PCA-OCR Pando - September 2015

SEPTEMBER 2015 ISSUE 2015 NEW MEMBER PICNIC ............................... 18 OCR AT THE MARCONI AUTO MUSEUM ......... 26 RICE’S RAMBLINGS................................................. 29

In this Issue PANDO SEPTEMBER 2015 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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Auto-X Corner

cooper.boggs@gmail.com

(714) 505-3662

Classified Ads Editor

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A Surprise Like No Other from Guest Speaker Ed McRae of Walter’s Porsche

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Photo Tip of the Month: Sharpness 2015 New Member Picnic Porsche Alley a ‘Turbo’ Success!

Bob Weber

Upcoming Events

hbobw930@aol.com 714-960-4981

Technical Writer

Lee Rice

Contributing Writers

Gary Labb Garey Cooper Bruce Herrington Kurt Ressler Mike Knudsen Sandy Schwartz Greg Lush Lee Rice Monica Asbury,

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Contributing Photographers Gary Labb Garey Cooper Mike Knudsen Gloria Moore Paul Novotne Greg Lush Lee Rice Gerry Crews

OCR at the Marconi Auto Museum Upcoming PCA-OCR Board of Director Elections Announcement

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Photo Tip of the Month: Sharpness

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Calendar of Events Krispy Kreme Porsches & Pancakes 2015 Autocross Schedule Porsche Alley BurgerBahn Breakfast Club

Departments

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OCR at the Marconi Auto Museum On the Cover 2015 New Member Picnic Read this article on Page 18

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Reutterwerk List President’s Message Contacts Editor’s Notes Book Review Auto-X Corner Rice’s Ramblings Membership Updates New Member Photos Classified Ads List of Advertisers The Goodie Store

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Orange Coast Region 2015 Calendar of Events SEPTEMBER 2015

Breakfast Club & Board Meeting 5 10 Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB 19 Krispy Kreme Gathering 19 PCA-SDR Coronado Speed Festival 20 PCA-OCR AutoX – El Toro 25 Porsche Rennsport Reunion V 26 Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido 26 13th Annual Porsche Timeline 30 2015 Porsche Escape – Mt. Rushmore, S.D.

OCTOBER 2015 Breakfast Club & Board Meeting PCA DE Instructor Training PCA-GPX Day Away From Work

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NOVEMBER 2015 Breakfast Club & Board Meeting PCA-OCR DE Event – Big Willow Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Krispy Kreme Gathering Tech Tactics 2015 PCA-OCR AutoX – El Toro Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido

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Breakfast Club & Board Meeting Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Krispy Kreme Gathering Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido

* Event dates subject to change.

OCR Board Meetings

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Sunday Brunch /Annual Meeting Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Krispy Kreme Gathering Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido

Reutterwerk List A Request for updated emails!

The Reutterwerk List is our communication tool to reach members with Announcements, Event Reminders and Information deemed “Important”.

If you are not receiving emails from our Region or want to change, update or add additional email addresses, Please send any new email addresses or changes directly to Pete Lech to be included in the Reutterwerk e-blasts!

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Contact: Pete Lech: peterlech@att.net

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Note: Italicized text represents events Breakfast Club & Board Meeting outside of OCR sponsored events.

Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB Links to Zone 8 events can be found PCA-OCR / USMC Annual Toys at www.Zone8.org. for Tots Drive PCA-OCR AutoX – El Toro Krispy Kreme Gathering Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido

PCA-OCR Sierra to Sand Dunes Fall Tour

Woody’s BurgerBahn – HB PCA-SDR Fall Performance Driving School Krispy Kreme Gathering Porsches & Pancakes – Woody’s Lido PCA-OCR AutoX – El Toro

FEBRUARY 2016

All members are welcome to OCR Board Meetings, held after the breakfast meeting at Original Mike’s.

Gary Labb, Member-at-Large

We are trying to give Greg a break from writing a monthly President’s Message by having a Board Member write something every other month. Lucky me, I get to kick it off, and was given no direction.

The one thing I’ve really enjoyed about being a member of PCA-OCR is that I believe we have Board Members who are not aloof and are actually in touch with the membership’s wants and needs.

When I became a member of the board, I wanted to be open and reachable by participating in our activities, and being accessible to the members. I know most of you who participate in the monthly “foodie” adventures (Breakfast Club, BurgerBahn, Krispy Kreme Gathering, and Porsches and Pancakes); you’ll see me at these events. If you have something you wish to discuss about PCA-OCR, please feel free to speak with me. I am only one member of a sevenmember board, but I do have a voice and will share with the other members of the board.

BOARD MEMBER MESSAGE

The current board is constantly trying to find new things that will make membership in PCA-OCR one step above the other regions; whether it’s all the monthly events we have available to our membership, or our newest venture with the PCA-OCR mobile app, exclusive to our membership. We want you all to enjoy being a member, and of course, wanting to continue being a PCA-OCR member.

As your Event Webmaster and Social Media Chair, as well as the administrator of the new app, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, I’m constantly trying to let you all know what is coming up that you can participate in or show you what you recently missed by sharing photos of the past events.

Though I’ve only been a PCA-OCR member for about seven years, I’ve been a Porsche owner for 39 years. I can truly say that it wasn’t until I joined PCA-OCR that I really started enjoying my Porsche to the fullest, as well as

enjoying the camaraderie of my fellow Porsche enthusiasts.

This is a very “giving” club, whether it’s raising money for the Semper Fi Fund, donating to Toys for Tots, or sharing some money with worthy charities or foundations that we support from time to time, this club is not afraid to step up to the plate.

We always say it, and I’ll say it again here, our monthly board meetings are open to all of you. You are all welcome to attend. You are all welcome to participate. They usually begin about 10 to 15 minutes after the conclusion of the monthly Breakfast Club event at Original Mike’s. If you have something you wish to share, something you’d like to see done, something you want us to know about…we are there. If you wish to put something on the agenda, please let Greg know about it ahead of time at greglush@outlook.com or let me know about it at pcaocrgary@yahoo.com and I’ll make sure we get it on the agenda.

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Contact Information OCR Executive Board

OCR Board Appointments

Zone 8 Chairs

Advertising Co-Chairs

Zone 8 Representative Tom Brown | zonerep@zone8.org Zone 8 Secretary Skip Carter | skipcarter@pobox.com Zone 8 Treasurer Linda Cobarrubia | ms993@aol.com Zone 8 Autocross Chair

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 Don Chapman | porschedon@mail.com

Autocross Registration Courtney Coad | autoxreg@live.com

Charity Director Peggy Huddleston hud5family@gmail.com Vice President CL Jarusek | ccwguy@aol.com

Concours Chair Norm Follis | njfollis@gmail.com

DE/TT Co-Chairs: Bob Scheussler | bscheussler@gmail.com Chuck Bartolon | woodslsman@verizon.net

Goodie Store Manager Monica Asbury | sheamonica@gmail.com Secretary Monica Asbury | sheamonica@gmail.com

Historian Judy Lech | judylech@att.net

Ladies Committee Liaison Maryann Marks | mamsy1@yahoo.com

Pando Editor Garey Cooper | gareycooper@mac.com

Pando Classified Ads Editor Member at Large Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com

