Ohio Valley Region | Porsche Club of America | June 2013 2 Contents Calendar June Meyer’s Musing ...................... 4 9 Ault Park Concours d’Elegance Von Dem Redakteur .................... 5 11 Monthly Socializer and meeting · All OVR members E-Blast Messages ..................... 5 welcome, location to be announced OVR Name Badges Available .............. 7 23-29 Porsche Parade at Traverse City, MI IRAC Autocross ...................... 9 July Wine Tasting ....................... 10 9 Monthly Socializer and meeting · All OVR members Spring DE at Mid-Ohio ................. 12 welcome, location TBA Mid-Ohio DE Pics .................... 14 26-28 Porsches 2 Ohio at Granville, OH p2o.morpca.org Porsche Parade 2013 .................. 15 August Board Meeting Minutes ................. 17 13 Monthly Socializer and meeting · All OVR members In the Zone ........................ 19 welcome , location TBA Membership ....................... 20 16 Test and Tune at Putnam Park Road Course The Mart ......................... 21 17-18 PCA Club Race at Putnam Park Road Course Board Members ..................... 22 September Membership Application ................ 23 10 Monthly Socializer and meeting · All OVR members Advertiser Index ..................... 24 welcome, location TBA 28 Autofeier at Porsche of the Village MId-Ohio DE cover photos by: top-Wade Huston October lower two-Daniel Mainzer Photography mainzerphoto.com 6 Rallye Porsche Mariemont 8 Monthly Socializer and meeting · All OVR members welcome, location TBA 11-13 Driver’s Education at Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course Attention All OVR Members All members are welcome to attend a monthly socializer at 6 PM on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Meet with other Porsche owners before and after the board meeting. Business meeting follows from 7:00 to 8:00. Location to be e-blasted. Check our website, http://www.ovrpca.org for updates on all events. To contact event chairs directly, see the “Board All Porsches are welcome at OVR PCA events. Members” page for contact information. Photo by Wade Huston. 3 Bill Braucksick's Meyer’s Musing John Meyer · President, OVR PCA In which the President attempts to whip ALIGNMENT up unbridled enthusiasm for the Ault Park Doesn’t your everyday car deserve Concours. a precision alignment too? Most likely everyone is aware of the June 9, 2013 Ault Park Concours. And even Four wheel computerized alignment 356 drivers grudgingly concede that 2013 Precise strobe light spin balancing is the 50th anniversary of the 911’s unveil- Special alignment for racing or autocross ing at the Geneva Auto Show. So it is no KONI, BILSTEIN, BOGE, TOKICO shocks/struts surprise that Porsche is the featured mark Sway bars, complete handling packages this year at the 2013 Ault Park Concours. SUSPENSION TECHNIQUES handling kits What I am sure you do not know is how much good work PERFORMANCE FRICTION carbon brake pads long time OVR Member Dave Hall has put into assembling a stellar collection of Porsches to display this year. I drastically NEW! MOMO road and steering wheels understate the case when I tell you about Dave’s success in NEW! HKS performance products assembling a great collection in five classes of early 911’s, late 911’s, other Porsches (914/924/924/928 etc.), racing (513) 489-8500 Porsches, and Porsche super cars. And of course this 11551 Grooms Road, Cincinnati 45242 amazing line up is in addition to the 356’s that Carl Isemann EASY DIRECTIONS: Take 1-275 to Reed Hartman. and the rest of the 356 faithful have put together. Go south on Reed Hartman 1/10 mile, east on Kemper 1/10 mile, then south on Grooms 3/10 mile. So I am encouraging all members of the faithful to get out to the Park on June 9 to join me in enjoying Dave and Carl’s We do suspension work right. great success. Now in an attempt to harness this potential mass migration, let me point out that the good folks at Ault Park Concours (special thanks to OVR member Rich Frantz) have set aside a 30 car, first come, first served Porsche Corral close to the entrance for us to conveniently park our P-cars. Look for the parking Corral as you enter the park at the bottom of the hill. However, please keep in mind this Porsche parking Corral is a self-policing perk extended to us by the Ault Park organiz- ers for Porsche car drivers to congregate. If you are driving your Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Vista Cruiser Station Wagon with Wood Paneling that day, Porsche Club member- ship does not extend a parking space to your Oldsmobile, or for that matter your Yugo, Simca, Renault, Fiat or Lada. But if you want to drive your Tatra that day, talk to me and I will get you special dispensation to park in the Porsche Corral. So come early, stay late, all your Porsche friends will be there. If I get there first, I will chalk a blue line on the ground Peck Hannaford + Briggs at the entrance. If you get there first, you rub it out. Contractors Since 1899 4670 Chester Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45232 (513) 681-4600 tel (513) 681-4746 fax www.peckhannafordbriggs.com All phases of design engineering, coordination, fabrication and installation of piping, sheet metal, laboratory, and refrigeration systems. 