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PCA—Air-cooled Porsche 911 owners from 1964-1994 are faced with several options when it comes to headlights.
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PCA—Attention all Region officers: We are currently accepting nominations for the following National Awards:
- The Glenn Lazar-Harry Blanchard Memorial Trophy - PCA Enthusiast of the Year
- The Ferry Porsche Trophy-PCA Region of the Year The Porsche (PCA) Family of the Year
- The PCA Public Service Awards
For details or to submit a nomination contact National Awards Chair Michael Soriano at Awards@pca.org
Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2018
| | PCA—As most of us know, history and provenance are everything. Until now, there’s never been a way of grading the completeness of a classic Porsche’s history and presenting and preserving it appropriately.
PCA is proud to offer these attractive binders, tailored to the history of your car. Simply review the criteria below and order the appropriate binder for your car. Whether it stays on a shelf at your house or you display it along with the car at shows, it’s the only place to keep your precious Porsche records.
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PCA—Celebrating 30 years of the 964—Porsche Club of America (PCA) welcomes all Porsche clubs, owners, and enthusiasts to the third annual Werks Reunion Amelia Island on March 8, 2019, the Friday preceding the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Membership in PCA is not required to participate in this celebration of Porsche
automobiles. Expect to view a breathtaking array of Porsches at this free-to-spectators event, from rare classics to current models and everything in between. Display your own cherished car in model-specific Porsche Corrals or enter the Porsche Judged Field and compete to win in more than 20 prize categories.
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| | PCA—Each fall and spring, Porsche Club of America opens a member only raffle, in which you, the member, may purchase entries for a chance to win a brand-new Porsche. For the Fall 2018 Member Only Raffle, the grand prize is a 911 Targa 4 GTS plus $25,000 in cash.
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Porsche color experts wanted
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PCA—As most avid PCA-ers know from Porsche Panorama Editor Rob Sass' column a few months back, we’re putting together one of PCA’s most audacious Web projects to date, a photo compendium that we hope will encompass as close to all of the colors offered by Porsche from the 356 era all of the way through the
end of the 997 era in 2012. Like most of what we do here, the as yet unnamed color site is going the be powered by volunteers. It’s getting close to the time to take the wraps off of it, but before we do that, we want a group of experts to take it for a test drive, so we’re looking for some volunteers.
What we’d like you to do it give us your thoughts on the general user interface, but more importantly, take a look at the images that we’ve pre-loaded and let us know if you think that some are mis-categorized. Since the site will encompass all eras of Porsche, we need experts on modern cars as well as classic Porsches. If you’d like to help out, please email us at ColorsBetaTest@pca.org and thank you in advance for helping us make what we hope will be one of the most entertaining and
engaging Porsche spots on the Web. We’ll respond with a timeline and instructions on how to participate.
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| | PCA—Know someone who owns a Porsche? Membership to the Porsche Club of America is a great holiday gift idea! They'll also receive a PCA sticker, PCA keychain, and a copy of Porsche Panorama to put in their stocking!
PCA welcomes every kind of Porsche. Big and small, old and new. For only $46, PCA membership provides great regional and national events, awesome driving tours, complimentary subscription to PCA’s award-winning magazine, meet fun like-minded Porsche owners, full access to PCA.org, access to the members-only online marketplace, exclusive access to PCA’s bi-annual members-only raffle, free PCA logo window decal, and discount on parts. Click here for more information. Deadline for a holiday gift membership is 12/17/2018.
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PCA—Bobby Singh is the owner and president of Manhattan Motorsports. He has been a Porsche Club of America (PCA) member since the 1990s and has been a member of PCA Club Racing since 2012.
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| | PCA—First published in 1992, the limited-edition “Carrera RS” book written by Dr. Thomas Gruber and Dr. Georg Konradsheim instantly became the Bible for a very special and exclusive Porsche model. Republished again after three-years of intensive work and research — and hounding by collectors inquiring if there were any more RS books hidden away — the 2015 edition was no mere reprint,
but a thoroughly reworked and expanded version with almost 40% more material including many new insights and discoveries.
