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MAUMEE VALLEY REGIO N PORSCHE CLUB O F AMERICA
VO LUME 36 ISSUE 1 January, 2009
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for Porsche enthusiasts in the Maumee Valley since 1972
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Der RÜCKSPIEGELDer RÜCKSPIEGELDer RÜCKSPIEGELDer RÜCKSPIEGEL Published monthly by the Maumee Valley Region, Porsche Club of America.
2009 Newsletter Editors2009 Newsletter Editors2009 Newsletter Editors2009 Newsletter Editors
Tom and Deb Isley 2847 Secretariat Rd. Toledo, Ohio 43615 419-535-8688
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Der RÜCKSPIEGEL is the offi-cial publication of the Maumee Valley Region, Porsche Club of America. Opinions stated are those of the authors and do not necessar-ily represent the position of the Maumee Valley Region or Porsche Club of America.
Table of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of Contents
Vorschall! 3
2009 Officers & Chairs 4
Schnell Fahrspur 5
Porsche Thoughts 2 7
Calendar of Events 8
The Year in Pictures 10
MVR Membership News 12
MVR Mart 17
the Checkered Flag! 18
MVR Business Meeting 6
Vorschall! Looking Ahead!
JANUARY 18 Planning meeting
Photo on cover: Can’t wait….. Photo by Tom Isley
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The 2009 MVR OfficersThe 2009 MVR OfficersThe 2009 MVR OfficersThe 2009 MVR Officers PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident Todd Mierzwiak 419-283-5593
Vice PresidentVice PresidentVice PresidentVice President Larry Erd 419-242-9545
TreasurerTreasurerTreasurerTreasurer Jeff Vollmar 586-739-1636
[email protected] SecretarySecretarySecretarySecretary Chris Krauser 419-841-7984
[email protected] Past PresidentPast PresidentPast PresidentPast President Craig Zenil
The 2009 MVR ChairsThe 2009 MVR ChairsThe 2009 MVR ChairsThe 2009 MVR Chairs AutocrossAutocrossAutocrossAutocross Greg Herr 419-833-9696
ConcoursConcoursConcoursConcours Jim Wilson 419-784-1641
Drivers EducationDrivers EducationDrivers EducationDrivers Education Jeff Vollmar 586-739-1636
[email protected] HistorianHistorianHistorianHistorian Bill Bauman 419-475-1336
[email protected] MembershipMembershipMembershipMembership Rich Brown 734-847-5722
[email protected] NewsletterNewsletterNewsletterNewsletter Tom & Deb Isley 419-535-8688
[email protected] AdvertisingAdvertisingAdvertisingAdvertising Todd Mierzwiak 419-283-5593
SafetySafetySafetySafety Alan Kinker 419-385-8610
SocialSocialSocialSocial Ruth Gulliford 419-422-6203
Technical AdvisorTechnical AdvisorTechnical AdvisorTechnical Advisor Alan Kinker 419-385-8610
[email protected] Goodie StoreGoodie StoreGoodie StoreGoodie Store Jeff Vollmar 586-739-1636
[email protected] Web MasterWeb MasterWeb MasterWeb Master Janet Sternfeld
http://mm.pca.orghttp://mm.pca.orghttp://mm.pca.orghttp://mm.pca.org Zone 4 RepresentativeZone 4 RepresentativeZone 4 RepresentativeZone 4 Representative Roy Wilkinson 330-733-4813
199 Pfeiffer Ave Akron, OH 44312 [email protected]
http://zone4.pca.org
Moving??Moving??Moving??Moving??
P lease dro p R ich B rown( r s b row n@ t oa s t. n e t) o u r Membership Chairman, or myself a note with your old & new address so you don’t miss an issue of Der RÜCKSPIEGEL.
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Schnell FahrspurSchnell FahrspurSchnell FahrspurSchnell Fahrspur By Todd Mierzwiak
events. P lease RS VP the Krauser’s to let them know you will be there. We would like to have as many folks as possible to brainstorm ideas for the upcoming year. We had some terri fic events last year and great turnouts. I per-sonally would like to see a rally or two, some day trips maybe over to Auburn to visit the museums, or maybe over to Breitenbach Winery in Dover, Ohio. These are all easy day trips that I think everyone would truly enjoy and it’s a great excuse to get the car out for a little exercise.
I would like to extend a warm thank you to Janet Sternfeld, our web designer and Tom Isley, our newsletter editor for taking the time and patience to get the news-letter, along with past issues on the website. For those of you who do not routinely check the website, I would encourage you to make use of this resource especially as we get more content on the site such as the goody store, sponsors and the calendar of events. The web address for those of you who have not been on in a while is http://mm.pca.org.
