The Official Publication of the Central Indiana Region, Porsche Club of America July 2014 CIRCIRCULARCULAR Summer Fun! The 2014 edition of CruZionsille attracted a huge crowd of participants and spectators! IN THIS ISSUE: PAGE 4 - THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BY BOB SNIDER PAGE 7 - THE WATER COOLER BY JIM & LAURA LEGAULT PAGE 8 - INDY TUDOR BRICKYARD GRAND PRIX AND PCNA PORSCHEPLATZ JULY 25 AT IMS BY BOB SNIDER PAGE 10 - CRUSING ON THE BRICKS IN ZIONSVILLE BY STEVEN TARR AND JIM LEGAULT PAGE 12 - BRICKYARD VINTAGE PHOTOS BY JIM HATFIELD PAGE 14 - AROUND THE ZONE BY ZONE 4 REP Michael Soriano PAGE 15 - THIRD QUARTER ACTIVITIES UPDATE BY BRUCE FLEISCHMANN PAGE 16 - 2014 AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE BY JIM HATFIELD PAGE 18 - CIRPCA COLUMBUS INDIANA WEEKEND PAGE 19 - COMPLETE CIRPCA 2014 EVENTS CALENDAR PAGE 20 - PETE’S SERVICE CENTER, A NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE BY REBECCA PINTO Tom Wood Porsche 317-848-5550 877-859-5550 CIRPCA 2 2014 Central Indiana Region Porsche Club of America Board of Directors & Chairpersons President CIR Web Site Bob Snider (765) 282-7985 Get Involved! The CIR Web Site is a fantastic resource [email protected] for Central Indiana Region, Zone 4, and Porsche Club of Vice-President America national news. Don Shuck (317) 374-8772 [email protected] The latest news on upcoming local, regional, and national events, Porsche related wire news, member photos, event Treasurer photos, forum postings, site information and more is just a David Shuck (317) 407-6109 mouse click away! [email protected] Join other members and Like Us on Facebook! Secretary Dane Love (317) 900-6795 Check out the Club Calendar for detailed information about upcoming events and links to register for events. [email protected] Membership Chairperson Visit the Gallery for all the latest event photos! Rick Campodonico (260) 637-6479 [email protected] View the CIR Member’s Car Photos for great Porsche car photos. If your car isn’t there yet, contact the CIR Web- Activities Chairperson master. Bruce Fleischmann (973) 903-5858 [email protected] Peruse current and back issues of the CIRcular newslet- ters! Past President The CIR FORUMS are one of the most visited pages on Rob Fike (317) 927-9333 the Website. There are 19 individual forum topics, includ- ing General Information, Events, Driver Ed, Items for Sale, Past Treasurer Items Wanted, Technical Forums for every Porsche Simon Robinson model, Car Care, and more. Members at Large It’s easy to contact any CIRPCA Board member. Simply go to the Contact Us page and click on the links to contact Randy Faunce, Teen Street Survival Chairperson any board member! (317) 861-0755 Mark Willingham, DE Chairperson (317) 841-3701 Interested in learning more about what your Porsche car is capable of? The CIR Driver Ed Links menu provides links Laura Legault, CIRCULAR Co-Editor to information about the next DE event, DE FAQs, Putnam Jim Legault, CIRCULAR Co-Editor (317) 443-4024 Park Info, and DE videos. [email protected] Would you like to learn more about the Club itself? The David Weaver, Webmaster (317)590-8594 About CIR menu has links to the our Sponsors, the Club’s [email protected] History, a CIR FAQ, CIR Philanthropies, CIR By-laws, and more! Non-Voting Members The PCA/Zone4 menu contains links to all Zone 4 events Curt DeVoe, Chief Driving Instructor (317) 388-1912 and all Zone 4 region websites. Rebecca Pinto, Advertising Chairperson (812) 343-8646 Steve Tarr, CruZionsville Chairperson (317) 733-1622 CIRCULAR IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CENTRAL INDIANA REGION, Debbie Groulik, Fort Wayne Activities Coordinator (260) 436- PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA. STATEMENTS AND OPINIONS HEREIN ARE 9738 THOSE OF THE AUTHOR AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF CIR, ITS OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. THE EDITOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO EDIT ALL MATERIAL AND TO PUBLISH ONLY MATERIAL THAT IS FELT Zone 4 Representative TO BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF CIR AND PCA. PERMISION IS GRANTED FOR OTHER PCA REGIONS TO REPRINT ARTICLES PROVIDED CREDIT IS GIVEN TO Michael Soriano [email protected] THE AUTHOR AND CIRCULAR. CIRPCA 3 July 2014 IRPCA President’s Message by Bob Snider Brigitta and I just returned from a Grand Tour of the dence on Father’s Day. Northwest, which included the Monterey Porsche Parade Since I was in transit, I in California. We traveled through 14 states, seven Na- really could not be of much tional Parks and two different countries all