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The magazine of the Founders’ Region • Potomac, Porsche Club of America • April 2016 der Vorgänger 2• der Vorgänger • April 2016 www.pcapotomac.org der Vorgänger • April 2016 • 3 Table of contents der Vorgänger The monthly magazine 6 The editors’ column of the Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club of America. 7 The president’s column April 2016 Volume 62, No. 3 Club officers and program der Vorgänger is the official magazine of the 8 Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club chairs of America, Inc. Contributions for der Vorgänger should be sent to the editor at least six weeks preceding the month of pub - lication, preferably via e-mail to 9 Potomac’s 2016 calendar [email protected] . Please send dig - ital images in their original sizes. 10 Confusion and Clarity by Publisher: Tony Kelly 6726 Lucy Lane Sydney Butler McLean, VA 22101 [email protected] 15 The Next Course by the Co-Editor: Glenn Cowan Co-Editor: Michael Sherman Drive & Dine Committee 10 [email protected] Contributing photographers: Ken Marks, 17 So You Want To Have A Tony Pagonis, Charlene Truban, John Vrankovich, Mia Walsh. Car Show? by Ron Davis and Contributing writers: Carrie Albee, Gary John Truban Brindle, Sydney Butler, John Eberhardt, Jonathan Kinberg, Tony Kelly, John Mag - istro, Tony Pagonis, Starla Phelps, Dan 19 The Big Bang Theory by Rowzie, Steve Vetter, John Vrankovich, Mia Tom Neel Walsh. 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To subscribe, join the Porsche Club of America. Details at www.pca.org . 22 4• der Vorgänger • April 2016 www.pcapotomac.org der Vorgänger • April 2016 • 5 The editors’ column Serenity Sammy Hagar got it right; I can't drive fifty-five ei - posted limit. She can relax and won’t have to listen to ther. For nearly fifty years, I have been trying to slow me going on about apexes and super elevated curves. I, down and enjoy the ride. It’s not working. I know the in turn, will try to become one with the car and stop only reasonable venue for driving fast is the track but worrying about whether the Valentine One is falsing when I’m trying to get to University Park to visit my again. son at Penn State or driving a backroad in the Shenan - doah Valley, I almost always pass every car on the road. This will result in being on the road for about an I don’t drive foolishly but it does seem that, with rare Glenn Cowan extra hour each way for the three trips. Let me think; exceptions, everyone else is driving more slowly. that’s a total of 6 hours more on the road which is what it would normally take to make one of the round trips. Simply enjoying my Boxster GTS should be enough. So I could actually make an entire round trip with the Its solidity on the road, the wondrous exhaust note, the time that slowing down will cost me. I’m sure I won’t sun on my increasingly thinning hair, all ought to suf - notice or mind. Actually, I’m sure it will make me irrita - fice, but no, I also like to drive with purpose and be get - ble and I’ll be worse company and not as good a driver. ting where I am going. On occasion this driving style I can’t help but think that this car is made to drive gets unwanted attention, so every few years I have a quickly and not doing so will really detract from my en - conversation with a police officer. I don’t mind really. I Michael Sherman joying the ride. I’ll report next month on how it works was a Police Commissioner and Public Safety Director out. many years ago and, despite evidence of recent events to the contrary, most highway police are polite and have – Glenn the proof of my transgression! I should slow down. In the next weeks, I have road trips planned to Lexington, Virginia, Lambertville, New Jersey, and State College, Pennsylvania. I have decided to make my Rally navigator / spouse really happy and stick to driving no more than nine miles an hour over the 6• der Vorgänger • April 2016 www.pcapotomac.org The president’s column Vanity In January 2008 my wife (Gail) and I purchased a tent) and met many members along the way, each of 2007 Carrera S; I enjoyed the thrill of driving it, and whom reminded us that this club is not just about the Gail seemed to enjoy riding along as a passenger. Any - cars, it is about the people. Roughly two years after way, we were out for a Sunday drive one day and no - starting the project, we were approved by the DMV and ticed a personalized DC license plate which was issued started issuing PCA plates in DC. by the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABSD). I had been thinking about getting a person - For the last several years, I have been trying unsuc - alized plate for the 911 but had only been thinking Howard Hill cessfully to bring PCA license plates to the Common - along the lines of my initials (HCH) or maybe even wealth of Virginia. Fortunately, I recently learned two PORSCHE (which by the way is still available in DC). Soon after things: first, that we have a PCA member among us who is also a seeing the NABSD plate, I saw a Porsche Club of America plate Member of the Virginia Legislature; and, second, that we might on the back of a Denali belonging to long-time PCA members be able to be approved without the now required 450 prepaid ap - Marianna and Howard Kympton. plications. (When we first started, we needed only 250 prepaid applications.) Gail and I decided that our 911 should sport a PCA plate. After researching the DC Website, we found a long list of organi - zations which offered personalized plates (including the NABSD), but we were disappointed not to see PCA included in the list. I asked then-President Tuffy von Briesen whether or not we could try to bring PCA license plates to DC. He said, "Go for it; and let me know what if anything you need from me!" Tuffy encouraged If you would like to join the effort and help bring PCA plates to me to give it a try but told me that the Club had tried unsuccess - the Commonwealth, please send an e-mail to vaplates@pcapo - fully for many years to get PCA plates in both DC and VA. tomac.org. If you want to get PCA plates in DC, please send an e- mail to [email protected]. If you wish to get a PCA plate After gathering the required paperwork, Gail and I undertook in the State of Maryland, then contact the Chesapeake Region. the mission of gathering all of the required signatures. We trav - Some say that these PCA plates are vanity plates; I say that they elled every quadrant of DC door-to-door (and paddock tent-to- show our solidarity. Please join me in this effort. der Vorgänger • April 2016 • 7 Founders’ Region officers President : Howard Hill [email protected] Vice president : David Dean [email protected] Secretary : Mia Walsh [email protected] David Dean Michael Handelman John Eberhardt Treasurer : Michael Handelman Howard Hill Mia Walsh [email protected] Past president : John Eberhardt [email protected] Programs Autocross : Michael Kaunitz Social, meetings : Annabelle Alvi Model Experts [email protected] [email protected] Cayenne : Ken Harwood Drive & Dine : Andrew Fort, Ken Har - Sponsor : Mi Jee Song [email protected] Drivers’ Education wood [email protected] Cayman : Chad Todd Drivers’ Education Chairs : Dirk [email protected] Volunteer coordinator : Jonathan Van [email protected] Dekker & Bob Mulligan Club Race : Fred Pfeiffer Hise 356 , 912 : Tim Berardelli [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Registrar : Carol DeZwarte, Chris Concours : Ron Davis Zone 2 Rep : Cheryl Taylor 911 (older) : George Whitmore Mantzuranis [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Historians : Fred Phelps, George Whit - Webmasters : Mike Handelman, Ken 930, C2, C4 : Roger Bratter Cashier : Roger McLeod, Jr.