SPINNER Schönesland Region Club of America May 2019 May 2019

PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTORS: Bob Timmerman (President) David Safris (SPINNER Editor) Alecia Kindred (SPINNER Designer)

COVER PHOTO: Photo courtesy of David Safris at Heartland Park Raceway - Topeka, KS

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Schonesland Officers & Board Members 2 President’s Apex 3 Events Calendar 4 2020 Calendar Contest 6 New Member Picnic 7 Des Moines Cars & Coffee 8 Schonesland Charity Poker Run 9 Adventureland Autocross 10 PCA Club Race 12 Nauvoo Drive 14 Schonesland Merchandise 15 Advertisements 16 Woodhouse Ad 18

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 1 SCHONESLAND OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS

Bob Timmerman Drew Hillman President Vice President/

Terri Johnson Doug Hillman Secretary Treasurer

Ken Watkins Jen Scharff Membership Chair Safety Chair

Tom Rusk Julienne Krennrich Club Historian Social Media Chair 515-233-1594

Garry Seemann Will MacFarland Tour Director Former President

David Safris Bob Eddy Webmaster / SPINNER Autocross Chair Editor Members-at-Large: Paul Rathjen, Skip Hammerman, Jeff David, Rich Collins, Chuck Stewart, John Peeler

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 2 PRESIDENT’S APEX

Bob Timmerman President

Let the touring season begin!

Although May is starting out rainy, we’re excited that Another Charity event occurs on May 18. Member Will our first overnight tour to Sioux City via the famous MacFarland will be heading up the Poker Fun Run in support White Pole Road and Loess Hills Scenic Byway looks to of the Major Benjamin Follansbee Pets for Vets Memorial be at least partially dry. Our event calendar is starting fund. The winning hand at the end of the run wins a great to fill up in May. Our monthly Cars and Coffee will be prize! Finally, our monthy Drive and Dine event will be held as usual at Cozy Café in Johnston on May 11. That held at the Prairie Canary Restaurant in Grinnell on May afternoon, consider attending or showing your Porsche 21. Speaking from experience, you don’t want to miss the at the Jasper County Animal Rescue League Car Show excellent food that this local restaurant has to offer. For more in Newton. Schonesland member Larkin Christie is an information on the Poker run and the Drive and Dine, see organizer of this very worth-while charity event. The show the calendar on our website, schonesland.com. is at 1718 First Ave East (Cricket Wireless store) from 11 am to 4 pm with registration from 11 am to 1 pm. For Finally I’d like to welcome new Schoneland members Carl more information, please contact me at rtimmerman587@ Hiemstra, Jay Weirich, Mark and Shon Stephenson, Jon gmail.com. It would be great to have a strong Porsche Gaudette, Brian Loynachan, Jerry Simons, Greg Best, and club showing for a fellow member. Jordan Dyar. We look forward to getting to know you!

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MAY 2019

Saturday 5/4 - Sunday 5/5 - Loess Hills Drive Saturday 5/11 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM) Saturday 5/18 - Poker Fun Run (8AM - 1PM) Tuesday 5/21 - Drive & Dine at Prairie Canary Restaurant & Bar (6:30PM - 8:30PM)

JUNE 2019

Saturday 6/8 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM) Tuesday 6/18 - Drive & Dine at Central Standard (6:30PM - 8:30PM) Thursday 6/20 - Car Show in Valley Junction (3PM - 7PM) Saturday 6/22 - Marshalltown / Amana Drive (8AM - 2PM)

JULY 2019

Saturday 7/13 - Cars & Coffee / Nauvoo Drive (8AM - 3PM) Tuesday 7/16 - Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 8:30PM) Sunday 7/21 - Sunday 7/28 - National PCA Parade Week

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SPINNER – May 2019 Page 4 EVENTS CALENDAR (CONT.)

