Porscherama 1979 April

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

UP ’N C OMIN APRIL

Charles Alegria ’63 356B Coupe - Silver A1 Broussard ’77 924 - Silver Ron Garner ’67 911 Coupe - Red Tim McKinnon ’63 356SC - White ’74 911S Targa - Plum Robert McLean ’76 911S - White Stan Suddick ’73 911T. Targa - Silver William Wigley ’72 911T Coupe - Blue

* 7 TRANSFERS TO LA REGION Marcel Mol from Riverside Kim Stocksdale from Golden Gate Stewart Watson from Lone Star George Stanton from Michiana Keith & Mary Damrow from Orange Coast Phyllis Hay from Redwood

William Wilson III ’64 356C Coupe - White Jerry Zaki ’76 930 Turbo - Bronze

Rod & Betty Francis from Hawaii

PCA-LA cocktail party for our Nat’l Exec.

Council; see details on next page.

* 8 Long Beach Grand Prix; we’ll be there 100 strong on race day; any questions about transportation to the race, call Susan McKee 278-8930.

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Arizona Time Trial CANCELLED DUE TO FLOODING OF THE TRACK: to be rescheduled.

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PCA-LA Board meeting at Jack DiRosario’s; members welcome, but call 325-0211.

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PCA-LA Swap Meet - CANCELLED

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PCA-LA membership meeting at the Original Barbeque, 801S. Vermont in downtown LA; cocktails at 6 PM, dinner at 7:30; IMSA driver as guest speaker; see flyer for directions and details , 21- IMSA races at Riverside; if you re inte22 rested in attending with an LA group, call Jan Winthrop 670-1976 during the day.

28- Willow SpringsTi~meTrial, sponsored by 29 Riverside Region; HQ at the Essex House in Lancaster; tech at hotel Fri. night and Sat. at track; $30 entry, $7 second driver" info call Darrell Malott (714) 875-9836.

Steven Yano from Hawaii MAY

The Crane School Concours, held in September of each year in Santa Barbara, is planning to make Porsche the featured car this year.

If you are interested in showing your concours Porsche at this event, call Mike Springer (714) 847-7598..Watch ROAD & TRACK for an article on this event in the next few months ....

Tag lady Sara Pennington is available at each membership meeting to take orders for name tags; still see members (and board) showing up without tags (for shame) .... Long time PCALA member Ursula Grunfeld will be moving to northern California this month; we wish her the very best in her new job and her new condominium and we hope she’ll still visit Zone 8 once in a while, or maybe we’ll just have to start attendCongratulations to ing more Zone 7 events ....

Larry and Ellie Amberg on the birth of their son Matthew Christopher.

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356 Holiday in Tucson; for info, call Bob Raucher 784-6081.

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Time trial drivers’ licensing school at Sear’s Point, sponsored by Golden Gate Region; cost is $35 per student with all participants assigned an instructor; call (408) 264-1822

5 or PCA-LA Tech meeting; Pirelli presentation 12 on tires; time, date and meeting place to be announced next month. * 9

PCA-LA board meeting at Ann’s place; call 826-9628 if you want to come.

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PCA-LA membership meeting at South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club, 13445 Mindanao Way in Marina del Rey; Dustin Janes’ 2nd Annual Parking Lot BBQ; see flyer.

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Old Timers’ Race at Willow Springs; for info call Jan Winthrop 670-1976.

26- West Coast Weekender; see flyer.

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--- c enua ’pres "" rhetoric If we choose to play historian and judge the future by the past, it’s very easy to anticipate lots of gratification from PCA-LA events scheduled for the coming months. The past that I am referring to is the first three months of 1979. For January we combined a membership meeting with a visit to the Briggs Cunningham Museum.

If attendance and interest is any measure, it was very successful. Then we spent a Sunday at LAPD getting acquainted with the new pursuit course, all 55 of us; and judging from those who were there expressing themselves, it was also in the plus column, A couple of Sundays ago 52 drivers with their navigators made it to Calabasas for the 9 AM start of our annual Solvang Challenge Cup Rally.

Accolades to Bill LeFlang and his competent brother John for a fine job as rallymasters, It was the only time I have ever seen a rally completed without some bitching and moaning about interpretations, ambiguities or whatever, There were no questions about this one. Thanks Bill and John.