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PCA—With the Holiday Season in full swing, check out our Gift Guide to find something special for the PCA member in your life. The PCA Web Store and other vendors listed here have all sorts of PCA, Porsche, and other automotive products that any Porsche owner would appreciate. Browse our gift guide below, and click on the
picture of the product in which you're interested to purchase it.
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| | Roadshow by CNET—Porsche would have to be crazy to shake up a product as successful as the Macan. Not only is it one of the best-driving SUVs available at any price point, it's the brand's best-selling model by a long shot. Year to date, the Macan is outselling the Boxster, Cayenne, Cayman and Panamera families — combined.
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PCA—PCA's Spring 2019 Treffen will take place over Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6 in the beautiful central California coastal town of Santa Barbara. Join us for this four-day event as we tour, explore, and experience the American Riviera. Registration fee includes full breakfasts Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
themed dinner with entertainment on Thursday; themed social on Friday; and closing dinner on Saturday. Event apparel and Treffen bag are also included. Treffen Santa Barbara schedule and activities are now available on the Treffen North America website at treffen.pca.org. Registration for this event and room reservations at our host hotel will open on January 16, 2019, at 3:00 PM (EST). You won't want to miss
this breathtaking seaside town, its culture and history flanked by the Santa Ynez mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
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| | Motorweek via YouTube—Motorweek shares a past review of the 1992 Porsche 911 Turbo, one of the last Turbos with rear-wheel drive.
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Autocar—The seventh-generation Porsche 911 is, in Turbo S guise, a cruise missile of a sports car. With 580bhp being sent to all four wheels and a top speed of over 200mph, there are some supercars that would have a hard time keeping up with it in a straight line.
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| | Motor1—Porsche revitalized its Top 5 series last week by going through the five most expensive models ever sold, with the 917 K at $14 million claiming top spot. For this week, the folks from Zuffenhausen have decided to show on video the five fastest cars they’ve ever built for the streets. Some will be surprised to see the Porsche 911 GT1 Straßenversion, essentially a road-legal race
car, didn’t even make the cut despite hitting 191.4 mph (308 kph) back in the day.
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Autoweek—Porsche is collectively fond of using labels or phrases, almost like a spoken jingle, to describe or conceptualize its products. So it is with the next-gen 911.
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| | Oversteer by Autotrader—I recently had the chance to drive a Porsche 959, which is one of the most famous Porsche models, one of the most famous supercars and one of the most famous overall vehicles in existence. These things are currently worth well in excess of $1 million, and the 959 is the grandfather of the modern Porsche supercars like the Carrera GT and the 918
Spyder.
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Autoblog—The only appropriate way to honor and follow-up a legend is with another legend, and Porsche thinks it has just that with the new 935. At the 2018 Rennsport Reunion, Porsche released a modern version of the famed 935/78 racecar, complete with proper Martini "Moby Dick" styling. Two new clips released by 911 Magazine show
first-hand accounts of what went into the design and production of the updated show-stopper.
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| | Road & Track—If you were to look at all of our Porsche coverage over, let's say, the last year, you'd find a lot on the 911, a little less on the Boxster/Cayman and a fair bit to the upcoming all-electric Taycan. You wouldn't find much on the Macan. In just this past year, we've only written one article dedicated to Porsche's smallest SUV—a review of the GTS
variant.
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InsideEVs—The Taycan Cross Turismo is slated to be Porsche’s second battery-powered vehicle in the Taycan product range. Set to launch at the end of 2019, the Taycan is one of the most highly expected vehicles to become available next year. However, the short time frame and the overall overwhelming demand, mean that Porsche’s engineers
need to use the most cutting-edge digital development methods, employing something known as virtual prototypes. In a nutshell, these virtual prototypes allow Porsche to test these components even before actual real-life prototypes have been built.
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| | Car and Driver—From its first appearance four years ago, the Porsche Macan has established itself as a beacon of Porsche-ness in a sea of luxury compact-crossover mediocrity. With its responsive powertrains and sports-sedan-like handling, the Macan is what to drive when a 718 Cayman is too small—and that has earned this Porsche accolades as our Best Compact Luxury SUV two years
running.
