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calendar July 6-10:
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July 8: General Membership Meeting, Cahuenga Elementary School, 220 S. Hobart Street Los Angeles. 8:00 p.m. July 18: Mid-July Rally, Denny’s behind downtown L.A. Union Staion, all cars are welcome, starts at i0:00 a.m. July 26: PORSCHERAMA deadline July 30: Putthepapertogether, Editor’s place, 8:00 p.m., reservations required. August 8: PCA Road Test September 9: Dinner Meeting, "Little Joss" September 25/26: ONTARIO??? 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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EDITOR 3ohn Lipham 4310 P~mpas Road
Woodl~nd Hills, C~. 91364 CONTRIBUTIN~ EDITOR 3~m Ew[n~ 374-5489
DIRECTORS PRESIDENT
869-7842
Georse ~edeon
8575 LuSec
Downey, C~l. 90240 VICE PRES.
Mary Morris
330-5650
SECRETARY R.Z~ezenhenne TREASURER Chuck Adklns BD CHRMAN Dave Kalbach ACTIVITIES PUBLICITY TEC HN ICAL
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MEMBERSHIP
653-7785 397-5204 792-4364
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325-4131 347-7897. 634-7355
Corky Kirk
447-5109
PO box 416 Arcadia, Cal. 91006
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California has thirteen of the 75 chartered regions of PCA, and certainly more Porsches are in California than any other state. California also has the largest assortment of kooks and wierdos of any state. Thought all you kooks and wierdos would be interested in a comment I received after last week’s "LeMans" movie, where i00 PCA-LAers massed in Hollywood. "I always thought car club people were kooks and wierdos, but your club members were interesting, intelligent, polite, and generally impressive as a group." How ’bout that: Thanks to pam, Mary Ann Kalbach and Dave, Mary Morris, Don Somerville, and Old Wierd Jim for helping putthepapertogether. Bring a six-pack or a bottle of wine to wet your tongue and have fun: John
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JULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULYJuLYJULYJULYJULYJULYJULY July 8th: General Membership Meeting, Cahuenga Elementary School, 220 So. Hobart Street, Los Angeles, 8:00 p.m. If you are concerned with the legislative direction the Federal and State Governments are taking to "improve" the safety of the automobile, attend this meeting and hear the speaker, Mike Brubacker, founder of Motorists United. RALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLYRALLY July 18: Mid-July rally, begins at i0:00 a.m. at Denny’s behind Union Station downtown L.A. $3 for members, $4 for non-members. A slightly different type of rally awaits fun-seekers on Sunday, 18 July. For guaranteed thrills, it will be a Monte Carlo type. The course will be shown beforehand, so no one can get lost. The distance to check points will also be given, but entrants will be required to select the number of minutes they will take to negotiate each leg. The only equipment needed is an accurate timepiece. It is an open event~ so bring your friends. Trophies will be awarded one for every four cars, entrieslimited to 50 cars. Curt Kuebler, 398-2217. ~ AUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAUGUSTAOGOS~AUGUS~AUGOSTAUGOSTAUGUSTAOGOSTAOGOSTAOGOSTAOGOST8
The Quick Grits Racing Team (Heir-apparent to Fearless Auto Racing Team - ed) swings into action with PCA-LA’s first mass road test for you and your Porsche. QGRT Director and Eventmaster Old Wierd Jim (Ewing) says it will be an educational event, providing each participant with the technique for evaluating his car prior to our high-speed event in September. Dry skid pad; acceleration and braking lanes; high-speed lift and drag tests, and a practice road course to practice all you’ve learned. A flyer with all details will follow. OWJ SEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBERSEPTEMB Mary Morris needs(far in advance)your dinner reservation for the September PCA meeting at Little Joe’s Italian Restaurant, 904 N. Broadway, L.A., September 9th. Speaker will be a member of Road & Track’s editorial staff. Tear off and mail with check to Mary Morris, 2552 Rio Branca Dr, Hacienda Heights California 91745. Make check payable to: PCA-LA Menu( Includes tax & tip ) Choice of: ( ) Half&Half : Ravioli, Spaghetti & meat balls ....................... $3.50 ( ) Filet, wrapped in bacon ........................................... $5.50