We met in December at El Camino Real for an end of the year party where almost 30 members showed up to have a great evening. It was a chance to share a night with
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I hope everyone had a Happy New Year and a nice holiday season. Can you believe we are already into 2009? Where does the time go? I want to thank all of the officers and chairs for a job well done during the 2008
season. We had many fun events at our members’ homes, got to see a wonderful collection of cars up at Ken Lingenfelter’s facility, had an outstanding D.E. event at Mid Ohio, and traveled in a caravan of fi fteen P-cars down to Porsches to Oxford. Our club has been blessed with some very dedicated and wonderful people & I have been privileged to now call them my friends.
Well I decided as the new incom-ing president to put my small mark on the Ruckspeigel and change the column name to “Schnell Fahr-spur”, which roughly translates into “Fast Lane”. Sarah & I have the opportunity of going over to Germany, Switzerland and Austria later this year and I thought it would be fun to learn a new lan-guage. I ordered the Rosetta Stone learning tapes and we have begun learning German.
We will be meeting on January 18, 2009 at Chris & Jeanne Krauser’s home to plan our 2009 itinerary of
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MVRMVRMVRMVR----PCA Business Meeting PCA Business Meeting PCA Business Meeting PCA Business Meeting El Camino Real, December 11th, 2008
About 24 members showed up for the end of year dinner and business meet-ing held at the El Camino Real Res-taurant Thursday evening on Decem-ber 11th. The busi-ness meeting was
brief, during which it was an-nounced that Craig Zenil’s Father had passed away earlier in the week in Phoenix, Arizona. Craig called earlier and expressed his regret in not being able to attend so he could thank everyone for their efforts throughout the year. On behal f of everyone in the Maumee Valley Porsche Club, our condo-lences to Craig, Liala and the en-tire Zenil family for their loss.
It was also announced the 2009 planning party will be at the Krauser’s on January 18th, starting at 2 PM. Officers for 2009 include Todd Mierzwiak, President, Larry Erd, Vice-President, Jeff Vollmar, Treasurer and Chris Krauser, Sec-retary. Chair positions remain Tom Isley for Newsletter, Ruth Gulliford and Jeanne Krauser, So-cial, Jeff Vollmar, Driver Educa-tion, and Rich Brown taking over Membership. Our sincere appre-ciation to Tom Woodruff and Jack Mechel for the many years you were Secretary and Membership Chair, respectively, and for all of your contributions to the club’s success.
Chris Krauser—MVR Sec
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Porsche Thoughts 2Porsche Thoughts 2Porsche Thoughts 2Porsche Thoughts 2 By Pete MacDonald
As I’m sitting here at my desk, extremely busy, I find mysel f la-menting the fact that summer is over and it’s time to put the Box-ster away for its long winter nap.
(I started this letter in October and here I am finishing in December? Please excuse me for my rambling)
October: Fall has some of the Best top-down weather of the year, but not today. Today it’s going up to the mid 50’s and chance of rain and the weather report for the rest of the week is about the same. So… here I sit, thinking about all the great trips the Boxster and I took this year. In May, I drove to Augusta, Michigan for a 3 day golf outing. We drove to St. Cloud, Minnesota in June, 740 miles one way. I now know my Boxster is waterproof! We went to Houghton Lake, Michigan, 240 miles north (3 times). We took it White Water Rafting on the New River in West Virginia. Have you ever driven over or rafted under the New River Bridge? It’s the second highest bridge in the USA. And of course we can’t forget: P2O in July. Great time, great weather and great people. Go to the “ Porsches to Oxford” web site and click on Past Events at the top, then 2008 slideshow.
A few years ago I was actually thinking of selling it! What sense does it make having a car like this parked in the garage? Thank
goodness a cooler head prevailed, my lovely wife Deb wouldn’t let me sell. She said: “ You can’t drive it if you don’t own it.” Words of wisdom! Now, as winter is in full bloom, I wish we had driven more, seen more and as spring is far away, had the top down more often.
November: Finally, I washed, waxed, put the desiccant bag (for moisture con-trol) on the floor mat, hooked up the battery maintainer, pumped up the tires to 60 psi, rolled it onto carpet pieces and covered her up for the winter. I learned long ago about Sta-Bil fuel stabilizer. Any-time I think I won’t be driving for a while, I add it to the gas tank.
Loose thoughts and ramblings: In 2005 we had a new garage built. It took me about two years of plan-ning to design it just the way I wanted. I then took the design to local builders and asked them to quote it. NOT ONE WANTED TO give me a price for a 32’ by
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Maumee Valley Region 2009 Calendar of EventsMaumee Valley Region 2009 Calendar of EventsMaumee Valley Region 2009 Calendar of EventsMaumee Valley Region 2009 Calendar of Events Check our web site at www.mm.pca.org for the latest event information.