That perennial potentate of PCA Porsche pushers, Ron Ramage, maintained his usual degree of excellence in putting on the Zone 8 Concours at Santa Anita.

It was a big job with little credit, and concours chairmen are hard to find.

But Ron, as usual, took on the job and made us look great in Zone 8. We had 34 cars entered for competition, and another four cars on display. A good crowd was present and we took away some of the attention the ponies were getting, Our two membership meetings have both been excellent. John LeFlang covered the basic rally rules and procedures in preparation for the Solvang Rally, and Rudi Speilberger of VOA gave an excellent presentation on the development of the 928.

On the 7th of April the PCA national executive council will be meeting h~re, and we’ll have a chance to rub elbows (and bend elbows) with them at the evening cocktail party we have planned at the Portofino Inn at King Harbor in Redondo Beach. The parking area is a security lot with guards and plenty of space.

We should be there about 7:30ish. Let’s show them what PCA-LA looks like.

Our April meeting will be exceptional. This month only it will be on WEDNESDAY. The date is the 18th and the place is the Original Barbecue, 801 So Vermont in downtown LA. No reservations are necessary, but the room holds only 90 people; so don’t be late. As a guest speaker we’ll have one of the drivers who will be in town for the six hour IMSA Enduro race at Riverside on the 22nd. Everyone is still talking about the meeting where Richard Petty spoke -- this one promises to be even better.

Although the Enduro race, which will be preceded by an historic auto race on the 21st, is not included on our official list of activities, a bunch of us are planning on going together.

If you’d like to be involved, call Jan Winthrop, 670-1976.

And to wind up April, we’ll try to take some trophies home from the Zone 8 Time Trial at Willow on the 28th and 29th.

So as I said, from the past we can predict the future, and the past couple of months mean a terrific year. The people of LA Region are making it so.

Dave Stephens

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March 11th turned out to be a beautiful day for a rally, as over 50 cars converged at the facilities of Prestige Auto Service for the beginning of the eighth running of Destination Solvang. This is the annual competition between the Porsche Owners’ Club and the Los Angeles Region of PCA. It was also LA’s contribution to the PCA Zone 8 rally series. The POC/PCA-LA competition, which started in 1972, is called the Challenge Cup Rally, and has been won every year except one by PCA. This year was no exception to the rule, as we will see later.

As the rally cars left from the start, the course took them on Valley Circle and Topanga Canyon to the 118 Fwy. for an odo calibration check. Then onto the freeway, where signs that were spelled wrong shouldn’t have been used for speed changes. After getting on Calif. 23, rallyists had to contend with a course trap: if you didn’t complete one instruction before starting the next, you ended up on Balcom Canyon, a road that has been used a number of times in this series. If you recognized the course trap (or missed a left turn at Egg City), you entered an area known as the Bardsdale maze, and had to contend with three active notes at one time, plus a forced turn trap. An off course control in this area helped lost cars get back on track.

The first checkpoint came soon after that.

Then the course continued on Calif. 150, with a small confidence trap introduced to make you worry. After a short break in Ojai, and a doit-yourself checkpoint, the course passed by Lake Casitas, through Montecito, up US 101, over San Marcos Pass, and eventually into the third checkpoint just outside Solvang. On the way there were signs reading FALLING ROCKS (which didn’t exist), lots of red-on-white signs reading NO PARKING ANYTIME, and a beautiful rural area along Baseline Road.

After a lunch break in Solvang, we departed via Alisal Rd., with a number of speed changes at mileage points, passing through Buellton for another checkpoint and a wave at the split pea place. On the last leg down 101 to Santa Barbara, a phantom car problem was introduced, involving a rather sick 928 travelling the freeway at 30 mph. After the last checkpoint, we all converged on the restaurant to relax and compute our.errors.

If this sounds like fun, then give it a try sometime. Watch the newsletter or Pitstops in the LA Times for announcements.

Congratulations to all the winners. In SOP class, Duane Mihalek and Cathy Cardinale of POC took first place with a total error of 4.25 minutes. In the navigational class, Charles Fletcher and Joe Boucher of Santa Barbara PCA took first (and best time of day) with an excellent 0.65 minutes error. In the equipped class, Jim and Jean Paden of PCA-LA took first with 1.22 minutes of error. Jim and Jean were the winners of the Challenge Cup, making the score PCA-LA: 7 and POC: 1.

