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| | PCA—Right now is a great time to take care of small DIY Porsche projects, and they couldn't get much easier than replacing the cowl trim and hood struts on a 986-generation Boxster and 996-generation 911.
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PCA—Singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Oates is a car aficionado just like us. In fact, he tends to gravitate to Porsches, having owned many over the years. In our latest video, Oates and his wife Aimee tell the story of
their 1984 911 “Karma Carrera” and the importance of giving back. The video will go live as a YouTube Premiere party on May 12 at 8:30 PM EDT, and viewers get the chance to attend the virtual premiere with John, who will be online socializing in the live chat box starting at 8:15 PM EDT.
| | PCA—Working on your own Porsche can be daunting if you've never done it before, so in our series Tech Tactics LIVE, we'll be regularly broadcasting DIY car projects live. We would like to know from you when we should broadcast
the show live. Vote for your preferred time slot in our poll!
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You’re Invited. As a PCA member and for a very limited time, discover Porsche Design’s exclusive Online Friends & Family Sale – now through 5/16/2020. Shop performance-driven, minimalist Porsche Design Fashion, Sportswear & Accessories, including sunglasses, bags and much more. Click Here and enter access code: PDFF2020 . Please note that all sales is final and merchandise cannot be returned. Promotion does not apply to the current Porsche Design Summer 2020 collection and cannot be combined with any other offer.
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| | PCA—First-gen Cayennes have been looking good to me for a while, and it was only a matter of time before I found the right one via The Mart. When a heavily optioned Crystal Silver S popped up with all the right maintenance freshly done, the deal was closed in a nanosecond.
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PCA—Color is a perennially hot topic in the Porsche world. A genuine Paint-to-Sample car carries a certain amount of cachet to it that extends to resale time. But what about uniquely colored Porsches that weren’t PTS cars? Cars that weren’t even born in the color they’re presently wearing? What affect does that have on desirability and value? The answer is, like so many answers in the Porsche
world, both nuanced and complicated.
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Tire Company—Be the First to Get A Set of N-Spec Radials for Early Porsche 911
Coker Tire Company, the exclusive North American distributor for Michelin classic tires, is proud to announce the availability of Michelin XAS 165VR15 radial tires. These authentic radial tires meet the prestigious N specification from Porsche, making them an approved tire for use on classic Porsche sports cars.
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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 Spring 2020 Member Only Raffle, the grand prize is a Porsche Taycan 4S plus $25,000. Alternatively, winners may also choose $85,000 instead of a car plus $25,000. After the initial 8,500 entries, another Grand
Prize will be added for every additional 4,500 entries sold. Raffle entries are $50 (USD) each. The raffle closes June 5, 2020.
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| | PCA—Due to social-distancing measures and stay-at-home orders, large gatherings are all but impossible, and that includes live auctions — no crowded tents with bidders sitting in rows of seats enjoying cocktails as they compete for the objects of their desire. Instead of halting auctions entirely, however, auction companies have taken to the web for their sales. This one by Mecum isn’t selling real Porsches, but rare Porsche posters — 36 to be
exact.
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PCA—For the first time ever, the Porsche Club of America will race door-to-door against the Porsche Club Great Britain in a two-race sim racing series. Watch over 40 of the best sim racers from each Porsche club race for bragging rights 4 pm Eastern, May 16 at Silverstone circuit in the UK and 4pm Eastern, May 23 at Road America here in the USA. You can watch all of the action during the live
broadcast featuring US, Canadian and British commentators. Click here to watch the live or recorded race.
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full swing and many Porsche enthusiasts are on the hunt for their next P Car. As auto dealerships have restrictions in place preventing them from opening their doors to the public, many of them have turned to PCARMARKET as a trusted source to sell their quality Porsche automobiles to their clients and the PCARMARKET community. Being both interactive and informative, PCARMARKET affords prospective buyers the facts, photos, and video content that they need to make an educated purchase at truly fair market pricing.
Visit daily to see the exciting selection of vehicles and memorabilia or join in our worldwide interactive Virtual Car Show. For every vehicle entered into the Virtual Car Show, both PCARMARKET and HAGERTY Insurance will each donate $2 per car! Entry is no cost to all participants.
Sell your Porsche on PCARMARKET.COM
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PCA—In Episode 3 of Tech Tactics Live, we install a new steering wheel and steering column switch in a 1987 Porsche 911. This video originally aired May 2.
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PCA—This edition of PCA Club Racing’s Driveway to Raceway features Robbie Wilson. Robbie has raced with PCA since he was legally allowed to do so, but he started much younger than that. He hasn't only been racing; he's been winning. Robbie has won his class in the 944 Cup National Championship twice, the PCA National Championship Points Series once, and finished in third overall another year. With two of
those series championships in 2019, he shows no sign of letting the competition off any time soon.
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PCA—Every year across Porsche Club of America, members are making a difference with many heartwarming and thoughtful acts of kindness. This week's edition of Members Making a Difference highlights just a few of the things several PCA sponsors and advertisers are doing around the country to help others during the covid-19 pandemic.
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| | PCA—The Targa-roofed 914, a joint venture with Volkswagen, was Porsche's first mid-engined production street car. Lightweight and well-balanced, over 118,000 914s of all stripes were produced from 1969 to 1976, making it one of era’s best-selling sports cars.
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Motor Trend—One day, as his son tells us in this video from RUF, service garage owner Alois Ruf Sr. was driving a bus when a Porsche 356 Karmann notchback tried to pass him. It lost control, slid into the ditch, and rolled a few times. He made sure the driver was alright, then bought the car and fixed it up. Later, he sold it for an eye-opening profit. There's something about Porsche owners,
the Rufs realized. Ruf's son developed an abiding passion for 911s, and by the time Porsche itself decided the 911 was a dead end and started pushing the 928 on enthusiasts, Ruf Jr. saw his opportunity.
