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June 2014 1 Sun Pomona Swap Meet 1 Sun OCR Concours, Lantern Bay Park 1 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 7 Sat Breakfast Club-Tilted Kilt, Long Beach 7 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 7 Sat Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show 8 Sun F1, Montreal 8 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 15 Sun Father's Day 15-21 S-Sun Porsche Parade, Monterey, California 20-22 F-Sun PCA Club Race, VIR 22 Sun F1, Austria 28 Sat SBR Street Survival School 28-29 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Heartland Park 29 Sun ALMS, Watkins Glen 29 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 29 Sun Ramadan
July 2014 4 Fri Independence Day 4 Fri SBR Parade 5 Sat GPX Breakfast Club — Glory Days Beachside Grill, Seal Beach 5 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 6 Sun F1, Great Britain 12 Sat GPX Tour & Picnic to Paramount Ranch 11-13 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Putnam Park 13 Sun ALMS, Mosport 13 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 19 Sat SBR 50th Anniversary Celebration 20 Sun F1, Germany 25 Fri ALMS, Indianapolis 26-27 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Brainerd 26 Sat CCC Autocross, Santa Maria 27 Sun F1, Hungary 27 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro
August 2014 2 Sat SDR Concours 2 Sat GPX Breakfast Club — Glory Days Beachside Grill, Seal Beach 2 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 8-10 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Mosport 9-10 S-Sun Laguna Seca Pre-Historics 10 Sun ALMS, Road Ameerica 10 Sun Pomona Swapmeet 10 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 14-17 T-Sun Monterey Historics 15 Fri Werks Reunion, Rancho Canada, Monterey 16-17 S-Sun PCA Club Race, High Plains 17 Sun Pebble Beach Concours 22-24 F-Sun PCA Club Race, NJMP Thunderbolt Raceway 24 Sun ALMS, VIR 24 Sun F1, Belgium 24 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 25 Sun Rosh Hashana 29-Sep 29 LA County Fair, Fairplex
29-1 F-Mon SBR Get Your Kicks on Route 66 30-1 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Road America
September 2014 1 Mon Labor Day 6 Sat GPX Breakfast Club — Glory Days Beachside Grill, Seal Beach 6 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 6-7 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Thunderhill 7 Sun F1, Italy 12-14 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Mid Ohio 13 Sat SBR Detail Clinic, Lavaggios 14 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 19-21 F-Sun Coronado Speed Festival 20-21 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Gingerman 20-21 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Miller 20 Sat ALMS, Austin 20 Sat CCC Autocross, Santa Maria 21 Sun F1, Singapore 21 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 26-28 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Summit Point 27-28 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Willow Springs (TT) 27 Sat RR Timeline to Arrowhead 27 Sat SBR Annual Chili Cookoff October 2014 3-5 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Daytona 4 Sat GPX Breakfast Club — Glory Days Beachside Grill, Seal Beach 4 Sat GPX Board Meeting after Breakfast 4-5 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Hallett 4 Sat ALMS, Road Atlanta 4 Sat Yom Kippur 5 Sun F1, Japan 6 Mon GPX Day Away from Work, Streets of Willow 12 Sun F1, Russia 12 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 12 Sun SBR Concours 13 Mon Colunbus Day 19 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 19 Sun Pomona Swap Meet 25-26 S-Sun SDR DE/TT Chuckwalla 31-2 F-Sun PCA Club Race, Carolina Motorsport Park 31 Fri Halloween
November 2014 1 Sat GPX Breakfast Club — Glory Days Beachside Grill, Seal Beach 1 Sat GPXDE/TimeTrial,FontanaInfield 1 Sat SAR Concours 2 Sun Daylight Savings Ends 2 Sun F1, Austin 4 Tue Election Day 8-9 S-Sun PCA Club Race, Motorsport Ranch 9 Sun Rose Bowl Swap Meet 11 Tue Veteran's Day 14 Fri Test N Tune, Buttonwillow 15-16 S-Sun SDR TT/Club Race, Buttonwillow 15-16 S-Sun SBR Warbirds & Wine 16 Sun OCR Autocross, El Toro 21-30 107th Los Angeles Auto Show 23 Sun F1 Abu Dhabi 27 Thu Thanksgiving
Grand Prix Region &Zone 8 Club Calendar
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2 Grand Prix Region & Zone 8 Calendar
3 Table of Contents - Board of Directors & Chairs
4 GPXParamountRanchPicnicflyer—July12
5 GPXDayAwayfromWorkflyer—October
6 WrightofWay—President'sColumn
7 Editorial License
OntheCover:ThePorsche919Hybrid
8 LeMans—TheMovie,TheMovieStar,TheCar
10 LeMans24Hours—TenMagicMoments
12 ANightofStars
20 MemberSpotlight—Marty&BritaGoldsmith
22 BookReviewforPorschephiles:
Dream Garages
24 MembershipReport/Anniversaries—May
25 MembershipReport/Anniversaries—June
27 GPXBreakfastClubLocationChangeinformation
27 SantaBarbaraRegion50thAnniversaryRaffle
LARJuly20Concoursd'Elegance
SBRJuly1950thAnniversaryCelebration
28 FriendsofSteveMcQueenCarShow—June7
30 ClassifiedAds
31 GPXBreakfastClubMeetingAd
IndextoAdvertisers
CommercialAdRates
EDITORIAL POLICY: THE CIRCUIT is the official publication of the GRAND PRIX REGION of the PORSCHE CLUB OF AMERICA. Statements appearing in THE CIRCUIT are those of the author and are not necessarily the opinions of the CLUB or its editorial staff. The Editor reserves the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Permission to reprint any material herein is granted providing full credit is given to the authors and THE CIRCUIT, with the exception of copyrighted material.