4 Von dem Redakteur E-Blasts Messages Wade Huston- Editor, Bent Pylon Brent Fagan- OVR Membership Chair My wife and I visited the Lane Motor It has come to my attention that some OVR/PCA mem- museum in Nashville, TN last month. It’s bers may not be receiving OVR PCA e-blasts. The a great place for anyone who enjoys cars e-blast is a communications tool that is used by event even if the museum only displays one chairs, board members, and others to provide updates Porsche. They specialize in European and reminders to the entire membership base concerning vehicles that are technically significant or club activities and events. E-blasts for all PCA regions uniquely different. The range of vehicles are generated through the PCA National e-mail system is vast, from a 1965 Peel 50 (the smallest and unfortunately they may look like spam or junk-mail to passenger car made) to a 1959 LARC- some receiving e-mail systems. Last month, May, there LX amphibious vehicle (weighs in at were eleven e-blasts sent to the OVR/PCA full member- 194,000 pounds). The LARC-LX was made for the mili- ship, and so far this month, there have been six. These tary. The Peel and most of the other cars are for use on the e-blasts are not to be confused with news that comes in street. Many of the cars on display were of limited production e-mail form from PCA National or from Porsche. numbers, some with only one vehicle being made. I’m sure The issue was discovered and so far has been isolated to their manufacturers had dreams of mass production. This some AOL Time Warner RoadRunner accounts and the reminded me of the early days of Porsche 356 production lineage extends at least to 2011. Please check your e- taking place in a sawmill in Austria. In 1948 did Ferdinand mail account to insure that you are receiving OVR/PCA e- Porsche ever think that his company would grow to produce blasts. One member has worked through AOL and is still over 140,000 vehicles per year in 2012? That cars with his not receiving e-blasts. Another member changed his PCA name on them would be known and sold all over the world? e-mail address to an alternate address and immediately The museum is a good place to reflect on the growth of the started receiving e-blasts. In addition to contacting AOL automobile industry from its start to present day, consisting of locally, the PCA National Webmaster has been contacted companies like Porsche A.G. and is taking the lead. If e-blasts sent through the PCA e- One interesting car in the collection is the 1919 Leyat Helico, mailer to OVR members are being blocked, it is very likely a car driven by a propeller. A French pilot and engineer was that other regions are having the exact same issue. convinced this was the car of the future. On a similar road, PCA National is currently beta testing a new e-mailer and I’ve been following the development of the Skycar, a vertical it is set to go live after the Parade. takeoff and landing flying car that you can also drive on the street. This project doesn’t seem much farther along than It would be helpful to get a count of those who have not when I first read about it back in 2001 but the ideas behind been receiving e-blasts. Please let me know by e-mailing it seem brilliant. I guess time will tell if this is the future of me at OVR/[email protected]. personal transportation. At the present time it’s great that we can enjoy our Porsches at the events put on by our Porsche club. Whether it’s dis- playing your car at the Ault Park Concours or exercising it at Mid-Ohio or Kil-Kare speedways, just be glad Dr. Porsche and others worked hard at a sawmill in Austria in 1948. Welcome our New Members Ian Butt Dayton, OH 1996 993 Turbo Red Thomas E. Hester, Jr Cincinnati, OH 2008 Cayman Silver Have fun with your Porsche this month. Richard S Jackson Fairfield, OH 2012 997.2 Black Arun S Kori Mason, OH 2006 911 4S Black Brian L. Otten Loveland, OH 2011 911 Chad L. Settlage Saint Marys, OH 2007 Cayman S Blue Mark Wilson Miamisburg, OH 2003 Boxster Black 5 Joseph Porsche Kings Automall Porsche Club Members receive a special 10% discount on parts and labor.