Porsche’s 75th Anniversary Hunt Valley

By:TheTechTeam

On June 10th Porsche chose to celebrate their 75th Anniversary worldwide. Porsche Hunt Valley and PCA Chesapeake Region collaborated for more than four months to make this the largest and most amazing event in the near-term memory of the region.

The day started out with a gathering of approximately 180 Porsches at Hunt Valley Horsepower. The gathering included everything from a 1957 356 Speedster to the latest 2023 911 Sport Classic.

The fifty carefully curated display cars, selected to illustrated various colors and models from the 75-year history of the brand were perfectly parked in a row allowing spectators to view and understand the brands heritage and contribution to automotive development.

The other approximately 130 cars were just as noteworthy and illustrated the depth and breadth of the brand. The very large Hunt Valley Horsepower crowd circulated among the many Porsche’s, admiring and discussing each model as it garnered their attention.

Thanks to Porsche Hunt Valley, all the registered Porsche participants were treated to a delicious breakfast sandwich on the private back patio of the Iron Rooster.

Soon the Police arrived to provide an escort from Hunt Valley Horsepower to Porsche Hunt Valley. As an impressively long line of Porsches ambled their way towards Porsche Hunt Valley many admiring glances were seen being made by observers along the way.

Upon arriving at Porsche Hunt Valley, the curated display vehicles were carefully lined up to again portray the history and development of the brand.

As the crowd of over 400 attendees entered the Porsche Hunt Valley showroom, they allowed their eyes to feast on a silver Canepa enhanced 959SC, a black Carrera GT, and an amazing Guards red 964 air cooled Turbo S flat nose that is one of only 76 ever produced. A slight glance to the right showed a beautiful white GT3RS with green graphics in the PHV delivery area. Walking around the reception desk yielded more eye candy. A beautiful ice green metallic 930 turbo Carrera was a feast for the eyes as was the guards red cabriolet. If you thought that was the end of the magnificent machinery you were mistaken. A quick walk to the upstairs showroom brought into view a beautiful white 356, a Brumos #59 race car, and yellow and blue 944 Cup car and the amaz-

ing TPC Rolex 24 winner.

Porsche Hunt Valley supplied amazing eats to all who attended. Wonderfully delicious cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets, pigs in a blanket and cheese snacks were enjoyed by all. Additionally, a great assortment of cookies and baklava were presented to ameliorate your sweet tooth. Of course, there was also sparkling water, a great assortment of sodas, various beers, and an assortment of wines to help quench your thirst on this warm and sunny Saturday.

The team at PHV led by Steve Postol and PCA CHS Tech leads of Jim Earlbeck and Rick Hawver put together an amazing event that will not soon be forgotten. PCA CHS members turned out to display their cars and volunteers including Steve & Joan Wood, Jim & Hunter Orrell, Johnathan Silverman and Jerry Wassel pulled together to make this an unforgettable event. We can now look forward to the next big event, the 80th anniversary in 2028!

Porsche’s 75th Anniversary Annapolis

By: RonFarb

On June 10th I attended the Porsche 75th Anniversary Celebration at Porsche Annapolis (PA). As anyone who attended any of the 75th celebrations can imagine, it truly was a great morning. I got there about an hour before the event started to set up a Chesapeake Membership table inside. The setup went very quickly so I ended up helping PA folks set up tables and chairs in their facility and moving extras out of the way. During this time, the eight Chesapeake folks, that our own Tech Chairs had recruited, started arriving to display their cars in the back of the dealership.

Once the celebration was underway, PA had a nice crowd to enjoy a catered breakfast bar and premium coffee. I’m not a coffee guy but the breakfast bar was delicious. Surprisingly, most of my time was not spent eating but actually standing around the Chesapeake Membership table and talking to Chesapeake and non-Chesapeake folks alike. I would like to think I got a few new folks to join up. Perhaps the funniest part of the day, at least to me, was how the cheap swag I had on the table would disappear every time I turned my back to the table to talk to someone. I could literally feel people sneaking behind me to grab stuff from the table who obviously did not want to talk about PCA. I guess folks everywhere, even those who own Porsches, just want their free stuff and they don’t care what it is.

One of the nice parts of the morning was it gave me a chance to talk to Mr Farmand (the PA GM) and Angela Brown (the PA Client Care Coordinator). Both have been very supportive of Chesapeake PCA and I believe want to become even more involved with us. I also got the chance to talk with Katelyn Paul, the Johnson Automotive (they own PA) Marketing Communications Manager. She had nothing but praise for Jim, Randy, and Rick for arranging the show cars and for Chesapeake PCA in general.

I would like to thank the following Chesapeake members who brought their cars to the event:

Porsche’s 75th Anniversary Display @ PHV

Key Models Displayed at Porsche Hunt Valley – June 10

By Aniano Arao

PCA Chesapeake helped celebrate Porsche’s 75th Anniversary at three of the Porsche dealerships in Maryland on June 10, 2023. Featured here are significant Porsche models curated for Porsche Hunt Valley by Jim Earbeck and his fellow Tech Committee co-chairs, Randy Richter and Rick Hawver.

The celebration started early in the morning at the Horsepower cars and coffee in the Hunt Valley Towne Centre. Porsche Hunt Valley kindly provided the PCA members present with free breakfast from Iron Rooster.

Then at about 11:00 AM, the curated cars proceeded to the nearby Porsche dealership, accompanied by hundreds of PCA members in their Porsches. The dealership, led by General Manager Steve Postol, again generously provided free food and beverages to the hundreds of anniversary attendees.

The U.S.-only 2023 911 GT3 RS Tribute to Carrera RS shown above was not among the curated models but was on display in the showroom at that time.