day and Justin Bieber Day, is the day that I have to get my cars inspected. It doesn’t matter which car I take to get inspected -- am nearly always met with problems. My vehicles could run fine the entire year, not having experienced any problems, repairs, or issues, but on the day that I choose to take them to the inspection station, tail lights go out, their idles go wonky, and their “check engine” lights comes on. Are my cars and I cursed to live under Murphy’s Law forever? I don’t think I will ever know for sure, but I really hope not. When House Bill 2305, which eradicated the use of an inspection sticker, passed through the Texas State Legislature, I was worried that my inspection chronicles would get worse. But, much to my surprise, the process actually became easier. If you have already dealt with this system, I hope you liked it as much as I did, but if your Porsche isn’t due for registration until later this year, here are some things you need to know about the “Two Steps, One Sticker” process. First things first: You will still need to get your car inspected. In fact, you need to get the car inspected within the 90 days preceding the vehicle’s registration expiration date. This means that if your car’s registration expires on Oct 31, 2015, then you can -- and should -- get your inspection done between July 1 and October 30. When your car passes, the inspection station will not give you a new sticker; instead, they will give you a printout of the Vehicle Inspection Report (VIR), which you will then need to provide to the DMV 12 September

Photo by the Author when it comes time to actually register your vehicle. Upon completing these two steps, your inspection and registration are now what the DMV calls “in sync.” From that point on you will use only the one sticker to prove that your inspection and registration are up to date. In 2016 and every year that follows, you will have to repeat this exact same process. When it came to my register my 914, I was able to find a legal loophole in this two-step process. My registration was up in April, but my inspection was still good through October. Instead of having to do two inspections in the same year I was able to get a copy of my sevenmonth old VIR and use it to get my new registration sticker. This means that I don’t have to get the 914 inspected until 2016!! Unlike my 914, my 944’s stickers had expired in 2013. Thankfully though, it is over 25 years old, and is only required to pass the safety portion of the Texas State inspection. This means that all of the tires have to be inflated, the car has to run and idle, the brakes have to stop the car, the parking brake has to be operable, all of the lights have to work, the windshield wipers have to run, and the horn has to sound off. Most of these things are usually taken for granted by the average motorist, but to a vintage Porsche owner, they are a serious set of requirements. Preparing a classic vehicle for inspection can be accomplished by just inflating the rear tires and changing out a few tail lights, or can be as difficult and time-consuming as replacing a car’s main computer. Since I just rebuilt the top half of the 944’s engine and had previously replaced the car’s brakes and rotors, the stopping and going part of my inspection was a shoo-in. After checking my lights, I found that I only needed to replace my right rear brake light. My prospects for a

good inspection were looking great until I sat in the driver’s seat and attempted to honk my horn and start my wiper blades; both actions produced no effect. I reached under my dash to feel for any loose wires, but found that everything was hooked up properly. When I pressed on the wire that I believed to be connected to the windshield wipers, they started to move. I was limited to only one wiper setting, and had to continually apply pressure to the wire, but they did move. This meant that there was a short somewhere else in the system. As far as the horn was concerned, I couldn’t get it to do anything. I checked the fuses, relays, and all the connections to and from the horns, but I couldn’t find out why the horn was dead. It was at this point that I realized my issues had to be within the steering console itself. Looking up into the console, I was immediately overwhelmed with a mesh of wires and connections. There was no way I was going to get the horn fixed without a new console, and there was no way I was going to be able to accomplish the job myself. My limited mechanical knowledge only goes so far and unfortunately extensive electrical work is not yet within its threshold. I broke down and called a shop that was willing to give it a try; the only problem was that the car was running on expired registration and inspection stickers and I couldn’t get the stickers until I got the horn and wipers fixed. Talk about a conundrum! Q: How was I to get to the auto shop (without shelling out tow money) with a car that has no tags? A: Covertly, quickly, and via the back roads! After I made it to the shop, sans tickets, it was confirmed that the motherboard within the steering console was fried. If I had waited any longer, I would have started to lose other functions, like hazards, signals, and even my lights.

