THE CITRUS SPIEL THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CITRUS REGION PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA Volume 35 - Number 12 December 2009 Porsche “Wins” Challenge Rally But the Real Winner was the Russell Home for Atypical Children Photos by Chuck Hennings and Cindy Anderson The day before the 23rd Annual Challenge Rally, only 34 cars were pre-registered but Bill Davis, RallyMas- ter/Registrar, said “not to worry” as historically there are large numbers of “walk-ins” . Bill was right! Fifty more cars were registered the morning of the Rally for a total of 84. The winning marque in the “challenge” part of the event was Porsche with 41 cars, followed by BMW with 19, 9 each Audis and Mercedes, 2 Fer- raris, 1 Lotus and 3 others. The real winner, however, as planned, was the Russell Home for Atypical Children for which $3540 was raised. There was a People’s Choice Award which was won by Martin and Dottie Stickley in their 1967 Mercedes 300E convertible (see photo). The winners of the Rally itself were David Junkins and Bill Davis, RallyMaster Holds Driver’s Meeting Louisa Chu in an 1997 BMW M3 (see photo page 4). The weather was perfect for the 122.2 mile jaunt north of Orlando and ended at the Bahama Breeze in Altamonte Springs where we were well treated despite the larger numbers showing up than projected. More photos on page 4. Inside This Issue Challenge Rally Cover Presidents Update 2 Calendar 3 Kaffee Klatsch 4 People’s Choice Winner Owned by Martin and Dottie Stickley Member Profile 5 Upcoming Events Winter Park Concours 6 Ladies Day Autocross 8 Dec 6 35th Anniversary Dinner Drivers Education 9 Sunday Downtown Orlando Mariott Tech Talk 10 Club Racing 12 Dec 7 Monthly Meeting at Porsche Racing 13 Monday Porsche of Orlando Classifieds 15 Jan TBD Kaffee Klatsch/Tour Mrs. Janet Russell Nixon Accepts Chal- lenge Rally Receipts. Jan TBD AutoCross at Lake County Chartered in 1974 Training Facility - Tavares Published Monthly 494 Members http://flc.pca.org Presidents Update We held Officer elections for 2010 at our November meeting and it looks like I’ll be President for another year with Bert Del Villano as VP, Steve Williamson Secretary and Pete Brotsch as Trea- surer. I want to thank Howard Osterhouse, David Edwards and Arden Griffith for performing those duties (respectively) for both 2008 and 2009. Until you’ve “looked behind the curtain” you never realize the amount of work required, even in a volunteer organization. Thanks all for your partipation and efforts! And we’ll work at having some new things organized for 2010 to help us further enjoy our cars and “the people”. I’m hoping you’ll receive this issue before the Dec. 6th Holiday/35th Anniversary Party so in case you forgot, you can call me at 407-909-0507 and still be there. We’re experimenting with Standard versus First Class mailings for signifi- cant savings in our bulk mailing costs but at the expense of longer time to get to your mailboxes. The 23rd Annual Challenge Rally was a resounding success with 84 cars (41 Porsches) and $3540 going to the Rus- sell Home for Atypical Children. Started by member Larry Jackman (who participated this year in a Mercedes), the Rally benefits a truly deserving charity. Thanks to Bill Davis, RallyMaster. The route and questions were fun and over 100 joined the post-Rally celebration at the Bahama Breeze. A group of about 30 of us also enjoyed coffee and breakfast at the Nov. 21st Kaffee Klatsch at Dutch Holt’s restaurant “Let’s Go Dutch”. Happy and Safe Holidays Ev- eryone. - Chuck Contacts Board of Directors Director of Ron Zitza Instructor (407) 294-0024 Officers Chuck Hennings Training [email protected] President (407) 909-0507 [email protected] Chief Driving Tom King Instructor (407) 876-6675 Vice President Howard Osterhouse [email protected] [email protected] Technical Chair Sid Collins Secretary & David Edwards (407) 297-7733 Insurance [email protected] [email protected] Coordinator Historian Chuck Hennings Treasurer Arden Griffith [email protected] [email protected] Webmaster Brian Remington Directors / Committee Chairs [email protected] Membership & Bill Davis E-Mail Chair (407) 365-8428 Newsletter Travis Young [email protected] [email protected] PCA Race Chair & Jeff Phillips Zone Representative Jennifer Barrows Past President [email protected] [email protected] Drivers Ed Chair & Dave Borinski Dealer Liason Jim Lynch Coordinator (407) 563-1329 (407) 262-0800 [email protected] Porsche of Orlando Social Chair Laura Shields Advertising Rates (Monthly) [email protected] Business Card $20 Safety Chair Kevin Duffy 1/4 Page $45 [email protected] 1/2 Page $85 Autocross Chair Bert Del Villano w/ Name on Page Bottoms $150 (407) 