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In this Issue PANDO FEBRUARY 2016 www.pcaocr.com
Features
Editor Garey Cooper gareycooper@mac.com (714) 264-0530 Production Manager
Kristen Jaoui kmjaoui@gmail.com
Advertising Director
Cooper Boggs
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(714) 505-3662
Classified Ads Editor
Bob Weber
Technical Writer
Lee Rice
Contributing Writers
Monica Asbury Garey Cooper Bruce Herrington Doug Shannon Mike Knudsen Chris Barrington Tom Gray Lee Rice Marica Salans Larry Moore
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Contributing Gary Labb Photographers Monica Asbury Garey Cooper Jerry Shannon Mike Knudsen Paul Novotne Lee Rice Marcia Salans
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Photo Tip of the Month
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914 Ode$$y Photo Tip of the Month Porsche Breakfast at the Los Angeles Auto Show Summer Sizzle “Gimmick Rally” Where's Pando?
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Calendar of Events Porsche Alley 2016 Autocross Schedule California Festival of Speed OC to Palmdale to OC Tour Once Around Camp Pendleton Tour BurgerBahn Porsches & Pancakes Krispy Kreme Los Angeles Dismantler Breakfast Club
Departments
26 Porsche Breakfast at the LA Auto Show On the Cover PCA-OCR member license plates Photo Credit: Gary Labb
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Reutterwerk List Secretary's Message Contacts Editor’s Notes Book Review Auto-X Corner Rice’s Ramblings Membership Updates Classified Ads List of Advertisers The Goodie Store
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Orange Coast Region 2016 Calendar of Events FEBRUARY 2016 6 11 20 20 20 21 27 28
Breakfast Club & Board Meeting Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Krispy Kreme Gathering PCA-OCR Driver’s Control Clinic L.A. Dismantler Tech Session PCA-OCR Autocross – El Toro Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido PCA-OCR Once Around Camp Pendleton Tour
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Breakfast Club & Board Meeting Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB PCA-OCR Autocross- El Toro Krispy Kreme Gathering GMG Open House – Santa Ana Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido
APRIL 2016 Breakfast Club & Board Meeting California Festival of Speed 2016 14 Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB 16 Krispy Kreme Gathering 23 Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido 24 PCA-OCR Autocross- El Toro 24 PCA-OCR OC to Palmdale to OC Tour 2
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4 Breakfast Club & Board Meeting 9 Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB 12 PCA-OCR 46th Annual White Gloves Concours 18 Krispy Kreme Gathering 19 2016 Porsche Parade- Jay Peak, Vermont 25 Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido 26 PCA-OCR Autocross- El Toro
MAY 2016
Breakfast Club & Board Meeting 7 12 Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB 21 Krispy Kreme Gathering 22 PCA-OCR Autocross- El Toro 28 Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido * Event dates subject to change. Note: Italicized text represents events outside of OCR sponsored events. Links to Zone 8 events can be found at www.Zone8.org.
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Breakfast Club & Board Meeting Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Krispy Kreme Gathering Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido PCA-OCR Autocross – El Toro
OCR Board Meetings All members are welcome to OCR Board Meetings, held after the breakfast meeting at Original Mike’s.
Monica Asbury It’s time to shine OCR! Good Goodie Store Greeting,
It must be February, because sparkle is in the air. Each February, the Goodie Store celebrates Valentine’s Day with something brilliant. This February will be no different.
SECRETARY’S MESSAGE He has had so much fun designing Porsche graphics, he started his own T-shirt Company, saxoimage.com – he’s graciously allowed the Goodie Store to ‘borrow’ some of his designs and share them with members. You will not find any Goodie Store items online, because PCNA, Porsche
I thought it would be fun to show the different sparkly tops we’ve offered over the years. How many do you have? (I’m missing the White v-neck with Porsche spelled out in red rhinestones). This month’s feature will be a 100% cotton, lightweight, ¾ sleeve, with a boat neck in Fuchsia, with rhinestones spelling out Porsche. Just to make it perfectly clear, the Goodie Store is not my business, we are strictly volunteers, who enjoy ‘working’ the store. A catalog of items does not exist where we pick and choose what to sell each month for men and women. We do our best to listen to the members and interpret what they’d like to see on the tables. Recently, a member expressed his desire to see a sweatshirt in the ‘Gulf’ colors Goodie Store’s February Offering over the Years with ‘Gulf’ embellishments. We thought that was a great idea, and Corporation, prohibits us from selling are going to research this a bit more Porsche trademark items online. We are and see if we can produce something in allowed to use the logo, because of our ‘Gulf.’ affiliation, but only if the trademark is used properly and in line with Trademark The Goodie Store is a benefit to members guidelines. Stop by, meet Mary and and makes very little profit, which goes Dave Hong, who generously donate to the overhead of the Club. It’s YOUR their time to sell Club merchandise, store! Denny and me, we’d love to say hello. I get a huge helping hand on designs for the garments we offer from my #1 Elf, who happens to be a graphic designer.