in a 2000 Box- assistance, but put him in ster S in 25 days, traveling over 8400 miles! Needless to touch with former CIR say, we had a great time and saw a lot of our beautiful President, Larry Haskett country and oh what a beautiful country we have! who knows Mike well and the 356 crowd along with A special moment happened during this year’s Monterey our Activities Chairman, Porsche Parade during the Tuesday night Concours Ban- Bruce Fleischmann, who I quet at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Resort Hotel. As left in charge while I was some of you former Parade attendees know, a special gone. event takes place during the Concours Banquet at every Parade. It is a tradition that has been going on for dec- Remember, this is only a day after our big CruZionsville ades at Parade. Parade Master of Ceremonies, Mark Car Show event which Larry is heavily involved with and Shevitz of Saint Louis Region has everyone stand that is somehow they were able to talk three 356 owners to take attending their very first Parade and a very large percent- their cars over to Mike’s current abode and cheer some of age of attendees stand. Then he has everyone stand that the old timers up on Father’s Day with only a few days no- has attended at least 2 Parades and it starts a sit down tice! procedure that goes into the teens, twenties, thirties and by the forties few members are left standing and they all look Mike even told the story to the Parade audience. There’s around at each other across this large record expanse of something very special about PCA and its members to do 2,400 Parade attendees all housed in the largest white something like this. Thank you to all who had anything to outdoor tent I have ever seen, illuminated by over 20 crys- do with this very nice gesture. tal chandeliers. By the fifties only a handful of attendees are still standing and they all know each other. Speaking of nice gestures, Bruce and his wife Valerie in- vited club members over to their beautiful home on Geist Two long-term PCA members hold the record of 56 Por- Reservoir for a 4th of July Party and Fireworks and 26 sche Parades and one of them is our very own CIR Region CIR members showed up for a wonderful evening of great Founder, Mike Robbins (47 of them in the same black food and camaraderie. Bruce skippered two extensive pon- 1958 Speedster!) and he was not there for the first time in toon boat excursions of Geist Lake, pointing out the many over 50 years. Bert Propp of Golden Gate Region is the beautiful homes along the shoreline. On a perfect Indiana other record holder and he was there and Mike was not. summer evening, we witnessed the largest fireworks dis- They are now tied and then happened one of those very play synchronized to music in Central Indiana shot off from special things that only happens at Parade – Mark called the bridge and we all had lakeside ringside seats. Thank Mike back in Indianapolis and put him live on the PA sys- you Bruce and Valerie for a wonderful evening and we all tem for all of us to hear and Mark interviewed him and we hope you will repeat this next year! could all hear Mike’s clear voice. Looking ahead to July 12, Dick Rutkowski and Jimmy Arata As some of you might know, Mike has been suffering some of Fort Wayne are organizing a Second Saturday Break- health issues recently and is in an assisted living facility on fast at Spyro’s Restaurant on the SW side of Fort Wayne the north side of Indy recuperating and could not make the which starts at 7:15 AM, if you want breakfast, and at 8 AM California Parade. Mike sounded great and he encour- they will conduct a three hour auto tour of scenic roads up aged everyone in attendance to come to next year’s 60th to the famous and extensive Gilmore Auto Museum in Porsche Parade in French Lick, Indiana (the first ever to be Hickory Corners, Michigan (near Kalamazoo) for their an- held in Indiana!) and he said he was going to try his best to nual German Auto Show. $7 museum admission if you be there and welcome everyone to Indiana. It was a very drive a German car, $10 if you don’t. Sign up on the CIR special moment for us five CIR members attending and all website: www.cirpca.org. of Mike’s many far flung friends in PCA. Friday, July 25 is our huge new Indy TUDOR Race event Something else very on the IMS Road Course. This year Porsche Cars North nice just happened to Mike on Father’s Day CIRCULAR IS AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISING VEHICLE TO REACH THE this year. I got an email from CIR member Mike DESIGN SAVVY AND UPSCALE PORSCHE OWNER AND THE FRIENDS Shaver while en route to AND ASSOCIATES.