Bob Weber 714-960-4981 hbobw930@aol.com

Pando Production Manager

David Witteried | dwitteried@hotmail.com

Zone 8 Chief Driving Instructor Scott Mann | scott@renegadehybrids.com

Zone 8 Club Race Coordinator Vince Knauf | vvvince@aol.com 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 | samavedon@gmail.com

Zone 8 Drivers Ed / Time Trial Chair Dave Hockett | davndirc@yahoo.com

Zone 8 Webmaster Karen Garcia Raines webmaster@zone8.org

Kristen Jaoui | kmjaoui@gmail.com

Rally Director Larry Moore | lbmc4s@cox.net

Reutterwerks List Master Pete Lech | peterlech@att.net Treasurer David Piper | dpiper@socal.rr.com

Social Media Chair Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com

Sponsorship Director Bob Scheussler | bscheussler@gmail.com

Tech Activities Director Cooper Boggs | cooper.boggs@gmail.com

Events Webmaster Gary Labb | pcaocrgary@yahoo.com Membership Sandy Schwartz | mr997s@gmail.com

Member at Large James Buck | james@capeautorepair.com

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EDITOR’S NOTES

Garey Cooper

Summer stretches with winding roads, sunny days, solar rays, happy ways, our attention strays, to the ways we play...

So What’s New With You?

Each month we send out requests for articles and in response we receive…. some. Not a lot, but always a few. I would definitely like to receive some member-written articles on their most recent Porsche purchases/leases. There are so many models now and new ways to ride in Stuttgart’s finest that I think if you’re driving almost anything built in the 2000s it would be interesting to read about. Even the long-term effects of ownership would be a good read for our members. So, sharpen your metaphorical pencils, I guess in this day of keyboards this means a manicure?

Incidentally do women get a ladicure?

But please send us something on your ownership experience and share with the club.

RS

The latest Christophorus Magazine by Porsche is heavily laden with information about the new GT3 RS. Oh my, having had the ’07 version, I can only imagine the newest and latest. A 4-liter with 500

horsepower and 8800 RPM. It has the Turbo body, complete with side scoops, but remains normally aspirated with that patented (or should be patented) GT3 wail that is so mesmerizing. I would love to have/drive one of these…. But one wonders if the actual “fun” in the driving experience is any greater than say in the 996 based GT3 with NO driver aids, or for that matter the 997.1 and 997.2 GT3s with, let us say, a more “minimalist” set of driver aids?

Stuttgart. So, both facilities are modern and capable. Although it might be pointed out that the Stuttgart “footprint” is on fabled grounds. When we toured the plant a few years back, there were at least four walls that were original that were referred to as an original location, but all else is rather new. So, while still connected to Southern Germany and the Stuttgart heritage, there is much of Porsche elsewhere with such an investment in Leipzig.

With my 997.1 GT3 one of life’s frustrations was getting on our local twisting roads and finding myself behind a landscape truck loaded with shovels and rakes, a telephone truck loaded with ?, or a van loaded with one big person and several small persons.

Tucked in behind these vehicles at 25 to 40 miles per hour in a car with “only” 415 horsepower raring to go and attack the curves can get old in about 40 feet of highway. So, to my thinking the real only way to get close to the capability of these machines is at autocross or on the track courtesy of your Orange Coast Region/Porsche Club of America. This would hold true for practically any 911, or other sporting variant of our favored automaker in fact. So, just do it!

Pikes Peak Anyone?

Stuttgart

Now of course Porsche builds cars in differing locations. In the distant past there was really only Stuttgart (not counting Gmund, of course). Then for a time when Porsche began to play in the bigger leagues, they actually contracted with a manufacturer/ assembler in Finland where many early 20th century Boxsters were built. My understanding is that this is no longer done, and production is only in Stuttgart and Leipzig. In fact Leipzig is where the fabulous Carerra GT was built, not

Not to be confused with Pike Place Market that is in Seattle, Washington.

I am talking about the fabled Peak in Colorado that has attracted fast cars for about a century. Our very own Jeff Zwart took a nicely modified GT3 (there’s that name again!) up the Peak in good enough time to win. Do an Internet search and watch the video; it is exciting indeed. It must have been exciting as well from the driver’s seat, but perhaps in that position “exciting” is an understatement? Congratulations, Jeff! Note that we consider Jeff “one of our own” Orange Coast denizens.

Disco Volante

The first Porsche with disc brakes was the 1962 356 B Carrera 2. Porsche has always been known for its braking technology and excellence. It now develops that the latest Porsche Cayenne Turbo with 570 horsepower, uses six piston front calipers of a very large swept area. Phenomenal. I wonder how long before these monsters find their way onto a modified sports car Porsche?

The new Formula 1 cars use a “brake by wire” technology that also enables a technology to harvest energy generated during the braking process. That is there

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Book Review PORSCHE 356, Coupe, Cabriolet, Roadster, Speedster & Carrera

Story by Bruce Herrington

by Denis Jenkinson, Published in 1980 by Osprey Publishing, LTD, London England.

Continuing a series of reviews of books dealing with the Porsches of the early days of PCA, this review is of a book, not contemporaneous with the founding of PCA (in 1955), but a rather personalized story about the cars that so excited the people who created the Porsche Club of America.

Denis Jenkinson was an automotive journalist/columnist who was very well known in ‘50s-’60s England. In this country, ‘Jenks’ is best known for his book The Racing Driver (reviewed in 2011). Amongst the descriptive/ instructional bits, The Racing Driver chronicles in fascinating detail Denis Jenkinson’s participation in Stirling Moss’ Mercedes 300SLR drive in the 1955 Mille Miglia. Their entry was historic, not only because they won the event, but because they initiated a ‘new era’ in the technology of navigating a ‘thousand mile’ race course. Less well known on this side of the pond is the fact that for ten years (and 250,000 miles), Denis’ daily driver was his personal 356 (pre A), used to attend motor racing events all over the Continent.

Typical of books about early Porsches, PORSCHE 356 starts out with a synopsis of Ferdinand Porsche’s early days, at least from the mid-30s Volkswagon on.

Atypical is the inclusion of photographs of early Porsche AG Staff members, and some shots of early cars which are not seen elsewhere. Many pen and ink drawings of mechanical components are included, but are not unique to this particular book.

PORSCHE 356 stands out for its inclusion of a very comprehensive collection of in-period photographs of 356s at work. Few are of the posed, Factory Public Relations variety; they tend to show Porsches on the street, in rallys and in what seem today to be very crude, unsophisticated, amateurish racing configuration, even when they were ‘Factory’ entries. Such was the character of a bygone era, very engrossingly presented.

The photographs in this book, by the author himself, are a refreshing change from the Factory photos used in most books about 356s. Throughout the book are interesting snapshots of the author’s personal car, originally a 1955 Continental, customized over the years by the author/owner. The Continental is a very rare model, whose conflict with Ford Motor Company over ‘trademark infringement,’ nicely foretold the issue with Peugeot which caused the 901 to become the 911. Both are fascinating stories of lawyers’ influence on the marketplace, are told in many other books, and not dealt with here.