Secretarial Reminder
As Secretary of OCR, I thought this would be a great opportunity to remind leaders of tours/rallyes, etc., that for Porsche events involving driving your Porsche, towing or even catching a ‘lift,’ the ‘leader’ of the event must have a Certificate of Insurance, “COI,” in place. Additionally, all attendees must sign colored waivers (waivers that show black/white/red writing). Each submission for the COI must have a start and stopping point address. If there are stops within your tour, each address must be called out. The length of the tour, the number of expected Porsches and attendees must also be included in the submission form for the COI. The COI’s are obtained through our PCA National Office and are to be submitted 7-10 business days prior to the event. It’s actually quite a simple process; you just have to follow the instructions on the form. Typically, I work with the members to obtain the information, complete the form and submit it on their behalf. This is such a great Club with amazing people who we call our friends. I can only hope you have or are having the same wonderful experience. It helps if you get involved! Please volunteer at any one of our many ‘wheely cool’ activities. Safe driving and Happy Valentine’s Day! Monica Asbury PCA-OCR Secretary and Goodie Store Manager
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Contact Information OCR Executive Board
OCR Board Appointments
Zone 8 Chairs
Advertising Co-Chairs
Zone 8 Representative
Cooper Boggs | cooper.boggs@gmail.com Nicole Forrest Boggs | 993nicole@gmail.com
Art Director Denny Asbury | dennis@asburydesign.com
President Greg Lush | greglush@outlook.com
Autocross Co-Chairs Chris Barrington | genikz@yahoo.com Eric Budai | epb89@sbcglobal.net
Autocross Registration Karen Guthorn | PcaocrAutoxReg@gmail.com
Charity Director Vice President CL Jarusek | ccwguy@aol.com
Peggy Huddleston hud5family@gmail.com
Concours Chair Norm Follis | njfollis@gmail.com
DE/TT Co-Chairs Bob Scheussler | bscheussler@gmail.com Chuck Bartolon | woodslsman@verizon.net
Secretary Monica Asbury | sheamonica@gmail.com
Goodie Store Manager Monica Asbury | sheamonica@gmail.com
Historian Judy Lech | judylech@att.net
Ladies Committee Liaison Maryann Marks | mamsy1@yahoo.com Treasurer David Piper | dpiper@socal.rr.com
Pando Editor Garey Cooper | gareycooper@mac.com
David Witteried | zonerep@zone8.org
Zone 8 Secretary Skip Carter | secretary@zone8.org Zone 8 Treasurer Linda Cobarrubias | treasurer@zone8.org
Zone 8 Autocross Chair Kathy Smalley | ax@zone8.org Zone 8 CA Festival of Speed Chair Tom Brown | chair@calfestival.org Zone 8 Chief Driving Instructor Scott Mann | cdi@zone8.org Zone 8 Concours Co-Chair Brett Mohr | concours@zone8.org Zone 8 Concours Co-Chair Betsy Wadman | concours@zone8.org
Zone 8 Rules Coordinator Russell Shon | rules@zone8.org Zone 8 Social Media Chair Sam Avedon | social.media@zone8.org
Zone 8 Drivers Ed / Time Trial Chair Dave Hockett | de.tt@zone8.org Zone 8 Webmaster Karen Garcia Raines webmaster@zone8.org
Pando Classified Ads Editor Bob Weber 714-960-4981 hbobw930@aol.com
Pando Production Manager Member at Large James Buck | james@capeautorepair.com
Kristen Jaoui | kmjaoui@gmail.com
Rally Director Larry Moore | lbmc4s@cox.net
Reutterwerk List Master Pete Lech | peterlech@att.net
Social Media Chair Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com Member at Large Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com
Sponsorship Director
Got a suggestion? Have a question? Just want to vent? This email goes straight to the board of directors: opinionspcaocr@gmail.com Let us know what’s on your mind and we’ll share it at the next board meeting.
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Anyone wishing to inform the club of special circumstances, illness or loss? Please let us know.
Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com Membership Sandy Schwartz | mr997s@gmail.com
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EDITOR’S NOTES
Garey Cooper
And in this corner we have
You’ll have fun with the Orange Coast Region or else !
The Walrus and the Carpenter
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of Porsches--tires--and sealing-wax-Of cabbages--and kings-And why the club is boiling hot-And whether Porsches have got wings.”*
First things First
Okay, we step gingerly into 2016 and are now trying our luck with the second month of this new year. How does it feel to you? For my own part if feels pretty good; of course looking at the grass from the right side is the best start and from there on in it’s “gravy”. If like me you have been distressed by some recent world events all you need to do is to come out to one of our club events to see members of every hue and bent enjoying a common interest that bonds us all together. Do that just once this coming year and be reaffirmed that given the chance and a shared avocation it can all be good, or at least passing fair.
A 2015 Porsche 911S Cabriolet! Okay the search has ended and we have a new 911 in the family Cooper. It is “Guy Noire” adventurer extraordinaire. Metal flake black, ebony with a sheen. Hence the name “Noire”. With pretty cool accouterments which I am sure would shock any early Porsche Club of America member magically transported to the 21st century right out of his/her 356 “bathtub”. For instance, “keyless entry” or in Porsche terminology “keyless go”. You just put the fob in your pocket, walk to the car which obediently unlocks for you, then twist the permanently installed ignition thingy to hear that flat six roar into cacophonous life. What would they have made of that? I will write more about the new four wheel addition but I wanted to share that it is there/here and ready to look for road and venture with our club.
ADVP
“Avoir Du Pois” which is French for (more or less) “I have pounds”. In it’s more subtle meaning the implication is a gravitas or demeanor implying knowledge or wisdom. It has come to mean the literal however, as in weight. And the new generation automobiles, Porsche included, have weight and lots of it. Therefore it takes quite a bit of engineering legerdemain to make a car feel light and nimble while weighing 3,300 to 3,500 pounds. But they have done…..the whole subject of the increasingly porcine Porsche product line intrigues me and warrants further investigation in my opinion.
Better Stop and Look Around
Okay as you go through our humble offering of a magazine I’d like to ask you to look at the articles and people who write them. There is some wisdom here (AVDP) indeed. And as I stated last time we have had some great recent contributions by club members which I would love to see continued for this new fledgling 2016. So, if you’ve recently taken a trip or purchased a car we want to hear about it. Please keep those cards and letters coming in!