When the shop was finished with my car and everything was working again, it was time for the inspection. I raced the still-illegal 944 through the backstreets of Plano, keeping an eye in all my mirrors for the Fuzz. I made it to the inspection station safely, and handed the attendant my keys and the car’s proof of insurance. Anxiety kicked in as I sat in the waiting room, wondering if the car would pass. Minutes felt like hours; every noise at the station was met with my worried glance. After 12 minutes and 20 seconds, the attendant called me out to my car and gave me my report. He said that the car had a missing tail light (Murphy strikes again), but that he would ultimately pass it anyway! My next stop was to acquire a registration sticker, which I could conveniently get from the Tom Thumb directly behind the inspection station. After five minutes of waiting, I proudly slapped my new registration sticker onto the windshield of the 944, and decided to go on a legal cruise through the city. There is nothing better than a sunny day and a running Porsche, wouldn’t you agree? Wrench on Mavs!

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DFW 928 Owners Club: DFW Sharks Fling into Spring! By Patrick “Patman” Hall

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up and make the 400-mile trip south for a weekend of socializing in the oceanside town of Rockport.

Carole put on an obviously serious face. “Well, let’s have a look,” she said, as she examined the long sloping hood. She made the obligatory “hmmm” sounds like a doctor examining an x-ray. Then abruptly blurted out a single word. “Salamander.”

I say socializing in this case, because the Spring Fling isn’t really intended to be a “car show,” nor is it a “driving event,” though we do of course have to get there and back (if ya know what I mean). No, this particular event isn’t really about Porsche’s V8 sports coupe, so much as it is about the folks who drive and maintain it. Spring Fling is an opportunity to spend a few days away from the city, relaxing on the coast with plenty of good food, good friends, some interesting activities, and always a healthy dose of libations.

“Huh?” It sounded like a foreign language to me. “What? What did you say?”

Shark! Not Salamander. She was already on her way back through the garage towards the kitchen when she said over her shoulder, “It looks like a Salamander with its little lights popped up like that”. “What? But Honey, it’s -- it’s a shark,” I yelled at her back. “Salamander,” she said again, just as the kitchen door closed behind her. It was only a day or two until the Fifth Annual DFW 928 Owners Club “Spring Fling,” and I had just ordered new H4 LEDs and thus had the headlights popped up to perform the swap out. After all, a guy’s gotta have a little something new to take on a road trip. You see, every spring, or the past five anyway, Porsche 928 owners from around Texas, largely Dallas and Fort Worth, gather themselves 16 September

Rockport resident and 928 owner Tony Curcio hosts the event and makes sure all is in readiness for the horde of “sharks” when they start arriving on Friday. This would be the first one of these for me and I gotta say, I was certainly enthused about driving down with the group and seeing the coast again. The Dallas area has quite a few 928 aficionados and we had decided to rendezvous just south of Fort Worth and caravan down to the coast from there. I arrived at the meeting place on time and beheld quite the variety of 928s parked here and there. It was obvious we’d have a nice caravan indeed, like an old west wagon train - only considerably more expedient!

A caravan of 928s The cruise down there was just that, a cruise. Jim arrived with a new friend, Cindy, so after he paid the

appropriate bribes we let him lead the group. The speeds were kept ”reasonable” (mostly) and we were only hampered by traffic once or twice. Traveling the back roads with two way radios in each car helps with leap-frogging other vehicles, like the three mobile homes that clogged things up for a bit. And in my case, it‘s good for disguising my voice and making smart-assed comments from time to time. We stopped for lunch once, gas twice, and became misdirected at least three times (funny how a car can outrun a GPS). And no matter how reserved ya try to be in a caravan situation, after a few hours someone -- or everyone -- gets off in high spirits and the caravan tends to, umm, spread out. And that of course requires “catching up.” I think you know what I mean. I’m still amazed at how adept the 928 is at comfortably gobbling up great expanses of Texas highway. The Lighthouse Inn in Rockport is a beautiful example of what hospitality on the bay should be. Superbly clean. A little Old World, with plenty of the modern necessities, and fantastic bayside vistas. We couldn’t have had a nicer jump-off point for the rest of the weekend’s activities. There wasn’t a lot of time before the first event of the weekend, dinner at the Allegro Bay restaurant, but certainly we all tried to make the most of it at the hotel bar, having a few laughs, telling lies about the trip down, and sampling the barkeep’s refreshments so we’d look and feel our best at dinner. The Allegro Bay is a comfortable and inviting restaurant with a varied menu consisting of just about any cuisine you’d like to sample, and instantly became a venue for much laughter, car talk, and consumption.