The storyline is presented in personal, first person fashion; an example of the “conversational writing style” which made “Jenks” writing so popular as Continental Corespondent for Motor Sport. While it discusses the history and evolution of the 356 (with an unusual number of photos of the Abarth Carrera GT version), much of the book is devoted to the author’s personal experiences as he traveled with his 356, drove it hard, and did have to perform some roadside

repairs. It is a very readable account, refreshingly lacking the dry, statistical information which is presented in many books about early Porsches. It also ignores the pre-VW experiences of Dr. Professor Ferdinand Porsche; neither Lohner nor Mercedes-Benz even appear in the index.

Included is the obligatory appendix of performance and dimensional specifications of all models. This data set is quite comprehensive and detailed, even including the fact that the Carrera models had a turning circle 2 feet larger than the push rod models. The index, in contrast, is unusually terse.

PORSCHE 356 is hardbound with 135, 8.7x7.5 inch pages. This is not a book for coffee table display, but one to definitely enjoy reading. The type font is large, something that can be appreciated by those with ‘vintage eyes’. There are interesting black and white pictures scattered throughout the text, and an 8-page insert of color pictures in the middle of the book.

It is probably futile to ask for this book at your favorite bookseller, but as this is written, it is available on Amazon books (http://www.amazon.com/Porsche356-Cabriolet-Speedster-AutoHistory/ dp/0850453631/ ref=sr_1_25?s=books&ie= UTF8&qid=1434308891&sr=1) September 2015 PANDO 9

AUTOCROSS CORNER

IS THERE A TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM FOR THIS?

Story by Kurt Ressler, Photos by Mike Knudsen

Besides the 1964 Championship, my dad scored TTOD in a field of 259 in the Northern California Corvette Assoc. 1965 opener in this exotics killer.

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Here’s me in July 2015 – I scored one TTOD in my first year – watch out Oest!

So everyone tells you how great autocrossing your Porsche is, right? Well I’m here to tell you different. It’s an addictive evil, and that’s the worst kind of evil. Step one: admit you are powerless over autocrossing and as a result, your life has become unmanageable.

Check.

Here’s how it all started: I bought a Porsche 911 (my dream car) and quickly realized I wanted to drive it really fast. Finally, after a trip to Laguna Seca with my girlfriend, Lisa, to watch Porsches race, I called my dad and asked what I should do. He said “autocross.”

That’s what he used to do back in the 60’s, so I should too. I don’t think I’ve ever followed my father’s advice about anything, but this time I thought I’d look into it. I googled “Autocross Orange County” and discovered that this thing my dad talked about actually still existed, and that this club called the PCA OCR had one every month at the old El Toro airstrip. OK, cool.

My dad came down to visit a few weeks later, and we drove out to El Toro to check it out. I must admit that the whole thing looked pretty intimidating.

What the hell did I know? But, I started talking with this really nice guy named Bob wearing the brightest orange polo shirt I had ever seen, and he suggested that I go for a ride and hooked me up with Christine. Hmmm, a girl? But she was serious, man! She had racing slicks on a Cayman. She kept checking the tire pressures and for some crazy reason, she was spraying them with one of those large pressurized plastic bottles you put insecticide in. Whatever. I strapped on some sweaty helmet I had borrowed and jumped in.

Christine and I took off and wow, she was driving really fast, like a badass ballerina and as orange cones blurred by my heart was racing and afterward, my whole body was shaking. On the drive home, I kept telling my dad I gotta do it and he kept saying you gotta do it. I immediately joined the Porsche Club of America, signed up for the next autocross and even bought a book about it. I entered the Novice class, got first place and a little lucite plaque for my effort. Sweet. That was just over a year ago in June 2014.

and the competitor I have to (and I mean have to) beat next. These are the things I think about when I wake up, when I go to sleep and all day long. Autocrossing has taken over my life! Help, please save me from this evil. Is there a twelve step program for this?

Who cares, I’m having the time of my life.

Come on out to El Toro and have the time of your life. Our PCA OCR Walter’s 6th 2015 Autocross Event in July featured the awesome event day sponsorship of Racing Lifestyle, as well as our series sponsors Walter’s Automotive Group and Global Motorsports Group with owner/professional racecar driver James Sofronas in attendance.

SEE ALL OF MIKE’S PHOTOS https://www.flickr.com/photos/ ocrautox/albums Flickr is free, easy to access, has a terrific slide show module, and you can order any prints you might want directly from the site.

Top: My hero/nemesis Mike Oest – his passenger looks like he’s getting more than he bargained for.

Bottom: The fast and lovely Christine Newcomer

Since then … you might say I have completely lost control. I have spent thousands of dollars on suspension parts, joined another club for serious addicts called the SCCA, and started frequenting the neighborhood crackhouse called GMG. I have completely ripped the interior out of my car (the inside is so loud now I have to wear earplugs if I drive it for more than a half hour), and I have four sets of wheels and tires!

What? I have turned my luxury sports car into an obnoxious beast dressed in decals.

All I can ever think about is how I can drive faster … where is the racing line, how do I carry speed through a corner, do I brake or do I just lift, when do I get back on the gas, looking ahead …

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A Surprise Like No Other from Guest Speaker Ed McRae of Walter’s Porsche Story by Monica Asbury, Photo by Gary Labb Special Guest Speaker Ed McRae, General Manager of Walter’s Porsche, provided a huge surprise for one lucky winner at August’s Breakfast Club Meeting.

There was standing room only at Original Mike’s last month when Ed McRae introduced his fellow associates and explained their services available at Walter’s Porsche. Ed also announced he would be raffling not one, but TWO opportunities of a lifetime! One lucky OCR member in attendance was going to walk away with two gift certificates to Atlanta’s Porsche Experience Center!

Lucky winner, and new member, Jon Robertson will be rocketing at Atlanta’s Experience Center for a 90 Minute Drive and special lunch at Restaurant 356!

Jon, take plenty of pictures and be prepared to write an article for the Pando, while we all vicariously enjoy your winnings and drive the course with you!

Thank you Walter’s Porsche for your continued, generous support of the OCR -- Where excitement meets acceleration!

Guest Speaker Ed McRae and associates from Walter’s Porsche

*Support OCR’s Sponsors* Know someone who would be a great guest speaker at our Monthly Breakfast Club Meetings? Someone members would find interesting, appealing and present automotive-related material (noncommercial in nature)?

If so, please contact Monica Asbury at sheamonica@gmail.com

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Photo tip of the Month

Sharpness Story and Photos by Mike Knudsen

The last two tips were about framing – how to get everything you want in your picture and nothing you don’t. After all, that’s why you took the shot -- right? So you got the right thing – now let’s make sure you got the thing right. That means sharp.

Printing processes don’t tend to make things sharper. So do the Pando editor a favor and send the sharpest images you can. There are two things that affect sharpness – focus and blur. This month, we’ll …(wait for it)…. focus on focus.

