Members 133 Affiliate Members 74 Total 207

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4 New Members John Williams- GT4, Cabriolet, Transfers No transfers Anniversaries Name Years in Yos Expires Pat Enright 11 years 10/31/17 Jaydeen Vicente 5 years 10/31/17 Todd Gilman 4 years 10/31/17 John Batch 3 years 10/31/17 James Bankosh 1 year 10/31/17 Dennis McLatcher 1 year 10/31/17 Al Locy 15 years 11/30/17 George Collier 11 years 11/30/17 Curtis Willemssen 7 years 11/30/17 Larry Watson 4 years 11/30/17 Rainer Soehnen 3 years 11/30/17 Kurt Spycher 2 years 11/30/17 Allison Guyton 1 year 11/30/17 Douglas Reid 1 year 11/30/17 Members 133 Affiliate Members 74 Total 207 EL PORTAL 4 OCTOBER 2017

5 The Yosemite PCA board met on September 12, 2017 at the Pierce residence. The meeting was called to order at 7:14 PM by club president, Chuck Pierce. Those in attendance were: President- Chuck Pierce, Membership Director- George Hatfield, Treasurer- Fred Miramontes, Secretary- Jennifer Pierce, Drive Chair- Andrew Dalen, Member at Large- Virginia Swanberg. The August minutes were approved. Treasurer Report: Balance $ Membership Report: Current Membership Total: 206 Charity Event follow up: The board is sending a check for $1000 to UCD with a letter directing the funds to breast cancer research. Fall Elections: This year the election will be for the offices of President and Vice-President. Chuck offered to run for another term for president, so you ll be seeing his name on the ballot. Anyone interested in running for either office should contact the board and plan on attending the next board meeting. Drives & Events The link to Eventbrite can be found on the Yosemite PCA website: New Member / Old Member BBQ: On Sept 9th the Pierce s hosted a yummy BBQ with 30 members attending. The winner of the Cars and Cows contest was Norm & Virginia Swanberg. Zone tour 2019 is set to start in Stockton, Chuck contacted the drive chair to see if we could offer assistance. They already have their routes planned and all things are under control. Monthly Breakfast / Brunch: Andrew will put together a impromptu gathering to take place after Euro Sunday (3rd Sunday of Village Bakery on McHenry in Modesto). He is thinking of having it at Commonwealth, watch for more details coming soon. Yosemite Drive, Oct. 7th: The fall drive to Yosemite is on Eventbrite! Be sure to sign up, this is always a great drive and this year the route will be a bit different! PCA Store: Watch for the new PCA store on our website! We are in the process of setting this up so you can get your Porsche shirts and caps effortlessly! EL PORTAL 5 OCTOBER 2017

6 Yosemite Goodie Store: We are in the process of putting our Goodie Store Items on the website - we have stickers, patches, pins, and metal zone 7 badges. Winter Holiday Party: We re on the hunt for a restaurant that is centrally located in our region (with an available December date). Suggestions are welcome - contact the board through the website. We have contacted several places and are now thinking that perhaps an event at a winery may fit our needs better. The meeting adjourned at 8:34PM. The next meeting is on Tuesday October 3, 2017 at 7 pm, at the Pierce residence. Please let Chuck or Jennifer know if you plan to attend. EL PORTAL 6 OCTOBER 2017

7 Tom and I want to thank everyone who volunteered this year at Werks Reunion, Corral de Tierra. To the volunteers who did any number of tasks to make the event happen, we thank you. There will be one more chance to get some points in the Zone 7 Autocross series. Golden Gate Region will be holding the last autocross for the Zone on Sunday, October 29th in Alameda. For more info please check out the Zone website at zone7.pca.org. Please join us for the year-end awards banquet on Saturday, November 11th at the Hilton Garden Inn, Fairfield, at 6pm. We will be presenting the class awards for the Zone 7 Autocross and Concours Series along with some special Zone awards. Come one and all. This will be the same day as the Zone 7 President s meeting. There are some dates to get on your calendar for First will be Rennsport Reunion VI, to be held at Laguna Seca September 27th through 30th. This needs to be added first because tickets for the event will go on sale this October. I don t have the sale dates yet, but it will sell out. Please watch e-brake News (Tuesdays) for the ticket info. If you need a hotel for the event, you better book now. Next will be registration for Lake of the Ozarks Porsche Parade, which should happen in December/January. The Parade will be held at the Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri, July 8th- 14th, And for those of you who want to go on a road trip, Treffen Tamaya, will be heading to Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico on April 25-29, If New Mexico is a bit far for a long weekend, stay tuned for a Mountain, Desert and Coastal Tour being planned for Northern California on April 27-29, CRAB is set for Mark your calendar May 18-20, Let s get crabby! Looking Forward (info at the zone website, zone7.pca.org) Golden Gate Region Zone Autocross #9, Alameda, October 29th Zone 7 President s Meeting, Hilton Garden Inn, Fairfield, 9am-4pm, November 11th, Zone 7 Awards banquet, Hilton Garden Inn, Fairfield, 6pm-9pm, November 11th EL PORTAL 7 OCTOBER 2017

