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Porsche Club of America Region of the Year PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA REGION OF THE YEAR OCTOBER 2O14 UB E CL OF A CH M S ER R I O C P A S N DER A 19 4 IO NT 64–201 G 50A RE B AUSPUFF ARBARA PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA • SANTA BARBARA REGION We Got Our Kicks on Route 66 Detail Clinic Shines at Lavaggio R.U.F. & Porsche Mademoiselles DER AUSPUFF Contents Features R.U.F. at Saint Barbara’s Church ...........................11 We Got Our Kicks on Route 66 .............................13 Detail Clinic at Lavaggio .......................................19 Porsche Breather Systems ....................................21 For Mademoiselles The Play’s The Thing .............25 Reports President’s Column ..................................................4 Camarillo Breakfast.................................................7 Santa Barbara Breakfast .........................................9 Board of Directors Meeting ..................................27 13 Member Anniversaries & New Members ............28 Future Events Santa Barbara Region Events Calendar ..................3 38th Annual Concours d’Elegance ..........................6 19 Halloween Costume Party.....................................12 “Sideways” Grape Harvest Tour ...........................17 SBR Annual Holiday Brunch ..................................20 Motor 4 Toys .........................................................23 Tech Tactics ...........................................................26 Departments SBR Board of Directors & Appointees ....................2 Name Badge Ordering Information .......................28 The Goodie Store ..................................................29 SBR Classifieds .....................................................31 Directory of Advertisers ........................................31 The Last Word .......................................................32 On The Cover Beautiful downtown Seligman, Arizona on fabled Route 66 gets a visit from PCA’s Santa Barbara Region. Photo by Nicolas Liakas PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA REGION OF THE YEAR OCTOBER 2O14 UB E CL OF A CH M S ER R I O C P A S N DER A 19 4 IO NT 64–201 G 50A RE B AUSPUFF ARBARA PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA • SANTA BARBARA REGION We Got Our Kicks on Route 66 Detail Clinic Shines at Lavaggio 32 R.U.F. & Porsche Mademoiselles Der Auspuff, which translates as “the exhaust,” is the official publication of the Santa Barbara Region, Porsche Club of America. Chartered regions of PCA are granted permission to reprint any material herein provided full credit is given to the author and Der Auspuff (with the exception of copyrighted material). Any statement appearing in Der Auspuff is that of the author, and does not constitute an opinion of the Porsche Club of America, the Santa Barbara Region, its Board or Appointees, the Der Auspuff Editors, or its Staff. The Editorial Staff reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Deadline for submittal of material to be considered for Der Auspuff is the 10th of the month preceding the month of publication. sAntA BARBARA ReGIon BoARD oF DIReCtoRs President Activities DOREEN PANKOW BARRY WEINSTEIN [email protected] [email protected] 805-527-8280 805-241-5641 Vice President Goodie Store JOHN McNAIR RICK & MARTIE THEISE [email protected] [email protected] 805-494-1527 818-999-0401 Treasurer Past President STEVE KALLER NICOLAS LIAKAS [email protected] [email protected] 818-489-4225 818-706-6016 sAntA BARBARA ReGIon BoARD APPoIntees Secretary DICK LANGE Advertising TED LIGHTHIZER [email protected] [email protected] Archives JAMES OLDHAM [email protected] 818-865-1498 Autocross STEVE FERRARI [email protected] Concours KENNY & TARA BRUNDRETT [email protected] Distribution CHET & JOAN YABITSU [email protected] 50th Anniversary NADINE TRACY [email protected] Membership SUE KINSLING Insurance JAMES EDWARDS [email protected] [email protected] Mademoiselles PAMUELA HODSON [email protected] 805-386-8112 Public Relations NICOLAS LIAKAS [email protected] R.U.F. JOHN & JEANNE MCNAIR [email protected] Safety WILLIAM GRISWOLD [email protected] Webmaster RANDY FISHWICK [email protected] Editor JOHN ALFENITO Website - www.pcasb.org Facebook - www.facebook.com/PCASBR [email protected] Flickr - www.flickr.com/groups/pcasb Issuu - www.issuu.com/pcasbr 818-436-9204 2 DER AUSPUFF OCTOBER 2014 DER AUSPUFF sBR eVents CALenDAR Editor JOHN ALFENITO [email protected] OCTOBER Managing Editor Susan Stone SATURDAY 4 CAMARILLO BREAKFAST [email protected] Camarillo Outlets 8:00 a.m. Associate Editors SATURDAY 11 SANTA BARBARA BREAKFAST BirGitta Baker Jeanne MCNair Moby Dick 8:30 a.m. Advertising Director SUNDAY 12 38TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA Ted Lighthizer [email protected] REGION CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE Four Seasons Hotel - Westlake Technical Editor Chris Andropoulos See page 6 [email protected] SATURDAY 25 HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY Contributors ANITA BANKE Kinsling Residence TARA BRUNDRETT [email protected] See page 12 DICK LANGE NICOLAS LIAKAS JEANNE MCNAIR BRIAN RUBINO