ADDRESS CHANGE: Please notify membership chair, Gail Sachs, of any address, email, phone or membership status changes: Gail Sachs, PO Box 230874, Encinitas, CA 92023-0874 or (650) 279-1876 [email protected]. Also notify PCA at PO Box 5900, Springfield, VA 22150 or [email protected]
Web sitesGPX GrandPrixRegion.comZone 8 Zone8.orgPCA National Pca.orgPCNA us.Porsche.com/nationalPorsche AG Porsche.com
Don't forget to visit the Grand Prix RegionWeb site at: www.GrandPrixRegion.com
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Contents 2014 GPX Board of Directors & ChairsPresident - Suesan Way Carter (619) [email protected]
Vice President - Dave Hockett (909) [email protected]
Secretary - Marty Goldsmith (562) [email protected]
Treasurer - Linda Cobarrubias(310) [email protected]
Activities - Arturo Chaparro(323) [email protected]
Membership - Bob & Karen Lewis(310) [email protected]
Editor - Skip Carter (619) [email protected]
Zone 8 RepresentativeTom Brown(760) [email protected]
Advertisingvacant - speak with Suesan if interested
Chief Driving InstructorMike Mulligan (760) 672-9175 [email protected]
Circuit DistributionAlbert Franco(310) 379-8987 [email protected]
Concours co-chairsLinda Cobarrubias(310) 990-0993 [email protected]
Dick Douglas(805) 967-5545 [email protected]
Flagging TeamBob & Karen Lewis(562) 429-3777 [email protected]
Fundraising / CharityChuck Weaver(562) 430-3010 [email protected]
Goodie StoreBob Baddy & Junko Kamei(310) 951-7979 [email protected]
InsuranceRon Shanon(310) 375-9840 [email protected]
Performance Driving EventsSkip Carter(619) 992-9927 [email protected]
RegistrationColleen Stein(661) 714-3030 [email protected]
SafetyNick Perdikaris(310) 901-8154 [email protected]
Social Susan Moard(626) 705-8686 [email protected]
Social MediaMark Nelson(917) 609-9674 [email protected]
Tech InspectionDan Hockett(909) 921-5596 [email protected]
Technical AdviserMichael Dolphin(213) 248-4743 [email protected]
TimingDarren & Jennifer Cole(661) 209-9498 [email protected]
Tours co-chairsMarty Goldsmith(562) 494-6350 [email protected]
Jeff Peck(310) 345-8081 [email protected]
WebmasterJimmie Mitchell(310) 539-2568 [email protected]
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Grand Prix Region Paramount Ranch Picnic Tour
Porsche Speedster, 550 Spyder: Jaguar C-Type, D-Type: Ferrari Monza, 4.9: MG TD,TF, A; Lotus, Triumph, Corvette, Mercedes Gull Wing, Alfa, Frazer-Nash---they all raced here.
Ken Miles, Chuck Daigh, Dan Gurney, Richie Ginther, Bruce Kessler, Lance Reventlow, Jack Nethercutt,John von Neumann, Ruth Levy, Lew Spencer, Jack McAfee, Bob Bondurant --- they all raced here.
The Paramount Ranch is an old movie set location located near Agoura in the Santa Monica Mountains. After passing through several private hands, it now a part of the National Park Service Santa Monica Mountain Recreational Area. http://www.nps.gov/samo/planyourvisit/paramountranch.htm
We will meet on Coastline Drive in Malibu, Coastline is 3/4 of a mile north of Sunset Blvd on Pacific Coast Highway. Turn right on Coastline and pull off the road just past the first street on the right (Surfview). We will depart at 9:00 am sharp, we will take a fun drive through the Santa Monica Mountains enroute to the Ranch, There is a nice covered area where we will enjoy our picnic lunches.
The 2 mile road course was only operated for two years, 1956-57. It was narrow and twisting with ups and downs, perfect for Porsches! Some portions of the track can still be found. We will have the opportunity to walk parts of it. Marty Goldsmith, who organized this tour, worked at all five of the race weekends held there. Marty and Ranger Tom Young will give us a tour and history lesson about the track and sports car racing as it was at that time. We will try to pick our way around the course on foot, trying to identify some of its outstanding features (including an underpass/tunnel). We will also see a movie about the Ranch as a motion picture set.
When: July 12, 2014 Saturday 8:30am (for a 9:00 am sharp departure)
Where: 18000 Coastline Dr, Malibu
Bring: picnic lunch & good walking shoes
Cost: $10.00 per car donation to Children's Dental Health Clinic
Questions: Marty Goldsmith [email protected] or (562) 494-6350 (h) or (562) 537-6793 (c)RSVP: [email protected] or (562) 494-6350 (h)
Morning practice — 20 minute continuous lap DE sessionsMid day — Autocross timing — 3 timed lapsAfternoon – Two more continuous lap DE sessionsEntry level event — no special equipment needed for stock classesRun groups determined by experience and performance Instructors available (required for novice drivers) See http://zone8.pca.org/events_de.php for rules, car classification info, tech station locations, etc.Cars need to be tech’d at authorized Tech Station within 30 days of eventRequired Sunday afternoon Ground School for novices (at hotel)Registration and Tech available at hotel Sunday afternoonHelmets available for rent/purchaseBreakfast & Lunch: coffee, donuts, breakfast & lunch available at concession stand
HOTEL INFO – Hampton Inn & Suites2300 Double Play Way, Lancaster (661) 940-9194$105.00 double occupancy with breakfast (mention Porsche Club)
October 6, 2014 — MondayStreets of WillowGrand Prix Region Drivers ED & Zone 8 Autocross
Early Registration Fee: $120.00 per driver ($145.00 if paid after September 30 ‑‑‑ At event $170.00)
INSURANCE NOTE: Liability insurance is provided by PCA’s traditional insurer. A copy of the Certificate of Insurance is available at reg-istration. PCA insurance does NOT cover damage to your car or damage that YOU cause to the facility or other cars. You are responsible for this. Please see the PCA website (www.pca.org) and go to the insurance page for more information. Please review your personal car insurance to verify what coverage it provides, if any.
