Porscher 2022 04

Voice of the Vancouver Island Region - Porsche Club of America

Volume 25 Issue 3, April 2022

In This Issue:Member Profile from Germany, Pedro’s Garage, Up Island Valentine, Cars & Coffee, More Porsche Videos

Porscher Advertiser Index

Jason Good Custom Cabinets

Porsche Centre Victoria

Villamar

Villa Eyrie

VIMC

Pelican Parts

Griots Garage

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CONTACT : Members are invited and encouraged to submit articles and photos that would be of interest to the Club. Photos in JPG or PNG formats. Please send submissions via email to the Newsletter Editor at: Newsletter@virpca.org NEWSLETTER DEADLINE: The deadline for the next issue is the 23rd of the month. PHOTO CREDITS: Wyman Lee, Trevor/Sonia Ross, John Clark, Steve Peers, Gary Glover and Steve Fairbrother. Others are credited in articles. If we have omitted anyone, our apologies, please advise us and we shall credit you next month.

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Porscher is the official publication of the Vancouver Island Region of the Porsche Club of America and is published approximately monthly. EDITORIAL: Statements appearing in PORSCHER are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Porsche Club of America, the Vancouver Island Region, its Executives or the Editor. All articles and photographs are copyright the author or contributor (unless otherwise noted). Permission for reprints or reproduction of the contents must be granted by the Editor and the author or contributor. Copyright © 2017-2022 by Porsche Club of America, Vancouver Island Region. All rights reserved.

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THIS MONTH’S CONTENTS VIR EXECUTIVE

EXECUTIVE COMMENT

IN THE ZONE

MEMBER PROFILE

PORSCHE VIDEOS

UP ISLAND VALENTINE

VANISLE ADVENTURE TOUR - OPEN

PEDRO’S GARAGE

SPRING TSD RALLY

GRIOTS GARAGE TOUR

CARS & COFFEE

VIR DISCOUNTS & USEFUL WEBSITES 42 AROUND THE BEND

Cover Photo Bruce Kerr’s Carrera 4S Taken By Steve F VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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President

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

Garth Webber Atkins president@virpca.org

Sam Auerbach secretary@virpca.org

Director—Up Island

Wendy Woodley upisland@virpca.org

Director—South Island

Ron Dempsey southisland@virpca.org

Webmaster Chair

Dave Nickel webmaster@virpca.org

Rally Chair

Klaus Kreye rally@virpca.org

Insurance Chair

James Renfrew porsche@jamesrenfrew.com

Steve Peers vicepresident@virpca.org

A.J. Papp treasurer@virpca.org

Director—Mid Island Detlef Ehrhardt midisland@virpca.org

Newsletter Chair

Steve Fairbrother newsletter@virpca.org

Membership Chair

Kathleen Short membership@virpca.org

Tech / Classics Chair

Paul Rossmo paul.rossmo@prhistorics.com

Past President

Tim Evans pastpresident@virpca.org

The VIR Executive meets on the 2nd week of every month, see “Around The Bend” for details. Please contact the Club Secretary for meeting minutes or to attend. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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President, Garth

Webber Atkins

pring is officially here, and the road beckons! To kick off the start of the driving season, the Club is offering free coffee for members at Cars & Coffee on April 9 in Courtenay, and April 10 in Parksville and Victoria. I hope to see many of you there. Sadly, I won’t be able to start the season just yet, as my 944 is still waiting on parts for the engine rebuild. Apparently, there is one place in North America that makes sleeves, and demand is up. And me without a spare Porsche. Hmmmm. While I would much rather attend Porsche events in a Porsche, it is, after all, not just the cars, it’s the people!

In March, I attended the Zone 6 President’s meeting in Boise, Idaho. It was great to connect with my counterparts, and discuss matters of mutual interest. We heard presentations from our Zone 6 rep, John Sommerwerk, and from two PCA National Office representatives: Executive Council Secretary Todd Benz and Driving Tour Chair Greg Halverson. Todd went over a state of the union for PCA, which highlighted a 6.6% growth last year collectively in the 14 Zones and 147 Regions. It was the biggest growth year ever.

