Solid Gold Musik-Stadt Region Porsche Club of America www.musikstadtpca.org The next meeting of the Musik-Stadt Region PCA will be held on Tuesday, August 9 at: Santa Fe Cattle Co. 2520 Music Valley Dr. Nashville, TN 37214 Meeting time is 6:30 PM Next Club Meeting Next Club Event The next Musik-Stadt Region PCA event is: August 28 - Bellisima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance at Frist!! Regional Officers President Mike Moody president.mskpca@gmail.com Vice President Rick Arnemann vicepresident.mskpca@gmail.com Secretary JC Costarakis secretary.mskpca@gmail.com Treasurer Randy Lynch treasurer.mskpca@gmail.com Membership Director Melissa Schmittou membership.mskpca@gmail.com Dealer Liaison Mike Gillespie liaison.mskpca@gmail.com Events Coordinator Joe Questel events.mskpca@gmail.com Webmaster Kent Kersten webmaster.mskpca@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Ken Maurer editor.mskpca@gmail.com PAGE 1
Greetings, A Message From The President Finally our hot summer heat wave is over - at least for a while. Note the flier in this newsletter for our first German Cars Parts Swap Meet on Sept 10, where you can buy, sell or trade parts with another car owner. Should be fun! I would like to plan another drive and eat event in September, but not sure where you want to go. In the past, we have gone to Monteagle Mt & Sewanee, Bell Buckle Cafe, Dover TN and Ft Donelson, Falls Creek Falls, Falls Mills & Pritchard's Distillery, and several state parks. Any of these sound appealing, or do you have somewhere else in mind? Let me know and I will do my best to accommodate. We especially like tour routes with twisty roads. Have you participated in a club event lately? With over 400 members, I know there are a lot of "closet members" out there who I never see or have met. Please come out to our next event and say hello to a great bunch of Porsche owners. It is far better to have participated than to have never participated at all...someone once said. I hope to see you at our next club meeting or event. Mike Editor s Note: Thanks to Randy Lynch for the pictures from the Ashland City Drive, included on this page. PAGE 2
Monthly Membership Update Melissa Schmittou, Membership Director Primary Members Affiliate Members Total Members 401 232 633 Member Anniversaries John and Rosa Maria Prunty - 5 Years Curtis and Laura Phipps - 10 Years Brendan Thompson - 10 Years Edward Fellhauer - 10 Years Nick Thompson - 10 Years Lawrence and Elizabeth (Quinn)-Stine - 15 Years Gary and Carolyn Mueller - 40 Years Welcome New Members! Rob Case - Franklin 2009 911 Carrera Aaron Gilbert - Thompson s Station 2008 911 Carrera Jack Jennings - Manchester 1981 928 Dwight Mundy - Hendersonville 2009 911 Carrera Michael Neill - Franklin 2013 Boxster S H David Walker - Franklin 2015 911 Turbo S Transfer In None This Month PAGE 3
Upcoming Events and Activities Musik-Stadt Events: August 9, 2016!!!! Club Meeting, Santa Fe Cattle Co, Music Valley Drive August 28, 2016!!! Bellisima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance at Frist Arts Center September 10, 2016!!! Swap Meet - All German Cars at Edwin Warner Park September 13, 2016!!! Club Meeting, Lane Motor Museum, 6:30 PM October 11, 2016!!! Club Meeting, Famous Dave s Cool Springs October 15, 2016!!! Tour to Jack Daniels & Lunch at Mary Bobo s, Lynchburg November 12, 2016!!! German Cars & Coffee at The Factory, Franklin November 15, 2016!!! Club Meeting and New Member Reception, Porsche of Nashville Other PCA And Gear Head Events: August 12-14, 2016!!! Appalachian Region Adventure, Fontana Village/Tail of the Dragon August 13-14, 2016!!! Peachstate PCA DE at Road Atlanta September 3-5, 2016!!! Rennfest by Peachstate Region September 28 - October 1, 2016! Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta October 2, 2016!!! AACA Car Show, The Factory October 8-9, 2016!!! Atlanta Concours d Elegance, Chateau Elan!!!!! www.atlantaconcours.org October 22-23, 2016!!! Peachstate PCA DE at Road Atlanta J O I N U S Don t Forget! Cars & Coffee happens every Saturday, weather permitting, at Carmike Theater parking lot on Frazier Drive (behind McDonald s on Cool Springs Blvd). Cars typically begin to show around 8AM. PAGE 4