On‑Line Registration http://pcagpx.MotorsportReg.com
For help, contact Registrar —
(619) 992‑4287 [email protected]
For other information: Event Chair —(619) 992‑9927 or [email protected]
REGISTRATION OPENS AUGUST 15
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Write of Way, by Suesan Way
Canadian Geese
As well you all know, every month there comes the familiar cry from my Editor and Husband: "I need your column!" It’s not that I don’t know those four words are heading my way each month... I do. What is there to say? I have no ideas and, for a talker, that is truly unbelievable. But writing a column each month when there is so much to say is a problem — or-ganizing all of what there is to say. But this month I actually know what to say. So, when my editor and husband said "I need your column?" I didn’t have just a couple of silent words for him in my head, instead I said yes Sir – I’ve got it covered.
For example, this month, we have a big huge change to an-nounce. We are ON THE MOVE. That’s right. WE ARE ON THE MOVE! We are going to a new location for our monthly breakfast meetings starting in July — July 5th to be exact. You may remember seeing a recent email with a call for help find a new place for us to hold our first Saturday of the month get togethers. Our current meeting place, the Tilted Kilt, has, for the most part, worked out well. How-ever, we have not been meeting their expectations on the number of breakfasts that we have been purchasing. In fact, they needed us to double our current sales and to guarantee that number each month which, of course, we will not do. SO, WE ARE MOVING ON JULY 5TH to the GLORY DAYS BEACHSIDE GRILL IN SEAL BEACH. After some very extensive looking around by a team lead by Chuck Weaver, it proved to be a very difficult challenge to find somewhere that would have a number of criteria that would meet our needs. We need a restaurant that can offer break-fast and can hold a meeting – not just a gathering and tire kicking spot. We do serious business, like giving away door prizes and formally meeting each other and getting caught up on the goings on in the Porsche Club of America in our region and the clubs around us. We also need really good parking and we like to see our cars so they need to be close to whatever building we are meeting in. We also need to have coffee and breakfast and room for everyone, whether people want breakfast or not, which is a very big sticking point with most restaurants.
Most often we have found that places just do not want to staff and cook without guaranteeing numbers, which is where I started. We are not prepared to have people RSVP for Saturday breakfasts.
The Glory Day Beachside Grill in Seal Beach was found by Bruce Brown, one of our members. They are extremely ac-
commodating and have enough room for us. They also have a sound system and are willing to serve breakfast for 30 to 65 people – just whoever shows up and wants to be fed. So that works for us perfectly. We can
give it a try and see how it goes. We are not signing any con-tracts, just trying it out. So please come and try it out with us on July 5th.
There has been a GPX Presidential Appointment; we have a new Benevolent Chair. Barbara Gillam, long time Grand Prix member, will do this job. We are still working on the job description. If you have ideas, please sent them to me. The basic concept is to be the official smile and kind word of GPX and to reach out to our members who would benefit from those kind of wishes formally.
SAVE THE DATE on August 2nd. Wee are having a sum-mer time party in Ladera Heights – all information will be on Motorsportsreg.com soon. We will open early in July with all the information. We will be honouring our friend and past board member, Pete Ross, who passed late last year. We are dedicating the party to Pete and everyone is invited.
Stayed tune for more email information.
BREAKFAST AT THE TILTED KILT ON JUNE 7TH WILL BE OUR LAST TIME THERE – COME AND GIVE BEST WISHES TO OUR GOODIE STORE CHAIRS BOB AND
JUNKO, WHO ARE MOVING TO OHIO
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Skip Carter
Sleazy Dog Construction
On the Cover...On June 14th/15th the countdown to Porsche’s return to the highest class at the Le Mans 24-Hour race with the 919 Hybrid will be over.
The record of 16 overall wins at what is probably the hard-est car race in the world remains unbeaten.
As Gary Watkins said in the last issue of MotorSport: "Audi has ruled for 14 years, but for many Porsche is still the true king of Le Mans. Now, finally, it returns. Racing's most anticipated comeback is on."
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Like tens of thousands of other Porschephiles (that num-ber is a gross understatement), we have waited 15 years for Porsche to mount a run at an unprecedented 17th overall victory at the 24 Hours du Mons.
At first we thought it was just a 1-year layoff. Every year at the Porsche Parade, Porsche representatives make a presenta-tion about the status of Porsche, new models and such. For the first 10 years or so, the audience raised the same ques-tion: "When are we going back to Le Mans?" The question was accompanied with a strong roar from the audience. For each of those years we were asked to be patient... Maybe not in those words, but certainly that is what we understood.
Coincidentally, this year's Porsche Parade in Monterey coincides with all of this. June 14/15 is the race, which is right at the beginning of Parade. It wasn't planned that way. As a matter of fact, neither PCA nor Porsche wanted this to happen, but fate took a hand, and there you are. Personally, I realize that I am going to be at the largest Porsche Parade in history (over 1500 attendees), watching the greatest car race in the world and Porsche's attempt to create history, and I'm anticipating that I won't be watching alone. Although I haven't heard of any plans, I can't imagine that there isn't a jumbotron arranged in a very large space for a very enthusi-astic group of crazed Porsche fans.