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| | PCA—Due to the novel Coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, automotive events around the world have been postponed or cancelled, and events held by and/or related to Porsche Club of America are no exception. Below is a list of PCA National and Porsche-related events and their current statuses. We will update this page as more information becomes available. PCA National-hosted events are in bold.
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Autocar—Tuesday, 9.23am - Brooklands museum: It has just gone opening time at the oldest purpose-built motorsport circuit in the world and, in front of the century-old clubhouse, a small crowd is gathering.
Early-bird visitors to Brooklands Museum are getting a look at an impromptu exhibit: a trio of modern motorsport-derived production cars whose designs and origins make them at once fundamentally alike but also fascinatingly different from each other.
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Car and Driver—This is very likely the least expensive new Porsche 911 you'll ever lay eyes on. At $106,290, it has a mere $7540 in options, which, if you don't believe is a picture of restraint, go spend a few minutes on Porsche's online configurator. This car had just four add-ons: a Sport Exhaust system ($2950); the Sport Chrono package, which includes launch control ($2720); Lane Change
Assist, which most other automakers call blind-spot detection ($1060); and Sport Seats Plus ($810). Let's see if the extreme low end of the 911 lineup lives up to six-figure sports-car expectations.
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| | Automobile—Immediately following the conclusion of World War II, times were tough for Porsche. The budding automaker still reeled from the war's socioeconomic and infrastructural ravages, and the death of family patriarch and brand founder Ferdinand Porsche in 1951 didn't help to calm the waters. Of course, the 356 soon achieved success starting in the mid-1950s, with over 75,000 sold between 1948 and 1965, but not before Porsche buoyed its
financial standings with various contract engineering projects.
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Hagerty—We have been down so long that I’m making plans.
Forgive me for mentioning the calendar. Where are we now—four weeks? A hundred? Time flies when you’re having fun. When you’re stuck indoors during a global health lockdown, time wobbles a little on takeoff, then suffers structural failure at the wing roots before pinwheeling into a tree.
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and Driver—The 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid Coupe makes it hard to hate on SUVs. Someone at Porsche went down the list of reasons the high-riding machines get a bad rap and crossed them out one by one. Weak-sauce performance? Nope, this one's as spicy as a 670-hp ghost pepper. An overpowered affront to the planet? Oh look, its mighty twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 is partnered with a 134-hp electric motor for both extra performance and (somewhat) friendly fuel economy. A soulless bar
of soap on wheels? Not so much. While the conventional squared-off Porsche Cayenne possesses pretty much the same traits, this sloped-back Coupe version looks a bit cooler, even if it's less practical.
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Trend—The 992-generation Porsche 911 just got here, but already the car is slated to receive a host of equipment updates for the 2021 model year. Buyers can look forward to a new exterior color option, wider availability of the steep-driveway-friendly front-end lift feature, a leather interior package named after the legendary Porsche 930, and—if you live in Europe—a seven-speed manual transmission option for Carrera S and 4S models.
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Car and Driver—While much of the global auto industry has been forced to shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, some of it is still working hard—especially the engineers developing new models. We were intrigued to see pictures and videos from prototype test sessions at the Nürburgring—while most of Germany is under lockdown conditions—so we decided to take a closer look at the challenges of
vehicle engineering in the age of COVID-19.
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Automobile—German tuner TechArt is back with new ways to upgrade your Porsche 911—this time the newest 992-generation Carrera S and Carrera 4S models. It has a new power package that unlocks an extra 80 horsepower from the 911s, plus an exhaust system that amps up their flat-six engines' volume.
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| | Motor1—Singer Vehicle Design is keeping busy because just days after showing off the Honor Roll commission the skilled Porsche 911 tuners showcase the Warren Commission before the handoff to the new owner. Like everything else the company creates, the vehicle looks amazing at first glance and gets even more impressive as you dig into the details.
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Hagerty—The 992-generation of the Porsche 911 is now available with a seven-speed manual gearbox, as long as you choose the Carrera S, 4S coupé or the cabriolet. All standard 911s feature turbocharged flat-sixes and PDK automatics now, but before Porsche’s core sports cars go fully electrified, we’ll get a new naturally-aspirated GT3, both in big-winged and Touring trim. Expect an optional,
beefier manual gearbox as well.
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and Driver—At the top of a list of "things that are worth getting excited about" is any hint at the possibility of a potential Porsche 918 Spyder successor. Understandably, we got really excited when we found a design patent from Porsche. It depicted a supercar that looked like a road-ready version of the 917 Living Legend concept that Porsche unveiled last year. We reached out to Porsche for a comment on the design patents for this supercar and their response was deflating, to say the
least. Let us explain.
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Roadshow by CNET—So you've got yourself a new-ish Porsche, and things were going pretty well until this whole coronavirus thing happened. Now it's the end of April, and your Macan's warranty runs out next month, the Check Engine light is on and you just got laid off. What are you going to do? Panic?
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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.
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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. Starting with the October monthly recap, 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 John Lucey. Wild Rose Region. "1983 Porsche 911 Turbo. As the year suggests, it was originally a gray-market import. It found its way to me in Calgary via Toronto and California. I've had it for about 10 years now and only drive in the summer. It had many
upgrades done but none by me. Its a great drive and during our long winter months I love to just go out to the garage and look at it! The classic and in my opinion the best looking Porsche ever!"
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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