October 2008 ©2008 Porsche Cars North America, Inc
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
region of the year 1998 and 2006 October 2008 ©2008 Porsche Cars North America, Inc. Porsche recommends seat belt usage and observance of all traffic laws at all times. 24 hours of Le Mans. 24 hours of Daytona. 24 hours until Monday. Butterflies in your stomach. Rapid pulse. Goose bumps. It must be love. With its new athletic stance and engine that delivers more horse- ¬power and greater fuel efficiency, who could blame you? Test drive a new Cayenne today. The attraction will be instant. Pioneer Porsche 858.695.3000 9020 Miramar Rd San Diego, CA 92126 pioneerporsche.com 7:30-6:30 Sat 10-7 Sun 11-5 Volume 49 Number 10 October 2008 FEATURES 20 Knauf’s Cayenne Adventure 21 Jack and Ginny Journey to Parade 24 Bottle Shock Debut 28 Compression Test How-To Monterry Historics 35 Chasing the Moon’s Shadow 38 35th Monterrey Historics 42 PB Rendezvous 43 Sunny Autocross for August August AX DEPARTMENTS COVER PHOTO 2 Board of Directors, Witness Staff 3 Committees 5 President: “Straight from the Hip” Orange Porsches region of the year 1998 and 2006 for October! 7 Editor: “Sister Act” Photo by Greg 8 Event Capsules Phillips 11 First Impressions 13 Back in the Day 15 Auto Museum Report 46 Monthly Meeting 48 New Members & Anniversaries 49 Classified Ads October 2008 52 Advertising Index, Rates, Policy Volume 49 Number 10 Windblown Witness 1 San Diego Region 2008 Board of Directors BOARD @PCASDR .ORG Co-Editors [email protected] President Margi Knight 858-456-2826 Martha McGowan Susan Brown 760-942-2706 7954 Mission Vista Dr. San Diego, CA 92120 Photo Editor [email protected] 619-265-8377 Greg Phillips 619-429-7700 [email protected] Advertising [email protected] Bob McLaughlin 858-292-1428 Vice President Jim Duncan 1362 Cassins St. Advertiser Distribution Carlsbad, CA 92011 Bob McLaughlin 858-292-1428 760-929-0310 Ted Myrus 858-566-5039 [email protected] Billing [email protected] Royce Ann Myrick 619-475-1199 Secretary Jennifer Reinhardt Classified Ads [email protected] 4807 Sunrise Valley Dr. AD2AD www.ad2ad.com El Cajon, CA 92020 619-339-2016 Event Flyers, [email protected] [email protected] Bianca Yacoub 951-326-0185 Printing Treasurer A&L Litho, Inc. 888-255-4846 Kim Crosser Box 2586 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 Mailing 858-395-9372 National Direct Mailing 858-391-2888 [email protected] Proofreading Mary Clark Gail Dana Director Leigh Rayner Jennifer Reinhardt Christy Copeman 29009 New Harmony Ct. Menifee, CA 92584 951-326-0184 [email protected] The Windblown Witness (USPS 361-790) is the official publication of the Porsche Club of America, San Diego Region, Inc., and is published monthly. $14 of each member’s annual dues is for a subscription to the Director newsletter. Copies are also available by subscription to Dave Gardner non-region members at $36 per year (Continental US). 10812 Elderwood Lane Any statement appearing in the Windblown Witness San Diego, CA 92131 is that of the author and does not constitute an opinion 858-549-1830 of the Porsche Club of America, the San Diego Region, [email protected] Inc., its Board of Directors, the Windblown Witness editors, or its staff. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Director © 2008 by the Porsche Club of America, San Diego John Straub Region, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission is granted 9215 Brier Rd. to chartered regions of PCA to reprint articles in their newsletters if credit is given to the author and the La Mesa, CA 91942 Windblown Witness. Office of publication: 2240 Corte 619-667-3826 Ananas, Carlsbad, CA 92009. Periodicals postage paid [email protected] at La Mesa, CA and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PCA Executive Office, P.O. Box 5900, Springfield, VA 22150. Past President/Advisor Ted Myrus 10898 Red Rock Dr. San Diego, CA 92131 858-566-5039 [email protected] 2 Windblown Witness October 2008 San Diego Region 2008 Committees Archivist archivist@... Logistics logistics@... Tech Inspection techinspection@... John Straub* Gail Dana —AX/DE Tom Brown Tom Liguori (beer) George Taylor Herb Meeder automuseum@... mediarelations@... Auto Museum Media Relations —TT Skip Shirley Keith Verlaque Neil Heimburge Michael Harris membership@... Membership Tech Sessions techsessions@... ax@... Sheila Steverson Autocross Keith Verlaque* Ron Trotter Susan Brown (data) Bill Behun Time Trials tt@... Jackie Lu Policy and Procedures Jack Miller Tom Brown* Robert Baizer Car Show Ambassador Kim Crosser John Straub Jim Duncan Timing Michael Harris charity@... –AX timingq@... Charity Keith Verlaque Annette Linares Rikki Schroeder Ralph Linares Pre-Registration Martin Reinhardt —AX/DE preregq@... Doug Briggs Chief Driving Instructors Janet Yaws Don Middleton —AX/DE cdi@... Debby Sharp Tawfik Benabdeljalil Dan Chambers Kim Crosser —TT preregaway@... Chuck Sharp Steven Weiler Robert Baizer Carl Scragg —TT timingaway@... —TT (see