TIPEC All Torque 105

L AL E U Q R TO JUNE/J ISSUE 105

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Our first ever Southern based show is just a few short weeks away. We very much hope to see you at Beaulieu and to let the south of the country know that we are the Porsche Club you should be a member of.

This is a great venue in a fabulous location and we need this to be a success. I say this every year, to see your car parked alongside hundreds of other Porsches is a buzz that you have to be present at to appreciate.

There is something special about one marque car shows and I for one am keen that they continue as part of our calendar. Lots of people are making a weekend of it and there are lots of hotels around the Southampton area with availability.

Many thanks to all those that attended the AGM, it was a huge turnout which made for some interesting debates. It is probably fair to say it was difficult to track all the views but I think we got there in the end. Maybe we need to adopt the approach of The Historic Classics Club whose AGM voting system involved waving yellow and red cards. It was funny to watch whilst we had lunch in the foyer. Apologies for the technology failing, I did not know that the iPad needs over 50% charge to make adapters work. It was so frustrating, as we had been playing before the meeting and waxing lyrical about how good everything looked on the big screens. I promise it will be all singing, all dancing next year!

In short we had another very good year and despite a few one-off costs with the anniversary events and writing off the flags/gazebos we bought in 2012. Our cash in hand remains healthy, which meets our financial objectives and protecting our long term future. In light of this we have decided to keep subs at the same rate until 2015, at which point it is likely that they will rise to cover increased postal and production costs of the magazine. We discussed the website and online database and have decided that we will only send renewal reminders by email.

The cost and time involved in sending out postal reminders is prohibitive. With improved access to the members database the ROs will be able to chivvy people along if they fall off the list. If you want a set of the minutes or accounts please email Sue Simmons.

Please read the regional section of the magazine and take a look at what other regions have organised or plan to attend. As members you welcome to attend any event including those outside your region. Feel free to drop the RO a note and join in, the same goes for visiting nearby regions’ club nights. Always good to do this in the summer months with longer evenings. Well done to Jason and the guys at Thames Valley that have started having a featured model each club night. I think this is a great idea and looking at the pictures has been well supported.

I will close this month by wishing Lee all the very best with a new business venture. Sadly this means that he will no longer be able to fulfil his commitments as Membership Manager. I would like to thank Lee for all his hard work over the last two years and for his humour and support, both in the role and on Committee.

If you have a couple of hours to spare each week and feel that you could help the Club by being our next Membership Manager. Please contact either Lee or Sue and they will happily chat through what is involved.

I look forward to welcoming you at Beaulieu.

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Club news Simply Porsche at Beaulieu is our club’s main South of England event for 2014. Sunday 22nd June, at a fabulous venue in Hampshire. We have organised a drive around the New Forest for members on the Saturday.

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Club Members who would like to make a weekend of their visit to Simply Porsche at Beaulieu are invited to join us for a drive through the New Forest on the Saturday.

Volunteers are required to man the Club Office on Sunday. This will be primarily to sign up new members and answer questions about the Club. We will compile a rota in one hour stints. To volunteer please email cluboffice@tipec.net and put Volunteer in the subject heading.

The starting point for Saturday’s New Forest drive is Ringwood Long Stay Car Park, The Furlong, Hampshire. BH24 1AT. (50°50'53.2"N 1°47'32.0"W).

The drive starts at 1pm and lasts around two hours with a comfort break halfway. We will finish with a hog roast, bring your own drinks and a chair. The drive is for those who are staying in the area on Saturday night before attending the Show on Sunday.

You need to register for the drive by sending an email with your name, membership number, +1 etc, to cluboffice@tipec.net by Friday 13th June. Nb. Entries will not be accepted after 13th.

Show & shine Show and Shine competition. Our usual street style non scoring format, for all models even modified. Interior and engine bay will not be judged unless you leave the bonnet and doors open. Sponsored by Meguiar’s with a car selected (pre 2000 MY) to attend the Meguiar’s Showcase display at the NEC Classic in November.

To enter please register by sending an email to cluboffice@tipec.net with Show and Shine in the subject box. Closing date is 18th June.

New website from Goodwood www.grrc.goodwood.com Goodwood have introduced an all-new website, ushering in a new digital identity for one of the world’s most prestigious sporting brands. Goodwood Road & Racing is the destination for all those who share Goodwood’s enthusiasm for speed and style, and a passion for motoring and motorsport in the grand tradition. Goodwood Road & Racing will provide the definitive information and live coverage of Goodwood’s iconic motorsport events, starting with the Festival of Speed on June 26–29 and continuing with the Revival and Members’ Meeting. The new site is also the online home of the Goodwood Road Racing Club (GRRC), with a dedicated section for members’ events – including the ever-popular Breakfast Clubs. Jason Boswell, General Manager, Digital, said: “With Goodwood Road and Racing we have created a single online destination where anyone who shares our enthusiasm for iconic motorsports, with just a twist of the unusual, can get a daily update of what they love on their desktop or tablet.”

Silverstone Classic 2014 July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) www.silverstoneclassic.com Club Members can buy discounted tickets on a BOGOF deal.

With your tickets you will receive a pass to park your Porsche on our display on the infield area.

Enter the unique Club Code C14035, The package buys you two event tickets and one infield pass. This saves you up to £95 for a pair of weekend tickets, the discount is greater than the cost of your annual membership renewal!

As well as 4,000 cars on display and a motor racing programme of 24 Races with packed grids, there is live music on Friday and Saturday evening, making it a full on entertaining weekend until it gets dark.

The Silverstone Classic won the worldwide ‘Motorsport Event of the Year’ Award for 2013.

We’re all karting crazy

Derek Flangan reports on the annual Inter-Regional karting tournament.

This was our 16th Inter-Regional karting tournament, held on Sunday 27th April at The Campbell Circuit, Filching Manor, in Jevington, East Sussex. After a long wet winter it was unbelievable that we had another dry race, thanks to my sun dance. But half way through the race I was praying for rain as the Brighton & Hove teams were running away with a tree or four lap lead.

The marshals seemed over strict, with yellow flags catching many karts for not slowing down enough and/ or overtaking on a yellow. This added to the spectacle but didn’t enable us to catch the first two karts.

It was great to have Jason Gibson enter a Thames Valley team, but after an absence of four years he still managed the second fastest lap of the day! David Moore’s South East London & North Kent region team were unable to enter this year to try and retain their title, so SELNK’s other team Nick Beaumont’s ‘Pond Motors’, who came second last year, must have fancied their chances.

However, Brighton & Hove Motor Club attended in strength again with their usual three teams. The main battle for the title was between two of the B&HMC teams with an 11 second gap at the chequered flag.

Nick Beaumont’s Pond Motors team slipping down to third place this year, pushing Flanagan’s Crazy Gang down to fourth – missing a Podium for the first time in many years.

Team

Fastest Lap

Laps

1st

Three Drivers & A Muppet

Brighton & Hove Motor Club

28.768

226

2nd

One Nut Missing

Brighton & Hove Motor Club

29.444

226

3rd

Pond Motors – The Beaumonts

TIPEC SELNK Region

29.919

222

4th

Krazy Gang – Flanagan’s & David Henderson

TIPEC South East Region

30.130

219

5th

Back Of The Pack – Jmes Garrard, Paul Stead & Toby

TIPEC South East Region

30.401

216

6th

The Hillbillies – Jason Brown’s team

TIPEC South East Region

30.243

213

7th

Thames Valley Skidmarks

TIPEC Thames Valley Region

29.409

212

8th

The Four Bs

Brighton & Hove Motor Club

30.512

210

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Porsche’s 919 Hybrid and the start of a new technological revolution Derek Flanagan reports on Porsche’s technological marvel – the racer which will take them back to Le Mans – and their debut event at the Silverstone Six Hours. Derek managed to sneak into Porsche’s pit garage on the Saturday during qualifying and took some unique photos.

The return - The Porsche Le Mans racer 919 Hybrid made its race debut at the FIA World Endurance Championships (WEC) opening round in 2014 series at Silverstone Six Hour on 20th April with two cars, #14 and #20, and Mark Webber making his race debut for Porsche as it prepares for its return to Le Mans in June.

This highly complex Le Mans Prototype #20 took a podium at its first attempt at Silverstone. Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and ex Red Bull F1 racing driver Mark Webber (AU) came third in the Porsche 919 Hybrid after 165 laps on the 5.891 kilometre long track.

The rain shortened race was red flagged because of heavy rain 24 minutes before the planned six hours were completed. Webber brought the car home behind the safety car.

The sister car #14 of Romain Dumas (FR), Neel Jani (CH) and Marc Lieb (DE) had to retire after 1 hour 15 minutes and 30 laps because of a technical problem with the drivetrain.

So do Porsche have reliability concerns with these complex cars? We will find out at the 2nd race in Spa which is the dress rehearsal for Le Mans.

The overall victory went to Toyota drivers Sébastien Buemi (CH), Anthony Davidson (GB) and Nicolas Lapierre (FR) with Toyota also taking 2nd place and both Audi’s failing to finish.

The Aston Martin, Ferrari and Porsche battle continues – Porsche Team Manthey Racing entered two Porsche 911 RSR cars in the LMGTE Pro class and finished first and second, and a fantastic 7th and 8th overall behind the LMP1 cars.

43,000 fans were able to enjoy world-class racing over the weekend from Porsche, Ferrari and Aston Martin, and Porsche came out on top after some close competition as has so often been the case with the GTE cars in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The No.92 Porsche 911 RSR of Marco Holzer, Frederic Makowiecki and Richard Lietz gave the team the best possible start to its 2014 season by winning 45 seconds ahead of their team mates in the No.92 Porsche 911 RSR (Pilet-Bergmeister-Tandy).

