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...nresi lential rhetoric r ~ f~st a~a~eness of Parade came ~n ~97~ v~a an a~t~cle cove~ng the Sun ~alle~ Parade ~n R&T. The~e ~e~e glorious descriptions of people bringing "complete~ ~estored ~960 Roadsters" all the ~a~ across the count~ to get ~oge~he~ ~h o~he~ Po~scheph~les fo~ a ~eek of undiluted Po~sche pla~. ~ had just joined PCA -- m~ f~st Po~sche ~as a 72 9~T coupe, bu~ ~’d been a follo~e~ and fan of ~he ma~que s~nce h~gh school. The concept of a whole week of Po~sche pla~ -- concou~s, speed event, ~a11~, tech, d~nne~s, pa~t~es -- ~as delightful. ~ ~as l~ke ~he k~d contemplat~ng the p~ove~b~al cand~ sto~e ~ndo~. ~e11,

due to the exigencies of surgical residency, I never got a vacation in July, till this year. I got lucky and Parade 78 became my first realization of that long-sought candy store.

My involvement began with Ursula’s long-range planning to organize the LA participants for travel plans and lodging. Far from being a chore, helping her was a way for me to be involved for a longer period of time, an excuse to spend more time thinking about the Big Event upcoming, During the last weeks preceding the trek to Aspen, my 911 didn’t leave the garage. I was actually enjoying concouring it. Again, anticipation and excitement in an effort to make the magic last longer. The f~nal two nights before our departure, I slept fitfully, I didn’t (couldn’t) go to work. I was psyched, Friday morning.., coffee and rolls with the Winthtops.., not hungry.., can’t sit still, Finally, we’~e o~ ~he road and h~ading into the desert, ~ome of the excitement gives way under the demanding chore of safely navigating the h~ghways. Others complain of tb~ hoa~ and discomfort, , , I’m ~til] ~o p~yched it doesn’t bother me. We arrive in Parowan and break out the beer. We cover our cars, have dinner, and retire. First day ~one, bu~ ~iII 1ot~ ~o come.

Second day, Parowan to Aspen, is nice. Our caravan of eleven cars seems to move at a snail’s pace, but I’m enjoying it. We finally get to Sno~mlass and move into our condominium. And in the process of settling in, it dawns on me that Parade, like life, is starting to wind down from this point on. But there’s still lots to look forward to.

Sunday sped by much too fast for me. We (us, the Friesens and the Luelsdorfs) went into Aspen, walked the autocross track, and half-heartedly cleaned our cars (in the rain).

Monday was the concours, and it was the first time that I realized Parade was not the magical, mystical thing I had built up in my mind. How so? The concours was neat, in that over 200 excellent cars were displayed. But honestly, most of the best cars were already familiar to me. Zone 8 cars won lots of prizes; my car, a Southern California weekends-only baby, was just as nice as many of the others. In other words, Southern California supplied the best cars. Not surprising, I suppose, but not what I had expected for my idealized Parade concours. That night the concours banquet was a rather boring selfpat-on-the-back for national officers and Parade organizers and a few others, It was OK, but the sparkle of my dream Parade was beginning to fade.

A~ ~as the national board of d~e¢~o~s meeting. The~e ~ ~as ~eated ~o anothe~ dose of d~sappo~ntment. ~t seemed tha~ a small el~que of national heav~e~gh~s ~e~e making and approving all ~he national pol~c~. The~e ~e~e onl~ about 23 of ~00 plus ~eg~onal p~es~den~s ~he~e, and ve~ fe~ of ~hem spoke up. ~ suppose ~ shouldn’~ have expected an~ d~ffe~ent ~ednesda~ ~as m~ au~oc~oss da~. The even~ ~as ~un ~ell enough, ~ suppose, but the~e were some obvious ~apses. The ~o~st blunde~ on the pa~t of the Parade o~gan~ze~s ~as handle ~he~ ~m~ng ~h h~s ne~ equipment. Zone 8 leads the ~a~ ~n o~gan~z~ng ~me t~als, and ~u~’s s~stem ~s ~he bes~ a~ound. As a ~esult of no~

utilizing Curt’s aid, the event chairmen found themselves 4 to 6 hours behind schedule on the first day.

And a little more luster fades from mymys~cal Parade.

Thursday was a bright spot for me ¯ Ten of us went river rafting, complete with water fights, some "bracing" in~ersions in the rapids, lots of bailing, and a nice picnic lunch. Best of all was the laughter and playfulness we got to unleash that day with our friends -- something that wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t all come to Parade. My image of Parade Week was bolstered.