A new PCA event for 2021 was ünStock, a The Executive’s attention to date has been show for modified Porsches. You can check it on some big events further out, so you may out here on YouTube. need to resort to your 25 Roads guide for a Todd also went over PCA’s 5 strategic initiafew weeks until we can pull together some tives: spring drives. If you have any ideas for interesting new places to visit, please let me or 1. Marketing, member engagement and another Exec Committee member know. long-term growth Sometimes the inspiration is half the work. If 2. Maintaining highest standards for PCA you think you’d like to take folks there yourmedia (print, digital, social) self, we have several experienced tour leaders that would be happy to work with you to 3. Continuing to improve technical resources for members arrange a drive.

Registration is now open for the Van Isle Adventure Tour. This driving event takes place over two days and explores some of the best roads on Vancouver Island. Starting details will be shared with registrants beforehand, but the details of the route and the name and location of the 4-star resort where participants will stay at will be unknown until route books are handed out at the start. I love a mystery! I have signed up and am really looking forward to the adventure. Register for the adventure here via MSR. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

4. Maintaining leadership in Porsche performance driving

5. Region engagement and impact PCA supports the regions with print, video and expert resources on a broad range of the activities that Regions undertake. Looking forward to seeing you on the road. I may be in a bronze BMW X3 through most of April, but I’m out there!

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Membership Chair, Kathleen

Short

Membership Report for March 2022 Vancouver Island Region has 616 members. We have 377 primary members and 239 affiliate or family members. PCA National Club has a total of 145,485 comprised of 95,022

primary members, 50,442 affiliate members and 21 life members.

Welcome New Members Member

David Holmwood W. Douglas Pell

Co-member Beverly Pell

Location/From

Shawnigan Lake Sidney / Wild Rose

Vehicle

2003 911 Carrera 1990 944 S2

If you do not have your partner/friend listed as an affiliate (18+ years old) on your membership, please contact PCA to add them, it’s free. You can do that via PCA admin at membership@pca.org or call them at 1-410-381-0911.

Anniversaries in February – Congratulations! 30 Years

Wyman and Sandy Lee

15 years

Eric and Susan Maitland

10 years

Bernhard and Monika Alde, William Brown

5 years

Brad and Mila Skeeles, James and Michelle Waterfield

1 year

Jimmy Tran, Howard McIntyre and Dian Seguin-McIntyre, Gary Glover

Member Anniversary Recognitions All members who are celebrating an anniversary will be sent a letter from the current PCA President. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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Anniversary Decals - As an Active Member completes 5, 10, 15, or 20 years of membership, the National Office will send, upon request by the member, a special decal indicating the length of membership. Anniversary recognition for the family member/affiliate is also available upon request. If you are celebrating your 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 35 year PCA anniversary, please order your anniversary materials here www.pca.org/anniversary (must be logged in to access). The form will only let you order your materials in 5 year increments and will round it down to the last milestone.

If your membership information listed on the website is incorrect, contact membership@pca.org

Other Membership Activity for this period: Renewals:

Non-renewals:

Transfer in/out: 1/0 Juniors:

(Register your new PCA Junior here)

VIRPCA 20th Anniversary car decal For those who missed out on the 20th Anniversary car decals and want one, I have a dozen looking for a good home. Send me an email with your address and I will be happy to mail one out to you.

Kathleen PCA Test Drive Do you know someone with Porsche ownership intentions or aspirations?

Tell them about the PCA Test Drive program. For US $40 they get 6 months access to PANORAMA and defined access to browse the online PCA Mart to find their Porsche. Contact membership@virpca.org for details. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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PCA Zone 6 Representative, John

P Sommerwerck

ebruary was a busy month; getting ready for the Zone 6 President’s meeting, continuing our Zone 6 travel plans, and trying to find time to scratch my downhill skiing addiction.

