February 2009 DerSportwagen Official Publication of the Kansas City Region Porsche Club of America www.kcrpca.org

Photo by Aaron Rubenking DerSportwagen Der Sportwagen Innerhalb Kansas City Region Departments Porsche Club of America 03 Advertiser Index February 2009 04 President’s Column 04 From the Editors Der Sportwagen is the official publication of the Kansas City Re- 05 Membership gion, Porsche Club of America (“KCRPCA”) and all contents are 14 KC Region Calendar of Events the property of KCRPCA. Statements and opinions represent the views of each author/advertiser and KCRPCA assumes no 15 PCA Zone 10 Calendar liability for any information published herein. Submissions may be edited for grammar and length. PORSCHE®, the Porsche Features Crest®, CARRERA®, and TARGA® are trademarks of Porsche 06 Results From Rolex 24 AG. Porsche trademarks are used by permission of Porsche 07 St. Pat’s Pub Night Cars North America. 07 Wine Tasting at J. Alexander’s 08 Changing of the Guard 09 Mardi Gras Casino Night Der Sportwagen Advertising Rates 10-11 2009 Parade—Part 3 13 Getting to Know . . . Karl Wilen Size One Issue Six Issues Ad Sizes 14 Open House at the Wayman’s Full Page $80 $375 7.5” x 10” Half Page $45 $190 7.5” x 4.75” Third Page $30 $130 5.0” x 6.75” Quarter Page $23 $100 3.5” x 4.75” Business Card $13 $ 55 3.5” x 2”

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Kansas City Region PCA Join us for Breakfast! Board Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month beginning at 7:00 Every Saturday at 7:30 am, the Club meets for breakfast at LePeep Restaurant at 79th pm at the home of Sean & Quivira in Lenexa, KS. Reardon 2200 Louisiana St in Lawrence. Any KCRPCA It’s a great opportunity to get to know other member is welcome to attend. Club members, look at an ever-changing collection of Porsches, and enjoy a tasty meal. Next month’s meeting: March 4th

2 February 2009 DerSportwagen Verantwortlich (In Charge) PRESIDENT CLUB RACE CO-CHAIRMEN MEMBERSHIP Sean Reardon Chris McIntyre Doug Pierce [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 785-766-7585 913-381-4729 913-897-5444 & EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Al Hess DER SPORTWAGEN CO-EDITORS Neill Flood [email protected] Aaron Rubenking & Haley Hoelscher [email protected] 816-985-7711 [email protected] 913-424-3092 816-519-0547 BOARD OF DIRECTORS VICE PRESIDENT—DRIVING ACTIVITIES Ralph Light TECH EDITOR Robert Wayman [email protected] Stephen Kaspar [email protected] 816-223-9353 [email protected] 913-254-1751 913-310-9927 Doug Pierce VICE PRESIDENT—SOCIAL ACTIVITIES [email protected] HISTORIAN Jan Pierce 913-897-5444 Rob Waldrop 913-780-6979 [email protected] Aaron Rubenking 913-897-7373 TREASURER [email protected] Jim Phillips 816-519-0547 AUTOCROSS [email protected] Rudy Rodriguez 913-362-5714 Ron Tippie [email protected] [email protected] 913-788-0007 SECRETARY 785-838-9786 Jack Bishop ZONE 10 REP [email protected] WEBMASTER Doug Pierce 816-537-7365 Cindy Thomas [email protected] [email protected] 913-897-5444

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February 2009 3 DerSportwagen Die Anmerkung von From the Editors Sean Hello everyone! January has What is my goal for the been an extremely busy month Kansas City Region in 2009? To for Aaron and I. Aaron has make sure everyone in our re- Aaron Rubenking, Editor been busy with work, school, and Haley Hoelscher, Co-Editor gion has a chance to have some playing guitar in the community Sean Reardon, President jazz band. I have been busy with fun. Actually, I want everyone to work, school, and clinicals. And as a couple, we have a lot of fun. Now unfortunately, having fun have been busy with Porsche events. We recently seems to be socially unacceptable at the moment. watched 12 hours of the Rolex 24 Hours of Day- As a child of the 70’s with six older brothers and tona. Our families thought we were crazy and had sisters, I was exposed to the television and movie some strange obsession when we didn’t surface culture of that era. Earthquake, The Towering In- from Aaron’s basement for an entire day. I must ferno, Airport ’77 and all other possible disasters say that it took incredible endurance and stamina on dominated the movie theaters. Jimmy Carter, our parts to sit on our butts for such a long period stagflation, and really crappy fashion and architec- of time. Kudos to us, right?! We finally were able tural designs cap off what was by many historic to reappear reporting that Porsche had swept the accounts a pretty lousy decade. My point? Well, race. We also really enjoyed seeing and talking with first of all, history repeats itself. More importantly everybody at Changing of the Guard. however, we allow ourselves to very easily be We would also like to congratulate our new guided by social voices that want us to wallow in Club President, Sean Reardon. We are excited for a misery. What does this accomplish? Nothing new year to begin and everything that comes with it. So, myself and all of us on the KCRPCA Also in the area of new things, we would like to thank Board are having none of that. Jan Pierce, our our new advertisor, Rule Werks, for advertising in new social VP, has already put in long hours plan- our Newsletter. Go ahead and give them a call when ning upcoming social events. Chris McIntyre, Al you need to blow that winter grime off your car. Hess, and Bob Wayman are in the process of Aaron and I are thoroughly looking forward to organizing three highly anticipated Club Race and seeing everybody again at the upcoming wine tast- DE weekends at Heartland Park Topeka. Also, look ing, St. Pat’s pub night, and Mardi Gras casino night. for a new twist to the Ozark Weekend in May. Neill See you there! Flood will have plenty of great fun drives on tap. —Aaron & Haley This year’s Porsche Parade is only a day’s journey to Keystone, Colorado, so there will be a large contingent of Kansas City Region members mak- ing the trek. And to cap it off, lurking around the ULE ERKS corner is the fiftieth anniversary of the Kansas City R W Region PCA in 2010. 2009 will be a fun year in the Porsche Club! —scr

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4 February 2009 DerSportwagen Membership By Doug Pierce, KCRPCA Membership Chair & Zone 10 Rep

ANNIVERSARIES—FEBRUARY 2009 AUF WIEDERSEHEN—JANUARY 2009 Chris Picklo Dennis & Donna Bogle 26 New Smyrna Beach, FL 66546 Chris Tatman 25 Transferring to the Philip Wolfe 24 Space Coast Region Gerard & Linda Burns 23 David & Patricia Isabell 22 NEW MEMBERS­—FEBRUARY 2009 James Cox 20 Mike & Teresa McDonald 19 Darren & Valerie Gallup David & Hiromi Lessmann 16 Liberty, MO 64068 Jeff & Mary Ann Abbott 14 Red 1974 914 Tim Peterson 14 Fred & Sheryl Granville Richard & Judy Bennett 12 Shawnee, KS 66217 Sean Reardon 10 Blue Gray 2005 911 Carrera Aaron Holstrom 10 James & Jessica Graven 9 Mark & Sheila Hall Doug & Kathy Stevens 8 Richmond, MO 64085 Brett & Cindy Whitney 8 White 1987 924S Phil & Kathy Farruggia 7 Tobin & Karen Roberts 7 Jeff Arbuckle 7 David Hof 7 Roy Freeman 5 Ken