SUMMER 2018 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER FINGER LAKES REGION PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA Summer 2018 President’s Message – Dom Pullano 3 ¡A Toda Velocidad! – Luis A. Martínez 4 Fifty Year Love Affair – Continued - - Luis A. Martínez 6 Full Circle: The Return of Ford and Porsche – Luis A. Martínez 9 The Shape of Things – Dom Pullano 23 The Sound and the Fury of Porsches in Anger: Porsche Clash at The Glen – Luis A. Martínez 24 Calendar of Events 2018 32 Membership – Mike Hortiatis 33 The Exchange 34 Finger Lakes Region Officers and Chairs 34 On The Cover: Hank Kramer’s 1963 Porsche 356 Cabriolet is an example of the first production model of Porsche automobiles. It has been an integral part of the life of PCA Finger Lakes Region’s Hank Kramer for three generations. Hank has owned and driven his cherished car daily since when he lived in Oakland CA and ordered it new in October 1962. In 2008, Hank had his car fully restored. Engine Design: 4-cylinder, flat 4, Air cooled, displacement: 1,582cc, Compression: 9.0:1, Output: 90 hp @ 5500 rpm. _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Frontrunner is a publication of the Finger Lakes Region of the Porsche Club of America. All rights are reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce any material published herein, provided the full credit is given the Frontrunner and the author. Material published herein, reprinted with the permission or courtesy of another agent may NOT be reproduced unless permission is granted from that entity. They reserve all rights to their material. Editor/Designer: Karen Schwartzman ([email protected]) Advertising Rates: Single Issue: Full Page: $100, ½ page: $75, ¼ page: $40, 1/8 page: $25 Full Year (4 issues): Full Page: $250, ½ page: $200, ¼ page: $150, 1/8 page: $100, Business Card: $50 FRONTRUNNER PG. 2 President’s Message Welcome to our summer newsletter for 2018 of the Finger Lakes Porsche Region! Thank you all for your participation and a special note of appreciation to several members who have helped organize events for us this year. Geza and Minou Hrazdina for the Kindred Fare Dinner, Neil and Kathy Freson for the Clash at the Glen Event, John Berndt for the Fox Run Show, Taste and Tour, and Dave Schwaner and Sue Miller for the FLK picnic. Please let us know if you have an idea or a favorite place to drive to and we’ll do our best to promote the event and make it happen. Our region is unique as geographically it is very large which spreads out our membership. Having a Saturday morning “coffee and cars” or an impromptu meet up will help generate the camaraderie an organization like ours develop. If you know of an event like a “cruise night” that would benefit from some Porsches in attendance send an email to [email protected] and we’ll get the word out. This is also the purpose of our “thumb drive” where we can be spontaneous on events. I have been more frequent on our email updates because we are in serious need of updating our website. Our contract runs until year end and we’re only allowed four updates a year. Worst case basis please check the events calendar to see what is coming up for details. Neil, our vice-president, is able to update this as needed. We hope to incorporate more pictures, videos, and blogs in the future. PCA National does have several templates for websites that we can incorporate which we are currently exploring. Please let us know if there are any volunteers who would like to assist us in updating and maintaining the site. You can reply to [email protected]. We also encourage members to take pictures or contribute an article to our newsletter. Also remember if you have some information you would like to pass along and writing is not your thing we can always do an interview to capture your thoughts and pass them along. We heard some great stories at the planning meeting on how some members acquired their first Porsche. These are great stories to pass along. We have several more months to our traditional driving season but by no means do we forget about our Porsches. We are looking to incorporate the four doors during the off season and even become a leader in PCA with this niche. As always more to follow. Enjoy the journey, Dom Dom Pullano, President FINGER LAKES REGION PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA FRONTRUNNER PG. 3 Drive it LOUD! © ¡A Toda Velocidad!* Luis A. Martínez Wallowing in the Moment As I type this using my right index finger, I’m grimacing at the reality that, due to shoulder rotator cuff surgery, my track driving season has already ended for this year. But, hey, no regrets! Track season started on a great note as I was able to bring both of my sons, Alex and Brad, to drive my new race car at Watkins Glen. We are living up to our PCA motto - “It’s not just the cars, it’s the people!”, and what a difference they make! As I always say to my boys, while packing our gear and loading the car on the trailer, “It’s not about the car – it’s about building memories…” In the Spring edition of The Frontrunner I described our adventure in January when I took Alex and Brad to the 56th annual Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. That was a At Watkins Glen International, Brad Alex and Luis Martinez, April 2018. FRONTRUNNER PG. 4 ¡A Toda Velocidad!*(continued) gargantuan sports car racing event surpassed only by the epic Vingt Quatre Heures du Mans, Circuit de la Sarthe. My agenda, as it relates to Porsche, is to wallow in the moment – to identify every opportunity to engage family, friends and cars at interesting events – then drink it all in! I’ve been writing professionally for many years on various topics – business, politics, culture, human resources and sports car racing. One of the most popular articles I’ve ever published is called How to Live in the Moment. When it was published online in the summer of 2016 the article was Liked and Shared much more than my other articles! it was obvious that I had touched on something important – but what was it? I think it is that people are thirsty for quality of life. Think about this – if you’re a member of this Club then you have, by definition, achieved a socio-economic level that affords an abundant lifestyle. But - you may still feel there’s something missing. That something might be what I refer to as - Wallowing in the Moment. What memories do you cherish? And just as importantly, what memories are you still creating today? While we all have many fond memories from the past it’s also very important to appreciate the present and learn to live in the moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School suggests: “Mindfulness means paying attention to the situation you are currently in, rather than letting your mind wander into the past or future.” What do I remember best about my trip to Rolex 24 at Daytona in January? Was it the Media credentials on behalf of Victory Lane magazine? Or was it hobnobbing with top drivers including Fernando Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya, Scott Pruett and many others? What I remember best about that trip is that I was accompanied by my two sons, Alex and Brad – that’s what made it special. As seasons come and go and I make choices about how to spend my precious time, my agenda is to continue to actively drive my race car, attend professional events, take photos and write stories for magazines, but preferably accompanied by Alex and Brad. With God’s infinite and undeserved grace, I have made it come true many times and will keep trying. This is our 22nd year as a PCA Region! Please check our busy Events for 2018, mark your calendar, bring your family and your Porsche(s), take some photos and send me a few lines along with your pictures so I can include them in the next edition. * At Maximum Speed! FRONTRUNNER PG. 5 NEW YORK AUTO SHOW AND HANK KRAMER Fifty-Year Love Affair - Continued By Luis A. Martínez Photo Credit: The Drive In 1962 a certain young man’s fancy turned to love. So this young man, we’ll call him Hank, decided to improve his girl catching chances by acquiring the best flytrap he could think of – a red convertible. But not just any red convertible – a new, red Porsche 356 Cabriolet. Hank Kramer placed an order for a red 356 S-90 Cabriolet that in October 1962. Then he waited for the order to be processed and the car to be built in Germany and shipped to Oakland, CA. In the meantime, Hank stayed active in the dating scene and met a sweet young girl, Pat. Well, they were meant for each other and made plans for a wedding. And then the car came, a 1963 356 Cabrio. But it was not the red paint job he had ordered. It was white. Oh, what the heck, Hank already had the girl, so he didn’t really need a red one. Life was good. Hank and Pat were married in 1963, and the clock started. Hank and Pat raised a family, had FRONTRUNNER PG. 6 Fifty-Year Love Affair – Continued (continued) grandchildren, then he retired as a pharmacist. Hank has used his 356 as a daily driver – For.