Time Trials) Rally rally@... Robert Baizer Pat Norris concours@... Tawfik Benabdeljalil Concours Tom Gould Gary Peterson Tours tours@... John Straub Region Rules rules@... Martin Lipp Steve Lopez Jim Duncan Ignacio Iturbe Corner Working cornerworking@... Registration Jan Mellinger Leigh Rayner —AX/DE registrar@... —Offroad Mark Rondeau Janet Yaws Vince & Cecelia Knauf Monique Straub Driver Education (DE) de@... Vintage Racing vintageracing@... Curt Yaws —TT tt@... John Straub* Chuck Sharp Robert Baizer Katina Gonzalez Joe Hofmann eMaster emaster@... Safety safety@... Tami Ibbetson Bill Allen —AX/DE Margi Knight Kris Urquhart Tom Comeau Kaid Marouf Bill Ibbetson (backup) Erik Kinninger Bob McLaughlin —TT Equipment equipment@... Mark Rondeau Jackie Corwin Chuck Sharp —AX/DE Martin Reinhardt Lorri Scheussler Monique Straub Monica Bockman Social social@... Web Team Leigh Rayner (loader) Katie Kinninger* —General webmaster@... Ron Trotter (backup) Angela Avitt Bill Ibbetson —TT Rikki Schroeder Steve Grosekemper Tawfik Benabdeljalil Laura Manz —Forum forum-admin@... Tami Ibbetson Mike Dougherty Goodie Store store@... Monique Straub Kent & Gloria Lewis Steve Grosekemper Debi Norris —Classifieds classifieds@... Michael & Linda Thompson Katina Gonzalez Jeff Grow Sponsor Liaison sponsor@... —Photos photoeditor@... Insurance insurance@... Tami Ibbetson Ted Witte Tom Golich Tech Advisor tech@... Yearbook yearbook@... Legal Affairs legal@... Steve Grosekemper Gary Burch Bill Hartsock * denotes committee chair “@...” indicates an e-mail address on the pcasdr.org domain Volume 49 Number 10 Windblown Witness 3 Life is Like an S-Curve At Signature Resources We Help You Navigate Those Curves > Investment Management > Estate Planning > Financial Planning > Business Planning To learn more about this unique experience, please contact Porsche owner and enthusiast: Christopher Whalen, Financial Adviser 2601 Main Street, Suite 700, Irvine , CA 92614 [email protected] (949) 794-1012 Albuquerque - Artesia - Chicago - El Paso - Encino - Fresno - Irvine - Las Cruces - Los Angeles North Carolina - Oklahoma - Pasadena - Phoenix - Sacramento Signature Resources is a service mark of Signature Resources Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. Insurance products offered by John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Boston, MA 02117. Registered Representative/Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through Signator Investors, Inc., Member FINRA, SIPC, a Registered Investment Advisor. 2601 Main Street, Suite 700, Irvine, CA, 92614 (949) 794-0800 185-11062007-14925579 4 Windblown Witness October 2008 And The Winners Are? BY MARTHA MCGOWAN , PRESIDENT y the time this newsletter details and endeavoring to make into an evening with your Porsche reaches you, the four new this our best concours ever. All the friends is only $50. Please sign up B2009 directors of San Diego event information and the entry right away so the social team can Region will have been announced. form can be found at http://zone8. get a head count. At the time of writing, the voting pca.org/events/2008/10Oct/ You can relive the action and has not yet begun so I can’t yet SDRConcours.pdf. There is also a excitement of the Spring Moun- provide the names of the winners. display division that is not judged if tain time trial at the Motorhead Fortunately, it’s never too late to you want to just park on the lawn Monday on Oct 20 at Oggi’s Pizza sign up for a 2009 SDR committee and show off your car. Even if you’re in Santee. Join your friends, watch position where your enthusiasm not entering your car in a judged video clips taken by various drivers, and individual expertise can be division, you can support SDR by lodge your official excuses and get used for the benefit of the entire going to Mission Bay and looking at in some official “smack talk.” The Region. Do you have good orga- all the beautiful Porsches that have autocross series has a date on the nizational skills, or do you like to been so meticulously cleaned. 26th in the southeast lot. The Last drive? Do you like to read, or write? October Events Tuesday Social will be at the Brig- Do you have a legal background, or antine on Shelter Island where you October is a busy month for SDR the Hip Straight from computer skills? Any of these spe- with a wide variety of events avail- can join your Porsche friends for a cial skills and many, many more are able. The dates for the Fall Perfor- relaxing evening of conversation. crucial to the success of our Region mance Driving School are Oct 3-5. The information for these events, and we want you! You are encour- Typically, this event sells out very can be found on the calendar page aged to send in the Committee In- quickly but, if you’re lucky, you at www.pcasdr.org. terest form that was attached to might be able to find an open slot Charity your September Witness or con- at this late date. This is the place And finally, don’t forget our char- tact any Board member.