The Allegro Bay restaurant I sat at one of our four large tables with our host Tony and his wife Tambra. Tony is quite the conversationalist, which made for a lively evening to accent the great food. Brad, from up in Denton, sat with us and had just now, in his retirement years, discovered smart phones . . . and someone named Siri, who despite his constant urgings, refused to talk dirty to him. Saturday morning some of us slept in a bit, but I, up early as usual, spent a quiet hour or two on the balcony to drink my Red Bull and watch the sun come up over the bay. It was interesting and calming somehow, to watch the fishing boats motor out of the marina, one by one, heading into the rising sun. Quite a contrast from the preceding day’s Porscheladen “caravan of speed.”

to hurtle themselves and their vehicles down the landing strip, trying to bury the speedo needle! None of the 928 crowd wanted to embarrass the common folk, so it was mostly just watching drivers burn up the mile, doing burn-outs, and getting sunburned.

The 928 crowd in Beeville at the Texas Mile As for myself, after the group left for “the Mile,” I got hooked up with Roger, Mike, and Don from Houston, who sacrificed driving his own 928 on this outing and instead brought his boat, some food, fishing supplies and some great music for the four of us to enjoy out on the bay! We spent the day on the waves pretending to be fishing and the fish played along and pretended to be biting. What a day!

again, the evening was a repeat of the preceding night’s revelry, with more tales to tell, and more coastal sunburns to display! As they say, all good things must come to an end, and so it was with the Spring Fling 2015. Sunday morning was spent packing up, checking out of the hotel, and choosing a route either back home or onward to new destinations for those adding other stops to the trip. I’ve heard some non-gearheads say about ours cars that “it’s just a vehicle.” And in this case, it is. Just a vehicle to bring together a bunch of good people, for a good time, in a good place.

The 928 is “just a vehicle to bring together a bunch of good people, for a good time, in a good place” Prior to departure on Sunday I took the elevator down to check out, when a couple stepped in with me. “Are you part of the Porsche convention?” The woman asked politely.

Patman, Mike, and Roger away on a fishing expedition Balcony view from the Lighthouse Inn in Rockport We had all decided that the day was open for everyone to take in the coast as they see fit, and several activities were available to choose from. Some stayed around Rockport to shop and relax at the hotel. Tony led a group on a nice drive to Beeville, home of The Texas Mile. Here there’s a mile of airport runway where drivers come from all around

After any great day at sea, there’s nothing like heading over to an indoor shooting range where the proprietor (also a Porsche 928 owner) was allowing us to come in and “blow off some steam” before dinner, for those interested in that sort of thing. This is Texas after all!

I, clad in Porsche hat and 928 OC shirt, grinned at her and her husband. “Yes ma’am, I am.” Almost giddy, she looked back and forth between me and her mate and said, “Those things are so cute with their little ‘eyes.’” “They look just like one of those little . . . ” “Don’t say it!” I thought. “. . . Salamanders,” she said.

Saturday night brought with it another great dinner at a beautiful eatery, Cheryl’s On the Bay. Once 17