8 We just had our New Member BBQ Party on Saturday September 7th at Chuck and Jennifer Pierce s house. If you missed it, you missed one of our best events EVER! To refresh your memory, the idea was to have a party to welcome members who joined PCA and our Yosemite Region this year. Chuck fired up his BBQ for the Peruvian chicken and his smoker for the tri-tip. Every one else brought salads, sides and deserts. The turn out was, as Norm Swanberg our region s historian said: The best for any Yosemite event ever! Eight of our 2017 new members came and joined some of the old members. There was a total of 31 people overall and 16 displayed Porsches. We dined on chips and vegetable plates with hummus, the aforementioned Peruvian chicken and tri-tip BBQ, variety of salads, BBQ veggies on skewers, garlic bread, fruit pies and cheese cake. And, since this was NOT a driving event, beer and wine was freely available! If anyone went home hungry, they sleep through the afternoon. EL PORTAL 8 OCTOBER 2017

9 Now about those displayed cars owned by our members. Our former tresurer Larry Watson came to the event, even though he has moved out of the region. He took a nice photo of all the cars lined up on the driveway. What a collection of Porsches! To get an idea of the model year range of the new member s cars, Debra and Loren Wheale drove up in his & her 912 s, while Carrie and Jon Stone followed with their new Turbo S. The color might be mistaken, as I did, as Miami Blue, but it was a special Mexico Blue. In my opinion it was gorgeous. EL PORTAL 9 OCTOBER 2017

10 Other new members attending included: Nick Anderson with a Carrera 4S Cabriolet, Anthony and Mercedes Vierra with a 986 Boxster, Larry and Kris Kirkbride with a Carrera S, Dennis Fay with a Carrera 4, Brian Sturkie with a Carrera Cabriolet and Dave and Marianne Boyd with a Carrera S. Lets just say that Chuck and Jennifer outdid themselves with this party and what a venue. Great food, great company, great environment and the temperature was even pretty mild for the valley. Oh yea, there was this thing about cow lawn art! The idea was that you could get your car s photo taken with the cows. We held a contest to decided which car/owner would have their car/cow photo appear on the cover of our El Portal newsletter. The contest was a 10 question quiz about fun Region/PCA/Porsche facts. A copy of the quiz will be added to the end of this article. The winner was, of course, our region historian, Norm Swanberg. Almost seems unfair, right? Anyway, so Norm and Virginia, the winning couple, got their picture on the cover of this newsletter. Wow, what an event! Maybe us members enjoy having a great meal together as much we enjoy our cars? Hmmm, maybe its just like the PCA slogan goes: Its not just the cars, it s the people. Stay tuned for more events in 2018! EL PORTAL 10 OCTOBER 2017

11 Yosemite Region and Porsche Club of America questions: 1) How many years has YOS Region been in existence? a. 39 years b. 48 years c. 57 years d. 66 years 2) How many members does YOS Region have? (as of Sept 2017) a. 110 members b. 121 members c. 132 members d. 143 members 3) When was Porsche Club of America formed? a b c d ) How many members does PCA have? a. About 50,000 b. 50,001 to 75,000 c. 75,001 to 100,000 d. over 100,000 Porsche Questions: 5) What year was the Porsche company founded (about) by Professor Ferdinand Porsche? a b c d ) How many times has Porsche won overall victory at Le Mans? a. 15 times b. 17 times c. 19 times d. 21 times 7) What is Porsche Mission-E? a. Porsche management s goal to Explain diesel gate to regulators. b. Porsche management s goal for Exceptional Quality to lead JD Powers Quality ratings for 2018 EL PORTAL 11 OCTOBER 2017

