November, 2011 RundschauRundschauThe Official PublicaTiOn Of The allegheny RegiOn Pca Rundschau IN thIs Issue Official publication of Allegheny Region of the Porsche Club of America November 2011 Editor Nancy Lowe news and events 417 Tierra Place Pittsburgh, PA 15237 Sock Hop ....................................................................................4 412-635-7881 [email protected] Layout departments Gary Morgan 724-612-9327 From the Driver’s Seat ............................................................2 ................................................................3 Special Projects View From the Right Rob Hoffman The Twisty Bits ..........................................................................3 Commercial Advertising In the Zone .................................................................................5 Rates and specifications are available by contacting the Advertising Chairman. 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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 The Sake And Speed event was a hidden Turtle Creek, PA 15145 treat. See page 3 for more info. Photo by Missy Hoffman. Copyright 2011 Allegheny Region PCA www.arpca.com Rundschau 1 regiOn FrOm the driver’s seat management Ken Jeremiah, President First allow me to apologize for not having With the closing of this year’s activities, we an article ready for last month’s newsletter. will soon be planning for 2012. We would Officers I have had some health issues that deterred really appreciate volunteers to chair or President Secretary my ability to type and focus on my tasks. assist some of our upcoming events – the Ken Jeremiah Terri Mattock I have spent much more time than I want Mid-Winter party, the All Member dinner, 724-935-5559 724-244-3653 to going to various hospitals and seeing etc. We are also looking for someone to carrera2s@consolidated. [email protected] a number of specialists.The good news is chair the PVGP. After the PVGP wrap up net that every symptom I have appears to be fiasco this year, Louise has decided that Treasurer correctible through medication (except for she has had enough of PVGP’s “attitude” VP Abbi Rabeneck another eye surgery in Nov.) and I believe and wants to turn this task over to someone George Patterson 724-457-2755 the “meds” are working – not as quickly as else. Please contact me if you are inter- 412-741-0316 [email protected] I would like, but I’ve never been real patient ested in creating a new venue, chairing or georgebpatterson@com- – pun intended. assisting in next year’s activities. cast.net Although we are winding down for our One of the things we want to do is concen- Porsche events for this year, we have still trate on is regenerating our P3 program Committees been very active. We had a very success- (Porsche Projest for Patriots). With this ful DE at BeaveRun and even made a year’s emphasis on our successful PVGP Advertising Paint/Bodywork little money without a key sponsor. I had effort, we kind of put this very meaningful George B. Patterson Mark Miller the opportunity to meet one of our newest project on the back burner. This coming 412-741-0316 724-586-2963 members, young Samuel Ross (the new year, we want to change our emphasis to GeorgeBPatterson [email protected] son of Alex and Becky Ross) – he was the P3 program. If you know anyone who is @comcast.net extremely good and there was not a flinch serving our country in Iraq or Afghanistan, PVGP when one of the track cars would go by at please contact Judi Seiler. Mark Hanson Chief Instructor mega speed and sound. Bruce Graham 412-487-4225 412-894-0025 [email protected] As you read this article, Louise and I will spoon951 We had another great DE at Mid-Ohio. We have probably just returned from our great @zoominternet.net Safety Tech sold out about a week before the event. adventure. We are driving to Rennsport at Joe Serbin This has been a very successful track the Laguna Seca racetrack. Some folks Communications 412-996-6224 season for us and we need to thank our have looked at us like we’re crazy for driv- Earl Seiler JPS.Audi instructor team of Bruce Graham, Ralph ing our Porsche for this distance, however 412-823-4959 @hotmail.com Guido, Larry Pryor, Jr. and our track orga- in our opinion this is what the car was [email protected] nizers lead by Dale Rabeneck with assis- designed to do. They are expecting up to Social Coordinator tance from Scott Mores and Bob Nadin. 4,000 Porsches and had sold over 65,000 Concours Louise Jeremiah tickets by the end of September. This will Brian Strohmeier 724-935-5559 On the social front, we tried something be the first time our 993 has gone east of 412-877-4951 ljeremiah993@consoli- new with a Speed and Sushi event in the Mississippi. We will also visit our middle bstrohmeier@comcast. dated.net Greensburg. Great attendance, great cars, daughter and family in northern California net and great food and drink. We even had and then cruise up the coast to Seattle Touring a surprise visit from Nancy Lowe’s award to see our son, daughter in law, and new Dealer Relations (open) winning 914-6. We want to thank Paul and grandson. If the weather cooperates, we will George Patterson Diane Nickoloff for putting this together – take a casual trip back through the northern 412-741-0316 Track sure that this will be on the calendar for part of the States. We’ll provide details of georgebpatterson Dale Rabeneck next year. our trek in next month’s newsletter. @comcast.net 412-877-4361 (c) dale.rabeneck@ Speaking of the Nickoloffs, they gra- I look forward to having you contact me with Goodie Store comcast.net ciously invited us to their lovely home for your questions, suggestions, and input. Jim & Suzanne Carlin September’s business meeting. As usual, 724-834-8234 Webmaster there was a party atmosphere, but we did HJCarlin72@alumni. Alex Ross manage to complete our business agenda. nd.edu ARoss911s@ Please note: all members are invited to join comcast.net us each month for our business meetings. IRAC/Autocross (open) Zone 4 Rep Ron Carr We also had another fun rally – our sec- Membership zone4rep@embarqmail. ond for the season. There were several Suzy Snyder com glitches – like the original restaurant that 412-824-2032 740-967-6027 we reserved forgetting about us so we [email protected] had to scurry and find something the day before the event – we did. Also, for the first Newsletter time, the weather didn’t cooperate and it Nancy Lowe rained during the whole event. We still had 412-635-7881 an excellent turnout – about 25 cars and NancyALowe@verizon. as usual everyone seemed to enjoy them- net selves. I want to thank Frank Bunecicky and Iron Jack Purvis for another well-organized event. They are already working on a new rally for next spring. 2 nOvembeR 2011 view FrOm the right Louise Jeremiah Robokyo: Japanese for “You can’t get there from here.” right behind that big grove of trees down a little road that looked like someone’s driveway. Perhaps they would have more business At a recent ARPCA meeting, Paul Nickoloff suggested the club if they had a sign you could find! meet in Greensburg on a fall Saturday for lunch at a Japanese restaurant called Robokyo. It seemed like a wonderful suggestion Paul and Scott Ishler were busy parking Porsches against a nice since we have quite a few members living in the Greensburg area stone wall and Scott was gracious enough to help me out of the who travel regularly to meetings and events that are not nearby. It’s car and ask how I was. Needless to say, my answer was not what time for us to do the traveling and learn a bit about the Greensburg he was expecting! Once we calmed down, got a glass of wine, and area. started to mingle with the large group of ARPCA members who had gathered on the patio, we realized we weren’t the only ones The weather was perfect, the Porsche was gleaming, and the who couldn’t find the place. Dale and AbbiRabeneck had a unique GPS was loaded with the correct address – we were off for a way of zeroing in on the location: When their car’s GPS told them new ARPCA adventure.