On March 19, the Zone 6 Region Presidents met in Boise to discuss the PCA Strategic Plan, Risk Management, Region Leadership 101, and to have an open discussion on issues impacting our regions. All ten regions were represented. Five of the regions sent multiple representatives. Greg Halverson, PCA National Tour director and PNWR member, was in attendance to discuss running successful PCA tours. It was great to meet in person once again. The issues impacting the Zone 6 regions we focused on included data security & privacy, newsletters, and volunteerism. We discussed the importance to have key documents stored securely and why we need to protect the privacy of member data. Region newsletters continue to be a source of concern. Publish online or hardcopy or both? How much to charge for ads? It is never easy to fill region positions and Covid regulations have made it more difficult to reach out and get folks to fill leadership positions within our regions. It is my hope that the discussions we had start us down the path to successful resolutions. Nancy and I are now registered for Broadmoor Treffen in April, VIR’s Black Rock in May, Parade in June, CWR’s Escape 2022 in July and INWR’s 50th Anniversary Gala in August. Also on our travel planning horizon is the OR’s Summer Picnic in August, Sun River Treffen in September, and SSR’s Oktoberfast in October. We continue to look for more opportunities to visit the Zone 6 regions. I have been warned that if I need new tires for my Porsches order them soon. With all this driving we will need good rubber. I am happy to report that I was able to secure a new set of Pirelli P-Zeros. The fronts came from a Seattle, WA warehouse, and the rears from Shreveport, LA. Stay healthy and we will see you in the Zone.

John

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VIR Member, Hermann

Renz

the moment) 2 Porsches in the family :

Hermann

Editor - Another overseas article, this time from Germany The red racer, a 981 Box-

ster Spyder (owned by the lady of the house) and the little American Lady (Yellow Resi), a 912E, which came to us in 2014, and she was the reason I joined the PCA and the Working in the telecommunications industry, Vancouver Island Region I have a strong relationship to the American in June 2015. continent as a big amount of my team are Ok, ok, at the moment I´m sitting in the US and in Canada. investigating a 996 Targa RUF extensions After starting in 2009 with a red 987 Boxster, with over a 987 Black edition, we have now (at (compressor, chassis etc.) Hello, my name is Hermann Renz. I´m from Ulm/Germany, yes Germany, not the New Ulm in Minnesota. I´m married and have 2 adult kids which (thanks god) do not live with me anymore. Ok, and yes, I got two little cute granddaughters as well.

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Guess the colour? Yes, yellow, like the RUF of the region. This happens normally every Yellow Bird. two months. Ride-out and longer tours we do as well. The yearly visit of the AvD Oldtimer Why Vancouver Island Region? Well, the lit- Grandprix at the Nürburgring is a must and tle lady was coming from the north-west of organized for the group by me. We also have the US via Portland/Oregon over Vancou- the opportunity to be in the Alps within one ver/Washington to south Germany. I hour driving and four hours to be in northern thought it is a good choice to have a contact Italy. So no lack of serpentines and possibiliwith her old region (ok, yes I know it sounds ties to move the Porsches in a speciesa little bit sentimental). appropriate way.

So here in the Ulm region I´m the lead for a classical Porsche Club and I have about 40 Porsche enthusiasts with a wide range of cars in my group. We have a lot of activities through the year and share our passion for these cars. Zuffenhausen and the Porsche Museum are an hour away.

In 2018, I organized a very nice trip to the South Tirol region in Northern Italy with about a dozen cars. We hit the Dolomite mountains and several passes there, had fun and enjoyed the excellent Italian cuisine. Only an example of our activities.

So, if any of the VIR members are visiting Our activities are ride-outs and so called Germany, feel free to contact me and I will “Stammtische”, which means, we come togive you help, tips and support for the Porgether in a local restaurant and enjoy “petrol sche trip of your lifetime. You can also conbased” discussions and the culinary delights VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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tact me, if you do not travel to Germany, but want to know some details about the German and European Porsche scene. Warm regards from your long distance member from Ulm/Germany.