First Porsche: Pick Up in Zuffenhausen By Voy “Mitch” Mitchell

n 1963, the Cold War between the US and the USSR raged in full swing. We had earlier lived through the U-2 “spy plane” incident, the disastrous failure of a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba, the building of the Berlin Wall and, of course, the Cuban Missile Crisis. No one knew when the next incident might occur, or if that incident would suddenly turn the Cold War into an all-out conflict involving NATO countries and the Soviet Union, along with its Eastern Bloc countries. Scary times indeed, especially if one happened to be living in the area most likely to be the starting point of it all. At the time I was a 22-year-old Air Force staff Sergeant stationed in Siegelbach, West Germany, which was located about 10 miles from Ramstein Air Base. My unit was the hub for all teletype messages between Europe and Washington DC, and was tasked with providing a secure pathway for classified messages between the US and its NATO allies. In March of that year, I ordered a new 1964 356C Porsche through Georg Rittersbacher GMBH, the Porsche dealer in Kaiserslautern, with a down payment of $200.00. The car was to be delivered in October, when the 1964 models were scheduled to appear on the market. I knew at the time of order Receipt for $200.00 down that the “C” model would payment placed at 􀆟time of be the first to offer disc order— March 15, 1963 brakes all around, a highly desirable option. Now waiting was all that was left to do! Come October, I took a train from Kaiserslautern to the Porsche factory in Stuttgart‐Zuffenhausen to take delivery of my new car. There were about 15 other people picking up their new cars, and we were given a tour of the factory. The tour included all facets of production, from the pressing of sheet metal into body shells, to the assembly of engines, painting, quality control, and the final run up and test driving of the completed automobile. I was interested in the tour, but was also quite anxious to pick up my Porsche. The car was a coupe painted Signal Red with a black leatherette interior and a standard four-speed transmission. As options, I ordered a 18 September

Photos courtesy of the Author radio antenna, two speakers, one outside mirror, Firestone Phoenix 165‐15 tires, chrome wheels, and Coco mats. I also ordered seat belts for driver and passenger, as the US military began requiring all automobiles owned and driven by military personnel in Europe to have them installed. Many cars brought over from the United Original invoice from 1963 States had to be fitted with belts to comply with this regulation. Afterwards, I purchased and installed a Blaupunkt Koln radio purchased from the U.S. military exchange system. The car was kept in Germany from October 1963 until mid-June 1964. During that time I traveled all over West Germany participating in club rallies and gymkhanas. Then new orders were issued that required me to report stateside; I made arrangeFirst registration at ments to ship the Porsche to Ramstein AB, Germany, the US. About a week before October 3, 1963 I planned to drive to the Hamburg port, I scheduled a “major” check‐up for the car. I wanted the car to be in top condition when I took it to the US and I wasn’t at all sure that the mechanics there would be of the same caliber as those in Germany. In mid-June of 1964 I drove to the port in Hamburg and surrendered the car for commercial shipping to New York. Government policy at the time dic-

Voy outside the auxiliary gate to the Rhine Ordinance Barracks, Kaiserslautern,Germany, 1963.

tated that any non‐ American automobile purchased while overseas had to be shipped back to the US at the service The Porsche 356C as it is today member’s expense. I picked the car up in July 1964, at a storage warehouse in Brooklyn, and drove to Washington DC. From there I drove to my home in Eldorado, Texas, and spent 30 days visiting my family before driving to my new assignment at Moses Lake, Washington.

In June 2009, I discovered papers relating to my purchase back in 1963 and wondered if the car had been wrecked and scrapped or maybe had been allowed to rust out, spending its last days in some junk yard. I asked a friend who was a member of the 356 Registry if he would try to find the VIN in the Registry listing. Sure enough, the car was listed, and I was able to contact its then-current owner. He was thrilled when I told him that I would send him all the documentation I had pertaining to the car’s early years. This included maintenance records, pictures, and the original invoice from Porsche issued the day I picked up the car. The car is now located in New York after having spent many years in Texas and in the Northwest US. It has been restored once and, from pictures, appears to be just as good now as the day I picked it up in 1963.

It’s hard to think it was a half-century ago that I owned I stayed in Moses Lake for five months until I was trans- the car! And now I’m re-acquainting myself with the ferred to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas. I drove Porsche Experience, and enjoying every minute of it in back to Texas and kept the car until November 1965, at my 2015 Boxster. which time I sold it to the Porsche dealer in San Antonio. The dealer, Inter‐Continental Motors, then located on Broadway Street, is no longer in business. I sold the car because my next assignment was in Okinawa, an island that had no dealerships and one in which speed limits were no higher than 40 mph. As long as I owned the car it was serviced according to the schedule specified in the maintenance log and had no paint or rust problems. As nearly as I can recall I had driven the car just over 30,000 miles Voy’s 2015 Boxster at a recent Porsche DFW Cars & Coffee meet in the two years I owned it.

