Porscherama 1971 May

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may

May 8: Tour to Yosemite. You can still go, but no rooms left ~ith bath. Call Duane Alan, 283-7423, for information.

May ll: Awards Banquet and General Merebership Meeting. Free beer, great food; and,Vasek Polack will present trophies to Willow Springs class winners. Please make reservations beforehand in order to gurantee the minumum. Send check for $3.50 per person to Mary Morris, 2552 Ric Branca Drive, Hacienda Heights, 91745. *FUTURE EVENTS* ~Tune

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STAFF EDITOR 3ohn liph~m 277-0770 4310 P~mpas Ro~d Woodl~nd Hills, C~. 91364

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Jim Ewlng

DIRECTORS

Concours

July 6-10: PCA Parade, Sun Valley, Idaho July 18 :

PRESIDENT

George Gedeon 8575 Lubec

Rallye

August 22:

Beach Party

September 25/26:

Willow Springs again

374-5489

869-7842

VICE PRES.

Downey, Cal. 90240 Ma~/Morris 330-5650

SECRETARY TREASURER

R. Ziezenhenne Chuck Adklns

653-7785 397-5204

BD CHRMAN Dave Kalbach

792-4364

ACTIVITIES

Cliff ¥ost

325-4131

October i0/ii: Tour to Sedona, Arizona

PUBLICITY

John Upham

347-7897

November 14:

TEC HN ICAL MEMBERSHIP

Don Somervil le Corky Kirk PO box 416

634-7355 447-5109

December 4 :

Wine tasting tour

Arcadia, Cal. 91006

Christmas Party

PCA INFORMATION: 398-2217

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Mike and Anne, you missed a great weekend. Tom, you would have loved to have driven the Willow course. It was great fun, we got some new members, and it was a successful event, in spite of the misfortunes. Everyone please go in to Vasek Polak’s and thank him for being such a great supporter of PCA. Thanks to George & Carol Gedeon and Dave Kalbach for helping with the April issue. I got several volunteers at the meeting, too; thanks, we need the help, Pam and I. Anyone know what Maudie Audi looks like? Willard Wingnut was seen walking behind the little green house with Elizabeth Easy: Gary Greasepit and Helen Hubcap left the race early ... together? More juicy gossip later.

(Oh: Jim Ewing helped, too) John

next eveFIts May 8: Tour to Yosemite. Thirty-eleven zillion Porsches and one Edsel will trek up to the high country. It’s not too late to tag along, but you’s better pack your own cistern; no rooms with bath (or facilities) left. Call Duane Alan, 283-7423, and plead with him.

PORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHEPORSCHE May ii: General Membership Meeting and Awards Banquet for Willow Springs Time Trials and "Lucky 7" Rallye. Beer starts flowing at 6:00 p.m. at the Brown Bottle Room, Schlitz Brewery, 7521 Woodman Avenue, Van Nuys; Great Mexican dinner starts at 7:30. $3.50 gets you all the beer you can drink, plus the food, plus the trophies, the fun and friendship and all that stuff. Make reservations, or it costs $4 at the door. Mary Morris, 330-5650 or 481-5582.

last events

JUNGLELAND SLALOM, Thousand Oaks, March 21st: This joint event with the good old Mustang club was a practice event, and no trophies will be awarded. The (B. McInerney) PCA-LA members who participated are as follows: BEST TIME NAME STANDING 1:02.50 Chuck Adkins 1 1:02.56 Bill McInerney 2 1:03.54 Joe Schneider 3 1:04.73 John Molinelli 4 1:05.34 Bert Misevic 5 1:06.80 David Greiney 6 1:07.38 Cliff Yost 7 1:07.39 Nick Friesen 8 1:10.07 Dwain Wright 9 1:i0.91 Kay Kious i0 i:11.27 Dale Anderson Ii 1:12.10 James Lewis 12 1:12.22 William Hamgun 13 1:12.51 Robert Schwlhog 14 1:13.70 Ken Farris 15 1:14.75 A1 Gray 16 1:15.62 Kathy Clark 17 DNF Marc Greenwald 18 RALLYERALLYERALT~ERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYERALLYE Lucky 7 Navigational Rallye0 tenth edition, was held on Sunday, April 18. two

Curt Kuebler in his yellow VW bus,with the world’s only PCA-LA license plate, managed to show up the Porsches, with the help of a competent navigator.

NAVIGATIONAL CLASS S.O.P. CLASS PLACE DRIVER/NAVIGATOR POINTS . PLACE DRIVER/NAVIGATOR POINTS 1 Kuebler/ Hufnagel 4.41 .