Toll House Cookies
There are not too many toll roads in California, for which I think we should be grateful. Now that we have “transponders” of course we no longer have to slow down to toss quarters and dimes into the yawning maw of a coin trap at a toll booth, it has become more convenient to travel toll roads. But they still cost over and above the taxes you are paying for every gallon, quart, or pint of gasoline….or mix of corn alcohol and distilled petroleum…. that you are burning. I can recall thinking that this was something of an athletic art form in my earlier east coast travels; watch the driver come up to the toll booth throwing the right mix of coins into the basket, and then continuing to motor towards the gate with the exact momentum to hit the exit as the arm of the gate rose. I never did master this and more than once missed the basket or almost rammed the gate with poor timing as the mechanical coin counter made sure that my contribution was correct for passage. As a result of this I developed a “Toll Both Anxiety” or “TBA” that forced
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DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE RACING CAR by Stirling Moss and Laurance Pomeroy, published in 1963 by William Kimber and Co. Ltd, London England, with photos by Louis Klemantaski. Once considered a classic and a comprehensive reference for detailed specifications of various racing cars, successful and otherwise, this book provides a fascinating inside look at (mostly British) race cars of the 1950’s. If you have or are susceptible to any interest in such cars, this book gives some amazingly complete tables of construction/set-up specifications, and performance results. This reviewer knows of no other tome that deals with such esoteric data as reliability by make/year or by track/year. True, the statistical period, ranging in some cases back to 1914, and forward to 1963, has no direct relation to modern race cars. None the less, the analysis of the data and their significance can be fascinating to those intellectually inclined motor racing enthusiasts. DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE RACING CAR is an old fashioned book – mostly text on non-glossy pages, with pen and ink sketches, cutaways and engineering drawings in the text. There are black & white ‘plates’ interspersed at various stages through the book but no color pictures. Though it deals with the design-engineering of racing cars (mostly open wheel, but not all Forumla 1), and contains a plethora of tables and a few graphs, it does not read like an engineering text book. It is not a howto guide to designing race cars as much as an analysis of what-was, tied to the story of the resulting effects, as reported by the driver. It really is Stirling’s book, about his racing experiences and
impressions. Pomeroy just provides ‘the rest of the story’. Stirling Moss is usually not considered a significant author, but he has written or co-written a dozen books over the years, this being one of his last. In it he describes in a very readable conversational first person style, the experiences he has had with ‘dozens’ of different racing cars. Starting with his very first racer, in turn the very first car made by John Cooper in 1948. The final car described was a Lotus Climax in 1961. In-between came cars from ERA, HWM, Maserati and Mercedes, among others. As a book on race car performance DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE RACING CAR contains the obligatory discussion of oversteer vs understeer, including separate explanations provided by both Pomeroy and well known automotive journalist Denis Jenkenson. Alternating with Moss’ chapters are equally readable chapters by Pomeroy discussing the engineering factors that gave the race cars the characteristics that Moss described. At the time this book was written, Laurence Pomeroy had had over 20 years experience as Technical Editor of The Motor, and a two volume tome on The Grand Prix Car to his credit.
To one familiar with the basics of current race car design and suspension tuning, some of the early 1950s technology presented in this book seems rather, well, “quaint”. There is one discussion of moving transmissions to the rear of the car, integrated with the differential, to improve car ‘stability’ by increasing the polar moment of inertia. No thought seems to have been given to the weight distribution effects of such a layout, or how that could have affected stability. And there is Porsche Content in that several references are made to Porsche’s trailing arm design and synchromesh. DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE RACING CAR is a much more readable book than the name might suggest. The in-cockpit sensations and experiences described by Moss will appeal to any racing buff, and comprise virtually half of the book. The engineering discussions by Pomeroy reflect his 20 years of success in writing for a ‘popular’ magazine, so that he can make even a discussion of how the
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914 Ode$$y Story by Doug Shannon, Photos by Jerry Shannon Proud owner of 1971 Porsche 914
In the October 2014 issue of Pandemonium, Malcom Baca wrote an article about what a kick in the pants autocrossing is. And that even old guys could do it. So I’m blaming this whole mess on him. But that article lit a spark. When reading Panorama I always check THE MART just to see what my current Porsche is worth, and to see what my previously owned cars are now worth. I am always amazed to see that my current car is depreciating while all of the cars that I’ve sold are now worth much more than I sold them for. This seems to be a Universal Truth. I sold my German racing silver 356A to my brother-in-law for $1,250. I’d like a do-over on that one. So what do I see but a 1971 914 autocross car for sale. Re-built engine and transmission with 1.8 barrels and 100,000 miles on the clock. Sweet!
The real kicker was that this car was for sale by the original owner, and that it was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA. I wouldn’t have to deal with the dreaded 914 rust syndrome. My mind was fairly spinning by now. If he has owned this car for 45 years he has to know it inside and out by now. You don’t own a Porsche for 45 years and not take good care of it do you? This car is going to be near-perfect! It is clear that at this point I was drinking my own Kool-Aid. 46 years ago I was in the market for a new car. The 914’s had just come out and I had enough money to buy a new 914 or a used 912. I waffled but finally bought the 912. I think that it was the right decision to make then. But for 46 years I’ve always wondered what it would be like to own a 914. I finally would get to find out.
I made an appointment to see the car and drove to Bakersfield. I introduced myself and he looked me up and down and said “What did your wife say when you told her that you wanted to buy a race car?” I told him that she said that I should take up photography. I checked out the car: Front and rear anti-roll. Check Front and rear spoilers. Check Webers and tuned exhaust. Check Racing steering wheel and racing seat belts. Check Racing wheels, racing tires and fender flares. Check Upside-down tachometer and auxillary gages. Check The car had been re-painted and they almost nailed the factory yellow but the surface finish would give an orange a bad name. February 2016 | PANDO 11
off piston/barrel sets cost $80.00 a set. You could do a complete engine re-build for well under $500.00. I still find the odd M6x12 Cheese Head bolt rolling around in the floor of my garage. There are always extra parts left over at the end of a re-build, I don’t know where they come from or where they are supposed to go. I have a little glass jar full of them. The wife says I should throw them away along with some of my other treasures. But one never knows... 914 in racing livery
He took me for a spin and it seemed to run strong. After a while he asked me if I wanted to drive. I said “Of course,” and jumped behind the wheel. I kissed reverse on the way from 1st to 2nd; he nearly jumped out of his skin. When I finally found second gear I found that the car did not run. At all! It popped, stumbled, hiccuped, and backfired. I was bummed. It turned out that he knew how to drive it and mask the fact that it didn’t run. It idled ok and it ran strong at full throttle, but it could do nothing in between. I stumbled around for two or three blocks and nursed it back to his house. After this it was time to negotiate. I made him an offer he could refuse. He did. He said that he was going to hold out for his price. Either this guy has “huevos grandes” or he has figured out that I WANT THIS CAR! I thought that I was being more subtle than that. Besides, it’s un-American not to haggle over the price of a used car. You always ask a little more than you are willing to take just so that both parties go away feeling that they made a good deal.
