Northern Ohio Region PCA Newsletter | April 2017 Amelia Island Display Photo: Kathy Kurkov 30th Annual All Porsche Car Show & Swap Meet 2017 Literature & Toy Meet: Friday June 2nd 6PM-9PM Swap Meet & Car Show: Saturday June 3rd 8AM-3PM New, Used and Hard to Find Parts Porsche Vendors from around the country Peoples’ Choice Porsche Car Show Old and New Porsche Cars on Display Check stoddard.com for details or contact Linda 1-800-342-1414 Ext.238 for booth space reservation. Stoddard NLA-LLC 190 Alpha Park (driveway 21) Highland Heights, Ohio 44143 USA Features The Board ........................................ 3 Staff Columns Porschephiles-Nature or Nuture 8 Pace Lap ........................................................2 Dan Engel Bryan Lingruen Amelia Island Review .................10 Anniversaries & New Members .............12 Kathy Kurkov Pat Ellert Around the Zone .........................14 Board Meeting Minutes ..........................13 Michael Soriano Jim Forcina Checkered Flag......................................... 32 Meet Chuck Resnik ...................... 17 Les Checel Member of the Month................18 Brad Kennett Happenings The Mart April Events ................................4-7 The Paddock .................................22 CIC Weekend ..............................16 Classified Ads Artwood Derby ..........................19 Support our Sponsors ................25 Advertiser’s Index Visit us on the web at www.norpca.org NOR’s website with up-to-date event schedules, downloadable forms, pictures, Voices in color, and more! Voices from the Trunk is the official publication of Northern Ohio Region (NOR) Porsche Club of America (PCA). Statements and opinions herein are those of the authors and do not neces- sarily represent the official position of NOR or PCA. Permission is granted for other PCA Regions to reprint articles, provided credit is given to the author and Voices from the Trunk. Subscriptions: Free for NOR members. Non-members: $25 per year. Send subscription requests to the Editor. ©2017 NOR PCA. PACE LAP President Bryan Lingruen One of my favorite movie characters Ferris Bueller once said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” I think about that quote on quite a regular basis and I think it’s pretty accurate. As I get older, I continue to get busier and busier and life sometimes just seems like a blur. Days go by fast and you tend to miss the small things because the larger things consume you. Lots of people I notice are always waiting on something or counting down the days to that next big thing. Maybe it’s a vacation, or just a day off, maybe it’s purchasing a new car, or maybe it’s waiting on some other exciting event in your life that’s coming up. What I have noticed and have found myself guilty of as well, is that you want the days to go by fast to get to that event. You tend to rush through your day and you find yourself just solely focused on that particular thing. In reality, you only get so much time in life and I find it rather frightening that we sometimes can almost lose entire days just focusing on a certain event in our future. We also now have smart phones so we can reach anyone anytime and anyplace. With that phone, we can access the ends of the internet as well and answer pretty much any question instantly. Gone are the days of going to the library and looking in a book to find the answer. We can broadcast out in social media to friends and keep people up-to-date on what we are doing instantly and almost play-by-play in our lives. Even now, in just trips to the store or your favorite restaurant, I notice less people interacting with each other and instead staring at their phones. We are eliminating jobs and adding machines to replace people to speed up the processes we consider inconvenient or too slow like checking out at the grocery store. At my local bank, they continue to push me to use the ATM and no longer come in the branch to do my banking. Thus, eliminating more jobs and interactions. In the automotive world, manufacturers are pushing more toward self-driving cars. The main reason is safety and the cause is distraction from all the technology we currently have. Along with cell phones, cars have so many features and gizmos now that the manufacturer has to add things like lane-keep assist or pre-collision to help aid distracted drivers. Instead of focusing on the driving experience, they spend development time on figuring out how to take the driver out of the equation. This plays into my discussion of rushing through a day or time to get to a certain event in life. Instead of enjoying that drive with the windows down and radio turned up, people rather send email and tweets while the car drives itself. Sure, not everyone out there is a driving enthusiast like me, but there is something somewhat peaceful about driving home on a nice summer evening taking in the sights and sounds of nature and our surroundings. Occasionally we need to slow it down some and take a look around at the simple things in life. There are things in everyday life that are special like interacting in-person with friends and family. Or maybe it’s just that little bit of alone time on your commute to and from work. Where you can reflect on positives in your life or smaller things you might have overlooked. In a constantly evolving world of instant gratification, we’re always trying to rush things or get it now. The moral of my story here is that we are becoming increasingly more distracted and disconnected with the simple wonders of the world in which we live in. We rush through life buried in our phones and computers or waiting on that next event to happen. All the while missing the wonderful things around us that happen daily. Or those small simple pleasures in life. Once again to quote the words of Ferris “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” |2 | 2017 NORPCA OFFICERS *President Autocross Bryan Lingruen Doug Bradley 330-350-2581(c) 440-428-7043 [email protected] [email protected] *Vice President Rallyemaster Brad Kennett Open Position 440-309-5002 Contact Board Member For Details [email protected] Concours *Secretary Mark Taylor Jim Forcina 440-899-6338 216-712-1348 [email protected] [email protected] IRAC Representative *Treasurer John Hulick Jon Giese 440-350-4571 NORPCA [email protected] 1651 Crossings Pkwy Suite C Technical & Safety Westlake, OH 44145 Mike Garriga 216-800-5555 216-408-5652 (c) [email protected] [email protected] *Past President Voices Editors Skip Wolfe Les Checel 440-527-3839 440-461-2546 [email protected] RuAn Thompson *Membership 440-777-1195 Pat Ellert [email protected] 216-524-7547 Advertising & Sponsor Coordinator [email protected] Open Position *Competition Director Contact Board Member For Details Ed Baus Webmaster 216-265-8057 Walt Ellert [email protected] 216-524-7547 Zone 4 Representative [email protected] Michael Soriano Charity Director [email protected] Karl Kleinert Social Director 216-990-3811 (c) RuAn Thompson [email protected] 440-777-1195 [email protected] * Voting Board Member Tech Sessions Chuck Resnik 440-537-4251 [email protected] Chief Instructor Bob Bryant 440-247-1487 [email protected] |3 | April Events Monthly Board Meeting Monday April 3, 2017 7:00p.m. Location: Winking Lizard Tavern NEW LOCATION 25200 Miles Rd., Bedford Hts, OH 44146 All new business proposals are to be submitted in advance of the meeting. This will allow them to be added to the agenda so that time may be allocated for discussion. Please contact Bryan Lingruen with your agenda items. Questions: Please call Bryan Lingruen at 330-350-2581(c) or email [email protected] or Jim Forcina email [email protected] Spring Tech Session Saturday, April 15, 2017 9:00 am Location: Pete’s Custom Coachbuilding, Novelty OH See flyer on Page 5 for details RSVP by April 10 to Chuck Resnik at [email protected] Car Control Clinic-Kickoff To Autocross Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:00 am Registration 10:00 am Clinic Start Location: Rolling Acres Mall, 2400 Romig Rd., Akron OH See flyer on Page 6 for details First of many autocross events this year. FREE for all NORPCA members. $20 for non-members. If you have any questions contact: Doug [email protected] or John Hulick-Cell:440.477.6543 |4 | Come join NORPCA for a Spring Tech Session at Pete's Custom Coachbuilding! PCC Saturday April 15, 9 am to 11am Learn all about how Pete Jackson and his team perform all levels of restorations on classic and vintage sports cars and microcars. Meet Pete and witness the restoration projects, see their metal working machines in action and learn about the other services their shop provides. See a classic Porsche tuned-up to run at its best. Pete's Custom Coachbuilding is fully equipped for sheet metal fabrication, mig/tig welding, body work, paint and assembly. See some Porsche projects in various stages of restoration while Pete describes the techniques used during the process. Snacks and beverages will be provided and seeing Pete's restorations is sure to thrill. Pete's Custom Coachbuilding is located at 10357 Kinsman Rd., Unit J, K & L, Newbury, Ohio Please RSVP by April 10th to [email protected] |5 | Northern Ohio Region is Hosting a CAR CONTROL CLINIC Sponsored by Porsche of North Olmsted Sunday, April 23, 2017 Rolling Acres Mall 2400 Romig Road Akron, Ohio 44320 Schedule: 9:00 -- Registration (FREE to PCA Members, $20 non-members) and Tech Inspection 10:00 -- Clinic Starts Rolling Acres Mall is accessed from I-77S by taking the Vernon Odom Blvd.