Friday we went on an excellent rally " It seemed simpl~ but had ~omg good t~ap~ built in. It ended with a castle tour and lunch. My only regret was that Parade was now definitely coming to an end.

Saturday the final awards banquet was held. My exaggerated disappointment that more LA members did not win top awards was r~ally an ~xpr~ion of my ~adn~ that my first Parade wa~ almost over.

Our drive home, again requiring two days to cover nearly 1,000 mil~, wa~ uneventful. Bu~ ~ gave me ~wo days to wind down from my "Rocky Mountain high."

I was disappointed that the week had not measured up to all my expectations, but ~ had ~t~ll b~n on~ of tho fulle~t and mo~t ~ati~fying experienGe~ of my PCA life.

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(Editor’s Note: I wrote this before reading Sam’s RHETORIC. The combination of his enthusiasm and my cheerfulness is going to be pretty irritating to the LA participants who didn’t enjoy the week, for whatever reason. In fairness to them, I have included at the end of this "diary" a collection of comments made by dissatisfied LA people during Parade week. I also invite rebuttal articles for next month), ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ DAY i: We didn’t quite manage to take off at 7 AM as a--T~-h-ed, p but shortly after that, eight LA Region cars started out from the Holiday Inn in Ontario: the Coopers, Rauchers and Friesens in their 356s (the Coopers rode the whole way with the top down~); the Wangs, Winthrops, and Luelsdorfs in 911s, Ursula in her 914, and Wayne and Anne lhara in their air conditioned BMW (boy, were we jealous). Almost as soon as we hit the freeway, we got separated. While the Friesens managed to hold their own in the front of the pack, the other 356s adopted a more leisurely pace. We really had no reason to hurry; it was already hot, and all we had to look forward to was desert and more desert. In Baker we stopped for gas and were joined by Dave Stephens, who had just missed us at the starting point. The rest of the day was sort of a hot blur, except for the stretch through the Virgin River Gorge. The highway cuts through sheer rock for several miles, and the majestic scenery is quite a contrast to the flat desert on either side. Should have stopped to take pictures but we were enjoying the driving too much. Other than one case of vapor lock (Ursula’s "Pearly Mae" didn’t like the combination of heat and altitude), we made it safely through the day with no problems, The Coopers and Rauchers took a side trip through Zion before we turned in for the evening at the

Swiss Village Motel in Parowan. The German restaurant next door had been recommended by our PCAers who took the ski trip earlier this year. The food was fine and the music from a very earnest oompah band (the motel manager and his sons) was roundly applauded. Our prez’s polka with the waitress was the highlight of the evening,

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Ron Ramage and Chris Gibbs had avoided the heat by driving up the previous night, as had Mary Felo. We also picked up Bill Brockbank in his 356. On the way to our breakfast stop we took a secondary route, which provided some good Porsche driving and different scenery. It also provided Sam a chance to lecture your editor on her down-shifting technique.

All went well til we crossed into Colorado. We had been warned about the Colorado Highway Patrol and their radar, but we thought with our two CBers in the group, we would be protected. We got bottled up behind some very slow-moving and rude camper drivers who refused to let us and all the other cars behind us pass. Our little group got strung out over several miles of two-lane road. Suddenly we came upon Jan Winthrop and Mary Felo pulled off to the side with the ominous red light flashing behind them. The patrolman had clocked them as they pulled away from the slow-moving pack of campers. After a lot of haggling, Jan and Mary paid their fines, and we cautiously proceeded into Glenwood Springs and then on to our final destination.

Snowmass lies in a mountain valley about five miles up the hill from the main road into Aspen. There are a few private homes, but mostly condominiums nestled around the main village shops. Most of our group was housed in the Crestwood Condominiums, recommended to us by Ursula’s friends in Denver. Once we had settled ourselves, we began to scout around for other LA people. Some had already arrived and others pulled in later that evening: Jose and Lark, Judd Boykin, Jeff Erickson, the Coverts (in a rented camper because theirs had broken down near Grand Junction), Marc Rothman, Ken Ito, Cal Marks, John Williamson and Mary Lynne Smith, Joann Salzman, Art Zapf, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Tom Marx, and a couple of others (Mickey Harris, Warren Eads, and Tom Shubin were there, but we didn’t see them the whole week).

¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ DAYS 3 and 4: Sunday was a free day, but not for the concours buffs. While we had trouble getting serious about cleaning our car for the event, our neighbors in the next condo approached the task with grim determination. While we lounged in the sunshine by the pool, our Nebraska cohorts sweated with Q-tips and toothbrushes over every speck of dirt. They made no attempt to hide their irritation over our hang-loose attitude. That evening the bratwurst and beer party served as the first big get-together of the week. We met people from other regions and had a chance to talk with our Rocky Mountain hosts.