New FIA WEC Rules - Porsche’s return to WEC coincides with new rules for the 2014 season where fuel efficiency rules have been introduced and the top category split into cars recovery systems. The top class LMP1 is now divided into two sub classes LMP1-H (Hybrid) for prototype cars fitted with recovery systems and LMP-1-L (Light) for prototypes using no energy recovery. The latter category is reserved for private teams.

recuperates thermal exhaust energy (MGU-H) when accelerating. The combination of these two systems means a step into unknown territory for Porsche and a unique feature in the entire WEC. When the driver recalls the stored energy from the liquid-cooled lithiumion battery packs, an electric motor drives the two front wheels. This power adds to the combustion engine and this way the two systems result in temporary all-wheel drive.

Porsche (petrol V4), Audi (V6 diesel) and Toyota (V8 petrol) all have different energy recovery systems so this season will establish which is the most efficient and reliable.

Audi and Toyota have more experience than Porsche in hybrid technology at Le Mans but with the new rules the best team will be the one that is able to exploit the maximum allowable energy and making the important strategic decisions, including finding the ideal balance between conventional fuel and electric energy on every lap and knowing when to use the stored energy for the extra thrust to get the advantage.

The new regulations are structured so that fuel is not allocated over an entire race (with possible strategies that may damage the spectacle), instead the amount of fuel is allocated for each lap. So the manufacturer who will be able to run closer to this rule while also benefitting from recovery systems energy efficiency and thus have the best balance between power and fuel consumption will triumph.

However “to finish first, first you must finish” and hence reliability in any endurance race is key to success. The previous 16 Le Mans wins and Porsches Sporting Legend used vastly different technologies.

Fuel and Megajoules - Now Porsche have combined a conventional internal combustion engine with generator and electric motor in an intelligent manner and have chosen a light and compact turbocharged two litre four cylinder petrol engine. The question is have they made the right decision?

By the time you read this, we will know the result of the 2nd round at Spa and be eagerly looking forward to Le Mans.

Besides the kinetic energy recovery system (MGU-K) under braking, the 919 Hybrid

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Member’s cars Barry Hunter’s Porsche story perhaps starts back in 1967 when he saw Vic Elford in AFN’s 911 British debut winning performance in BBC TV’s very first Rallycross coverage.

From here for me Porsche became a modern ‘state of the art car of the 60s. Since then I have, along with everyone else, watched the race and rally success just stack up decade after decade.

But it’s not only competition success – with it came pop stars such as Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt saying Porsche were supercars which were also totally usable shopping cars. He was just one celebrity who just bought a succession of them. I met Mark Webber a while ago, when he signed two paintings I had done of him driving F1 Red Bulls, but what was his own car that he was driving? Yes, of course, a black Carrera. No surprise then that he has gone from Red Bull to Porsche and unstintingly praises ‘their sensational road cars’.

My very first car at age 19 as a student in 1967 was a Mk 1 Austin Healey Sprite ‘Frogeye’. I did many competition Autotests across the south-east, including BTRDA championship events with varying levels of success. When this first car eventually went the way of the scrapyard I drove all sorts of Escorts and big Opels. Back in the late ’80s my wife and I tried to turn back the years with another left-hand drive Florida import ‘Frogeye’ Sprite which we ran until very recently.

In 2007 my wonderful wife Elizabeth was diagnosed with breast cancer and after 35 joy-filled years of marriage she passed away in 2012 at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford. As I have gradually come to terms with the loss of my best friend and life-long soulmate, I began to realise that we hadn’t used the Frogeye very much over the years of caring and illness. It was a car that wasn’t as practical to use as I would now ideally want.

The germ of getting rid of it began to grow in my thinking. As I began to overcome the mountain of probate and re-adjustment, I began to realise that I was fortunately in a stable financial situation and could probably make an intelligent, cold-blooded, estimate of my potential life-expectancy. The realisation dawned that a Ferrrari was a bit silly, but a Porsche of some sort might be a good, practical replacement.

Like probably most motorsport enthusiasts I had always loved the 911. Ideally a very early 911 E, T or S would have been my first choice.

They were neat, small, fast enough for me and without all sorts of aerodynamic bits sticking out to spoil the classic 911 shape. A visit to the Classic Car Show at the NEC recently began to get my feet firmly back on the ground as to the values of these wonderful old and, I now feel, less practical cars than Porsche’s more modern classics.

Apparently the nouveau-riche Chinese are mainly responsible for driving classic 911 prices through the roof at present.

I started looking at 996 Porsches as these were 911 shaped, seemed very usable, and seemed to be the best value 911-shaped Porsche on the market in 2014. I had a very good garage-owner friend who had owned a silver 2.7 litre Boxster for some 10 years. I had had many passenger drives in his Boxster but to me it wasn’t really a classic Porsche 911 shape, and Boxsters didn’t really do it for me. I looked at a lot of 996s online and had a passenger ride in another friend’s black 996. The prices of these were, and still are, relatively good for the 911 shape. No they weren’t air-cooled but then I could certainly live with that. It was after all still a Porsche and one of motorsports greatestever names.

Once I started talking about perhaps buying a Porsche, my garageowner friend quickly offered me a test-drive in his Boxster. So one sunny Sunday off we went along the old, and now very quiet A40 road out from Stokenchurch to Thame in Oxfordshire and then back.

Most traffic now rushes along the M40 so we were able to have a very nice little try-out. We did over a ton and everything and anything could so easily be overtaken.

But the most stunning thing was the Boxster’s handling. Being midengined it seems to have almost perfect neutral cornering balance. It was always exactly where I put it, and I was very impressed by how well it cornered. It was a seminal moment and my preconceptions had been totally reversed. It helped that Boxsters were half the price of 966s. Also it had two boots so it was more usable day to day and for going away on weekends. I would of course need to get my golf clubs in it. This impossible and infuriating game had actually been an important factor in keeping me (comparatively) sane and in maintaining my fitness during Elizabeth’s illness, and also in my own subsequent recovery.

I found a dark blue 2.7 litre 2004 Tiptronic Boxster on the Bath Road in Slough via the Internet and had a test drive in it, around the Slough trading estate. For many years now I have loved automatics so I am not, I suppose what some people would regard as a ‘proper Porsche driver’, but I haven't got a hairy chest either! At that point I wasn't intending to buy this particular Porsche and went away thinking ‘what a very nice car’ and no more. Later having looked at another Boxster and found that the dealer wasn't interested in a Frogeye as a partexchange, I then rang back the guy in Slough and asked if they would be interested in a Frogeye exchange. When I emailed Frogeye pictures and specifications, they came out to have look at it and a deal was quickly done. So I didn't have to waste innordinate time advertising the Frog, and enduring droves of perfectionists beating me down on numerous failed deals. It had all happened very quickly and the next day I took final photos of the Frogeye and drove it into Slough. The deal meant that it was almost an exchange in value.

Away I drove from the forecourt feeling somewhat nervous, but also something of a celebrity! Somehow you cannot be a low-profile person if you arrive in a Porsche. Everyone seems to notice you, which sometimes is not quite what you might want. Stereotypes of Porsche drivers seem to be widely held, and some 75% seem to regard Porsche drivers as rich, undeserving, idle, tossers who attract a great deal of envy. Of course there are also some who simply think it’s a lovely car and you must have worked hard to own such a motoring icon.

If I take my golf clubs out of the bag I can put them and the golf bag in the rear boot. I bought a new smaller fold-away golf trolley which I can get into the front boot, and I can still get a fair-sized suitcase in on top of that. As I write this, I have had this car for some two months. I did 100 miles in the Frogeye last year and have already done some 800 miles in the Boxster. I am unashamedly totally in love with it! We are engaged to be married very soon, and if it ever feels lonely at night I go out to look at it, call it beautiful, and stroke it so it purrs contentedly. Or is that me doing the purring perhaps?

I look for excuses to drive it and I fervently hope I can continue to retain my driving licence, as I think it would be ever so easy to lose it very quickly in such an intoxicating car. I also have discovered that the enemy is the twinkly-lighted Audi and I have learnt to hate them all. But nothing gives me more pleasure than driving, looking at and discussing Porsches now, apart from sinking long putts and selling motorsport paintings at barryhunter.org.uk.

I now had to pay Road Tax which I didn’t with the Frog as it was exempt. Porsche servicing and parts would presumably be a lot more expensive, but hey! it was a bloody Porsche – what was there not to like? I was also proud that even Elizabeth would have approved of the deal and would have really loved the car. This was a woman who had walked the full length of the 14 mile Nürburgring with me.

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Member’s cars Harry Gilliam’s Porsche story has started young. From a Cayman at 25, through exhaust modifications, and straight on to a 2006 911 997 C2S. Harry has traded up quickly – but how do the two cars compare?

I already felt at home in the driver’s seat. The real difference was the drive; the Cayman felt smaller, far more nimble, with the engine right behind you it gave a go-kart like experience, it was a sprightly little car. The 911 on the other hand feels very heavy, less agile but more powerful, a more substantial machine. For me being an avid Porsche lover, it really felt like a privilege to be sitting behind the wheel of my very own 911.

February 2013 and my 25th birthday was fast approaching, I was turning that magic age when car insurance becomes some level of bearable. I couldn’t resist, I had to buy my first Porsche. I fell in love with the marque after watching the film ‘Spy Games’, there was just this one scene which I have never forgotten, where Robert Redford roars out of the CIA car park in a dark green 912. The roar of the engine and the beautiful body, it was love at first sight.

styling, engine remapping, anything just to give it a little more zing. After lots of forum trawling, I went with an exhaust upgrade, I chose a Carnewal GT exhaust from Carnewal in Belgium. Not only would the car get a new sound, but I would have a few hundred miles of European motorway to really open it up. I can remember the rush of hearing the flat six boom as I felt it should! It plastered a smile on my face, I could not stop grinning all the way home.

Back to 2013, I started looking at more recent models (simply because I did not want to have the worry of potential age problems).

After lots of umming and ahhing I decided upon a 2008 Cayman 2.7. I had looked at the Boxster but in this country a convertible that lives outside, on a hill, worried me and of the water cooled 911s only the 996 was in my budget, but unfortunately, I am not a big fan of the 996’s looks. So, the Cayman it was!

