Palmetto Pipes WWW.PCAPALMETTO.ORG FEBRUARY 2017 CLUB O F F I C E R S President - Porsche - Corvette Challenge Joe Carastro Vice President - BY JACKIE DASEN Bob Stonerock 2017 WILL BE THE YEAR OF THE MARK YOUR CALENDAR and bring Secretary - RoseAnn Boxx PORSCHE! But only our club mem- that trophy back to the car club it should bers can make it happen. We really need be with. Most of all remember this isn’t Treasurer - folks to bring those P cars out to the about really winning a trophy, of any Andy Cygan - Veteran’s Victory House Car Show in kind, but raising money for the Veter- Membership Chair - Walterboro on Saturday, May 13th. We an’s. The men and women that have Al Trego Charlie Barnett will already be down by at least 4 Por- sacrificed for YOUR freedom. This is sche’s. In normally takes around 20+ to one of the events they all look forward Newsletter Editor - Jackie Dasen beat out the Corvettes. Ken and I will be to each year. Let’s have the greatest returning from Italy on the day of the sports car club in the country make this a Webmaster - Josh Stolarz show. We do have someone willing to banner year, and win back our trophy. bring our 944. Normally we supply at Myrtle Beach Area- least 3 cars. So, we need help picking Vacant up the loss especially since Nicole & JB Past President - Lefebrve will be with us that makes us Ken Dasen down another Porsche. Zone 3 Rep - Vic Rola INSIDE Trident Technical College Annual Car Show THIS ISSUE: BY JACKIE DASEN Bailey’s Bistro 2 Bites This year’s event is going to be run a bit differently in cel- President’s 3 th thoughts ebration of their 25 year. This year’s show date is Sat- Carmine’s 5 urday, Apri 29th. Registra- Photo Drive tions for the event will be Something 7 free of charge this year, paid German Turn 9 10 Events 11 for by the sponsors, but you must register online, Porsche News 12 there will be no registrations the day of the show. You will be able to register online soon at… www.tridenttech.edu/carshow.htm P A G E 2 PALMETTO PIPES Bailey’s Bistro Bites Eating in Germany has changed in the last few decades, and home cooking has be- come more international. Germans have happi- ly adopted ingredients and dishes from other countries, and the resulting fusion dishes are highly successful. In the rural areas of Germa- ny, however, the traditional cuisine still domi- nates, both in restaurants and in home cooking. The best of the age-old recipes and methods are still maintained with great pride. The following recipe might be a good BAILEY’s Bisto Tip: employee a good Sous tasty bit to try out this coming February when Chef. They are good for preparing all your it’s still a bit cold and chilly here in the Low- ingredients so you as the chef can simply enjoy country of South Carolina. In incorporates too cooking the meal. German items we are all familiar with, potatoes and sausages. INGREDIENTS: 50g/2oz/4 tbsp butter Kartoffelsuppe mit gebratenen Wurstchen 1 onion, roughly chopped Potato Soup with Sausages 2 medium potatoes, peeled & roughly chopped (From: The Food & Cooking of Germany, by Mirko Trenkner) 1 garlic clove, chopped ½ leek, roughly chopped PALMETTO PIPES This delicious soup is served with 1 medium carrot, roughly chopped slices of fried frankfurter sausage. It’s a real 500 ml/17 fl oz/ generous 2 cups chicken stock German classic. Try to use floury potatoes be- cause they produce a smoother texture when pinch of fresh grated nutmeg blended. Marjoram is the perfect herb for this 100 ml/3 ½ fl oz / scant soup. If you can’t get it fresh, add a little dried ½ cup single (light) cream salt and ground marjoram when cooking with vegetables. white pepper 100 ml/3 ½ fl oz/ scant ½ cup sour cream 15 ml/1 tbsp sunflower oil 4 frankfurter sausages, thinly sliced Fresh marjoram, chopped, to garnish DIRECTIONS: Melt the butter in a large pan over medium heat. Gently fry the onions and garlic for about 3 minutes, until softened. Add the potatoes, leek and carrot to the pan and pour in the stock. Bring to the boil and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Simmer for about 15-minutes, until the potatoes are soft. Blend the soup until smooth, using a hand blender or in a food processor. Stir in both the single cream and the sour cream and return to a boil. (Stuie’s HINT: using a hand blender will allow your beloved fur baby to lick the beaters clean for you). Heat a frying pan over high heat. Add some oil and fry the slices of sausage for 1-2 minutes