AUGUST 2019

Saturday 8/10 - Cars & Coffee / Winery Drive to Carroll (8AM - 2PM) Tuesday 8/20 - Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 8:30PM) Friday 8/30 - Sunday 9/1 - Eureka Springs Drive

SEPTEMBER 2019

Sunday 9/8 - Car Show at Des Moines Concours (8AM - 4PM) Saturday 9/14 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM) Tuesday 9/17 - Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 8:30PM)

OCTOBER 2019

Friday 10/11 - Sunday 10/13 - Wisconsin Fall Drive Saturday 10/12 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM) Tuesday 10/15 - Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 8:30PM)

NOVEMBER 2019

Saturday 11/9 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM) Tuesday 11/19 - Drive & Dine (6:30PM - 8:30PM)

DECEMBER 2019

Saturday 12/7 - Holiday Party (6PM - 11PM) Saturday 12/14 - Cars & Coffee at Cozy Café Johnston (8AM - 10AM)

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 5 2020 CALENDAR CONTEST

As you take your cars out of hibernation is spring, get ready for the Schonesland calendar contest.

The rules are simple:

1) You can submit as many photos as you’d like (minimum one photo).

2) All photos must be landscape format and be 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 format (wide format pictures will be cropped to 8 x 10).

3) Resolution should be at least 1536 x 1024 pixels.

4) Interesting backgrounds preferred. No photoshopped backgrounds (unless that really is your 959 at the 1985 Rallye des Pharaons).

5) Deadline will be in October, more details to come.

Questions, email Ken Watkins at [email protected]

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 6 2019 NEW MEMBER PICNIC

The New Member Welcome Picnic was a gas!

Despite the less than perfect weather, thirty one new and long – time Schonesland members enjoyed this year’s New Member Welcome Picnic. Thirteen beautiful graced the front lawn of Bob Timmerman and Linda Laine’s home in Otley on Saturday, April 27. Everyone enjoyed the delicious Rib Shack barbeque lunch as we got acquainted with new members Mark and Shon Stephenson, Carl Hiemstra, and Jay Weirich. The weather was cold but the company was warm!

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 7 DES MOINES CARS & COFFEE

Schonesland members recruited a few new Porsche enthusiasts and we are looking forward to seeing those new members at future events.

Pictures provided by Skip Hammerman and David Safris.

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 8 SCHONESLAND CHARITY POKER RUN 2019

Will MacFarland Former President

Spring has blessedly returned! The Our day will conclude at the Northside work these dogs (and their trainers) Schonesland Region of the PCA will Café in Winterset at right around do, try the book Until Tuesday by Luis also make a return—in the sense that 11:00AM (join us there if you can’t Carlos Montalván. this year we will return to our usual make the whole run), where we’ll enjoy 2016-2017 Poker Run format, where some delicious fare and compare poker Sign up at msreg.com/poker2019! route instructions are crystal-clear and hands to determine our winner. As is A great day of driving, food, and playing cards are handed out at each our custom, all the proceeds from this lighthearted competition, all for a great stop. Club President Bob Timmerman event will benefit the Major Benjamin cause, awaits! See you out there. and the entire MacFarland clan have Follansbee Memorial Fund at Animal volunteered their time and efforts to Friends, which unites military veterans put together an entirely NEW Poker suffering from unresolved stresses with Run route, this time to the SOUTH trained therapy animals, soothing the and WEST of the Des Moines metro vets’ transitions to healthy and active area, in and amongst some of the civilian lives. For more about the great legendary Bridges of Madison County.

We will meet up near The Hall DSM off Railroad Ave in West Des Moines, more precisely at the cul-de-sac which forms the end of 9th St, just south across the railroad tracks. Arrival time will be 8:30AM for approximately a 9:00AM launch. The route should take about 2 hours to complete, with a rest stop at approximately the midpoint.

**HOT TIP FOR SPINNER READERS ONLY** For owners with the fabulous newer four-door, high- ground-clearance Porsches, this route features an optional opportunity to gain an EXTRA, BONUS PLAYING CARD to IMPROVE your poker hand and thus your odds of winning our fabulous prize! This opportunity will also be available to the usual drivers – let’s just say they’ll probably want to walk to it.