Soon after that, I again began to get itchy feet. The Cayman is a stunning car to look at and to drive, but its too easy behind the wheel, I had a feeling that there was just something missing. I started wondering if it was lacking the meatiness I imagined the 911 to have, and every time I saw a 911 drive by I would think ‘there goes perfection’.

My sisters fiancé (who owns a 996) gave me a piece of advice when I bought the Cayman; sports car ownership goes one of two ways – either you decide that the expense of running the car is too much and you want to get back to driving an ordinary car, or, it will eventually not be enough and you will want something faster, and more expensive. I quickly found myself falling into the latter category.

At first I was in love with the Cayman, I had gone from driving a Renault Clio to a Porsche Cayman and the power, the control, all of it, was addictive. Owning a Porsche is a special feeling, and everything about the car felt special. After a couple of months the need for something more began, I started to look into exhaust systems because I felt the car sounded too soft in the lower revs, and I wanted to tart it up. I looked into some body Text & photography by Harry Gilliam

I would always browse Pistonheads, and Auto Trader, just looking at all the 997s, just imagining. Always giving myself the excuse that they were too expensive, or too far away for me to go and buy one. Then, earlier this year a 2006 C2S popped up, and this one was at Grayswood Cars, literally two minutes away. I tried so hard to resist going to look at it, but I had no excuses and eventually succumbed.Luckily my girlfriend was away that weekend. I think had she been there I never would have gone. She has no interest in cars and thinks I am bonkers for wanting to have such an expensive piece of metal. I knew if I went to look at the car I would have to test drive it, and I knew if I test drove it that I would have to buy it. A week later I was back at the garage to collect my new 997 Carrera S. The first thing I noticed was that both the Cayman and the 997 have the exact same interior layout, minus some slight styling, so

The first time I took it for a spin on the country roads around where I live, roads which I would fly through with the Cayman, I found myself actually being aware of the ‘driving’. For me it was much more engaging run, with the heavier steering, and the sense of all that power sitting behind you. Whereas in the Cayman, although it was also a manual, I felt I was mostly a passenger – it was perhaps too perfect in its lighter, mid engine, form. The 997, although it has the road noise issue, I find to be a much quieter car, (unless you don’t want it to be). The constant noise of the Cayman’s engine right behind the ears could sometimes be too much. The fact that it also has larger rear windows meant that the overall vision around the car was much better, as pulling out onto some roads used to be a nightmare in the Cayman, especially when there was someone in the passenger seat. On a personal level, when I look at my new car, I see the history and pedigree that it holds, and that alone get me excited to get behind the wheel.

As both were used as daily driver cars, if I could chose again I would stick with the 911, but if I was to choose which one I would take on the track I would go for the Cayman.

Even though it’s not as fast or as powerful it is like driving an oversized go-kart. It’s fun, tight, easy nature would be great for a novice like me to whizz around a track. My Dad was always into his cars, and out of all the machines he had, his favorite was a Suzuki Cappuccino. It was a tiny thing, with the engine of a lawnmower, but it felt fun, and that is what the Cayman was to me – a great day out, just not every day.

On a final note I remember once, last year, pulling into a petrol station, and a bloke shouted at me ‘does your dad know you’ve stolen his car?’ I wonder what they will say to me now.

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The roller Matt Collins and his team at Ecosse Automotive based in Bo’ness hosted a rolling road day for the Scottish region.

We ask the members at the start of every season what they want to participate in during the course of the year and suggestions are something we are never short. Three or four suggestions for a rolling road day came to the forefront of our attention. As luck would have it, before we started looking for a venue to fulfil that suggestion, fellow TIPEC member and Porsche enthusiast Matt Collins came to the rescue.

Matt and wife Diane are real petrolheads and Porsche owners who own and run Ecosse Automotive in Bo’ness, along with their very professional team. This is a business that has grown in stature and reputation over the years and is now known up and down the country. Ecosse Automotive are a proper alternative to a Porsche dealership, both those who want something ordinary like a 10,000 mile service for your beloved Porsche, or those going to the extreme and preparing your car for trackdays. For many of you out there with your newer 997 911 or PDK Porsche you will have no option in your own mind other than the, but for those with the slightly older Porsche or even a classic Porsche then the sky is the limit, be it a total restoration project or the aforementioned simple service.

Specialists up and down the country are always in demand and Ecosse Automotive are no different. Labour rates are very competitive and they will offer you every service imaginable for your Porsche, with the flexibility to do something out of the norm regardless of what era your beloved car comes from.

We all arrived in and around the 10am time on Saturday the 5th of April and the morning would not be the morning without a cup of coffee, just to top up the levels. We invited a few of the PCGB guys and dolls along to this day – something we have done in the past (such as for Scotland’s largest gathering of Porsches, and in June they are joining us for a restoration demo evening). Matt Collins did the rolling road for us in person. It has been three or four years since I was at a rolling road and when my Boxster was fast approaching maximum RPM my heart was in my mouth! You think it’s about to go pop and finally the clutch is depressed … phew. I am sure we have all felt like that on such days as these. We provided rolls, tea, coffee and a few wee treats for everyone that came along.

Matt, Diane and the team did us really proud. We had full access to ramps etc. and many of us chucked our cars on the ramps for a wee inspection. Matt’s team really made us feel welcome and offered free technical advice on the day to anyone who wanted it. I felt a real family type bond with Matt and his staff and a very professional attitude regardless of a cars age or state of repair, something you don’t always find in a garage/specialist setup these days. For those putting their car on the rolling road, Matt heavily discounted the

rs of truth For those of you reading this article who were present on the day, and on the rolling road, here is a reminder of what your car put out.

No popped engines and everyone I spoke to enjoyed themselves!

Owner

Car

Flywheel Power

Wheel Power

Torque

Andy Gallagher

944 S2

227bhp

182bhp

211lb/ft

Sandy Dalgario

968 CS

254

204

227

Alan Hay

Boxster Tip

252

147

236

Scott Macdonald

944 Cab

250

203

208

Mike Dowie

996 C2

318

253

261

A Chester

911 SC

155

122

174

Margaret Adey

911T

155

91

135

Neil Fraser

Boxster S

270

217

232

R Chappelle

Boxster S

297

251

247

T Bairaj-Vinichai

Cayman S

311

256

248

Alan Locke

Boxster S

282

233

242

Jay Castle

VW Corrado

241.5

212

228

I have to say a huge thanks to Matt, Diane and the team at Ecosse Automotive. A real professional set up with first class facilities.

For more info on Ecosse Automotive please visit their website at www.ecosse-automotive.com.

I will take this opportunity to mention other specialists north of the border for you and your Porsche. The next one that comes to mind is of course Brian Miller from Edinburgh. I recently visited Brian at his garage and he tells me he is fast approaching a staggering 50 years in the business and still going strong. Brian is a Porsche trained mechanic and simply a genius when it comes to anything Porsche – or German for that matter. Once again very competitive labour rates and another TIPEC member who is passionate about our marque. Brian can be contacted on 0131 443 7806 and is a walking encyclopaedia when it comes to your Porsche regardless of it’s age.

Another help for your Porsche north of the border is SP Autobahn situated in Stirling. Stuart Paterson is the owner with over 15 years experience in Porsches – a specialist when it comes to remapping and tuning your Porsche with the latest up to date equipment.

Visit www.spautobahn.com for more information.

Finally a big thanks to our members and their Porsches for turning up on the day, it was good to get a chat and a bit of banter with everyone and great to catch up with old and new faces from both clubs.

Text & photography by Neil Fraser All Torque 105 page 13

Hoods down, sunroofs open The Scottish region recently enjoyed a grand weekend trip to Portpatrick, in the Dumfries & Galloway area. James McLauchlan reports.

Friday 25th May saw us meeting up for lunch at Souter’s Inn next to the famous Souter Johnnie’s cottage in Kirkoswald. The former home of the cobbler – or souter – John Davidson, the real-life Souter Johnnie immortalised in the Robert Burns poem Tam o’ Shanter, features a thatched tavern in the garden, complete with life-sized sandstone statues of the poem’s main characters.

After an excellent lunch and blether the twelve of us headed south along some of Scotland’s most scenic western coastline towards the fishing village of Portpatrick. The Fernhill Hotel in Portpatrick provided our base for the weekend and we were welcomed with complimentary glasses of sherry to ease us into the weekend. Comfortable accommodation and stunning views across the harbour and in the misty distance the coastline of Ireland. It’s said that on a clear day the Harland & Wolff shipyards of Belfast can be seen from the hill just above the hotel.

The ‘Full English’ is a vital (and compulsory) part of any trip away, so after said breakfast we started our day. It began a bit misty and damp but by mid-morning the skies were blue and the sun came out for the day.

Our first port of call was the Mull of Galloway headland and the lighthouse. This is the most southerly point on mainland Scotland. Our approach to the lighthouse was

along an unclassified but well surfaced road, climbing all the way to the top of the cliffs. The reward was stunning views and a wind that would lift you off your feet but luckily a wee café at the lighthouse gave enough shelter to enjoy our mandatory morning coffee and cake.

Suitably invigorated and with some great photos taken we followed the road through Drummore, Sandhead and Glenluce. The Steamboat Inn at Isle of Whithorn was the destination for lunch and what a great choice it was.

Sitting at the harbour wall on a sunny day eating crab soup out of a hard shelled bread roll – life doesn’t get any better.

We meandered back to the hotel, taking varied routes and passing the famous Turnberry golf courses, exploring the countryside and enjoying the spring sunshine with hoods down and sunroofs open. Wandering around the picturesque harbourfront of Portpatrick put an edge on the appetite. This was satisfied by a very pleasant evening of dinner, wine and chat.

Sunshine greeted us after breakfast the following morning so after checkout we took time for a last wander round the harbour and then said our goodbyes. What an enjoyable weekend with good company in one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland. A sincere thank you to Wilma and Fulton for the hotel and route suggestions – we all enjoyed the drives. Definitely an area to revisit.

Text by James McLauchlan. Photography by James McLauchlan & Elaine Whitelaw All Torque 105 page 15

The Morgan factor Thames Valley region recently got together with 10 Porsches having a run over to the Morgan Motors factory in Malvern.

