Porscherama 1971 August

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Parking Lot at Marina and Aviation Blvd, Redondo Beach; $2 per car, Porsches only.

August 12: General Membership meeting, at Cahuenga Elementary School., 220 S. Hobart, L.A.

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August 19: Board Meeting, gedeon’s place, 8575 Lubec, Downey, "7:30.’

August 23: PORSCHERAMA Deadline .A.ugust 27: Putthepapertogether, Editor’s place, 8 : 00 p.m. , reservations required. ’71 West Coast Weekend, September 4/5: Santa Barbara September 9: Dinner Meeting, Little Joe’s

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Jim Ewing

374-5489

DIRECTORS

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September 25/26: Willow Springs October i0: Tour to Sedona, .Arizona November 14: Wine-tasting tour November ?: Another awards banquet at the Schlitz Brown Bottle Room December 4: Christmas Party ******************************************

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PRESIDENT

George Gedeon

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8575 Lubec Downey, Cal. 90240

SECRETARY

Mary Morris R.Z~ezenhenne

TREASURER

Chuck Adk~ns

397-5204

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PUBLICITY TEC HN ICAL MEMBERSHIP

John Lipham 347-7897 Don Somerv il le 634-7355 Corky Kirk 447-5109 PO box 416 Arcadia, Cal. 91006

VICE PRES.

330-5650 653-7785

For information about PCA activities, call DIAL-A-PORSCHE-CLUB, 398-2217, any time, day _or night. Free information. ,..this issue of Porscherama sponsered by .........

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New and used PORSCHE or AUDI sales contact Ron.

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Congratulations to Jim Ewing and last year’s PORSCHERAMA staff for winning the Best Newsletter Award at the PCA Parade in Sun Valley. The award was for the largest region class, and certainly reflects well on good old PCA-LA. Bill McInerney won two trophies at the parade, one for autocross, another in the concours. Congratulations, Bil!. Too bad PCA-LA didn’t have more people at the parade, though; Golden Gate Region had the most. Attending last month’s putthepapertogether party were Pam (of course), Mary Morris, Don Somerville, Corky Kirk and Gini, Old Wierd Jim and me. Entertainment was provided by channel ii and "The Bride of Frankenstein" The previous month it was a presentation of "Jesus Christ Superstar". We have fun, folks. Write On:

next events AUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUST 8th: PCA-LA Road Test, i0:00 a.m. at the parking lot at the corner of Marina & Aviation Blvds, Redondo Beach - (Take San Diego Fwy to Rosecrans, left onto Aviation, look for signs) This warmup for Willow Springs will help you know your car; will provide you with the technique for evaluating your car under emergency situations; dry skid pad, simulated emergecy situations, braking test, infinite curve, "walk-don’t walk" situations, and maybe some surprises. You can’t afford to miss this educational event. Instructors will be available to help each participant through the course. Jim Ewing, Eventmaster MEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEETINGMEET General Membership Meeting, August 12th, 8:00 p.m., Cahuenga Elementary School, Los Angeles. Jack McAfee will be the guest speaker. Cookies: WEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKENDWE September 4/5: Santa Barbara Region sponsors this year’s West Coast Weekend for PCAers. Registration will be at the Holiday Inn, .5650 Calle Real, Goleta.

(805) 964-6241. $20.00 covers registration, entry fees, BBQ and Victory Banquet. $35 for a couple. Limit of i00 cars. Sort of a Mini-parade, with Concours, rally, steak BBQ, slalom, and social events. Write Ed Yates, P.O. Box 3587, Santa Barbara, California 93105.

EATATLITTLEJ~E~SEATATLITTLEJ~E~SEATATLITTLEJ~E~sEATATLITTLEJ~E~SEATATLITTLEJ~E~S Mary Morris needs your reservation for the September PCA-LA Membership Meeting at Little Joe’s Italian Restaurant, 904 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, September 9th.

Speaker will be T.C. Browne of Motor Trend magazine.

TEAR OFF and mail with check to: Mary Morris, 2552 Rio Branca Dr, Hacienda Hts. California 91745. Make check payable to PCA-LA Menu ( Includes tax & tip ) Choice of: ( ) Half & Half - Ravioli, Spaghetti & Meatballs ..................... $3.50 ( ) Filet, wrapped in bacon .......................................... $5.50

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For a quick picture of a fast rally, read on. Twenty-three drivers and 23 navigators started the MID-JULY RALLY by looking at the course map, checkpoint mileages, and driving times, then forecasting when they would arrive at each checkpoint. Scoring was strict, with 20 points-per-second error for slowest driving times. Most entrants used the low penalty sample driving times, which were set in a 914/6 by a big young lady from Garneil who only races on weekends.