1 Breunig/Hustvedt 17.87 2 Whorf/Miller 13.14 .

2 Gousman/Miller 29.56 3 C. Friesen/C. Gedeon 40.57 .

3 Ramage/James 32.85 4 George/DeContreres 68.44 .

4 Fields/Bouchez 36.42 5 The Ziesenhennes 83.05 .

5 The Dickson’s 38.97 6 Mayer/Wittig 43.48 ¯ NOTE: Trophies will be awarded .

7 The Gray’s 43.84 to the top two places in each 8 The Beams 69.00 class. Come to meeting on May ii .

9 Ness/Levin 70.46 to get your gold. i0 Lawler/Fuhrman 75.26 ii Clopton/Lesher 83.72 Dale Boyd, Rallymaster 12 The Kepler’s 103.22 13 Haese/Robinson MCP 14 The Plunketts DNF ¯ WILLOWSPRINGSWILLOWSPRINGSWILLOWSPRINGSWILLOWSPRINGSWILLOWSPRINGSWILLOWSPRINGS A complete writeup will appear in the next issue, but listed below are the results of the Time Trials. To all those hearty souls who braved two days of an unrelenting icy wind to make the event possible, your Eventmaster thanks you. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed. Special thanks,of course, go to Vasek Polak for making the weekend possible. Trophies will be presented at the May meeting at the Brown Bottle Room. Winners should make reservations to attend or arrange to have someone accept for them. See you there.

Curt Kuebler, Eventmaster OFFICIAL RESULTS: WILLOW SPRINGS TIME TRIALS CLASS A 1. Pulley* 2. Gedeon 3. Moreland

RUN 1 139.80 142.84 DNF

RUN 2 140.00 142.10 149.69

CLASS B i. Barrison * 2. Cunningham * 3. Hammond * 4. Waugaman 5. Spink 6. Hynes 7. Yost 8. Ferguson 9. Neifert

RUN 1 124.38 126.46P 128.27 128.82 133.54 138.64P 139.18 143.10 DNF

RUN 2 122.00 124.09 126.91 128.00 132.33 139.31P 139.11 141.57 DNR

CLASS C i. Ohmer * 2. Campbell 3. Spears 4. Boucher

RUN 1 125.50 126.98 138.78 153.04

RUN 2 124.85 128.42 DNR 144.03 three

CLASS D i. Selby* 2. Baker 3. Powell 4. Bauer 5. Meinung

RUN 1 120.01 122.46 122.73 124.73 129.70P

RUN 2 118.60 119.97 122.21 124.08 126.00

CLASS M,N I. M~Inerney* 2. Schneider* 3. Yule* 4. Johnson 5. Livingston 6. Franco 7. Uphoff 8. Farrar 9. Berger

RUN_____~I 117.30 120.42 120.88 123.40 133.19P 127.81 129.98 127.30 141.64

RUN 2 116.49 118.44 119.87 124.47 125.24 125.63 127.22 136.42 138.64

CLASS X~Z i. Hamren** 2. Crean 3. Rios

RUN 1 112.47 1.09.78 180.44

RUN 2 107.22 109.93 117.46

CLASS E i. Maddux* 2. Korpiel* 3. Swanson* 4. Campbell 5. Luelsdorf 6. Buckler 7. Tullius,Jr 8. Jones 9. Goodin 10. Tullius

RUN 1 113.15 115.46 DNF I19.49P 120.52 134.58 121.35 122.46 129.45P 127.68

RUN 2 DNF 115.57 117.57 DNF 121.11 120.57 121.56 DNR 127.05 129.45

CLASS F i. Graening* 2. Graham* 3. Brown 4. Carsten 5. Kravig 6. Maike

RUN 1 116.41 i18.26P 116.30 118.69 122.14 122.64

RUN 2 113.87 114.60 114.97 117.39 120.97 121.73

CLASS G i. Keith* 2. Laughlin 3. Van Cleave 4. Garrett

RUN 1 125.22P 123.35 123.33 126.43

RUN 2 119.13 120.87 120.97 128.07

CLASS K RUN 1 i. O’Sullivan* 123.62 2. Drey* 128.58P 3. Ewing* 125.96 4. Beam 129.84 130.64 5. Hedrick 6. Lane 132.33P 7. Breunig 134.23 8. Hooper 147.64 9. Anderson 147.58