12 a. Porsche management s goal to launch an Electric vehicle by 2020 b. Porsche management s goal to Expand sales volume to over 200,000 vehicles for ) What does the terms: PECA and PECLa stand for? 9) How fast did the 918 gas-hybird supercar do a lap at Nurburgring? a. 6:00 flat b. under 7:00 c. 7:12 d. 7:34 10) What car company built the world s first hybrid electric vehicle? And in what year was this car built? a. Toyota b. Mercedes Benz c. Peugeot d. Porsche Answers: 1: C Look at our logo : Chartered in 1960: = 57 years 2: C The El Portal reports membership each month, in Sept 132 members 3: C PCA.org History shows the first meeting held Feb 8, : D Also from PCA.org History, in 2013, PCA had over 107,000 members 5: B Wicki F. Porsche founded Dr.Ing.h.c.F Porsche GmbH in : C 19 overall wins, the last three with the 919 Hybird LMP1 7: C Mission E the all Electric car to launch in : Porsche Experience Center, Atlanta and Los Angles 9: B The 918 Spyder lapped at 6:57 in 2013, Marc Lieb driving 10: D Porsche, of course, back in 1899! An electric car with gas powered generator. EL PORTAL 12 OCTOBER 2017

13 This is a definite SAVE THE DATE event!! The Date: Oct 7th (planned start point: Starbucks in Escalon, 1255 Lillian Ave Escalon, CA 95320) The Destination: Lunch at the Whoa Nellie Deli in Lee Vining, near Mono Lake. The Route: Into Yosemite NP via Hwy 120, up to Tuolumne meadow, over Tioga Pass and down into Lee Vining. Return from Hwy 395 via Hwy 108 into Sonora. Note: there are other options for returning, but this will be the official PCA authorized route. Registration will open on or about Sept 11th. Go to yos.pca.org, click on the Yosemite Drive posting and use the registration buttons to get into the Eventbrite registration system. We will limit the number of cars to 15, following the PCA standards for tours. EL PORTAL 13 OCTOBER 2017

14 1977. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index closed the year at 831. New York City was hit with a massive blackout lasting 25 hours, resulting in a baby boom nine months later! Apple released the Apple II personal computer. Jimmy Carter was elected President. Star Wars Episode IV dropped (wait, what happened to episodes I - III?) The King of Rock and Roll died from a heart attack, maybe too many peanut butter and banana sandwiches? And you could check out of the Hotel California any time you liked but you could never leave! And in Phoenix a small club of Porsche car owners held a concours event called The Phoenix Flight! Fast forward 40 years and a large club of Porsche car owners is preparing for a concours weekend called Phoenix Flight. Some things just never change! Join the celebration of 40 years of Phoenix Flight on October 27 29, 2017! On Friday, October 27th, there will be a reception poolside at the McCormick Scottsdale Resort at 7401 N. Scottsdale Road. The reception will begin at 6 p.m. Come visit with old friends and meet new friends during this 4 hour evening event. That evening we will hold a silent auction for this year s charity Guide Dogs for the Blind ( so please bring an open wallet for a great cause! Book at room at the resort at a club s special rate and party all night! EL PORTAL 14 OCTOBER 2017

15 Saturday morning, October 28th, come show your nicely cleaned and prepared Porsche in the Concours that will be held on the Streets of Scottsdale! The venue is N. Marshall Way near the Fashion Square mall at Camelback Road and N. Marshall Way. The map is on the Arizona Region s Web site. Parking will begin at 6:30 a.m. and judging will begin at 9:30 a.m. After judging wander around and enjoy the shops and galleries. But don t eat too much because the trophies will be awarded at 1:00 p.m. while everyone is enjoying tapas at the awards ceremony. The street has to be turned back to the City by 4 p.m. If you aren t entering your car, come down and join in the fun anyway, there will be a special area set aside in the adjacent parking garage for club members! The Concours is part of the PCA Zone Concours series. So here s your chance to pick up some points towards the year-end Concours results! Especially if you are coming from another Region, you get travel points. After all that, get some rest because on Sunday October 29th you will want to join in on a tour that will visit two fabulous private collections of automobiles! The proceeds from these tours will go to charity, the RPM Foundation ( All PCA members can register for these tours. You don t have to enter the concours to attend either the Friday reception or the Sunday tour. So even if you aren t into Q-tips and such you still can register for all the other events. So there is no excuse to not come out to celebrate Phoenix Flight 40! Special hotel room rates are available at the McCormick Scottsdale Resort. To make a reservation call or (480) Be sure to ask for the Porsche Club rate! See the Arizona Region Web site for more information and to register for your choice of events! Any questions? Contact Bob Frith at bob911@cableone.net EL PORTAL 15 OCTOBER 2017

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