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PCA—It’s PCA’s biggest event of the year! From Rallies to Autocross and Concours to Kids, Parade is packed with activities for everyone. And we’ve got a week's worth of fun dinners and
banquets, featuring special guests from the Porsche Factory and Porsche Cars North America. Plus giveaways galore!
There're only a few more days to: - Register for Parade
- Reserve a Room
- Add to your existing event registration
Follow us on: The deadline is June 10, 2018. | | PCA—When Porsche needed an ace to survive, it drew one in the form of the mid-engined Boxster sports car in 1997. Since then, its success has spawned three more generations as well as a coupe
version called the Cayman. We’re here to talk about the third-generation Boxster and Cayman, known internally as the 981, the last of Porsche’s mid-engined sports cars to use a naturally aspirated flat six in all model variations.
Car and Driver called the manual Boxster “a squirming bundle of wondrous joy.”
Edmunds reported the manual Cayman “attacks apexes as if laser-guided.” Jalopnik said the Boxster S was “one of the best cars you can buy today.” The automotive press had mostly great things to say about the 981 upon its launch, and as the model line expanded to include GTS models, the exquisite Cayman GT4 street-legal track weapon, and stripped-down and powered-up Boxster Spyder, consumers had what seemed like endless choices to pick a 981 that suited their needs
best.
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PCA—Speaker company KEF has been supporting PCA events as of late, and you may have seen their products at Treffen Tamaya back in April. The company set up a lounge area with some of its products for PCA members to enjoy, so we thought we'd show you a set of their high-resolutions speakers, the LS50W wireless speakers.
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| | PCA—Looking for the ultimate Father’s Day gift, but he already has ‘everything’? Porsche Club of America has researched Porsche-related gift ideas to create the Ultimate Father’s Day Gift Guide for Porsche enthusiasts. The 2018 gift guide includes over 40 items that any Porsche Club of America member would love to have. Each product image in the 11-page gift guide contains a link to the
product order page. Find the perfect gift, click and order. Father’s Day shopping has never been this easy! To ensure
delivery by Father's Day, June 18, all PCA merchandise orders must be placed by June 8. |
PCA—Porsche Works Team: Porsche at the top 24-Hour Races is a recently released photography book covering the Porsche Works team at the grueling, 24-hour races held at Nürburgring, Le Mans, and Daytona. | | |
| | Road & Track—When Porsche announced that it was bringing a 956 and its uncorked 919 EVO LMP1 machine to the Nürburgring, we hoped that meant a record attempt was in order. In 1983, after all, the all-time Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record, a 6:11.13 was set by driver Stefan Bellof in a 956. The 919, fresh off its blistering Spa lap record, looked like it could go and beat
it. |
PCA—Drive, dine, and explore in Canada's Banff National Park during the upcoming Treffen
North America from Sept. 12-15, 2018. Registration opens June 13 at 3 PM EDT. Visit the Treffen North America website for details about driving tours and Navigator's Day Off excursions. | | |
| | PCA—Join Porsche Cars Canada and Porsche Club of America at the Porscheplatz, Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix. At the Porscheplatz you can relax, watch the races on live feed TV, and enjoy a cool beverage. There will be presentations by Porsche GTLM Team drivers, Porsche Motorsport North America, and Porsche Global
Partners. Register to win an exclusive "IMSA Hot Pit Experience" and more. Admittance into the Porscheplatz is exclusively for PCA members and Porsche owners only. Remember to bring your PCA membership card or proof of Porsche ownership for admittance to the Porscheplatz. (Porsche key, insurance papers, etc.)
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PCA—Porsche Club of America (PCA) welcomes all Porsche clubs, owners, and
enthusiasts to Werks Reunion Monterey on Friday, August 24.
Werks Reunion was created by the Porsche Club of America as an event to celebrate both the Porsche marque as well as the camaraderie of being an enthusiast.
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| | Motor1—You good people must have figured out by now that Motor1.com has a soft spot for onboard acceleration videos and this week we’ve been blessed with three already – Ferrari 488 Pista, McLaren 720S, and the Ford GT. Now comes the fourth clip, showing the brutal Porsche 911 GT2 RS being pushed hard all the way up to 186 mph (300 kph) with the traction control turned off to the delight of
purists with an affinity for RWD machines. |
Automobile—Some eight-or-so years ago, the newly minted 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS and its fresh acronymic title attracted a fair share of scrutiny. Aside from the handful of semi-cosmetic GTS trims on the bygone 928 and the Cayenne, a comprehensive GTS package was a new, scary thing. For some, it made the 911 (and Panamera) lineup more confusing than ever, serving as a cynical cash-grab that was too expensive for a non-GT
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| | Porsche Travel Experience—When the road and the car are both on your bucket list, Porsche offers all-inclusive vacations that deliver. Announcing Travel Experiences California and Route 66. Drive an assortment of 911 models on America’s most desirable driving roads. Each tour is 6-night, 5 day event where guests can expect luxury resort lodging, fine dining and entertainment commensurate of
the Porsche brand. Elevate vacation driving to an entirely new level with one of these two tours.
Something truly magical happens when you experience a Porsche vehicle in a relaxed and exclusive setting. Your sense of adventure awakens and you are rewarded with once in a lifetime memories. |
The Drive—There is a road on the side of a mountain near Nakanojō in Gunma prefecture, Japan, that when driven at the correct speed plays a familiar song, Itsumo Nando Demo from the credits of the 2001 animated film Spirited Away. Porsche learned of this and released a short video of this road in a video Monday.Watch Video | | |
| | PCA—Described as a museum springing to life, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is the largest event held during the famed Monterey Classic Car Week, and is the only event where vintage race cars are doing what they were originally intended to do…race.
