Porsche Club of America - 2017 Board of Directors President Eduardo Ortega, Jr
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On the Cover Photo Robert Hrabak Cover by Barbara McCrory Steve McCrory Editor Rik Larson Production Editor Mike Willis Layout Barbara McCrory Photography, Flyers Mike Dunn Advertising Skip Quain Technical Articles Collin Fat Reporter Kirk Bradford Reporter Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org 2017 Board of Directors President Eduardo Ortega, Jr. 916.548.0067 [email protected] Vice President Gregg Plourde Volume 55, No. 11 November 2017 530.210.3341 vicepresident@svr-pca. Upcoming Events Columns and Sections org 5 SVR, Zone, PCA & Local Events 2 President’s Notes Secretary Features and Reviews 3 Editor’s Corner Rebecca Plourde 4 Pretty Darn Kwik 8 530.210.9686 Zone 7 Concours Series 5 Calendar of Events [email protected] 10 2017 Gold Rush Tour 9 Drifting Back 12 Introducing SVR Autox Chair 26 SVR Board Minutes Treasurer 13 An Open Letter To Members Joy Nieslony 30 In The Zone 530.515.5242 14 Social Tidbits 32 SVR Membership [email protected] 16 Cambria Tour 36 Drifter Classifieds 18 People, Places, & Porsches 37 SVR Goodie Store Social Director 22 1984 Dallas Formulae 1 Race 37 Index of Advertisers Mardi Quain 650.504.4866 28 Christmas Tree Decorating & [email protected] Potluck Membership Director svr-pca.org Janet Conner 916.939.3882 [email protected] Information and Committee Directory Competition & Safety Advertising Manager Event Liaison to Niello Porsche Director Mike Dunn 916.837.0203 Kim Nelson 916.337.7716 Matt Deter [email protected] [email protected] 916.630.8924 [email protected] Autocross Chair Goodie Store Collin Fat 916.955.7966 Linda Bradford 916.899.5731 Webmaster [email protected] [email protected] Bill Fargo 916.802.4679 Breakfast Chair Historian [email protected] Jerry Alter 530.344.0475 Noah Bentley 916.984.1811 [email protected] Susan Bentley 916.995.4963 Past President [email protected] Collin Fat Charity Chair 916.955.7966 Alma Thompson 916.342.3434 New Member Group pastpresident@svr-pca. 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However, newsletter editors of others regions Gary Thompson 916.652.0701 chartered by the Porsche Club of America may reprint [email protected] Tour Co-Chairs any article provided that credit is given to the author and Hector Chavez 916.752.9210 Sacramento Valley Region and that The Drifter is cited as the source. Matt Menning 408.375.9089 [email protected] Zone 7 Representative Loma Prieta Region facebook.com/svr.pca Sandy Provasi 408.947.0980 [email protected] is an award-winning monthly publication of the Sacramento Valley Region, which is affiliated with Porsche Club of America, the largest and most prestigious marque automobile club in the United States. Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org 1 SVR President’s Column Eduardo Ortega, Jr. SVR President Photo Eduardo Ortega, Jr. Most of us have heard this gloomy signal was present, so I could not check In November we have two club ac- warning: Do not compete in a rally the maps in GPS. Finally we came out tivities and our yearly elections. Please with your spouse as your team mem- of the mountains and in the first oppor- vote for the 2018 Board of Directors in ber, because you might get divorced! tunity to safely do so, we stopped and November. The vote will be online, like Sounds exaggerated, but it has been changed drivers. I was now faced with a in the past, and for those members with proven accurate throughout the club’s flat terrain, so I drove to catch up with no listed email address they will receive history. I have not competed in a rally the front of the group. Radio signal was a mail-in ballot. Please take the time to with my wife, but I did get a glimpse of good, so I could communicate with the vote for the members that will guide this omen during the Cambria tour last cars behind me. After a long stretch, I our club in 2018. Cathy and Bill Keegan month. Since my wife and my daughter saw two Porsches 928 waiting at the are hosting our monthly club dinner went to the tour, we had to take the stop sign with Route 168. In the back of on November 7 at Zinfandel Grille on family car, a KIA Soul. No room in the my mind, I was hearing the “Hallelujah Fairs Oaks Blvd. On November 26, the Porsche 996 for three people and lug- Chorus” of Handel’s “The Messiah”. Christmas Tree Decorating & Potluck at gage. I drove on Friday in the morning Yes!!! I said. We did not get lost! The the California Automobile Museum will leg, all the way to the golf course in the cars behind me are back on the tour take place. Finally, do not forget to sign city of Hollister. Nothing to report. route, and no Dummkopf award for me. up for the SVR Christmas Party on De- After a wonderful lunch and a We stopped at the sign and got out of cember 16 at the Timbers at the Lodge model airplane toss contest, it was time the car. I asked Dan Rowland (driver of in Sun City, Roseville. to get back in the road. This is the point the white 928) how long they have been where the omen “do not rally with your waiting. He said they waited 2 minutes, Wishing you a great Thanksgiving, spouse” comes into the story. After I and they were also left behind by the may you have a great November. mentioned to my wife Margarita that front of the group. Using simple high this leg of the tour was just over an school physics, a 2 minute delay, when hour-and-half long, she offered to drive travelling at 65 MPH, creates a gap of this short leg so I could concentrate in 2.16 miles. No wonder we could not see taking good pictures. I thought, well, them. Especially on a mountain road! I have been in Hollister for work pur- As you can tell from the story, this was poses three times. After Pacheco Pass, not a rally. But that tour leg over the it is pretty flat out here. I was just here mountains in Cambria stretched the in April for the San Simeon Tour. Peach nerves of my wife and I, very thin, until Tree road was very twisty at times, but we reunited with the rest of the group… flat. So I assumed it was okay, expect- Drivers beware! ing a flat terrain road and I asked her to drive. And so the drive of tour group #2 restarted. We were okay for a short time, and suddenly the route became this uphill, no-shoulders-mountain-road full of twisty turns (cue in the music from “The Barber of Seville”). As we started climbing, I told Margarita to keep up with the car in front. I cannot! She said. You know I hate driving in hills, it is scary for me! Faster, faster, I said! No, no she said! Then I heard my daugh- ter Desiree laughing in the back. All of the sudden, our car became an encap- sulated theater full of drama and com- edy. We did this cycle a few more times (me yelling go faster, and she kept refus- ing to do so, and Desiree laughing in the back seat) then, the inevitable occurred: we lost the white Porsche 928 we were following. That ups the ante. Great, I thought. I will get the cars behind us lost, and I will get the Dummkopf award for it. And there is nothing I can do. The road had no shoulders whatsoever. Stopping to change drivers was out of the question. By the way, no cell phone 2 Sacramento Valley Region - Porsche Club of America - www.svr-pca.org Editor’s Corner Steve McCrory, SVR Drifter Editor Photo Robert Hrabak & Editor ing on club tours, to winter, see the November 2016 Drifter entering concours and to find an article by Anthony Merjano. car shows, to 20 years Zone 7 events keep getting better, of autocross and track thanks in part to SVR members step- events, its been good ping up to volunteer for support posi- times. Other projects tions. Rik Larson is the Zone 7 Secretary, are waiting, including Barbara McCrory is the Treasurer, and finishing the restora- Collin Fat has come forward to chair the tion of the 356 Super 2018 Zone 7 Autocross Series.