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Motor1—As something of a swan song for the 991-series 911 Turbo S, Porsche made the limited-edition Exclusive Series. The package added all kinds of carbon fiber, unique badging, and special trim, not the least of which being the cool over-the-top stripes. It also added power to the 911’s already potent twin-turbo flat-six,
bumping it to 607 horsepower (453 kilowatts). Only 500 were built, and until now, we thought they were all hardtops. Apparently, we thought wrong.
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Roadshow by CNET—When Porsche launched the last new generation of its 911, called the 991, the iconic sports car that defines the brand for many, I couldn't help asking whether that might be the time when the car took the controversial step towards hybridization. However, I was told it wouldn't happen, that the platform
wasn't ready, and that everyone would have to wait for the next generation.
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| | Autoblog—It may be hard to believe, but the Porsche Macan was released nearly five years ago. That's forever in car years, and Porsche finally decided that the time had come for a "mid-cycle" refresh: a raft of small improvements that should keep the Macan fresh until the next major redesign comes around.
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Motor1—The new Porsche 911 officially debuted last night at the Los Angeles Auto Show in a beautiful presentation that not only showcased Stuttgart’s latest supercar, but paid homage to its lineage with a delightful parade of classic 911s. At first glance (and a second, and third) the 992-series seems hardly any different
from the previous model. There are differences, however, and once you spend some time scrutinizing the 991 and 992 generations side-by-side, you realize just how different – albeit subtly – the new 911 really is.
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| | 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.
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Jalopnik—Porsche is going all-in on electric performance in the near future, with the launch of the Tesla-fighter-with-the-worst-name Taycan, likely a hybrid 911, and a new Formula E team. This weekend Porsche gave the car its first semi-public debut during their annual Night of Champions celebration in
Germany.
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Motor Trend—Porsche initially estimated it would sell 20,000 units per year of the all-electric Taycan. But after receiving so many early reservations, the automaker decided it will build more to meet the strong demand.
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| | PCA—On the tight and viciously twisty Mallorcan mountain roads, I watched the 2019 Porsche Macan S leading me handle a hairpin with more ferocity than a mid-size crossover has any right to. It leaned heavily into its suspension and from the outside, it looked quite precarious. But, as we were keeping up with it just fine in our test car, I knew that what the they were feeling on board
was exactly what I felt. And what I felt was confidence.
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Bloomberg—Porsche AG sells its luxury SUVs for as much as $160,000, but one accessory worth just a few hundred dollars has caused a snafu.
The German automaker recalled 2017 and 2018 Cayenne and Macan models sold in the U.S. with a ski bag, according to a notice on the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. The warning for the add-on feature, which retails for about $200, affects roughly 250 vehicles, the agency said.
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| | Jalopnik—Life got you down? Sad about how the wagons seem to be dying across the board? Do those new Audi crossovers fail to stir anything in your rally-loving soul? Friend, if you’re willing to wait just a bit longer, I have the answer to your (uniquely American) woes: the legendary Audi RS2 Avant.
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Fortune—Porsche AG is planning to boost its profits by 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) by 2025 as it reduces costs and focuses on digital development, Chief Executive Officer Oliver Blume told German magazine Automobilwoche in an interview.
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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
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METROVAC partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest |
| | PCA—PCA—We are excited to announce a new partnership with METROVAC for our Porsche Photo of the Week contest. Starting in October, winners will receive a VAC N BLO 500, a $152.99 value. We will also randomly award a PotW voter
each month an Air Force Blaster Sidekick Car and Motorcycle Dryer, a $119.99 value. All you have to do is cast a vote for your favorite Porsche photo!
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Photo by Boris Pavlin. Upper Canada Region. "It’s my 1988 944 Turbo S with my own barn as the backdrop. The car has held up well
despite its age; even the stopwatch still works! It is still mostly original although the special S shocks were switched out at some point. Color is Maraschino Cherry."
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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e-Brake News
I hope you enjoyed this issue of Porsche Club of America's e-Brake News. If you have any
questions or comments, please contact:
Damon Lowney Digital Media Coordinator & e-Brake News Editor damonl@pca.org (410) 381-0911
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Ilko Nechev Advertising Director ilko@pca.org (212) 490-2079
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