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The opinions and comments expressed in this newsletter are solely those of the author, upcoming 8 and do not represent the position of the PCA, the Polar Region of the PCA, the Editor or any of the Officers. events polar region officers & contacts 2015 Membership 11 PRESIDENT NEWSLETTER AUTOCROSS / DRIVER EDUCATION Alex Eliuk André Dufault Bert Klaassen 780.486.7446 780.410.9777 780.902.6729 Porsche 14 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Camp4 VICE PRESIDENT NEWSLETTER AUTOCROSS / & TOURS DRIVER EDUCATION Angel Dufault Ivor Lammerink Justin Wu 2015 16 780.909.0350 780.417.3696 780.885.8585 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SECRETARY DEALER FACEBOOK / REPRESENTATIVE WEBSITE getting to know Alana Simons-Kublik Christian Gersdorff 18 Arthur Potts 780.298.3287 780.484.3016 alanasimons@ christian@ 780.483.4826 hotmail.com edmontonporsche.ca [email protected] TREASURER SOCIAL MEMBER AT LARGE Upgrading Your 22 Doug Bosko Annette Wilkes Allan Jack Porsche Audio System 780.476.1929 780.431.0338 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Allen Berg MEMBERSHIP LADIES LUNCHEONS MEMBER AT LARGE Racing Schools 24 Bob Wilkes Ruth Snyder Ted Killingsworth 780.231.1144 780.476.1929 780.464.2681 killingsworth.ted@ [email protected] [email protected] gmail.com the 29 CONCOURS MYSTERY DRIVE PCA ZONE 6 REP last lap Dave Schultz Paul Curcio Tim Hagner 780.990.2844 780.995.5483 pcurcio@ [email protected] printerworld.com [email protected] ADVERTISERS 30 BEAR FACTS / Q1 2015 3 pol.pca.org TM Choose the world’s leading synthetic motor oil brand to keep your engine running like new. 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Caren spoke on many topics, including doing what’s necessary to wake your car from its winter hiber- the inner workings of the PCA Executive Council, but the one nation. Soon the roads will be free of snow, ice, and gravel. And that seemed to resonate the most with the meeting attendees the potholes, oh the potholes! If they are not filled, they will at was the behind-the-scenes planning for the 60th PCA Anniver- least be visible. Before we know it our first Breakfast Tour, to be sary car. I’m sure many of you have already seen pictures of this held on May 30th, will be upon us. beautiful, special PCA Club blue, 911 GTS. Caren confirmed that Over the winter your hard-working executive team has been only 60 Anniversary PCA Club cars will be built. The first one planning and organizing many events for the coming year. For will be raffled to PCA members at no cost and no effort to the those who love to track their Porsches there is some bad news members. As long as you are a member in good standing with and some good news. The bad news is that again this year we an up-to-date email address, you are automatically entered. If will not have any autocross events. We continue to work at your email address is out of date, do yourself a favour and go to getting access to the base at Namao, but for this year, no go. PCA.org to update it. The draw will be August 1, 2015. The re- We will keep trying for next year. The good news is that we will maining 59 cars will be sold to the winners of a lottery of those have a track event, similar to a High Performance Driver’s Edu- PCA members who have already stated an interest in purchas- cation (HPDE) event, at Castrol Raceway on June 21st. This event ing one of the cars. There were over 1,100 entries for the 59 cars. is being held by our good friends at Track Junkies. We will have The whole story about the genesis of the 60th Anniversary Club our own run group of up to 24 cars. If you are interested, please car is in the March edition of Panorama written by Pete Stout, contact Bert Klaassen at [email protected] for more details. the editor. It’s a great read. In addition to our driving events, we have many social events Other interesting tidbits that Caren Cooper shared with us are: the planned, the first of which was the brunch held at the Royal Porsche Escape in 2016 will be held in Lake Tahoe, Nevada; the Glenora Club on March 22nd. I heard that it was a great success 2017 Porsche Parade will be held in Spokane, Washington; and the with many well-fed participants. This is the second year for the next PCA members only raffle will be for a blue Cayman GT4. brunch and the second year that I could not attend due to a Please mark your calendars for the Zone 6 Grande Tour. I’ve spo- conflict with the Zone 6 Presidents’ meeting held this year in ken about this tour before in this column. I expect the tour to Vancouver. be in our region on the 28th or 29th of July. I’ll keep you posted Speaking of the Zone meeting, this year we were fortunate to via email once the route has been finalised. have two people from PCA National HQ join us for the day. Alex Now, get out there and drive your beautiful cars. And as Law- Bell, the National HPDE Committee Chair, gave us an informa- rence Glazer, our most recent past President, is fond of saying, tive talk about HPDE events. The other person to join us was “Don’t shift under 4,000 RPMs”. Farewell to a dear friend… In Montreal Peter and a friend built and raced a Canada Class 1100 cc two seater As many of you know we recently lost our which he called the Snyder Spyder. He very good friend, Peter Snyder. A long decided to test the car for the first time time member of the Porsche Club, Peter in bare chassis form…no plates, no served on the executive as membership muffler or belts and no registration at director and member at large, helping 1:30 am on the Côte-De-Liesse, a major with many events including those that route in Montreal. Friends followed in wife Ruth organized as social director. a van with tools, spare tires and a lot Their combined efforts have helped the of enthusiasm. The phone later rang at club to be what it is today. the Snyder home and surprise, surprise, Back in 2001 the current Bear Facts editor, Peter was in jail. Being a little fed up with Bob Drew did a profile on Peter and all of this, Ruth decided to leave him Ruth. It was a great piece and Bob said, there until later in the morning. If you “I was amazed at how deep their sports car backgrounds knew Peter, you were familiar with his constant big smile. went and I truly enjoyed writing about their exploits. Peter I wonder if he was smiling that morning? After 2 years of was a hardcore sports car guy”. Peter was that! Bob’s article building this car in a cold garage Peter and his Spyder won revealed that in the 1950s Peter travelled with his uncle its class in its first race at the 1.3 mile St.