As a tribute to Porsche's return to Le Mans, I've included a few things in this Circuit. One is an article written by the GPX Chief Driving Instructor, Mike Mulligan (who also happens to be the PCA National Club Race Scrutineer). It originally appeared in the March 2002 Windblown Witness, the San Diego Region newsletter, of which I was editor at the time. I've dusted it off and presented it here. This article focuses on 917-022, which Mugzy and I had an opportunity to climb in and around while it spent some time in San Di-ego. We did everything we could to keep from drooling on her. 022 was the camera car for the making of the movie Le Mans, which you will read about in a few pages.
The other Le Mans related article comes from a recent Porsche Press Release. It highlights 10 Magic Porsche Mo-ments from Le Mans, each from a different significant person from that history. If you want to read more about the
actual Porsche 919 that will be competing in two weeks, I'd suggest turning to page 50 of the April Panorama and/or the June issue of MotorSport. This is pretty exciting stuff!
As far as our own Grand Prix Region goes, the news is that we are changing our Breakfast Club location starting with our July 5th event. We're heading South about half a mile on PCH to the Glory Days Beachside Cafe in Seal Beach. The Seal Beach part is important, because the original Glory Days is in Long Beach, so if you show up in July and don't find anyone else there, you'll know you're mistake.
From time to time in the world of sport there are individu-als who feel the need to branch out into occupations beyond those in which they are known to excel. Unfortunately, many attempt to move into show business. We’ve all seen some former athlete delivering lines with stiffness worthy of a Formula 1 chassis, but there are occasional successes. Here we have one of the most spectacular. You see, while the Porsche 917 has been called one of the greatest racing cars of all time, this particular example gained fame not on the track, but as a film star.
The 917 shocked the motor racing world when it appeared at the Geneva Motor Show in March of 1969. Conceived and built in great secrecy at the Porsche works, it was a prod-uct of rule changes designed expressly to eliminate its type from international sports car racing. Alarmed by the speeds (and perhaps the nationality) of the seven liter Ford GT-40s and their counterparts from Lola, the FIA decreed that for 1969 all prototype sports racing cars would be limited to a maximum of 3 liter engine displacement, and that produc-tion sports cars would be allowed a maximum of five liters. In this case production was defined as a minimum run of 50 (later reduced to 25) cars. The thinking was that the many privateers who were running Fords and Lolas would still be allowed to compete (albeit with smaller engines) since there were easily 25 of each already in existence, but that no manufacturer would be willing to ante up the enormous cost to design and build 25 copies of a new five liter proto-type racing car. They had significantly underestimated the Porsche racing works desire for victory.
In April of 1969, the FIA’s representative was summoned to the Porsche factory and was stunned by the sight of 25 917 coupes lined up side to side outside the Werk 1 build-ing. Though they most likely weren’t very happy about it, the FIA had no choice but to homologate the new car for the coming season. Getting there was only half the battle however, and Porsche spent the better part of the ’69 season sorting out the new car.
The 917 was fast right out of the box, but tricky handling made it quite a handful for the drivers, and reliability issues caused several retirements. In spite of the difficulties, a 917 led the 1969 Le Mans 24-hour race until a cracked bellhous-ing sidelined the car after nearly 21 hours. The type’s first win would come at Zeltweg in Austria in the last race of the season. 1970 would bring a significant change of fortune.Development work in the off-season had sorted out the 917s handling woes, and Porsche hit the ground running in 1970.
Le Mans - The Movie, The Movie Star, The Carby Mike Mulligan (reprinted from March 2002 Windblown Witness)photos by Skip Carter (courtesy of Symbolic Motor Car Company)
Five of the first six races of the season were won by Porsche. The exception was Sebring, where Porsche came second to Ferrari, not with a 917, but with a 908 driven by Peter Rev-son and some Hollywood-type named McQueen...
These five victories gave Porsche the 1970 World Champion-ship, but there was little time for celebration. The next race was Le Mans.
The 24-hour race was valued above all others for Porsche. They had a remarkable record of class wins at Le Mans, but they had never won the race outright and were desperate to do so. There were no less than seven 917s entered that year, and Ferrari countered with eleven 512S models. The event was looking like a stand off between the two greatest sports car manufacturers in the world, a true clash of titans. In the end, bad weather and attrition would decide the race. Rich-ard Attwood and Hans Herrmann's 917 won overall with another 917 second, followed by a trusty old 908 and two of the Ferraris in fourth and fifth. As a 914 driver, I feel obliged to point out that the car that placed sixth overall, and first in the GT class, was in fact, a 914/6 GT.
Ahem…
The 1970 Le Mans event brought Porsche the first of its six-teen victories in the great race. It was also unique in that the whole event was filmed, from every possible angle, by a team of Hollywood film makers. Shortly after the actual race, sev-eral of the cars and drivers returned to the Sarthe circuit to complete the filming that had begun during the race in June.
It is at this point that we first meet our film star, and become re-acquainted with that chap that finished second at Sebring. The car you see on these pages is 917-022, the 22nd of the original batch of 25 built in 1969. It was unused until it sold to Steve McQueen’s Solar productions for use in the film Le Mans. It was to serve as a camera car and back-up in case one of the other 917s was crashed or encountered mechani-cal difficulty. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve ridden aboard 022. All of those wonderful in-car and on-car shots were filmed by cameras rigged to various parts of the 917. If you know where to look, the camera mounting brackets are still visible on the chassis. Though by now it was perhaps the most publicly visible example of a 917, the car had never actually turned a wheel in anger. It would have to wait until 1971 to get its chance.
