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| | PCA—In the quest to appeal to driving enthusiasts, Porsche is starting to give us versions of the 911 that aren’t necessarily designed to turn the quickest lap times, but instead embrace the three-pedal manual transmission, light weight, and the unadorned shape of everybody’s favorite rear-engined sports car.
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PCA—In the mid- to late-’70s, Porsche was preparing to drop its most popular model, the rear-engined, flat-six-powered 911, and replace it with the front-engined, V8-powered 928.
Fortunately the company’s new American CEO, Peter Schutz, realized what a mistake that would be and kept the 911 alive, which took the form of the well-received 911 SC of 1978-1983. By 1984 the model’s future was solid, as evinced by the introduction of the 911 Carrera. | | PCA—The purpose of the contest is to design a logo for the PCA NATIONAL AUTOCROSS program. The logo will be used online, in print, on merchandise, including the need to resize easily and to look good in black and white as well as color.
The final version of the logo will need to be suitable for high quality printing.
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| | PCA Club Racing—The PCA Club Racing Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport Trophy East series will crown three season champions and wrap up a second successful year at the season-ending event Oct. 27-29 at the iconic Daytona International Speedway.Read
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PCA—PCA members: If you want to attend the Los Angeles Auto Show Porsche Club Preview event on December 1, be ready to register on October 25 at 12 PM Pacific. With just 300 spots, the event will sell out quickly. Check back to e-Brake News next week for the registration link. |
PCA—PCA members, it's the time of year for the Fall 2017 Member Only Raffle! PCA will be giving away at least one grand prize, a Porsche 911 Carrera T plus $25,000 cash. As with all PCA Member Only Raffles, there's a chance to add more grand prizes dependent on ticket sales.
The recently announced Carrera T is the latest Porsche 911 variant. It's
the lightest 911 you can buy and comes standard with performance upgrades that normally don't grace the Carrera line or are otherwise optional equipment.Read More | | |
| | PCA—Each Rennsport Reunion has its own special logo, and last week Porsche unveiled one for the sixth event, which takes place September 27-30, 2018. |
PCA—It seems almost impossible to believe, but the first sports car bearing the Porsche nameplate rolled out of a small, repurposed sawmill in Gmünd, Austria in 1948, almost seventy-years ago. To mark this auspicious occasion, automotive historian, photographer, and serial Porsche author Randy Leffingwell celebrates one of the world’s most pedigreed and storied marques in Porsche 70 Years: There is No Substitute, a comprehensive look into the iconic
road and competition cars the company has produced over seven decades. | | |
Lockton Affinity Motorsports—Sim racing has evolved
far beyond the days of arcade video games. Today, there are simulation racing programs at every price point, and range from console games to full blown simulators with incredible visual accuracy.
4 Benefits of Sim Racing
Practice—Get your adrenaline pumping and practice up on skills between your HPDE events. Experiment with different types of cars, like front engine vs. rear, or rear drive vs. all-wheel drive.
New Techniques—Sims can provide a safe off-track venue for HPDE students to learn new skills, like left-foot braking or heel-toe.
Explore Track Layouts—Use sim racing to get a head start on your HPDE events. When
learning a new track, notice reference points for braking and cornering.
Off Season Fun—If you have an off-season, try sim racing to keep your skills fresh during the break by practicing against friends and drivers from all over the world.
While nothing beats a true HPDE event, sim racing is a great tool to learn new tracks and keep your HPDE skills sharp. Find coverage for your HPDE events, including Off-Track Insurance, at LocktonMotorsports.com |
Attention: Nominating Committee Seeks Region Input |
PCA—The Executive Council has appointed Ken Hold,
Bluegrass Region; Maggie Goodman-Garnett, Kansas City Region; and Ron Gordon, Chesapeake Region as members of the 2017-2019 Nominating Committee. The committee is carrying out its responsibilities in accordance with the Manual of National Policy and Procedures (MNPP) and PCA National Bylaws. Its goal is to consider, identify, and select the best possible slate of candidates to fill the Executive Council officer roles for the 2019-2020 term. As part of this process, the committee actively seeks
feedback from PCA’s Regions on those talented individuals who have the enthusiasm, dedication, and leadership to serve on the Executive Council. The timing to get suggestions to any member of the committee is no later than December 15, 2017.
Members of the committee are listed here on the National website. For further information contact Ken Hold, 2017-2019 Nominating Committee Chairman, at
859-396-3502 or kendellhold@twc.com.