until the edges are crisp. To serve the soup, pour it into hot bowls, scatter some sausage slices on top and sprinkle with chopped marjo- ram. (Stuie’s HINT: Nothing wrong with extra sausages). WWW.PCAPALMETTO.ORG P A G E 3 President’s thoughts hind the Ford GT) it was a very credible first outing for the new car. I had the chance to chat with Dr. Frank-Steffan Walliser, the VP of Motorsports, who indicated that, as with any new project, Por- sche would be taking the lessons learned at Daytona with them to Sebring. As the weather was a bit less than ideal with cool weather and Just back from the Rolex rain starting Sat. night through 24 at Daytona Beach with Dr. Sunday morning, those of us who Bob, Big Al, Josh, Rusty and had opted for the Porsche Hospi- Charlie. Connor McIntyre came tality Suite tickets were able to over from Tampa so sort of a Pal- remain in the warm embrace of metto reunion. The race marked Porsche while watching the race the first outing for the new 911 from the balcony or on the video RSR with the “relocated" engine screens in reclining chairs. (the Porsche folks just can’t seem Locally, we have a couple to refer to it as “mid-engined”). events in the works that will be Although the results weren’t ex- announced soon, so stay tuned for actly as hoped for (6th and 10th further info. overall for #911 and #912 and Joe second in GT LeMans Class, be- “Its not just the cars, It’s the people !” Photo of the Month Please feel free to submit any Porsche related photos you have taken to me for publication in the newsletter. The photos can be of your car, some- one else’s car, Porsche memorabilia, club members engaged in a Porsche event. Basically anything related to Porsche. P A G E 4 WWW.PCAPALMETTO.ORG P A G E 5 CARMINE’S PHOTO DRIVE AND DINE DINNER: 4pm at Carmines Italian Trattoria – Main Street, Walterboro, SC Our first drive and dine of 2017 will be Saturday, March 4, 2017. The drive will incorporate one or two stops at photographic locations to allow for pictures of your Porsche. The trattoria has graciously offered to open early for this event. We’ll depart from the Publix Parking lot on Savannah Highway, please meet in the area by the bank. Departure time is still to be announced, depending upon where our two photo locations will be. If rain, the photo drive portion maybe cancelled. RSVP IS REQUIRED along with your pre- selected menu items. RSVP must be done by Friday, February 24th. Pre-selecting your menu items enables us to have free reign of the entire menu opposed to being limited to 2-3 choices. Please make sure to RSVP through the website. Registration will cut off at 40, there is limited seating at the res- taurant. You may email me, Jackie at por- [email protected] with any particular questions. Please also watch the website for pertinent details on our departure time from Publix for the Photo Drive. You do NOT have to participate in the photo drive. You are welcome to just join us for a wonderful Italian eating experience. Most of the antique shops are open till about 4 or 5 pm on Saturdays in the downtown area. FEBRUARY MEETING Please NOTE that February’s monthly social will NOT be the 2nd Tuesday of the month as it is Valen- tines Day. The meeting will be on Tuesday, February 21st at Al Di La in West Asheley. March will resume the normal second Tuesday of the month for the monthly social. WWW.PCAPALMETTO.ORG P A G E 7 Something German Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche ings of Stuttgart, Ferry was forced to bring some of the design departments to Austria. They chose two locations, Born September 19, 1909 (died March 27, 1998) Gmund/Carinthia and Zell am See, where the family had is more commonly known as Ferry Porsche. He was an a farm. Ferry, personally stayed in Stuttgart to manage Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker- the business. Meanwhile, Ferry’s father, withstood at entrepreneur, operating Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germa- Wolfsburg, working for the Germans until the end of the ny. His father, Ferdinand Porsche, Sr was also a re- war. The production of compact civilian cars at that fac- nowned automobile engineer and founded Volkswagon tory had been halted in order to produce jeeps called Ku- and Porsche. Newph, Dr. Ferdinand Piech is the longtime belwagen. chairman of Volkswagon and his son, Ferdinand Alexan- After Hitler’s fall, the French government, formal- der Porsche was involved in the design of the 911.