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 9 ADVENTURELAND AUTOCROSS – APRIL 2019

Will MacFarland Former President

I had not been planning on attending them safely distant from each other. right rear wheel suddenly wobbled the first DMVR SCCA Autocross of This allowed two cars to be active and essentially fell off the car! Jacks the 2019 season on the weekend of on course simultaneously, and every were run out, the car lifted, the wheel April 13-14. Then, in the middle of participant would get seven timed re-mounted, and the damaged car and the week leading up to it, one of my runs over the course of the day. I had rueful driver were done for the day. friends prodded me. I shot back with brought my 996 Carrera 4S, and my the usual bevy of excuses: none of my first run was 65 seconds or so. Not Okay, it’s the region’s first autocross cars are really set up for it, my tires a great time, based on what others of the year. This stuff happens. With are old, I’m not very competitive at it, were posting, but I knew I’d been a the incident cleared, I pulled into the the kids have activities, all that sort of bit conservative. I was fairly certain starter’s box for my second run and thing. “So what?” he said. “It’s not like I could get to under sixty seconds— awaited the go signal from the starter, you’d be going out there to try and win even on my balding Sumitomo tires all the while watching the Mustang Nationals. Let’s just go have fun.” Oh. (remember, I’m only slow because my that had been on the grid ahead of Well. Um. Jeez. In that case…about tires are bad, right? Right?). me as it tackled the course. Suddenly, three minutes later I’d found the event the Mustang was going quite quickly on MotorsportReg.com and signed up. There was a lengthy delay between my in a direction it should not have been first and second runs, however. The going—and then it was nose-first into The last time I’d autocrossed had first part of the delay was caused by an the perimeter chain-link fence, neatly admittedly not been a brilliant Infiniti G35 coupe that was running cleaving one of the steel fenceposts from experience. It had been a bit of a drive on wider-than-stock wheels, which its concrete base as it did so. I switched to the Oskaloosa Airport, the weather were kept from rubbing the inside off the 996’s ignition and removed my had turned out to be colder than I had of the wheel arches by some spacers. helmet. The coolant dripping from the expected, I arrived too late to walk the Unfortunately, the spacers were too pony car’s radiator meant that cleanup course beforehand, and I’d forgotten wide, which kept the lug nuts from would surely take a bit. my helmet. This one was much closer being fully secure. Mid-course, the (Adventureland), I dressed warmly (and the weather turned out to be quite nice), I got there in plenty of time, I walked the course twice, and yup, I even managed to remember my helmet this time.

The course was laid out over two linked parking lots adjacent to the main entrance to Adventureland. It worked out nicely, as the starter could easily see when a car left the first half of the course and reached the second half, with the two halves were separated by a grass median that kept

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 10 ADVENTURELAND AUTOCROSS – APRIL 2019 (CONT.)

Happily, the rest of the day went without further incident. However, my times were bottoming out at around 61 seconds. As I readied for my seventh run, I catalogued my errors and slow spots in my head. I had put together good sectors, but had not strung together all the good sectors into a good full-course run just yet. If I could do that, I knew I could obliterate the sixty-second barrier and achieve my goal for the day. The starter gave me the go signal. My brain, hands, and feet began applying all the lessons they’d learned. This run was going well—I could feel it. I came to the last corner, a sweeping right-hander, and mashed the accelerator as I exited, aiming to sneak inside the last chicane cone before the finish line and triumph!

Instead of catapulting me inside the chicane cone, however, those dastardly Sumitomos (their fault, I swear) relinquished some of their grip on the asphalt, and the car settled into a lovely four-wheel drift. There was no time to recover—I absolutely annihilated the chicane cone with a “POW!” heard ‘round the course, trapped that cone in my front-left wheel arch, and crossed the line with a time of 58.895.

Mission accomplished (sort of). But nevermind the times and cones—I’d had a great day, seen some memorable sights, and met/reacquainted with some great people. The next DMVR SCCA autocross takes place May 25-26 at the Iowa Events Center, close to home on the best motorsports weekend of the year. Come out and have some fun with us! It’s always great to see and hear Porsches doing what they’re best at.