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The Accident: Paying it Forward By Bryan Karlan

y father owned a ’73 911 RS (Weston, CT, 1982). It wasn’t the European version, but it had been made from RS parts that were available to the dealer, since the car wasn’t imported into the US at that point. It had the flared fenders and the Ducktail, and of course the 2.7-liter engine. The only difference to a connoisseur would be that the front spoiler was flat across the front, whereas the real RS would have a bulge in the spoiler to hold the European style plates. This was one of the fastest cars on the market at that time and his was SilPainting by Bryan at age 15 ver. He was also a fan of CB radios, and he had this big antenna magnetically stuck on the roof. Of course his call-sign, don’t cha’ know, was Silver Bullet. Prior to this he owned a ’74 260Z that had been all decked out by Bob Sharp Motors, the same Bob Sharp for whom Paul Newman was racing. It was two-tone, with light brown and burgundy swoops coming from the back window heading up along its upper flanks, stopping just before the headlights, and outlined by a hand-drawn gold pinstripe. It sounds horrible now, but I loved it. Headlight covers, a-la XKE. Spoilers in the front and back, “GT33” on the rear spoiler, and some of the coolest mag wheels, short of the old 15-spoke BMW rims from an E39 5-series. The day he showed up in that weird looking Silver car, I was distraught! That 240Z was supposed to be mine one day. What was this strange thing with its huge headlights? And what a weird looking spoiler! It was huge! In early ’82 I was 16 and had my driver’s license. I qualified on a ’73 Chevy Kingwood Estate Station wagon. I learned to drive a stick pretty quickly on my Mom’s Super Beetle Convertible. So on a Saturday afternoon I asked him if I could borrow the 911, as I was planning on going into Manhattan the next day for a Pro-Israel Rally that had Gregory Peck speaking. My friend Jeremy (I called him Joemy) and I were going, and he was going to spend the night before we caught the train into the city in the morning. He lived on the other side of town, and there were lots of side roads to play on. 22 September

Painting by the Author After picking him up, I said, “Let’s go for a drive!” I turned onto a road I’d never been on, hit a straightaway, and floored it. The car took off and the steering became very light. A gentle turn to the left appeared and I started the turn, but nothing happened! I was going straight at the hill with a big rock wall about 15 ft up that paralleled the turn. I let off on the gas and the front tires started to bite. I’m going to make it! Not . . . The turn took a decidedly harder bend to the left further on. Up on the hill I went, close to the rock wall and back down onto the road. BANG! I hit the asphalt, which spun the wheel in my hands, and the car did a 180 on the pavement. I drifted backwards with my foot on the brakes until we stopped and looked at the dust settling and the scene of the crime. The bowtie horn button had spun off in my lap, so I reattached it and looked at Joemy. “That was a blast! You did great!” he yelled. I told him, “Can you check the car? I think I may have hit that wall.” He got out and looked around at each corner, “Looks good. Looks good. Looks good. Looks not so good.“ “Huh! What do you mean it’s not so good?” “Well, the tires are dirty.” “Thank God . . . ” I drove that car home very deliberately and parked it on our horseshoe drive in front of the house. I went inside and asked my dad, “Do you mind if we wash your car?” He was excited, “Sure thing! Don’t forget to use the Chamois, not a towel.” “No problem.” Joemy and I went over that car with an exacting eye. I was pulling mud and twigs and weeds from all parts of the chrome and undercarriage. We spent an hour on it. When my parents left to go into the city I watched the car and wondered aloud, “Does the car look like it’s riding low? Does it look right?” Joemy thought it was fine and I never said a word about it . . . until . . . (Newport Beach, CA, 1987) We were sitting in our TV room watching the Karate Kid on HBO when my dad left. I looked at my mom, asking her where he went, and she said that there had been a knock at the door. So I went outside and saw quite a bit of car carnage. We lived on Galaxy Drive overlooking the Back Bay. There was a park near us that opened

