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I Most months in Rhetoric you’ll find at least one exhortation to get out to club events and meetings, This column is no exception. I still think PCA should be more to you than just a monthly greeting from PANO and PORSCHERAMA. But I would like to deal with a couple of points related to last month’s column. First, I owe you an explanation of the Long Beach Grand Prix ticket screw-up. In December Chris Pook, president of the LBGP Assoc., contacted our prez, Paul Edwards. He was offering discount tickets, a hospitality area, and special recognition of PCA. He also gladly promised us two tickets to the race as
~,~ really gratifying to get a letter like this one. And I extend my thanks, not only to Heinz and Joanne and Nick deCourville, but to all the other dealers and merchants that you see advertised in these pages. When Paul Edwards was editor of our newletter, he used to put a little blurb in the lower right-hand corner of the calendar that said "Support Our Advertizers, They Support Us~" That’s the message I want to get across to you. If you’ve managed to read this far, remember, I really do like to have feedback from you. It makes my job a lot more enjoyable if I know that someone else is reading this column besides Ann.
LBGPA’s donation to our Christmas Party. The first disappointment came when the "special advertising brochure" failed to materialize. When PCAers began sending in their order forms with the verbally agreed
on 10% discount, they got their unfilled orders back in the mail, wasting valuable time and losing their preferred seats. Mr. Pook’s sales people had not been told of our agreement. Further, poor Roger Wagner got the royal run-around when he called for
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cheapest tickets available. That was the last stra~. After all, we didn’t ask for any special treatment (and we certainly won’t expect any from now on). But the not-very-professional way in which the whole thing
was handled forces me to at least vent my frustration. My apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced. This is not to suggest that we avoid the LBGP; the grand sport of Formula 1 racing is expensive and we On a happier note, I got a really encouraging response to last month’s reference to a "blacklist." Although we did receive some crank letters (which only proves that it’s not difficult to bring out the worst in people), the following letter from Beverly Hills P/A seemed to express more the attitude I’d like to encourage: In response to your "Presidential Rhetoric" in the February PORSCHERAMA, we feel you should not blacklist Porsche dealers who are unwilling to support the Los Angeles Region of PCA, but instead you should make the members of PCA aware of Porsche/Audi dealerships and other merchants who do support the club. We at Beverly Hills Porsche/Audi, including myself, have been active in various aspects of PCA since 1971, and one of our affiliates, Joanne Salzman, belonged to an eastern Region for several years before that. We all feel that PCA is a worthwhile and enjoyable institution to have around. We at Beverly Hills P/A will be very happy to support the Los Angeles Region of PCA anytime. If you and the club need any help from us, please don’t hesitate to call. Sincerely, Heinz F. Mikulka, Sales Manager
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BOARD MEETING - 8 February 1978 Sheldon Breier 77 924 - White
Host: Bob Wood Attendance: Board members, plus Zone 8 Liaison Peter Luelsdorf and guest Pete Zimmermann
Lawrence Mortorff 57 Speedster - White
Bob Cagle 68 912 Coupe - White
Siegfried Roller 71 911T Coupe - Silver
Robert Flandrick 78 911SC Targa - Silver
Wilbur Sanford 77 911S Coupe - Irish Green
Robert E. Florin 73 911T Coupe - Silver
Ronald Tawa 56 Speedster - Red
John Gieb 76 912E Coupe - White Charles Gondell 59 356A Coupe - Ivory
Janine Terry 70 911S Targa - Ice Green Metallic
Richard Gower 64 356SC Coupe - White
Thomas Thompson 78 911SC Targa - Brown
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William Jones 78 911SC Coupe - Grand Prix White
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MEMBERSHIP MEETING - 16 February 1978
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Your diligent board gathered in the midst of a driving rainstorm to tend to club business. Among other things we discussed the (*/#?%) T-shirt situation: we’have still not received all the shirts in all the sizes we ordered. We discussed appointing Irene Docimo as a hospitality person to help new members get acquainted. Bob Wood announced that, because of business commitments, he would like to resign his position as membership chairman. After discussion, the board decided to invite Carola Anderson to accept the job. The big event of the evening was the unveiling of the new club badge. GoodyChairman Ursula was at her best.
