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PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA • HILL COUNTRY REGION HORIZONS PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA • HILL COUNTRY REGION V O L U M E 19 • N U M B E R 01 CONTENT THE DRIVER’S SEAT 03 MEMBERSHIP REPORT 04 ANNUAL MEMBER MeetING 05 AUtomotIVE EUROPEAN VACATION 09 EDITOR VIPUL DARJI PORSCHE SPORT DRIVING SCHOOL 13 [email protected] HE ACE ASSISTANT EDITOR T P 17 JEFF MOORE [email protected] TecH SESSION: AUSTIN InteRIORS 19 ASSOCIATE EDITOR JONATHAN HAGGAR THE FOLLOW-UP 22 [email protected] MEMBER PROFILE: CHRIStoPHER ANSted-BOYLAND 24 ADVERTISING & MARKETING JOHN BOUTSIKARIS [email protected] SHIPPING YOUR PORSCHE 30 THE MARKetPLACE 33 PORSCHEPALOOZA 2017 35 2017 HOLIDAY PARTY 36 HORIZONS SPONSOR IndeX 37 THE EDItoR’S DESK 37 Visit Our Website: www.hcrpca.org HCR EVent CALENDAR 38 “HORIZONS” is published by the Hill Country Region (HCR) of the Porsche Club of America (PCA). All opinions expressed herein are strictly those of the authors and are not endorsed by the Hill Country Region or Porsche Club of America. Other PCA regions may reproduce articles from “HORIZONS” with proper credit. HCR board member approval is required for any other use of materials. On the cover: A 1971 911 2.5 S/T. Image courtesy of newsroom. For more on the story of this ‘72 LeMans winner, please go to: Porsche®, the Porsche Crest®, CARRERA®, and TARGA® are registered trademarks of Porsche AG. https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/history/porsche-history-restoration-911-st-le-mans-techno-classica-12412.html THE DRIVER’S SEAT BY TUFFY VON BRIESEN Hello everyone! This is my first column as with: the driving tours, the Lunch Bunch, incoming President of Hill Country Region the Happy Hours, the Tech Sessions, Street (HCR) and I want to thank everyone for an Survival, social activities and the track events. outstanding 2017 that laid the groundwork The newsletter crew will continue to publish for 2018. I especially want to recognize an outstanding Horizons. outgoing president, Tracey Gross, for her work during the past three years. Thankfully, Tracey However, we’ll look for some new things. remains active in HCR and on the Executive We’re currently planning our first overnight Council. Her experience and knowledge will driving tour. We plan on finding additional help all of us to continue the momentum. unique restaurants for our tours, Lunch Bunch and Happy Hours. We’ll try some new We do face a challenge to maintain our events where our members can get together recent momentum as we move into 2018. in a social setting. We’ll provide new and Hill Country has become a dynamic mid- interesting venues for our tech sessions. size region that ranks among the best. As And, at the same time, we’ll work to improve evidence of this, we nominated HCR for the our infrastructure. prestigious Ferry Porsche Award presented to the Porsche Club of America (PCA) Region We are actively working to upgrade our of the Year. As the submission was being website. We want to document the history of drafted it was apparent that HCR is a very HCR and have launched a review of our bylaws active region with a wide diversity of activities to reflect current standards. The Horizons supported by a strong group of volunteers. team is always looking for ways to improve our newsletter and continues to seek new We orchestrated over 90 activities during contributors. 2017. Our 2018 calendar already has almost 90 activities scheduled. I remember the first We can’t do this without you. We want your HCR annual meeting I attended in January input, whether postive or negative, and we 2016 where HCR welcomed our 1000th value your ideas. Many of the new things we member. As I write today we are about 1240 are doing are based on suggestions from our total members. That is a fantastic 20% members. growth over two years. This is momentum. The commitment to you from the Executive Another challenge is to maintain the quality and Council and Board of Directors is that we’ll be diversity of what we do, and at the same time responsive and listen to what you have to say. identify new and different events and activities Thanks for giving us the opportunity to work that will appeal to the region’s membership. with you. We look forward to a banner 2018! 