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| | PCA—For the third year in a row PCA brought Werks Reunion to the East Coast the Friday before the Amelia Island Concours. More than 700 Porsches showed up, with 150 in the judged class, 350 in the display corral, and hundreds more that showed up throughout the day.
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PCA—We are thrilled to invite you to join us at the New York International Auto Show to experience another exceptional moment in Porsche history. As a PCA member, you will have access to an exclusive event
taking place the morning of Friday, April 19, 2019, in the Porsche display area to view a full array of Porsche models, including a North American Premiere & unveiling before it’s shown to the general public. Space is limited and there will be no registrations on-site.
| | PCA—Elliot Skeer of San Diego Region took first place at the PCA Sim Racing Series race at Circuit of the Americas, followed by Billy Smith, II of Maverick Region in second, and Michael Polasek of Northern
New Jersey Region in third. Congratulations to the podium finishers!
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PCA—The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will compete in the 67th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts on Saturday, March 16th. That race will be preceded on Friday, March 15th, by the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) 1000 Miles of Sebring. The doubleheader
endurance race weekend brings together the world’s two leading sports car racing championships at North America’s oldest and most historic road racing facility. The Porscheplatz will be the hub of activity for PCA members and Porsche owners during the races. There will be presentations by Porsche Motorsports North America and Porsche GT team drivers.
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Car and Driver—This year marks the 50th anniversary of the absolutely iconic Porsche 917 race car that, among its many racing titles, brought Porsche to its first win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970—and then another win the following year. The 917 was made especially famous by being the star car in Steve McQueen's 1971
film Le Mans, and that car sold for a record price two years ago. To celebrate the 917's birthday, Porsche is opening a special exhibit at the Porsche Museum that will run from May 14 to September 15, with 10 different models to be displayed. Most interestingly to us, Porsche also has revealed the stunning car you see above: the company is calling it a "917 concept study," and it has never been seen until now.
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| | Jalopnik—Shif Custom will build you the motorcycle of your dreams in Belarus. Judging by the shop’s completed projects, the artists there are quite adept at custom metal work. I particularly like the Ducati Bastardo and Shif Planeta Sport completed projects. The shop doesn’t look to build cars all that often, but when they do, they go all out. That is no more clear than the fact that
the shop smushed a ZAZ 968 body onto a 986-generation Porsche Boxster. And made it work.
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PCA—Are YOU ready to Boca?
Important Dates to Remember:
- Parade: July 21-27, 2019 in Boca Raton, Florida
- Phase 2 Registration: April 15, 2019 at 12 PM EDT. You will select events and activities at this time.
Some registration tips:
- Please visit our website and view the registration guide.
- Do not call the hotel directly regarding reservations.
- If you have questions regarding housing registration, or need help making reservations, please contact Porsche Parade Housing Bureau at porscheparade@conferencedirect.com
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| | Automobile—I’ve noticed something. Once someone drives a 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS, they change. Expressive faces freeze, talkers become mute, the silent bark like dogs. You doubt me? Then I suspect you haven’t driven one.
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The Smoking Tire via YouTube—When the Porsche 928 debuted, it made a lot of 911 purists mad. But why?
The 928 was supposed to replace the 911. Porsche execs thought the 911 had peaked (ha!), and sales were dropping, so they built a front-engine GT car. The 1986 928s has a 5.0-liter V8 making 288HP/302TQ (in America). It weighs about 3,400lbs, a manual transmission, and has perfect weight distribution. And it's small! The wheelbase is 98.4", almost 3" shorter than an M3 at that time. Why did they build it? Why didn't some people like
it? To find out, Mike Musto loaned Zack his personal 1986 928s, and went along for the ride.
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Autoblog—When it comes to numbers on the new 2020 Porsche 911 Cabriolet, how does 12 seconds grab you? No, not the quarter mile (which the S model makes in 11.9 seconds), but the time it takes the convertible to shed its fabric top.
The new 911 is beginning its long rollout of model variants. In January we drove the 911 Carrera S and 4S coupes. So as sure as the sun rises in the east, the 911 Cabriolet follows the coupe.
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| | Automobile—I had a nice collection back in the 1980s, but from what happened with my money-management issues and my divorce, I had to start over; I wanted to clean my plate after living on a dirt road in Colorado, where all I really drove was a pickup truck and tractor for 20 years. In Colorado, I started with a Dodge Dakota and then got a series of Tacomas and Tundras and the John
Deere tractor. Don’t get me wrong, I was living the dream there and it was great, but when I moved to Nashville, I knew I could have something special in my garage.
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Jalopnik—The Audi RS2, made in conjunction with Porsche, was a mid-’90s icon. But sadly, it was never sold in the United States and plenty of Americans have never even seen one. Well, these cars are finally old enough to import and we found one Audi UK has been hiding in its private reserve for over two
decades.
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| | Motor Trend—Unless you're buying a limited-run exotic, depreciation is just something you have to accept when you buy a new car. It might not lose half its value the second you drive it off the lot, but even a year or two later, it can be shocking to find out how little your car is worth. And because luxury cars cost so much in the first place, that depreciation can cost you big time.
(Ed.: Can you guess which four Porsches made the list?)
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The Smoking Tire via YouTube—Jeff Zwart is a photographer, director, cinematographer, racer, author, and about 10 other things. A legend in the Porsche community, he learned to drive in a Porsche 901, a car now worth over a million dollars. His collection is insane, but not as insane as his stories.
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| | Bring a Trailer—This 14-minute factory promotional film dates from a pivotal and fascinating time in Porsche’s history, marking a brief period when 356 and 911 production overlapped, and detailing in grainy black and white and color footage the hand-intensive production of both models and their associated hardware. Watch
as exotic Fuhrmann four-cam engines roll down the line among more run-of-the-mill 356 powerplants, and listen as freshly-built early 901 flat-sixes are tuned on run-in dynos. Many may have a hard time following the German language play-by-play, but the sights and sounds captured tell a captivating story of their own.
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PCARMARKET–What could be the most famous outlaw ever will be sold this Friday on PCARMARKET.COM. The chatter started a few weeks ago when word got out that the iconic Magnus Walker build would be sold at NO RESERVE. 911 STR ll was inspired by Magnus’ two favorite
911’s, the 1968 911R and 1972 911ST. This car is equipped with the finest period correct components and its aggressive stance is instantly recognizable. As outlaws become more and more sought after, this is the one many will be compared to. Visit pcarmarket.com to view all current auctions or make a deal in the DealTank.
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| | Bring a Trailer—Building on the excellent German language, mostly 1960’s-vintage Porsche factory footage highlighted in last weekend’s Video Inspiration, these similarly high-quality (if grainy) English narrated films cover Stuttgart during the following decade.
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Petrolicious—Is the Porsche 917 the greatest ever Le Mans car? If you think it is, then don’t forget to wish it happy 50th birthday… and maybe you’ll want to visit the celebratory “Colours of Speed—50 Years of the 917” special exhibition at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, which runs from 14 May to 15 September
2019.
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| | Autoblog—The eighth-generation, 992-series Porsche 911 is here. Not only have we driven it, Autoblog spent a day peering into the new coupe's internals.
Of the exterior, Porsche's executive board member for research and development, Dr. Michael Steiner, said, "The design, it changed a lot." Yes, it still looks like a 911, because finespun evolution has been the model's hallmark since the model launched in 1963. Almost everything beneath the all-new exterior design, however, has been through wholesale revision.
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Jalopnik—While most people with old Porsche 911s are pampering them, waiting for the cars to ripen like savings bonds, somebody has turned one into a delightfully perverse all-terrain vehicle and is clearly living their best life.
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| | Roadshow by CNET—The Cabriolet makes up 30 percent of all 911 sales in the US, so you had to know that Porsche wouldn't keep us waiting long for a drop-top after unveiling the new 992 generation late last fall. And, indeed, the company didn't. Debuting just last week at the Geneva Motor Show, this is the new, $126,100 (plus $1,250 destination) Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet. It brings
the many tweaks, upgrades and refinements Porsche added in this latest generation of the iconic sports car -- missing only a roof.
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Road & Track—The new carbon-chassis RUF CTR Anniversary pays tribute to the car that this publication took to 211 mph back in 1987. RUF debuted this new Yellowbird at the Geneva Motor Show two years ago, and this year, it came back with chassis #01, the first customer car.
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Motor1—Occasionally we like to embark on flights-of-fancy with crazy renders of unlikely post-apocalyptic battle cars. The Porsche 911 you see here, however, isn’t a render. Nor is simply an upfitted 911 with off-road tires and rally-spec suspension. This is a straight-up end-of-the-world machine, ready to scour the
wastelands in search of precious gasoline while escaping marauding bandits. And if you have $38,975 laying around, you can scamper over to eBay and become a road warrior yourself.
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| | The Drive—Year, Make, Model: 2019 Ruf GT
Topline: Ruf has an 80-year-long history that includes most of the tuner Porsches you really want, including the infamous Yellowbird that starred in one of the greatest Nürburgring videos of all time. While other tuners go for the garish, Ruf mostly sticks to going fast.
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Automobile—Here in the cradle of Western civilization, things are grim. Last year the country emerged from a bailout by other European countries that totaled more than $350 billion, and while comparatively speaking things are looking up, the unemployment rate in this part Greece is still over 20 percent. Aside from the
presence of graffiti everywhere, there isn’t much evidence of young people. A double tennis court over here has been abandoned, as has a playground over there, with a pair of basketball goals that nobody appears to have used in a year.
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| | Road & Track—Porsche is famous for its flat-six soundtracks, but its early four-cylinder engines deserve some attention too. This 356 coupe is a great example of why.
According to this video's uploader, this car got a full restoration in 1999, and still looks like it recently rolled off the factory floor. It's had its bumpers deleted, and a center-exit race exhaust installed. We're betting that's the main reason it sounds so good. Here, listen for yourself. And make sure to turn the volume up.
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The Drive—When Porsche announced that the future of its brand relied on consumers adopting an all-electric vehicle, the Taycan, its customers had mixed reactions about the company abandoning its purist approach to the traditional gasoline-powered road car. However, according to the latest official reservation figures, Porsche
has nothing to worry about.
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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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- Unlimited Mileage? OK
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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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Griot's Garage partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest
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| | PCA—Griot's Garage is sponsoring our Porsche Photo of the Week contest.
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.
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Photo by Grant Graber. San Diego Region. "Taking a break at a vista on Easter morning last year while driving up Palomar Mountain Road in eastern
San Diego County. It is one of the most thrilling, twisty driving roads in the country. This road is a regular component of numerous car club road tours. And of course, you can’t beat the view."
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
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