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Road & Track—There are two ways to understand the new stick-shift 911 GT3. The first way is to consider it solely as a mechanical object with certain capabilities. The second way is to dig out our old copy of The Raw And The Cooked and truly evaluate it as a product of deliberate myth, artificial scarcity, and unique context. But I’ll warn you before I do that just in case you want to stop
reading at that point and return to the front page of the website. Read More | | |
| | Autoblog—For 2017, the Porsche 718 Cayman S received a whole host of updates. This includes a new engine, new styling and even a slight name change. Gone is the wonderful 3.4-liter naturally aspirated flat-six. In it's place is a torquey turbocharged 2.5-liter mill. |
Petrolicious—Fall has hit the northeastern United States, and despite the recent heat the season for car shows is coming to a close. Though reddening maple and oak leaves signal the coming nastiness of winter and snow and worse yet, salt, the transition period is the sweet spot of the year for automotive activity, as the crisp air makes for happier motors and the bright burst of autumn compels more than a few for-the-sake-of-it
drives. | | Photo courtesy Petrolicious / by Dominick Chiuchiolo for Driven to America |
Car and Driver—Car enthusiasts and physics concur: Tallness is inherently at odds with fun. At least when it comes to driving; Wilt Chamberlain probably disagreed. Regardless, the tall, banausic crossover proliferates. So abundant are these be-hatched trucklets that we find ourselves desperately trying to classify them, adding words such as “premium,” “compact,” and—wait for it—“performance.” Yet those three adjectives aptly characterize the machines
before you, all of which occupy a tiny but expanding corner of the crossover universe. |
| | Car and Driver—If you haven’t driven one, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Porsche Macan is not to be taken seriously. It looks like the result of a 911 and a Cayenne that were fused together in a teleportation accident, it’s frequently spotted emerging from underground parking structures in Tribeca, and, you know, it’s a four-door hatchback Porsche. |
| | MultiBriefs—My first Porsche was a 2009 Cayman dressed in Midnight Blue Metallic — dark as a starless sky and absolutely stunning on delivery. I never thought a car could look that good, but keeping it that way presented a real challenge. I barely got my new car home from the dealer and into the garage before dust and dirt began to accumulate on every surface. |
Autoblog—When
my old friend, Rick Alborg, decided to resurrect just about the worst 911 you can pick in smog-conscious California, it became our obsession. We planned on taking it on the Targa California, a classic car rally, and running around the abandoned gold-mining towns in the Sierra Nevadas. It was also a welcome distraction from law school, to be sure. The 1976 911 Targa, though, had other ideas. |
The Smoking Tire via YouTube—The Porsche 964 Turbo is a rare car in its own right; as the
last of the rear-drive, single-turbo cars, the 964T was old school in a new world, and sold poorly in its time, making it a very rare sight today. This particular example is special in that, while it was an original Turbo from new, the build centered around one very special engine: a 600-horsepower ANDIAL motor that Porsche legend Jeff Zwart used in a narrow-body C4 to win the Pike's Peak Hillclimb Open Class in 1994. | | |
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| | Motor Trend—Porsche 911 Turbo S’s are quick. In fact, they’re some of the quickest sportscars in the world, hitting 60 mph in just 2.5 seconds. For perspective, the 1,500 horsepower, all-wheel drive Bugatti Chiron hypercar hits 60 mph in just 2.4 seconds. |
Motor1—Wealthy Porsche shoppers have
quite a conundrum at the moment when it comes to choosing a new turbocharged 911. The new GT2 RS offers hypercar-beating performance, but the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series features nearly the same capabilities with an opulent cabin. | | |
| | Road & Track—You'll be sold on the Panamera Turbo in the first ten seconds.
You don't need to drive it. You don't need to do a launch. You don't need to go around a corner. You don't even need to start the engine. You just need to look at it. And you need to sit in it. You definitely need to sit
in it.
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Grassroots Motorsports—Great cars come in many different shapes and sizes, but they’re all at their best with engines wailing at
wide-open throttle and tires begging for mercy. After all, watching a Lancer Evo being subjected to a life of grocery-fetching is nearly as bad as seeing a world-beating supercar imprisoned in a climate-controlled garage. Steve Beddor agrees. | | Photo courtesy Grassroots
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Road & Track—You may not look like Steve McQueen, but if
you have approximately half a million dollars to spend, you can dress like the late, great actor. RM Sotheby’s will be auctioning off the Hinchman race suit and Bell helmet that McQueen wore in his famed film Le Mans. |
| | Motor1—The 959 remains an icon within the Porsche community. Just 337 examples were produced – including 37 prototypes and pre-production examples – between 1986 and 1993, each at a cost of around $225,000 when new. Today, getting your hands on a relatively clean example will set you back more than $1 million – but one seller is asking significantly less for his handsome example, though
there's is a catch. |
Petrolicious—While on vacation in England for the Goodwood Revival, I made it a point to drop in at Tuthill Porsche. While many of you P-car fanatics surely know the name from their famous Safari builds, there’s more to Tuthill Porsche than its dirt-slinging 911s. Thankfully, Richard Tuthill was kind enough to have me and some friends in for an all-access shop tour, including a special bonus visit to their secret sheds
packed full of treasures from Stuttgart. | | |
| | Motor Trend—If you like the idea of the Porsche Macan Turbo with the Performance Package but wish there was a version that costs even more money, we have great news. Porsche just announced the Macan Turbo Exclusive Performance Edition. Basically, it’s a Performance Package-equipped Macan Turbo that’s been given an interior and exterior appearance package by Porsche’s Exclusive Manufaktur
department. It’s also now the most expensive Macan money can buy. |
Motor1—Outrageously expensive automaker-branded
smartphones are nothing new – and Porsche is no stranger to the game. Having previously offered a Huawei-based smartphone dubbed the Mate 9 for a cool €1,395 ($1,500), the German marque's design division is back with a second installment, and like all smartphones before it, it promises to be different.Read More | | |
| | The Drive—You're a billionaire with a weakness for pink sands, art deco, and humidity. You're in the market for a luxurious, high-rise condo in the $6 million to $40 million range. Trouble is, you love your sports cars so much you can't be away from them, even for a night. Boy, do we have the place for you. |
PCA—Want to get published in PCA.org and e-Brake News and be part of the new, volunteer-fueled PCA Media Gruppe? Send us your original PCA or Porsche-related content and we'll consider it for publication. Contact Editor Damon Lowney at damonl@pca.org with submissions and story ideas, and he will help with writing and editing as
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Photo by Alan Boe. Peachstate Region. “Here is a picture of
our 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo. The car is the only '79 Turbo painted Gulf Racing Blue, and the car is all original — paint, carpets, leather, mechanical components, etc. We have owned it since May 1991 and we are the third owners.” Got a stunning
shot you want to share? Submit your pictures to potw@pca.org. Be sure to include your contact information, your region name, and a few sentences about your picture. |
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