The spot focus made the background clear but not the rose in the foreground

With the spot focus dot correctly placed, the rose in the foreground is the sharpest part of the image

With area focus on, the camera picked up the tree and not the car as the focus of the photo

With spot focus on, the camera correctly picked up the car and not the tree as the feature of the image

Today, autofocus is everywhere. In fact, on many cell phone and point-andshoot cameras, there is no manual focus anymore. It’s great though, because it can get you a sharp photo even if you forgot your glasses or the sun is washing out your LCD screen. Here’s how to make the most of it.

Step One- Make sure it can work

Many autofocus systems detect focus by measuring contrast. Make sure there’s enough light on and texture to your subject so the autofocus has something to work with. If you want to drive your camera crazy, try shooting a flat white sheet hanging on a wall sometime.

Step Two- Choose spot or area focus

Spot focus tells the camera to use a single point in your image to focus on. It’ll look like a single dot in your viewfinder or LCD screen. Use it when you have 14 PANDO September 2015

things at various distances from the camera, but there’s one you want one to be really sharp. Your camera can really only focus at one distance, so you have to place that dot just right. See the two photos above. The only difference is where I had the spot focus point. A rose is a rose…..if it’s sharp.

Area focus offers an array of dots or a large rectangle in the viewfinder or LCD. If you’re shooting a group, try to get everyone or everything as close to

the same distance from the camera as you can. If you don’t, here’s what can happen. The photo on the left was shot with area focus on, and it picked up the wrong thing (the closer tree on the right) to focus on. I switched to spot focus in the photo on the right. Remember what we said about framing (everything you want and nothing you don’t)? Well, it’s really important for the area focus on your camera, especially if area focus is all you’ve got.

Step Three- Lock Focus

If your camera has a physical shutter button, pressing it halfway will cause the camera to focus and lock (it’s cleverly called “focus lock”). That’s really helpful if the thing you most want in focus isn’t right in the center of the frame where your focus dot is. You can lock the focus on it, then move the camera to get the framing you want, and shoot. Cool, huh? See the photo to the right. I wanted the girl’s face nice and sharp, but not in the center of the frame, where my focus dot was.

See how much more is in focus at f/11?

Shooting real estate? Get it all sharp because everything in the frame is what you want to show. Shooting portraits (like the girl)? Not so much, because only her face is what’s important.

That’s it. Practice using your autofocus to get sharpness when and where you want it.

Next month – blur – sometimes you want it, sometimes you don’t.

Send questions, comments, or anything you’d like covered here to Mike Knudsen at mike@mikeknudsenphotography.com

Step Four- Improving your odds

You can improve the odds that you’ll get a sharp subject by increasing what we call depth-of-field -- the distance between the nearest and farthest points from the camera that are “acceptably” sharp, so that more of your image is sharp. To increase it, use a smaller aperture (called “stopping down”). For example, a 50mm lens has about an 8 foot depth of field at f/16, but less than two feet at f/4. So, if the stuff you want sharp has more than a couple feet of depth, stop down to get it all sharp. See below. The photo on the left was shot at f/11. The one on the right at f/1.4.

Top Right: By using focus lock, the image of the girls face is clear but the background is blurry, making the girls face the focus of the photo.

Bottom Left: By shooting a f/11, the photo is sharp, with no “blurry” background.

Bottom Right: By shooting at f/14, the foundation in the foreground is clear, but the background of the image is more blurred.

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New Member Picnic

Story by Sandy Schwartz, Photos by Gary Labb, Gloria Moore, and Paul Novotne On a beautiful July Sunday, New and Veteran Members met at Laguna Niguel Regional Park for the Annual New Member Picnic. This tradition goes back for some time in our club as a way to both make acquaintance with new members and to give these new members an introduction to all of the ways they can enjoy their cars and their new association with the Orange Coast Region.

The parking lot quickly filled to overflow capacity with beautiful Porsches! Glistening under the sun these counted not only the cars of our veteran members, but those of the approximately 30 new members that attended the event.

After registering with Monica Asbury at the Goodie Store, each new family received a PCA OCR cup “Koozie” as a memento of the day’s event.

Monica Asbury registering each family for the picnic

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Fabulous line up of beautiful Porsches driven by Picnic participants

Sandy explaning why he forgot the cheese to new member Jim Saenz and others BBQ Master Sandy Schwartz preparing his cooking instrument

Everyone enjoyed the barbecue lunch while socializing, perusing each other’s vehicles and enjoying the sunny day. We all know from past social experience that this is hard to do without dropping the odd errant potato on that shiny Porsche!

We dined on the traditional summer fare of hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and delicious cookies as prepared by our cooks, Sandy Schwartz, and Chris Brooksby. All of this was washed down by cold soft drinks in the great American picnic tradition. Actually, the cookies came in by “Porsche Express” as we haven’t found a way yet to barbecue them.

Matthews family enjoying New Member Picnic. Son Lleyton explains he kept mom’s Porsche b’day surprise for 2 weeks!

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C.L. Jarusek, our Vice President, welcomed everyone and recognized our new members. While dining, Peggy Huddleston, our Charity Director, talked about Semper Fi, our charity, and sold “split the pot tickets” for a lucky winner to receive $200.00 + dollars! Low and Behold her husband Scott had his ticket pulled! Scott immediately donated his winnings back to Semper FI. Larry Moore, our Rallymeister, gave the New Members some history about PCA and The Orange Coast Region as well as some of the upcoming events.

The day culminated with a group photo of our New Members that had attended.

I would like to thank the volunteers who helped make this Picnic a success: Monica & Denny Asbury, Chris & Jan Brooksby , Scott Fleener, Cl Jarusek, Nancy Troast, Gary Labb, Malcolm McCondray, Larry & Gloria Moore, Paul & Susan Novotne, Jerry O’Donnell, Richard Wilbur, Pete & Judy Lech.

Porsches aligned that display elegant design and beautiful colors from the Picnic members

If you missed this year’s event, plan on coming next year as a great time was had by all!

To view more of the photos from the New Members Picnic, please visit the PCA OCR facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/pcaocr Bunny and Jim Falk enjoy R & R at the New Member’s Picnic

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Marconi Auto Museum

OCR at the Marconi Auto Museum Story by Greg Lush, Photos by Gary Labb, Greg Lush and Paul Novotne From time to time organizations contact PCA OCR, inviting them to participate in events. In late July, we received a request from a representative with the Marconi Museum in Tustin. We announced the event on the PCA OCR application (available on Apple and Andriod), via social media channels and through email. Within the first week or so we were pushing past 80 cars.

WOW, come on now, that is simply FANTASTIC! We requested that folks arrive by 9:30am so we could all go in together. When I arrived just before 9am on August 2nd, a dozen cars were already in the parking lot. By 9:30am we had filled their entire lot (minus a few spots along one edge) with PCA OCR Porsches. There is nothing quite like the sight of a parking lot packed full of colorful Porsches.

OCR definitely represented PCA with lots of beautiful German cars.

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The Marconi Manager hoped for 15 Porsches to appear--they were thrilled with the Club’s response

Once inside, you are welcomed with one of the nicest Ferrari collections I have ever seen. Certainly lots of other great cars are in the Museum but I was really taken with these fantastic Italian cars.