up to a great view of the Bay and Fashion Island. If you don’t know Fashion Island, it’s the area that they used for filming the office sequences in Jerry Macguire. It’s a pretty site, and it can distract you if you’re not expecting it, since up to that point, it’s all houses with no view from the road. In the middle of the street was a demolished Honda Accord with three kids sitting on our curb, rubbing various injuries. One kid was standing and yelling at my dad with wild eyes, “I’m not supposed to be driving the car! My dad’s going to kill me!” I looked at the rest of it and apparently he had seen the view, missed the apex and come around wide, then overcompensated and turned too sharply, hitting a group of cars parked along the curb opposite our house. He bent the frame of a Volvo 240 Wagon, which in turn hit a Mazda RX7, crushing it, and those cars had hit two other cars in front, including a conversion van that was seriously damaged. I think all the cars were totaled, including his Accord. Miraculously, no one was seriously injured except for the 16-year-old driver’s emotional state. “My dad’s going to kill me!” He yelled again. “Well damn well he should!” My dad yelled back. “What the hell were you thinking?”

“YEAH! What Bryan?” “Can you come here for a minute?” He looked bewildered, but followed me some 20 feet from the kid who was fretting like Cameron in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. “What, Bryan?” “Do you remember the time you loaned me the 911 when I was 16 back in Weston and spent the afternoon washing it?” “Yeah, so?” He looked back angrily at the kid. I then proceed to tell him the whole tale, from almost taking out the car on the rock wall to right up to pulling weeds from the undercarriage. He stared at me, uncomprehending. “This just happened?” “No, it was back in Connecticut.” He shook his head, stared at the kid, looked at me, and just walked back into the house. We left that kid on our front curb to deal with the police and his dad, but at least he no longer had to deal with mine, and I could sleep soundly that night.

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he Maverick Social program is the springboard to all of our clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities. Socials, formerly known as Happy Hours, are the events that new Mavericks typically attend first. It affords them their best chance to meet fellow members and discover how interesting, intelligent, and even charming they can be. Well, except maybe for the RGruppe guys; they just love to be the opposites. (Just kidding Bob, Mark, Ed, Jack)

All smiles from the Presidents (current and ex) Our monthly social was a hit again! About 90 fun-loving Porsche friends attended the event!

Jerry Sutton with second Tom Martin in our club since May! Marc and Sandy Schwartz, Andy Prabhakar, (all joined since January), Phyllis and Jim Gallegos.

New members Claudia and David Herrman, joined in May. Guest Trisha Nishimoto (middle)

Stephanie Ho welcoming new member David Nark Engaging dialogue between longtimer Jack Griffin and newcomer Fred Cornwall, joined in April

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Trust your Porsche to Park Place Bodywerks. It’s the only Porsche-certified dealer collision center in the Metroplex. Where you’ll find factory-trained technicians, working in modern facilities with state-of-the-art equipment. And the same award-winning level of service you’d expect from the area’s premier dealership for Porsche and other exceptional vehicles. Don’t settle for anything less than true Porsche expertise—schedule your Bodywerks appointment at bodyshop.parkplace.com.

Bodywerks is certified to service:

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Specializing in all years and models of Porsche exclusively for more than 30 years. The only certified installer for the "IMS Solution" in Texas and surrounding states!    

Complete and Meticulous Maintenance and Repair Tuning and Diagnostics (Carbs, MFI, CIS, OBD I & II) Custom Engine and Transmission Rebuilds Competition Car Preparation (Track or Autocross)

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Plano

Lewisville

3500 Preston Road (at Parker) Plano, Texas 75093 972-769-0093

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Colleyville

6407 Colleyville Blvd. (Highway 26) Colleyville, Texas 76034 817-421-2414

Allen

111 Central Expressway North (Inside Stacy Furniture Center) Allen, Texas 75013 214-547-8144

Grapevine

1900 S. Main Street (Inside Stacy Furniture Center) Grapevine, TX 76051 817-328-0200

PRINTER OF SLIPSTREAM SINCE 1982

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If you have any changes that you would like to make to the MRPCA membership guide, contact the Froehlichs at membership@mavpca.org

New Mavericks By Susan and Tom Froehlich, Membership Co-Chairs Paul Bhella Dallas 2014 Boxster S