Breakfast at the Cook and Fillet in Kingswood, Buckinghamshire was an apt and delightful start to the day. We all fuelled up sufficiently with high quality egg, bacon and black pudding and put ourselves out on the wet roads for a spirited drive.

We had planned cross country routes there and back and had a reasonable degree of success staying together but we all made it in the end! The run home was superb with a nice mix of empty big fast A-roads and narrow B-road rollercoasters! I certainly enjoyed watching Wolfie wagging his tail!

At the Factory First of all we met for a history of the company by the very knowledgeable museum curator. He made the tour really interesting.

All the staff have been there a long time and are passionate about what they do. The craft, as you will see later, is stunning and varied.

The Company

The People

Morgan is extremely proud of its heritage. The Morgan Motor Company Ltd was established

by H.F.S. Morgan in 1909 when he designed the first Morgan Three-Wheeler. The first four wheeled Morgan was produced in 1936.

The atmosphere at the factory (currently running a 177 strong workforce, some of which are third generation tradesmen in the job) is one of family, which also extends to the owners. Prospective owners are encouraged to visit the factory to watch their cars being built, and to choose from a wide range of paint and leather colours as well as optional extras that will stamp their mark on the car and make it their own.

The cars are continually developed and meet current standards of safety as well as offering responsive thoroughbred performance.

The Aero 8 was launched in 2000 which was a major achievement for a small company and developed to take the marque into the 21st Century. Since its launch, the Aero Range has continued to evolve and now consists of the dramatic Aero SuperSports and its fixed head sibling the Aero Coupe.

In 2011 there was a re-launch of the Morgan Three-Wheeler, a modern interpretation of the classic design.

Morgan Cars have established themselves in people’s minds as a brand of pure excellence, reinforced over time by an adherence to superior principles, high standards and the best in craftsmanship.

A strong design and R&D setup is key also, they’ve even developed electric models! The company has been famous for its waiting lists extending into many years but it’s generally around 12 months now.

The Cars Today, the factory produces in excess of 1,300 cars per year. Whether it’s one of the lively ‘Classic’ range sports cars, the extravagant high performance ‘Aero’ supercars or the truly unique Morgan Three-Wheeler, every last detail of Morgan cars are tailored to the customer’s specification.

The classic range begins with the 4/4 (four cylinder with four wheels), a 1.6 litre Ford, and the Plus 4 (two litre Ford Sigma four cylinder).

The Roadster (3.7V6 Mustang engine) is next up and a four seater is also available in Plus 4 or Roadster spec. It finishes with the Plus 8 (4.8V8 BMW with a modern bonded aluminium chassis underlying).

The Aero Supersport and Coupe models are the modern supercars, lightweight bonded aluminium chassis with a 4.8V8 BMW unit producing 367bhp (315/tonne!), they sound like fighter jets with side exit exhausts and go like them too, believe me!

The Three-Wheeler is out on it’s own, it’s fantastically eccentric and unique. A 2 litre v-twin engine at the front of a tubular chassis, two wheels at the front, one rear driven wheel. I’ve also tried one of these and

The tour An Aero Supersports work in progress.

Fettling wings.

Reception and important car display (GT3 and Le Mans cars there too).

This is how it's done for the modern cars, vacuum moulds.

Fitting it out, any combination of colour and is trim possible.

The Wood Shop.

Starting assembly of a Plus 8, the classic body with bonded aluminium chassis and BMW V8.

The tool kit goes in and includes a hammer!

The Morgan car has always been built around an ash-frame and a steel chassis, the common misconception is that it’s a timber chassis. The new Aero 8 also has an ash frame. This gives unique strength and flexibility. Surprisingly, research showed that the frame made the car safer on impact tests.

Some 4/4 (4cyl Ford engines with 4 wheels!) rolling chassis.

The Panel Shop.

PDI and Final Repairs Shop.

Preform of Rear Wings on 4/4 with the really old clamped moulds, panels are laminated ply with a fast setting PU adhesive to set in 1 hour.

Three-Wheeler assembly, with that whacking great 2 litre, 2 cylinder.

Text by Paul Mabley. Photography by Paul Mabley & model shots with kind permission of Morgan Motor Company Ltd. (www.morgan-motor.co.uk) All Torque 105 page 17

Porsche Freunde Dinslaken 2014 The Porsche Friends Show takes place on the 1st of May at the Trabrennbahn (horse and trap) track in Dinslaken, Germany.

Billed as an international event with an open invite for Porsche Clubs to gather on the May Day holiday. There were clubs from all over Europe including Russia, who won the trophy for the club who had travelled furthest to the event.

Whilst I had heard of the show, it was not on my radar.

I had read on the forum that a few guys were attending as part of their 944 tour. A random note in April from a mate of mine, asking if I knew of anyone going from the South got me thinking. Maybe this would make a good long weekend club trip in 2015? I looked at my schedule, checked hotel availability and cost of the Chunnel. For once all the ducks were in a row, so we booked up.

Heading out on Wednesday lunchtime and returning Friday afternoon.

Oberhousen was chosen as the stopover point, only four hours from Calais on a clear run. Alternatively it is two hours from Rotterdam if you prefer to sail from Hull.

Within easy walking distance of the hotel there is a good selection of restaurants and one of Europe’s biggest shopping malls. I can personally recommend the Chinese Restaurant on the other side of the canal, fabulous food including kangaroo.

We arrived at the show around 9am, paid at the gate and drove in. The venue was a surprise, it can be best described as a giant-sized greyhound track. The surface was compressed sand and shells. There were no Marshalls and the infield grassed area was marked out with red tape, reserved for car clubs that had pre-booked. The rest of the venue was park where you like. The cynic in me thought this is going to be chaos later. I could not have been more wrong! The Germans are so much more considerate when parking their cars. Even around the bends in the circuit they all parked at the correct angle and went back to the rail.

I reckon there was easily over 1,500 Porsches with all models represented, including some very dodgy looking modified and recreation cars. The track looked mightily impressive with Porsches parked all around it. The photographs do not do it justice, the scale of it was difficult to capture with my small camera. There were a few trade stands, mainly selling models and items from the Porsche Drivers Collection. I bought a metal memo board complete with magnetic cars for the bargain price of â‚Ź70.

There were plenty of food vendors if you like sausages/ kebabs (and my favourite, the beer stall). This is a car show and the cars are rightfully the stars of the event. Apart from a small children’s roundabout there was not much else to do other than look at and talk about Porsches. This for me was perfect, there was a compere who chatted with the representatives from the car clubs. He also spoke Italian and English, he had everyone laughing and was good value during the loudest exhaust competition.

I thought the show was excellent and I will organise a Club display for 2015.

Text & photography by Sean Smallman All Torque 105 page 19

DIY 944 Cabriolet hood replacement Martin Whitelaw talks us through a process not for the faint of heart.

The 944 has a two piece fabric hood, allowing either front or rear sections to be renewed separately (I believe 911s up to and including the 964 also have this configuration). At some time my 944 S2 Cabriolet had its rear plastic window replaced but, as this requires just as much work as a new rear section replacement, I wonder if it might have been better to replace the whole rear hood section?

I guess there is always a colour/material match to consider on older hoods?

I found the whole roof fabric replacement a challenge but also most rewarding. The weight of the frame itself, the complication of the design, the working of the hinge mechanism together with the variety of steel fixing strips, tension bands and elasticated ties was quite an eye opener for me. This article is not intended to be a step by step guide to hood replacement but rather an overview of what to expect and what to avoid if you are doing it yourself.

In simple terms, the top fabric (rear window section) is glued to the back rail and then the rear bow before the front fabric is glued to a separate steel strip – which is then screwed to the same intermediate rear bow – thereby joining the front and rear sections together.

The front fabric also being fastened by screws and gluing in the ‘B’ post area before being pulled forward and glued to the front header and lastly to the two intermediate bows to promote correct folding when lowered.

Rear window section, back rail to rear bow

The inner headlining is again designed in two sections with the rear section screwed to the comically named ‘hat shelf’ and then glued to another fixing strip which in turn is screwed to the second bow and glued to the main hinge frame.

The front inner liner is clipped into the previously fitted fixing strip and then glued to the underside of the front header.

Another finishing strip is then screwed over this joint before the final upholstered finisher is attached. In between there are more screws, elasticated ties and side tensioning wires to install.

Oh yes, the fibreglass ‘hat shelf’ what a b****** that is to remove and replace.

Firstly it is held into the rear bodywork with eight large plastic clips which are a bugger to remove and then there is the size of the shelf relative to the shortage of space available to get it out or in – a real pain! There, did I tell you it was a simple DIY job?

around the rearmost section showing the starting point where the rear hood frame rail should be glued. Talking of glue, I was advised not to use the normal contact adhesives as they may not be up to the task - especially on the hot days we get in the UK (?). I used a high temperature brushing contact adhesive supplied online by Frost Auto Restoration Techniques.

The 944 hood frame consists of a robust pressed steel front frame section with two light tubular cross bows, a separately hinged two piece rear bow (where the two sections of the hood meet just above the rear window) and a ‘U’ shaped pressed steel back rail which bolts to the body with a rubber weather seal. The fixings for this back rail are only accessible once you pull down the glued

The challenging part comes is in keeping your head as well as making sure the material is evenly tensioned as you screw and glue – a job I found almost beyond a single person and possibly, now that I know a little more about it, I will go back and Front fabric added ready for gluing to front rail retension some areas of the fabric which don’t sit as smoothly across the frame carpet section on the underside of the ‘hat as I would like. shelf’ inside the luggage compartment – the hood limit relays will also be exposed on the The best price I could find offside as this carpet section is removed. for supply of a two piece 944 Four 11 or 12mm headed nuts (I can only hood in the UK was from remember they were an odd size!) will release Monsoon of East Sussex (www. the back rail but also smaller self tappers (if monsooncarhoods.co.uk). I still fitted) will need to be removed along wanted a blue material and the the sides and a 10mm headed pinch bolt sample piece supplied by them slackened on each side at the main hood met with my approval. The hinge where the back rail is slotted for ‘ease’ hood was delivered with the of removal. Nothing here is easy of course. rear plastic window sewn in, With the old hood material still in place, you various reinforcement pieces and can see very little and it will take a first timer elasticated ties fitted and, most some time to work out what’s going on and helpfully, a faint tailor’s chalk line where to access each fixing.

I decided to keep the old material intact to act as a template for the new. This is not strictly necessary but once I had completely dismantled the hood and frame I definitely needed it to retrace which part goes where some six weeks later. Be careful with the back rail to body rubber seal as you would not want to buy a new one, ouch!

Should you want to take the whole hood frame off the car you can remove the back rail to body fixings (as above), remove one motor link drive bolt (hex headed special pivot bolt with brass stepped washers) and one pin and spring retainer, on each side of the frame. You will now be left with the main

double bolted pivot attachments to the car. These hood frame to body fixings consist of two hex socket headed bolts (each side) vertically down into the ‘B’ post which probably have been there since the car was built and most likely have seen moisture more than once! These fixings are not only very inaccessible but easily rounded – be warned!

One of mine refused to budge.

Eventually it did but only after its pan head was ground off Finished hood – not too shabby for DIY! with great difficulty and, with the hood mechanism removed, a nut welded on to seams to give a smooth edge to the leading what remained of its thread! edge of the hood but also act as guides for positioning the hood. Stretch the fabric tight Installing, as they say, is the forward over the front rail whilst locating its reversal of dismantling and here seams into these notches and you’ll not go just go steady with a clear plan too far wrong. Refitting the rubber front seal of how to work from the back and its metal trim strip under the hood front to the front hood. completes this area. Rubber window seals and moulded corner pieces finishes off a job When eventually you get to well done. the point of attaching (gluing) the fabric to the front rail you I’ve jumped one or two more obvious steps will find two notches in the but feel free to contact me should you very front of this rail. These want to talk through any part of the hood notches not only accommodate replacement. All in all a satisfying job – ‘bare’ hood: header, three crossbows and a rear pressed steel back rail the stitched longitudinal hood but not one for the slapdash amongst us!

Text & photography by Martin Whitelaw All Torque 105 page 21

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Porsche 911 996 centre console DIY refurbishment/repaint Hilary Phillips talks us through remedial paintwork on her 996 C4’s interior I bought my 996 C4 in November 2012 I was very happy with it as it was by far the best one we’d seen for the money despite having a rather ‘odd’ looking centre console.

Every time I got in the car and looked at it I knew there was something about the colour and texture of the painted finish that wasn’t right so I thought I’d tackle it in the summer holidays when I have a bit of uninterrupted time and good painting weather.

I was quite worried about removing the console so I asked advice when I took it for a service in Brookspeed. They were very helpful and gave me some quick instructions on how to proceed. Summer came, I went to Halfords and got some Seal Grey paint made up as I thought that keeping it the same colour as the body would look quite nice.

I didn’t really like the look of the carbon fibre coloured replacements.

After spending an hour undoing as much of the console I could, I was stuck as I couldn’t see where the last couple of screws were.

I didn’t want to give up so in desperation I looked on the Internet again (I had done this before but found nothing) luckily I found www.macarbon.com which showed me exactly how to do it – hooray!

As you probably know, the original finish is a rubberised paint with a slight pimply effect.

Someone had painted over it with Seal grey paint and no lacquer without rubbing it down first. I sanded this all off with 120 grit glass paper then gave the console several coats of grey plastic primer. This was then smoothed off with 800 grit wet and dry paper before applying two coats of Seal Grey. Now for the bit I hate – lacquer. I always manage to get runs so I let it dry thoroughly between coats.

Two coats of lacquer later I only had a couple of little runs which I managed to polish off and I’m really pleased with the finish.

DIY high-level brake light for a 1984 911 930 Turbo Dave Gander describes his home-brewed custom rear brake light and switch mechanism I have long suspected that drivers of modern cars have become used to seeing a high level brake light on the rear of most other cars, and would probably not notice the normal low mounted rear brake lights on a classic Porsche 911! With this in mind, I bought a short row of red LED lights mounted in a plastic cowl to sit on the rear parcel shelf of my 930.

The whole assembly was then fixed by cementing it with Devcon into the inspection hole on the servo casting and wired from the live (by ignition on) feed via a fuse from the light switch.

I found that the threaded portion of a 3-Series BMW brake light switch fitted perfectly the internal diameter of a cable gland found lying around in a box of odds and ends under the bench! By removing the internal cable seal and replacing it with one of the lock nuts filed to fit inside, and be retained with the outer threaded portion of the gland, the switch barrel could be screwed out or in for adjustment.

When the brake pedal is touched (even lightly), the rod moves away from the switch which is then activated and the high level brake light comes on, even before the actual normal brake light pressure switches react!

The switch plunger is lightly depressed in the rest state (broken contacts) by just contacting the servo rod.

This whole set-up gives me much more peace of mind that the chances of being rear-ended (especially by a high seated vehicle such as a 4X4) in a queue are greatly reduced!

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Text & photography by Dave Gander & Hilary Phillips All Torque 105 page 23

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Regional round up R2

Scotland

R8

Anglia & North Essex

R3

North East

R11

North London, Herts & South Essex

R4

Yorkshire

R12

South East London & North Kent

R5

North West

R13

Thames Valley

R18

Cheshire & Staffs

R9

South East

R6

South Yorkshire & North Notts

R21

Wessex

R19

East Midlands

R23

Southern

R7

Central

R22

South West & South Wales

R20

South Central

R15

Cornwall & Devon

R2

R3

R4 R5 R18

R6 R19

R7 R22

R15

R20 R12 R13

R23

R8 R11 R9

R21

Scotland

always. I hope the weatherplays its part—it normally does on annual event day, it has to be said.

June 8th (Sunday) Tayside Classic Car Show

RO Neil Fraser 07946 616 782 (mobile) neil@fraser72.freeserve.co.uk ARO West Elaine Whitelaw elainewhitelaw6@msn.com ARO East James McLauchlan jjlin@blueyonder.co.uk

Congratulations are in order to former ARO Alan Neilson and Maree who are now the proud parents of baby Adam, arriving in the world on March 21st.

Just to get him in to the swing of club affairs Alan and Maree brought Adam along to the rolling road day at Ecosse Automotive. Was great to see all three of you and I hope a baby seat for the 944 is being sourced.

June 15th (Sunday) Festival Of Historic Transport

Meetings are held first Wednesday of every month 8pm for an 8:30pm start in the 007 bar, upstairs at Bo’Ness Motor Museum, Bridgeness Road, Bo’Ness EH51 9JR. www.motor-museum.bo-ness.org.uk

There is plenty of the season to come folks so if you want to get involved with anything the region is doing, just get in touch with us we will only be only too happy to help.

We have kicked of the season with the Ecosse Automotive rolling road day event a few weeks ago (please see separate article in this edition). I would like to say summer is here but up north so far it’s not really arrived yet—but I am sure it is not far away. As with every season, we have plenty of content for all the members who wish to participate, from Sunday runs, BBQ and trophy day to Classic Car shows and I’ll throw in a few chippy evening runs when the weather looks good from the old Met Office website. I will let members know about such evenings by email (and pigeon post for the few of us not online).

June 1st (Sunday) Historic Motor Extravaganza Show Lauder, Scottish Borders June 4th (Wednesday) Body restoration demo/Buffet Evening, Haddington

Our spring run to Portpatrick went well with some nice runs and scenery enjoyed by everyone. A bit of sun was present on this weekend which is always a bonus. Please see seperate article from James on how the weekend run went.

For those of us making the long journey to Beaulieu this year we are looking forward to that—and to what the surrounding area has for us. We will arrive on the Friday and depart home on the Monday. A different venue this year and we are looking forward to it as

Scotland regions’ spring run to Portpatrick

June 20th–22nd (Friday–Sunday) Weekend away to the TIPEC Annual Show at Beaulieu June 29th (Sunday) Moffat Classic Car Rally.

July 13th (Sunday) Glamis Castle Classic Car Show (optional Castle visit) July 20th (Sunday) Annual BBQ and Concourse, Bo’Ness Motor Museum (Free to members and immediate family) August 31st (Sunday) Scotland's Largest gathering of Porsches Calderglen Country Park, East Kilbride

North West region April club night at The Boatyard

motorway junction that split up our party of six cars for a while. Once we were together again we took a gentle drive on our planned route and were happy until a very white BMW with very blue flashing lights split up our group once more. Everything turned out okay in the end and fun was had by all.

Scottish rolling road day at Ecosse Automotive

September 7th (Sunday) Bo’Ness Hill Climb Event

North West

September 14th (Sunday) TIPEC Northern Day, Warwick

RO Andrew Lane 01772 740 625 07949 167 698 (mobile) caymanlane73@gmail.com ARO Simon Kendal 07540 525 841 (mobile) s.kendal@sky.com ARO Richard Sholl 07970 147 779 (mobile) rksholl@sky.com

September 21st (Sunday) Selkirk Classic Car Rally, Scottish Borders November 27th (Thursday) Ten Pin Bowling evening, Deep Park Livingston December 20th (Saturday) Christmas Dinner Dance, Barony Castle, Peebles If any member requires more information on any of the Scottish Region’s activities this season please do not hesitate to contact James, Elaine or myself.

Meetings are held first Monday of every month from 8pm at The Boatyard Inn, Bolton Road, Riley Green, Houghton, Preston PR5 0SP (01254 209841).

When this falls on a Bank Holiday, we meet on the second Monday instead.

North East

ARO Richard Sholl writes:

RO wanted!

ARO Andy Blythe 01642 809 031 andy44s70@gmail.com Meetings are held first Sunday of every month 7:30pm at The Sporting Lodge, Low Lane, Stainton Village, Cleveland, TS17 9LW, just off the A19. In June and July we are meeting on the SECOND Sunday of the month.

