Porsche West 3-2018

OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE PORSCHE CLUB OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Issue 3 - 2018

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WEST Special Tech “Open Day” with Richard James

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Coast to Hills Club Run

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Editor’s report

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Sports Series Round 4R – Kwinana Motorplex

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Treasurer’s report

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Sports Series Round 6 – Barbagallo Super Sprint

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President’s report

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Sports Series Round 7 – Jack’s Hill

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Membership report

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Porsche 928: Dare To Be Different

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Sporting Director’s report

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My Porsche Story (continued):

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Happy 35th Birthday PCWA

The Third Porsche 993C2 1994

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New edition of the Porsche 935

46. Hawkeye

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Christmas in July – Quindanning Hotel

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Zircom Business Brokers

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Special Tech “Open Day” with Richard James (RJP Motorsport)

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Goodwood Revival Meeting 2018 - Chichester, SUSSEX. U.K.

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From Ginger to Gingin

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This is a sad story…

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Coast to Hills Club Run

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A Brief History: Porsche Spare Tyres - Known As The Space-Saver

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German Car Day – Bigger and Better!

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PCWA BUSINESS HUB

our supporters IF/C: Brila

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Acton Real Estate - Applecross

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Magic Hand Car Wash

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Transquip Tools

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HHG Legal Group

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Auto Exclusive Perth

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Acton Real Estate - Applecross

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Eden Air

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Porsche Insurance

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Live Phase Electrical

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Little Home Bakery

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Zircom Business Brokers

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West Leederville Autos

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Memory Lane Classic Car Restoration

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JD SprayPainting

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John Fowler Autosport

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Editor’s report I’m already starting to gather articles for the first issue of 2019. So whilst you’re relaxing over the Christmas break, consider writing an article for Porsche West. Everyone and every Porsche has a story!

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each one of you who contributed to the magazine either with articles or photos or sometimes both.

Welcome to the third and final issue of Porsche West for 2018.

There are simply too many of you to list you all. But please understand that without your contributions there would simply be no magazine.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe it’s already Christmas. It feels like only yesterday when I was scrambling to put together the first issue of the year.

I’d like to thank all our advertisers for their support of the Club in 2018. Without you, the Club wouldn’t be able to produce such a highquality magazine.

I hope to welcome all advertisers back next year. And remember as an advertiser you have the opportunity to introduce your products or services at one of our club’s monthly meetings as well as write an article in the magazine about your business - like Zircom did in this issue.

Please make sure to support our advertisers.

On behalf of my wife and myself, I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful, healthy and fun 2019.

May the Porsche be with you!

Daniel (and Jackie) Eigenmann – Magazine Editor

Treasurer’s report Hi everyone. It has been a very successful year for the Club, financially, with most of the Club’s events breaking even, or making enough profit to cover associated expenses. The Social events have been run very efficiently, and have been not only well attended, but in nearly every case, completely booked out weeks in advance.

Well basically here it is. Of each dollar of your membership, it was allocated like this:

Through our very dedicated Sports Director, the Sports Series, is now run at a profit level that also covers the end of year awards.

Considering that in the past the Sports Series was a big financial expense to the Club, hats off to David, and his team, being able to achieve all this without significantly increasing the cost to enjoy these events.

• Administration (Banking, Website, Miscellaneous): 8.6 cents

As a member myself, I was always interested in where does my membership fee get spent (or not) with the Club. Now seeing this first hand, I thought I’d share it. Due to the time of the year I am doing this, I am using the financial figures from Financial Year 2017/2018.

• Membership Meetings (catering and venues): 16 cents • Committee Meetings: 1.3 cents

• Advertising: 3.8 cents • Membership expenses (cards, and postage): 10.5 cents • Magazine Subsidy: 11.6 cents • Christmas Party: 14.7 cents

As to the current state of financial affairs of the Club, a couple of the Club’s biggest expenses, as can be seen above, are due in the coming months - the Concourse and the Christmas Party. The current cash balance between the bank accounts is $71,633.59.

As this will be my last report for the year, I am looking forward to catching up with each of you, at either the AGM, Christmas Party or Concours d’Elegance. In case we don’t get the chance, have a safe and happy Christmas Holiday period.

Marc Sherriff - Treasurer

• Concours d’Elegance: 17 cents • Contribution to club savings account: 16.5 cents

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President’s report We now have a place we can call home and it is not too shabby either. The Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club gives members a great space to meet, eat, share stories and a glass of wine all with panoramic views of the ocean. Come join us on the first Tuesday of the month! Thanks Kathy and Andy for making this happen.

In The Rear Vision Mirror It is the end of my run as PCWA President and therefore the beginning of something new. I have enjoyed taking the helm of the Club for the past 24 months, following earlier stints as Vice President and joint Social Director with my dynamo partner Grace Tan (Gracie).

My goal has always been to set the standard expected of a Porsche Club, create fun and joy for all members and to build processes and initiatives that will benefit current and future members.

I have found PCWA members to be genuine, friendly and welcoming and much to the surprise of new members and those people we touch along the way: unpretentious, warm and open. Well done to you all for being part of something wonderful.

At the time of writing, we have 305 memberships and some 550+ members – the largest number the Club has seen. What is of particular interest is this: in the past 24 months we have 119 new memberships! That means over 30% of the Club members are new to the Club – WELCOME! Here are a few things that have happened in the past two years. We have provided members with 111 events or 4.5 events per month on average spanning sporting events, social events, Club meetings, Christmas parties (both in July and December), Concours events and even full-blown tours of Tasmania and Margaret River. No branded car club in WA does anywhere near this number of events or activities.

For the future we have installed and now operate Xero accounting system and can provide accurate and timely year-to-date reporting on the Club and its funds, which you will see from the Treasurer’s Report, stands at a very healthy level. Well done Marc Sherriff – our 356 devotee and rock star Treasurer.

We are now operating under a new club constitution thanks to the diligent work of the Vice President Rob Page – thanks Rob. Over the past 24 months, we have turned our Sporting Series from generating losses each year to generating profit without increasing participating costs – well done David Blainey, our dedicated Sporting Director and around-thehouses racing champ.

Membership has risen nearly 20% in the past two years thanks not just to the friendly members but to the great club Ambassadors and Membership Directors Kathy and Andy Stack!

John Paluch – was our Club Secretary and was a joy to work with! Efficient, subtle but encouraging. He kept the committee on schedule and up-to-date. He “officially” stood down earlier in the year due to family commitments and travel but he really stayed on until the new Secretary arrived in October.

Brilliant work JP! You are reading this quality magazine due to the dedication, creativity and determination of Daniel and Jackie Eigenmann. Brilliant work both of you – thank you for making a difference.

Last but not least, thanks to the tireless Social Director – Grace Tan. She has set new standards for our social events from cocktail parties in private car collections, to shutting down main roads in towns to enable Porsche Rock Star parking, great Christmas events and of course played a major role with the creation and implementation of the Tour of Tasmania 2017. Because no Social Director stepped up for the full term of 2018, Grace has consistently worked behind the scenes to keep building sell-out events for the joy of the members. Well done my love. Time to hang your hat up with thanks from all of us at PCWA. My highlight event – the Tour of Tasmania. An amazing 16 days with 37 friends in 19 cars travelling over 4,000km across three states in this beautiful continent. Tasmania truly has some of the best driving roads in the world!

club committee 2018

President: Deryck Graham

president@porscheclubwa.org.au

Vice President: Rob Page

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Treasurer: Marc Sherriff treasurer@porscheclubwa.org.au

Publications: Daniel Eigemnann publications@porscheclubwa.org.au

Sporting Director: David Blainey sportingevents@porscheclubwa.org.au

Membership: Kathy and Andy Stack membership@porscheclubwa.org.au

Club Historian: Chris Clarke

Director Classic Register: Michael Broughton

Tours of Europe, Tasmania and now Margaret River are documented in detail and can be recreated by one of our many new members.

Farewell as President and thank you all for your support, motivation and kindness along the way.

May your roads be smooth, banked and full of corners.

Deryck Graham – Club President 2017-2018

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Membership report What a fabulous Porsche Club year we have had this year and as of the 14th October 2018 we have reached a new high of 303 active memberships so far.

And we still have 2 months to go till the end of the year.

• 1 corporate membership (compared to 1 same time last year) • 195 family memberships (compared to 189 same time last year)

• Farhad Fozdar / Nasrin

Other

• Chris Burgin

Boxster

• Tracey Harvey

991 Carrera T

• Kate Morlet-Brown

Macan Turbo

• Todd Hutchinson / Gina Lara

Panamerra

• Richard Tatnall

Cayenne GTS

• Vassil Balakrishnan / Arpita

911/996

• 107 individual single memberships (compared to 102 same time last year)

• Julius Suaverdez / Juliana

Cayman

• 303 total membership (compared to 292 same time last year)

• Peter Thai / Miim

Cayenne turbo

Membership Renewal For 2019 - Due Soon

• Paul Weir / Tzudy

Boxster

The 2019 Porsche Club year is rapidly approaching, and membership renewal invoices will soon arrive in your letterbox/email inbox early December [to be exact 4th December] for the following 2019 Club year.

• Martin Mileham

Various

Members who pay early will not only help us prepare the budget for the following year but also by getting payment for the cards in early we can hope to have your new membership cards ordered from our supplier in the east and we will hope to have them ready for members at the first meeting.

New Memberships Please make welcome our newest members since publication of our last Club magazine.

Welcome All New Members New members please check your names are correct so that when next year’s membership cards are produced, they will be printed correctly.

Please point out any mistakes to membership as soon as you see them.

PCWA Window Stickers Spare lanyards are available from membership. We also have the new Porsche Club window stickers and potential Club member invite flyers for future members. Always handy to keep a few in your glove box. Just catch up with us at a meeting.

Club Meetings

• Bennet Dunne

Cayman

• Caroline Minton / Glenn

Boxster S

• Sean Tiernan

911 turbo

• Aaron Jones / Shannon

1977 911S

• Harold Gan

993 4S

• Adrian Corp

other

• Russell Clayton / Maeve Siobhan /Megan

Boxster

• Peter Brampton / Helen

911/997

• Joe Albahari / Li

Boxster

Membership is looking forward to 2019 and serving the members. We have enjoyed the challenges that membership has given us and we are grateful to have been given this opportunity to meet many likeminded Porsche enthusiasts.

• Chris and Karen Molloy

Various

Regards,

• Eric Van Leeuwen

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Kathy and Andy Stack - Membership

• Simon Linton

911 SC

• Damian and Caleb Cook

Various

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We have had our winter Club meetings this year at Porsche Centre Perth and during the longer summer months we are having the Club meetings at the Cottesloe Surf Life Savings Club and we have been lucky to obtain a good discount on club room hire and this has left us more money to spend on food for the members. We would like to thank those members who have volunteered and prepared salads for the German sausage sizzles and making the barbeque nights a pleasant environment for all members.

2019 Club Year Ahead

Sporting Director’s report Seven of the eight 2018 Sports Series events have been completed with the final event to be run at Collie on 10 November.

Results and Sports Series standings for the first 6 events are on the website - with the results from the final 2 events not being published. The presentation of trophies for the series will be made at the AGM on 4th December.

In 2019, we will again join with the HSV Owners Club of WA and the Triumph Sport Owners Association in jointly running the Sports Series. A calendar has been agreed and the events booked at each of the venues.

PCWA/HSV/TSOA – Sports Series 2019 Calendar (as of 27 Aug 2018) PCWA Round

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Date

Event

Club Organising

Venue

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Sunday

17-Feb

Barbagallo Super Sprint

HSV

Barbagallo

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Saturday

24-Mar

Barbagallo Super Sprint

PCWA

Barbagallo

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Saturday

27-Apr

Collie Super Sprint

PCWA

Collie

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Sunday

26-May

Barbagallo Super Sprint

PCWA

Barbagallo

Kwinana Rally Sprint

HSV

Kwinana Motorplex

June 5

Saturday

13-Jul August

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Saturday

14-Sep

Barbagallo Super Sprint

HSV

Barbagallo

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Sunday

13-Oct

Jacks Hill Climb

PCWA

Barbagallo

Saturday

09-Nov

Collie Motorkhana

HSV

Collie

Sunday

10-Nov

Collie Super Sprint

HSV

Collie

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07-Dec

Xmas Sprint Passenger rides

HSV

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At Barbagallo, the track is being resurfaced in January and may continue into February. The Come ‘N’ Try day normally run in late January will be re-scheduled later in the year. The date for the first round may also need to be moved subject to progress of the resurfacing.

At Collie, the track surface of the extension has been completed, but the track has not been opened for use. Several additional tyre barriers are needed to be installed prior to CAMS approval of the extension. Current advice has the extension being ready in March 2019.

It is never too late to enter the Sport Series. You don’t need a roll caged race car and race suit. The series caters for all. If you have any questions about joining the series, please email me at sportingevents@porscheclubwa.org.au.

David Blainey – Sporting Series Director

Happy 35th Birthday PCWA The Club celebrated its 35th Birthday with a large number of Club members at the Club meeting on the 6th November with special guest Godfrey Everett, a founding member of the club and attendee at the first club AGM. The minutes of the first AGM were read out by Deryck Graham and a brief history of the club was given by Chris Clark.

“Porsche West” is the official magazine of The Porsche Club of Western Australia (ABN 85 153 133 180) Publisher: The Porsche Club of Western Australia PO Box 447 South Perth Western Australia 6151 email: president@porscheclubwa.org.au Editor and Advertising Daniel Eigenmann Mobile: 0412 022 110 Email: publications@porscheclubwa.org.au Artwork & Printing Composite Colour 4/347 Bay Road, Cheltenham 3192 Ph: 03 9555 6665 email: info@compositecolour.com.au www.compositecolour.com.au Subscriptions: Porsche West is only available to financial members of the Porsche Club of Western Australia. Not for individual sale.

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Story & Photos: Porsche Cars Australia

New edition of the Porsche 935 Porsche has unveiled the new 935 on the occasion of the historic ‘Rennsport Reunion’ motorsport event at Laguna Seca Raceway in California. The 515 kW (700 hp) racer, featuring a body reminiscent of the legendary Porsche 935/78, will be produced in a limited number of 77 units.

“This spectacular car is a birthday present from Porsche Motorsport to fans all over the world,” said Dr Frank-Steffen Walliser, Vice President Motorsport and GT Cars.

“Because the car isn’t homologated, engineers and designers didn’t have to follow the usual rules and thus had freedom in the development.”

The race car’s technology for clubsport events and private training on racetracks is based on the 911 GT2 RS high-performance sports car. Like its historic predecessor, most of the body has been replaced or supplemented by carbon-fibre composite parts (CFRP). With its streamlined extended rear, the 935 reaches a length of 4.87 metres. The width of the exclusive clubsport racer measures 2.03 metres.

The spectacular aerodynamics is a completely new development and pays tribute to the Porsche 935/78 Le Mans race car, which fans dubbed ‘Moby Dick’ due to its elongated shape, massive fairings and white base colour. The distinctive wheel arch air vents on the front fairings, which

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also feature on the GT3 Porsche 911 GT3 R customer vehicle, increase downforce at the front axle. Measuring 1,909 millimetres in width by 400 millimetres in depth, the rear wing lends aerodynamic balance.

Many details of the exterior are a salute to winning vehicles from the company’s motor racing history: The aerodynamically capped rims echo those of the 935/78, with the LED rear lights on the rear wing endplates adopted from the 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car. The side mirrors hail from the current Le Mans-winning 911 RSR, with the exposed titanium tailpipes modelled on the Porsche 908 from 1968.

These references are carried through to the cockpit. The knob on the gearshift lever has a laminated wood design and is reminiscent of racers such as the 917, the 909 Bergspyder and the Carrera GT super sports car. The carbon steering wheel and the colour display behind it have been taken from the 2019-model year 911 GT3 R. A massive safety cage combined with a racing bucket seat and a six-point safety harness ensure maximum safety. A second seat for the passenger is available as an optional extra. Air conditioning provides optimal cooling of the interior.

The new 935 is powered by a state-ofthe-art 3.8-litre six-cylinder twin-turbo engine, which is largely identical to the

high-performance standard unit mounted in the road-legal 911 GT2 RS. Power is transferred to the rear engine via a seven-speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) with rigid gearbox suspension at the 310-millimetre-wide rear axle. Like in the GT road models of the 911, the driver changes gears via conveniently positioned shift paddles on the steering wheel. Typical of the 911, the weight distribution ensures excellent traction and braking performances. Six-piston aluminium monobloc racing callipers on the front axle in combination with internally ventilated and grooved steel brake discs with a 380-millimeter diameter provide excellent deceleration values at the front axle. The rear axle is fitted with four-piston callipers and 355-millimeter discs.

Like the road-legal 911 GT2 RS, the 1,380-kilogram 935 is equipped with PSM (Porsche Stability Management) including traction control as well as an anti-lock braking system (ABS). Thanks to a so-called map switch, these assistance systems can be adjusted separately or switched off completely, depending on the driving situation.

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Story: Daniel Eigenmann Photos: Peter Ogden

Christmas in July – Quindanning Hotel 15th July, 2018 ‘Christmas in July’ is a staple event for the Porsche Club of WA. It is a wonderful opportunity for members, and Porsche lovers, to ‘brave’ the Western Australian winter and celebrate Christmas in true PCWA fashion.

This year, on Sunday 15th of July, in typical July weather, 54 of your fellow members gathered in Mundijong to start the Drive to the Quindanning Hotel.

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At the hotel, members were welcomed with a delicious 2-course lunch traditional Christmas lunch including mulled wine, tea and coffee.

Difficult to think of a better way to celebrate Christmas in July… great cars, great friends and great food!

Hope you can join us next year for another memorable Christmas in July drive.

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Story: Peter Ogden Photos: Andy Stack, Peter Ogden

Special Tech “Open Day” with Richard James (RJP Motorsport) 6th October 2018

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PCWA was kindly invited to come along and view a 1978 Porsche 911SC currently being rebuilt at RJP Motorsport. The car belongs to Paul Crute, a PCWA member and regular Targa competitor. Paul commissioned Richard James of RJP Motorsport, a long time PCWA member and Concours judge to perform this “back to bare metal”, “no expenses spared” rebuild.

The car in its current state – immediately prior to reassembly – was very interesting to see.

All the components of the 911 were spread out in Richard’s well-equipped workshop. The engine and other under-body components were sitting on the floor, while alongside, the body was sitting on the hoist, allowing both the immaculate silver exterior paint and the under-body to be easily viewed.

The engine has been fully rebuilt including the Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection and the 5-speed 915 gearbox. It was amazing to see how relatively few components appear to make up a 911 SC (that is if you can consider a fully assembled flat 6 air-cooled motor and gearbox a single component)!

Richard’s attention to detail was obvious, with all the components appearing new (or dare I say… better than new?). I imagine that there has been many hours of work gone into the full rebuild of the engine so far, and no doubt there are many more hours to go before completion.

The next step is for Richard to “simply” reassemble all the components back into the body shell. When complete, this 911 should look and run as good or better than it did the day it came out of the Porsche factory in 1978.

PCWA would like to thank Richard for allowing the members to view this project and for making himself available to answer any questions. We also very much appreciated the coffee from the Kiss Coffee truck!

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Story: Rick Smith Photos: Peter Ogden, Andy Stack

From Ginger to Gingin 26th August, 2018

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When you own a Porsche (or 2) sometimes the last thing you want to do is take the shortest route between your start and end points. Don’t you agree?

Gingers Roadhouse in the Swan Valley is only about 25 km from Gingin as the eagle flies.

But Rob Page and I managed to find some extra kilometres of road between the two locations with only 15 intersections or turns to negotiate.

Thus, on the beautiful crisp Sunday morning of 26 August 2018 some 24 PCWA Porsches took the long way from the Swan Valley to the CU@Park Café in Gingin.

Travelling north then east through the picturesque Lower Chittering Valley and through sections of the Julimar State Forest it was great to see the farmers’ dams full to the point of overflowing. We then bypassed Toodyay (popular with motorcyclists on a Sunday) by driving on Coondle West Road dodging, let’s say, about 1,000 gumnuts along the way.

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Verdant greens giving way to the occasional bright yellow fields of canola before the “pit stop” at Bolgart about one third distance (not one half as the notes indicated). It was certainly very nice to be told by one of our group that they had enjoyed the drive up to that stage and equally nice to reply that better roads were ahead of us rather than behind!

And with that, I rushed ahead to make sure everyone got onto my favourite road section of the day.

Characterised by relatively wide super smooth tarmac, the 28 km Calingiri-New Norcia Road is fantastic. Constant radius turns, surrounded by well fenced rolling hill farmland that descends down to New Norcia, this road is a gem no matter which direction you drive it. I do hope everyone on the run found his or her own version of “spirited driving” alluded to at the morning briefing on this section.

The east/west oriented roads either side of Mogumber offered yet more flavours of driving: long flat straights and “roller-coaster” sections with vertical elevation changes of 150m or more.

With the option to shorten the run by some 30 minutes to lunch (by turning south onto the Brand Highway), Rob and I were very pleased to see the vast majority of cars cross the Brand to maximise the driving portion of the event.

I know the Club has travelled on Orange Springs, Cowalla and Gingin Brook Roads before.

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Coast to Hills Club Run 30th September, 2018

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The round-up for this WA Porsche Club run was at the Drover’s Market Place in Joondalup.

Conversations over coffee seemed to be singularly themed. Eagles supporters got there early and got in early, vainglorious in the freshness of a Grand Final victory. Brand new and more youthful members Aaron and Shannon introduced themselves and received several offers of ‘adoption’ from folks with same age progeny, before we had even left the carpark. Ian, Maître D’ for this club event, welcomed everyone and explained the day’s proceedings. He then handed out the route chart for the coast to hills run. That was a nervous moment for this novice navigator South of the River born, bred and oriented – a challenge to have to wind a way through the foreign land of the North-bearing-East outer reaches of the Perth metropolitan area!

The Bindoon leg was a whirl, the shrubs of the coastal plain showing off for Spring. Raging red Bottlebrush, sunny yellow wattle and more subdued pinks ranging through to white hued Geraldton Wax. In between dealing with directions, I spotted a blue and white Raceway sign signalling the course off Old Yanchep Road. In what seemed like no time whatsoever, we drove past the actual Raceway turnoff at Wattle Avenue East.

At the Gingin turn-off, we headed for the hills.

It was a relief to feel the freedom of a dual carriage way, closing in on Bindoon. The Bindoon Bakehouse was busy but welcoming.

Half an hour to regroup and refresh. A long queue for yum coffee and cake. Everybody smiling. No stragglers at this point.

On the road again, we went careering through the Chittering Valley. The scenery was impressive. Roadside rows of strong, tall white gums and shimmering silver-grey Grevillia.

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Wildflowers were whizzed past, a blur of blue Leschenaultia, Buttercup Daises and Kangaroo Paws. Sad to see fresh road kill on the side of the road and encounter a boomer who really belonged in the bush. Of course, the kinds of cars driven on the day are roo bar free and vulnerable in their own way! High, then low ground in the Darling Scarp. Undulation certainly makes the drive exhilarating. “Big dips are good” says my bloke, the driver.

The bush thinned out with cleared land. Green pastures scattered with grazing sheep, horses and cows. Pine trees, planted over a century ago, lined the gravel driveways to established rural properties, stocky shrubs providing windbreaks. Striking rocky outcrops of Toodyay stone. Organic oranges for sale for next to nothing, avocadoes down to $1, but regrettably no time to stop. A canopy of flame trees caught my eye, enough to distract any navigator and whoops, we make the same booboo as many a Club member and miss the turn off to Campersic Road. Semisynchronised Porsche u-turns were almost universal.

Campersic Road took us up to Avon Ridge.

With the Avon Valley to the left and below us, we caught glimpses of the river and its rapids; spotted the West to East Indian Pacific railway line and sighted the green and gold rolling hills which continue some distance towards Toodyay. Looking behind and right from the high vantage point at Brigadoon we could see, through a haze, the Perth skyline.

Roared down Red Hill to Jane Brook on the flats. Jets were descending towards Redcliffe.

We drove through Middle Swan and Midland to historic Guildford and the heritage listed Rose and Crown Hotel. What a glamorous line-up of Porsches graced the carpark there.

Lunch was in the courtyard, traditional roast with Club members. Wine, cider, beer, spirits and much conviviality.

All up a happy day reflected on by the newest members of our club. Aaron and Shannon (surname 1977 911 S wide body, black Porsche) said “Lovely scenic roads, great combination of twisty roads and sweeping corners. We felt very welcomed to the club and eagerly await the next event. Highlight of the drive was Lancewood Avenue, with its crests followed by a surprise drop into the valley. Great fun!”

The only downside according to John (of John and Wendy) was that the weather was a little too fine, causing this bloke’s lederhosen to itch. Ouch! Our hearts go out to diehard John, who must have been dressed entirely appropriately, but undercover in the German tradition. Hopefully his itchy bits will recover, and he will come out resplendent in little leather shorts with braces at the next Club function. There’s surely a place for a person like him in Porsche heaven.

Other Club members reported that they were glad about the good weather which defied a dire forecast. Stunning scenery and a beautiful day acknowledged by one and all. Praise be and thank you to Club organiser, Ian Rowson.

And for this new navigator, the above seemed to be the scope of the drive, but only almost.

Driving home right back down South, past many a quarry and mine on the hillside, it struck me that Club members had seen no scars on the scarp on the coast to hills drive.

May the remaining hillside stay that way!

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German Car Day – Bigger and Better!

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Over 160 of the best of cars from the “Father Land” gathered at Plain Street, Perth at the leisurely hour of 9:00am on Sunday October the 28th. There were over 30 Porsches from 356 classics to the latest 2018 991 Turbo.

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We love variety. BMW’s, Merc’s VW Combi Vans all embarked on a truly lovely drive through Chittering Valley to Bindoon. Well done Mercedes Club, it was a good event

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Round 4R of the 2018 Sports Series was a Rallysprint held on Saturday 14th July 2018 at the Kwinana Motorplex. SSR4R was originally planned to be on 13th May at Barbagallo but was cancelled. SSR4R was the replacement event for this.

The rain set in at about 1:30pm and made for a very wet and slippery track. Numbers dropped off quickly once the heavy rain set in with most only getting 1 dry clockwise run. Many of the Targa competitors stayed to get some practice in the wet conditions.

The event was organised and run by the Holden Special Vehicle Owners Club of WA (HSVOCWA) with PCWA joining them at the event. Targa West were running a Sponsors’ Day and Rallysprint on Sunday 15th July and the HSVOCWA managed to get Targa West to setup the course a day earlier and we ran the 4 runs each on the counter-clockwise course in the morning and 4 runs on the clockwise course in the afternoon.

Fastest Porsche cars on the day were Blaise Paris (quickest overall), followed by Sam Wolfe (second quickest overall) and then Jeff Foster.

Results after SSR4R for both Outright and Class Championships are below. (Results are after Round 5 – including SSR4R) below.

16 PCWA vehicles ran with the remaining cars HSVOCWA and Associates cars. The weather forecast was for rain increasing in the afternoon. The morning session was dry with everyone getting dry runs.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS LADDER – 2018

OUTRIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS LADDER – 2018 Driver

Porsche Model

Class

Daniel Bathe

Boxster S

OpB

Rookie

Total 82

Jeff Foster

911 S

GTA

82

Op A

75

A

63

Barry Baltinas

2016 911 GT3RS

Glenn King

Cayman R

Sam Wolfe

1999 996 GT3 CS

Toby Copley

Boxster S (01)

Peter Ogden

Boxster ('99)

D

43

David Blainey

911 74 RS

OpB

43

Blaise Paris

964 3.8L RSR

OpA

40

Gary Jacobs

Cayman GT4

OpA

38

Dean Pike

2004 GT3 Gen 2

OpA

36

Grant Wellwood

996.2 GT3

OpA

31

Colin Strickland

996 Turbo+911 Turbo

GTB

27

Gerrit Oplaat

996 C2

A

27

John Morrow

911

OpB

26

Phil Green

991 GTS

GTA

25

Ray Galbraith

1983 911 SC

OpB

25

Dallas Copley

Boxster S (01)

B

25

John Wilding

1984 911 3.2 Carrera

B

25

Brad Dunne

Cayman 987

C

24

Cath Foster

Cayman GTS

GTB

22

Michael Broughton

356 SC + GT3

GTB + D

21

Daniel Devries

996 Cup Car

OpA

19

Allan Guelfi

997 GT3 2007

GTA

19

Nathan Ellement

2012 997 Turbo

GTA

16

Warren Dean

2017 911S

GTB

14

Stuart Lister

Cayman S

A

13

Andy Tudor

2011 Cayman S

OpB

13

David Ward

911 74 RS

OpB

10

Michael Bourne

2009 997 S 3.8L

GTB

8

Laurie Parmenter

981 Boxster S

A

7

Bill Wright

1978 911 SC

D

7

Justin Willis

996 GT3

GTB

5

Warren Spencer

1971 914-6

D

5

Anthony Mylonas

1994 993

B

5

Gary Cutler

1977 911

C

5

OpB

55

B

44

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Class

Rookie

SSR1 20

SSR2 20 18

SSR3 20 18

SSR4R 20 18

SSR5 20

Total 80 74

Class placing 1st 2nd

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Sports Series Round 6 – Barbagallo Super Sprint 1st September, 2018

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Round 6 of the 2018 Sport Series was a daytime super sprint on Saturday 1st September 2018 at Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup. The event was organised and run by the Holden Special Vehicle Owners Club of WA (HSVOCWA) with PCWA being invited to attend to make up numbers. Of the 61 cars that entered the event, 17 were Porsches and the remaining cars an eclectic mix of HSVOCWA and Associates cars.

Fastest Porsche car on the day was Dean Pike in his GT3, Glenn King in his Cayman R and was the 2nd quickest Porsche and Nathan Element 3rd in his 911 Turbo.

Results after SSR6 for both Outright and Class Championships are below.

The event ran smoothly thanks to the HSVOCWA volunteers.

OUTRIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS LADDER – 2018 Rookie

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS LADDER – 2018

Driver

Porsche Model

Class

Total

Daniel Bathe

Boxster S

OpB

Jeff Foster

911 S

GTA

82

Glenn King

Cayman R

A

82

98

Driver

Porsche Model

Class

Rookie

SSR1

SSR2

SSR3

20

20

18

Barry Baltinas

2016 911 GT3RS

Open A

Dean Pike

2004 GT3 Gen 2

Open A

16

Blaise Paris

964 3.8L RSR

Open A

20

Open A

18

Grant Wellwood

996.2 GT3

Open A

16

Daniel Devries

Gary Jacobs

2003 996 Cup Car

Cayman GT4

Open A

1975 911 Turbo

Opne A

Barry Baltinas

2016 911 GT3RS

Op A

75

Dean Pike

2004 GT3 Gen 2

OpA

56

Daniel Bathe

2009 Boxster S

Open B

20

David Blainey

911 74 RS

Open B

16

Sam Wolfe

1999 996 GT3 CS

Open B

20

20

112

1st

14

18

76

2nd

20

20

20

60

3rd

1981 911 SC

Open B

1983 911 SC

Open B

12

Andy Tudor

2011 Cayman S

Open B

16

911 73 RS

Open B

14

14

Toby Copley

Boxster S (01)

B

53

David Ward Jeff Foster

2017 991.2 S

GTA

20

Peter Ogden

Boxster ('99)

D

51

Phil Green

2015 991 GTS

GTA

18

Blaise Paris

964 3.8L RSR

OpA

40

Allan Guelfi

997 GT3 2007

GTA

2012 997 Turbo

GTA

Gary Jacobs

Cayman GT4

OpA

38

Cath Foster

2016 Cayman GTS

GTB

18

Justin Willis

996 GT3

GTB

20

Phil Green

991 GTS

GTA

36

Colin Strickland

2001 996 Turbo

GTB

18

Michael Broughton

2003 996.2 GT3

GTB

20

Cath Foster

Cayman GTS

GTB

36

Warren Dean

2017 911S

GTB

Allan Guelfi

997 GT3 2007

GTA

36

Michael Bourne

2009 997 S 3.8L

GTB

Glenn King

2012 Cayman R

A

20

GTB + D

34

Gerrit Oplaat

996 C2

A

14

Stuart Lister

Cayman S

A

18

GTA

34

Kurt Baur

997 C2

A

Laurie Parmenter

981 Boxster S

A

16

Toby Copley

Boxster S (01)

B

20

Dallas Copley

Boxster S (01)

B

John Wilding

1984 911 3.2 Carrera

B

1984 911 3.2 Carrera

B

31

Boxster S (01)

B

30

Brad Dunne

Cayman 987

C

29

Colin Strickland

996 Turbo+911 Turbo

GTB

27

Michael Broughton Bill Wright

1978 911 SC

D

27

Warren Spencer

1971 914-6

D

Gerrit Oplaat

996 C2

A

John Morrow

911

OpB

26

Ray Galbraith

1983 911 SC

OpB

25

Justin Willis

996 GT3

GTB

20

Daniel Devries

996 Cup Car

OpA

19

Warren Dean

2017 911S

GTB

14

Bill Wright

1978 911 SC

D

13

Stuart Lister

Cayman S

A

13

Andy Tudor

2011 Cayman S

OpB

13

OpB

10

A

10

David Ward

911 74 RS

Kurt Baur

997 C2

Michael Bourne

2009 997 S 3.8L

GTB

8

Laurie Parmenter

981 Boxster S

A

7

Warren Spencer

1971 914-6

D

5

Anthony Mylonas

1994 993

B

5

Gary Cutler

1977 911

C

5

Anthony Mylonas

1994 993

32 16

28 16 14

20

20

20

18

20

20

100 16

52

2nd

16

18

52

2nd

14

20

38

18

70

1st

20

40

2nd

38

3rd

20

20

36

20

100

1st

52

2nd

18

3rd

18

18

3rd

20

116

1st

20 16

20 18

20

16

20

18

20

18

14

16

16

16

80

2nd

20

18

20

18

76

3rd

20

20

20

B

18

16

Brad Dunne

2008 Cayman 987

C

1977 911

C

Peter Ogden

Boxster ('99)

D

20

D

18

3rd

16

20 16 20

1st

18

18

Gary Cutler

1965 356SC

18 18

Ray Galbraith

John Wilding

36

18

John Morrow

Dallas Copley

3rd

10

55

31

2nd

40

18

55

OpA

1st

56

16

OpB

18

Class Placing

74

18

OpB

996.2 GT3

20

Total

32

1999 996 GT3 CS

Grant Wellwood

20

18

911 74 RS

2012 997 Turbo

20 18

Sam Wolfe

Michael Broughton 356 SC + GT3

SSR6

16

16

David Blainey

Nathan Ellement

SSR5

18

Colin Strickland

Nathan Ellement

SSR4R

20

18

16

20 20

18

20

98

1st

20

2nd 1st

20

20

118 36

2nd

18

18

36

2nd

20

3rd

18 20

Registered Provisional only as not registered (outright & class)

WOMENS PLATE – 2018

Driver

Porsche Model

Cath Foster

2016 Cayman GTS

Dallas Copley

Boxster S (01)

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Class

Rookie

SSR1

SSR2

SSR3

SSR4R

20

20

20

20

18

18

18

SSR5 20

SSR6

Total

Class Placing

20

100

1st

18

92

2nd

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Sports Series Round 7 – Jack’s Hill 14th October, 2018

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Round 7 of the 2018 Sport Series was a daytime hill climb on Sunday 14th October 2017 at Barbagallo Raceway, Neerabup. The event was organised and run by PCWA with the HSV Owners Club of WA and Triumph Sports Owners Association invited to attend to make up numbers.

Sunday was a cold and overcast day with a number of light showers.

However, most drivers had a dry run. Of the 40 cars that entered the event, there were 16 PCWA members with the remainder of the field varied ranging from Triumphs, WRX’s, Hondas, a Skyline, a Corvette, a Lotus, MG’s, Alfa Romeo and HSV vehicles.

Thanks also to the TSOA members Andy Hamilton, Anne Douglas, Denise and Glen Farquhar for organizing the timing and David Ryder who was the starter.

Fastest car on the day was John Webb in his 911 followed by Daniel Bathe in his Boxster S and then Jeff Foster in his 911 S. Sports Series standings are not published for the last 2 events of the series. The results are withheld until the Awards presentation evening.

The event ran smoothly thanks to the following PCWA volunteers: Barry Nash (Deputy Clerk of Course), Bill Richards (Steward), David Blainey (Clerk of Course/Event Secretary) and Colin Strickland (Chief Scrutineer).

Timing Sheet – SSR7 No: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Driver Name Alexander Copley Aidan Delaney-Gould Aaron Stevenson Andrew (Mark) Dobson Bruce Mcleod Bruce Pollock Colin Strickland Dale Pointon Daniel Bathe David Hodges Dean Pike Douglas Simpson Glenn King Ian Bruce James Mason Jamie Gilbert John Webb Jeffrey Foster John Wilding David Blainey Douglas Stevenson Andy Hamilton Justin Lewis Keith Hawley Kenneth Strain Luke Streat Matthew Waters Michael Broughton Barry Bartinas Robert Waters Roberto Cecchele Russell Burney Sam Wolfe Sarah Fry Wenhsi Chua William Wright Nathan Element Stan Wilkins Josh Knoefel Brad Dunne

Run 1 77.90 76.35 72.84 73.94 89.62 83.06 98.36 105.61 74.35 77.81 71.89 93.02 80.74 92.31 90.33 69.55 68.51 76.84 80.07 83.89 73.49 88.08 81.35 77.66 98.06 DNF 74.59 95.17 73.70 77.14 78.70 77.25 73.28 87.86 97.14 80.14 75.67 73.51 76.04 92.02

Penalty

WW

WW

Run 2 75.25 73.24 70.72 71.43 85.35 81.00 77.98 105.61 73.88 75.78 73.73 91.99 78.67 86.78 94.72 74.10 68.19 78.75 78.05 73.02 72.78 83.52 86.98 77.06 75.71 84.26 73.58 85.45 72.73 77.33 85.19 76.35 76.94 87.02 81.97 86.10 79.25 75.74 78.62 83.18

Penalty

WW

2 Cones

WW

Run 3 DNS 73.82 70.14 71.18 DNS 80.74 77.88 DNS 71.53 DNS DNS 90.50 78.86 84.84 86.83 DNS DNS 73.14 79.01 DNS 72.36 79.20 83.82 75.68 74.17 76.75 72.72 84.91 DNS DNS 77.36 73.78 72.58 85.17 79.05 79.82 DNS 72.10 74.47 81.90

Penalties applied as follows: (a) Failing to stop with garage + 5 seconds (b) Dislodges cone markers + 5 seconds (c) For wrong way round course, slowest competitor time for that course + 5 seconds

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Penalty

Run 4 DNS 72.07 DNS 69.72 DNS 78.29 74.72 DNS 70.34 DNS DNS 88.06 75.56 81.76 89.39 DNS DNS 70.52 77.65 DNS 70.60 80.74 80.10 75.12 73.22 74.01 73.41 82.37 DNS DNS DNS 73.77 71.00 84.88 78.79 DNS DNS 70.50 71.65 DNS

Penalty (seconds added)

slowest

10

10.89 46.06

CAR Porsche Boxster S Honda Civic 1994 Holden VY Maloo R8 Triumph TR7 V8 1975 Holden Commodore Triumph TR4a Porsche 911 HSV VT Clubsport Porsche Boxster S Holden SSV Porsche GT3 Triumph Spitfire Porsche Cayman R Porsche Boxster Triumph Spitfire MK III HSV VE Clubsport R8 Porsche 911 Carrera Porsche 911 S Porsche Carrera Porsche 911 RS Replica Holden VY Maloo R8 Triumph TR8 1981 Lotus Exige S Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Subaru WRX Sti Honda Civic Holden Monaro CV8 Porsche 356 SC Coupe Prosche GT3RS Holden Commodore Alfa Romeo GTV 6 Honda CRX Porsche 911 MG B roadster Renault Megane R26 Porsche 911sc Porsche 97 Turbo Honda Honda Porsche

Colour

cc

Lapis Blue black Black Red white Navy Yellow Silver Arctic Silver Black Silver Moroon Black solver Blue Blue Black &silver Guards Red White Red Black Blue Orange Red Blue Silver Devil Yellow Light Ivory Orange White Red White Red green Yellow rubystone White Red Blue Red

3179 2400 5670 5000 6200 2200 3600 5700 3400 6000 3600 2500 3400 2500 1296 6200 2993 2990 3200 3387 5670 6000 1800 7000 1994 1595 6000 1720 5040 3000 1598 3600 1800 1998 3000 2400

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Porsche 928: Dare To Be Different

928GT. Black Beautiful and Practical A long, long time ago (in another century), I was flicking through a Wheels magazine when I came across a photo of a most unusual looking vehicle. Sweeping back from a very rounded front end was a huge windscreen with one rather large articulated windscreen wiper and no obvious headlights. On turning the page and studying another photo of the same car, but taken from the opposite end, it came to my realisation that the previous photo was in fact the rear end of the soon to be released Porsche 928. The year was 1977. I was driving a Fiat 125, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours was huge, Gold and Black won the Melbourne Cup, North Melbourne defeated Collingwood in the VFL Grand Final replay, and I’m sure I’d never before seen a car with a windscreen wiper on the back.

This was the car that was going to replace the 911. Apart from the possibility of rear engine cars being banned in the US (Porsche’s biggest market), and a decline in sales, the Porsche hierarchy felt the 911 was approaching the end of its time, and conforming to a universal standard car would ensure their long term survival. But a front mounted, water cooled V8???? Well the 928 did win Car Of The Year in 1978, the first sports car ever to do so, and a lot of enthusiasts were left scratching their heads. Needless to say, the iconic 911 is still with us today with no signs of letting up and sadly, the 928, which was way ahead of its time, is long gone. Only 61,000 were ever produced.

Twenty years later after flicking through that Wheels magazine, and two years after the last 928 rolled off the production line, I purchased my first 928 on August 5th 1997. It was a 1979 model, white with matching telephone dial wheels and of course, a manual. The majority of 928’s produced between 1978 and 1995 had automatic transmissions so to 44

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come across a manual was rare, and a bonus.

Without a manual gearbox, the full driving experience is not a full driving experience.

My passion for the 928 didn’t really come about until the mid-eighties. There were a few on the road by then and they always caught my eye and ear. The rumble of the V8 was very distinctive. My neighbour had one and I would just drool every time he fired it up. But it was also the design of the car with its beautifully rounded quarter windows flanking the big hatch, the futuristic looking doors which to this day are still quite unique, and the interior which gives the feeling of been encapsulated in another world. Everything fits perfectly around the driver, and even after a 500km drive to Denmark, you don’t really want to hop out and stretch the legs. Such is the comfort of this Grand Tourer. The 928 handles superbly.

Without getting into the technicalities, the gear box is located in a transaxle at the rear, providing a 50/50 weight distribution.

Along with a few other innovations, the result is a car that is quick when it needs to be, stops when it needs to, and sticks like the proverbial to a blanket when cornering.

So the affair with 928’s had begun. However, within weeks of taking ownership of my first 928, I discovered that the coolant had become somewhat milky. Hmmm. Off to Chellingworth, and my initial contact with Andy Stack. There was corrosion in the heads, so open heart surgery was to follow along with a substantial cash transfer from my account.

I enjoyed that car for three and a half years, during which time Kevin Clifton from Ktec performed regular health checks. By early 2001 some nasties began appearing, so it was time to move it on.

I purchased my second 928 from Kevin in February. It was a 928s, an English car in

good nick with Prussian blue duco and cream trim, and a little more grunt with the 4.7 V8 as opposed to the 4.5. The only downside was that it was a peddle car (automatic). I got over it and decided that somewhere down the road I would get my hands on another manual.

When I bought an MGB in 1979, someone said to me a car must be practical. So what’s the definition of practical? Being able to accommodate two sets of golf clubs is practical. This is where the 928 excels.

Two golf bags and two buggies in the back, two tradesmen in the front, and some nice winding bitumen leading to the golf course.

What more do you need? Incredibly, I’ve actually had a fold up bed in the back of the “S”, mattress and all, with the hatch closed.

Andy Stack and I reacquainted a few years later when he made the move from Chellingworth to Ktec and we have been great friends ever since. He too has a passion for 928’s so logically he became my GP. In October 2010, I asked what his thoughts were on taking the 928s on an 8,000km holiday to Melbourne and back via the Nullarbor. His answer was “it would love it”. He was right, I loved it too. He gave it a full medical before I set off in the first week of November.

I was a little apprehensive. I wanted to make the border (1500km) on the first day and the thought of no mobile coverage between Norseman and Eucla (700km) was playing on my mind. Oh well, if the baby fails me, so be it. I’ll deal with it. But no demons emerged. She was magnificent, the road was great, particularly between Madura and the border, and the thirst was a tee totalling 10 – 11 litres/100km. Impressive for what was a super car 25 years prior. And driving The Great Ocean road? It doesn’t get any better, particularly as it was late in the day,

daylight saving had kicked in, and I pretty much had the road to myself. Awesome.

I was driving to Melbourne for a week of golf with some mates. Little did I know that I would take one 928 over there, and bring two back.

There was a 1990 928 GT for sale in St Kilda which I had seen online. GT’s are rare, so I decided to take a look, purely as a tourist mind you. It was black, beautiful, manual (GT’s were only produced with a manual box) and in excellent condition. Well, I took it for a spin over the Westgate and down the Geelong Hwy, and a funny thing happened. With every throw of the shifter, and every roar from that exquisite 5L quad cam V8, the tourist gradually transformed into a prospective buyer. Actually, it wasn’t gradual, but pretty much immediate.

So I rang my GP and Andy was a little concerned about the the Km’s (177,000).

Of course, I wasn’t (who listens to their GP anyway?). After some negotiation, a deal was done for a fraction of what the car cost in 1990 ($236,000). Onto the train she went and I headed back to Perth in the “S”. There is only one thing better than driving the Great Ocean Road, and that is doing it again from

east to west. The same could be said for the Nullarbor. I was that excited with my new acquisition that I did Ceduna to Perth in one hop, stopping briefly at Nullarbor Roadhouse to look for my mobile phone which I lost on the way over. Amazing stuff, adrenalin.

The GT arrived a week or so later and a decision had to be made. Should the “S” stay, or should it go? Do you discard an old friend just because you’ve made a new one? Do you sell your child because there isn’t enough room in the house? The “S” is a great car, despite been an auto. But the GT is greater.

As I work away more often than not, its use is limited, and generally restricted to long runs. It craves for the open road. I took it on the Porsche Tour of Tassie last year and it performed brilliantly. Once again, the 928’s capacity to consume luggage was a real bonus, particularly as my partner decided to bring her wardrobe! Of course, the golf clubs were there, my overnight bag, car cleaning gear, compressors, Tim Tams, you name it.

There was one hiccup with the car. On our second last day in Tassie, a group of us did a run to Reece Dam. We stopped at a town called Zeehan for a drink and a chat, and

Another stunning view from Tassie

Atop Mt Wellington, Hobart

The Stag. Good fun with a sensational exhaust note

decided we enjoyed the drive so much, we’d to it again, as you do. Driving through Zeehan for the second time, I noticed the GT’s temp was heading north. Head gasket? Water pump?

There was nothing obvious. The RAC were very handy at that point, and over the next few days, as the car was trucked to Devonport, Port Melbourne to the Hyatt, the Hyatt onto the train, and then from the train in Perth, to John Regali’s in Embleton for storage. It was six months before Andy could inspect it. The problem turned out to be a slipping water pump impeller. Phew! Potentially it could have been much worse and, thankfully, the water pump didn’t pack up earlier on the tour. That would have been a disaster!

So…..the 928GT. My pride and joy. The practical sports car that gets me to the tee on time when I’m running late. The car that observers shake their head at in disbelief when told it’s nearly 30 years old. Love them or hate them, the 928 has its place in Porsche history.

And what did happen to the “S”? I still have it.

It shares a room with a Triumph Stag that I picked up a couple of years ago.

Old habits die hard!!!

A wardrobe, golf clubs. What else do we need

My first 928. 79’ manual

Not too many 928’s venture across the Nullarbor

You lookin at me?

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Story: Brad Bradshaw

My Porsche Story (continued): The Third Porsche 993C2 1994

993C2 in resplendent form I had always liked the look of the 993 Carrera and kept looking on the internet – not thinking of buying one - but you know… just looking! I already had a 911SC and the 944 Turbo, but after a short while I found a 1994 Polar silver 993 Carrera 2 at a wellknown independent Porsche dealer in Sussex that caught my eye. So thought I would go and have a look. “Only a look”, I said.

I ended up spending more than 3 hours looking at this car with the salesman (eager to make a sale). It was a nice car. A very early model. Turned out to be one of the first ever made. They had put on new brakes and tyres as well. Drove the car and, yes, fell in love all over again!! I told the salesman I would think about it overnight. It was overpriced, but in very good condition. He said it would be gone by the time I had thought about it.

The next day, having spent the night turning it over in my mind, I rang them and made an offer which they took exception to. But stuck with it. And after some debate, got the car for near enough what I wanted to pay with the promise of a full service including plugs and a geometry check as the steering wheel was slightly offset.

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The 944 Turbo was sold and I collected the 993 with warranty as well.

They said everything was done and the service book stamped, and geometry checked. It soon transpired that the geometry was not right as the steering wheel was still off but I was nearly home, so thought I would get it done later. There followed the by now standard task of cleaning the car as I was going out to a Porsche Club do the next day. So no sleep, just cleaning all night!!!

The car passed muster and I got the engine cleaned whilst there so all good.

The car had originally 17” wheels which I changed for 18” Turbo Twist from eBay, which I had refurbished and included the obligatory steering rack brace.

The 993 was treated to new headlights and spotlight glasses and some paint work to bring it up to spec. It already had sports exhaust and airbox, so made an awesome sound.

So now it was the 911SC and the 993 C2.

Life was great for a while. Then someone wanted my 911SC and over the next few months pursued me relentlessly to sell and

finally offered me a price I could not refuse so it got sold. Biggest mistake ever!!!! As it drove down the road I knew I would regret it!

So back to one very nice 993.

The car won a couple of Concours trophies and so upheld the tradition of all my cars.

It too went to Germany, Belgium and France a few times. So well-travelled!

It was a brilliant car to drive, got comments wherever it went and I just loved driving it. Never thought I would sell it. But as they say nothing is forever!

The 993 and 911SC together

Clean and detailed engine bay

Beautiful interior

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Story: Marc Sherriff

Hawkeye

Paul Hawkins, mid flight on his way to the bottom of the harbor, at the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix Paul Hawkins, born 12th October 1937, in Richmond, