HDRPCA May 2024 downshift

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

Fred Nielsen, President, High Desert Region PCA

president@highdesertpca.org

At the conclusion of our March members' dinner, Ken and Audrey Moore were driving home on Hwy. 97 in their Porsche Panamera when they were approached from behind by an individual driving a Lincoln Town Car at an extreme rate of speed. This car clipped their car, spinning them around and driving them into the guardrail. Both Ken and Audrey sustained injuries, but fortunately walked away from the accident. What do we take away from this accident?

First, you can be doing everything right and minding your own business when someone else's behavior has a huge impact on your life.

Second, in this case, Ken and Audrey were riding in a car built to sustain damage and protect its occupants. Thankfully, they were not riding in one of their smaller cars which would not have provided the protection they received from their Panamera. Their car was totaled, but did its job when it was needed.

I think most of us take for granted that if we are doing everything right, we will be o.k. This example proves that this is not always the case.

On another subject, you recently received an email advising you that on a trial basis we are going to send out a single email on each Monday morning announcing all club activities for the week with references to activities known at that time for the next two weeks. This will be in lieu of the many emails we are currently sending out. If club members like this single weekly email approach, we will adopt it as a club policy. Lisa Sarmiento and Greg Domantay will be preparing the weekly email, so after using it for a couple weeks, please provide your feedback to them.

We are beginning the Arrive and Drive season and hope to see many of you participating. Please observe our rules of the road prepared by Mike Simmons and we will all have a fun and safe driving season.

Fred

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HIGH DESERT REGION-PCA LEADERSHIP TEAM 2024

Fred Nielsen, President

Stu Malakoff, Vice-President

York Schueller, Treasurer

Trish Calderon, Secretary

Directors (Board Members)

Mark Taylor, Membership

Lisa Sarmiento, Safety and Insurance

Mike Simmons, Car Center, Moving Arrive and Drives, Track Events, Autocross

Greg Domantay, Car Center, Non-Moving Cars ‘n Coffee, Tech Sessions, Car Shows

Hack Heyward, Media Outreach

Jerry Kolb, Compliance/Historian

Audrey Moore, Tours

Gretchen Kolb, Activity/Social, Dinners/Picnics

Joe Mansfield, Past President Volunteer Leadership

Ralph Anzellotti, downshift

Randy Lervold, Forums Manager

Laura Clark, Webmaster

Jeanine Faria, Financial Support

EDITOR RAMBLINGS

Downshift is expanding! More pages of articles, photos, alien flying saucers, and cool Porsches.

This year downshift will feature Porsche and Palm trees, Everyone loves tropical islands, beaches, and Porches, right? If you want your Porsche to be photoshop next to Palm trees, email me a few photos of your Porsche for the next downshift.

This downshift will feature a real life adventure of Ken and Audrey Moore and how Porsche saved their lives. There is so much more to their story and hope you are able to talk to them to hear their struggles and challenges.

Ralph Anzellotti Editor-In-Chief ralph@teleport com

Pick events and save the dates

CARS AND COFFEE

Cars & Coffee at Porsche Bend, 3rd Sunday of each every month, 10 AM - Noon

Join us every 3rd Sunday of the month as we gather and bring our Porsche community together for a cup of coffee and a shared enthusiasm for our cars.

We provide the Coffee, you bring your own mug or cup. Please wear your name tag.

HIGH DESERT REGION PCA DINNERS

Greg Domantay, Car Non-Moving Events

Attention Race Fans!

Join the excitement of the Kentucky Derby on May 4th, 2024, at the Wildwood Ranch in Sisters.

Dress your best Kentucky Derby outfit! Prize for Best Dressed!

CALL AUDREY MOORE FOR OUTFIT SHOPPING TIPS!

503 867-1601

Potluck Lunch and Party., Mint Juleps and Dog Races!

BEST SOCIAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! REGISTER NOW ON CLUB EXPRESS

HDR PCA Members !

Don’t miss the best tour of the 2024 season! June 6-10th 4 Nights in Reno, the Biggest Little City in the World!

Joint Drive with Sierra Nevada Porsche Club of America w/ lunch in Virginia City and dinner at Sonoma/Napa Restaurant. - See the Mistique, illusionist show - "The Best Live Entertainment in Reno!"

Solvve the Puzzle in the Emmersium Room.- Group dinner at Bertha Miranda’s Mexican Cusine.

Lots of free time on your own to expore “The Biggest Little City in the World"

Great company, great cars and great fun! - Register on Club Express now! Space is limited!

Call Audrey Moore at 503 8967-1601 for any questions you may have.

HDR-PCA Scheduled Group Drives

Arrive and Drive (A&D) - Classic Car Group (CCG) - SUV

April 6th SUV

May 4th A&D

May 15th CCG

All HDR 2024 group drives are Arrive and Drive

Just show up

No pre-registration

No drive fees

June 1st A&D

June 19th CCG

July 11th A&D

July17th CCG

Aug 3rd A&D

Aug 3rd SUV

Aug 21 CCG

Sep 7th A&D

Sep 25-26 CCG

Each month routes will be the same for Arrive and Drive and Classic Car Group

Joint drive with INW (Spokane) Porsche club

Oct 7th SUV

mmons, Car Center, Moving

Arrive and Drive

Track Events

Autocross

Arrive and Drive (A&D)

The High Desert Region Register and Drive is changing for 2024 to Arrive and Drive. There will be no registration or fee for these drives and no directions will be handed out for the drives. We will have separate arrive drives for Porsche SUV owners and separate Saturday Arrive and Drive events. We will also have separate Classic Car Group Arrive and Drives for air cooled and early transaxle Porsches.

There will be several requirements from the participants to make these group drives fun and successful and we are asking for your help to keep these events enjoyable. We will be starting our drives from locations outside Bend and they will be different for each monthly drive.

Arrive and Drive Rules:

All of the Arrive and Drive events are group drives and will be two to three hours in length on the beautiful roads of Central Oregon.

(1) Since these are group drives and we will be obeying all safety and speed laws all participants are expected to stay together as a group.

(2) This is not a race and there will be no passing of other cars in our group.

(3) The participants are required to keep the car behind them in sight and also to keep the pace of the car in front. The drivers will be required to wait for the car behind them at intersections and corners to insure we stay together as a group. The lead cars will slow or pull over to wait for the cars to remain together and keep everyone in sight so we can continue as a group.

(4) There is no rubber banding allowed and if you want to drive faster or slower than the group please remember this is a group drive and you will be asked to maintain the group pace.

(5) If you are not comfortable with these rules then please don't keep the other participants from enjoying the drives we have planned.

How Porsche Saved Our Lives

by Ken Moore

BOOM! A loud explosion thundered throughout our car, a Porsche Panamera 4S. BAM! Again, another louder explosion. What was happening? The car spun erratically out of control until a final louder and even more intense explosion, followed by stillness.

What just happened?

The pleasant evening of Wednesday, March 20 was spent in the company of friends at the monthly High Desert Region dinner. My wife, Audrey, and I socialized with old friends and greeted new club members. We were at Club Carrera, surrounded by beautiful cars and Porsche enthusiasts. After putting things away, we bid farewell, knowing we would again be together at the weekend Tech Session.

s, all g and we had Margaritaville on the radio. Maybe it was too perfect – I was with the love of my life, driving a car I was passionate about, in a town we both loved.

It all changed in the blink of an eye.

“Are you hurt? Are you OK?” Audrey asked. Yes, I think so. “Are you OK?” I asked Audrey. “Yes.” A response I will forever cherish

Audrey opened the door and scrambled out of the car. I got my phone out of my pocket and dialed 9-1-1. But the driver’s door was jammed shut. While on the line with a 9-1-1 operator, I started crawling across the center console to the right side, which, with my long legs, was not easy. Soon I was crawling on the gravelly left shoulder of US 97, alone, as Audrey was in the middle of the road, directing traffic and asking for witnesses.

In just a few minutes, a Bend Police officer was on the scene. The responding officer was efficient and professional, and clearly took charge of the chaotic situation. He located the witnesses, who said “they were hit by a car that was going 90 mph and driving erratically.” Oh, so that is what happened. The officer left us to check on the condition of the other driver.

At that point, Audrey and I were holding each other, thankful to be alive. We couldn’t say the same about our beautiful Panamera. It was demolished, parts all over the road.

And then, bad got worse.

We clearly and distinctly heard two gunshots. Audrey grabbed my arm and screamed “Hit the dirt!” We cowered on the ground not knowing what to think, just staying down. I looked over towards our Panamera and a police officer was crouched behind her cruiser with gun drawn and aimed down the road. “Stay down” she ordered. Yes, ma’am, we will stay down. And there Audrey and I were, lying in the dirt with scattered sage brush as our only protection.

What was a pleasant evening had suddenly turned terrifying.

And then bad got even worse. Sadly, the other driver died at the scene.

But that is only part of this story. The real story is How Porsche Saved Our Lives.

The Porsche Panamera is a four-door luxury sedan Tracing its pedigree to the 911, it is a driver’s car: responsive, sure footed, and a heck of a lot of fun to drive It is the ultimate road trip car, luxurious, extremely comfortable, and quiet.