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Concours D’ Elegance, June 6, 1971 Official Results Entrant Club Class Place Points Overall Winners John Cesareo OCR I 1 206 183 2 George McClelland OCR II 1 195 Jeffrey Bucher OCR III 2 162 Keith Foster OCR IV 1 216 182 3 Ken Fields LA V 1 195 John Fels LA VI 1 167 Blaine Halley LA III 1 172 Jim Jansen I 2 205 186 1 Paul Beam LA V 2 176 M~VIEM~VIEM~vIEM~vIEM~vIEM~vIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIEM~VIE A Film Comment: "LeMans" by Jim Ewing (Apologies for spacing -ed) It’s dawn in rural France ...... If you’ve ever been there in June, you know the feeling already. Misty. Mystical. A heady mosaic of agrarian life, punctuated by sleepy villages and yawning cathedrals. There is winding asphalt lined with trees planted by N. Bonaparte’s 17th Century ecology staff. And a lone midnight blue 911S, coursing resolutely through the morning peace ....... The Porsche is quiet icy sculpture. It’s polished surface mirrors the life about it. The scene is understatement in the highest form of the art° An exquisite, cinematic genesis to 24-hours at LeMans. The serenity of it all belies the automotive mayhem to come. It also a~ser~s the director’s sensitive view of the time and the place and the marque and its driver, never set aside for the hour and fifty minutes of the film ....... It is a superb McQueenism ....... The pi!ot of the 911S is Steve McQueen, alias Michael Delaney. He returns to LeMans to a silent, brooding, witty confrontation with himself, with the course, with Erich Stabler, the first team Ferrari driver, destined to race Delaney all the way to the finale, with his Porsche-Gulf team manager, the film version of John Wyer, and with the widow of the ill-fated Ferrari driver ....... But the plot is unobtrusive. One hardly senses a plot. What’s more, it’s not missed ....... The 24-hours of competition if plot enough. And that’s the difference between "LeMans" and "Gran Prix", the other racing film McQueen’s effort will inevitably be compared with. Here, McQueen is the genuine competitor, making cinematic statements about genuine competition. But rather than myriad drivers loitering about preaching, McQueen broods, and stares and contemplates and smiles once in awhile, and drives and drives. And, for the 24-hours, you are part of his moods, inside his head somewhere ....... It becomes a superb cerebral 200 mile-per-hour experience ........ For, if you think you will be merely and observer at "LeMans", you are mistaken. At the cataclysmic moments of the contest, when the driver’s automatic mainline of adrenalin has started, his human brain counts faster and faster, savoring each precious instant for stimulous and response to prolong his very existence. Cinematically it’s called slow motion. In the context of Steve McQueen’s "LeMans" it’s your shared experience in a deathly accident, frame by frame. The machine agonizingly destroys itself, part number by part number. The driver’s humanity fights each twist and turn and then relives each impact in a noisy cerebral instant replay. Ten or fifteen seconds of terminal action by a stopwatch for the machine. Two or three explosive minutes for you and the driver. The technique is used Sparingly to save its special effect for the start of the race, for two accidents, and for a final human moment between " a McQueen and a woman"