Hermann Editor - Thanks to Hermann. VIR members can contact him at hrenz@renznet.de

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President Canada West Region, Jeff

Rebiffe

Hello to our fellow PCA neighbouring regions. Canada West has three major track days on our calendar for 2022. We're pleased to be able to invite our nearby PCA Regions to share in these events! The first date for the upcoming season is: AREA 27 https://area27.ca/ Sunday, May 15th, 2022, Oliver, BC, Canada Area 27 is a world class track and offers an outstanding high performance driving experience. This event is now open for registration by our neighbouring region members. If you feel that your members may have an interest in attending this event please forward the links. Attendees will be grouped by driving experience and a safe, fun format is the hallmark of the day. Event and Registration information: https://www.pca-cwr.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=908153&item_id=1568034 Further events coming later in the season:

Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit, July 16th, 2022 AREA 27, August 24th, 2022 Please don't hesitate to contact me directly with any questions that you may have.

Jeff Rebiffe President Canada West Region president@pca-cwr.org 1-604-916-8533

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Porscher Editor, Steve

Fairbrother

Here are a selection of Porsche-related YouTube videos that were posted on our Facebook group this month. 2022 Porsche 992 GT3 Touring [Manual] Coffee Run! (via Steve F) https://youtu.be/VukFxybhh7Y

How cool is your Porsche 986/987 Boxster or Cayman? How to install a deep oil sump | PCA Spotlight (via Steve F) https://youtu.be/3R1dy_70wIE

Evolution of the Porsche 911 (Animation) (via Mark Ferris) https://youtu.be/b38gHIGENNw

Pixar and Porsche return Sally Carrera to the road (via Steve F) https://youtu.be/exw8ECBX3qU

FIRST DRIVE: Porsche GT4 RS On Road And Track – BEST Sounding Car Ever? | Top Gear (via Mark Ferris) https://youtu.be/9THJrGeLF_s

If you have seen any suitable videos that can be shared with the VIR members, please post a link of them to our Facebook group or send them to me at newsletter@virpca.org

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VIR Member, John

Clark

On Saturday, March 12 some Up Island members enjoyed a belated Valentine’s luncheon social at Courtenay’s Crown Isle Resort & Golf Community. We enjoyed each other’s company, but few Porsches attended as the weather was cold, rainy and blustery. Members from the Comox Valley, Campbell River, Qualicum Beach and Parksville attended. Up Island Director Wendy Woodley had the event well planned and a few brave members told stories about meeting their long time partners. The always brave Roslyn Nickel navigated a complicated story of husband Dave losing their engagement ring in a Dairy Queen recycling container . . . never to be seen again!! Richard Deluca, a Comox Valley member provided his business pens, which also have a very handy light, to all our members. Thanks Richard. A tasty lunch was enjoyed by all attendees with a delicious Valentine’s Black Forest Cake. Members sorted through the available complimentary gifts, mainly from Porsche Centre Victoria, plus some from Dan Ryan, a former VIR member. Thanks to Zoe and John’s presentation and display, $200 was raised to assist the struggle in Ukraine. The ever thoughtful Wendy gifted the ladies in attendance with a wine glass of their choice and a rose to take home. A fine time was had by all.

John

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South Island Director,

Ron Dempsey

We have now opened the MSR registration for VIR members for the Van Isle Adventure Tour on June 24-25 You should register ASAP as it will be opened up to other PCA members outside of Vancouver Island if the numbers are not high enough from VIR attendees. Go to msreg.com/2022-VanIsle-Adventure to see details, costs and to register. Each day of the event is scheduled to include about 6-7 hours of driving, with lunch stops planned along the route. Upon arrival to the destination hotel at the end of day 1, there’s time for beverages, followed by a buffet dinner on premise. Day 2 sees breakfast at the hotel, a slightly shorter day of driving, followed by a wrap-up dinner at the final route location. Please contact Ron Dempsey, South Island Director, at southisland@virpca.org for more details.

