September, 2011 RundschauRundschauThe Official PublicaTiOn Of The allegheny RegiOn Pca Rundschau In thIS ISSue Official publication of Allegheny Region of the Porsche Club of America September 2011 Editor Nancy Lowe PvGP 417 Tierra Place Pittsburgh, PA 15237 A Word to the Wise and Guys...............................................5 412-635-7881 [email protected] Bossa Nova ................................................................................9 Layout Once in a Lifetime ....................................................................9 Gary Morgan 724-612-9327 PVGP Kick Off Rally ..............................................................11 Special Projects 2011 PVGP Concours ...........................................................15 Rob Hoffman Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! .................................16 Commercial Advertising Rates and specifications are available by 356-Mini Holiday at PVGP ...................................................16 contacting the Advertising Chairman. George B. Patterson From a Spectator to a Driver ...............................................18 311 Myrtle Lane Sewickley, PA 15143 412-741-0316 ews and vents [email protected] n e Teutonia Mannerchor ..............................................................7 Classified Advertising Classified ads are free to PCA members. Road Rally ..................................................................................8 Ads may be subject to editing and abbreviations to fit available space. Ads Sock Hop ..................................................................................10 will run for three issues unless renewed or a notification of sale is received. Submit Nemacolin .................................................................................14 ads directly to the editor via mail or email. Sake and Speed 2011 ...........................................................15 Submissions The editor encourages club members to submit tips, technical information, favorite Porsche experiences, amusing ramblings, dePartments graphics, and photos. Please send submissions via mail or email to the editor. From the Driver’s Seat ............................................................2 All items must be received by the 15th of ................................................................4 the month prior to publication. View From the Right The Twisty Bits ..........................................................................5 Rundschau is the official publication of Allegheny Region of the Porsche Club of From the Factory ......................................................................6 America (PCA) and is published monthly at 417 Tierra Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Calendar of Events .................................................................12 Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily Membership Garage ..............................................................13 represent the position of Allegheny Region, PCA, its officers or members. The editor In the Zone ...............................................................................19 reserves the right to edit or omit any materials submitted for publication. Advertisers Index ....................................................................20 Copyright Classifieds ................................................................................20 Permission to reprint any material herein is granted to any PCA region provided full P3 Update ...............................................................................IBC credit is given to Allegheny Region and the author(s) and provided copyright is not involved. All photographs and artwork are copyright of the respective photographers or artists. PORSCHE, the Porsche Crest, CARRERA, and TARGA are registered trademarks of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. Postmaster: Send address changes to: Mark Seech & Suzy Snyder On the COver ARPCA Membership Chairmen 119 Larchwood Drive Everything about this year’s PVGP was quite Turtle Creek, PA 15145 wonderful, including the Bossa Nova event pictured on our cover. See nearly every page Copyright 2011 in this issue for more PVGP coverage. Photo Allegheny Region PCA www.arpca.com by Earl Seiler. Rundschau 1 reGiOn FrOm the driver’s seat manaGement Ken Jeremiah, President From “what a disaster”: to “an amazing Finally, our supplies began to enter the recovery”. As many of you know, our larg- park and, again, no frantic yelling or instruc- Officers est event of the year – which became our tions -- our great team just started setting President Secretary largest event ever -- officially began with up tables, filling ice chests with drinks and Ken Jeremiah