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Tanya & Henning Wulff What year did you join the PCA? 2005 Which Porsche do you own? 2013 Boxster S and a 2010 GT3 Where are you from? Tanya and I both grew up in Alberta, then spent our working lives in Vancouver. Datsun 240Z. We ordered it before the first one arrived in Edmonton, and wound up with What line of work are you in? the 3rd one in Alberta. It had been designed I am a retired architect and photographer, and to some degree developed for CaliforTanya is a retired psychiatrist. nia, and the engine came with first generation emission controls which throttled it to Next upgrade? 125hp. The first half year the cars that came The Boxster GTS 4.0 looks good, but I’m not into Canada didn’t have emission controls, sure I’d have more fun than in the 2013 Box- and made somewhere close to 200hp. We ster S. drove many times Edmonton to Jasper where I was on the Ski Patrol, leaving early Favourite car adventure? Saturday morning to get to Marmot Basin by While driving in the Ukraine, I got stopped 6:30am to be ready at the bottom of the lift by a cop. I don’t speak Ukrainian, and he by 7 in time to be first up the hill. At night the didn’t speak anything I could deal with. only police on the highway were in Edson at Through ’sign language’, grunts and facial a known coffee shop. I had mounted Cessna contortions, I understood that I had crossed landing lights below and back of the bumper. solid line when I shouldn’t have, even though I could get someone to dim their lights 2 it was inscrutably marked, and agreed that I miles down the road. More importantly, I had done wrong. He showed me an A3 sized could see caribou and coyotes on the highform, with about a hundred fields to be filled way from far away. The car had a top speed in and made it plain that this was a lot of work that he’d rather not do. He also communicated that I would then have to stay in the nearest town overnight to see the official in charge the next day. We agreed on a $10 payoff, and both went on our way smiling. Any fun cars growing up? Tanya and my first joint purchase (about a year before we actually got married) was a VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER
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