03 We’ll continue all the things you’re familiar ANNIVERSARIES 5 Years Lynn & Larry Friedman 10 Years Carolyn & Larry Braxton 15 Years Danielle & Weston Walter Kamal Khouri Mike Brecheisen MEMBERSHIP TYPE Nov’17 Dec’17 Jan’18 PRIMARY MEMBERS 833 830 838 AFFILIATE MEMBERS 384 382 390 TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 1217 1212 1228 MEMBERSHIP REPORT BY STEVEN GUZMAN HCR Executive Council & Chair Members President Tuffy von Briesen [email protected] Vice President John Boutsikaris [email protected] Treasurer Bruce Harris [email protected] Secretary Steven Guzman [email protected] Past President Tracey Gross [email protected] Chief Driving Instructor West Dillard [email protected] Club Race Co-Chair Andrew Seifert [email protected] Club Race Co-Chair Michael Stein [email protected] Community Relations Chair Jon Hornaday [email protected] Driver Education Chair David Gross [email protected] Dealer Liaison Chair Tuffy von Briesen [email protected] North/Central Happy Hour Chair Rika Preuss [email protected] South/West Happy Hour Chair Steven Guzman [email protected] Lunch Bunch Chair Bob Hieronymus [email protected] Membership Chair Steven Guzman [email protected] Social Media Chair Jennifer Anderson [email protected] Tech Session Chair Winslow Mankin [email protected] Test Drive Chair Gordie Robbins [email protected] Tourmaster Co-Chair Ron Todd (RT) [email protected] Tourmaster Co-Chair Chris McChesney [email protected] Troubleshooter Alex Suarez [email protected] Webmaster John Deviney [email protected] Zone 5 Representative Jon Jones [email protected] 04 Left to Right: Bruce Harris, Tracey Gross, Tuffy von Briesen, John Boutsikaris, & Steven Guzman About 60 members attended the Porsche impact of multiple Regions working together. Club of America (PCA) Hill Country Region (HCR) Annual Meeting January 20, 2018 at Another highlight of 2017 was HCR 2018 Mimi’s Café in the Hill Country Galleria in Bee membership growth. Your region grew NNUAL Cave. The Annual Meeting traditionally is the by over 140 members during 2017. We A first formal HCR event for the new Executive started January 2016 with 1000 members MEMBER Council (EC) and Board of Directors (BOD), and by December 2017 we had grown to provides a forum to brief members on the 1227 members. That’s a fantastic 20% MeetING prior year achievements and an update on the increase in two years! HIGHLIGHTS plans for the upcoming year. To recognize the efforts of our volunteers and BY JEFF MOORE Incoming HCR President Tuffy von Briesen members in 2017, we submitted a nomination opened the meeting by introducing the 2018 of HCR for the Ferry Porsche Trophy for the EC and BOD. The 2018 EC consists of Vice PCA Region of the Year. The winner and President John Boutsikaris, Treasurer Bruce runner up for this prestigious award will be Harris, Secretary Steve Guzman and Past announced at the PCA Parade at Lake of the President Tracey Gross. He also introduced Ozarks, July 8 – 14, at the Tan-Tar-A Resort, HCR member Lynn Friedman, the PCA Osage Beach, MO. HCR should also be in the National Porscheplatz Coordinator. running for a membership award based on our growth. We hope to see a large contingent of Tuffy recapped 2017 by saying it was a stellar HCR members at Parade this year. year for HCR. The Region sponsored over 90 separate activities that included the first PCA HCR recognized one especially deserving Spring Treffen, Treffen Hill Country. We had an volunteer. Outgoing President Tracey Gross aggressive Community Service program that was recognized for her service as HCR included support to four community programs President from 2015 – 2017. Tracey got as well as a contribution to provide a bench at a resounding ovation as she accepted the Zilker Botanical Gardens in memory of Edie award; an award well deserved! Musgrove, a long time HCR member. Tuffy summarized plans for 2018 by stating our The 2017 social calendar included the usual challenge is to continue the momentum from recurring Lunch Bunches, Happy Hours, and past years while raising our level of excellence. three social events highlighted by our Holiday We’ll do this by seeking new initiatives and Party. We coordinated our annual Carrera of implementing new and diverse activities. the Americas Club Race and Advanced DE at Some examples planned for 2018 are Sunday Circuit of the Americas. Also included in our Brunches and an overnight driving tour. Other DE Program were two additional Schnell Fest activities we are exploring are establishment DE’s at COTA. The track events were unique of autocross and rally programs. We’ll 05 since they were co-hosted by Lone Star and establish a Long-Range Planning Committee Maverick Regions, and highlighted the positive to review our bylaws and provide some strategic direction about where we cover contest. - Working with Circuit of the Americas want HCR to be in three to five years. Webmaster – Mary Ann Cooper/John for location We’ll start to research HCR history Deviney/Satya Miller Test Drive – Gordie Robbins - Revising HCR website to bring - Test Drive program continues to in an effort locate information about up to current technical and design exceed expectations past presidents, past award winners standards and other relevant information that - Google account reviewed and made North/Central Happy Hours – will provide an archive of the history current Rika Preuss of the Region as we enter our 41st - Social Media continues to provide up - Starting to identify locations for to date information about HCR upcoming year year.