Terri Mattock racing at BeaveRun. Thanks to the efforts ice. One of our members, Missy Hoffman 724-935-5559 724-244-3653 of Steve Scholze, we had twenty-seven (who maybe weighs 100 pounds), was car- carrera2s@consolidated. [email protected] Porsches competing. rying ice and drinks at a frantic pace and net still taking care of her two little girls (5 and Treasurer On the Thursday before Schenley Park, we 3) – amazing. VP Abbi Rabeneck had a Porsche display at the Haufbrauhaus George Patterson 724-457-2755 on the hottest day of the year. Someone Our registration area was established and 412-741-0316 [email protected] stated that it was 107 in the parking area. with little confusion began to hand out our georgebpatterson@com- The idea and direction for this came from packets. Again, I have to emphasis that cast.net Paul Pigman and he, with the assistance our people were outstanding – few com- of Marty Smith, put this together. On the plaints and a lot of patience – both with our way there, I didn’t have a clue of how many registration volunteers and those register- Committees people would show up at a weekday venue ing. Our registration team was unflappable with unfriendly weather. To our surprise, we with the likes of Judi Seiler, Suzy Snyder, Advertising Paint/Bodywork Sandy Zeilinski, Darlene Bartow, Helen George B. Patterson Mark Miller had over 80 Porsches in attendance. 412-741-0316 724-586-2963 Collins, and the Rabeneck ladies (Abbi and GeorgeBPatterson [email protected] Rachael). @comcast.net PVGP In the meantime, Jim and Suzanne Carlin Chief Instructor Mark Hanson were busy setting up the Goodie Store tent Bruce Graham 412-487-4225 with their products. At the end of the week- 412-894-0025 [email protected] end, Suzanne sold almost $6,000 worth of spoon951 apparel. @zoominternet.net Safety Tech Joe Serbin Communications 412-996-6224 Earl Seiler JPS.Audi 412-823-4959 @hotmail.com [email protected] Social Coordinator Concours Louise Jeremiah Brian Strohmeier 724-935-5559 412-877-4951 ljeremiah993@consoli- Photos by John Luff. bstrohmeier@comcast. dated.net net Then the weekend began and the 2011 Touring 50th Anniversary and PVGP Marque of the Dealer Relations (open) Year began and here’s where the disaster George Patterson began. As we’re entering the parking area 412-741-0316 Track with our caravan of Porsches and sup- georgebpatterson Dale Rabeneck port vehicles, a large thunder storm arose @comcast.net 412-877-4361 (c) which prevented cars from entering the golf dale.rabeneck@ course. Even though we and other volun- Goodie Store comcast.net teers were at the park from 7:30 am on, Jim & Suzanne Carlin 724-834-8234 Webmaster there was nothing we could do to begin set- HJCarlin72@alumni. Alex Ross ting up our venue. There were cars parked nd.edu ARoss911s@ everywhere on the streets, parking lots, etc. comcast.net The rain finally stopped and our Porsches IRAC/Autocross (and everyone else) were allowed on the (open) Zone 4 Rep course. Now the problem was that all of our Ron Carr volunteers, who were to set things up, were Membership zone4rep@embarqmail. still on the streets trying to get themselves Suzy Snyder com and our supplies onto the course. 412-824-2032 740-967-6027 [email protected] Now comes the great part. Immediately, Earl Seiler and his team stepped up and Newsletter began parking our cars. Not only that; they Nancy Lowe were parking them by type – with the large 412-635-7881 contingent of 356s in one group and the NancyALowe@verizon. concours cars in another group. Initially, the net front engine Porsches were in yet another group and the rear engine cars in the larg- est group. We had to stop this, because the PVGP people were yelling at us that we didn’t have time to group the cars. We were still able to group the 356s and concour cars in specific areas. 2 SePTembeR 2011 In the meantime Scot Mores was setting up our Anniversary line. very appropriate since, by the efforts of Jolene Cicci, we had over These Porsches were to represent every year of our club’s exis- 80 356s for our event. tence (from 1961 to 2011). Scot had found every year (except 1966). The cars were arranged off site and then made their grand Brian Strohmeier then gave out our concours awards with the assis- entrance into the park to form a line around the other parked tance of Davis Kowalyk and Alison Hoffman. Please see Brian’s Porsches – great show. article for details of our concour winners. Richard Sementa won the concours “Best of Show” award and the “People’s Choice” award Our caterer was diligently working on our lunch. We were about a went to John Plavan. half an hour late, but that was credible since many of their supplies and workers didn’t manage to get into the park until late. Again, Our talented Vice President, George