Reinhold Joest ran 022 in selected events in 1971, but only managed a fourth at Spa and a sixth at Brands Hatch. Brian Redman bought the car from Joest, but did very little with it, finally selling it to Le Mans winner Richard Attwood in 1978. Attwood had the car repainted to match his 1970 win-ning car, and raced and displayed the car rather infrequently until 2000. When Attwood sold the car, it made its
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Le Mans - The Movie, The Movie Star, The Carby Mike Mulligan (reprinted from March 2002 Windblown Witness)photos by Skip Carter (courtesy of Symbolic Motor Car Company)
The start of the 1970 Le Mans 24-hour race as captured by the camera of Solar Productions
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Stuttgart . On June 14th/15th the countdown to Porsche’s return to the highest class at the Le Mans 24-Hour race with the 919 Hybrid will be over. The record of 16 overall wins at what is probably the hardest car race in the world remains unbeaten. Nevertheless, Porsche cannot rely on its successful past. The prototype with its two innovative energy recovery systems is com-pletely new territory. However, Le Mans isn’t all about technology. Memories like the ten below highlight how hard it is to win this marathon.
Jacky Ickx(Born 01.01.1945 in Brussels, BE, four overall wins with Porsche, six in total):“After three hours we thought we’d lost the race. My 936 was out, and I joined up with Jürgen Barth and Hurley Haywood. But they were having trouble as well. We were in 42nd place. I still can’t get my head around what happened next. It was this euphoric state. I drove the whole night through at top speed, always at the limit. In rain and fog. I just got faster and faster. 42nd, 35th, 28th, 20th, ninth, sixth, fifth. Everyone felt that we could achieve the unimaginable. Jürgen and Hurley drove faster than ever, and the mechanics did an incredible job. I didn’t feel tired at all. Then we took the lead. On Sunday morning I was totally spent. In the end, Jürgen hauled the 936 across the line with only five cylinders. I wouldn’t have been able to. There are a lot of great stories about a lot of races. But 1977 stands out. That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Races like that have made Porsche a legend.”
Hans Herrmann (Born 23.02.1928 in Stuttgart, DE, overall winner with Porsche in 1970):“I lost to Jacky Ickx in 1969 after we’d spent the last hour and a half overtaking each other sev-eral times each lap. In 1970, Ferdinand Piëch ensured that we had a good chance to go for the win with a more powerful engine. Being able to win just a year after losing by a hair’s breadth was, of course, very special. It was also the first overall victory for Porsche – and it was my last race. I announced my retirement from racing after that. I had promised my wife. She had started to press me a year or two before, because of the many friends we had lost. And I knew it myself: there was no reason I should have all the luck, and at some point my luck might run out. It was very moving that all of these factors came together in 1970. I don’t remember if I shed any tears or not. But I certainly could have – I’m pretty emotional.”
Richard Attwood(Born 04.04.1940 in Wolverhampton, UK, overall winner with Porsche 1970):“We won under odd circumstances. In February, Helmuth Bott, who was then board member for development, asked me what car I wanted for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I told him three things: First, I wanted the 4.5-litre 12-cylinder instead of the 5-litre engine, which I thought was less reliable. Second, I wanted the ‘Kurzheck’ (short-tail) version of the 917 because the long-tail version was so fidgety. Third, I wanted Hans Herrmann as my partner, because he knew how you have to pace yourself with the material to get through the long race. I got everything. And then we qualified in 15th. At that moment I thought I had made the biggest mistake of my life. We wouldn’t stand a chance against the 5-litre engines. We weren’t competitive and could only hope that the cars in front of us would have problems. And that’s exactly what happened.”
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Peter Falk(Born 27.11.1932 in Athens, GR, Porsche Race Director at seven overall wins):“In 1987 at Le Mans we wanted to enter three cars, as always, and had built a fourth 962 as a spare. It was customary in those days for the drivers to test-drive all the cars in Weissach before traveling to France. Hans-Joachim Stuck damaged one of the cars irreparably in the process. So there were only three. That’s what we took to Le Mans. In one of the free practice sessions, Price Cobb had a serious accident with his car. So then there were only two. We started the race with those two cars. After just under an hour, Jochen Mass came into the pit. The engine was kaput. I think a piston burned through. So there was only one … There were still 23 hours to go, almost the entire race, and we had just one iron left in the fire, the 962 of Stuck, Derek Bell, and Al Holbert. The situation was extremely exhausting and exhilarating for me as the race director and the whole team: What would happen with just one car left? It went well. We won.”
Norbert Singer(Born 16.11.1939 in Eger, Sudetenland, head of the project at nine overall wins):“Sweeping the podium is a great moment. I was cautious going into the race. The 956 was a completely new car. You can’t go into every race saying, Hurray, we’re going for the win! You have to see how things go – getting through 24 hours is no easy task. This win was perfect and actually somewhat surprising. We had taken our job very seriously. A few years before that we had made a mistake. In 1979, Ernst Fuhrmann was still with Porsche and he said to us engineers, ‘What do you say if we drive Le Mans this year? There’s practically no competi-tion.’ Basically, we just had to show up and walk off with the victory. And what happened? We didn’t reach the finish line with either car – we lost even without competition. You can trip over your own feet as well. Having experienced that, I really enjoyed the win in 1982. The 956 went straight into the museum. It’s the car that hangs from the ceiling.”
Gijs van Lennep(Born 16.03.1942 in Bloemendaal, NL, 1971 and 1976 overall winner with Porsche):“My first overall victory was, of course, unforgettable. Helmut Marko and I were driving a Porsche 917 Kurzheck. We found out only later that it had a superlight magnesium tubular frame. They didn’t want to make us nervous. Le Mans is special and exhilarating. To win there is beyond comparison. But more than the victory, another image from 1971 has burned its way into my memory. Even now, I frequently see the image before me. It was night and I was driving down the Mulsanne straight at over 350 km/h. And then I saw a fire. Fuel was running over the track. A burning car from one of the smaller classes had – luckily for me – already come to a stop at the edge of the track, and fortunately at the moment I wasn’t battling it out with some-one or lapping another car. I saw the yellow flags and drove past the accident at walking speed.”