RUN 2 121.05 121.98 124.92 126.91 130.86 154.24P 134.53 140.21 143.87

.935 .928 .906 .892 .865 .855 .843 .812 .791

CLASS J 1. Roberts* 2. Gedeon 3. Gray 4. Lipham

RUN 1 127.68 140.64 138.68 148.93

RUN 2 126.82 140.31 137.30 143.38

°_/o .962 .890 .863 .851

CLASS L I. Downey* 2. Clark 3. Shaw 4. Pulley

RUN 1 131.53 141.08 148.04 DNF

RUN 2 131.59 142.91P 145.58 DNR

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presidential rhetoric I know of the following people going to the parade, are you??? A1 & Alice Gray, Nick &Cece Friesen, Lewis & Karen Pulley, Bill & Joyce McInerney, and George & Carol Gedeon. wome~ g~ib

Advice to husbands who want a Speedster: Either get it before your wife knows what she’s in for, or marry a mechanic. Advice to wives whose husbands have bought a Speedster: Get a job, or get a divorce.

I was a brand new bride, and John’s was the first Porsche I had ever ridden in.

I knew he liked Speedsters, and that they were cute little convertibles. That was fine, but for some reason, his casual interest became intense. He sold his 356SC, which was fine with me, because the heater never got the car warm.

Little did I know: After much looking and talking, he found the Speedster he wanted in Pennsylvania. We were in Alabama, so he suggested buzzing up there over the weekend and towing it back. ( It was only 1800 miles round trip- ed) That was when I should have gone home to mother.

We left early Friday afternoon and headed north. After many stops for gas, coffee, and a few cross words, and after I lost my last snack on the side of the road, we stopped for a few hours sleep in Richmond.

Hit the road again bright and early the next morning.

Fortunately, it was a clear day, and the northeastern U.S. was beautiful in the spring, which made it enjoyable (as long as you could keep your eyes open).

We reached our destination late Saturday afternoon, and just loved the car. The man who sold it (with tears in his eyes) was just great.

With renewed energy and the Speedster in tow, we headed south. John was so pleased that we got to stop for sleep before we were completely exhausted (almost, though).

The return trip was also eventful: People stare and point at you; parking places are hard to find towing a car; and, last but not least, speeding over the Pensy four

Turnpike when you have never towed a car or driven on a freeway is nifty. We got home safe and sound Sunday night, and was I ever glad to see our apartment’.

But, that was only the beginning. There’s a whole new world our there for the "This is my first Speedster" owner.

Pare Lipham

secretarial

PCA-LA MARCH 1971 MEMBERSHIP MEETING MINUTES: The March meeting was held at the Cahuenga Elementary School. Mary Morris said our next speaker would be from Empire Lubricants, Inc., a distributor for Castrol and Kendall. Chuck Adkins reported the current balance of $280.87.

Ron Reese had resigned as Tech Chairman because of job conflicts, and Don Somerville is the new Tech Chairman. Corky Kirk introduced new members and presented Chuck with $346.60 for membership dues. Cliff Yost had Peter Luelsdorf present trophies for the Feb. rally. Vasek Polak will sponsor Willow Springs in April. Strother MacMinn spoke on transportation and safety design.

R. H. Ziesenhenne, s~a~he[shi~ ii!~,~i111~’

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DAVID ROSSI, 14728 Bledsoe, Sylmar, 367-3616; Lineman, drives a green Speedster DAVID DUDA, 13974 Hubbard, Sylmar, 365-1744; student, drives green ’60 conv.

NICHOLAS M. KOTSIKOS, 5436 Onacrest, L.A, 293-3125; Accountant, drives ’66 911.

ROBERT SELBY, 7547 W. 91st St, L.A., 641-2804; Furniture refinisher, blk Targa.

PATRICK HYNES, 5532 Calle Mayor, Torrance, FR55047; Contr. Adm, yellow ’59 cpe.

MIKE HAMMOND, 441 32nd St, Manhattan Beach, 545-3160; Salesman, black 914.