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I suggested to him that since the car didn’t run maybe he should be willing to negotiate. He told me that he had the original fuel injection and that he would throw it in for free. I sat down on the curb and dialed up my mechanic of twenty years looking for some advice or at least a bargaining chip. He said that he could put the fuel injection back on the car for $500.00. I relayed this to the seller and offered him $500.00 less than he was asking. He caved. Hoo haa, I’m going racing on the cheap! I soon learned that you never use the words “racing” and “cheap” in the same sentence. Jerry Brown - $700.00 DMV - $154.00 AAA - $405.00 I can fix this thing! I know my way around a flat four. I put 360,000 miles on my 912. For you at home keeping score that’s to the moon and half-way back. In fifteen years that car never saw the inside of a mechanic’s shop except for wheel alignments. It got itself rebuilt more than once on the floor of my garage. Back then Japanese knock-
Fifty-some-odd years ago when we were first married (you get to quit counting at fifty and she doesn’t expect you to remember anyway) Peggy and I liked to go to The Santa Barbara airport or Pomona Fairgrounds and watch the SCCA races. I had a bug-eyed Sprite and thought that it would be fun to race it. I still remember that Sprites ran in H Production. But the only way my budget could handle that would be if I turned our children back into the hospitals where they were born. The wife wasn’t buying into that so my racing career never got off the ground. The closest I ever got was one day when I was driving through Pomona with an ex-college roommate when we passed a gymkhana in the White Front parking lot. He asked me if I would like to try it and I said that I didn’t have the entry fee in my jeans. He said that he would pop for it if I wanted to try it. He did and I did. I won the damn thing! That was my last gymkhana so I have been undefeated now for fifty years. The 914 wasn’t running well enough to drive; it was running so lean that it would have burned a hole in a piston before I got thirty miles out of town so I had it
shipped down on a transport. $300.00 ka-ching. I took it in to my mechanic for the 100,000 mile service. $750.00 ka-ching. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining here; a 15,000 mile service on my 964 runs well north of that. He was just working on the car in his spare time; valve adjust one week, compression check the next, fluid changes the next, shift linkage the next. I finally called him because I was anxious to go racing and he said to come get it. “You should drive out this old tank of gas and put in some fresh gas”. Translation: He didn’t have time to mess with the carburetors so I should just pick it up. It still didn’t run. I took it home and removed the carburetors and took them to Rapid Robert’s to get them re-built. $300.00 ka-ching. After the re-build it ran twice as well as it did before, but only half as well as it should. It still stumbled badly at mid-throttle. When I was picking the carburetors up from Robert’s there was a fellow in the parking lot who had a Carrera with a RAT engine that had driven all the way in from Ontario just to have Robert work on his Webbers. He said that Robert was known far and wide as “The Wizard of Webber’s”. this made me feel like I was at the right place if I ever expected to get this thing running. Robert said that he could dyno-tune my carburetors for $200.00. It sounded like a plan so I took the carburetors home and bolted them on. It’s only twenty miles from my house to Robert’s but the car was still running very lean so I stopped every six miles to let the engine cool down; it took me an hour to drive the twenty miles. Robert popped the deck lid open and looked at me quizzically and said “So, where is the engine?” I hoped that my trust in him hadn’t been
45 years young 914
misplaced. I introduced him to the engine and he said “OK, I guess I can get to them”. A week later Robert called and said “You can pick up the car, bring $500.00 in cash or $650.00 if you want to put it on a MasterCard” ka-ching. It runs! I’m ready to go racing. One Sunday while the car was in the shop, Peggy and I dropped into an AutoX at El Toro. I was a little apprehensive that the drivers would be a bunch of thirty-somethings suffering from testosterone poisoning and that I would feel like a fish out of water. I was relieved to find more than one grayback out there. Of course they were all running GT-3’s. The only thing that I had in common with them was gray hair, not much of a conversation opener. “So, what kind of water do you run in your car?” I took my car into Cape Auto for a pretech. The tires were so old that James couldn’t even determine when they were made; and the rubber was as hard as a hockey puck. Kumhos - $600.00 ka-ching. And who knew that seat belts had expiration dates? - $400.00
ka-ching. Snell 2005 helmet – $270.00 ka-ching. Oh and, steel braided brake lines and Pagid pads - $800.00 ka-ching! Finally I got to go racing. I got up at four-dark-thirty, put on my sun-screen and drove to the old El Toro Marine Base landing field. I was as nervous as a cat of course as there was so much going on; tech inspection, waivers, check-in, track-walk, driver’s meeting, safety instruction, course worker’s sign up, red, white, green and blue run groups, pre-grid line up and instructor assignment etc. When my turn came the flag went down and I mashed on the gas. Holy cow, those cones were coming at me so fast that without my instructor I could never have sorted out the line. I’m pretty sure that the way they set up these courses is that a helicopter drops the cones onto the field from about 1,000 feet and then the course designer goes out and stands half of the cones up and draws chalk marks around them. I was supposed to have memorized the course during the trackwalk and it didn’t look all that difficult. But your perspective is entirely different at fifty miles an hour with your booty just a foot off of the pavement. One 360 February 2016 | PANDO 13
that he thought might help sell the car. I found a receipt for rings and valves; no bearings, no seals, no nothing. I also found an old ticket that he had received for “Going around a corner too fast”. Is there a law against going around a corner too fast? I’ve never heard of it and if there is, wouldn’t most Porsche drivers be somewhere making license plates by now?