911 Adventures - It Changed Our Lives Forever! By: Victoria McMinn I ve owned and driven our Porsches since I was 23. It was 1970 and we had been married 2 years. John, whom I met on my 21 st birthday weekend on a blind date arranged by my BFF who flew for Eastern Airlines yes, this was a while ago was my true love and I his. Handsome and generous of spirit, John, a Naval Aviator (USN, Ret.), earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism in 1967. Sadly, he passed in 2009 from a massive heart attack and was interred at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery with full military honors. End of story? Not at all this story never ends because of incredible adventures and vivid memories we just drive off into the awesome Pacific sunset in our Porsche just like in the movies, but much better because it was and is very real. We were in the Porsche showroom in Naples, Italy should we purchase or not? The year before John asked me, his new bride, where in the world I would like to live, and he would do his best to get us there. After studied deliberation, I responded Italy for its weather, romance and well, just because it was Italy! (Neither of us were Italian we just thought it would be great to live there.) John later received his requested shore duty orders to Italy. He would be stationed at NATO and the air base; during his tour at Naples he was awarded Gold Wings from the Italian government for multiple acts of heroism for the Italian people. I had just completed my 3 rd grade teaching position in my native San Diego and had graduated the previous year from San Diego State University. But by now, I was teaching part-time at the American School for our Department of Defense in Naples, and also taking classes in town studying with John for a minor in Italian. (During a weekly Bible study of the Apostle Paul, I realized that our Porsche and I had been daily drivers in Peuteoli Acts 28:13, 14-- now called Pozzuoli, the port where Paul disembarked and then traveled on to Rome: this is where I taught almost daily at the American School. This incredible part of my life never ceases to bless, and I am so grateful. Apparently, my life task was return John to joy and purpose after Vietnam; I thank God that being with me and our Porsche helped accomplish that!) We obviously made the right decision. Our new 1970 911 T Targa took us repeatedly through Naples traffic and roundabouts out to our favorite haunts--medieval hillside villages, amazingly fossilized Pompeii, and the stunning Amalfi Coast. As far as we could tell, there was only one other new 911 in town and it was owned by the soccer team goalie who was also very friendly. No matter where or when, it was then and always is now, enjoyable meeting other Porsche owners and drivers! We were gone almost every weekend up twisting hairpin turns and back-country roads to ancient villages, and then back down to town via another rugged rural route our own Porsche Tour for two! Skiing in the somewhat nearby Apennines and Abruzzi, and longer trips to the Alps, with Kitzbuhel, Austria, and Davos, Switzerland, as our favorites, our Porsche took snow chains like an accessory necklace: fits well, looks good, and enhances performance. There was really no road our Porsche did not navigate I thank God that PAGE 5
John was a great driver! The Auto strata and Autobahn were exhilarating we could go 100+ mph routinely and we did I remember our top was 125. Just get to the left lane, drive fast, and do it really well: there were no speed limits at that time. We loved just being together and enjoying the pure bliss of intimate Porsche driving, while enjoying traditional European sightseeing, museums, cathedrals, and grand cities. On the other hand, our experiencing the remote villages, small towns and countryside Porsche driving was more than I could have ever dreamed about and wished for. That year we traveled south to the infamous Targa Florio. After arriving in Palermo, we took a local taxi out to a curve we had staked out. In order to get way out there, the taxi driver actually drove us we were there with another squadron couple on to a meandering rural road which had become the race course, with race cars speeding past us as they completed their practice laps! If we were not awake before, we were now! We then watched the race from behind hay bales rural setting, yet intense and in- your -face. I still have my framed program noting Sieffert, Elford and Redman, driving for the Martini- and Gulf-Porsche teams. That year we also traveled north with the same couple to the Monaco Grand Prix: uber