Editor - You can also click on the image below to see the details and register

Picture courtesy of Dave Hord

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Suncoast Region Member, Pedro

P Bonilla

Got Belted! During the last year and a half (through most of the pandemic) I’ve finally been restoring my 1998 Boxster. She’s 24 years old now and with 300,000 miles on the clock it was due time. I had done a lot of the “invisible” work already: Performance upgrades such as fully modified air intake, equal length headers, Pedro Sport Exhaust, ECU tuning, larger brakes, adjustable suspension and droplinks among others but now was it was time for the eye-candy! I decided to restore it to my vision of what I would have wanted the car to be from the factory. That meant some exterior mods (adding side skirts), removing all the dings and fullbody paint, but keeping the same Glacier White color. A new convertible top was also now a must. I never liked the small glass rear window, so I kept the original top with the big, clear plastic window, and finally a new carbon-fibre hood with a monochrome Porsche Crest to point the way!

Then it was time for the interior. Here I decided to create a unique Wolfsburg edition 986. I searched hi and low for the specific material I had in mind and finally found it. The interior was originally full graphite gray leather. I decided that to better integrate the fabric inserts she needed a two-tone leather restoration so black and gray it is. Finally for the “pièce de résistance” I wanted deviating color seatbelts! Obviously, with the interior changes, orange was the obligatory color. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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Because I am a Club Racing Scrutineer, we are trained to look at every racecar’s seatbelts before every race while doing the mandatory safety checks. In a racecar, seatbelts cannot be more than 5 years old and they cannot show any signs of abrasion, stretching, or any other type of damage. If they do, the racecar owner must replace them by the next race or they can’t go on track until they do. It’s that important. Trying to correlate that to my car, my OEM seatbelts were 24 years old and because it’s a convertible, they’ve been subjected to many hours of direct UV light and probably rolled and retracted close to 15,000 times! (I figure, to be conservative, twice a day times 20 years). So the decision to replace was a sound one. Since I’m a one-man-band and a DIY’er, I figured that I would find out the length of each side of the seatbelts, go online and order the 2 inch webbing material from the many resellers, pick the perfect orange tone and replace it myself since I have a sewing machine and some strong thread material. Piece of cake ….. well, not so fast. It turns out that the vast majority of the 2” webbing material sold online (and offline as well) is not intended to be used for seatbelts, but rather as strapping and or towing material. Some of them, many from China may even have “DOT Approved” stamped on them. Anyone not knowing the whole story could think it’s legit, but VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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DOT regulates tire manufacturing, not seatbelts. Seatbelts are regulated by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) which are issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA and can be very, very complex and very difficult to comply with. Because of those regulations there are just a handful of legitimate seatbelt-webbing manufacturers worldwide. Those regulations require, among others: G-Force testing, Tilt Lock testing, Webbing Abrasion testing, Salt Spray testing, Tensile test at 10,000 lb., Tensile test at 5,000 lb. as well as Retractor Cycling test. To be approved, seatbelts must comply with: • FMVSS Safety Standard #209 which specifies requirements for seatbelt assemblies. The requirements apply to straps, webbing or similar material, as well as to all necessary buckles and other fasteners and all hardware designed for installing the assembly in a motor vehicle and to the installation, usage, and maintenance instructions of the assembly. • FMVSS Safety Standard #302 which specifies burn resistance requirements for materials used in the occupant compartments of motor vehicles. Its purpose is to reduce death and injuries to motor vehicle occupants caused by vehicle fires, especially those originating in the interior of the vehicle from sources such as matches or cigarettes. • Society of Automotive Engineers - SAE #J386 which establishes the minimum performance requirements for pelvic restraint systems necessary to restrain an operator or passenger with a rollover protective structure (ROPS) in the event of a machine rollover. The FMVSS also regulates the type of thread material used to finish the belt at the anchor points as well as the type of sewing machine used and the pattern of the stitching to finish the belt. It also requires that the manufacturer and the date of manufacturing be sewn in into a tag at the bottom of the belt. By the way, the OEM supplier to Porsche for seatbelts is the Berger Group which was founded in 1968 in Alfdorf, Germany by Johan Berger and now has factories in Belgium, Spain, Germany and China. They are also the OEM supplier to: Audi, Volkswagen, Lamborghini, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Mini, Ford, Jaguar, Volvo, Opel, Skoda and Hyundai among others. After having learned all this I have been VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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carefully inspecting my customers’ seatbelts, especially those that have aftermarket (deviating color) belts. I have found that in every case (8) these aftermarket seatbelts were non-compliant with the FMVSS regulations. None of them had a manufacturer’s label, the sewing pattern was not the approved one and I’m sure the stitching wasn't either. I urge you to check yours if you have an aftermarket seatbelt and also if you have an older (20 years or more) vehicle. Look for that label and carefully inspect the belt for abrasions or wear areas. If you find any anomalies, please feel free to contact me and I’ll make recommendations based on your needs. Seatbelts can save your life as well as the lives of those riding with you! For more information on Porsche restoration and more, please visit my website: www.PedrosGarage.com Happy Porsche’ing