Rallymasters Bill and John LeFlang appreciate the help of all those who worked the event (including Carola Anderson, Jack DiRosario, Sam Wang, Nick and Ceci Friesen, Bob Raucher, Mary Felo, Sue Becker, and Ann Wang), and especially the support of Prestige Auto Service.

Bill LeFlang

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Bring the family and come join us for marinated flank steak (secret home recipe published in last year’s newsletter), salad ’ rolls ’ beer and soft drinks, and dessert in the "elegant" surroundings of the SCC Yacht Club parking lot ¯ ¯ We’re also planning another "surprise" event this year; so don’t miss the fun COST: $3 per person IF YOU CALL IN YOUR RESERVATION before May 12 Ann, 826-9628 evenings $4 per person if you just show up (’cause Dustin needs to know how much food to buy; so make your plans now) ¯

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We discovered Sunday that Porsche owners aren’t very good about pre-registering for an event, but they do show up. Altogether 34 entrants came for our Santa Anita Zone 8 concours, and four more cars were brought just for the fun of showing them. Somehow we lucked out on the weather, with sunshine and cool breezes all day.

Because this was the first concours of the Zone 8 series this year., we got to be the guinea pigs for a new judging System that is being tested.

Rather than having several judges who each do a certai n area of the car, three judges each score the entire car. The judging took a lot longer than anyone had expected, but all the participants (and judges) remained cheerful throughout the day. And in the end everyone was a winner; 21 trophies were awarded, and the other participants received T-shirts and hats, compliments of Santa Anita. The Santa Anita organization also provided us with coffee and doughnuts early in the morning, and we really appreciated

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Thanks first to Bozzani P/A for their sponsorship of the concours; we feel very lucky to have their support for our events. And thanks to all the people who helped during the day-judges Geri Boothe Chuck and Stana Cooper, Peter Luelsdorf, Jerry Pennington, and Bob Wood from PCA-LA, and Burt Misevic and Joe Schneider from PCA-Santa Barbara; and to Sara Pennington, David Kozak and Ann Wang, who helped with registration and the final computation of the scores, SANTA ANITA CONCOURS TROPHY WINNERS C-1 M. Harris A. Pino C-2 C-3 C-5 C-6

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1967 911 Coupe. Powder blue/blk, 4 speed, 15,000 mi. on engine rebuild, new Konis, 7" and 8" factory alloys with locks, Dunlop SPs Blaupunkt AM-FM cassette with signal ’ seeker, coco mats, cover, front spoiler and rear license plate filler panel; anti-theft device, lowered "S" trim, brakes and gauges; new muffler; fender flares and paint by Laszlo; well maintained, not raced; beautiful car.

Offers around $7000. Call Keith Foster (714) 639-9979.

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After countless weekends of beer drinklng listening to KLAC, and working on our cars, at Judd’s house, the Monkeyface Race Team (consisting of Judd Boykin, Jose Ochoa, Jan Winthrop, Cindy Crystal, Don Crane, and myself) was ready to launch its assault on the Zone 8 Time Trial series. Or so we thought.

Six cars left for Vegas from my place about two hours late. After stopping a few times so I could catch up, and once more when Lark blew a tire, we arrived at Sunland P/A for pre-tech in about six and a half hours. All of our cars passed pre-tech except Cindy’s 63B, which needed a battery strap, We retired to our motel to party while Lark and Don drove to the airport to pick up Jose.

Practice came up early on Saturday and so did a lot of problems. We used a camera shoulder strap to tie down Cindy’s battery. Judd had brake problems, his tires were rubbing the fenders, and the jets came out of his carburetors, causing gas to squirt all over the motor, Don Crane had an oil leak that we fixed with racing tape. Jan lost his windshield and a headlight cover.

I needed spark plugs and my tires were rubbing on the fenders.

It got a lot of laughs when I let the car down off the jack without putting the wheel back on.

Practice ended early when an accident involving three cars occurred in turn one.

With all our problems cured and a full night of partying behind us, we were looking forward to good timed runs. When the wind and rain had settled, the results were very encouraging.

Seven drivers in six cars won five firsts (two unopposed). One of us also took slow time of day. Combined with four more firsts and a second for other LA racers (Susan McKee made a bid for Monkeyface membership with her taste for Jack Daniels), LA Region dominated the weekend.

All of us salute Carl Young and Las Vegas Region for the tightest, most efficiently run event we can remember. We are looking forward to next year, and l’m looking forward to their Zone 8 rally.