exhilarating, organized and urban, and less raw than our fave Targa Florio. The first year we lived on the Bay of Naples neighborhoods of Posillipo and Via Petrarca with views of Mt. Vesuvius across the bay and the second year on the water in Marina di Minturno (south of Rome and north of Naples), so I could teach full-time in the American School in Gaeta (6 th Fleet Hdqtrs). We were the only Americans in our beach community and totally immersed; the first year, one other Navy family was our only USA neighbor and we are still friends. We were continually Porsche daily drivers and loving it: no matter where or when, and no matter the driving conditions. I was our tour guide for our adventures, and that spring we launched our major European tour: Rome, Florence, an afternoon delight (unplanned) in our Porsche in a farmer s field in Tuscany, & on to Venice, and then awesome driving through the countryside north to Stuttgart. I do remember listening, in appropriate awe, to a precise line-up of Porsches engines full throttle and then their collective contented and lion-like deep purr outside the factory workshop. We aimed northwest through forests and lowlands all great Porsche driving. We were focused on the intensity of our Porsche and us: together. We drove when we wanted and stopped when we wanted. We could not see everything everywhere; but we were young, in love, and had more of everything we ever wanted in each other and our Porsche. Another evening we arrived in Calais too late for the ferry over the English Channel, so we decided to stay and wait for next morning s earliest ferry. We slept in our Porsche on the dock and lined up with a few other cars; the seagulls cacophony woke us more than the unusual sleeping arrangements. Soon we were on the ferry to Dover, then driving toward London, more roundabouts, and just pure Porsche joy touring historical sights. I remember our drives to Stratford-on-Avon and Stonehenge at that time it was not cordoned off and we could actually lean on and feel the ancient structures and driving our Porsche through picturesque English villages and verdant countryside en route to Edinburgh. Our hotel there had a gazillion stairs and no elevator, but we reasoned if our elderly bellboy could repeatedly go up and down them with luggage, then so could we. We cruised south toward Paris and into Spain we loved staying in its historic Paradors: antique, castle-like, beautiful, serene, and romantic. We relished the last of our Porsche tour along the Italian Riviera, after a second visit to Monaco for the Grand Prix. We aimed south along the Mediterranean reminiscent now of our later Porsche drives along the awesome Pacific Ocean and up and down the Pacific Coast Highway; a Big Sur getaway was our goal with John s USS Enterprise orders out of San Francisco. But by this time, we and our depleted bank account PAGE 6
were on fumes: we were ready to come home. Did I mention that we had more than 50,000 miles of joy in our Porsche before it was shipped stateside? The next stages of our lives were just as thrilling, but with more to live for and to love in our lives. We returned to the States pregnant, and with us came our Porsche then setting up new homes and new duty stations, and best of all, two sweet babies driven home from their delivery hospitals in the family car our Porsche. Toward the end of my first pregnancy, John and I did the dutiful practice drive to the hospital in our Porsche. But on delivery day, he nervously made a wrong turn, going over rail road tracks ouch like a zany 1950 s Lucy and Desi episode: welcome son John, Jr., to the world! Later that year John was handed new duty orders assigning him from Norfolk, Virginia to the Naval Post Graduate School at Monterey, again at our request (and where we enjoyed a more primitive Laguna Seca). We subsequently shipped our Porsche westward. Our little family of three then camped across Canada via the Trans Canadian Highway, where we were usually the only ones in the campgrounds very secluded and at one with nature ohm. Arriving in San Francisco, we were told by the shipping company that our Porsche had been stolen! Fortunately for us, it was later recovered by the FBI, and only minimally stripped because John earlier that year thought that maybe our Porsche could pull a small camping trailer. He had jerryrigged his own (read: home-made) welded and bolted trailer-hitch frame under