Editor - I thought VIR members may be interested to read Pedro’s Curriculum, see below Pedro’s Curriculum

Racing National Karting Champion 1973 & 1974 (Dom. Rep.) National Enduro Champion AMA Sanctioned, 250 & 500 cc 1981 & 1983 (Dom. Rep.) Rally, Road Racing, Club Racing, DEs, AXs, Slalom, Gymkanas, Hare & Hound, Enduro, Motocross 2007 AX P14 (Boxster Class 2.5L/2.7L) Class Champion PCA Zone 12 Gold Coast Region 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 AX P07 Class Champion PCA Zone 12 Gold Coast Region

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Certifications PCA Nationally Certified HPDE PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer PCA National Tech Committee Expert: Boxster/Cayman Instructor/Speaker/Presenter Presenter @ Porsche Parade Presenter @ Tech Tactics East Presenter @ Tech Tactics West Instructor @ BRBS Instructor @ (WCBF) Instructor @ Boxstoberfest Speaker @ Multiple Tech Sessions Technical Writing / Publishing Monthly Tech articles in 3 dozen PCA Regional Newsletters and in PCA Club Racing News 48 Hours at Sebring (Tech Chair) & Committee Member since 2011 Author, developer and innovator of multiple modifications and upgrades for Porsche models 996/997, 986/987, 981/991, 992/718 and more.

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Rally Chair, Klaus

Kreye

The Spring Rally is the first of two TSD Rallies to be held in 2022. This is a team event where each car has a driver and a navigator. The driver and navigator may swap between rally legs. It will be a family friendly event on paved, public roadways operating at/below posted speed limits. The rally will start in Mill Bay. There will be a number of short legs (usually six regularity stages) allowing time to chat between and learn from other teams. The event will end in the Duncan area with a meal where the results will be shared. If you have never taken part in a TSD rally, we will provide a Zoom orientation session, please email me at rally@virpca.org Only 35 car places available, so please register ASAP at msreg.com/2022-Spring-Rally

Klaus

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VIR members can find VIR logo’d clothing range at our special PCA webstore here... www.pcawebstore.org/regions/VIS VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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President, Olympic Peninsula Region,