Show me Z CONEZ
donut and one demolished cone later I survived my trial by fire. It got easier as the day went on and I only had one DNF during my timed runs. That night I was getting ready to sign onto pcaocr.com to check my times and see how I fared against the other drivers in the Novice group when I got an email from Chris advising me that since I hadn’t shown up for my corner-work my times would not be posted. Actually I did chase cones at corner #1; since I had no experience in corner-work I had been told to assist the person that was assigned to that corner. Nevertheless it worked to my advantage, the worst times of the day never showed up in black-and-white. My apologies to the poor soul who suffered the ignominy of BTD in my place. I may have to use this ploy again. The air dam is so low that it drags on the slightest dip. I did more damage to it in four weeks than the original owner did in forty years. JB Weld to the rescue. I drove over to The Paint Store in Laguna Niguel to see if they could fix me up with some touch-up paint. They showed me a sheet with thirty different shades of yellow to choose from and asked me to pick one. It would have been easier 14 PANDO | February 2016
if someone hadn’t punched holes in the middle of all of the color swatches. Being color-blind, I told the clerk that I would have to rely on his judgement. My car was parked out front so he took the sample sheet out and picked a color. He mixed up a batch, took it out and dabbed it on, wiped it off and came back in and mixed up a new batch. This he repeated for forty-five minutes until he finally came up with the “Eureka” color. He handed me a little bottle and said “Fifteen dollars”. If you need any touch-up paint you should hurry down and get it because they won’t be in business much longer operating on this business model. The license plate “JPS TOY” didn’t do anything for me so I went on-line to the license plate factory and ordered “4 Z CAJONES”. It came back “4 Z CONEZ”. But, what-the-hell, if they could spell they probably wouldn’t be in Folsom in the first place. I spent a morning going through the original owner’s receipts of forty-five years. All seven pages. It turned out that the “Rebuilt engine and transmission and 1.8 barrels” were just embellishments
“How much oil does it leak?” you ask. None, zero, zilch, nada. I’ve never met an air cooled engine that didn’t drip oil; some politely, some profusely. Several of the Porsches that I’ve owned were on the oil-change-as-you-drive program, I just change the filter every 6,000 miles. I continue to be amazed at how much attention this car gets. A couple in a just-off-the-showroom-floor Corvette convertible pulled up next to me one Sunday afternoon and he looked over and said “Hey man, I like your car”. I offered to swap but I guess he didn’t like it that much. Pulling into a gas station a gaggle of high-school girls yelled out “Cool car!” It’s nice to see that Zuffenhausen’s cars are still appreciated after all of these years. Maybe this generation isn’t lost after all. I like the way it lopes at idle; it sounds like it is running a ¾-race cam. No one needs to know that it is only firing on three cylinders. When the Camaros and Mustangs pull up next to me at a signal they always blip their throttles. So far I’ve resisted the temptation to unleash my full 80 horsepower on them. I need to stop wearing my helmet around town. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty. “It’s not the cars, it’s the old people”
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Photo tip of the Month
Exposure Settings Part II Story and Photos by Mike Knudsen
Figure 1 – Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, sunrise
Last month we talked about how setting shutter speed yourself let’s you capture action shots in ways your camera’s auto mode won’t. For example, most of the AutoX shots I post couldn’t be done on auto. Getting good action shots means taking control of shutter speed, and letting the camera select aperture to get the exposure right. For a given lens, setting aperture determines how much is in focus in front of and behind your subject. That’s called depth of field (DOF). Sometimes
you want lots of DOF -- sometimes you don’t. DOF depends on more than aperture though, so the conversation gets a little more involved. I’m going to break the discussion into two parts: this month it’ll be about getting everything sharp. First, a few simple rules. DOF increases with: 1) Smaller aperture (i.e. bigger fnumber) 2) Shorter focal length lens 3) Distance from the camera
Pictures where everything has to be sharp – lots of depth of field A real estate agent wants everything in the room to be sharp. If there’s a nice view out the picture window, she’ll want that sharp, too. If you’re shooting a long table from the end, you want everyone in focus. Same with travel photos. See Figure 1. This is the kind of shot you really want sharp front to back. February 2016 | PANDO 17
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First, I zoomed to get the composition I wanted – from the marble tiles right in front of me to the very last building and beyond. That turned out to be 16mm. For that focal length, an aperture of f/14 gave me a DOF from 2 feet to infinity, so I could get it all sharp. One more thing – when you stop down like this and available light is limited, like it was here before sunrise, you’re going to get a long exposure. In this case, 30 seconds. So, bring a tripod.
Shot with an iPhone 5 (4.12mm, f/2.4), you can see pretty much everything is in focus regardless of distance from the camera, even at f/2.4. I set the focus point on the 4th post, but the whole thing is in focus. Now look at Figures 3a, b, and c. Same views, same focus point, but shot with a 50mm lens at f/2.5. See how much less DOF there is (look at the little shrub)? The difference was focal length of the lens.
With time, you get a feel for how much DOF you have with different combinations of focal length and aperture. Until then, here’s an online DOF calculator. (http://www.dofmaster. com/dofjs.html).
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At really short focal lengths – like 5mm – DOF goes from a foot or two to infinity, regardless of aperture. Most cell phone cameras have focal lengths in the 5mm range. See the photos in Figures 2a, b, and c. The “b” and “c” views are cropped so you can see nearest and farthest parts of the image a little closer. 18 PANDO | February 2016
So if you wondered why you never seem to have depth of field (or focus) problems with your cell phone camera, now you know. The trade-off is you can’t limit depth of field. So you can use framing to control what’s in your photo from side to side and top to bottom, but whatever is behind (or in front of) your subject will be sharp, so make sure you want it there before you shoot. Next month we’ll talk about those times when you want to choose what’s in focus, and I’ll show you how to make a background disappear. Until then, email comments and questions to me at mike@mikeknudsenphotography.com, and good shooting.