Now, I will have to admit that most of the time I see a Ferrari it is in a Museum or a “mechanics shop”. While the Italian styling is impeccable, the engineering is well…. not German. Besides the race shop, which was my favorite area in the Museum, Chuck Bartolon and I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find the gas cap for an older Cadillac. As a teenager one of my jobs, to save money for lift tickets or boat gas, was working at the 76 gas station in Running Springs, CA. The back lights and/or license plate used to hide the gas cap, well at least that is what I recall from ~40 years ago.

One of the nice things about visiting the Marconi Automotive Museum is the founder, Dick Marconi. Mr. Marconi is always a gracious host. The day of the event, Mr. Marconi showed up early and spoke with those of us in the parking lot who actually arrived before him. He grabbed a few of the early arrivals and gave them a private tour of the Museum before they let the rest of us in. Ask Scott McDonald about the special tour he went on. Once everyone was allowed inside, Mr. Marconi spoke for several minutes, sharing some stories about the museum, himself, his cars, and some folk lore regarding Cher Bono’s car that became Dick Marconi’s car. Mr. Marconi then made himself available for private questions as he wandered around the collection speaking to the attendees.

OCR Member Pram Oen’s 918, just 6 weeks old, and 900 miles

Host Dick Marconi being introduced to PCA OCR Members

Thank you Mr. Marconi for sharing your cars, your stories, and yourself with PCA OCR. If you ever have an chance to visit this wonderful collection of cars seize the opportunity, it will be well worth your time.

To view more of the photos from the New Members Picnic, please visit the PCA OCR facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/pcaocr

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RICE’S

Ramblings

Story and Photos by Lee Rice

My 930 Story Part I This is the 40th anniversary year for the 911 Turbo. I promised some stories on the subject late last year, so…

I have to wonder if there is anything that has not been written, photographed, road tested, compared to, raced against, modified by, driven to-near destruction in, or philosophized about as much as the Porsche 911 Turbo? Today (in July of 2015) many Porsche owners are new to the history and the painfully slow improvements that came to the 911 from its beginnings in 1964, and they are curious as to how their new 911 got that way. This then is the subject this month: the introduction of the 911 Turbo, way back in 1975.

Many owners of newer Porsches have expressed interest in the older 911s and especially the 911 Turbo. So what was the big deal about the 911 Turbo? And just how did it come to be?

New Porsches over the decades are fantastic and fabulous cars, but they have become such an evolved, complicated and computerized machine, that no one person can really know much about the 911-991 as a whole car.

Yet the story of the 911 (and turbosupercharging) is quite another matter, as computers were not even thought of when the idea of a 911 turbo was considered back in the early 1970s.

And you may have noticed that no conversation about Porsches and the 911 goes too far without some wild 911 turbo story and the exciting tales of its turbocharged nature. It is always amusing to hear another 911 Turbo story and its “Doctor Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” personality of the early turbocharged 911.

The 911 Turbo was in fact basically nothing more that a 911 race car with a mildly built turbocharged engine and, of course, loads of luxury appointments as well. Anyone, actually everyone, who drove a 911 Turbo for the first time got the wrong impression emanating from the wrong idea of what it was to begin with.

The 1975 911 Turbo Carrera was just plain deceiving. It looked classy; but it also looked aggressive. It sounded mellow, but on boost sounded nastymean! For for most of us, we only heard the motor-boat mellow sound of a mild, even tempered car driven around by a rather timid, rich guy. Of course it shouldn’t be a problem to drive. No Porsche should, but everyone said it was a quick car. “Watch out when the boost comes on!” was a common 911 turbo phraseology. And that was said by those who knew. But how could that be?

It seems like such a mild, easy going, luxury sporty car. How could it be so wild?

Your first impression (and mine too) was that of another easy driving 911, with a lot of smooth flowing torque.

For only 245 net HP for the Thermal Reactor, the “California Version,” that was surprising! In fact, it seemed ridiculously powerful for a 2,668 lbs Porsche. My current 911 weighed 2,185 lbs! But the Turbo Carrera pulled so smooth and effortlessly. The statistics didn’t match its character. So, the Turbo Carrera was also deceiving.

The Turbo Carrera revealed a nice comfortable ride with easy road holding control. It was soft, and it was quiet.

Gone were the Spartan (cheap) interiors and lack of conveniences. Now soft, deep, carpeting and perfectly fit leather sport seats were a clue (they were racing inspired, secure fit sport seats, but also wrapped in supple, soft, luxury leather.)

The 911 Turbo Carrera was still a 911 after all, and a small car; it is a Porsche after all, so what is the big deal about this new Turbo Carrera? When one started to ease the throttle down a bit more, and allowed the 930/50-53 turbocharged engine to START build up boost everything changed, quickly!

Once the mild mannered engine revved up on boost pressure, it was a shock. It was troublesome to adjust to. Fun? Oh, yes. But you had to be ready for it. There was no warning of the imminent boost blast to slap one’s backside! Earlier, there was a chairman of the board mandate that the driver did not need to get involved with the technicalities of a Turbo. Porsche management had a very good point, as Porsche was September 2015 PANDO 29

determined to prove that the new Turbo was a simple and easy-to-drive road car, and needed no special attention or even instrumentation. It was intended for mere mortals to drive, not necessarily lion hearted race drivers like Mark Donohue, Jackie Ickxs, and Derek Bell.

It was for the real world and real people, and Porsche did this job very well… almost. But none the less… when the turbo built up boost YOU HAD BETTER BE READY FOR IT! So, how did this all come about in the first place?

Porsche now had a new breed of car with all of its past engineering, quality construction, craftsmanship, and racing history. With the turbocharger, it had something else too. The Turbo would be labeled within a few weeks as a super-car right up there with the 12cylinder Ferrari Boxer and Lamborghini Countach.

Turbochargers and Porsches came together for many reasons. One of which goes back to the early 1970s after Porsche had finally won Le Man outright with 1st place overall in 1970 & 1971. That was with their enormously expensive and technical advanced Porsche 917. That was a big deal. The 917 was almost unbeatable and so the 917 was made illegal by the rule makers, whose creed seems to be: “…if you can’t beat Porsche on the track –beat them with new rules.” The FIA World championship of Manufacturers’ new rules eliminated the 917.

Porsche also took notice of the surprising run of victories by their 911 cars. Victory wreaths started to decorate the Werks racing department from the winning 1967 911S, 1968 911R, & the Ralley cars: 1970 911 S/T, America’s IMSA GT, and SCCA sedan racing.

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Fig 2. Two turbocharges needed for the 4.5 Liter Flat 12 cylinder engine. =two small turbos spin up to boost sooner that one big turbo can.

teams, run their 917s in America –but it was not realistic to expect anything more than class wins in the unlimited Canadian–American Challenge Cup Series. In fact the Can-Am had no classes. You either won or lost. And class wins or 2nd places were never acceptable to Porsche management; but one option remained... and Porsche took up that option with a question: “What then to do with the huge investment in all of our 917 work, and Vot if ve put on der Abgasturboladder onto der 9-1-7?”