We had been told to expect 95 degree weather during the day, with brief showers each afternoon, and then 35 degree temperatures at night.

Well, it never got that hot or that cold, but it did rain. It hadn’t rained in Snowmass for twelve days. God was waiting for us. It rained the day of the concours~ As we drove our car down the hill to the golf course concours site, little drops of water streaked the windshield. Groan. It rained off and on til I0 o’clock when judging began. The sun came out and we all heaved sigh of relief. That wasn’t the last of the rain that day, but the concours went well in

spite of it. With Nick Frie~en and Peter Luel~dorf . helping, we had managed to get our car in fairly decent shape. Our Nebraska friends ignored us, but we found ourselves surrounded by some very nice people -- a couple from Illinois who were doing their first concours, and a group from Sacramento Valley Region, and a lady from Canada. There were over 200 cars altogether, and it was hard to look at them all.

We had expected to see a lot of beautiful cars; what we hadn’t realized is that Zone 8 has most of those cars. This was proven in the awards: Ken ,to won his division in his 356SC, with Jose Ochoa taking a heart-breaking second place by one point; Ron Armour and Mike Springer of Orange Coast Region won their classes with a 906 and a 914 respectively; San Diego and Santa Barbara cars finished first and second in the 914-6 class; Vern Covert’s 904/6 took a third place, as did Mary Lynne Smith’s 911. And the overall concours winner was Ken Malkus of Orange Coast with his anthracite 911S. Not bad.

The day ended with a disappointing concours awards banquet. Most of the evening was spent introducing people at the head table and passing out honorary awards to every Tom, Dick, and Hans there. By the time they got around to the concours awards, most of us were asleep. The judging for the concours had taken so long that many of the participants still didn’t know who had won their class. It was too bad that the Parade organizers couldn’t have devised some other way of honoring the other people without detracting from the main point of the evening.

of the LA cars were hurt, but Mary Lynne did take a side excursion into the rocks that scared us all.

Once we got the autocrossing out of the way, we had plenty of free time to see some of the countryside.

A few of us took a picnic up to Independence Pass (over 12,000 feet) and ate our lunch in the rain (oh fun~). Another group took a morning horseback ride up into the hills and enjoyed a cookout breakfast. Ellie Raucher could hardly move after her ride; we told her we would make her a member of the Ministry of Silly Walks (that’s for Monty Python fans). Ellie also braved a ski lift ride to a fashion show arranged by the Parade hosts. One morning we were joined by San Gabriel Region’s Randy Scott and his bride of two weeks (~) for a raft trip down the Roaring Fork River. We had a neat guide who sensed that we were out for fun; so she took us head-on into every set of rapids and led a water fight against two smaller rafts as we made our way down the river. Aspen also provided lots of shopping possibilities (expensive) and good restaurants. We did get the feeling that Aspenites don’t much like tourists, but a local friend of ours who has lived there many years says the most hostile people are the ones who moved from Southern California in the past six months and are trying to prove they really belong. Pretty silly. Didn’t hear of anyone who went into Glenwood Springs for the mineral baths, but it sounded like a great idea.

The darkest part of the week came during this three day lull. The Parade organizers had checked with the

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state and county highway departments to make sure that no road work would be done during the week of Parade.

The officials they spoke to were sympathetic and assured them that nothing was planned for the AspenSnowmass area. Well, something happened. We heard several explanations -- that Snowmass Village had hired a private contractor to repave the road; that local homeowners were so angry about all the Porsches blasting up and down "their" road that they ordered the repaving on purpose. Whatever the reason, on Wednesday morning we headed down the hill toward the main highway to find that more than half the distance was covered with tar and gravel. You don’t have to be a concours buff to get upset about that. There was one alternate route, a back road that was mostly unpaved, but at least didn’t have the tar problem.

The Parade organizers got lots of angry calls, but it was too late. We were sorry that all their hard work and enthusiasm was now being over-shadowed by something beyond their control. Some people just gave up and went home. The rest of us stuck it out (no pun intended). (continued inside... )

DAYS 5, 6, and 7: The next three days were given over to autocross. The first day was a mess. Ursula had been given an early morning start time, yet she didn’t finish her timed runs and get back from the track until almost 5 o’clock. Those people who were to have started later in the day were out of luck and had to take their timed runs on the final day of timing. Apparently the timing equipment at the track failed to work properly. (We are not too sympathetic because our own Curt Kuebler, who has done such a magnificent job at our time trials, offered his services to the Rocky Mountain people but never even received a reply). The course itself -- described

by Peter as a "nasty little track" -- was just over one mile in length; it was narrow and off to both sides all the way around were rocks and weeds (yes, it was much worse than Willow). It was hard to take the whole thing seriously because drivers are only given two practice laps (on a track most of them have never seen before) before their two timed runs. None

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By the time you receive this newsletter, our concours will have come and gone.