As you can see from the relults, the seemingly foolproof course map and instruction list wasn’t. The one typo (AHA: -ed) which read "after i" and should have read "after {--" (that’s supposed to look like a T -ed), caused little concern, but many cars missed Torrey Road and took Canoga Drive instead of Canoga Avenue.

After 4 hours of flying low in the hot sun, 21 carloads of enthusiasts relaxed in the cool interior of Farrel’s Ice Cream Parlor and told all sorts of wild tales. The following people were indispensible in the success of the Mid-July Rally: Mary Morris, Corky Kirk, Bruce Kuebler, Cliff Yost, Ada & Vern Covert, and Ron Ramage. Trophies will be presented Thursday, August 12, at the school..

Curt Kuebler, Rallymaster.

PLACE DRIVER/NAVIGATOR i* J. Hempel, S. Larson 2* D. Whorf, A. Miller 3* W. Smith, $. Adams 4* D. Kalbach, M. Kalbach 5* C. Friesen, N. Friesen 6 D. Kodani, R. Kodani J. Lipham, P. Lipham 7 8 J. Harn, T. Phillips 9 F. Majeske, C.Majeske i0 B. Valdez, J. Valdez ii J. Baughman, M. Baughman 12 J. Cici, C. Cici 13 P. Beam, M. Beam 14 K. Spring, A. Spring 15 G. Gedeon, C. Gedeon 16 G. Biel, S. Biel 17 M. Hedrick, L. Hedrick 18 M. Brown, S. Brodkin 19 B. Balmot, P. Balmot 20 U. Grunfeld, K. Goossens 21 C. Johnson, C. Johnson 22 J. Crowder, B. Heimer 23 B. Condon, K. Condon * Denotes trophy

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The other evening, George Gedeon said, "Nick, it’s been some 5 years since you were president, how about doing a guest column for me?" Since I’m laying around at the moment, and only available for a standing committee, I said OK. Actually, there’s still my office to worry about, SC to be kept straight, and some ASME committee work that’s spread over the nation that keeps my phone busy, but here goes for PCA .... Since our Porsche Parade in ’65 in Santa Barbara, our membership 3

has stabilized at about 250, and our big thing has been Willow Springs, which is fun & profitable and involves many people.

The success of these events depends upon your support, and you need to participate to collect on what the club owes you as a member.

Ask Jack Case (’60), Dale Boyd (’63), John Brevan(’66), Duane Alan (’67), Curt Kuebler(’68), Joe Schneider (’69), or Dave Kalbach (’70), all former presidents still active .... Driving safety is still up to us as individuals to keep "accidents" from happening.

It can and will happen, even if you’re legally right.

I try to avoid dangerous situations, to know myself and my car, and to be prepared for the unexpected. In the movie "LeMans", McQueen piles up a 917 due to a short loss of concentration.

Collisions are usually the result of several errors, and in McQueen’s case, a 911 was in his danger zone, and he overreacted relative to his speed and location.

If you take away one ingredient, he would not have hit the railing.

Every catastrophy needs more than one mistake combined with another to occur.

Otherwise, we’d all be dead.

To be a safe driver, you must make as few errors as possible, and have you equipment in good repair. Porsche drivers have an advantage, because our cars handle better than others; still, they are dangerous if you don’t know its capabilities.

Remember your very vulnerable gas tank up front and the fact that Porsches now have the power to be driven at speeds few of us are accustomed to.

Good driving also requires practice, and it can be studied.

There are some excellent books available, one of the best is "The Safe Driving Handbook", sponsored by the Aerospace Educational Foundation, and published by Grossett and Dunlap.

PCA/ POC/SCCA member Alan Johnson has also published a book on competition driving.

One chapter, "There Are 3 Kinds of Turns", will appear in Road & Track this

month.

Don’t miss it.

Gute Fahrt.

Nick Friesen

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Maudi Audi remains silent.

Some women have said they’d send in receiots to their favorite dishes.

Pam won’t divulge the secret of the QGRT, Grits Soufflet.

Your loss is my gain, folks, it’s delicious. Maudi eats it.

It’s good.

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PCA-LA June membership meeting minutes : President Gedeon said the July issue of R & T had an article on possible new safety laws.

Mary Morris said the August meeting will be at the school and Jack Mc Afee will be guest speaker.

She said she still needs help from the ladies.

Chuck Adkins was on vacation. John Lipham said all tickets for "LeMans" have been sold.

Don Somerville said there will be a tech meeting on 6/23 at Green Motors.

Corky Kirk said current membership is 250.

Cliff Yost said there were only 9 entries in the concours, and only 3 were from PCA-LA. Corky has completed the membership roster.