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WATCH THIS SPACE FOR
THE 2009 CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
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52’ two story garage! One day much later, Deb and I were driving down the street and saw the Amish building a pole barn. There must have been 10 of them crawling all over it! We stopped, talked to Mr. Miller, and about 3 days later, I had my quote. That was in May of 2005.
As you’ve guessed, I now have my “Taj MaGarage”, “ Garage Ma-Hal ”, “Pete’s Garage”, “ Man Room”, etc… 3600 square feet (1600 per floor) of boy toy space! The Amish built the structure; however, Deb and I’ve done every-
(Continued from page 7) thing else. From the “U-Coat it” floor to the fiberglass insulation, we did it. Oh, by the way, it may never be completed. When I finish the first floor I’ll move up stairs. It’s given me more pleasure (and bruises) than you can imagine.
As car guys and girls I wish for you all a place of joy and content-ment this Holiday Season.
Deb and I wish everyone a Fantas-tic New Year.
Pete & Deb MacDonald Silver 2003 Boxster.
Pete’s play ground
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The Year in PicturesThe Year in PicturesThe Year in PicturesThe Year in Pictures Photos by Tom Isley and Jeanne Krauser
From the top: Vin Devers 911 introduction (If you need to ask ... you weren’t there). The Concours at the Isley’s. At the Butcher’s. At El Camino Real.
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From the top: The planning meeting at the Krauser’s. The Holiday party. Brunch at Mon Ami. Zia’s at the Docks.
The Year in PicturesThe Year in PicturesThe Year in PicturesThe Year in Pictures Photos by Tom Isley and Jeanne Krauser
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MVR/PCA Membership NewsMVR/PCA Membership NewsMVR/PCA Membership NewsMVR/PCA Membership News
OOPS!OOPS!OOPS!OOPS! NonNonNonNon----renewalsrenewalsrenewalsrenewals
Did you forget to send your membe rship ren ew al into National? Won’t you please take a moment now to send it in? We’d hate to lose you as members!
January 2009 January 2009 January 2009 January 2009 ---- ClubClubClubClub Member AnniversariesMember AnniversariesMember AnniversariesMember Anniversaries
New MembersNew MembersNew MembersNew Members
No new members.
John Hurlburt Terrence Nessi f Geoffrey Wright
Terry and Cindy Crandell
33 Years
Thomas and Marilyn Edwards
26 Years
David and Carol Hauser
17 Years
Greg and Victoria Herr 15 Years
David Vrooman 10 Years
Jim and Mary Lee Grabowski
8 Years
David and Brain Kimple
6 Years
Mohamad and Tami Almasri
5 Years
Bruce Ziegler 3 Years
MVR Members,
After many years as Membership Chairman, Jack Mechel is stepping down and I will be taking his place. I want to thank Jack for his hard work and service over the years. The role of the Membership chairman is to assist the region in obtaining new members, assist the new members in becoming ac-quainted with the club, and to maintain the membership records for the region. Our club has about 130 members, and in 2008 about 70 members participated in at least one event. While that is great par-ticipation for a club our size, it also
means that about 60 members did not participate in a single event. While we will work to con-tinue growing our region through new members, we will also work at determining what we can do to increase participation of our pre-sent members.
Please watch over the next few months for an enhanced “Members” page on our web site, a Members Profile section and in the newsletter a “ Member of the Month” section.
Richard Brown — Membership Chairman
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MVR 2009 Point TotalsMVR 2009 Point TotalsMVR 2009 Point TotalsMVR 2009 Point Totals As of 12/31/08As of 12/31/08As of 12/31/08As of 12/31/08
Tom Isley 1
Deb Isley 1
Jack Mechel 1
Linda Mechel 1
Bob Cryan 2
Charlotte Cryan 2
Bill Roan 1
Barb Nolen 1
Richard Nolen 1
Diane Schoen 1
Jim Schoen 1
Jeff Vollmar 2
Michael Soriano 1
Lisa Soriano 1
Shirley Gobba 2
Dick Gobba 2
Alan Kinker 1
Sandra Kinker 1
Jeanne Krauser 1
Chris Krauser 1
Janet Sternfeld 1
Bill Sternfeld 1
Caryn Tanner 1
Tab Tanner 1
MVR Points Maumee Valley Region elected Officers will be ineligible for end of year awards so that they , as a group, can decide who should receive end of year awards for Enthusiast, Rookie and Family of the year. Officers, will make these decisions based on atten-dance, participation and involvement in Maumee Valley and Zone 4 activities and be a reflection of both participation and contribution. • 1 point for attending any PCA Zone 4
event reported to the MVR Secretary • 1 point for participating in an event such
as an Autocross, Concour, Driver's Ed., etc and reported to the MVR Secretary
• 1 point for driving a Porsche to any PCA Zone 4 event reported to the MVR Sec-retary
• 1 point for driving over 50 miles to any Zone 4 event reported to the MVR Sec-retary
• 1 point for helping with an event in a significant manner as reported to the MVR Secretary or Event Chair
• 3 points for chairing or hosting an event reported to the MVR Secretary
Note: To receive credit for attending or
participating in an event outside MVR, but within Zone 4, a member must report on this event in the Der RÜCK-SPIEGEL as well as to the MVR Secre-tary
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The annual planning meeting will be on January 18, starting at 2 p.m. at the Krauser’s. Snacks will be provided. RSVP to
Jeanne Krauser 419-841-7984 or CPJMKrauser@ JUNO.com.