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Due to the pressure of work and personal concerns, Bob Wood has asked to be relieved of his duties as membership chairman. We are sorry to let him go. During the 2½ years he has held this position, PCA-LA membership has grown more than ever before. We have Bob’s diligence and organization to thank for that, and many new members will tell you so. We are all grateful for the superb job he has done. He has left a very tough act to follow, At the February board meeting, the officers voted to ask Carola Anderson to take the post. We are not sure why she accepted it -- it means a lot of hard work for which she will receive little thanks and lots of flak -- but we are pleased to announce that Carola is our new membership chairman.
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Sam called the meeting to order somewhat after 8 PM. Among the officers, Tech Chairman Judd reported on the fine turnout at our LAPD Slalom (despite the rain), and VP Dave Stephens announced the dates for upcoming events: Utah ski trip on Feb. 18-19, Las Vegas Zone 8 Time Trial March 11-12, and our Saturday Shorty Rally March 25. Among our guests for the evening was the president of the Ferrari club (who is purchasing a 928); he had brought with him some flyers and bumper stickers for the Long Beach Grand Prix April 2. After a brief intermission, we came back to our entertainment for the evening - a slide presentation by Dr. Harold Semans. A long-standing Porsche owner and enthusiast (see his article in this newsletter), Dr. Semans and his wife have traveled extensively through out the world, often with a Porsche. Bus rather than present slides of one of his "Porsche" trips, this evening he chose instead to talk about a cruise to Scandinavia that they took several years ago. His slides were perfect and his commentary sharp-witted. The enthusiastic response by all the members in attendance proved that we can still enjoy and appreciate entertainment other than purely Porscheoriented material.
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Well, even if you were not tempted by all the other good stuff that Ursula has stocked in the Goody Store you will not be able to resist the new PCA-LA car ’ badge. It really is neat, and only $I0. Ursula will have the badges available at all membership meetings and at as many of our events as she is able to get to. We really owe a debt of gratitude (not to mention several hundred dollars) to Joel Morenfeld. If it hadn’t been for his efforts, we would still be without a badge one year after we started this fiasco. As an indication of how difficult and time-consuming it was to negotiate this little transaction, Joel has flatly turned down requests from several other car clubs to help them get badges from the same factory. We’re glad Joel was able to help us before any of us realized what a chore it would be. Thanks, Joel.
UTAH SKI TRIP This past weekend about a dozen Porsche pushers discovered the "powder of Utah." Tour leader Dave Stephens had made arrangements at the Swiss Village, just a few miles from the Brianhead slopes, and innkeeper and host Art Wallnas made it a very enjoyable stay. German food and beer, followed by Country Rock on Saturday night; steak and crab and wine, followed by a birthday serenade from a group from Orange County on Sunday evening. The combination of friends, Porsches, snow, and magnificent country scenery was the "totalness" of the weekend, Some thoughts on the trip: Sliver Carreras without current vehicle registration should not go through Arizona; Don’t try to keep up with Dean Goings on a steep slope of "cheater snow;" Bill Bohn goes so fast, he catches up with himself in the liftline; The Coopers rent a car when they leave sunny Southern California; Powder snow should not intimidate Carola; Ron looks so cool on the dance floor, he must have taught John Travolta; Dave Stephens is the Silver Fox of the slopes, catch him if you can. Final thought: next year.
