Die Porsche Kassette

KASSETTE

Gold Coast Region - PCA

FEB 2016 APR 2018

DIE PORSCHE

WERKS REUNION AMELIA ISLAND MARCH 9, 2018

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DIE PORSCHE

KASSETTE A monthly publication of the Gold Coast Region Porsche Club of America

Editor Roger Fabel 648 NW 100 Lane Coral Springs, FL 33071 (954) 752-2501 E-mail: rfabel@aol.com Graphic Artist Kirk Giannola Kgiannola@comcast.net 954 551-1300 Photographers Roger Fabel Alberto Pugliese Dennis Lai Tech Writer Pedro Bonilla Advertising Roger Fabel

Submissions The deadline for submission of materials is the 1st of the month of publication. Please E-mail to: rfabel@aol. com with “Kassette Material” as the subject line.

April 2018

Features Amelia Island Werks Reunion Part II......................... 10 DRT Charity Event Photo Gallery.............................. 14 Autocross Update...................................................... 28 Autocross Photo Gallery............................................ 29

Upcoming Events 2018 Events Calendar................................................. 5 Porsches and Pancakes............................................ 21

Departments Officers & Board Members.......................................... 5 President’s Corner....................................................... 7 New Members............................................................. 8 Editor’s Notes.............................................................. 9 GCR Classified.......................................................... 20 Coordinators.............................................................. 21 Tech Corner............................................................... 24 Porschegraphy.......................................................... 31 Advertiser Index........................................................ 32

Die Porsche Kassette is the official publication of the Porsche Club of America, Gold Coast Region, Inc. and is published monthly. Any statement appearing in the Kassette is that of the author, and does not constitute an opinion of the Porsche Club of America, the Gold Coast Region, Inc., its Board of Directors, the Kassette editors or its staff. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Permission is given to chartered regions of PCA to reprint articles in their newsletter if credit is given to the author and the Kassette.

Publication office: 648 NW 100 Lane, Coral Springs, FL 33071

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Officers

2018 Calendar

President Dan Doyle 954 439-4610 Ddoyle333@outlook.com

V President Stuart Jarkowski 561 558-5654 stuartjar@gmail.com

Treasurer Kyle Rathbun 561 602-2100 GCRTreas @gmail.com

Secretary / Chief of Tech Bob Varela

954 746-0488

bobv4n@aol.com

Board Members

Paul Raben Membership Chair 954 854-4362 praben356@gmail.com

Steve Kidd Autocross Chair 954 946-3196 Steve_Kidd@bellsouth.net

Bobby Varela Social Chair 321 604-2599 bobbyv4n@gmail.com

Peter Olliviere / Concours Chair 954 816-6005 Sponsor Chair polliviere@att.net

Ed Kohly Past President 954 292-6238 ekohly@goldcoastregion.org

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ON THE COVER PCA Werks Reunion Amelia Island Photo by Steve Kidd

Ian Gerada Board Alternate 954 914-2989 webmaster@goldcoastregion.org

Key Largo Brunch Daytona Rolex 24 Sebring 48 Club Race Autocross #1 at Sebring DRT Miami Car Show Carlin Park Charity Picnic Autocross #2 at BB&T PCA Werks Reunion Amelia Island Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Sebring 12 Hours (66th year) DE Homestead PBOC/GCR Autocross #3 at Sebring Stone Crab Drive DE Sebring PBOC/GCR Autocross #4 at BB&T Euro Autofest Potluck Social Le Mans Viewing Party PWB My Big Fat Greek PCA Lunch Porsche Parade Osage Beach, MO Conchy Joes Drive and Dine New Member Social Carlin Park PBIR First Timers DE 9-1 Oktoberfest Biergarten Boca Autocross at BB&T GCR Elections Open DE Homestead PBOC/GCR Oktoberfast PCA Club Race Daytona Autocross at BB&T GCR Election Deadline Porsches by the Bay Festival Flea Market Car Show Holiday Party / Boat Parade

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President’s Corner Dan Doyle - President

Hello to all!!

Although not a March event, I felt it worth mentioning the Carlin Park Picnic/ Charity Event on February 25, 2018.

What a wonderful day it was for everyone who attended! Even better, those who where there were able to support a worthy cause. Thank you all for your contributions!

We also had a DE at Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway on March 24-25 and an AutoX on March 25 at BB&T. It was an action-packed weekend for sure but everyone who loves speed and handling had a great time! We also had a major race event occur in the 12 Hour Race at

Sebring International Raceway on March 17. What an awesome race! Thanks to all who attended the PCA tent at the race and who helped staff it.

Coming up this month (April) we have an AutoX on April 7 at Sebring. I hope you all get a chance to drive your cars at this event as there is probably no better way to learn car control. Thanks to Steve and Dottie Kidd for all you do.