Our very special thanks to chairman Pat Hurry for not giving up in the face of unbelievable complications.

Thanks too to her husband Lee for not deserting Pat or us.

Read all about it next month.

BOARD

The board will meet Saturday at 10 AM at Peter Luelsdorf’s home, 19717 Seashore Circle, in Huntington Beach.

Members are welcome, but please call Peter to let him know you’re coming, (714) 536-3734.

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Our first chance to get together since Parade.

Come hear all about it and all our exciting upcoming events.

We’re planning a speaker for this evening.

Meeting starts at 8 PM sharp.

See you there.

19 SAN DIEGO ZONE 8 RALLY

The rally will start from Sambo’s Restaurant, 12730 El Camino Real (take the Carmel Valley offramp from the San Diego Fwy) at Del Mar. First car out at 10:01 AM. Approximately four hours long, with breaks.

Will end at the Hungry Hunter in Mission Valley.

Slim Durham and Jack Rabell are responsible for this one; so it should be first-rate.

For more info, call Slim (714) 276-5013, or Jack (714) 445-3152

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This is our first chance to try the new course.

Track opens at 7 AM with tech; practice will begin at 8 AM, and we’ll start timing at I:00.

Cost is $I0 for PCA or POC members, $5 for second driver, and $15 for non-members.

Fire extinguishers required, competition seat belts recommended; loaner helmets will be available.

Bring your own food and drink for lunch.

Free beer after the track closes.

To get there, take the Harbor Fwy south, across the Terminal Island Bridge; just past the toll gates, take the Ferry St. Exit.

The track is next to the bridge road on your right; you’ll see the cars.

MONTEREY WEEKEND

This is our annual trek to Monterey for the Historic Auto Races and Pebble Beach Concours.

We’ll meet at Bob and Ellie Raucher’s home, 13454 Weddington St. in Van Nuys at 8 AM Thursday for coffee and do-nuts.

To get there, take the Woodman offramp north from the Ventura Fwy. to Magnolia; turn right on Magnolia to Sunnyslope, then left two blocks to Weddington.

Questions, call Bob and Ellie (213) 784-6081.

RIVERSIDE ZONE 8 CONCOURS

The location is the Ben H. Lewis Hall, Raincross Square, 3443 Orange St. in downtown Riverside.

Registration begins at 8:30 AM, judging promptly at 11:30.

Entry is $I0 for PCA members, $15 for others.

Participation plaques and trophies will be given out.

Street and Concours classes as per Zone 8 regs.

For more info, call Bob Upton (714) 689-6150 or Jack Fallucca (714) 874-4470.

Sponsored by Colley P/A in Riverside.

Zone 8 Time Trial & Driver School Sponsored by VASEK POLAK

Driver instruction and practice all day Saturday, with refreshments at track close, and Sunday morning, with timed runs Sunday afternoon. Track opens 7:30 AM. CASOC track workers in force.

Trophies awarded at track Sunday evening.

For info: Sam Wang (714) 892-3431 Peter Luelsdorf (714) 536-3734 _~

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23 & 24 5EPTEI’II ER FEES: $40 first driver $i0 second club affiliate driver (non-members, add $10) Bring membership cards to track

PRE-TECH: Tuesday September 12 7-9 PM Vasek Polak, 199 Pacific Coast Hwy, Hermosa Bch. Required for entrants in LA area; contact region presidents for regional pre-tech info.

GARAGES: $I0, first come basis.

Make out separate check, which will be returned if garages not available to us for this weekend,

HOTELS: Ramada Inn (714) 682-2771 or Holiday Inn (714) 682-8000 both located on University Ave.

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after a rodeo in which soveral PCAers participated.

Don Kravig Jr. won his event with a very impressive ride. Once again though, the awards were handed out very late, and many of us went back to our lodging not knowing the results. The rodeo itself was fun.

Our group rooted for the calves in the roping contest, much to the consternation of young riders who were really doing their best.

1 to 10~ thi~ Parade rate~ a 2 compared to past events .... I spent the whole week standing in line (~o~ food, for the goodie store, for the autocross, etc.) ...... All the Snowmass people drive jeeps; they don’t care about our cars .....