"LeMans" is a fine effort. There are flaws. But it is a human experience. And so it goes with humans ....... The five-litre World Manufacturing Championship race car is scheduled to cease its racing existence next season. If that be true, then Mr. McQueen has just executed a virile cinematic epitath for the breed ....... It is their finest 24-hours ....... And they won’t pass by this way again. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& from the QUICK GRITS RACING TEAM Another HOT FLASH LOS ANGELES, California - Old Wierd Jim and Uncle John, star drivers of the QGRT just revealed they will attend "LeMans" this year. This important announcement came after their recent spectacular successes on Mulholland Drive and a very quick time in the Canoga 500, held last month ....... Asked about their preparations for the event, OWJ stated: "We believe we can make it with only one driver change this year. After all, the movie is only 1:50 long, and we’ve been gettin’ in shape by watching reruns of "Gran Prix" non-stop on a sixpack of suds apiece. "We also just completed a 12-hour endurance contest at the Pussycat Theater", said Uncle John ...... "We know American Porsche drivers everywhere are counting on teams like us to represent them at important international events. Our LeMans experience should get us in shape for next year’s biggie, the reruns of the 1956 Demolition Derby from Islip, New York. We know all our fans are looking forward to that one. Right, UJ?" "Write On:°’ ...... Keep watching this space, fans, for more news preside~tiHl rhetoric At the Parade in Sun Valley, there will be a meeting of the Board of Directors of PCA National. Several items will be discussed, among which will be several submitted by PCA-LA. The most important item we are submitting is a question concerning National’s stand concerning the proposed Federal Highway Safety Program. We will ask PCA National to submit to Mr. Douglas Toms, the Director
of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a written plea for an intelligent approach to highway safety along the lines proposed by Road & Track and Motorists United. Other items we will ask to be discussed are travel expenses for National Officers; Factory-Dealer-Owner relationships and how to improve them; George
and awards for outstanding individual contrubutions to the marque. Gedeon.
women’s glib
I can’t believe it. Two months in a row, and no comment from the girls. Old Maudi Audi still can’t write, either. She fell in love with Vincent Price,. and She’ll be on him like is in Hollywood watching every show of "Dr. Phibes°’ ugly on an ape. FFO, Maudi!
secretarial PCA-LA May Membership Meeting Minutes ............. was held on the llth at the Schlitz Brown Bottle Room. President Gedeon thanked Mr. Jackman for the use of the facility. The minutes of the March meeting were approved. Mary Morris said June meeting will be on the 10th at the school. There will be slides of the Yosemite trip. Chuck Adkins stated our current balance is $1312.14. John Lipham said he needs material for Women’s Glib. John also said he had i00 tickets to "LeMans" on the 17th of June. Corky Kirk announced that membership stands at 246. Porsche bulletin information should be received soon. Dale Boyd presented trophies for Lucky 7 rally. Vasek Polak presented trophies for Willow Springs. Curt Kuebler presented Mr. Polak with a desk set for sponsoring Respectfully submitted, R. H. Ziesenhenne, Secretary W~lllow. 4
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~ith additions and deletions, the current membership stands at 250. Our membership is increasing at the rate of 5 per month, mostly from the western part of L.A. Rallies and drivers training head the list as the most popular interests. New members and guests will be identified at meetings with name tags. Make them feel at home with a personal " hello" Corky Kirk JOHN DEVINE, 12719 ist St, La Mirada; 943-7544; personnel mgr; ’67 yellow 912 URSULA GRUENGELF, 2800 Nelson Way, S. Monica;399-6233; Ursula is in printing production, is 71 years young, and drives a new green 914. Welcome. GLEN BUCKLER, 1263 Oxford, Pasadena; 794-4106 KEN SPRING, 14141 Dickens, #308, S. Oaks; 986-8000; lawyer; ’71 tangerine 911T FRED FIRESTONE, 8429 Sheffield Rd, S. Gabriel’ 285-6991; Data Proc; ’65 SC JOE ALEXANDER, 12012 Compton Ave, L.A., Transfer from Potomac Region JOHN HEMPHILL, 5151 St. Sollage, L.A.; Transfer from Great Plains Region LEONARD HARRIS, 14051Albers, Van Nuys CYRIL MITCHELL, 29502 Harvester Rd, Malibu; 457-2143; M.D.; ’70 white 911T D.H. RAMSAY,4949 Laurel Canyon, N. Holl~ood; 762-5417; Engr; Burq~dy ’70 911T
for sale