Manfred Jantke(Born 02.10.1938 in Oppeln, DE, Head of Porsche Sports and PR 1972-1991):“The region of the Sarthe is generally characterised by a slow pace of life. And then once a year the fastest cars in the world come to visit. Speed rules the roost, bringing excitement, noise, and danger. The drivers experience a similar study in contrasts. As the race director, I often woke the drivers for their turns. Those were special moments, and there were big differences. The physi-cally strongest driver was definitely Jochen Mass. He was really never tired and hardly needed any sleep. Jacky Ickx was always immediately present when you woke him. But some could barely handle the demands and had to be shaken out of a deep sleep of exhaustion. They’d only just come to before having to get behind the wheel. And in those days, the cars were incredibly loud. It must have felt like going from the bosom of Abraham into some hellish machine.”
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A Night of Starsby Boyd & Terry Kruegerphotos by Boyd Krueger, Jeff Peck, Rick Tuey & Shane Eigell
Jupiter, Saturn, globular nebulae, double stars and dying stars. Not the celestial bodies one might think of in Hollywood, but what a treasure sits atop the San Gabriel Mountains.
PCA GPX arranged a run up to the Mt. Wilson Observatory for a night session with the 60 inch telescope. The evening started in La Cañada at The Dish, a local restaurant with a homey feel. We all enjoyed the food, camaraderie and talk of the “stars” which brought us all together… Our PORSCHES !
If you have not been up California Highway 2, plan a day trip and enjoy the open area and the vistas of LA which this road offers. The last 5 miles in particular are spectacular, with all of the tight, twisty turns; the dodging of rocks on the road’s surface, the views of the surrounding country and the sedimentary layers of the mountain side are definitely worth the drive, even if you don’t go to the observatory (but why wouldn’t you?).
At the end of the road is the Mt. Wilson Observato-ry. As one enters the gated grounds, one can imagine all of the discoveries which have occurred here, and which continue to this day as researchers gaze into the Heavens, taking note of all they see. As evidence to the foregoing, Mt. Wilson has one of the most ac-curate and most complete sun spot records.
Upon arrival at the dome, which houses the 60 inch telescope, all our heads turn skyward. The dome was built in 1908 with all parts brought up the mountain either by mules or winch and pulley systems. The telescope was assembled like our battleships — heavy iron, built to last (and it has).
The telescope, with all the use and all the years in the alpine extremes, still looks perfect. The viewing began as the white lights were turned off and the red lights were turned on. One realizes this is special, dif-ferent from other places. Just the change in lighting builds the excitement. Words hardly do our session leader, Shelley, justice. Her enthusiasm and quirki-ness exude. Her love of the sky and the Mt. Wilson Observatory is palpable. The wealth of knowledge she imparted to us, no question unanswered, took us on a journey through time and space. Our telescope operator, Nik, began our evening showing he was “one of us” by sporting his Monza
’71 Porsche T-shirt. We all identified our kindred spirit, even before he expertly guided the telescope to the Heavenly objects for our viewing pleasure.Our first object was Jupiter, sitting low in the sky as it was nearing the end of its visible traverse. Jupiter was clear and beautiful along with several of its moons. Each sighting was more dazzling. We were shown a star which was dying and the gases around it made it look like a beautiful flower growing in the sky. One object named M3, a globular nebulae, was so spectacular that one had to keep going back for another look. Shelley informed us that it was so far away that it is possible that it no longer exists. Think about it... Here we are, a Porsche club sitting in an observatory in California, looking through a 60 inch telescope, marveling at the sight of M3, and it may no longer exist — Humbling to say the least. We are such a small part of this mysterious earth, galaxy, and universe.
As the evening was coming to a close, one couldn’t help but sit back and take in the majesty of the facility. The dome itself is a beautiful architectural marvel, simple in design, but complicated in work-ing parts. It opens and closes, rotates clockwise and counter-clockwise, all the while accommodat-ing the telescope. The 60 inch telescope stands in the center in all her aged-pride. Consider, for a moment, the eyes which have peered through her lenses to investigate the Heavens: George Ellery Hale, Edwin Hubble, Albert Einstein and, let us not forget members of PCA - Grand Prix region.
It truly was a night of stars. Mt. Wilson Observa-tory is a “must visit” if in the LA area. The history, the location, the ride up and down the mountain and, last but certainly not least, Shelley and Nik. A few nights before we had our close encounter with the Mt. Wilson telescope, we were all treated to the “Red Moon” Lunar Eclipse, so we were all revved up for even more. Tours are offered at the Observa-tory and we highly recommend doing so, as soon as you can. It is an historic facility having contributed greatly to our knowledge of the skies. Go for a drive and include a visit.
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(Ten Magic Moments continued from page 11)Jürgen Barth(Born 10.12.1947 in Thum, DE, overall winner with Porsche 1977):“It was one of my jobs to look after customer teams, and I was responsible for organisational things like accommodations, food, tickets, and stuff like that. At the same time, I was also a reserve driver, and I always hoped for a chance to drive, like in 1982: Hurley Haywood, who was sharing a 956 with Al Holbert, had to pull out with stomach problems. His stomach was his Achilles’ heel. I was notified at around 11 p.m., and hopped right into my racing suit. My col-leagues joked that I’d put something in Hurley’s food so that I could drive. It was nonsense, of course. In the car, my enthusiasm dimmed somewhat because I couldn’t help noticing that Hurley and Al both had narrower hips than I did. My hips only fit in the seat sideways; I was constantly shifting from one side to the other. We came in third. At the start, I had no idea that I would take part. Sunday, I was on the podium.”