Bill Corrigan

Editor - The OPR visited Griots’ Garage last year, Bill kindly provided his article for us to print. You’re a car person, so tell me, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Griot’s? Right, most of us within driving range of Tacoma think of their store with shelves and display cases loaded with the latest tools, liquids, and all car care paraphernalia to make your vehicles look their best. Something else that comes to mind are the monthly Cars and Coffee gatherings, each themed with some of your favorite marques. That’s all good, but over the years Griot’s has expanded to offer other services, still with our beloved cars in the spotlight. A couple of months ago the Olympic Peninsula Region sponsored a drive to Tacoma to see what else is going on. Maryann Elwell did a phenomenal job of planning the day, and after a short drive from Gig Harbor we arrived at Griot’s Motors, just down the hill from the more familiar Griot’s Garage. Griot’s Motors offers classic car restoration, sales and consignments, auto detailing, and secure, heated auto storage. We were met by Phillip Griot, Griot’s Motors principle. We were ushered into the new (2018) 30,000 square foot building, and in customary fashion it was a brightly lit, immaculately maintained facility, with the familiar Griot’s red and grey color motif. If you look at their website, you’ll see that Griot’s motors has been around since 2008, and “has overseen and experienced countless restorations, engine swaps, concours winning details …”. In the fascinating introduction Phillip told us how increasing demand and the expanding services pro-

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vided by Griot’s Motors necessitated a dedicated facility. He told us about a number of the special projects they’d taken on and how some of the projects evolve while underway, as owners think of changes or upgrades they want to make while the vehicle is disassembled. In the main bay are at least five lift stations, some of which had project vehicles in various stages of their restoration or modifications. One was a Willys Jeep owned by Phillip’s father and founder of Griot’s, Richard. Apparently, Richard was adding to his collection (more about that collection in a bit) and the ground up restoration was well underway. As I recall, a few modern updates were being incorporated, but given the age of the Jeep, some of the parts must be fabricated on site from scratch.

Phillip took us around to the other lift stations and to some of the cars parked in the bay. Each was unique and had a story. From the main bay we stopped at the high-tech paint booths. These booths can control their environment, from eliminating particle contamination using HEPA air filters, to the temperature and of course humidity, all to assure the highest quality paint application. Leaving that building Phillip led us across to the vehicle storage facility. Here is where folks who want climate-controlled storage can park their precious rides in climate-controlled safety. Most of the vehicles can be accessed regularly and are not required to be in a non-driving storage state. There must have been at least 70 vehicles parked inside, most hooked up to battery tenders. We were able to wander among the vehicles, discovering more than a few unique examples, both classic and more recent, from Italian hyper cars to a lifted very rugged looking 4-wheel off-road motor home, to a project 240-Z in a state of disassembly or assembly … it was impossible to determine which. After that amazing tour of Griot’s Motors facilities, and an introduction to the capabilities and services they offer, we were off to the final stop, Richard Griot’s private car collection. VANCOUVER ISLAND — PORSCHER

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It is accessed through an unmarked door off the display area of Griot’s Garage. Passing through the door you are immediately assailed with automotive eye candy. Each of these cars has a story and Phillip spent time relating several of them; funny, nostalgic or the car’s moment in history! There were a couple of Richard Petty’s stock cars, winning Formula 1 racers, rare Italian super-car examples, a couple of uniquely equipped 911s, a VW Thing, and much more. For a more detailed tour of Richard’s collection check out PCA’s YouTube video (2019). It is also a great interview with Richard where he explains the genesis of Griot’s Garage and stories behind some of the cars in his collection. A more recent video (2021) features Nick giving a tour of the collection. You can watch other videos that provide more fascinating stories behind the cars in the collection, which of course, continues to grow. We concluded our visit to Griot’s with a great Olive Garden lunch catered into Griot’s dining area, decorated like a 1950’s soda shop. If you can ever take advantage of a ‘full’ tour of Griot’s operations in Tacoma, jump onboard. We’ll sure do it again!

Bill Editor - Many thanks to Garth and OPR’s Bill Corrigan in getting us the article..

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here is always a Cars & Coffee meeting near you at weekends! Pop in, meet old friends and make plenty of new ones. You never know, VIR may even pay for your coffee occasionally too!