FRITz & JOANNE STOVER NOVEMBER RON WILLIAMS SATURDAY 1 CAMARILLO BREAKFAST Printing Michael Dunwell Camarillo Outlets 8:00 a.m. Sir Speedy Printing 1161 Calle Suerte, Suite E SATURDAY 8 SANTA BARBARA BREAKFAST Camarillo, CA 93012 Moby Dick 8:30 a.m. 805-484-7999 WEDNESDAY 12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING UB E CL OF A Ameci’s, Thousand Oaks - 6:30 p.m. CH M S ER R I O C P A SATURDAY 15 SIDEWAYS GRAPE HARVEST TOUR [email protected] S N A 19 4 IO NT 64–201 G See page 17 50A RE BARBARA Yearly Advertising Rates (12 issues) Full Page (8.5 x 11 inches) $1870.00 Half Page (8.5 x 5.5 inches) $935.00 DECEMBER Quarter Page (3.5 x 4.75 inches) $635.00 Business Card (3.5 x 2 inches) $330.00 SATURDAY 6 CAMARILLO BREAKFAST Deadline for submission of ad copy is the 10th Camarillo Outlets 8:00 a.m. of the month preceding the month of publication. Graphic assistance available at no charge. SUNDAY 7 MOTOR 4 TOYS Please support our advertisers: We welcome Woodland Hills Anthem Center commercial ads in Der Auspuff. They help See page 23 support our club, and we encourage you to make your first call to those who help us enjoy our SATURDAY 13 SANTA BARBARA BREAKFAST great hobby. Let them know you saw their ad in Der Auspuff. We also encourage you to promote Moby Dick 8:30 a.m. your own business by becoming an advertiser SUNDAY 14 SBR HOLIDAY BRUNCH yourself. For information, please contact: Ted Lighthizer Le Cumbre Country Club, S.B. 805-527-8280 [email protected] See page 20 [email protected] OCTOBER 2014 DER AUSPUFF 3 the PResIDent’s CoLumn DoReen PAnkow Anniversary Journal and poster. Thank you, John, for sharing t’s not too late to enter your your incredible talents and for the countless hours you contribute car in our 38th annual to make sure we receive our favorite Der Auspuff magazine on Concours d’Elegance on schedule each month. Sunday, October 12th, at the Ibeautiful grounds of the Four Randy Fishwick is serving his sixth year as SBR’s Webmaster. Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village. Randy works totally behind the scenes maintaining and We had a wonderful turn-out last providing enhancements to SBR’s www.pcasb.org website, such as year and hope to have even higher the addition of our Advertising section. He continually updates participation this year. All judged the website with future activities, not only for SBR events, but and display-only entries also also for other car-related activities in our communities. On the include a delightful lunch on the left-hand side of SBR’s Home Page, you’ll find a variety of helpful lawn adjacent to a waterfall, and links. With these you can visit our advertisers’ websites, go to you may purchase extra lunches. the web pages of PCA or Zone 8, order an SBR name badge, or actually download an application to join our region. Thank you, There are six divisions in the judged competition ranging from Randy, for making all this information so readily accessible to Full Concours to Wash & Shine. You are competing with cars in our members. similar classifications within the various divisions. If you don’t want to enter the judged competition, you can still park your Chet & Joan Yabitsu are serving their eighth year as SBR’s Porsche in front of the hotel in the Display Only category. I am Distribution Managers. For most of those years, they applied the entering my 1995 993 Carrera in the Street Division this year. mailing labels to over 700 magazines each month, sorting them Don’t miss this opportunity to display your favorite Porsche(s). by zip code for bulk mailing. Members occasionally received personalized, yellow Post-It notes from Joan in their magazines. I thought you might enjoy learning more about what some of The monthly mailing task is now being done by Sir Speedy our Board members do to make sure we are well-informed about (absent the personal notes), but Chet & Joan still oversee our SBR, Zone 8 and other car show activities. relationship with the post office and work through various issues related to mailing the magazines to all our members. They also John Alfenito is finishing up his fifth year as SBR’s Editor. John facilitate payment to the post office for our bulk mailing. Thank also served as photographer and Cover Editor for several years you, Chet & Joan, for your many years of dedicated service to our prior to becoming the editor. John is a one-man team whose club. creative and artistic skills make Der Auspuff an award-winning magazine. He is very organized and keeps track of a lot of details Our Board members all serve as volunteers and give freely to make sure all the various contributors meet deadline. John was of their personal time to perform the duties that keep our club instrumental in negotiating better rates so we could go to an all- running so smoothly. So the next time you see one of them, color newsletter, and he designed the beautiful layout for the 50th please thank them for a job well done! Santa Barbara Region Breakfast Maps CLUB OF join us for HE AM C S ER R I O C P A Santa Barbara Breakfast Camarillo Breakfast Second Saturday of the month S First Saturday of the month N A 196 4 IO breakfast NT 4–201 G 50A RE BARBARA the first GARDEN ST.
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