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| | PCA—There could not have been a better day than last Friday for Porsche Club of America to host its annual Werks Reunion car show in Monterey, California, where more than 600 Porsche cars and SUVs descended upon Corral de Tierra Country Club’s fairways. |
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Roadshow by CNET—A number of high-end automakers have dipped their toes into the pool of continuation models -- vintage models brought back from the dead due to the demand of some
high-paying customers. But while some are building dozens of now-revived nameplates, Porsche built just one, and it's called Project Gold. | | PCA—Are you attending RRVI? PCA needs volunteers to help with the PCA car corral and hospitality. Each volunteer will receive a t-shirt, and the first 300 who volunteer for two shifts will also receive a RRVI poster. The work is easy, fun and a great way to meet your fellow PCA members. If you can help, please click
here to register.
If you have questions, contact your RRVI PCA Volunteer Coordinator Sharon Neidel at RRVIvolunteers@yahoo.com
Thanks for volunteering – see you at RRVI! |
PCA—A popular PCA member benefit is The Mart, the club’s classifieds section online and in each issue of Porsche Panorama. Mart Fresh is a bi-weekly column in which PCA media staff pick what they think are the "freshest" Porsches currently available, and then attempt to explain their reasoning. Up this week are a 1966 912, 2002 911 Turbo, and 1992 968 Cabriolet.
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| | PCA Club Racing—Throughout a PCA Club Racing weekend, you may see a few father/son teams, but one team in the paddock – a successful father/daughter duo – certainly sticks out. PCA Club Racing Trophy East Series competitors Sydney and Bruce McKee are taking the semi-professional series by storm this year, individually sitting in fifth and sixth place in the TE4CS class putting their
car second in overall points.
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PCA—Join us for the Porscheplatz at the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix at the WeatherTech Raceway, Laguna Seca. September 8 and 9. The Porscheplatz tent will be the hub of activity for PCA members and Porsche owners at the races. There will be presentations by Porsche Motorsports North America and Porsche GT team drivers. Other activities include Porsche team garage/paddock tours. Mobil 1 and Michelin will also give presentations. Special
drawings will be held both days, including ones for "Hot Pit Experiences". "Hot Pit Experience" winners are given the exclusive opportunity to have a personal tour into the hot pits during the races. You can also just relax in the tent, enjoy a cool beverage, and watch the races via live feed TV.
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| | PCA Club Racing—Fresh from more than a month off, PCA Club Racing Trophy East competitors are returning to PCA’s The Road America Challenge (TRAC) event at Road America in scenic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. |
Car Throttle via YouTube—Lisa Taylor swapped
horses for Porsches and built her own secret collection, including a 1973 911 Carrera RS and a Ruby Star GT3RS. This is her story. | | |
| | The Journal by ClassicCars.com—Porsches are pretty much everywhere during Monterey Car Week.
The car shows are heavily populated with them (even the Little Car Show in Pacific Grove had some 356s and 912s), the collector car auctions are loaded with them (at least 20 percent of the cars
offered this year at the six auctions are Porsches) and just about every other vintage car you see driving in and around Monterey is some variety of 911. |
Jalopnik—There was no shortage of awesome and incredible things at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, but, as always, anything that has been touched by Singer Vehicle Design is in a class of its own. Singer and racing firm Williams brought a special treat in the form of the Dynamic and Lightweighting Study, another reworked Porsche 911 that I haven’t been able to get out of my head since I saw it Sunday
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Petrolicious—When I think of 912s it’s all easter egg colors, chrome roof racks, and drivers who tend to be a bit more down-to-earth than your typical flat-six diehard. The letters S, T, and I conjure up World Rally Blue exclusively, NEOchrome lug nuts, and fourth owners abusing their poor Subarus after slapping a few askew energy drink stickers on the rear window and invoking the
spirit of K. Block to guide them sideways through a parking lot at the local mall. But by fusing the two together, Mike and Mat Davidson have created something different. They built it together in a condo carport, and after five years of teaching themselves how to do it on their own, the two engineers (Mike mechanical, Mat software) have managed to merge two seemingly disparate ends of the automotive universe into one of the most intriguing hot rods in the Porsche scene or
otherwise. | | Photo by Ian Wood / courtesy Petrolicious |
| | PCA—Sometimes, even when you try to do everything right, disaster happens. Such was the case when this Porsche 959 suffered some pretty major front-end damage, despite it being hauled in an enclosed car trailer. Imagine walking up to your trailer and seeing this. |
Motor1—Companies are giving the 993-generation Porsche 911 some serious love at this year's Monterey Car Week. In addition to the Project Gold from the Porsche Classic division, we are now seeing Gunther Werks' new carbon fiber replacement body for the last of the air-cooled 911s. Plus, the tuner is showing the first completed example of its Sport Touring model of the 993.Read More | | |
| | PCA—Over the past few years, we’ve seen a string of new vintage cars built from unused old stock. There was a bunch of Jaguars, some Aston Martins, and now this quite gold Porsche 993 Turbo “Classic Series,” which Porsche is keen to point out is unregisterable for use on the street. I asked the company why,