The 917 was too young to retire; so why not make a serious effort in the American Can-Am racing series? In America, the rules for CanAm were brief, to be sure, as this was a series inspired by good old American hot rodders who motto was: run what you brung!” How would Porsche race their 5.0 Liter, 630 DIN PS, 917 against the 8.0 Liter Aluminum V-8s with 700+ HP? And most of them were special one-off, racing cars, with engines built by Indy Car & drag racers, and even Ferrari-who got into it (once) with a 7.0 liter V-12!

Using turbos was a risk; a big risk, as nobody had ever made a turbo engine run on road racing courses with turns, hills, descents, heavy braking, and then having the power demand instantly, the second you needed it. Some tracks had long, straights and you needed reliable power for flat out, long hard runs through the tall gears; and do it for hundreds of miles! This had never been done successfully, and other efforts to do so, ended in failure.

Porsche went ahead with the A.T.L. or Abgasturboladder -which is (Exhaust Gas Turbo boosting) – Or we’ll just call it what everyone does: Turbo.

Porsche out ran and out won over the once invincible –(and thought to be unbeatable)-- Team McLaren at their own game, and winning against everyone and anyone else, with what

The fear factor I am sure was present but if a road-going turbo car was ever going to go beyond the ‘dream stage’ it must be successful on a Porsche race car first!

This, would also demonstrate just how strong Porsche’s flat 12 (& 911 flat-6) boxer engines are.

Making a turbocharger usable in racing car led Porsche to develop the necessary hardware for it to run at almost any racing condition imaginable. In the future these efforts would pay dividends for a practical turbo road car.

Fig 3. Porsche 1972 917-10K with Mark Donohue’s Penske Racing Nr.6 qualifying 1st at the first Can Am race of 1972 (PS the “Porsche+ Audi” was strictly a marketing promotion)

most racing teams had laughed at only 12 months earlier. Porsche and Team Penske, (especially engineer Brown), and Mark Donohue, did what no one else could or had been able to do and that was for the first time in history to make a turbocharged road racing car reliable, quick, extremely fast, and make it almost look easy.

engine, which then was the latest 3.0L RSR variant, now peaked around 340 DIN HP and that is with the strengthened, aluminum crankcase, and the latest throttle slide, MFI Fuel injection. But 340 HP would not make the 911 a winner in anything but a class win. And now Porsche wanted to win 1st overall with a 911.

Porsche was able to more than double the 917’s horsepower without sacrificing reliability.

Porsche not only won the Can-Am series but also won the European Inter-series races as well...all with turbocharged 917s.

In 1974 Porsche built and raced a special one–off 911 RSR. This was a research and development car; a prototype 911 built to see just how well a turbocharger and the 911 would work together. Thus the 1974 911 RSR Turbo came to be. It is reported to have been a very exciting development project. The 1974 911 RSR Turbo was going beyond where the 917 ended in 1973, and now the 911 would carry on to the forefront of Porsche.

So now Porsche went to work on the idea of a turbo for the 911. Porsche now had a very reliable chassis with the current racing 911 (the 1974 911 RSR), and it had a great deal of evolution in its chassis strengthening, coil springs, revised suspension point relocation, lighter construction methods, and aerodynamics. This led to optimum balance, handling, and steering control.

And the RSR also benefited directly from the 917’s parts bin with new suspension parts and huge, ventilated, cross-drilled, brake discs and 4-piston aluminum calipers.

So it came back to the 911 engine.

The current normally aspirated racing

Fig 4. the first time George Follmer wins Can Am for injured Mark Donohue *Donohue won the 1973 Can Am series…

Fig 5. 1973 experimenting with turbos -1973

We, back home in America, kept scrutinizing all the car magazines, TV, radio spots, and racing news like the “Competition Press” (Autoweek) to see how the RSR Turbo was doing. Once in a while, we got a lot of pictures and reports to read and re-read to our delight.

One great read was ‘Friend of the factory’ writer, Ex racer, historian, and Porsche family friend, Paul Frère, who used to give us the real sensations from driving behind the wheel of Porsche race cars.

Fig 6. The 1974 911 RSR Turbo

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Those reports were our first impression of the 911 RSR Turbo’s behavior on turbo power. Those stories, mostly told of the fantastic performance, incredible power levels and then too, especially from a seasoned and disciplined racing and development driver, who discovered that tremendous wallop in the seat when the turbo spun up to boost and you hung on for dear life! We of course loved reading about all of that. All this only pumped the adrenalin and anticipation for a hoped for street & road 911 turbo version.

Then in October 1973 we saw the pictures; the whole world did, of a silver 911 Turbo (an IROC RSR) that was shown at the Frankfurt Auto show.

What caught my eye first on this 911 was an unusually large single exhaust tube hanging out of the left rear bumper and, of course, the oblivious: a license plate with: 911 TURBO. So, it WAS coming true! Later we knew the 911 was actually an IROC Carrera with a non-running mock-up turbo looking engine. However, it was a success at generating the interest needed to see if a road going turbo 911 warranted further development back in 1973. To understand the uniqueness of this, at this time, you almost have to go back in time.

1973 was the beginning of the Arab oil embargo. Gasoline rationing would dramatically limit driving all over the USA and the world. Oil and gasoline Fig 7. Prototype 911 TURBO

prices doubled, then tripled in months, if you could find any. (Me? I drove from Garden Grove to LAX, daily, and it was no fun trying to find gas and sometimes only 2-3 gallons at a time.)

I sold my Corvette which would have never survived in this new world reality!

Thankfully my 130 HP 911, JUST made it 95% of the time. But I sat home from work a few times with almost no gas in the tank at all.

Then if that was not bad enough, it was decided to reduce the national speed limit to 55 mph. I know my 1968 911 with A,F,M,S& X gear ratios, was stuck right in the middle of an over revving 4th gear or a lugging 5th gear, trying to maintain 55 mph! How do you spell: S-T-U-P-I-D? But in Germany: They banned ALL driving on Sundays!

In 1974 the beginning of the end of “big iron” Detroit Cars came in earnest.

You couldn’t give those things away.

I remember the first Hondas--almost a joke of a small car, looking like one of those circus clown cars. Who would buy one of those? Who could even fit in one of those cars? The answer: a lot of people who bought out all the stock in only a few months. That’s who!

The EPA had a hand in all of this too, with even more restrictive emission requirements and California, to add insult to injury, by requiring some peculiar and later questionable smog devices one after another on our cars –Thankfully wisdom later prevailed and most of those add-on devices were legally removed to the improved health of cars and engines everywhere. But horrible air quality was no joke and new clean running car engine technology was desperate to be found.

The iconic American big engine muscle cars, hot rods, and big engine sport cars went waning. The once 454 cu/in powered Corvette was on the way out.

Gone too was the Chrysler 426 Hemis engine cars, Ford’s 427s tri-power carbureted gas hog cars were going, and

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big V-8s is small sedans – those days were over too.

Another thing: Cars and ‘car people’ were not good things anymore. Cars were spoken of only as a necessary evil and only to get from point A to point B. Many said driving a sport car was considered unfriendly.