Lou Jenkins McKinney 2014 Panamera 4

Salman Shahabuddin Carrollton 2007 911 Turbo

Matthew Bitterman Prosper 1983 944

Catherine Marrs Dallas 2008 Boxster S

Thomas Surgent Dallas 1999 Boxster

Bland Drinkwater Dallas 2013 Boxster S

Dan Mathews Flower Mound 2008 911 Carrera

Tim Turner Plano 2014 911 Turbo

Blake Eaton Euless 2010 911 Carrera S

Sean McBeath Keller 2010 911 Carrera

David Urani Dallas 2007 Cayman S

Gerald Findley Grandview 1989 911 Carrera Cabriolet

David Nark Allen 2015 Cayman

Winston Walp Dallas 2009 911 Carrera S Cabriolet

Gordon Graves (Susan) Plano 2008 911 Turbo Cabriolet

Adam Nusrallah Richardson 2004 Boxster

Tom Heuerman (Sandi) Frisco 1986 944

Mark Ramsey Richardson 2011 911 GT3 RS

Transfers In Allan Bradley (Jon) Dallas Transfer From Intermountain (INT)

Jose Iglesias Fort Worth 2015 911 Carrera GTS

Ken Roderman Plano 2014 Boxster S

Maverick Membership Totals Members ~ 1,569 Affiliate Members ~ 915

Total Membership ~ 2,484

David DelVecchio (Kim) Dallas Transfer From Mid South (MSO) Symara Feldmam Highland Park Transfer From Northeast (NE) Ed Russo (Rosemarie) McKinney Transfer From Everglades (EGS) Peter Vanhandel Irving Transfer From Alaska (AK)

Say hello to your fellow Porsche drivers!

Flashing your high beams at fellow Porsche drivers is a time-honored tradition . . . keep the flash alive!

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15 Years

Robert Grunnah (Tom) Bill Bernick (Rhena)

10 Years

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Dallas

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Jason England Frisco John Perser (Judy) Rockwall Robert Lian (Anna Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Day) Hudson Oaks Youri Bebic Plano

Richard Solomon Tyler Lindy Pilgrim (Vicki) Dallas William Slocum Dallas Colton Klatt Dallas Leif Peterson Coppell Duncan Welch (Yvonna) Dallas Lev Prichard (Evan) Dallas Greg Metzger (Karen England) Southlake

Unclassifieds Unclassifieds are available free to Maverick Region members and are $5 for all others (contact editor@mavpca for payment details). Please limit size to no more than 6 lines. Ads will run for 3 issues, after which they will be removed unless you request that they be run for an additional 3 issues. E-mail your ad to classifieds@mavpca.org by the 10th of the month to have your ad run in the following month’s Slipstream. Be sure to include year, make, model, color, mileage, and asking price, as well as a contact name, phone number and/or email address. All parts will be advertised on our website. Check your ad for 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. No dealers please!

For Sale: 983 944 SP1 Race Car, Silver, PCA Log Book, completed in 2014. Rebuilt engine, manual steering, LSD trans, Custom cage by Lemco. SP1 Suspension with new bushings front & rear. 2.3 ltr fire system. AMB Transponder, Schroth 6 point harness, Kirkey Road race seat. Extra trans and engine (for rebuild). 16Ft open trailer. Asking $8500.00. Call Bill, 214.364.7483 or bill.georgas@verizon.net (09) For Sale: 2004 Boxster S, Beautiful Lapis Blue Metallic with Graphite Gray Convertible Top & Leather Interior, 22k, Tiptronic Auto, PS, PB, Bose Sound Package with CD, Bi-Xenon headlights, 18” Turbo II Wheels, Porsche Stability Management Package, L&N IMS Upgrade, 4 new Michelin Super Sports, Battery & Alignment. Superb Condition! Looks, drives & smells like a brand new car. Have 2 keys, Owners Manual, Window Sticker. Never Raced. Clean CarFax. No Wrecks. Needs Nothing. $23,975. Call for photos. Contact James Ford, 214-886-6141 or SailboatTherapy4@aol.com (09) For Sale: 1982 911 SC Targa, Red wine metallic with a tan interior, 89,000 miles. Original engine, top end rebuilt Dec. 2008. Paint is mostly original and is in good shape. Dashboard has small cracks and the door pockets are black (rather than tan). Top is in great condition. A/C system (uninstalled), but parts included. Great driver’s car. Awesome looking. $20,000. Text 940-781-7225 for pictures. (08) Wanted: 964 Carrera 2 Coupe, Manual trans. Seeking a car with <100k miles, no corrosion, little to no paint/body work, clean Carfax, well documented. Dry country. Light colors preferred. Longtime enthusiast without a car for the last 10 years as we started our family. Kids are now old enough to appreciate these cars. The time has come. Previous ‘85 Targa, ‘62 S-90 owner. Contact Robert Callaway, 972589-3308, or mr.robert.callaway@gmail.com (08)