exactly. |
Jalopnik—Ride inside the tail of Porsche's flat-six-powered 911 RSR and enjoy the most glorious modern racing sounds on earth, courtesy of Porsche North America, the Porsche GT Team, and drivers Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor, as they hurtle around Virginia International Raceway during IMSA's
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship event. | | |
PCA—Every few years, Porsche Panorama conducts a survey of its readership to ensure that we produce the Porsche content you want to read about. Make the magazine yours by filling out the survey in its entirety. It should only take about five to ten minutes. Only current members and Test Drive participants logged in to the PCA website are allowed access to the survey. | | |
| | PCA—To celebrate 70 years of Porsche, the world’s greatest sports car, Porsche Design has created a timepiece exclusively for Porsche Club of America (PCA) members: the Chronograph 70Y Sportwagen PCA Edition. Strictly limited to only 70 timepieces worldwide, this masterpiece pays tribute to the passion, commitment and camaraderie of PCA members, as well as the legendary Chronograph I,
the first-ever timepiece developed by Porsche Design. Watch purchasers have the option to receive their new timepiece during a ceremony at Rennsport Reunion VI. |
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Classics—With the Porsche 959 a proven winner in the desert, it was time to bring the flagship supercar to the track. The sports car marque had initially been hesitant to build Group B racing machines, as the rules stated that 200 road-legal cars were required for homologation. Instead, it used data from research projects to create the ultimate road car in the form of the 959. Eventually bosses bowed to internal pressure and let the 959 compete in the Paris-Dakar rally, and its success
there finally led to the 961. |
Road & Track—Seeing videos of drivers passing multiple cars in the opening lap of a race never gets old. This clip comes from inside the #88 911 GT3 Cup, driven by 21-year old Carrera Cup France champion Valentin Hasse-Clot. It was his debut weekend in the Carrera Cup of Great Britain, which took place last month at Snetterton Circuit. He wasted no time cutting right through the field. | | |
| | Forbes—As I launched the red 901 up the famous Hill at Goodwood’s Festival of Speed, I felt like I’d been transported back in time to 1964 and was driving a brand new version of one of the first ever 911s. That’s because I was. In fact, this is arguably the oldest 911 in existence. The fully restored car I was piloting was
the 57th 911 ever made, from the days before it was even called a 911. It handled superbly and smelled as fresh as the day it was made. |
Jalopnik—Say you joined the so-called Bongard Club—named such for the tow company that hauls your busted car away if you eat it on the Nürburgring in spectacular fashion—and you’re rushed to the hospital in nearby Adenau, Germany. Good news! There’s a track map on the ceiling (complete with corner names) just in case you need it. |
Road & Track—The 944 may be the cheapest used Porsche you can buy, but that doesn't mean it sounds bad. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite. No, it's not powered by an air-cooled flat-six—just a naturally aspirated, water-cooled four-cylinder. Still, the exhaust noise isn't too shabby—especially if you're only paying a few thousand dollars for the privilege. | | |
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| | Oversteer by Autotrader—I guess my hooptie fleet of cars enjoys kicking me when I'm down, since I'm having one of those months when bad things tend to happen in waves. As if my Ferrari F355 becoming a rolling roasted marshmallow wasn't bad enough, my LS-swapped 1999 Porsche 911 decided to destroy another engine in the exact same place that it happened one year ago.Watch Video |
Teslarati—Porsche has several camouflaged Taycan prototypes doing real-world tests across the globe. Earlier this month, one was spotted charging at a CCS station in Germany, and not long after that, another prototype was spotted track testing at the Nurburgring. Even more recently, two camouflaged Taycan test units were photographed in Christchurch, New Zealand, providing what could
very well be the closest look yet at the test vehicles’ interior. |
| | PR Newswire—Porsche announced today that Pedro Mota has been appointed Vice President, Marketing of Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), headquartered in Atlanta. |
| | Autoblog—Porsche unveiled a special continuation model at this year's Monterey Car Week called Project Gold, a 1998 Porsche 911 Turbo 993. And while it may look as though it was simply a 993 given a flashy coat of paint and corresponding interior, the story is more complicated than that, as we learned from
Porsche's factory restoration manager, Uwe Makrutzki. In reality, it's the most carefully, obsessively built 993 to come out of Porsche. |
Electrek—Ahead of launching its first electric vehicle, Porsche wants to flesh out a plan for charging infrastructure.
In a new interview released by the company, two Porsche executives explain the automaker’s approach to charging electric cars: seamless and fast.
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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. |
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
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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 Patrick Nicola. Chesapeake Region. "Here is a photo of my new 2018 Ruby Red
Metallic 911 Targa 4S. The picture was taken in the courtyard outside of the presentation room where my Porsche was delivered to me at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta.
"I waited 11 months, but the result was what I envisioned. I was the 462nd recipient of a new Porsche in 2017. Excellent experience."
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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