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TOM BROWN (310) 993-5264 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 2 Sierra Madre Collection Page 3 BOARD MEMBERS AND CHAIRS Page 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 5 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Page 6 PRESIDENTIAL LETTER Page 7 UPCOMING EVENTS; Stuttgart DNA Page 8-9 Fiesta New Mexico 2015 Page 10 SGVR Z8 Concours Judging School Page 11 PCA Club Racing schedule Page 12 Z8 Festival of Speed Concours Page 13 SGVR Holiday Banquet; Red Cap Club Page 14 Jack Staggs' 356th Day; L A Dismantler Page 15 Jack Staggs' 356th Day concluded Page 16-17 Horseless Carriage Club of So Cal 59th Holiday Motor Excursion Page 18 Z8 Festival of Speed Page 19 Red Cap Club; Z8 Awards Banquet Page 20 Z8 Awards Banquet Page 21 911 Design Page 22 April Fools joke; House Automotive Page 23 Red Cap Club; 60th Porsche Parade; Collision Consultants At this year’s Zone 8 Banquet, Page 24 Van Nuys Plating COVER PHOTOS San Gabriel Valley Region was awarded the Region of Page 25 SGVR Feb. Board Meeting Minutes the Year trophy! Photo of trophy presentation by Skip Page 26 SGVR Feb. Board Meeting Minutes conclud- Carter. (L-R Steve Hoskins, Tom Brown, Alfred Abken, ed; Rusnak Porsche and Kent Verderico.) Page 27 CLASSIFIED ADS Also that weekend, at the President's meeting it was Page 28 Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show announced that Glenn Orton was the Zone Driving Page 29 Luftgekühlt 2 Instructor of the year, and Joe Beerer was the Driving Page 30 Escape to Rushmore 2015 Rookie of the Year. Congratulations Glenn and Joe! Page 31 Schnellautosports Photos of medals by Steve Hoskins. Back Cover Artwerks Sportscars LLC Unless attributed to someone else, text and photos by Alfred Abken. Gabriel’s Horn is the official publication of the San Gabriel Valley Region of the Porsche Club of America. 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As the new editor, you can de- cide to continue this as a quarterly effort, or bimonthly, or even monthly. Your deci- sion. I like doing it quarter- ly, so after a mad thrash for a week, I do not have to do any- thing for two months. By pub- lishing more often, it should Photo by Revere Jones take less time to produce an issue. 2015 is getting off to a As you can see from the busy start. First of all, on cover, San Gabriel Valley Re- a personal note, I presently gion was honored as the Zone have a home in Paso Robles in "Region of the Year, 2014". escrow. Assuming that goes There will be more information through as planned, I will be about this in the following moving up there this spring. pages. I will be putting my house in As this is being written, Whittier on the market early in this year's first driving tour March. Therefore, I will be is scheduled for Saturday, Feb- stepping down as editor of this ruary 28. Robert Friedman is publication. The three years set to lead a group along Mull- I have done this have gone by holland to the coast for lunch. very quickly. Please see lat- Rennsport Reunion V was er in this issue info regard- originally scheduled to happen ing applying for the position at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca of the new editor. No previous in October. Due to a conflict experience is necessary, as I with running of an W.E.C. race, think I have proved. All that the Rennsport Reunion has been is required is a desire and moved to September. I hope time to see it through. this change of dates has not As I am not particularly negatively impacted anyone who computer literate, Adobe In- hopes to attend this event. If Design can be a big challenge, the previous event is any in- but persistence pays off. dication, it should be a fabu- Speaking of Adobe software, a lous event. I hope to see you disk of InDesign will be passed there. 5 PRESIDENTIAL LETTER It all began in high school in 1959, when I was a junior at Pasadena High School on the campus of Pasadena City College. In those days we had shop classes, hard to believe they actually taught up something that was fun and useful for the rest of your life. Anyhow, I am getting off point, I had the really cool dude shop teacher for Woodshop and Drafting. One Monday morn- ing he comes driving into the faculty parking lot in this really weird little "inverted bathtub", with racing numbers on the doors. None of us had ever seen anything like it. We were all into Photo by Kathy Hoskins jacked up Fords and Chevys with cut off ex- haust pipes. I am Steve Hoskins, your new President. I This cool dude for the next few weeks tells us want to thank everyone who took the time to stories about his cool little car and how he races return their ballots late last year. Whether you it on the weekend, and drives it to work the rest voted or not, you have a new Board of Directors of the time. He tells us about Dr. Porsche and for 2015. The response for this past election was how he invented the VW and how aerodynam- similar to what we have received in the past four ics and lightweight construction play a big part years while I have been a part of the board.