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COMMEMORATING PORSCHE FELLOWSHIP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION RMR.PCA.ORG ● April 2016 This Month: Edelweiss Spring Tour! HPR DE! AutoX School! And More! What’s your property worth? Call now for a 2016 market evaluation. Expert team opinion. No fee until you close. Over 60 transactions worth $29 million in 2015. Loves Porsches. 32 Features 9 Show us your Car! 16 Newbie plans for her first Parade 20 Jerry’s Porsches have Denver connections 20 33 Charity Committee Activities In The Werks Don’t 6 Members Social at 3ZERO3 miss out! REGISTER 18 Spring Break Madness TODAY! 22 Rally Quest Colorado 32 Detailing Clinic at Adam’s Polishes Departments 22 Rally Quest is a whimsical, mobile scavenger hunt in the Parker, Franktown, and Castle Rock area 4 Presidential Thoughts being held on Saturday, May 14. It promises lots of fun and includes mystery routes, zany games, puzzles to solve, door prizes, and fabulous awards for the rally winners! 5 Advertiser index The adventure starts at 11:00 AM at Wine Country Motor Sports in Englewood (14 Inverness Dr. E #138) just after the Breakfast Club gathering two miles away at The Perfect 6 Members’ Corral Landing restaurant and the Cars & Coffee event at the Vehicle Vault in Parker. Rally Quest is a non-timed course 7 Upcoming events calendar that will take about 90 minutes and cover approximately 75 miles of scenic Douglas County roads. It ends at The Rock Wood-Fired Kitchen in Parker where winners will 13 Advertising Rates be announced and a private lunch awaits (meals are not included). Perfect for two participants, an early afternoon of Porsche-themed hilarity awaits if 28 Classifieds you are quick enough to be one of the first 40 pairs of RMR-PCA members to sign up! Rally Quest costs $30 per person and all proceeds go to charity (see below). Registration is 30 In the Zone now open on www.motorsportsreg.comVol.. For questions, 58, Editionto volunteer, or help4 •sponsor April this event2016 that will be talked about for many months to come, please contact the Rally Quest Event Chairs, 34 Tech Talk David and Jody Schmidt, at [email protected]: Russ (or call 303.662.1162). Rydberg The chosen charity for this Asst.year’s Gimmick Editor: Rally is International Bill HearingTerry 36 Region coordinators/Technical resources Dogs of Henderson, CO. IHD is a nonprofit group (www.hearingdog.org) that train shelter dogs to assist persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, 36 Board of Directors with and without multiple disabilities, at no cost to the recipient. Each year, IHD places between 30 and 40 Hearing Dogs that cost $8,000 each to Dan Fead & Stacy Resop 37 What we do train and care for. Proceeds from our rally are going to a wonderful cause! RallyQuest-fullpage ad4.indd 1 3/15/16 5:49 PM Stacy 303.506.3128 | Dan 720.300.9500 [email protected] | [email protected] www.livsothebysrealty.com Spring is here! Cover photo: Dave Liddle 2 9 APRIL 2016 3 Pres Presidential Thoughts Get Involved! John Mackin, President Contribute to your newsletter! RMR online discussion groups HighGear needs your articles and photos! Please submit Would you like to discuss Porsches, RMR or anything else ON MARCH 12TH WE HELD OUR ANNUAL scheduled for April 13th. This event is chaired by Pete your content and ideas to the Newsletter Editor by the 15th of interest to other Porschephiles? Check out the RMR New Member Social at Man Cave North in Westminster. Romensko and Iryna Butler, both first time event chairs. of the month at [email protected]. online discussion groups. Many thanks to both of them for their willingness to jump Yahoo: groups.yahoo.com/group/rmr_pca We estimate over 300 people attended. At the event we had Join RMR-PCA representatives for all of our activities: Autocross, Driver’s in and volunteer. Pete and Iryna have chosen Lung Cancer Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/pcarmr Colorado, a University of Colorado Hospital Foundation, Not a member yet? Join RMR-PCA by visiting our website Education, Socials and Tours. In addition, the Charity at www.pca.org and simply click the “Join PCA” link. Get your newsletter on the go! Committee, Safety Committee. Webmaster and Historian as the designated charity to receive donations and funds To read HighGear in PDF format on the Web, go to the were represented. As part of the event, the Charity collected from noontime rides. Advertise in HighGear RMR Web site at rmr.pca.org and click the Newsletter link. Committee collected donations for the Food Bank of the For those who can’t wait until “Spring Speed Fix” Please see page three for advertising rates details. Back issues are also available on the Web site. Rockies. Our members donated over 100 pounds of canned AMR is holding