1969 Silver 911E coupe, am/fm, bumper guards, tinted glass, fog lites, fender mirrors, Michelin XVR tires, 28,000 miles. $6300. Also 1970 914/6, red, with appearance group, 7" chrome rims, racing tires, am/fm; 15,000 miles. $4800. John Saalbach (714) 245-8~98. Wanted: Factory workshop manual for 356C with SC supplements. George Gedeon, 869-7842. Wanted: Four hub caps with enamel emblems for 356 A & B. Dave Dude (213) 365-1744
techFlical
Anyone having owners manuals for any kind of Porsche, or with Technical Manuals or equipment, or other such technical items, please notify Tech Chairman, Don Somerville, 634-7355, for a list of poeple for reference. HERMOSA BEACH, California- PCA-LA member Vasek Polak is sponsoring a CanAm 917 to be driven by Milt Minter. Vasek’s car will be the No. 0 campaigned by Jo Siffert in 1969. The car has the only 5-1iter engine in private hands, which could turn it into a winner. The 12-cylinder engine displaces 4900cc, if fuel injected, has four oh cams, two distributors, two plugs per cylinder, and has 670 hp. The body work on this car has been altered to improve aerodynamics and to aid in cooling. A 4-speed gearbox is used, oil capacity increased, and brakes changed to Girling. Let’s hope Alwin Springer, chief mechanic for the car, can make Vasek Polak a CanAm winner. THE VOLKSWAGEN STORY - Ever wonder how Dr. Porsche came to build the beetle? Well, history says Ferdinand went to see Hitler in February, 1933, and received instructions to build a "People’s Car" for I000 DM. The cheapest car in Germany at the time cast 2800DM. Dr. Porsche worked at the Daimler-Benz factory, and on June 30, 1937, thirty VW’s were completed. SS officers tested these cars, and Hitler decided to mass-produce the car at Count Von Schulenburg’s estate. Ferdinand called the place Wolfsburg, after a cage of wolves he used to visit in the Stockholm zoo. 70~ of the city was destroyed during WWII, but Heinz Nordhof rebuilt the factory and Wolfsburg, and production resumed and continues and flourishes t~day. ******************************************************************************* The June issue of Road & Track has two very good articles of interest to Porsche fans. One ~n~h~17~ and orre on the ~50 Spyder.
etcetera COMPETITION MEN Paul Beam Nick Friesen Bill McInerney George Gedeon Ken Fields A1 Gray Ron Reese Maurice Breunig Cliff Yost Skee Ziesenhenne
POINTS WOMEN Cece Friesen Cathy Clark Merv Beam Delores Ziesenhenne Helen Boyd Marcia Downey Kay Kious Barbara Reese Mary Ann Kalbach Denise Kodani
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PARTICIPATION POINTS MEN Ron Ramage Curt Kuebler Peter Luelsdorf Duane Alan Bill McInerney Nick Friesen Dale Boyd Jim Ewing Paul Beam Lewis Pulley
WOMEN Pam Lipham Carol Gedeon Merv Beam Helen Boyd Cece Friesen Karen Pulley Betty Yost Jane Shaw Delores Ziesenhenne Marcia Downey
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330 285 195 195 155 150 125 i00 95 70
Participation points must be turned in by Event Chairman to the Activities Chairman in order for proper credit to be given. Make sure you give the full name to event chairman. Betty Yost,"Keeper of the Points" ******************************************************************************* NOTICE TO ALL PCA MEMBERS - Anyone having information pertaining to early and/ or rare Porsches in the California area is requested to contact me regarding the establishment of a register. Cars of particular interest are early aluminum coupes and convertibles, all Spyders, Reutter-bodied specials, "America" roadsters (1952 & 1953), alloy Glocker specials, factory prototypes, and all 904’s. Information should include owner, body number, year, engine number, etc. Bob Raucher, 13454 Weddington Street, Van Nuys, California 91401, 784-6081. Anyone interested in becoming Editor of the newsletter next year can contact the present Editor about information. No pay, long hours, hard work, little help, lots of complaints, many suggestions, but very rewarding, if you have masochistic tendencies. No talent or previous experience required. Vacancy after December issue. Thank you for your support, readers.
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