the car to distribute the potential pulled weight, thought twice about it, decided against it, and left the frame intact. Apparently, the thieves did not figure out John s custom Porsche project and could not quickly dismantle the engine and transmission good job, John! Our Porsche lived quite the exciting life! With new clutches, transmissions, engines, and all the great labors of love John completed on our Porsche in the following years and its 250,000++miles of joy and endurance John always said we lived 10 pounds of potatoes in a 5 pound sack--it finally did retire, and in 03 we purchased our new silver Carrera 4S to celebrate our 35 th wedding anniversary. More recent adventures included our tours of the Great Smokey Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah Valley, and 07 Porsche Escape into History; John especially enjoyed the Civil War Battlefields and Annapolis Tours thank you Founders Region! I treasure recollections of our Staunton, Virginia stop-overs -- romantic B & B s and their Shakespearean Theatre. One of my favorite and more recent Tennessee Porsche memories is driving our wonderful daughter Jill s 2 young sons--precious grandsons Zachary and Jacob-- in the backseats as I taught them the word accelerate done only when it was safe to do so yippee! Even though it has been 7 years without John, driving our Porsche gives me peace (and appropriate thrills!) as I remember these and many more exciting adventures; I love the Porsche memories then of living life large with John, and the my life now with family and friends, and especially when I m driving Andiamo! Let s go! Victoria McMinn is a current Musik Stadt PCA member, with past memberships in the Monterey, CA and San Diego, CA PCA clubs. She appreciates racing and all aspects of the PCA, especially touring and social events, and can be reached at acts2813@gmail.com. PAGE 7
Bellissima! the Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945-1975 The Frist Center for the Visual Arts Sunday, August 28, 2016 Sunday, August 28, 2016, will be Porsche Car Club Sunday at the Frist Center as members of Musik Stadt Region PCA will be the Frist s special guests for Bellissima! the Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945-1975. Bellissima! celebrates the visual dynamism and spirit of innovation characterizing Italian coach-built cars, concept cars and motorcycles produced during the post World War II economic revival. Returning to the Frist Center after the 2013 presentation of Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, automotive authority and guest curator Ken Gross has chosen 19 automobiles and 3 motorcycles from private collections and museums that are among the finest examples of Italian automotive design, including vehicles by Alfa Romeo, Bizzarrini, Ducati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lancia and Maserati. With the ultra-rare Alfa Romeo BAT models 5, 7 and 9 from the 1950s and a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, this all-star assembly offers surprises for even the most knowledgeable car aficionados. These powerful and extraordinary cars exemplify the sexy and streamlined Italian design language that propelled Italy to the forefront of automotive design internationally. The Nashville Section has arranged for early admission and a private lunch prior to the tour for only $25 per person. Because seating for the lunch is limited, this event is restricted to only 50 members and their guests. We expect that this will be a sell-out, so please make your reservations early. You can reserve your place by sending a check payable to MSK PCA for $25 per person to Randy Lynch, 1308 Haber Drive, Brentwood TN 37027. The Frist requires that we notify them as to the number of guests attending at least 21 days in advance, so we must cut off reservations on Friday, August 5, 2016, or as soon as we hit the 50-person limit. Lunch includes a sandwich, chips, cookie and a choice of bottled water or soda. The lunch choices are: 1. Turkey Club Sandwich; 2. Chicken Salad on Croissant; 3. Vegetarian Mediterranean Wrap. Please indicate your preference(s) for the box lunch on your check. PAGE 8
The parking lot for the Frist Center is located behind the Frist Center, 919 Broadway, Nashville. The lot will open at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, Aug 28, for the Porsche Club, but will not open to the general public until 11:30 a.m. In order for the Club to be able to park our cars together in the lot please plan to gather in the parking lot behind the Frist no later than 11:15 a.m. At 12:00 noon we will enjoy lunch in the Rector Room of the Frist for lunch (on the left as you enter through the rear entrance of the Frist. We will be among the first visitors to see this one-of-a-kind exhibit when the galleries open at 1:00 p.m. For more information about Bellissima! and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, go towww.fristcenter.org. I hope that many of you will be able to join us on Sunday, August 28, 2016, for this very special event. Mike Moody, President, Musik Stadt Region PAGE 9
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Introducing Treffen North America, experiencing America s best roads and destinations. Join the Porsche Club of America and Sierra Nevada Region for the inaugural event: Treffen Lake Tahoe three days of driving, dining and exploring. PHOTO COURTESY TAHOE SOUTH/ R.DAHNOUN TREFFEN LAKE TAHOE September 7-11, 2016 Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley, California For program information and registration details, see the Treffen website: treffen.pca.org or email the Treffen North America staff at: treffen@pca.org PAGE 11
Treasurer s Report By Randy Lynch Musik-Stadt Region Porsche Club of America 2016 Second Quarter Second Quarter 2016 Beginning Check Book Balance -------- $ 17,711.61 Expenses: Presidents Meeting ---------------------------------------- 570.10 Cars & Coffee ---------------------------------------------- 17.42 Name Tags -------------------------------------------------- 28.95 Concours -------------------------------------------------- 2,721.28 Total Expenses ----------------------- $ 3,337.75 Income: Name Tags -------------------------------------------------- 100.00 Concours Registration ------------------------------------- 1,241.96 Porsche of Nashville Concours Sponsorship ----------- 300.00 PCA Rebates ------------------------------------------------ 4,002.00 T-Shirt Sales ------------------------------------------------ 250.00 Bellissima Registration ------------------------------------ 500.00 Total Income ------------------------ 6,393.96 Second Quarter 2016 Ending Check Book Balance ----------- $ 20,767.82 PAGE 12
FOR SALE 2005 Porsche 911 S Cabriolet 49,000 miles/always Garaged/Non-Smoker All new tires (305 on rear)/turbo style wheels/led taillight and turn signals 6 spd/sport Chrono Plus Adaptive sport heated seats/bose with CD changer Leather dash/many options Porsche CPO then extended warranty Maintenance records maintained/dealership serviced No paintwork/no accident/no snow/clean Carfax Original lobster claw wheels and turn signals available Asking $37,000 OBO Call Chris at 615-202-9825 PAGE 13
Items For Sale 981 Cayman/ Boxster (2014 - present) exhaust for sale. 8,000 miles on exhaust, in excellent condition, includes tip. $300. Contact Joe Questel (joe@questel.net) Do you have Porsche items for sale? Let us know and we can run your ad in our newsletter. PAGE 14
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NAME TAGS FOR PICK-UP Many members have paid for name tags, but have not been to a meeting lately to pick it up. Please come and pick up your name tags Advertise With Us! Advertising Space Available Put your business on the road to success with 1/8 Page 1/4 Page 1/2 Page Solid Gold $120 Per Year $240 Per Year $600 Per Year Ads are pro-rated for partial year. As always, member ads for Porsches and related parts are run free of charge for up to 3 months. For More Info Contact Ken Maurer Newsletter Editor editor.mskpca@gmail.com PAGE 16
The Solid Gold newsletter is the official publication of the Middle Tennessee Porsche Car Club of America, Inc. The club assumes no liability for any of the information, opinions or suggestions contained herein. None of the information is factory approved. The acceptance of advertising for any product or service in the newsletter does not imply endorsement for that product or service by the club. Copyright 2008m Musik-Stadt, PCA. Solid Gold is published by the Musik-Stadt Chapter PCA, P.O. Box 3142, Brentwood, TN, 37024. Visit our website at www.musikstadtpca.org. Some news items presented in this publication have been edited to fit in the space available. For the original articles, please consult the references cited for each news item. PAGE 17