Rudi Lins(Born 28.06.1944 in Bludenz, AT, racing for Porsche 1964 to 1971):“I drove three times at Le Mans, but 1970 is the year that has stuck in my memory the most. To-gether with Helmut Marko, we won the prototype and index classes and came in third overall in the Porsche 908. That night it rained cats and dogs. Rain, rain, rain for hours. No one who hasn’t experienced that can imagine what that means for a driver at Le Mans. If you want to overtake a car, first you have to dive into the spray. You can’t see a thing, you have no idea what’s behind the spray: One car? Two? For a while Hans Herrmann and I were driving together at night. That was good, because we knew who we had around us. For Helmut Marko and me, there was also the fact that our car was an open one. At the end of a turn we were soaking wet – if not from sweat, than from the rain. I was just 25, a young’un.”
Hans-Joachim Stuck(Born 01.01.1951 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, DE, overall winner with Porsche 1986 and 1987): “My Le Mans moment lasted three minutes and 14.8 seconds. Pole position with the Porsche 962 C, a perfect lap. And because the Mulsanne straight was later defanged through the addi-tion of chicanes, it will likely be a record for posterity. The 962 is the best race car that I ever drove. Brute force and unbelievable ground effects. The centrifugal forces were enormous, and there was no power steering. You needed the strength of a bear and a lot of courage. I just had one run because of the tyres. Start, Dunlop curve, left, right through the Esses. At Tertre Rouge I was pushing the traction limits. But the corner is so important for your speed on the Mulsanne straight, and it was right on. Fifty seconds of flooring it, then brake from 360 km/h for the Mul-sanne corner and jump back on the gas as soon as possible. Indianapolis, Arnage, Porsche curves, Maison Blanche, Ford chicane, and you’re done. In those three minutes my concentration was sharp as a knife. It was just me and that Porsche at Le Mans.”
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Member SpotlightMarty & Brita Goldsmithbob & karen lewis — membership chairs
Marty and Brita are almost always seen together, but it was not always that way. He was born in Long Beach and grew up in Northern California. Brita was born in Gothenburg, on the West coast of Sweden. As predicted by his sixth grade teacher, Marty became an engineer, training first at UC Berke-ley, with his grad work at Caltech. Brita trained as a psychiatric nurse in Sweden, and obtained her Masters and a psychotherapy license after im-migrating to the USA. Marty’s professional interest af-ter graduation was in rocket en-gines, but for a hobby he took up sports cars. Knowing little about them, his first choice was Jaguar roadsters. Before long he became active in the California Sports Car Club, the major racing club in Southern California, as a scrutineer (tech inspector) and later as a race starter. He worked at almost all the Cal Club meets (about ten weekends per year) throughout the later ‘50s. He was also active in the Jaguar Owner’s Club of Los Angeles, and in fact was President for several years. At that time autocross, drag racing, and some hill climbs were popular among the sports car set, and Marty was an enthusiastic participant. After marrying in 1961, Marty quit the whole sports car game to devote himself to work and to raising a family of three sons. Dur-ing these years Marty started travelling in Baja California using trailerable boats, before the Trans-Peninsular Highway was paved. The Sea of Cortez has been his playground for a long time.
Brita married soon after coming to the United States, and con-tinued to work as a nurse while she raised a daughter. She and her husband travelled a great deal in those early years. As it turns out, both marriages ended in divorce, and it was not until the
end of the ‘70s that Brita and Marty met, in Pasadena. They were living in the same condo complex, and met around the swimming pool. Marty contrived some sort of excuse to strike up a conversation with the pretty blond lady, and that was that – he was doomed. They have now been married for 31+ years. Between them they have seven grandchildren ranging from twelve to twenty eight years of age. They note sadly that the nearest live 400 miles away, and the furthest
over 600, so they see less of the gang than they wish.
While Marty had moved between several organiza-tions, starting with RAND Corporation, going to Aerospace Corporation, then back to the Caltech campus, then JPL, and finally back to RAND, Brita had stayed with her psych work at a local mental hospital, ending as assistant director of a partial hospitalization program.
When they met, Brita was an accomplished skier, while Marty had never been on the boards. He quickly understood what he needed to do, and took
up the winter sport. They skied together (a lot) for many years, had a condo at Mam-moth, and quit only when aging bodies suggested that might be wise. Brita was also a runner, completing a half-dozen Marathons during those years. Marty was never a run-ner, but kept in shape by per-forming as a soccer referee over a period of seventeen years.
Meanwhile, as retirement ap-proached, they had decided to indulge their love for ocean-oriented activity, and moved to a townhouse in Long Beach with a boat slip out front. The slip was soon filled with a Grand Banks Diesel cruiser, and they began twenty-three years of boating. After many miles of local cruising, they opted for a larger boat, a Nordhavn, and began a program of cruising down to the Sea of Cortez. Some of the trips
Marty giving checkered flag in an under 1500 cc race at Pomona circa 1959
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involved staying over the winter, so the trips lasted about seven months. These trips were interspersed with multiple trips on the long-range sportfishing boats out of San Diego. They pulled a lot of fish over the rail in those years! Eventually, the physical demands of cruising caused them to retreat to a smaller vessel, intended just for local cruis-ing. After a few years of that, their grow-ing enthusiasm for PCA caused them to abandon boating completely.