There was speculation of the government forbidding any more performance cars and big wasteful engines to be made, just as government had stopped all automobile manufacturing in America during WWII. On the bright side, I personally used my Porsche 911 daily and proudly showed off my enlarged copy of my Porsche 911’s Horsepower/ Fuel Consumption/ Gear Ratio/ Speed Chart to anyone and everyone just how European (Porsche) efficiency gave you decent speeds, but also the best fuel economy at intelligent speeds. Many just shrugged that off and said I should buy an economy car! The thing of it is: I actually had one! They just didn’t get it!

So this was the mid-1970s with ever increasing demand for economy, clean air, and quality built “reasonable cars.”

Look for Part II of “My 930 Story” in the October 2015 issue.

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New Members Dennis Scheftner/ Mission Viejo 2001 Carrera John Kamer/ Mission Viejo 1982 928 Bill Welch/ Irvine 1988 Carrera Clifford Hampton/ Anaheim 2009 Carrera S Steven Grant/ Villa Park 2011 911 Turbo C. Lane Mally/ Newport Beach 2000 Boxster S Patrick Mc Cabe/ Ladera Ranch 1976 911 Turbo James Weston/ Irvine 2015 Carrera GTS Chris Cumella/ Rancho Santa Margarita 2013 Carrera Cabriolet Marty Foxman/ San Clemente 2015 Boxster Carl Pinto/ Mission Viejo 2015 Cayman GTS Shawn Setterstrom/ Mission Viejo 2014 Carrera 4S

William Braden/ Laguna Hills 1985 Carrera

Vicki Schluter/ Yorba Linda 2014 Cayman S

Gary Sanders/ Mission Viejo 2006 Cayman S

Andy Coyle/ Laguna Beach 2008 Cayman S

Richard Wheeler/ Whittier 2001 Carrera 4

Paul Kartiko/ Laguna Niguel 2012 Carrera 4 GTS

Maurice Nieman/ Aliso Viejo 2016 Macan S

K. Tu/ Newport Coast 2011 Carrera GTS

Keith Kirk/ Mission Viejo 2006 Cayman S

John Levy/ Fullerton 2015 GT3

Bryan Van/ Huntington Beach 2007 Carrera Mike Ryan/Buena Park 1986 Carrera Cabriolet

Jason Koonin/ Irvine 2008 911 Turbo

Transfers Randall Lioz/ Irvine 2002 Carrera Timothy Ashcroft/ Irvine 2001 911 Turbo Michael Marra/ Lomita 1984 944 Sam Cabiglio/ Signal Hill 1973 911E David Mason/ Encino 1984 Carrera Don Baker/ Long Beach 2010 Carrera

Diego Diaz/ Long Beach 2012 Boxster

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New Member Photos Each month the Club meets at Original Mike’s Restaurant in Santa Ana for breakfast and to view each other’s cars. The new members attending the August 2015 breakfast are pictured below with their Porsches as well as other club member activities.

Location details for the Breakfast Club appear on the back cover of this magazine. We thank Original Mike’s for their support.

Don and Dixie Baker, Black 2010 997 Turbo

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Gary Sanders, Red 2006 Cayman S

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Like the “throttle by wire” systems now employed on almost all modern Porsches, we can expect to find this in street cars before very long at all. Get ready for a new generation of braking systems, with ceramics, computers, and other esoterica guaranteed to STOP.

The Club

Now and then I write just a little about how our “little” band of miscreants here in the Orange Coast Region fits into the overall Porsche Club of America. I use quotation marks for the little because we are not actually so little anymore. With more than 2,000 members, we are in fact one of the larger Regions of the Club in the USA. So, the overall umbrella is the Porsche Club of America. This is shortened to PCA in our own newspeak (thanks, Orwell). This main club website is available at, https://www.pca.org. This large organization is broken into Zones.

We are located in Zone 8, available on the web (where else?) at; http://www. zone8.org. I recommend that anyone with a passing or greater interest in Porsche look at these sites from time to time to see what is going on nationally and more locally. The Zones within the PCA conduct many of the same activities and if you are traveling in our western part of the USA where the “skies are not

cloudy all day” you can drop into local events and be quite welcome.

Within Zone 8 then is our brave little band... with Porsche we do take our stand…so that is our Orange Coast Region. We are on the net at http://www. pcaocr.com. Again a place to surf over to and check for events happening right in our own backyard.

All of these sites have marketplaces and topical updates as well as features and articles about things Porsche. I myself have purchased things using these Porsche Club websites, and feel good about buying from an enthusiast. So far so good; I have never been cheated or shorted by anyone on these sites.

Our Orange Coast

When was the last time you saw an orange grove? Actually, I just did this past week down here in Rancho Santa Fe...a real live Orange Grove with oranges! Imagine how we got our name from back in the days when going from town to town actually involved some country driving and most of the country driving was through Orange Groves… here’s a challenge to our readers; find us an Orange Grove and take a picture of you and your car there. We’ll publish it. In any case our Orange Coast Region in the Zone 8 of the Porsche Club of America has a Board and they meet every first Saturday of the month at our

breakfast location, “Original Mikes,” in Santa Ana. We welcome your input and, if you are so inclined, do attend one of these meeting and watch how fun is made. In addition, think of volunteering; you’ll have fun and be very much appreciated.

Larry Moore (No Less No More)

A last note about our Mr. Larry. I forgot to mention in my Concours article that our trophy awards meant that the winners had to line up and cross the front center stage to be handed their trophies. With no direct word, Larry Moore got up at one end of the lane, positioned the cars and with hand gestures traded between he and I got the cars down through the award zone. Nice and one of the most easily conducted “ad hoc” pieces of work I’ve been involved in lately.

Thanks to Larry for both the initiative and the organizing .

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FOR SALE: 930- 911 TURBO

’79 930 Turbo Coupe, Guards Red/ Cork lthr, 93.9K mi. Recent engine/ trans service, new tires, interior carpet & headliner. $99,000.00. Ric 949/6978779; ric.costa@pimco.com. (1) OCR

Tiptronic S 5-Speed gearbox, Sport Chrono Package, paint to sample option.

SoCal Certified Pre-Owned w/Factory Warranty. $59,990.00 Pictures at www. autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1).

2012 911 Turbo S Coupe, Black/ Black lthr, 6K mi. Sport seats, Nav and Bose systems. Factory warranty until 8/19/2016. $150,000.00 Dwight 510/581-7100; d.staten@att.net. GGR (1).

FOR SALE: LATE MODEL 911-964993-986-996-997-991

’86 911 Turbo Coupe, Black/Black lther, 11K mi. Highly modified. $49,500.00 Greg 949/533-5621; greg. adelman@cox.net. OCR (1) ’87 911 Turbo Coupe, Grand Prix White/Marine Blue lthr, 118K mi.

Sport seats. LSD. Fuchs restored by Al Reed. Recent trans, clutch overhaul by AASE Motors. Orig paint, matching numbers, COA. $99,950.00 Tom 916/880-6124; t_garling@yahoo.com.