Ben Adauto

(And some additional notes from the other half of the LA contingent): An unprecendented number of LA "speed freaks,, reported to the Las Vegas Speedrome for the first speed event of the 79 Zone 8 calendar.

(Besides the racers mentioned above) there was John Williamson in his near-concours 914 2 liter; Mac McKee drove smoothly and aggressively in his time trial debut, while wife Susan was "scared .... less;" Lee and Tony Burton won at the tables and at the track; and Pete Zimmermann, Jack DiRosario, and Sam roomed together and tried for the Seagrams/ blackjack record (we fell well short).

The event was marred on Saturday afternoon by two serious accidents. The first involved Joe Weber’s 912 from San Diego. When one of his race tires blew, his car rolled and spun to a dusty stop, driver and passenger escaping without injury. Pete Stacy in a 914-6 and Carl Young in his 911 stopped at trackside to help Joe. Before Carl and his passenger could get out of his car, an out-of-control 911, steered by a novice driver, "bumped" into it. When the dust settled, the event organizers wisely decided to close the track for the rest of the day and sit down for a serious bout of Zone 8 safety think. A plan for implementing better instructor and student standards is being hammered out for the next event, Holtville.

Timing went well on Sunday til late in the afternoon, when Mom Nature (apparently driving a Fiat) turned on us and produced cold, blustery weather with occasional sprinkles.

Despite it all, timed runs went without upset.

And LA walked off with almost as many firsts as it had cars. Thanks to Carl Young for a great event.

Sam Wang

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Dear PCA. Orange Coast Region and Bill Van Porsche/ Audi invites you to attend the 17th WEST COAST WEEKENDER, May 2~ 27 and 2K 1979, in Costa Mes~ California. The SOUTH COAST PLAZA HOTEL will be headquarters, as well a~ the Concours" site, the Rallye start and location for two banquets. A very fast and challen~ng slalom (closed exhaust) in the expansive parking facility of LION COUNTRY SAFARI wild anireal park, a tour of BRIGOS CUNNINOHAM AUTO MUSEUM and a SWAP MEET will make for a socio~ competitive and rewarding weeken~ Ladies ’, men’s and overall awards will be presented to climax this popular California based event. May is a month we brag about in southern California so come enjoy this long weekend with us.

SUNDAY: 27 May Slalom at Lion Country Safari Dress-up Awards Banquet

Mike Spnnger

Fill out Registration Form and mall with checkJmoney order payable to PCA/OCR, 17th WEEKENDER, no earlier than MARCH 1, 1979 (Postmark) nor later than MAY 10, 1979 (received).

Only 100 applicants will be accepted on a first come basis. Mail to:

17th WEEKENDER Chairman 7~

MONDAY: 28 May Porsche Swap-Meet Tour of Briggs Cunningham Auto Museum REGISTRATION: All Competitive Events, Swap Meet and Tour, Wine and Cheese Party,, $25.00 Saturday Barbeque Iper person~,,,, $20.00 Sunday Banquet (per person).,,**,o $18.00 Special Package Price lif received before April first) $55.00 entrant

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FRIDAY: 25 May Check-in, Hotel and Registration Pre-Tech with Wine and Cheese Party.

¯ Georgia Andrea, Registrar 6362 Freeborn Drive Huntington Beach, California 92647

SATURDAY: 26 May Concol~rs d’Elegance on Hotel lawn T.S.D. Rallye afternoon and casual pool side Western Style Steak Barbeque

Acceptance will follow with hotel info. and Competition Rules. Do not make Hotel reservations until you hear from us.

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local Ieve~"PCA-LA is a group of over 500 Porsche enthusiasts~.~.~’O~:r club offers the Porsche owner the opportunity to share the exhilirating and sometimes frustrating experience of driving, maintaining, and understanding one of the most unique automobiles in the world. We invite you to enjoy it with us.

Membership in the Porsche Club of America costs $24.00 annually. This includes regional dues, and it entitles the member to discounts at club events, subscriptions to both PORSCHERAMA and PANORAMA, and much more. For further information, contact our Membership Chairman, Carola Anderson.

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Dave Stephens ................. (213) 540-7752

VICE PRESIDENT Bill Bohn ..................... (213) 247-8387

SECRETARY Howard Levin .................. (213) 783-3164 TREASURER Stana Cooper .....

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