When we visited our now totaled Panamera in the impound yard, the extent of the external damage was sobering. The front end was unrecognizable. The left rear quarter panel was crushed, where the initial impact occurred.

However, the interior told another story. Aside from deployed airbags and a broken windshield, there was little evidence that anything had happened.

Porsche, like many other luxury brands, utilizes many well-known features for safety: anti-lock brakes, stability control, traction control, airbags, and seat belt pretensioners.

But Porsche goes the extra step. Their cars are designed for high-speed driving on the German Autobahns and all the risks inherent with that application. Porsche incorporates strategically engineered crumple zones on the front and rear ends, combined with a rigid passenger compartment cage. Advanced metallurgical processes are utilized with hot-formed steel in the A-pillar, B-pillar, side roof frame, and seat cross-member. The bulkhead cross members are magnesium-boron steel.

The result is a vehicle which absorbs and dissipates the high energies of an impact in engineered crumple zones and simultaneously protects occupants in a rigid passenger compartment cage.

It is apparent that our good luck was not luck, but fully attributable to Porsche's thoughtful occupant focused engineering

The Porsche Club of America’s motto is “It’s not just the cars, it’s the people.” Porsche’s engineering motto must be similar. And we are forever thankful.

Ken Moore

“It’s not just the cars…….it’s the people”

May 4th

High Desert Region SUV Drive April 6th

It started out as a cold and windy Saturday morning, although our Porsche driving hands were warm with excitement. For the first HDRPCA SUV Group drive of 2024, 2 Macan’s and 3 Cayenne’s were ready to drive east. Departing from Big Sky Park, we passed through the deserted roads in Alfalfa as the sun started to awake from its slumber.

Our first rest stop was at Powder House Cove, located along the shore of Prineville Reservoir’s Bowman Dam. We had the entire place to ourselves, with nothing but birds singing about the shiny earth-toned Porsche’s (or were they commenting about the “tarmac circle”, ie donut, marks? Those were already there when we arrived, we promise!). We stretched our legs and visited with each other for a bit. Then we were off again, down the twisty Crooked River Canyon towards Prineville. For a fairweatherSaturday morning, we were gifted with being the only ones on these roads!

From Prineville, we toured more empty and curvy roads out to Post, Oregon. Post was named after Walter H. Post, the first postmaster of Post’s post office. (Have you ever seen “post” used so many times in a single sentence? Let’s try a second time…) No pictures are posted here of Post’s post office, as post-drive I remembered that I had forgotten to take a picture of one of our club members posted up against the post office boxes in what is most likely the tiniest official United States Post Office in the USA. You’ll just need to drive to Post to see it for yourself. While there, you could try one of their famous meatloaf sandwiches or milkshakes.

After purchasing snacks and refreshments from the Post General Store, we headed back to Prineville, encountering snow flurries along the way. No match for the hardy Porsche SUV’s. We ended our route at Pioneer Park, where some of us enjoyed a sack lunch, while others departed for home.

Do you have a Porsche Macan or Cayenne? Interested in attending the HDRPCA SUV Group’s next adventure? Be on the lookout for more drives in 2024!

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HDR-PCA MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

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PCA ANNIVERSARIES

Tenure Congratulations! We are very grateful to these members for their membership tenure anniversaries with PCA, not just with the High Desert Region, for

April 2024

Michael & Kathy Timmerman: 28 years

Erik & Kim Norby: 21 years

Jonathan Abed: 18 years

Reza Sara: 18 years

John Gannon & Yvonne Hunt: 14 years

Mark Maffet & Kathryn Sentena: 14 years

David & Deanna Luman: 11 years

Craig & Kelly Todd: 9 years

William & Donna Kopacz: 8 years

Fred & Adriana Cronin: 7 years

Dean Angiola: 6 years

Patrick & Nicholas Feller: 6 years

Makary Hofmann: 6 Years

Chuck & Kimberly McDonald: 6 years

Carolyn Houghton: 5 Years

Lyn Philiben: 5 years

York Schueller & Karen Curtis: 4 years

Michael Seay & Tammy Bronson: 3 years

Kelly & Julie Lang: 2 years

Adam & Redinea McKinney: 2 years

Peter & Stacie Barnes: 1 year

Nicholas & Patrick Feller: 1 year

William Goeth: 1 year

Janice Hale: 1 year

Robert Jasper: 1 year

Robert Newby: 1 year

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PORSCHES & PALM TREES

Everyone loves palm trees surrounded by sunny blue sky’s, warm tropical breezes, and pina coladas

Downshift will feature this tropical theme in 2024 because it feels so perfect to combine Porches and palm trees with the roar of engines!

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Send me your photos and I will photoshop your car with palm trees. ralph@teleport.com