Yorkshire RO & ARO wanted Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:30pm at The Arabian Horse, Main Street, Aberford, LS25 3AA (Tel 0113 281 3312). Just off the A1/A64.

RO and ARO required, to host monthly meetings and Region RO, Neil Fraser toScotland attend/organise local events.

I’m in the hot-seat again for the North West Region report because Andy is sunning himself in some exotic, far-off land (and I’m not talking about AppleyBridge!) Since my last report in All Torque 104 the North West region has been pretty busy with Chippy Teas, pub meets, Easter Friday feasts, Scottish tours and the first show of our season. Here’s the details that you may or may not need to know.

Our first Chippy Tea of 2014 was a run over to Banny’s at the end of the M65 on the 28th March. 16 people in 10 Porsche cars made up our happy band, including Steve who came over from Southport in his recently acquired 964 Cabriolet. Both Steve and the 964 appeared on the TV show ‘I want that car’ and they appear to be forming a strong bond. All went well at Banny’s and the ever-attentive staff looked after us well. After tea some of us had a drive through the Ribble Valley to err, exercise our cars. Of course, not everything went to plan: I managed to miss a

The North West Region’s April meet at The Boatyard saw a busy car park of 12 Porsche cars lined up outside and 16 people inside. As always, there was plenty of chat and good natured banter. A couple of new faces were nice to see and Tony popped up from Warrington in his lovely little 944. Ian had a little trouble leaving the car park in his 928. (Reminder to self:ask him why his car slides around so much on loose gravel.)

I had been thinking about changing the format of our now internationally recognised Chippy Tea Runs for a while and the second run of the year was scheduled for April 18th. After a planning meeting (that’s me, Brian and Simon whispering in the corner of the pub) the first Friday Feast Run was decided upon.

Regular readers will know that the North West region is all about value for money and we’ve started the Friday Feast runs to offer members more (food) for their money: The Duke of Wellington pub in Haslingden was our first venue and the carvery menu there, with a downloaded discount voucher, cost our happy eaters’ just £4.19 per head! 12 people in five Porsches and a BMW came along and everyone was happy with the quality of the fayre so we may have hit upon another motoring/food success story. I will make a special mention here that we were pleased to welcome TIPEC member and local Porsche Club GB Regional Organiser David Baker and his wife Judy on the run to the Duke of Wellington – always nice to have them both along. On behalf of the region I will endeavour to research ‘two for one’ and ‘two for £10’ type eating houses in time for our next run.

It’s a tough job ...

In the last issue I mentioned that the region was organising its first Scottish tour, starting on the 24th April. I’ll not go into much detail here, suffice to say that the trip did take place: miles were driven, food was eaten, alcohol was consumed, Castles were visited, wives were picked up, stones were selected, bushes were entered, barriers refused to open and photographic evidence was gathered. That’s all the details for now, but the trip went really well, everyone appeared to enjoy themselves and there’s a good chance we’ll do it all again next year. I hope.

May 4th saw us attending the Wray Festival in North Lancashire, out in the wilds. This was a first time

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NW cars at the Wray Festival

June 17th (Tuesday) Club Night at The Whipping Stocks from 8pm with car detailing demonstration June 22nd (Sunday) TIPEC National Event, Beaulieu July 2nd–8th (Wednesday–Tuesday) Cheshire & Staffs trip to Le Mans Classic and Reims (See Dave Watson) July 15th (Tuesday) Club Night at The Whipping Stocks from 7:30pm Annual Pride of Ownership Concours

Somewhere near Ben Nevis and the Commando Memorial

event for us, encouraged by friends from NORLOG (Northern Lotus Owners Group) and the TVR Car Club.

We had a really good display of nine Porsche cars with models ranging from a 944 to a 958 (if you don’t know what a 958 is, you’ll have to Google it).

We welcomed new member Paul who drove down from Cumbria in his rather splendid 911. To be honest I’m not sure what to call it other than a 911: it started life as a 3.2 Carrera, but now has a modified, all-steel, 964 Turbo type body and other subtle mods.

I suppose it’s a bit of a hot-rod 911 really and is a thing of some beauty.

June 8th (Sunday) Cleveleys Car Show

NORLOG were kind enough to provide bacon butties (aka bacon sandwiches) to all that wanted them and in return we offered shelter within the ever-impressive TIPEC event shelter when a bit of drizzle started. I have to be honest here and admit that I came away from Wray a little bit scarred: the festival activities include a village wide scarecrow competition and things were just a little bit too ‘Wicker Man’ for me!

July 18th (Friday) Chippy Tea Run or Friday Feast

By the time that you read this the Jasmine Porshalink open evening will have been and gone as will Porsches on the Prom in Llandudno and the Unphased German car show. Between me and Andy we’ll report on those next time.

As always, please keep an eye on the regional pages of the club website and also the ‘North’ section of the club forum. We are also on Facebook; look for a group called The Independent Porsche Enthusiasts Club North West.

It’s our members that make the North West region the success that it is, if you’re interested in joining us please come along to The Boatyard for our monthly meet or join in on one of our runs. You’ll be made welcome.

June 2nd (Monday) Club Night at The Boatyard

June 13th (Friday) Chippy Tea Run or Friday Feast June 22nd (Sunday) TIPEC national event: Simply Porsche, Beaulieu July 7th (Monday) Club Night at The Boatyard

August 3rd (Sunday) Haigh Hall German Classics car show August 4th (Monday) Club night at The Boatyard August 15th (Friday) Chippy Tea Run or Friday Feast

Cheshire & Staffs RO Steve Taylor 07774 912 069 (mobile) steve.taylor@maquet.co.uk ARO Dave Watson 07889 804 598 (mobile) watson_david@btinternet.com Comms Dave Mercer davidmercer1972@o2.co.uk Meetings are held third Tuesday of every month 8pm at The Whipping Stocks, Stocks Lane, Over Peover, Knutsford, WA16 9EX. June 7th (Saturday) TBC North Wales run and Chippy Tea

July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic Festival August 1st–3rd (Friday–Sunday) Carfest North August 3rd (Sunday) Run to Anglesey and a round of the Dunlop Production Cup for Porsche (www.dunlopproductioncup.co.uk) August 19th (Tuesday) Club Night at The Whipping Stocks from 8pm (guest speaker to be confirmed)

South Yorkshire & North Notts.

RO Dave Warren 07952 065 543 (mobile) dave.warren1401gmail.com ARO Dean Lancashire 07860 198 627 (mobile) dean@tachart.com Meetings are held first Sunday of every month 5–5:30pm (meeting proper begins 7pm) at Ye Olde Bell Hotel, Barnby Moor, Retford, Notts, DN22 8QS Check out our web site for details of upcoming events for the region: www.synd.org.uk Pop along to one of our funny, friendly meetings and see what we are about! We have our monthly quiz in which we try to win each other’s junk as prizes too!

All welcome.

Regular emails, meeting notes and website updates will be prominent in 2014, so you have no excuse!

We hope to see you soon.

East Midlands

June 6–9th (Friday–Monday) TIPEC trip to Laon

New RO & ARO wanted urgently!

June 8th (Sunday) Retro and Classics Show, Biggleswade

Meetings are held third Tuesday of every month 7pm for food (meeting proper begins 8:00pm) at The Field Head Hotel, Markfield Lane, Markfield, Leicestershire LE67 9PS.

Central tipeccentral@outlook.com Joint RO Lindsay Brown 07768 442 050 (mobile) Joint RO Steve Jones 07775 581 044 (mobile) Joint RO Stuart Wakeman 07912 620 181 (mobile) Meetings are held second Monday of every month 7:30pm onwards at The Bull’s Head, Birmingham Rd, Shenstone, Litchfield WS14 0JR. www.vintageinn.co.uk/thebullsheadshenstone I sit and write this report after spending today at The Donington Historic Festival, and what an event.

I feel this event is as good as the Silverstone Classic in July, but unfortunately is not as well supported.

I am not really a fan of F1 and the more modern racing series, instead preferring the classic cars and today was just about right with a selection of ’50s F1 cars, ’60s saloons, Ford Galaxies racing against Minis (a wonderful sight), and a Maserati tribute race including the famous ‘birdcage’. The heavyweight Cobras, E-Types and the likes of Listers all storming around was a sight to behold, with a wonderful V8 bassline to boot.

There was also a rally stage with some heroes from the ’70s and ’80s including Mark 1 & 2 Escorts, Talbot Sunbeams and Audi Quattro S1 etc. all giving it the beans. Our friend John Anderson was also giving his 911 ST a good work out as usual.

The only downside to Donington is the dust from the untarmaced roads due to the work in progress around the course. Hopefully this will be remedied on completion of these works .

June will be a busy month with Laon and The Porsches at Beaulieu. Central will also be taking a trip to Biggleswade for the Retro and Classics show, this is new to our events list so hopefully will be well subscribed.

July has most weekends covered with Le Mans, Cars in the Park and the Silverstone Classic, then into August with the Prescott Revival and the Pershore Plum Festival, not forgetting the second running of The Central Show and Shine on our club night, lets hope this has the same success as the first one last year.

We hope to see you at some of these events or at a clubnight which is a no agenda meet where we kick some tyres and have a friendly natter amongst good company. Why not drop in now the nights have stretched out and hopefully the weather holds out for us.