Had a super time; can’t wait til Carola
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Zone8 bulletin (This is the third in a series of monthly bulletins to the regions from our Zone 8 Rap., Burt Misevic). Holtville Time Trials - still no date set. Zone 7 Time Trial Schedule - Sears Point, May 27-28; Laguna Seca, August 5-6; Sears Point, Sept 30 - Oct i. Zone 8 Rally Rules - Jack Rabell will provide copies to all Zone 8 ralljnnasters and coordinators. Individual copies are available on request. National Membership - PCA increased in membership by 9.1% in 1977. The ad in ROAD & TRACK brings about I00 inquiries each month and about 25% of these join the club. 28 regions lost members last year, 34 regions gained, the others either remained steady, were new, or split into new regions. Riverside and San Gabriel Valley regions were exceptional for their gains of 54.4 and 56 percent respectively. Las Vegas slipped under the wire to just barely make the list of top ten losers with a reduction of 10%. Stuttgart Treffen - brochures are available from Burt. 1978 Parade - There were big problems with registration. 770 entries were received with February 8 postmarks, of a total of almost 1000 entries. Due to multiple limitations, only slightly more than 500 entries can be accepted. After much discussion at the National Board of Directors meeting, a solution was determined: two-thirds of the applicants from every region will be accepted. (For example, if 30 people applied from LA Region, 20 will be accepted). This seems a fair way to solve the problem. Of course if your application was postmarked after February 8, you are out of luck. 1980 Parade Site - bids were presented by Oregon and Sacramento Valley Regions. Oregon won the bid and the Parade is scheduled for the last week in August and will be held in the Portland area.
¯ ¯ ~)tes ¯ Congratulations to Rex Zide for his first-in-class win at OCR’s Evolution Car Show last month... Sara Pennington has resumed her duties as Tag Lady and is encouraging everyone to buy and wear their name tags (only $3).
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SAN DIEGO RALLY
The first Zone 8 Rally for 1978 will start from Sambo’s Restaurant, 12730 El Camino Real (take "Carmel Valley" offramp from Interstate 5) in Del Mar. First car out at I0:01 AM. The "La Liebre" rally will take four hours to complete, including rest stops and lunch break. Entry fee is $7. For information call Jack Rabell (714) 445-3152 or Slim Durham (714) 276-5011. If y~u participated in the rally schools in February, this is a good chance to test how much you learned.
BOARD
This month the board will be having a dinner meeting at Sam ’n Ann’s house. Come around 6:00 if you can handle the rush hour traffic. The business part of the meeting will start about 7:00.
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The Zone 8 Time Trial season gets off to a fast start at the Speedrome in Las Vegas. the schedule of events and cost info: COST: Friday: pre-tech at Sunland Motors on Mojave St. 6:30 - 10:30; $5 discount from entry fee; Free beer Saturday: mandatory novice drivers mtg., 7:45 AM practice 8 - 4 Sunday: practice 8 - 11; timed runs 12 noon
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The meeting will start at 8 PM. For our entertainment this evening, tech chairman Judd Boykin has arranged a Parts Identification Quiz. This is a good chance for all you ladies to show your husbands that you really know where that whatchamacallit comes from and what it does. Come join the fun.
L.A. SHORTY RALLY
This is the second in our series of shorty rallys that we began at the end of last year. Once again, we’ll start from the Bank of America parking lot, Sepulveda at Devonshire in Mission Hills (north SF Valley). Registration at 9 AM, followed by instructions and rally school before the first car out at i0 AM. The rally is approximately 2 hours in length, and will be followed by pizza for lunch. Entry fee: $5. Trophies at the end.
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L A P D S L ALOM The event was in question from the start, tho Judd and Jose planned it for several months in advance. There was a black cloud of doubt that the LA Harbor Commission would make good on its threat to dig up and repave the venerable Reeves Field on the very date of LA region’s first speed event for 1978. Well, we managed to get past that hurdle only to be confronted by the weatherman. Would a week of heavy rain discourage so many PCAers that we would have to postpone the event? Would it start raining in mid-event and spoil our timed runs? Would we have nice weather and no participants? Well, it went like this. Judd, Jose and Jan opened the track around 6:30, an hour usually considered suitable only for POC race types. It was, predictably, cold and dank. The only shelter at Reeves Field, a flimsy-looking shack near the esses, had recently been relieved of its southern wall by vandals. This created a venturi effect that only accelerated the cold wind. Eventually forty plus PCAers and guests registered, The large number of novices received pointers from chief driving instructor Quin Williams. One wonders what the beginners must have thought of PCA’s "unique" flag system. Because of a communications gaffe, no one brought the club’s complement of race flags. We were reduced to telling the drivers that, instead of the standard yellow caution flags at blind corners, they should be alert to track workers waving their arms~ The traditional checkered flag at start/finish was supplanted by a gorgeous brown, blue and flowered designer pillowcase. Despite this disaster-turned-comedy sitation, no real difficulties arose. Practice was plentiful for all, a fact due in no small part to the efficiency of the tech line manned by the stalwarts of THE FACTORY (Rothman, Corwin, Erickson, et. al.). By noontime, the meteorologist caught up with us. The rain started, then stopped, giving us time to decide that we could go for timed runs. Then it REALLY rained. So the morning’s practice was for nought, as a car must be handled very differently in the wet. But still it was good fun to drive as hard as possible in the rain -- something we wouldn’t dare do on the street. Ali’s well that end’s well; no
car were hurt.