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Temperatures drop as competition heats up! Story by Chris Barrington, Photos by Mike Knudsen
a second. Even closer was Kurt Ressler in CC14 with a 2006 911 Carrera S laying down a stunning 56.624 and Steve Abbott, also driving Kurt’s car, just two hundredths of second slower! Watching Kurt Ressler, Steve Abbott and Michael Oest trade top times of day made for a very exciting close of the season.
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The PCA-OCR/Walter’s Porsche Auto-X Championship Series wrapped up in December as the eleventh and final event of the year took place. Many exciting class battles were decided by very narrow margins, like CC02 where Adriano “AB” Bortolin just edged out David Witteried by seven hundredths of 22 PANDO | February 2016
Speaking of David Witteried, he coordinates the Zone 8 Auto-X Series, consisting of twelve events hosted by six different PCA chapters, and our December event wrapped up that series as well. Congratulations to class winners David Witteried (CC02), Kathy Smalley (CC09) and Tom Tweed (CC14). Look for PCAZone8 on Facebook or visit zone8.org/calendar.php for more information on the upcoming 2016 Zone 8 Autocross Series. In addition to sunny, clear skies and one of the best auto-x venues around, our drivers were treated to a very nice lunch provided by event sponsor Autowerkes. Autowerkes has been servicing and repairing Porsche, BMW and Mercedes autos for over 29 years; the shop is run by Bruce Powers, our very own Auto-X
Adriano ‘AB’ Bortolin – 1988 944
Safety Chair for 2016. Bruce also won his class (SS03) in 2015 by 45 points, so he’s not only safe, he’s also quick. Not every class was won by such a margin, however. CC07 was clinched by Roger Ang by just seven points; class CC10 was topped by Kris Scheussler, just four points over Eric Budai (your 2016 Auto-X Co-Chair). Also just four points ahead was yours truly in CC09, just edging out Christian Van Fleet. Sergey Zherebnenko won Novice class by just two points over Demetri Vardoulakis and Keith Gregorio (both tied for second, with Demetri winning the tie breaker with the most event wins). Congratulations to all the class winners not mentioned as well. Our fine series sponsor, Walter’s Automotive Group, will once again host the end of the year awards ceremony (and for those who don’t know, they are currently building an even bigger Porsche dealership in Riverside). Having attended all of the ceremonies hosted by Walter’s, I can tell you they really go all out to show their appreciation to our club, and their customers. They want
everybody to enjoy their Porsche to the fullest, while being safe in the process, which is why they also help us put on a yearly Car Control Clinic. For the uninitiated, the Car Control Clinic provides a safe and controlled environment, to teach drivers fundamental car control skills with the assistance of an instructor, like fast paced changes of direction, controlling a vehicle in a slide, accident avoidance and emergency stops. The latter half of the day involves a mini-autocross style course designed to put those new skills to use. The Clinic is February 20, 2016 at El Toro fields. One and all are welcome; online registration can be found at pcaocr.motorsportreg.com. The Clinic is immediately followed by our first 2016 PCA-OCR/Walter’s Porsche Auto-X Series event, held February 21, 2016, also at El Toro (use the same web address to register). Sign up for both and receive a $20 discount as a special thank you from the PCA-OCR Team. Look for the full 2016 Auto-X calendar in this publication, and at pcaocr.com. Here’s to great 2016!
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The event started with a continental breakfast which included fruits and a vast selection of sweet rolls. Besides eating the attendees were able to wander unhindered by the usual crowds around the Porsche area to see all of the newest offerings from Stuttgart. The formal
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presentation started a bit later when the newest models were discussed and shown. Project Manager Matthias Scholz told the group about the Cayman GT4 Clubsport, its’ design, and background. This annual event is limited to 300 attendees and sells out very quickly after it is announced by email to PCA members across the nation. It is always on a Friday, the first public day of the Auto Show. The downside for some might be the idea of getting to downtown L.A. early on a weekday morning. However the rewards are great for those who can attend. The $20 cost includes admission to the Auto Show.
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Ramblings Story and Photos by Lee Rice
Q: Tech Question from Gary OCR- LGB: I am thinking of making my 1980 911 (SC) into a more sporting road and occasional time-trial car but do not want the appearance of it being a “930 Tribute” 911. What kind of flares do you think work well for the street, and maybe some track use, -and why are the turbo flares so wide and yet the wheels and tires so small? What else would I have to do besides new turbo flares (&paint) to make them work? Was this a real performance advantage or a styling thing? Also what are the widest flairs you have seen on a street 911?
A: Well I’ll make this an “Ask the
mechanic” question but it really is not a mechanical question, so a bit of “Ramblings” is how I can best reply. First of all flares enable wider wheels and tires to fit in a 911 body. That is the only reason to widen the fenders, so that you can then use wider wheels and tires. The idea is the more rubber you have, the more speed you can use through the turns. Wide tires, wide wheels, and those wide flares were designed to house all this within the expanded 911 body for one positive thing: “contact patch.” Contact patch is the part of the tire that is actually making contact with the road surface. Depending on the type of tire, tire inflation pressure, alignment, and overall weight and engine power you MAY be able to drive faster through a turn, and have quicker lap times. But that is the only positive part of “wide is better.” I purposely did not call this an “upgrade” as it has many negatives as well. You have to know why you are 30 PANDO | February 2016
going to wider rubber in the first place. Until Goodyear’s Racing Radial Tires came into use at the 1973 Can Am & IROC races, on the 1974 I.R.O.C. 911 RSRs, wider tires had always been the thing to have. At that same race weekend the unlimited Can Am race cars like the Porsche 917-30/KL was using the widest racing tires made. They were bias-ply tires 15” diameter with widths of up to 19” wide and these were sticky, racing slicks-the stickiest rear tires known to man -at that time. The Can Am 917 could (easily) make over 1,200 horsepower and needed every bit of traction to extract that power. There was no other way to get traction. However, this was if anything, the final curtain for super-wide tires. The disadvantages of wider wheels and tires start with; Wide tires are expensive, 3-4 times more expensive than normal tires, and wider wheels are also very expensive. Of course the accompanying flares and body work added cost to the
basic car as the new 1975 930Turbo’s fat fender flairs did indeed. The 930 was anticipated to need wide tires/wheels in order to use the power of it’s turbocharged engine. Wide was the only solution until the radial racing tire came along. After that IROC weekend Porsche and everyone else had to reinvent traction and power control as new tire technology was changing everything,… forever. In addition, realize that wide tires and wider body work had another big negative: increased aerodynamic drag. That is a prime enemy of Porsche’s long standing low drag-higher speed body work efforts from day one, even back to the VW “Beetle”! We must also consider that wide tires are treacherous on water! Aquaplaning from even damp streets is common, it’s dangerous, and it’s very unpredictable. For normal driving, wide tires over 9-10 “ wide were risky then and still are today.