June 9th (Monday) Clubnight June 22nd (Sunday) National event, Beaulieu July 4–11th (Friday–Friday) Le Mans 24h July 5–6th (Saturday–Sunday) Cars in the Park, Lichfield contact Paul Kealing for a space July 14th (Monday) Clubnight July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic August 10th (Sunday) Prescott Revival August 11th (Monday) Clubnight August 25th (Monday) Pershore Plum Festival

South Central RO Matt Dawson 07743 791 815 (mobile) motorsportrugbystar@hotmail.com ARO Pete Garrett 07804 030 695 (mobile) garrett-peter@sky.com

Anglia & North Essex RO wanted ARO Colin Clarke 01284 706 247 colin.r.clarke@live.co.uk Meetings are held fourth Tuesday of each month from 7pm at The Bunbury Arms, Ixworth Road, Great Barton, Suffolk IP31 2NX. www.nextnorth.com/bunbury/findus.htm

North London, Herts & South Essex RO Vince Dallimore 07798 630 649 (mobile) NLHSE@tipec.net ARO Peter Musk 07734 769 953 (mobile) NLHSE@tipec.net Informal meetings are held twice monthly: First Sunday of every month from 10:30am at The Goat Inn, Vicarage Causeway, Hertford Heath, Herts SG13 7RT and last Monday of the month from 18:00pm at Ace Café London, Ace Corner, North Circular Road, Stonebridge, London NW10 7UD. After attending a successful AGM at Gaydon on 6th April our next trip was to Duxford on the 4th May for the ‘Classic Car & Bike Show’. North London, Herts and South Essex were supported by friends from other TIPEC regions; Central, South Central, Kent and South. Many thanks for making sure we had a full complement of 20 cars on the day. From 08:00 13 cars met up at the Silver Ball transport café on the A10 a few miles south of Royston, to have a ‘builders’

Meetings are held from 9:45 am on the first Sunday of every month at The Red Lion, Evenley, Nr Brackley, Northants NN13 5SH June 1st (Sunday) Club Meeting at the Red Lion, Evenley June 22nd (Saturday) National Event: Simply Porsche, Beaulieu June 24th (Monday) Club Night at the Red Lion, Evenley

Slantnose at the Classic Car & Bike Show, Duxford

July 6th (Sunday) Club Meeting at the Red Lion, Evenley July TBC Car Show, Kimbolton July 22nd (Monday) Club Night at the Red Lion, Evenley July 26th (Saturday) Spitfires, Merlins & Motors, Duxford July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) National Event – Silverstone Classic

You can fit quite a picnic into the boot of a 944

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Wings in the background, wheels in the foreground

The tank display kicked up quite a dust cloud!

breakfast; the service was slow, the chef was rude, but they have a great car park, very Fawlty Towers!

At about 09:30 our breakfast group left in convoy and remained pretty much together during the drive to Duxford. Our planned mass arrival fell apart as the “ferry” style queuing system for entry split us up!

However, we were allocated a good position adjacent to the static passenger aircraft display and close to the dramatic shell roofed US Air force hangar and its wonderful collection of aircraft of WW11 fighters and bombers through to the F1-11 and the amazing Blackbird.

The weather was kind, sunscreen required, only slightly spoilt by the dust from an active tank display nearby being carried on the breeze to settle on our shining cars! The venue has so much to offer most cars didn’t make for home until late afternoon.

We were treated to a flying display by a pair of Spitfires and other aircraft throughout the day.

North London, Herts & South Essex members’ cars lined up at Duxford

June 15th (Sunday) Knebworth Father’s day Car show (some interest has been expressed, so a small contingent will attend) June 22nd (Sunday) TIPEC at Beaulieu; Simply Porsche event (possible convoy for 21st or 22nd) June 30th (Monday) Porsche night at the ACE café on the North Circular July 4–6th (Friday–Sunday) Le Mans Classic July 6th (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am July 13th (Sunday) Kimbolton Castle Summer Fayre

August 17th (Sunday) Tewin Car show (provisional date; members’ support required) August 24th (Sunday) Little Gransden Air and Car Show (A small number of spaces are being sought) August 25th (Monday) Blenheim Palace Classic, Custom & Sports Car show (members’ support required) April 28th (Monday) Porsche night at the ACE café on the North Circular (maybe on the way home from Blenheim?)

September 1st (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am September TBC Classics at the Castle (Hedingham) An enthusiasts’ show for display of cars built from 1948 to 1973.

Duxford and its museums are well worth a visit and we will be there again for ‘Spitfires, Merlins & Motors’ on Saturday 26th July, when members from other regions are welcome to join us. At this event we are planning to join with 928.org on adjacent pitches, so a great opportunity to show off your sharks en masse!

July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic (clashes with Duxford)

June 1st (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am

July 27th (Sunday) Shuttleworth Collection Wings and Wheels day

June 6–9th (Friday–Monday) Laon Historique (SELNK are attending this event)

July 28th (Monday) Porsche night at the ACE café on the North Circular

June 7th (Saturday) Letchworth GC Classic & Vintage Car Club 2014 Transport Picnic (members’ support required)

July 30th (Wednesday) Harpenden Classics on the Common (some interest has been shown, so a small contingent will attend)

June 8th (Sunday) Luton Transport show, provisional date

August 3rd (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am

November TBC 928.uk meeting The Barley Mow, Tilford, Surrey, GU10 2BU

June 14–15th (Saturday–Sunday) Le Mans 24h

August 7th (Thursday) Classics on the common Croxley Green

November 24th (Monday) Porsche night at the ACE café on the North Circular

July 26th (Saturday) Spitfires, Merlins and Motors at IWM Duxford (20 spaces reserved on a first come first served basis)

September 29th (Monday) Porsche night at the ACE café on the North Circular October 5th (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am October TBC 928.uk meeting The Barley Mow, Tilford, Surrey, GU10 2BU November 2nd (Sunday) The Goat at Hertford Heath from 10.30am

South East London & North Kent RO Jim Hearnden 01634 869 658 07930 353 232 (mobile) tr7v8@phaetonconsulting.co.uk ARO Paul Greer 07799 412 870 (mobile) prgreer@blueyonder.co.uk June meeting will be held first Friday of the month 7:30pm at The Horseshoes, Dean Street, East Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PR. 01622 741 683 www.thehorseshoeseastfarleigh.co.uk See below and watch your emails for a July venue.

We now have 62 people on the SELNK list & a lot of these Paul & I have never met. It would be great to see some of you in the forthcoming few months. Partners are more than welcome at our monthly club nights and it is not all car chat. There are a few members that I don’t have email addresses for. If you have an email address and do not see mails from me, then please send me a mail to tr7v8@phaetonconsulting.co.uk and I’ll add you to the list. That also applies to people in adjacent areas who would like a copy of our calendar.

Please also ensure that you update address, car and email details when you renew your membership. You should all have a copy of the 2014 calendar for our region in your in box.

April club meeting Unfortunately I was suffering from a bout of flu which laid me out so this is via Paul: “A pretty good turnout of 15 and a very lively evening, with three new members. One new member was in a Speed Yellow Boxster which looked rather nice.”

Detailing Day A good turn out for this, not sure if it is the car

detailing or Sean’s bacon rolls that are the real draw. Anyway, after the eating came a good session covering all aspects of detailing.

picture opportunity that was just too good to miss, so a few of us took advantage of the opportunity.

Thanks again to Clive & Janet for organising it.

Drive It Day I had recovered by the time this event came around, which was great as it was a good day. Yet again Clive & Janet had organised a great day, with an excellent roadbook. The turnout was predominately Porsches with a mix of quite a few other makes and models thrown in such as; Morgans, an Elise, an MGB GT and bringing up the rear a BMW Z4.

May club meeting Yet again the SELNK jinx on events struck! I had a phone call from Simon the landlord at the Harrow, to say the brewer had sold the venue out from under him as a property development site, after he was speaking to me he was looking for someone to board the place up! The search was on for a new venue.

Paul & I had a quick discussion about potential venues and I took a quick run out to check them out.

We started at around 10:00 on the Sunday from a garden centre in Cranbrook. The cooked breakfast was fantastic, I may very well visit here again, when there are less people! At around 11:30 we all drove off following the roadbook. Our eventual destination after a pleasant drive through the lanes was the Giants of Brede. This is a preserved Southern Water steam pumping engine. The website is here: www.bredesteamgiants.co.uk Once there we completely filled the car park and entrance roadway. We had around three hours here and there was a great mix of traditional engines to look at as well as a more modern underground bunker. As we all left, luckily continuing the direction in which we came in, again following the roadbook towards the Powdermills Hotel near Battle, this is out towards Hastings. The hotel is stunning with an inout entrance running around a picturesque lake and bridge. Once we had all parked up we found the room which had been reserved for us and all settled down to sandwiches and cream tea.

The weather all day had been fairly warm and mainly sunny but within 10 minutes of sitting down the skies just opened and we had torrential rain for around 25 minutes. Luckily everyone had put their hoods up otherwise any cars would have been awash. After two hours or so of eating, drinking tea, and car chat we all slowly left. The hotel grounds made such a great

For June we will meet at The Horseshoes at East Farleigh. Their menu is extensive and we have our own area as well. The car park is huge and there is nice outside seating.

Paul & I are actively searching for somewhere else.

So please keep an eye on your mail or the regions webpage of www.TIPEC.net. Oh well, let us hope our next venue is a bit more permanent.

June 22nd (Sunday) Simply Porsche Beaulieu; The Southern Porsche Show at The Motor Museum, looking at probably making a weekend of this for SLENK.

Thames Valley Joint RO Jason Gibson 07958 459 725 (mobile) tipec@blueyonder.co.uk Joint RO Paul Mabley flyingpig71@hotmail.com Joint RO Nick Ramsay tipec1@witzendcs.co.uk Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:00pm at The Novello, Bath Rd, Littlewick Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3RX.

SELNK region members on Drive It Day

South East London & North Kent region members on Drive It Day

SELNK region members on Drive It Day

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South East members on the WotY to Evesham

It’s a step down from the Porsche ...

South East RO Derek Flanagan 01342 717 754 07767 254 820 (mobile) derek.flanagan@btconnect.com Meetings are held second Wednesday of every month 8pm at The Bolney Stage, London Road, Bolney RH17 5RL, just off the A23, 10 miles south of Crawley.

For those of you who haven’t made it along to a monthly meet yet, we always welcome new members and prospective members. Come and see if you like us, we’re a friendly bunch no matter what model of Porker you own or desire and you will be guaranteed to receive a hearty welcome and make some new friends. You also have the opportunity of winning our own regional lotto with all SE Region members going into the hat each month, but you have to be at the meeting to win if your name is drawn out.