There are 3 locations across the Island to meet Club members regularly:-

Up Island 2nd Sat of month, 10am Crown Isle Plaza (next to Starbucks), 444 Lerwick Road, Courtenay

Mid Island Sundays 10am, Serious Coffee, 9-1209 East, Island Hwy E, Parksville

South Island Sundays 9am, Starbucks, Eagle Creek Village, 29 Helmcken Rd, Victoria

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“It's not just the

cars, it's the people!”

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f you have received a discount from anywhere that you believe would be applicable to others in the Club, please advise us via email to newsletter@virpca.org and I’ll add to this list. Note: The discount details may change after publishing, if Porscher is not advised.

Please mention that you saw their advert in PORSCHER if you visit/talk to these sponsors

Where

Discount Description

Lordco

Up to 30%

Mention Porsche Club of America (show PCA card)

Porsche Center Victoria

Up to 15%

15% for in-house work, 10% over the counter parts

Blast-It!

10%

Confirm with owner first.

10%

At checkout, use code Pelican-PCA2022- followed by your 10 digit PCA MEMBER ID (not login ID). Note: You can only use this code once.

Pelican Parts

elow are some Porsche related sites that Club members may find useful. If you know of any others please forward them to the Editor. Zone 6 website zone6.pca.org

Best forum for 986 owners, run by Pelican Parts 986forum.com/forums PCA Boxster register, another great resource for Boxster owners boxsterregister.org

See the PCA site for other models www.pca.org/special-interest-groups Macan Forum, everything related to Macans www.macanforum.com General car auction site https://bringatrailer.com Pelican Parts forums and classifieds http://forums.pelicanparts.com/ Below are some USED parts web sites:https://www.partsheaven.com

http://rennlist.com/forums

http://www.nineapart.com

http://malahatautoparts.com/parts-search

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Up Island Mid Island South Island

Apr 14 7pm Apr 9 & 10

Apr 9 & 10

May 12-15

May 15

Ongoing Cars & Coffee Times

2 Saturday of the month, 10am—Noon, Crown Isle Plaza (next to Starbucks), 444 Lerwick Road, Courtenay Sundays 10am, Serious Coffee, 9-1209 East, Island Hwy E, Parksville Sundays 9am, Starbucks, Eagle Creek Village, 29 Helmcken Rd, Victoria nd

Club Executive/Business Meeting via Zoom

The monthly Executive/Business meeting via Zoom. If you wish to join, advise Sam so we have an idea for online capacity

Cars & (FREE) Coffee Driving Season Opener

Join us for a free coffee at the Up-Island Cars & Coffee (April 9) and Mid Island & South Island on April 10

Silver Sage Region - Spring Autocross

Contact Sam Contact Garth

Contact Silver Sage

Those who fancy an Autocross in Idaho, can register here. Also to be held on July 16-17 and Oct 15-16

Black Rock 2022 - FULL

Our 2022 Black Rock charity event at Ucluelet. Even though it is full now, people do drop out, so register just in case! Details and register via msreg.com/Black-Rock-2022

Canada West Area 27 Track Day Refer to details at https://www.pca-cwr.org/content.aspx?

Contact Steve P or Dan B

Contact Canada West

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Spring Time Speed Distance Rally June 5th

In this team event each car needs a driver and a navigator. It will be a family friendly event on paved public roadways operating at/below posted speed limits. Register at msreg.com/2022-Spring-Rally

Contact Klaus

June 12-18

PCA Parade (on the East Coast!)

Contact Parade

June 24-25

At Kalahari Resort Poconos in Pennsylvania.

Van Isle Adventure Tour

Contact Ron

Join Ron Dempsey and others on a 2-day mystery drive. Registration on MSR msreg.com/2022-VanIsle-Adventure More events being planned, watch for them here or in Garth’s emails

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Articles inside

UP ISLAND VALENTINE

VANISLE ADVENTURE TOUR - OPEN

PORSCHE VIDEOS

GRIOTS GARAGE TOUR

SPRING TSD RALLY

MEMBER PROFILE

EXECUTIVE COMMENT