their first DE of the season on April 9th goods and $355 in cash. Thanks to all who so generously and 10th at PPIR. If you are interested registration is now contributed, to the volunteers who represented our various open at motorsportreg.com. Would you like to get involved? Do you want to be activities, and to Holly Jackson and Eric Behrendsen for Preparations for the 2016 Porsche Parade are well a part of the team? Do you like to see color photos organizing this event. underway. This year’s Parade will be held in scenic Jay in this publication? Do you have a gift for sales We welcome all of our new RMR members and invite Peak Vermont right near the Canadian border. For those and marketing? We are looking for an Advertising you to participate in our many activities. We also encourage of you who have not been to a Porsche Parade, it is a truly Coordinator to help increase the amount of income you to volunteer at these events. It’s the best way to meet memorable experience. In addition to the competitive generated through advertising sales in the HighGear others who share your interests and become involved in events, such as the Concours d’Elegance, Autocross, Time- publication. More advertising dollars means more the club. Speed-Distance Rally and the Tech Quiz, there are always pages in the newsletter. More information for the All of the “track junkies” out there will be glad to great opportunities to experience the local flavor, either members of the club, and more color photos to enjoy! know that registration is now open for our first Driver’s with organized tours or on your own. And, of course, there If you are interested, please contact the editor at Education event at HPR. On April 23rd and 24th we are always lots of great cars to look at! [email protected] will celebrate “Spring Speed Fix”, with tech inspection If you are reading this, your potential customers could be reading it too. Advertise in HighGear and target your peers while helping your club at the same time! Email the HighGear editor (newsletter@ rmrporscheclub.com) to get your ad in next month’s issue! Dave Liddle Photo Advertiser Index 3R Racing .................23 Dave Brown, Targa Tops. 4 Storz Garage ...............33 3Zero3 Motorsports ..........31 Eurosport Automotive ........19 Tom Ludlow .................4 Autoworks Colorado .........23 Eisenbuds .................37 Wine Country Motor Sports ....31 Boulder Orthotics (Bob Egeland) .4 Ferrari of Denver ............39 Your ad here ................! CarQuip/Remington West Carz. 19 Joe Rothman, Driver Coach ...35 Chris Sarian ................11 Sil-TerHar Motors. .10 Dan Fead, Sothebys Realty. .2 Pedro’s Garage .............35 Dart Auto ..................19 Prestige Imports ............40 APRIL 2016 5 Daniel Jackson, Cheyenne, WY, Pres February New Members 2004 911 Carrera 4S Members’ Corral Jeffrey Alvis, Highlands Ranch, Stephen Kirmse, Denver, 1969 911S 2016 Cayenne GTS Holly Jackson, Membership Chair Bill Myers, Parker, 2006 911 Carrera Cabriolet Scott Berryman, Boulder, 1977 911S Thomas Oesterreicher, Arvada, John Bubany, Boulder, 2016 Macan S 2015 911 Carrera 4 Fernando Carreira, Denver, 2005 Boxster S We had an overwhelming turnout for the time where there are events nearly every weekend Krupal Patel, Lafayette, 2003 911 Targa WOW! Josh Carter, Colorado Springs, New Member Social! It’s not too often that all the of every month! You are encouraged to participate Doug Ray, Arvada, 2004 Cayenne S 2005 911 Carrera S Cabriolet Chairs and Board members are together for one event. whether it is your first time or your 100th time. If you Peter Robbiano, Grand Junction, Paul Cattermole, Denver, 1996 911 Carrera 4 We really hope all members who came had many of are new, don’t be afraid to say so. I have found that 2003 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet Steve Deppe, Silverthorne, 2013 911 Carrera 4 their questions answered and had a wonderful time. there is always someone who is willing to walk you Mike Snyder, Littleton, 2009 911 Turbo Karl Dufresne, Elizabeth, 2013 Boxster S Hopefully you were able to see some spectacular through it and make sure you have fun. Kenneth & Mariana Sons, Evergreen, Vinod Ethirajan, Highlands Ranch, cars, especially the very rare Koenigsegg that was If you would like a name badge and weren’t able 2015 Cayman GTS 2006 911 Carrera 4S on display. We also had special guests: members to come to the New Member Social, please email me William Wiese, Aurora, 2011 911 Carrera 4S Zoltan Fuzessery, Laramie, WY, 1989 944 Turbo from AMR (Alpine Mountain Region) and our Zone the form found on our web page: rmr.pca.org. We Adam You, Englewood, 2006 Cayenne Turbo Rob Hickman, Larkspur, 2009 Turbo 9 representative, Liz Shaw. I want to thank all the would like for all members to have one.