Restoration, restoration, restoration. A number of water cooled Porsche owners have been spending their money repairing, rejuvenating and respraying their water cooled classic Porsches. John Wallin’s recently purchased Black 924S now has a full respray as well as mechanical work and will be looking fantastic. Michael Bowden’s 944 has also had some body repair work and a full respray. Neil Bennett’s newly purchased 928S is also going to the ‘doctors’ for some under bonnet surgery. We also hope to see Dan Engledow’s 911SC ‘naked shell’ restoration project finally get on the road this summer.

Goodwood Breakfast Club Supercar Sunday

Filching Manor in Jevington. In addition to SE Region teams we had teams from SELNK and TV Regions as well as Brighton & Hove Motor Club. See separate report in this issue for all the details and results.

By the time you read this we will have been on our annual WotY. This year we are going back to the Cotswolds staying at The Evesham Hotel in Evesham.

A guided factory tour around the Morgan Factory in The Malverns has been booked for Monday 12 May before we return home on the Monday. We also had the opportunity of driving the Sinclair C5 belonging to The Evesham hotel owner .Coincidentally the TV Region also have a visit booked the week before us.

A full report will be published in the next issue .

Terry Rockall, David Stevens and yours truly went to the qualifying day (Sat) of the Silverstone Six Hour FIAWEC 1st round and even managed to sneak into the pits to see the Porsche 919 Hybrid close up – see separate report and photos in this issue.

June 1st (Sunday) Goodwood Breakfast Club meeting; Soft Top Sunday June 11th (Wednesday) Club Night at The Bolney Stage June 26–29th (Thursday–Sunday) Goodwood Festival of Speed ‘Addicted to Winning – The unbeatable Champions’ June 22nd (Sunday) Simply Porsche – Beaulieu National Motor Museum.

David Henderson uses his 944 Turbo as a real workhorse, carrying his canoe around the country for leisure activities.

August 16th (Saturday) Capel Classic car show August 17th (Sunday) Cranleigh Classic Car show and autojumble August 24th (Sunday) Narrowboating on the Lee & Stort navigation August 25th (Monday) Bexhill 100 Classic car Show

Wessex RO Pete Blackler 07779 203 278 (mobile) peter_blackler@sky.com

July 9th (Wednesday) Club Night at the Bolney Stage Inn

Meetings are held third Thursday of every month from 8:15pm at The Bucks Head, Meonstoke, Hampshire SO32 3NA. www.thebuckshead.co.uk

There were a number of great Porsches at the Goodwood Breakfast Club meeting, Supercar Sunday, on 4th May. See separate report in this issue.

July 25th–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic

The Bucks Head is just off the A32. Meonstoke lies just North of Fareham, only 15 mins from the M3.

We held our 16th annual inter-regional karting tournament on 27 April at The Campbell Circuit at

August 13th (Wednesday) Club Night at The Bolney Stage Inn

Porsche Centre Bristol’s clinic morning in April

Six Southern region members and their cars braved the weather for the Wilton House Supercar Wake Up

Porsche Centre Bristol’s clinic morning in April

Bristol, South West & South Wales RO Sue Simmons 07530 312 700 (mobile) sue.simmons1@gmail.com ARO Mick Simmons 07793 905 918 (mobile) mjs019@gmail.com Some of the supercars on display at Wilton House

356 on display at Porsche Centre Bristol

Southern

June 29th (Sunday) Yeovil Classics

RO Andy Fenwick 07767 201 220 andy.fenwick@tipec.net ARO Jim Tarrant 0120 260 1886 jim.tarrant@hotblack944.fsnet.co.uk

July 1st (Tuesday) Club Night, The Angel, Longham

Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month from 7:30pm at The Angel, 188 Ringwood Rd, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9AP June 3rd (Tuesday) Club Night, The Angel, Longham June 6–9th (Friday–Monday) Club Trip to Laon Historique June 14–15th (Saturday–Sunday) 24 Heures Du Mans, Le Mans June 22nd (Sunday) Simply Porsche, Beaulieu June 26–29th (Thursday–Sunday) Goodwood Festival of Speed

July 18th (Friday) Poole Quay Porsche Night July 20th (Sunday) Classics at the Castle, Sherbourne Castle July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic August 5th (Tuesday) Club Night, The Angel, Longham August 10th (Sunday) Wilton Classic and Supercar Day Wilton House, Salisbury, SP2 8PX August 17th (Sunday) TBC Southern Region BBQ in The New Forest Please visit our website at www.tipec.net/region_southern.php as we are continuously updating our events page. Members will also receive email notifications of upcoming items.

Meetings are held first Tuesday of every month 7:45pm at The Plough, Pilning, Nr Bristol BS35 4JJ. www.theploughpilning.co.uk Over the last two months we had the opportunity to put our partnerships with Porsche Bristol & Porsche Cardiff to good use. Both centres ran ‘Clinic’ mornings, where members could see their cars from below accompanied by the Porsche technician and get their expert advice about short, medium and long term requirements. In total around 20 members took advantage of this. Thanks to both OPCs for laying this on, with lovely accompanying coffee and pastries and lots of other nice touches.

Many of us also took up invitations to go to the Macan Preview evening, and that always means fabulous cars on view as well as the new ones.

At Porsche Bristol we heard plans for the opening of the brand new Porsche Centre at Tewkesbury which Leon from Bristol will be heading up. We look forward to enjoying close links with that centre once it opens in the summer.

Our club nights continue to enjoy good turnouts of members and lighter nights give us the chance to have a good look at the wide range of cars.

At the start of May we heard about two exciting new purchases – a Boxster Spyder and a Cayman GTS – we look forward to seeing those at future meetings, although sunglasses may be required to view the

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inside of Les’s Spyder! Club night also gives the chance to pick brains on technical issues and we are lucky that we almost always have a Porsche Centre technician at our meetings. When Graham turned up with a green box covered in newspaper I thought he had brought kittens to rehome but it turned out to be his brake callipers.

May club night also gave us the chance to add in a last minute trip to Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, and looking ahead I am looking at options for a 2015 trip to the Isle of Man – if any other TIPEC members are interested in this please get in touch with me.

By the time this is published we will have attended ‘Caring With Cars’ in fairly large numbers – a fabulous day in support of Childrens Hospice Southwest, and we will be looking forward to our Rotary Club Rally on June 8th. Lots to do and here’s the rest of our plans: June 8th (Sunday) Dursley Rotary club Cotswold tour Start and finish Hamsfield social club, Berkeley (Register with form from Sue) June 21st–22nd (Saturday–Sunday) ‘Simply Porsche’ Show TIPEC & Beaulieu partnership show on Sunday (Saturday drive and BBQ optional, Saturday night at Holiday Inn Express Southampton West) June 28th (Saturday) Castle Combe Classic & Retro Action Day June 28–29th (Saturday–Sunday) Prescott Hill Climb Midland Championship July 3rd–7th (Thursday–Monday) Le Mans Classic (contact is Tony Healey: tony.healey@paranor.co.uk) July 12–13th (Saturday–Sunday) Castle Coombe Retro Race Meeting

August 31st (Sunday) TIPEC SW & S Wales BBQ, at Rob’s place near Bristol airport –get tickets from Sue September 14th (Sunday) TIPEC event at Hatton Country World (near Warwick) September 21st (Sunday) Tredegar House Vintage Car Rally for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research – Brian & Sarah are organising this for our region October 23rd–27th (Thursday–Monday) World War I Centenary Car Rally in Flanders Contact Scenic & Continental Car Tours quoting “Sue’s TIPEC group” (Ferry on 24th) December 14th (Sunday) Christmas lunch at Alveston House Hotel Any comments or questions welcome – sue.simmons1@gmail.com or call on 07530 312 700.

Cornwall & Devon RO Chrissie Jenkins 07851 698 879 (mobile) tipecdandc@outlook.com www.facebook.com/groups/1451387631773105/ Meetings are held the first Thursday of every month from 7pm at the Post Inn, Exeter Rd, Whiddon Down, Oakhampton, Devon EX20 2QT www.thepostinnwhiddon.co.uk Hello. My name's Chrissie and I hope to grow the region and set up a few events in Devon and Cornwall.

A bit about me: I’m new to TIPEC myself, and bought my first Porsche, a 944, in November 2013. It was a non-runner and after some work by my boyfriend, we (I mean he) got it started.

July 13th (Sunday) Bristol & Bath Classic Charity Car Run July 18th (Friday) Poole – Porsche On The Quay (18–20th, combined weekend with Sherborne Castle being organised

by Dave Smailes) July 19–20th (Saturday–Sunday) Classic Nostalgia at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb July 20th (Sunday) Sherborne Castle ‘Classics At The Castle’ Please let Sue know if you are going. £10 per car July 25–27th (Friday–Sunday) Silverstone Classic – TIPEC discounts available July 27th (Sunday) Castle Coombe – Bristol Motor Club Vintage event August 2nd–3rd (Saturday–Sunday) Gloscester Show at Westerleigh – new event August 3rd (Sunday) Classic Car Show, Brecon Beacons

Chrissie’s 944, with non-standard (but practical) bonnet strut ...

Since then I have been loving driving my Porsche around, these Devon roads are great for it. It has even had three tables, a box of plants and a tub of chicken manure in it—who ever said a Porsche isn’t practical?

Hope you can come along and get involved in planning some events. Anyone with an enthusiasm for Porsches is welcome. Any questions, please get in touch, and please let me know if you would like to attend any of the events on the calendar.

June 6th (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn July 3rd (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn July 12–13th (Saturday–Sunday) 41st Historic Vehicle Gathering , Powderham Castle, Devon – TBC sign up from TIPEC members required!

August 7th (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn August 9–10th (Saturday–Sunday) Castle Hill Car Festival, Barnstaple, Devon TBC sign up from TIPEC members required!

Date TBC (but possibly August) Pentillie Castle Festival of Speed, Saltash, Cornwall.

TBC sign up from TIPEC members required!

September 4th (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn October 2nd (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn November 6th (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn December 4th (Thursday) Club night at the Post Inn and Christmas cheer!

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