fig 1 “BIG MEATS” on 1978 930
To get any real use from real wide tires as in 12” plus, you need precise suspension movement and an exact alignment to keep those big tire treads flat against road surfaces. Real roads and streets are never evenly smooth and a car must deal with bumps, lumps, dips, tar strips, missmatched pavement, brick, asphalt and/ or concrete. All mixed up on any road surface, not to mention pot holes and off camber road surfaces and a million other every day conditions. All road cars, even very high performance road cars-like the 911 have some compromise in suspension tuning and tires used for street & road use. Therefore, suspensions use various strength rubber bushings to have good control with some variance of specifications to maintain contact on rough and uneven road surfaces. To gain anything with real wide tires means replacing all the street suspension bushings to steel hemi joints or mono ball joints, which need exact alignment and should be redialed in for each track. You really don’t want to do that unless you already have everything else imaginable done to make a race car out of your 911.
Wide tires/ wheels are noisier! A wider tire has more air that needs to be pushed out of the way and squeezed through the tire’s treads. This makes a lot of noise! In the 1970s tire noise was not a priority but this was all changing as quieter cars demanded safety, better traction, using all-weather performance tires, within reasonable costs. Porsche was no different only they also needed,…. No -they demanded very high performance tires as well. With the new the new 911 Turbo in 1976 Pirelli Company unveiled their new “P-7”ultra low profile tires. These were the new “P-7” in wide 8” to 12” inch wide 315 x 35 VR-15 tires. These were huge high performance street radial tires. Some 930 turbo owners had to go for a long hunt to find wheels for these “Big Meats”. However for real driving performance a smaller P-7 tire was much more practical for every day road use, as well as track use. It was soon obvious that the P-7 was far better than the old 10” wide bias ply tire equivalent and so the 930 really didn’t need to have the bulging” flares on it’s 930 turbo body work after all.
In fact the 930Turbos had 7 & 8” wheels and matching tires but needed thick spacers between the wheel and the mounting hub for appearance sake to “fill the wheel wells.” The racing 934 and 935 were able to make some use of the wide flares with their wide racing tires-but that only for racing. In a way, the 930’s wide body flares were nothing more than an un-needed air brake! Only later when tuners, hot rodders, and racing teams developed greater power from the turbo engine did the need for more traction make it necessary to fill those wide flares! Then the racing organizers saw that super wide tires had nothing to offer to real cars and road car technology and banned widths over ( I believe) 12”-16”. The simple solution was to make larger or “taller’ wheels and tires. So the racing Porsche 935 & Dunlop developed 19” tall wheels for racing. It was proven that the new wheels and tires had more than enough contact patch to handle the 650 +horsepower! However, street & road 930 Turbos had 7” & 8” wide wheels with 2” thick February 2016 | PANDO 31
fig2 . 1968 911 super wide flares
spacers for a reason. Racing tires of that day were mostly “bias ply” tires and needed a wide contact patch to generate high cornering traction. It worked but it was being replaced by racing radial tires-first Goodyear on the 1973 Carrera RSR IROC cars used them and soon it was discovered that wide is not always the quickest way through and around the track. Wide obviously has a diminishing return as roads are not flat and a chassis can not be made to keep a tire perfectly flat against a road surface in every situation. All out racing cars like the 917/10K & 917-30/KL had 18” wide rear wheels and huge sticky tires. These only worked for racing in ideal conditions. Road cars have to deal with real roads and water, sand, rocks, fallen off car parts, panic stops, speed bumps, rain ditches, gutters, curbs, etc. In 1973 it was realized that high performance road 32 PANDO | February 2016
tires could generate up to 1.0 G side loads, in the dry, with a 911 and 8 and 10 wide wheels and tires. So, were those Turbo flares really needed? One thing to add however, is that the wide flares and spacers move the wheel/ tire outwards, increasing the “track” and this helps handling and cornering traction a lot,.. plus it looks good to many, some say it looks sexy, and feminine. Me? I totally agree. So the story of wide tires and new tire technology proves that big and wide is more a style appreciation thing; like those well built and very interesting RAUH WELT custom 911s. And then too there are the old school 935 look 911s with the wide tires and wheels. I have seen many wide add on flares for big tires with the 911 starting in the late 1960s!
Fig #2 shows a wild wider 1968 911 back-in-the-day at the Oakland Roadster Show.
Rice’s Ramblings: Ask a Mechanic We welcome questions, inquiries, comments and ideas to help you enjoy your Porsche to the fullest... What is on your mind? If you have a question about your Porsche, please send in your question to Lee at riceturbos@sbcglobal.net or 714-539-1042 (reasonable hours, please).
Summer Sizzle “Gimmick Rally” Story by Marcia Salans and Larry Moore Rally Meister Note: This Rally story was supposed to be in the September Pando, but “fell through a crack”. I did not follow-up the way I should have. My apologies for this delay, and particularly to the participants and the winners. So, here it is. Hopefully better late than never. A forecast of sweltering hot weather didn’t deter Porsche members (25 car teams) on Sunday August 16, 2015 from competitively participating in the PCA/ OCR “Summer Sizzle” Rally. Registration opened at 8:30 in the Discount Center of Orange parking lot, next to Krispy Kreme. Following the 9:15 Driver’s Meeting by Rally Meister Larry Moore, the odd/ even teams took off zooming north up the 22 freeway and then winding their way through south Long Beach, into Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo and finally finishing in Ladera Ranch at Selma’s Chicago Pizzaria and Tap Room for great food and frosty cold drinks.