Nick Friesen is recovering from surgery and would like to hear from the members.

Duane Alan showed slides of Yosemite and presented trophies for the best slides.

John then showed a movie on the filming of "LeMans".

Respectfully submitted,

memhe shin

R.H. Ziesenhenne, Secretary

Current membership stands at 262, with new applications coming in at about 5 per month. The 1971 Membership Roster will be available at the meeting August 12th.

Also, pick up PCA business cards to pass out to your friends. These cards have activities on the back. Also available are decals, cuff links, car badges, and the like.

Corky RICK SILVERMAN, 1806 Corinth Ave, L.A.; 473-3036; Student; biege ’69 912

BOB GAYMAN, P.O. Box 611, San Fernando; Teacher; red ’59 cabriolet 4

DAVID RASUMOFF, 323 27th St~ Manhattan Beach; 545-7031; MD; ’65 green TEX WYATT, 5013 Oaklon Dr, Palos Verdes; 377-7039; Airline pilot; ’70 JIM DOUGHERTY, Suite 908, Union Bank Sq., Orange; 541-4109; Atty; ’70 JIM BROOKS,12758 Deon PI~ Granada Hills; 360-5551; Airline pilot; ’69

cabriolet 911E 911 Targa 911 Targa

for sale

Hella driving lamps, QI bulbs, amber, ’69 models; two Radyot driving lamps, one month old, with hoods; Maserati Air Horns, complete (Colonel Bogey’s March); Porsche bra (not mask). All for $i00. Robert Kaufmann, (213) 389-5044

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NOTES ON THE 914:

by Roger Wagner Just before leaving for L.A. after the Sun Valley Parade, I replaced a quickly balding front tire with the spare on my 914/4. ’?hereafter, at speeds over 20 mph, the car shook so violently I had to pull in to a service station in Haley, Idaho. The mechanic jacked up the front to check tire balance. After the car jumped off the jack, the swearing mechanic admitted that was the worst unbalanced tire he had ever seen, and gave up balancing the wheel on the car. So, on to the static balance (bubble balance).

"There, that should do it.", said he, standing back to admire his work. To my surprise, he had just put on some ten (i0) pounds of lead weights halfway around on both sides. Contemplating some i000 miles to go on a lead wheel, I refused tile job. I asked him to dismount the tubeless tire. So~ guess what, tech fans?? Out gushed at least a gallon of water. The windshield washer on 914’s is pressurized by the spare tire, like the VW. The tank had been feeding washer solvent into the spare. The tank cap had apparently suffered a faulty check valve.

The first VW Military Vehicle, ,the KUEBELWAGEN (Bucket Car), was ready for use 5

in December, 1939.

The Kuebelwagen had a KdF engine and modified KdF chassis.

Dr. Porsche was pressed into production of this vehicle, sidetracking the VW series 38 sedans.

Torsion-bar suspension, ZF cam-type self-locking differential (more recently standard in racing practice), engine displacement was i134cc.

Extensive use of aluminum and magnesium castings; carried four fully equipped troops; posessed a keen ability to scramble through mud and sand; equipped with a snorkle-like extension on carburetor intake, enable "bucket car" to ford some shallow streams; one reverse, four forward speeds; sour cylinder, opposed aircooled; hydraulic steering damper; limited slip differential (ZF).

The vehicle was designed to be the barest form of military transport, without regard for comfort or economy.

Its smooth underbelly sometimes acted as a sled; when the Kuebelwagen did run aground, light weight enabled the crew (of even two) to lift or slide the car free with ease.

An amphibious version appeared in 1942, called the Schwimmwagen. ("VW Nine Lives Later, by Dan R. Post; Great Plains Region, Howard Shoemaker, Editor)

etcetera Board Chairman Dave Kalbach announces the formation of a Nominations Committee to nominate from the membership, those persons deemed by the committee qualified and willing to serve on the 1972 Board of Directors.

Anyone interested in taking part in this committee or wanting to nominate anyone for a Director, please contact Dave at 792-4364, or any other present Board Member.

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COMPETITION

WOMEN Cece Friesen Cathy Clark Mary Ann Kalbach Delores Ziesenhenne Helen Boyd Marcia Downey Kay Kious Denise Kodani

MEN Paul Beam Nick Friesen Bill McInerney George Gedeon Ken Fields Peter Luelsdorf A1 Gray Maurice Breunig Cliff Yost Curt Kuebler Ron Ramage Peter Luelsdorf Duane Alan Jim Ewing Nick Friesen Dale Boyd

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PARTICIPATION POINTS Pam Lipham Carol Gedeon Merv Beam Helen Boyd Cece Friesen Karen Pulley Betty Yost

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