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May:
2nd: Saturday No Fly Zone, and All German Affair at Minter Field, Shafter
2nd: Saturday Breakfast at Minter Field Air Museum, 8am –10am. Lunch at Noon. Both museum fund raisers.
3rd: Sunday, GEM/PCA Zone 8 Spring Autocross at the Minter Field Airport
11th: Monday, Streets of Willow, Hosted by the Orange County Region of the PCA
16-17th, Sat-Sun Lilac Festival at The Pine Mountain Club
19th, Tuesday, Social Dinner at Bill Lee’s Chinese Restaurant. 1203 18th Street, 6:30pm
31st, Sunday, San Luis Obispo Concours d’ Elegance, Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo
June:
16th, Tuesday, Social Meeting at Goose Loonies Tavern and Grill
19–21st, Fri-Sun, Mammoth Lakes Driving Tour
Our Next Social Dinner Meeting will be held at Bill Lee’s Chinese Restaurant.
1203 18th Street, Bakersfield, Tuesday evening, May, 19th at 6:30
Business Meeting at 5:30p with Dinner to follow at 6:30p
Crest RV Park, Every Saturday Morning at 8:am for Breakfast and Chit Chat , 5025 Wible Road
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Porsche Club of America
Golden Empire Region
Board Members and Chair Persons
Webmaster
Anton Khatsanovich
Newsletter Editor
Michael Thomas
Safety Chair &
Insurance Coordinator
Mike McGregor
Membership Chair &
Communication Chair
Loren Stumbaugh
PCA Membership While our cars are very exclusive, our club is not.
Did you know that you can add a family member
or other interested person as an affiliate member,
at no additional cost? The family or affiliate mem-
ber must also be 18 years of age or older.
For all of the details contact our Membership
Chair:
Loren Stumbaugh
Porsche Club of America
Golden Empire Region
Membership Chairman
(661) 747-4416
Please join us online at our newly remodeled
Website and on our Facebook Group page:
http://gem.pca.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/
PCA.GoldenEmpireRegion/
And please send any Newsletter comments
or content contributions to :
Treasurer
Betsy Wadman
Vice President
Pat Wadman
Secretary
Chuck Anderson
President
Linn Christopher
Autocross Co-Chairs
Greg Fullmer
Charles Rook
Omar Olivas
Social Coordinators
Sandy Anderson
Maggie Chow
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Our Donation presentations to M.A.R.E.
The Golden Empire Region of the Porsche Club of America
Is honored to present the M.A.R.E. therapy riding center a $5000 gift
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Our Donation presentations to Minter Field Air Museum
The Golden Empire Region of the Porsche Club of America
Later that day we were pleased to present the Minter Air Museum with $1000
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Way to Go, Tammy Jo !
First Place Win in her division with her new Boxster !!
It’s not just an AX car, It’s a show car too !!
Way to Go, Tammy Jo !
Looks like Girls get flowers when they win !
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Festival of Speed, The Biggest Porsche Event in So-Cal . Thanks goes out to all the GEM membership who volunteered their assistance !!
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June 2015
May 2015
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 An All German
Affair, Charles’
hanger Party
3 GEM AutoCross
MinterFieldAirport
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10 Mother’s Day 11 Streets of
Willow hosted by
OCR/PCA
12 13 14 15 16 Lilac Festival
Pine Mountain
Club
17 Lilac Festival
Pine Mountain
Club
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 San Luis Obispo
Concours d’
Elegance
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 Mammoth
Porsche Tour
20 Mammoth
Porsche Tour
21 Father’s Day
Mammoth
Porsche Tour
22 Porsche Parade
French Lick
23 Porsche Parade
French Lick
24 Porsche Parade
French Lick
25 Porsche Parade
French Lick
26 Porsche Parade
French Lick
27 Porsche Parade
French Lick
28 29 30
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July 2015
August 2015
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 Fireworks Day
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 A Gather of
Friends in San Luis
All European Car
Show
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Five PORSCHE “SUPERCARS” from 5 Different Decades
No matter how you define “SUPERCARS”, Porsche has made a number of them with at least one getting developed each decade.