As usual, Porsches & Pancakes is on the first Saturday of the month. Please take the time to join other Porsche fans and talk about your favorite subjects: your car and Porsche! Also, we have our Thursday

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Socials on the third Thursday of every month where you can do the same thing!

Please check your emails and the calendar on our website for updated times and locations. These socials are a great way to get to know new members and make them feel welcome!

I hope to see all of you sometime this year!

Drive alert and safe!

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Welcome GCR New Members Todd Gersten

Bill Hodge 2000 911 Carrera

Jaime Ordonez 2004 911 Carrera

Ernesto Diaz 2016 911 Carrera Cab

Dennis O’Neill 2018 911 Carrera

James Hammel 2002 911 Turbo

Raffi Anac 2014 911 Carrera

Alexander Tapie 2016 911 Carerra

Alan Kozich, Jr 2016 911 Carrera

Ricardo Tobchi 2014 911 Carrera

Conrad Vanderlely 2017 Macan

Fred Sonderegger 1995 911 Carrera

Joel de La Paz 2015 911 GT3

Isaac Halwani Scott Stoughton 2014 911 Carrera 4S Cab 2007 Panamera Turbo Jack Mayer 2003 911 Carrera Cab

Steven Weber 1987 944S

Ben Fernandez 2005 911 Carrera

Daniel Barreiro 2017 911 Carrera

Gregory Petrino 2013 911 Carrera

Han Proveniers 2012 Carrera

Stephen Faist 1966 912

Aris Gonzalez 2018 718 Cayman

Steven Herndon 2000 Boxster

Jason Leibowitz 2000 911 Carrera

Elias Janetis 2018 911 GT3

Raul Garcia 2001 911 Carrera Cab

James Gostigian 2018 718 Cayman

Reinaldo Uribe 2018 718 Boxster

Paco Diaz 1998 911 Carrera 993

Don McGuckian 2005 911 Carrera Cab

Michael Moore 2015 Boxster GTS

Larry Yellin 2006 911 Carrera 4S Cab

William Cimowsky 2017 Cayenne

Jorge Pereda 1989 911 Turbo Cab

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Editor’s Notes

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melia Island was the place to be again this year for the 2nd annual PCA Werks Reunion. As you can see from the cover photo capturing just a portion of the sea of beautiful Porsches that covered the greens for the PCA family to display and view on Friday. Steve and Dottie Kidd displayed their 944 and also volunteered to setup and work the event with other PCA volunteers with the national PCA staff. One of our members, Dennis Dinsmore provided a great photo of the Porsches on display for the public to enjoy. The Kassette welcomes your photos, articles, and artwork. Next month

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we will be featuring the artwork from one of our new sponsors, Ted Jacobs owner of Pixel Movr. Ted donated his artwork to the best in show winner at our Carlin Park Charity Picnic. More on that event along with the DRT Charity event in our next issue. Enjoy the photos from the DRT event and stay tuned for more news about the charity events that Goldcoast is involved with. We will have many photos from the Carlin Park event that was very successful.

It was good to see so many members at the Jupiter location just off of A1A just across from the ocean.

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any members ask how to send their photos for publication in the Kassette or on the web. We ask that your photos be high resolution that is required for high quality printing. If your photo is used for the cover, it requires even more resolution. Please do not embed your photos with your e-mail. Always attach the photo file to your e-mail. If you have many photos, the best process is to upload them to a free application that will transfer up to 2Gb. The site is www.WeTransfer. com. Upload your files to that site and address them to my e-mail address. Enjoy your Porsche experience, Roger

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Amelia Island Werks Reunion Part II Last year I wrote an article that included bits and pieces of the 1st Werks Reunion at Amelia island. The 2017 event was beyond everyone’s expectations and a success right out of the box. For 2018 Dottie and I had the pleasure of attending as volunteers, serving as judges, and displaying one of our 944s2’s in the corral area. And yes ...we drove our 27 year old Porsche with 164,000 miles up and back ….almost 1000 miles with no problems.

Werks is not a coucours, but a gathering of beautiful Porsches. Because the event was on a Friday, March 9th, Werks “only” had about 550 cars. ...about 150 judged cars and around 400 in the corral. The corral was simply a place to park your Porsche with like types and enjoy the camaraderie of others that have the same model. The corral occupied one long fairway of a prestigious golf course and each model had a row, or rows, of 944’s or 356’s or early 911’s....you get the picture. The Judged class was limited in number and was about presentation rather than how shiny each bolt was polished.

For the judged cars, there was a 1-page scoring form, filled out by a judging team for each group of like cars. The judged cars occupied another long fairway which also various motorsport vendors had (including but not limited to PIRELLI TIRES) and impressive displays from PCNA and PCA. The Werks “gathering” represents a big difference from Parade level concours where the judging form is a very busy 7-10 page, with scoring down to 1/10 of a point. Dottie and I judged..... you guessed it transaxle cars, where we had examples of 944’S, 928’S, 968’s and a 924 turbo.....all beautiful and each with a unique story.