909-0636 Full Page $150 [email protected] Classified Ads Free to Members Page 2 Zotz Garage www.ZotzGarage.com Upcoming Calendar Your guide to Citrus Region Events December 2009 Monthly Meeting Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Dec 7 at 7pm 1 2 3 4 5 Porsche of Orlando 1st Monday of Each Month 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 35th Anniversary 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Holiday Party Cars & Coffee Downtown Marriott Dec 19 from 9am - 11am Sunday, December 6th 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 at House Blend Café Come celebrate the Holiday Gathering of car-nuts on the third season and 35 years of FL Cit- Saturday morning of each month rus Region PCA history. Join 27 28 29 30 31 in Ocoee. www.houseblendcafe.com Founders, Past Presidents and current members who love their Porsches and socializing January 4, 2010 Monhtly Meeting at Porsche of Orlando with others who understand “it’s not just the cars, it’s the people”. January TBD, 2010 Kaffee Klatsch / Tour January TBD, 2010 AutoCross January 30-31, 2010 24 Hours of Daytona February 20-21, 2010 Drivers Education at Roebling Road Sign up at ClubRegistration.net - see page 9 for more information - new members / drivers very welcome, its a safe, fun, and super friendly event. Welcome New Members Total region membership as of 31 November was 494. Mohamed Avdul 2009 911 S Sanford Daniel Harf 1986 944 T Orlando Robert Kondos 1975 911 Port Orange Paul Lai 2008 Boxster S Longwood Gary Singer 1997 Boxster Orlando John Sullivan 2007 911 S Ocala Andrew Larkins 1988 924 Orlando Fred Rewey 2001 Boxster Orlando Member contact information is very important if you want to continue receiving the “Panorama”, the “Citrus Spiel” or any emails about upcoming region events. This contact information is maintained on the member database at Photo of Genie Evers receiving award from Bert Del Villano for her being PCA. There are three ways to update this information: Volunteer Coordinator for the OktoberFast event at Daytona • Call PCA at 703-321-2111 • On the web at www.pca.org • Send the information to Bill at [email protected] Tel: (407) 678-6789 Zotz Garage Page 3 Let’s Go Dutch Kaffee Klatsch Held at “Let’s Go Dutch” Kaffee Klatsch by Chuck Hennings held at Dutch Holt’s The latest Kaffee Klatsch was held Saturday, November 21, 2009 at “Let’s Go Dutch” in Clermont. The location is member Dutch new Holt’s new restaurant, Let’s Go Dutch, a Café and Wine Den off restaurant. 50 and near 27 in Clermont. About 30 members gathered for coffee, breakfast and lots of conversation about our Porsches. Charles Keller drove his brand new black GT3 (there were ac- tually 2 new, almost identical, black GT3s). Other regulars in- cluded Greg Barrows, Mark Peebles, Bert and Anne Del Villano and Nilo Argudin. Our host Dutch Holt (see photo) treated us well and the food and service was excellent. Let’s Go Dutch is located at 1200 Oakley Seaver Dr. ; next to the Cracker Barrel and Home Depot. Visit the restaurant’s website at www.letsgodutchcafe.com. Greg Barrows Co-Pilots for David Edwards in his Ferrari 360 Modena Rally Master Giving Answers at Bahama Breeze Rally Winners David Jenkins and Louisa Chu Page 4 Zotz Garage www.ZotzGarage.com Christie & Jim LaPiana Member Profile By Sue & Maurice Belt, Jr The LaPiana’s add some You say chili and we say LaPianas...chili---LaPianas. Af- spice to the ter all, Christie and Jim invented the Chili Fest in 1997, moving it from Contemporary Cars to the new Porsche Citrus Region dealership. It’s a hit year after year! PCA. In addition, Christie chaired the 2005 Zonefest at the Lakeside Inn in Mt. Dora. The couple has participated in Autocross (Christie did a run in Tampa at MacDill AFB) and DEs at Roebling Road with their ‘84 911 Carrera and Sebring in their 911 and ‘01 yellow Boxster. They’ve re- cently enjoyed leading Boxster caravans to the Boxster Summit in Blowing Rock, NC. They’ve even been to two To purchase the Boxster, they sold the 911 privately Formula One races! and Nort arranged a trade of the Elan to Dave Maraj, owner of Champion Motors Pompano, for himself. Bob Florida Citrus members since 1990, Christie said, “We Wollek was at Champion that day and he signed Jim’s really enjoy driving Porsches and meeting and being maintenance manual! with club members.” Christie is no stranger to cars. Her Father was a stock They even took a Treffen tour to the Porsche factory car racer in Spokane (he still holds a membership card). in October ‘92, arranged by Nort and Linda Northam. He drove several events with Tom Sneva, Sr. His fa- Boxster owners Mike and Elena Klasing also went vorite rides were Hudson and Ford--sponsored by the along.