Last year (in San Diego) there was something going on every minute ...... Things are too spread out; we ought to all be in one hotel ...... Who feels like getting dressed up to eat dinner in a tent.

DAY 8: The Parade rally on Friday turned out to be fun, not terribly difficult, and very scenic. So why didn’t we do any better? John Williamson actually got off course, as did several others who missed a strategically placed sign. The last leg was probably the best for scenery and the worst if you didn’t read signs carefully. The instruction called for a change of speed to 39 mph at a sign reading "McClure Pass Open." The first sign we came to read "McClures_ Pass Open," so rallyists should have ignored it and continued driving at 53 mph. Lots of people, including some of Zone 8’s best rallyists (Joe Boucher and Roger Kerner ought to be ashamed of themselves), got caught by that one and had a very slow trip up the hill.

Several miles later the correct sign popped up and the checkpoint came very quickly after that. But the Rauchers never got there. They were doing very well, with less a minute error on all their legs, but they got so excited when they saw all the Porsches parked for the rally luncheon that they pulled into the parking lot and turned in their timing card before they realized they had not yet come to the checkpoint.

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Without that error, they would have trophied~ Of the LA people, only the Coopers did really well, coming in second in the equipped class.

The rally ended at an old mansion in the hills north of Aspen. We were treatea to a guided tour of this massive and rather odd home, and then enjoyed a buffet lunch in the courtyard, ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ DAY 9: Saturday morning was occupied by a tech quiz.

John Williamson came in first in his section. In the evening we all gathered in our "circus tent" for the final awards banquet. Once again too much time was spent introducing all the big- and little-wigs who really shouldn’t need that much attention. Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, board chairman of Porsche A.G., gave a little talk on our favorite car, and then we got on with the awards. (Earlier in the evening Sam presented Dr. Fuhrmann with one of our new LA Region car badges, to be displayed in the guest waiting area at the factory). The overall overall award, for the most points accumulated in all three events, went to

a member of Golden Gate Region. He finished with five more points than our own John Williamson, who came in ¯ ¯

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DAYS 10 and 11: Back on the road again. One last look at the mountains and the trees and the blue sky, one last sniff of the tar and gravel, and we headed home. The Parade had had its problems, but for us it was a pretty decent vacation.

What~ No puzzler this month? Sorry, but your editor is just too pooped to pop. So why not filch something from somebody else’s newsletter? Last month’s puzzle is a good example of why not. I copied the puzzle letter-for-letter from a recent issue of Northern New Jersey’s PORSCHEFORUS. In my haste to get it finished I neglected to check the spelling. Sure enough, some of you caught the fact that CARBURETOR had an A in it and that GAUGE was spelled GUAGE i~ the puzzle.

Rats. So rather than frustrate you with another unedited puzzle I don’t have time to make up myself or check, we’ll give it a rest and see about next month. The following people sent in the correct answer, which was FUEL SYSTEM: Bob Luth, Mike Dick, Toni Burton, Cindy Jann, Darrell Snyder, Chris Florin, Ray Kornfeld, Cathy LeFlang, Vicci Havens, and one other member whose name I lost (boy, this has been a bad month.)

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Aside from the fact that we had to use the Balboa boat because ~he Long Beach boa~ was Yu] ], and a~ide YPom

the fact that John and Jan Clark almost missed the boat, and aside from the fact that Dave Stephens did miss the boat, it was a wry nice day on Catalina.

Thanks to a gross miscalculation on the part of your board, we discouraged event chairman Carola Anderson from making reservations on the boat from Long Beach.

Four days before the event Howard Levin called to say that the 9 AM boat was completely reserved. So Carola reserved some places on the Balboa boat, and then we got on the horn to contact everyone we could think of who might be coming. We didn’t reach everyone, and we extend our sincerest apologies to any of you who went to Long Beach only to be frustrated. We always say this, but next year we’ll know better.

Leaving from Balboa was convenient for some of us who live on the edge of the each, but it was almost a two hour drive for John and Jan Clark to come from Westlake. And my directions were a little skimpy.

So they barely made it before we cast off.

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got seated, John looked around for Dave Stephens, who had been parking his car as the Clarks arrived. We never did find Dave, but hope he had a nice day in Balboa instead. Several other people who had thought they might come didn’t show, and we were very lucky that the boat people were so nice about refunding our money. They even gave back half price on a ticket for the Clark’s son Chad. I wonder if we would have done as well in Long Beach.

We did a little sightseeing, but spent most of the day relaxing on Descanso Beach, sipping beer and Bloody Marys, enjoying the sunshine and the good company. Dinner afterwards in Newport topped off the day.

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