For Sale: 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera S Coupe (991). Excellent black paint on flawless black perforated leather. Asking $75,500 OBO. Full Porsche factory warranty through May 20, 2016. Fully loaded with extensive options - $118,090 MSRP when new. Dual Clutch Transmission (PDK), Sport Chrono Package, Premium Package Plus, Navigation, 14 way Sport Seats, Bose Audio, Factory Sport Exhaust, 20 inch “Classic” Wheels, Sunroof, Multifunction Steering Wheel upgrade, Electric Sunroof, Heated Seats, Ventilated Seats, Auto Dimming Mirrors, Porsche Crest Wheel Caps, Porsche Dynamic Light System, Porsche Entry & Drive, Light Design Package, Power Steering Plus, XM & HD Radio,6 Disc CD/ DVD Changer, Seat Belts in Guards Red, Floor Mats with Guards Red letters/stitching. Car is in perfect condition. I have all books, records and my complete maintenance history in hand including the original window sticker. The car has always been garaged during the day and at night. No wrecks, no paint work, no mechanical issues, no theft, no flood damage, no surprises. 20,000 mile service recently performed at Park Place. Pirelli P Zero tires in great condition. Please email me and I’ll send additional pictures, CarFax and the maintenance history/ file. Contact Travis Schwaer, 214-287-4890, tschwaer@ redcapitalgroup.com (08)

$6,950. Contact Donald Gary at 345-926-3379 or preferred email donaldgary@hotmail.com. (07) For Sale: 1998 Spec Boxster (SPB), Black body now professionally wrapped, fiberglass top. Professionally built (2008), updated (2012), and maintained 1998 Spec Boxster. 2015 PCA Club Racing Rules compliant. Has all the right stuff: Bilsteins, GT3 and Tarrett bars, Toelinks, OMP Seat and Schroth Harness, etc. 2.5 L Engine (2008 crate) with approximately 12.5K miles, rebuilt transmission (2015). All service and maintenance records since 2008. Last raced March 2015. $37,500 or OBO. Additional photos and details on request. Contact chrishar@swbell.net or text 214-213-7705 (06) For Sale: 1992 964 Carrera 2, red/black, 98k, 16” OEM wheels, plus choose 17” Cayman wheels w/ good tread, or 17” C2 turbo wheels w/worn tread. Steve Wong chip, premium sound system, tint, dlr svc, nearly complete history, nice condition. $29,964. Vaughan Garrett, vlgssp@yahoo.com. (06)

Wanted: Porsche. All models considered. Immediate cash purchase. Contact Don. 214613-6900, don@av-usa.net. (08) For Sale 1981 Porsche 924 Turbo, Blue outside and tan inside. Low mileage of 59,000. Excellent condition. Owned since 1982. Asking

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SLIPSTREAM Advertiser Since 1978

WHY YOU SHOULD TRUST YOUR PORSCHE TO LOUDEN MOTORCARS

• Award winning service for 35+ years • Rated “Best in Dallas” a record 3 times • Rated “Best in Texas” • Rated “Top 10 Shops in U.S.” • Rated “Best in the West” by the Robert Bosch Corporation • A Better Business Bureau accredited business for 3 decades with an A+ rating • The first ASE “Blue Seal of Excellence” business in Dallas • Racing background at Daytona, Sebring, and Riverside • Master Certified Technicians • Bosch Authorized Service Center • Air conditioned shop for technician efficiency and comfort • We do not sell cars, thus we must survive on our 35+ year service reputation

See what our customers are saying about us at: LoudenMotorCars.com Theresa@LoudenMotorcars.com

11454 Reeder Road Dallas, Texas 75229 (972) 241-6326

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