OCR (1) ’88 911 Turbo Coupe, Black/ Champagne lther, 138K mi. 1 of 587 Turbo USA coupes imported in ’88. PCA member owned for 20 yrs. Garaged, all records. $84,999.00 Albert 480/7179401; ajmccabe@aol.com. SAR (2) ’89 911 Turbo Cabriolet, Guards Red/ Black lther, 87K mi. One year only G50-50 5 spd trans. 2 owner completely original SW car (AZ and CA). 2002 complete restoration—new paint, top, engine out re-sealed. Original books, manuals, tools, radio. $109,900.00 Ira 951/265-3362; ira@broome@msn.com.

IER (2).

2008 997 Turbo Coupe, Lapis Blue(M5W)/ Black lthr, 53.6K mi.

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new owner (approx 4 year/46,000 miles remain). Car extremely well taken care; beautiful condition. $37,750.00 Scott 949/939-3824; rsbarlow911@gmail. com. OCR (1)

’98 993 Targa, Polar Silver. Last of the air cooled Targas. 1 of 122 built for USA w/only 22 having 6 spd manual trans. 2 owners from new. In dash CD, Motor Sound Package, no modifications this 993. $145,000.00 David Mohlman 305/582-9723; www.DJMInvestments. net. MR (1) 2002 996 Carrera 4S Coupe, Polar Silver/Metropol Blue lthr, 23.3K mi.

2 owner SoCal car. 6-spd manual, sport exhaust, advanced technic package (bi-xenon headlights w/washers, Bose sound and CD changer), self-dim mirror and rain sensor. Car purchased new from and fully serviced by Walter’s Porsche. New Michelin Pilot Sports & brakes at all 4 corners at 19,300 miles.

Car had ISB failure at 21,000 miles.

New Porsche factory short block and new clutch installed - all work done at Walter’s Porsche, full receipts available.

New short block has approx 16 mo. unlimited mileage Porsche warranty remaining.

Additional extended platinum warranty can be transferred to

2002 996 Carrera S4 Cabriolet, Silver/ Metropol Blue lthr & top, 37K mi. Euro sport suspension, Advanced Technical package, short shift package, dual power & heated seats. Custom whls w/ new tires, widebody, Xenon headlights, carbon fiber steering whl, brake lever, & shifter. Fabspeed sport exhaust. New water pump. Pioneer Nav system w/ Rockford Fosgate amp. Valentine One radar detector. 3M clear bra over hood and bumper. 30K mi. service just completed. Complete service history. Clean title & Carfax.

Car is in showroom, excellent condition.

Ron Kuskie 714/318-3011. OCR (2)

2005 Carrera S Coupe, Silver/ Black lthr. 45.5K mi. 6 spd, all options including Sport Chrono Package. New tires, brakes, clutch, IMS bearing & rear seal. $42,500.00 Ron 951/741-4342; rgcip4452@msn.com. OCR (1)

2011 997.2 GT3 Gen. 2, Black/Black lthr w/Alcantara inserts, 16.3K mi.

6-spd manual, Sport seats, Sport Chrono Plus, PCCB ceramic brakes, front axle lifting system. 1 owner SoCal car with mostly original paint. $143k MSRP. Offered at $119,990.00. Pictures at www.autokennel.com. Paul 714/3354911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (2).

FOR SALE: EARLY 911--1960s

‘68 911 Coupe, Custom Blend Mango Green (L346)/Natural Brown Ferrari perforated lthr, 8.7K miles since rebuild. Real Factory 2.2L “S” MFI 1970 engine, recent bare metal custom build by Esposito, TLG, & Meaney. 5 spd 901 gearbox. $124,990.00 Pictures at www.autokennel.com. Paul 714/3354911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (2).

FOR SALE: 911--1970s

’71 911 ST/RS Coupe, Tangerine (018)/Black leatherette w/ Alcantera inserts, 17 K mi. on chassis. 3.2L Carrera motor, engine rebuilt about 5 yrs ago/less than 5K mi. Steel RS flares. PCA member owned. $97,990.00 Pictures at www.autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com.

OCR (1). ’72 911 RSR Recreation, Silver Metallic/ Black lthr w/Houndstooth/ Pepita inserts. 3.6L Twin Plug (M64/01) RS American motor. Less than 2,000 miles since build. 5 spd 915 gearbox (rebuilt w/930 components), LSD. Factory RSR whls, Factory sport seats, RSR suspension, steel Factory flares, Factory RS plastic fuel tank.

Pricing Upon Request. Pictures at www. autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1).

FOR SALE: 911--1980s

’73 911 Carrera RS Coupe, Metallic Silver/Black lthr. Chassis #9113601367. THE REAL DEAL! Sold new to Porsche AG employee in Trier, Germany. 3 owner car. Car needs nothing. All receipts. $765,000.00.

David Mohlman 305/582-9723; www.

DJMInvestments.net. MR (1) ’74 911 Carrera 2.7L Euro Coupe, Acid Blue/Blue&Black leatherette w/basket weave inserts/Black script. A REAL 2.7L MFI Euro Carrera completely restored to Factory standards. Factory paint code 354-91.

Matching numbers car resided in CA for 30 yrs. Original Fuch alloys, COA available. $395,000.00. Bert 310/261285; bjayasekero@gsn.com. LAR (2).

‘75 Kremer Porsche RSR Replica (Vaillant). Converted in 1991 to race in the British GT Championship, from a 1975 911S. Great race history in England. Full RSR conversion, including brakes, center lock wheels, suspension, fuel cell. Front mounted oil tank. Newly rebuilt 3.0L engine and upright shift gearbox by KMW. Race ready, $85,000.00 John Starkey 727/384-1179; 727/743-6186; info@ johnstarkeycars.com. FCR (1) ‘75 911S Coupe, Grand Prix White/ Black, 48K mi. Very original car, well maintained, all records, books, tools. $55,000.00. Leonard 404/455-7626; ltwhilock@comcast.net. FCR (2)

‘89 911 Carrera Coupe, Silver Metallic (S7)/ Silk Grey supple lthr w/Black piping, 64.1K mi. 25th Silver Anniversary Edition, 1 of 300 built.

Numbers matching, COA. Mostly orig paint. 5 spd G-50 manual trans.

1-owner for 23-years, PCA member owned. $64,990.00. Pictures at www. autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1).

FOR SALE: BOXSTER, PANAMERA, CAYENNE & CAYMAN

2004 Boxster S, Seal Grey/Black Lthr, 87.5K mi. 6-spd manual, new IMS, RMS, clutch & flywheel. Original paint, SoCal car from new. PCA member owned. $14,990.00 Pictures at www. autokennel.com. Paul 714/335-4911; paul@autokennel.com. OCR (1).

WHEELS & TIRES

(1) 2004 996 40th Anniversary Front Wheel For Sale: 18” X 8” like new condition. $ 675 + shipping. Bill Young 949/533-1823;byprodriver@gmail.com.

OCR (1)

MISCELLANEOUS

EARLY 911 FACTORY WORKSHOP MANUALS FOR SALE: ‘65 Porsche Volume I Workshop 911 Manual - $650.00; ‘71 Porsche Volume II Workshop 911 Manual - $450.00. Tiana.

Tiana8@socal.rr.com. OCR (1)

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