As the event wound down, trophies were presented to top class winners. These were not just any trophy....they were exquisite Werks gear style examples that would serve to be a center piece on any trophy shelf. Some of the notables taking home trophies were ….surprise....Peter Bartelli, showing his beautiful 1963 356 Carrera 2000GS coupe and Tom Browney showing his silver Panamera GTS.

Steve and Dottie Kidd

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by Steve Kidd

For the full listing of winners and event pictures, please see the Werks link from the PCA website. So for 2019 …..we’re hoping to get more Gold Coast members to make the trip up to Amelia Island and show their Porsche, have fun, and hopefully bring home some nice hardware. The Werks event is slated to be the week before the 12 hours of Sebring... most likely Friday March 8th for 2019.....so mark your calendars and start thinking of hotel rooms soon as this is a very busy weekend with the Amelia Island Cars and Coffee, Auctions, and Concours on Saturday/Sunday....depending on weather.

The magnitude of Werks preparation and logistics was mind boggling. However, to the participant, it was just another great PCA event that members have come to expect. This is one of four PCA National level events to come to Florida, so if you want to expand your PCA horizons, come on out to one of these events and meet PCA members from all over the country.....Speaking of National events, remember the Porsche Parade is coming to Boca Raton in July 2019...more on that later......

Steve

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Special display area

Judged cars receiving trophies

The Browneys and winning Panamera

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Photo by Dennis Dinsmore

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Planning a Gold Coast Event

We are a very active region with many types of events for our members. Events are held from the Florida Keys to and beyond our Northern Region border. When planning an event please contact the Social Chair to check for date avalibility.

All event dates may be found in the Kassette and on the web site calendar. If an event date is canceled or needs to be changed contact the Social Chair so that the update is reflected thru all of the channels.

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Tech Corner :

Efficient - Emotion Article by Pedro P. Bonilla, Tech Editor

Can an efficient car evoke emotion?

There are many efficient cars that evoke

This realignment is derived from the direction set out in:

zero [driving] emotion from its owners.

“Porsche Strategy 2025”, which will see Porsche develop a

I’ve test-driven several and all have been

combination of pure GT vehicles and fully electric sports cars,

blah. One of the upper-scale full-electrics

and that strategy is well under way. Following the launch of the

blew me away with its insane acceleration

911 GT3 and the 911 GT2 RS in late 2017, Porsche now also

but after a few minutes it too became blah.

With the environmental squeeze on, and the requirement of

offers the 911 GT3 RS, its third road-approved sports car within a year

forever-more efficient and silent vehicles, Porsche needs to answer that question before it embarks on its immediate future.

They find themselves again at another crossroad in time and are being forced to make decisions that will drastically impact their production lines in the months to come.

We just saw how the Boxster and Cayman platforms lost their

Porsche, the winningest marque at the Circuit de la Sarthe, with

flat-6 power plants in favor of smaller flat-4 turbocharged (2.0L

19 overall first places, just ended their involvement in the LMP1

and 2.5L) boxer engines starting with model year 2017 and the

class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which

new Carreras are now being offered with a similar smaller-than-

includes the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the IMSA Sports Car

usual (3.0L) turbo, albeit flat-6 engines.

Championship, among others, and has announced its entry into

The Boxster/Cayman decision has been very criticized in most

Formula-E starting in 2019.

sports car magazines, Internet forums and amongst Porsche enthusiasts, where the main disappointment is the Subaru-ish exhaust note that replaces the intoxicating, screaming Porsche flat-6 that we all grew to love.

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Overall Porsche retail sales have continued to rise, but the

Well, that’s not the case anymore if you own a 986 and/or a

increase is due to the Panamera and Macan platforms exclusively.

996. Both of these platforms, which had experienced year-

For 2017, Carrera retail sales were flat (0% growth), Panameras

over-year decline in their used sales prices since their respective

were up by 51%, Macans were up by 11%, but Cayenne (-15%),

introductions in 1977 and 1999 respectively, held their own

and Boxster/Cayman (-19%) were significantly depressed. We

during 2016 and have started to rise in value since early 2017

are now hearing rumors that the Boxster/Cayman platform is in

and that upward trend has carried over into 2018 as well.

jeopardy and may be nixed altogether for the 2020 model year.

I believe that it is because of a combination of two things: 1.- Many owners truly thought that they had ticking time bombs

Could it be that our beloved sports car brand has jumped the

with the IMS issue and were dumping them, hence the lower

shark?

prices. Now that there are proven fixes to the IMS on the market,

My guess is that it has and I think that many of you also suspect it. Only time will tell and I truly wish I’m wrong.

the platforms have gained back some trust and renewed interest.

2.- With Porsche’s decision to drop the flat-6 engines in favor of turbo flat-4s (efficient), the desire to hear and feel a flat-6

There is a saying: “Your car will never be worth more than it’s

screaming as it reaches red line is more important than having

worth today”.

higher performance numbers with lackluster sound (emotion).

And if Porsche does decide to discontinue the Boxster/Cayman as is rumored, watch the prices of the 996/986 rise just like the 993s did once they became the last of the air-cooled Porsches.

So if you have one of these cars, hold on to them or you could say one day: “I wish I would have never sold that car”.

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Autocross Update

Autocross event #2 was back at BB&T and we were

blessed with a good turnout and fabulous weather. While we did everything within our power to kick off live timing for the March event, the tech gods said otherwise and we will need to wait another month to preview the latest advances in autocross timing technology. For those that have never heard of live timing, its real time access to autocross results, updated every minute, and available on your smart phone. If you are a competitor, this means you can watch your competitions times flash on your cell phone screen so you don’t have to hoover over timing and scoring to see if you beat your competition....or if they beat you.

It also means that spectators and participants don’t have to wait for printed results to be posted on the trailer. If you are really lazy it means you can stay at home, assume the couch potato posture, log onto the GCR website, go to the live timing portal and see how your friends are doing while you enjoy your day off. Speaking of results, please check our GCR website for final results from event 1 and 2 under the autocross tab. For event 2, the battle for FTD was extremely close ...and you will have to go to the website to see who won the battle between Porsche and Mazda.

Gold Coast Region (GCR) has one of the most progressive autocross programs within PCA. If you have never seen or tried autocrossing come on out and visit an event. We have some of the best and most patient instructors, as well as loaner helmets for 1st timers. Don’t be afraid if you aren’t quite ready to compete....The focus is on being safe and having fun. We all start somewhere on the learning curve, but the key is to keep doing more events and learning. We provide more runs than most clubs and have a reputation for friendliness, safety and efficiency.

Event 3 April 7th at Sebring on the concrete strip for a fast course on really grippy concrete. I wish more folks would make the trip out to Sebring as this site is similar to Buckingham field and we usually get 16-20 runs due to smaller turnouts. There will also be a mini school for 1st times …..please see the event options for the April Autocross if you want to register for 1 of only 10 student slots Event 4 May 13 a Sunday event at BB&T. This will be our 2nd of 4 events at BBT and our 1st of the year on a Sunday. This will be our Porsche Mothers day special....stay tuned for more. This will be the last of our winter / spring Autocrosses, with action picking back up in September, October and November.

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by Steve Kidd, Autocross Chair

As always a big thanks to all our regular participants, instructors and team of volunteers that organize, set-up, tear down and do 100’s of behind the scene details that make these events possible. This month’s salute goes to Ian, Jake and Steve for the monumental effort spent trying to kick off live timing.

Waiting thru hours of Tech support is never fun, but we are almost there and the results will be highly appreciated when the bugs are worked out of the system. New comers Chuck and Wendy Limroth donated another speaker to the PA system they donated a few months ago and are stepping up to work in timing and scoring. Also thanks to Rivas Motorsports for storing our Autocross trailer and to Foreign Affairs and Ernie Bello Motorsports for loaner helmet donations. And how can we forget Paul Raben who comes out and provides a lunch option. Chef Paul tries to mix up the offerings and this month he had roast turkey breast sandwiches....as well as hotdogs, snacks and drinks.

News, reminders and 2018 updates: • Everyone is now required to pre register for any AutoX on Clubregistration.net… Please consult the GCR website and Kassette for all Autocross photos & results.

• Porsche classes are loosely based on the PCR’s for medium size regions, with minor regional adjustments.

The major difference will be the addition of SN (stock car/ novice driver) for men and ladies. These classes are strictly for newcomers only. Please see Steve for any car class questions or if you wish to run as a novice. We reserve the right to make additional class/rule changes as needed.

• Our 2018 series are planned to be 7 events. To be eligible for an end of the year award, competitors must run in at least 4 events in the same class. Each competitor’s top 4 finishes will be calculated and an end of the year class champion and possibly runner-up (depending on class size) will be chosen.

In case of a tie, additional events will be added until the tie is broken. Year-end class champion awards will be presented.

• No passengers except for an approved AX instructor driving or in the car instructing.

• Questions…..call Steve or Dottie Kidd 954946-3196 • For 2018 our advise is please register early.

As a reward, early registrants will see no increase in price, however those registering the last week before the event will see an increase in event registration price. While we typically do not allow on-site registration, if we do, your registration fee will increase to a minimum of $55.The best advise is to register early, as some events to have caps and we charge a premium fee if you register 1 week or less from the event date.

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