Each and every Porsche on the list below was ahead of its time, performed better than all or most of its peers and are still highly
prized to this day. Sure, you could argue that other models should be on the list, but each of these Porsches below have the
following in common:
The brought/bring racing technology to road users
Successful for achieving the best times in their respective categories and eras
Featured trendsetting designs and technologies that were ahead of their time
Used ideas and concepts that drove key innovations in other Porsche models (and even for the automotive industry as a
whole)
THE 1950'S: PORSCHE 550 SPYDER
Designed by Ferdinand Alexander
"Butzi" Porsche, the 904 marked 2
"firsts" for Porsche. It was the first
time in Porsche's history that a
closed-top, mid-engined model
would be sold to the public as well
as the first Porsche model to have
a plastic body. Available with ei-
ther a four, six or eight cylinder
engine, the 904 could produce as
much as 240 hp. Five months after
it was released it went on to win
the Targo Floria and performed
well at both the Monte Carlo Rally
and Le Mans.
THE 1960'S: PORSCHE 904 CARRERA GTS
The 550 Spyder holds the distinc-
tion of being the first Porsche built
specifically for racing. Sure, you
could drive it to the track on the
streets it was street legal after all),
but it's 110 hp four-cylinder, four-
cam engine was more at home on
the track. Weighing in at only
550kg the 550 Spyder managed to
take a class win, and an overall
ranking of third, in the 1954 Carre-
ra Panamericana, despite the com-
petition being equipped with much
larger engines.
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THE 1970'S: PORSCHE 911 TURBO
Sales of production 911 Turbos
didn't start until the 1975
model year. However, prior to
this, Ernst Fuhrman -using the
knowledge gained with turbo
chargers on Porsche's race cars
- thought it would be possible
to transfer that technology to a
911. His early experiment with
a turbo charged 911 was first
displayed in Europe at a num-
ber of automotive shows. The
first production turbo to go on
sale in 1975 was powered with
a 3.0 liter flat-six that made 260
hp and had a top speed of 250
km/h.
THE 1980'S PORSCHE 959
The Porsche 959 was so far ahead of its
time that's it's only within the last five to
ten years that we've seen some of its
technological features (kevlar and fiber-
glass-reinforced plastic body panels,
aluminum doors, zero-lift aerodynamic
package, all-wheel-drive with adjustable
torque split, 6-speed manual transmis-
sion, variable shock damping and ride
height, etc.) make their way down into
the rest of the luxury and sports car
market. It's sub 4-second zero to 60
times would make a number of new
sports cars blush and its limited build
numbers (292 production units) have
driven prices so high that most of us will
be lucky to ever see one let along drive
or own one. This technological bench-
Designed as a purpose built race-car,
rules required a street legal version be
built for homologation purposes.
Porsche obliged with the creation of 20
units, each hand built by the racing
department in Weissach. Like the 959
before it, the 911 GT1 Straßenversion
hit 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds on its
way to a top speed of 191 mph. As the
engine on the GT1 was "mid-mounted"
this makes them the only non rear-
engined 911s to be produced.
THE 1990'S: PORSCHE 911 GT1
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As near as we can tell, the first Porsche Hot Wheels car was produced in 1975. Known as the P-911, this miniature
Porsche was part of the Flying Colors lineup from Hot Wheels and stuck around in one way, shape or form until
2001. Since then, and in the years between 1975 and 2011, Hot Wheels parent company, Mattel, produced a
number of Porsche die-casts ranging from the "Upfront 924" to the 911 GT3 RS as well as everything in between.
Last week we got word of a new collection that will be available this June at Walmart. Titled the "Porsche Series"
there are a total of eight cars to choose from:
Porsche 914-6
Porsche 917K
Porsche 918 Spyder
Porsche 935-78
Porsche 959
Porsche 993 GT2
Porsche Boxster Spyder
Porsche Carrera GT
NOW YOU CAN BUY YOUR NEXT PORSCHE AT WALMART!
Tammy and I are probably the only ones excited about this story !
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PORSCHE HOT WHEELS COLLECTING IS BIG BUSINESS
Surprisingly, a number of these Porsche Hot Wheels have all been produced before, just with different colors and
under a different series. While all the Porsches in this series get a fresh look (and some of the color choices leave
a little to be desired in my opinion) the only really "new" style will be the Porsche 918 as this is the first time it
will be offered.
Just check out the listings on Ebay if you want to see for yourself. The new Porsche Series becomes available at
Walmart this June. While we don't necessarily love all the colors/liveries, I'm sure we'll still grab a set to add to
our growing collection. It really is the least expensive and most accessible way to get into die-cast collecting.
Great Porsche Driving Tour that is held in a gorgeous mountain area of California.
Several GEM members attended this event last year. But when they driving group
leaders ask which driving group you want to drive with, tell them the slower group !!