And what better way to enjoy this step back
into history than to watch the races from the PCA Car Corral and Hospitality Tent? The Car Corral and Hospitality Tent are open to PCA members and Porsche owners. This year our Corral and Tent are located inside Turn 5. For those of you that attended the Porscheplatz at Laguna Seca, you know this is probably one of the primo-viewing areas on the track.
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Petrolicious—If you’re into motorsport, there’s a chance that you enjoy a good one-make series—spec-racing, Challenges, Cups, that type of thing. Whether it be celebrities bumbling around in Mini Coopers, professional drivers in Jaguar XJR-15s or BMW M1 ProCars, these more or less mechanically even fields of racing almost always guarantee purity and door-banging action where the biggest variables are the drivers and their
talents. | | Photo by Jayson Fong / courtesy Petrolicious |
| | Jalopnik—Both the 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS and its convertible sister the 2018 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS are built around angry little mid-mounted engines juiced to make more noise and power than they have a right to. If that sounds like a good recipe for great driving... Yes. Yes it is. |
Motor1—Build Biology is a show on TheHoonigans channel on Youtube that dissects special builds and get each and every detail of one-offs. In this episode, Bisi Ezerioha, owner of Bisimoto Engineering, shows Hoonigans his custom Porsche 986, also known as the Boxster. But it isn’t just any regular custom-built car; it’s a special one-off, armed with central seat, some NOS-esque system, and a whole lot of biturbo genius. | | |
PCA—Porsche Parade: Lake of the Ozarks is only four months away, and event registration opens April 2 at 12 PM EDT. Here is the Parade Competition Rules (PCR) book, a guide to the various competitive events on offer at Parade.Read More |
| | Automobile—The Ruf BTR2, which is based on a 993-generation Porsche 911, was one of the many hot air-cooled Germans on display at April’s Luftgekuhlt 5 show.
Each BTR2 started out as a basic 911 Carrera. The famed German tuner then increased the output of the 3.6-liter flat-six to 420 hp and 435
lb-ft of torque by adding a turbocharger, intercooler, modified camshafts, auxiliary oil cooler, and a new exhaust.
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Motor1—After an earlier report from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung stated Porsche would suspend all sales of new cars in Europe, the automaker said that it would temporarily limit the number of models it sells on the continent, according to Reuters. |
Jalopnik—Celebrating its 70th anniversary
this year, and probably something like a thousand Le Mans entries, Porsche is out to prove that Germans can occasionally be nostalgic about something. While practically every car on the grid for the last decade has been some combination of red, white, and black, Porsche has painted up two of its four GTE Pro class 911 RSR entries in vintage liveries reminiscent of cars Porsche have run at Le Mans before in the 70s and 80s. Forget running the race, Porsche wins. | | |
Photo by Will Broadhead / courtesy Petrolicious | | Petrolicious—Like most young boys, I had a tub full of Matchbox cars, seemingly endless in variety. Porsches, Ferraris, BMWs, F1 stuff, Le Mans prototypes—everything was represented in my bin of miniatures. They would race each other around fictional circuits of my own creation, negotiating all of the obstacles a bedroom could throw at them. The grids were vast and varied, and—in my mind at least—the racing was fierce. Somewhat sadly though, this was
only alive in my imagination, for such a diverse grid couldn’t exist in 1:1 scale reality, could it? |
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PCA—PCA
Hill Country Region (HCR) has worked with Circuit of the Americas to provide an exclusive ticket offer for PCA members planning to attend the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix, October 19 – 21, 2018 at Circuit of the Americas (COTA), Austin, Texas. COTA has dedicated seating exclusively for PCA members in the T12 and T15 grandstands. Turn 12 prices range from $325.00 - $395.00 per ticket. Turn 15 prices range from $445.00 – $645.00 per ticket. Other ticket options are also
available. COTA is also offering PCA members discounted parking in Lot T or Lot F for $100.00. |
Autocar—It’s not often I get nervous driving at less than walking pace. But when I saw the boulder-strewn, ditch-riddled, steep and rocky ridge I was supposed to climb, I got really quite nervous. | | |
| | Motor1—Porsche has announced plans to open a children’s wildlife center at its Leipzig factory in eastern Germany.
Dubbed the Porsche Safari, the center will be based in the company’s 132-hectare off-road course, where "experience stations" and a viewing platform will be installed.
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PCA—Want to get published in PCA.org and e-Brake News and be part of the 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
needed. | | |
Griot's Garage partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest |
| | PCA—We are excited to announce a new partnership with Griot's Garage for our Porsche Photo of the Week contest. Starting in May, winners will receive a Griot's Garage Concours Lawn Kit, a $99.99 value. We will also randomly award a PotW voter each month a PFM Speed Shine Kit, a
$28.99 value. All you have to do is cast a vote for your favorite Porsche photo. |
Photo by Claudia Muelhaupt. Shenandoah Region. "Our 1971 911T was completely restored by my husband, Engelbert, nine years ago, and many sheet metal parts were replaced in the process, such as the complete floor, rocker panels, front suspension pan, etc.
"He made the flares, from fiberglass, to fit the 17 x 8- and 17 x 9-inch wheels with Hoosiers sized 245 mm in front and 295 mm at the
rear.
"He runs the car in F-Prepared in SCCA class and in Improved Porsche in PCA with the Shenandoah Region."
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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