BOB FITZPATRICK, 4227 Encinas, La Canada, 790-0963; Stockbroker, ’70 Orange 911 STEVE JONES, 3111 W. 82nd St, Inglewood, 759-7459; Designer, yellow ’66 911.

for sale

1971 911T, red, chrome wheels, 6000 miles, 911S instruments, $6500. Aerospace layoff forces sale. Bud Williams, 545-6017 1968 911E, biege, Sportomatic, 29,000 miles, new tires. $4600. Mike, 299-2060 Chrome wheels, four, wide with hub caps; for 900 series, $150. AI, 545-3538 1967 912, white, 59,000 mi, chr whls, fogs, nu clutch, oil cooler, wood steering wheel, valve job & pistons at 42,000. Armand Gonzalez, Green Motors, 868-3233 1968 911, biege, AM/FM, tinted glass, 34,000 miles. Ernie, 644-0411. ext.2319

technical

Hey, a whole bunch of things happened these last few months. The Semperit’s got used up at 50,000 miles, so I went to HAL & AL TIRE SERVICE, Vermont and E1 Segundo, L.A. Got the new Veith tire made in Western Germany. It’s a direct replacement, and more reasonable in price. The Veith (rhymes with rice) has stud holes on the inside of the tread for a do-it-yourself ski buff.

While I as there, an ex-PCAer from Germany region (honest) was having some tires put on. His ’66 912 gets about 20 mpg around town and 23 on the road. Told him about my 32.3 ( and John Lipham’s 33 in the 914), and suggested he check on a Delta Mark Ten ignition system. (I’ve got one on the Targa) Maybe it’s my JB in the crank and transmission. That’s another advertiser I’m convinced has a good product. Next time you look under the front hood, open the filler top on the brake fluid reservoir. If the fluid is low, perhaps you should make another check. As the brakes wear, fluid goes into the .lines that actuate the brakes. Most of Porsches’ braking is in the front. Force the shoes apart, as that forces the fluid back up into the reservoir. If you had added fluid, you’d see what the overflow cup is there for.

Corky Kirk five

etcetem

LETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERS In sunny Florida, it was spring and a Sebring day. A friend and I drove down in a pick-up after being warned not to take the 904/6. Arrived about 3:00 p.m.

Friday and slept in the truck.

There was a crowd then, and it took us an hour and $21 to get inside.

Looked like a carnaval.

There were rides, shooting galleries, bead shop, etc. We got paddock passes and inside parking ($35). It gave us access to pit snooping until an hour before the race started.

Only shapely girls in pants, so-called workers, kids on mini-bikes were allowed in the pits after the race started. We parked on the back straight so we could sit under the bed shelter in case it rained.

Friday night it did, but Saturday was clear and sunny. We met Bruce Jennings in the Goodyear tent.

He was changing to dry tires, and it was still damp.

He said he checked the latest weather report, and all was to be sunny Saturday.

I counted five large semivans full of tires, so there were plenty on hand for everyone.

By now, you know the outcome of the race.

Let me say that the private Porsche entry had to pull the thing off again to keep Porsche in the lead.

The Martini & Rossi 917 was beautifully prepared and driven.

They had no problems and everything went smoothly.

The Wyer Porsches had their problems, however.

Siffert ran out of gas and lost time getting back to the pits for gas. He was also penalized four laps for accepting a ride on a mini-bike.

Later, both 917’s had left rear flat tires, and motored by our spot at 30 mph. We were at the hairpin when Rodriguez and Donahue were dicing.

In the next turn, the Porsche hit the Ferrari three times.

They pitted over an hour.

The Number Two Porsche lost a front fender and light, but went out again.

They pit crew made a replacement part from a Trainer 917, complete with lights and wiring, but it had to be installed before dark.

It was, but Penske’s crew protested.

The Penske car went back and was really charging, but only finished sixth.

The Alfa’s were the show-stoppers. All but one ran without problems, and they placed second and third.

The track is large, over 5 miles, and you can’t see all of it, no matter what ticket you have.

People were flaked out on the grass ( was that a pun?-ed),lying around drunk, others were lying around making love.

The communications were the worst I’ve seen. You couldn’t hear what few loudspeakers there were; you couldn’t see the scoreboard except in the pit lane, etc.

I know PCA events are handled better than Sebring.

Good driving, Vern Covert.

COMPETITION POINTS WOMEN

MEN

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Nick Friesen

75

Ron Reese

50 50

Dale Boyd Ralph Campbell

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50 50 PARTICIPATION POINTS

Cece Friesen Helen Boyd

Barbara Reese Trudi Berwin

315 220 180

MEN Ron Ramage Peter Luelsdorf Curt Kuebler

190 160 115

WOMEN Carol Gedeon Pam Lipham Betty Yost

130

Jim Ewing

100

Cece Friesen

Helen Boyd i00 PCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCA The Targa will be discontinued after next year; Joe Schneider rents tow bars; Compton Opel Owners League(COOL) ousts POC as largest club; Road & Track is a dirty book.., more goodies next month ......................... John L... six