We all learned more about driving
our Porsches fast, and some of us found out about some leaks we didn’t know we had. Sam
A POLICEMAN’S-EYE VIEW There were no red lights or sirens this time. There was nobody sitting next to me commanding at the top of his lungs, "Floor it" and "Don’t brake til I tell you to." These things were characteristic of the most enjoyable part of a police recruit’s training by the Los Angeles Police Academy. AS I was once again s lalomming the LAPD course during the recent PCA event, I couldn’t help but fantasize about a mythical grand event entitl ed "Porsche vs
Matador."
Driving the course in an AMC Matador
instead of a 911 was like piloting the Queen Mary down the LA river -- almost. Surprisingly, the Matadors negotiated the course fairly well turning
’ some respectable times (70-80 seconds for a boxy sedan isn’t bad). The Matadors used for instruction were well-equipped with roll bars and optional AMC police suspension. Before driving the course, LAPD recruits are givena four hour block of instruction, in which such fundamentals as outside-inside-outside cornering and understeer and oversteer are discussed. According to the instructors, the three-day course is equivalent to the three-day course at the Bondurant school, with one exception: you learn in AMC "exotica" instead of Formula cars. After the first block of instruction, each recruit gets his turn to familiarize himself or herself (yes, there were a few "hers") with the track and the automobile with an LAPD instructor. Once the instructor feels you have a vague sense of what is going on and what is about to happen, you go all out. The instructor tells you to floor it on the straight and not to brake til you’re told to. For anyone who has never driven competitively nor driven an automobile to its limits, it can be a harrowing experience to approach an almost 90 degree turn at 85 mph and not brake until about 50 feet from the turn. At that point you don’t know which alternative to take. If you brake before you are told, you have the instructor all over you, and if you don’t you have nightmare visions of rolling the Matador and putting an end to a short-lived police career. After a couple of hours practice however, the recruits are out there like Mario Andretti, their earlier fears having faded like last night’s hangover. I owned a Corvette at the time I went through the Academy, and an instructor who also owned a Corvette allowed me to take my car out on the track. While I was playing around, understeering all over the place, several instructors entered the track in police cars and began chasing me. I figured "I have a Corvette, they have Matadors; through the esses, they’ll never stay w~th me~" Needless to say, that was a gross miscalculation. They had as much trouble keeping up with me as Sam Wang had keeping up with my 911 in his 914-6 -- NONE. I have to admit, however, that I always lost the instructors on the straight where the Matadors could not keep up with my Vette. Sadly, it was the car and not my driving ability that temporarily lost the pursuing Matadors. In closing, when you’re tooling along at the very "respectable" 55 mph limit, and instant paranoia strikes at the sight of the red bubble-gum machine
in your rearview mirror, remember that the driver of that nondescript black-and-white may also be a Porsche enthusiast who appreciates your machine and driving skills. Who knows? Frank DiPaolo
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My first Porsche was a silver ’55 1500 Continental coupe, purchased new from Continental Motors in Whittier. I sold it to my older son Robert, and purchased a luxurious Mercedes 220S in 1957.
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consumption in the Ford was ]7 mpg at 55 miles per hour; the 300D has never given me less than 20 mpg in city driving, and at a constant 55, it is nearer 30 mpg. Some progress has occurred over thirty years of automotive design.
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designed to do. I think I’ll go over and visit my grandson’s red ’63 B Super. Harold L. Semans
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