Enroute, the competitors dealt with ODD and EVEN instructions, counted bridges they drove under, looked for the objects in the provided 14 photos, explored some long cul-de-sac situations, puzzled over when, where and how Note 917 applied (and whether or not local construction cones matter), tried to find ZIPPY, and drove by an old movie shoot location, all while safely negotiating 56 specified turns on the 75 mile route. A “well done!” goes out to the competitors as all 25 starting cars completed the drive (unusual) and the overall scoring was quite good. The team of Sean & Veronica Joyce were outstanding with a score of just “minus 1”. This gave them the Gold Medal for the event. Tied for Silver Medals at “minus 2” were four teams: 1) Mark Johnson & Sean Rafferty with a third set of very young eyes in the back seat… Ringer!, 2) Tom & Phyllis Meng, 3) Jerry & Sydney O’Donnell, and 4) the ever dapper couple Doug Neil & Vicki Billings. The Bronze medals went to two teams tied at “minus 3”: Brian & Lynn Husting (professionals in disguise) and Rick Mortimer and his navigator Tom.
We extend a Special Congratulations to these medalists. As noted, this scoring was very competitive; with 7 Teams within 3 points of a perfect score. Wow! (Note to Self: make the next one harder.) A special thank you goes out, as usual, to Gloria Moore for handling the registration and then acting as Scorer juggling participant’s Control Cards, one omitted photo, one Rally Meister scoring error, and 22 ODD teams, while scoring and compiling a medalist list. (Note: Gloria registered 25 teams at $10 each and ended up with $251.00. This lady is good!). Also, Special Thanks to Marcia Salans for putting together the framework for this story, on the spot, on her tab. Last but not least, thanks to all the competitors, not just for this event but all the rally events this past year. Your participation makes our club work. THANK YOU.
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Where’s Pando? PCA-OCR member and Membership Chair Sandy Schwartz took a copy of Pando with him to Zermatt, Switzerland during his Christmas Vacation. Thanks, Sandy, for taking us along!
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Editor’s Message Continued From Page 7 me to deliberate slowness and precision in the toss and pace of my car through the booth, infuriating the drivers behind me, who had all developed much finer skills than mine. Did that ever happen to you? Also, on my travels I would be inching along looking for a street name while motorists behind me bunched up and now and then would yell, “hey you! Don’t you know where you’re going”? To which I had to admit, no……I did not know where I was going. So, have a care when your impatience overtakes your tolerance with a slow and tentative driver ahead of you. In fact, they may not know where they’re going.
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ALL new regular Porsches will have atmospherically enhanced combustion chambers. Oh, that means turbocharged engines will become standard across the line beginning with the next generation “991” series cars. The new series
Book Review Continued From Page 9 number of cylinders affect piston area in designing a new engine fascinating to read. There are twelve chapters with operatic names related to Moss’ career, from Overture through Intermezzo to Finale. Included are twenty-five B&W glossy pictures in 6 groups; 42 line drawings in the text. There are 286 hard bound, 6x9-1/4 inch pages. Currently available used for around $60, at http:// amazonbooks.com (search for: stirling moss and lau.)
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will pull more power, and more fuel efficiency from smaller displacement engines. Porsche has long lead the technology in turbo charging. Go back and read some of Lee Rice’s articles on his magnificently developed 911 and you can realize that they wrote the book on the subject. But all of this may be stop gap as the requirement will continue to raise corporate fuel economy into the new century. Mandated Corporate fuel economies of 40-50 MPG can only be met via hybrid or full electric systems. And we read recently that Porsche has green lighted full electric vehicles. So, even the vaunted turbo technology may one day fade into memory as we all drive “plug-ins”. My overall challenge here is where will the “Porscheness” go in driving? That is, will the future still bring the fun of driving to us that we can experience now? Has the overweening necessity
(by government bureaucracy, not necessarily economics) to be “green” made driving more a chore and less an enjoyable hobby as we have today? There is a “Formula E” racing league organizing and racing as I write these words. Have you seen one? I doubt it…..I don’t know why but I have less interest in this than I might have in phrenology. I have not seen one, either in person or on television. I don’t even know if it’s on television, do you? I’d love to hear from our readers on this subject. Particularly as we are united in this Porsche passion which includes sounds as well as sights. And those sounds come from burning fossil fuels. Do any of our members work in the “alternative fuel” sectors? So does this mean the end of our love affair with the open road and the sounds of internal combustion?
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2004 996 GT3 Black/Black lthr. 6 spd, major service by Walters 10/15 ($3,000+) including all fluids, belts etc., PPI completed 10/15. Carbon ceramic rotors, Xenon headlights, aluminum gauges, red seatbelts & matching red GT3 graphics. Car & engine just professionally detailed. Car in excellent condition. Zero (yes Zero) range 2 or higher over-revs. $82,500.00 Pictures at www.corner-exit.com. Title in hand. Steve 949/521-1667; Steve@ FMCLoanPros.com. OCR (1). 2004 996 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, Midnight Blue Metallic (L39C)/ Graphite Grey lthr, 46.9K mi. 6 spd manual, highly optioned. $36,990. Pictures at www.autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1). 2006 997 Carrera 4S Coupe, Black/ Sand Beige lthr, 6.7K mi. 2-SoCal/ Orange County owners. Sport Chrono Plus Package, Sport Exhaust system, 6-Spd manual, TechArt Package. Original paint. $58,990. Pictures at www.autokennel.com. Paul 714/3354911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1). 2008 997 GT3 Coupe, Black/Black lthr w/Alcantara, 40.8K mi. 6-Spd manual, / Sport Chrono Package, Carbon Fiber Factory GT3 race seats. Mostly 1-SoCal owner. PCA member owned. $83,990. Pictures at www. autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1).
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