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 11 PCA CLUB RACE HEARTLAND PARK RACEWAY, TOPEKA, KS

David Safris Webmaster / SPINNER Editor

Pre-Race 1 – 2019 special memories of Heartland Park. events chasing the 944, 924, and My checklist shows thirty-five I first visited in 1993 with my friend older 911 crowd at Heartland items that need to be in the truck Mark and his father Dr. David Park Raceway. It was always a big before I leave the house for a race Hoffman. Dr. Hoffman had been compliment to have someone stop weekend. Ranging from required converting a Porsche 912 from daily by and question how I was keeping paperwork such as the vehicle use to track use and I was there for a up with them in my little red GTi. log book, technical sheets and PCA DE to watch and take it all in That is when I first really understood medical forms to tools, floor jack, for a weekend. Two summers later I the difference between a street car and fuel jugs everything on the had converted my 1988 and a race car. If you have a well set list is important. This checklist GTi to a Sports Car Club of America up race car you can hold your own bypasses the extensive check list ITA class track car. I enjoyed many against all but the fastest street cars. that the race shop in Omaha does on the car during a multi hour pre-race service. You can quickly get the sense that much of club racing has to do with organization, perseverance, and determination - just to get to the track.

The first race I am attending with PCA this year is at Heartland Park Raceway in Topeka, KS. I have

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 12 PCA CLUB RACE (CONT.) HEARTLAND PARK RACEWAY, TOPEKA, KS

Suspension, tires, and weight really with a cup car in front of you and fewer people understand how to do make that much difference. a 944 Turbo behind you. It makes wrench on their cars. And that leads for an interesting first few turns as to the other side of the paddock PCA Club Racing is the largest things sort out. spectrum where the arrive and single marque racing series in the drive teams show up with their USA but don’t think there isn’t a Along with the variety of cars are semi-trailers full of cars and set up huge variety of cars participating. the variety of paddock set ups. I am tent cities complete with food and Most race days are dominated by always impressed by participants fancy seating areas. The teams have Spec boxer variants, followed by the seen wrenching on their 944 at dedicated mechanics and car prep 944 variants, and then through the 10:00AM and suiting up and experts ready for every contingency. mid 80’s and 90’s 911’s and then driving at 11:00AM. There is an It’s impressive for sure. at the top of the heap you get a few amazing amount of mechanical skill GT3 and cup cars that show up. found in the paddock as drivers I’d love to go take a nap between Bigger PCA events have full grids of doggedly solve problems track grid calls while someone else Cup Cars and that is an impressive side that would have me loading checks the tires, torques the lug sight to see. At smaller regional my car and heading home. Sadly, nuts, cleans the windshield, clears events they send out all 40-50 cars the shade tree mechanic / race car debris from the front of the car and as one grid in qualifying order and driver combination is likely a lost switches me to a new set of tires. that’s how you race. You might grid art as cars get more complex and Maybe someday. Off to the track..

Club Racing Pictures from Heartland Park Topeka provided by: Scott J Wilson Photography (scottjwilson.com)

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 13 NAUVOO DRIVE PLANNED FOR JULY 13TH

We are in the process of planning the drive to Nauvoo HAMPTON INN in Keokuk this summer. The drive will be similar to our last drive to Phone: 319-524-6700, Nauvoo, starting in the Des Moines area but we will be Nightly Rate: $159 for Saturday night staying over night in Keokuk as the hotel in Ft Madison has been closed. This is fun drive taking the back roads in south https://www.reservations.com/hotel/hampton-inn-keo eastern Iowa. kuk?rmcid=rcc14&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4KHBl8- b4QIVh7XACh15RgF5EAAYAiAAEgIKIPD_BwE To join us, sign up on Motorsports.Reg More information will be coming at a later date. Reserve your room at one of the two hotels. The Quality Inn is the preferred hotel. If you have any questions or you need assistance, my cell phone number is 515-490-6802 QUALITY INN & SUITES KEOKUK NORTH in Keokuk

Phone: (319) 524-9000 Negotiated Rate: $125 for Saturday night

Be sure to mention Schonesland Porsche Club. We have until May 13th to secure that rate. https://www.choicehotels.com/iowa/keokuk/quality-inn- hotels/ia226?source=gyxt

SPINNER – May 2019 Page 14 SCHONESLAND BRANDED CLOTHING FOR SPRING AND SUMMER!

As you look towards the spring and summer months take a look at the great clothing options offered by our vendor partner Kahler & Co Specialties. Club branded items are ready to order with a variety of options for both men and women. Let us know if you do not see what you are looking for and we can work with Kahler to add items to the club showroom.

Go to: https://www.kahlerspec.com/client-showrooms.htm and select the Schonesland logo to go to our showroom.

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