About 2001, Brita started nagging Marty to quit driving his beloved pick-up trucks and buy a nice car. He grumbled, but acquiesced. At the time the sports cars available did not please, for one reason or another, so they bought a Jaguar S-type sedan, because it looked so much like those lovely Jags of the ‘50s. As the Jag aged, Marty noticed that Porsche had produced a wonderful design, called a Cay-man S. It was love at first sight. The saga begins.
On a Saturday in 2006, Brita and Marty visited Circle Porsche, where a very experi-enced salesperson, Michelle Lars-son, demonstrated the wonders of a Cayman. But Marty had a
Marty driving his Jag XK150S roadsteer in Mission Bell Hillclimb
tough question for Michelle – “What will I do with the thing? There used to be race meets, autocross, empty canyon roads, etc. Today?---”
So Michelle reached into nearby magazine rack and produced something called The Circuit. She thumbed the pages and pointed to the calendar, saying “See, there are lots of things going on.” So they left the dealership wondering.
At home they noted that there was something called Day Away From Work taking place at Willow Springs the following Monday. Marty had last been to Willow for a hill climb with his XK 150 S in about 1958; Brita had last been there in the ‘70s with her then husband, who drove a Formula B Lola. So they decided to go visit Willow once again.
As they found their way into the pit area at Streets, several people told them about what was going on. They were asked what had brought them there. Everyone was friendly and very welcoming. Then came the master salesman, Michael Dolphin, who embraced them, as he does everyone. Marty and Brita concluded that this was a great group of people, the event was being well run, and everyone was happy and enjoying themselves (This is not always the case
in motorsport!). So they went home impressed.
The next day, Marty did two things – he ordered a new Cayman S from Michelle, and sent in his application to PCA. When the car was deliv-ered, they started attend-ing GPX meetings down in Harbor City, and at
the next opportunity they entered a Day Away. It turned out that their hotel room was across the hall from Skip and Suesan, and as they walked by they were beckoned to come in and join the organizational meeting about to begin. The web tightens!
Marty was pretty twitchy about track driving, - he hadn’t done any for forty-five years. But the next morning he
was assigned to Mike Mulligan for instruction. Then he was hopelessly hooked. And that is how it all began. His first job assignment was to research and procure a timing
system for the GPX AX program. Then there was the (continued on page 26)
Marty and his Cayman S at Streets of Willow
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byBruceHerrington,OrangeCoastRegionBookReviewsforPorschephiles
Dream Garagesby Kris Palmer, published by Motorbooks, Minneapolis, MN
Bruce Herrington
A year or so ago, I reviewed a book entitled Rockin Garages, about the car collections of 'Rock' musicians. This book is about the facilities of ordinary car nuts, enthusiasts of every-thing from Model Ts to Ferraris, with military trucks (and some Porsches) thrown in. No, Jay's and Jerry's places are not included nor, for that matter, are the Nethercutt Collection, the former Imperial Palace collection in Las Vegas, or the collection of Ralph Lauren. These garages are really muse-ums with ambiance far removed from the homeyness of the garages dealt with in this book.
The introduction, by the inimitable Pe-ter Egan, clearly sets the stage for a life in garages, a lifestyle of refuge, if not all about cars (and trucks and motorcycles). Dream Garages presents a glimpse of the lifestyles of the owners, as well as the nature of the vehicles. A book on garage architecture it is not, though the photos indicate that multiple forms of construc-tion exist in the world of the car nut.
Twenty-one garages from California to Italy are covere. Some are a bit museum-like because they are so big; others are working garages where machines are built and tuned, some for the fun of it, some for sale. But this book really should have a sub-title: ...and the cars and people in them. Just like in PCA, it's the people, not the garages, that make this book fascinating. Like the guy with the E-Jag repair and restoration business who also has (and drives) three historic Group C Porsche Racecars! Though several authors and photographers are involved in putting together this collection, all the stories are captivatingly writ-ten and well illustrated.
The twenty-one stories are grouped into 5 chapters attempt-ing to cover four categories of car-nuts; the Possessers (for whom ownership of an exotic car is satisfaction enough), the Drivers (who like to tool around in their unique vehicles), the Competitors (who do vintage races or competitive shows), and the Wrenchers (for whom the obsession is in
the machinery itself). While these categories cover enthusiasts of all levels, Dream Garages covers the crème de la crème of each category, stimulating the rest of us to higher aspirations.
Though the stories are truly time-less, this is an old book, first published in 2006. Just enjoy the tales told about the garages, the cars and their owners,
and don't be put off by a couple of references to coming events that are long since past. It is a collection of very read-able stories about car (and motorcycle, and truck) nuts, that any other car nut will find very enjoyable.
Softbound, with 192, 9x9 inch pages, Dream Garages is very well illustrated with quite informative captions. Available for $24.99 from your favorite bookseller (ask for it) or from http://www.motorbooks.com.
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(Member Spotlight continued from page 21)task of trying to get the equipment adjusted and working. The next job had to do with tours. Marty and Brita loved to go motor touring, and the new Porsche was ideal for that. They had discovered a load of country roads that were ideal. The post of tour leader had become vacant, so Marty and Brita organized a few tours, and somehow the job became permanent. By the end of their second year in GPX Marty had won the trophy for Enthusiast of the Year. Brita saw how the task of arranging payment for breakfast at GPX meet-ings had become cumbersome, so she devised the ticketing system we now use, and got the sign-in arrangement in place also. For some years she was the keeper of the welcome desk.
There is always a lot to be done at GPX and these two have enjoyed participating in most of our activi-ties. They will be the first to tell you that it isn’t just the cars – it’s the people.
Marty and Brita at a 2009 family gathering
Marty and Suesan Way and Dave Hockett at Pomona after Porsche Escape
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