Volunteers needed
(If you don’t show, you might get volunteered)
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Stuttgart. In the new Porsche Mu-seum the final preparations are made for the opening on Saturday, 31 January 2009. At last, now that the scaffolding has been removed, it is possible to see to the full ex-tent the bold architecture of the building at the head office prem-ises of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG in Zuffenhausen: The 5,600 square metres of exhibition space are sup-ported on just three so-called cores of reinforced concrete – hence just seeming to hover in space. Inside the building the majority of ap-proximately 80 exhibits are already in place. In the other areas of the new build-ing – amongst them the museum workshops, the museum shop, the Porsche archive, an exclusive res-taurant, a bistro and the capacious event areas – a team of experts are
busy putting the finishing touches. Three days after the ceremonial opening, which takes place on Wednesday, the 28 January 2009, the doors of the new Porsche Mu-seum will be flung open to wel-come the first visitors. On a daily basis, apart from Mondays, the exhibition can be viewed for an admission price of eight Euros (reduced price: four Euros). Chil-dren up to the age of 14 get free admission when accompanied by an adult. The restaurant on the second floor – which has both a view through the glass facade onto the Porsche-platz as well as through the glass partition into the exhibition itself – has its own separate entrance and is also open at hours different from those of the museum itself.
New Porsche Museum to be Opened on 31 January 2009New Porsche Museum to be Opened on 31 January 2009New Porsche Museum to be Opened on 31 January 2009New Porsche Museum to be Opened on 31 January 2009
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Maumee Valley Region Maumee Valley Region Maumee Valley Region Maumee Valley Region MartMartMartMart
Clean out your garage. Advertise here.
2004 VW, R32, red/blk , allwhl/dr., 31,000 miles, excellent con-dition, best handling & sounding car I’ve ever owned, $21,500.
1962 Austin Mini, 1100 cc, Cali-fornia black plate car, very nice, engine out, all new brakes disk/drum, new proper Dunlop tires, and Dunlop mags, all new poly bushes, new radiator, etc., etc.
too much to list, $12,000 obo.
GARAGE / MOVING SALEGARAGE / MOVING SALEGARAGE / MOVING SALEGARAGE / MOVING SALE CONTACT LARRY ERD at HOME 419.535.5550 OR CELL 419.944.8668
ReminderReminderReminderReminder: Items for sale can also be sent to our webmaster at [email protected] for those interested in putting their ad on the MVR web
site.
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….the Checkered Flag!….the Checkered Flag!….the Checkered Flag!….the Checkered Flag!
The cover says it all. I think at this point in the year we are all waiting for the chance to get back on the road in the Porsche.
Thanks to Janet and prodding from oth-ers, we now have the Der RÜCK-SPIEGEL available on the MVR web site. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
Pete MacDonald has provided an-other interesting article on his ex-periences with Porsche ownership.
Our annual planning meeting is coming up soon. The Krauser’s will be hosting it again this year. Be sure to be there to help with setting up the events for this year. I know that the Social Chairs are looking for your input.
Flash your headlights at a fellow Porsche owner on the road!! Keep the kindred spirit alive!!
…..the editor
friends and to see Bob Cryan off for one last time. We will miss Bob’s smile and genuine friend-ship. I’m sure that he is experienc-ing the opportunity of a li fetime as the Assistant Provost of an all women’s university in Dubai. Charlotte & Bob will be missed by all of us, but we understand that these types of opportunities don’t come along often.
Hopefully everyone got their “babies” put away for the season. I finally got the Turbo put away for the winter last week. It always seems like there’s something else to do that takes precedence. The car is under cover and on trickle charge for the cold weather. Hope-fully Old Man Winter doesn’t last too long. I purchased a small open trailer so that I can take advantage of a few more D.E.’s this year, maybe at Grattan Raceway or Wat-kins Glen. If anyone else would like to get an additional event in this year, let me know.
On the business side of things, I would ask that everyone try to “ reach out” to those members that have not traditionally been active to see of we can get them coming to some of the social events. We need to keep the club viable in both attracting new members and keeping the existing members in-terested in social events. I wel-come any feedback or ideas that the members have.
Keep the Porsche “ blink” alive!
Todd
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