The Magazine of the Founders' Region • Potomac, Porsche Club of America • September 2016
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The magazine of the Founders’ Region • Potomac, Porsche Club of America • September 2016 der Vorgänger 2• der Vorgänger • September 2016 www.pcapotomac.org der Vorgänger • September 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 September 2016 Volume 62, No. 8 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 by the 7th of month preceding the month of publication, preferably via e-mail to dvedi - 9 Potomac’s 2016 calendar [email protected] . Please send digital images in their original sizes. 10 The Nightmare Continues Publisher: Tony Kelly 6726 Lucy Lane by Roger Downey McLean, VA 22101 [email protected] 15 My Porsche Journey by Co-Editor: Glenn Cowan Co-Editor: Michael Sherman John Sheil 10 [email protected] Contributing photographers: Ken Marks, 18 Porsches Tradin’ Paint at Tony Pagonis, Charlene Truban, John Vrankovich, Mia Walsh. Lime Rock Park by Hank Allen Contributing writers: Carrie Albee, Gary Brindle, Sydney Butler, John Eberhardt, Virginia Highlands Tour by Ken Harwood, Tom Neel, John Vrankovich, 24 Mia Walsh. Ron Flax For questions about advertising rates and placement in der Vorgänger , please contact 27 Car Nuts Love the Pitts - Tony Kelly at [email protected] burgh Vintage Gran Prix by der Vorgänger (ISSN 0199-0667) is pub - lished monthly except in January by the Ron Davis Founders’ Region, Potomac, Porsche Club of America at 6726 Lucy Lane, McLean, VA 22101. 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For informa - tion regarding commercial advertising and rates, contact the publisher listed above. Letters to the editor are welcome. They should be brief and may be edited for length. Please include a contact phone number for verification. To subscribe, join the Porsche Club of America. Details at www.pca.org . Visit the Potomac region website at www.pcapotomac.org . 18 4• der Vorgänger • September 2016 www.pcapotomac.org The editors’ column Close To Perfect It’s the rare thing in life thats perfect - this sentence for exam - I have a model of my car on my desk. If it’s too close to the ple. Most “things” either break or go missing – but surprisingly edge of the desk, I reposition it. Yesterday, the audio in my full not both - you tend not to lose machine tools and your crucial size Boxster GTS went bad. No sound on AM, FM, XM, Bluetooth meeting notes don’t get broken. So most of us have come to ac - audio, Phone – nothing. I reset the PCM – nothing. I spent two cept that not everything works all the time and things you des - hours on various blogs and other such – no help. It’s still not perately need you occasionally can’t find. You accept it, make do working. It’s going to the dealer Thursday morning but its only and get a new one at some point or try to hold it together with Tuesday! bailing wire. I am having a difficult time thinking about anything else. Your spouse comments on the previously unheard whirring Maybe I’m unusual and those of you who read these columns sound coming out of the basement so the next time you wander know I take my car to a carwash but nevertheless, the one thing I down there you might recall there was some noise or whatever. ask is that my Porsche be working right. Tire pressures at factory Your neighbor points out the miss - specs, no rattles, no dings (parked ing shutter on the second floor two spaces from everything), no which causes you to speculate on fingerprints, inside of windshield what might have torn it off the spotless – close to perfect. Is it too house and think about replacing it much to ask for a small piece of someday. The front walk needs a just right in a world replete with few new pavers but the postal car - not quite right? rier has only tripped a few times, so it can wait. Most of you reading this know exactly what I am talking about. Except when what is broken or By the way, was there a slight missing is even remotely con - noise from the left rear when you nected to or forbid, a component went over that last expansion joint of your Porsche. coming off the exit ramp? 6• der Vorgänger • September 2016 www.pcapotomac.org The president’s column It’s Not Just About The Cars While the dog days of summer give way to the more First, at the Club Race hosted by PCA Potomac in refreshing days of fall, Gail and I will celebrate this 2013, USMC Lieutenant Colonel Kyle Watrous heard month the birth of our children (Chester turning 23 my voice from a distance. He found me and asked, and Karen turning 24). They will always be babies in "Hill?" I replied, "Who wants to know?" He said, "It's our eyes. What does this have to do with PCA? Well, me, Watrous!" We embraced and have now rekindled all of the members we have met over the years through our friendship from over 30 years ago. We last saw PCA feel like family. Gail and I have participated in each other at The Basic School located in Quantico, VA. events hosted by many other regions including: Gold Howard Hill It turns out that PCA Potomac members Watrous and Coast and Suncoast Regions at Sebring; Connecticut Mike Smalley became friends as a result of their mutual Valley Region at Lime Rock and at Monticello; Metro New York passion for Porsches. Kyle was at Club Race with his son, Doug, and Northern New Jersey Regions at New Jersey Motorsports to enjoy the cars, fun and fellowship. It's not just about the cars. Park; and Mid-Ohio Region at Mid-Ohio Motorsports Park. Of course, we have spent most of our track days with our beloved Second, during this year's mid-summer Driver's Education home region PCA Potomac, The Founders' Region, at Summit event at Summit Point, PCA Potomac hosted a group of under - Point, at VIR and at Watkins Glen. privileged children from an organization named Stafford Junction. PCA members Linda and Phil Hill founded Stafford Junction 25 We have always been greeted with a warm welcome by every years ago. Chip Taylor, as our Community Service chair, has region. Our experience unequivocally reinforces PCA's motto, been organizing the event since its inception four years ago, and it "It's not just about the cars; it's about the people." Whether at has come to be the children's favorite field trip. Each child was Club Race, Concourse, Drive and Dine, Driver's Education, Rally paired with a member of PCA Potomac. This year Len Derus, a or Social, we have always enjoyed ourselves. We appreciate our new member, volunteered to mentor one of the children. While cars and, more importantly, each other as like-minded Porsche showing his child around the paddock, Len recognized long-time enthusiasts. Here are a couple of anecdotes evidencing our fel - member John Moore. Len and John had worked together 20 lowship and how small PCA and the surrounding community has years ago for the same company in Chicago. Stafford Junction proven to be even though PCA is the largest single marque auto - and PCA reunited the two of them beyond their wildest expecta - mobile club in the world. tions. The "six degrees of separation" never cease to amaze me. It's about the people. der Vorgänger • September 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.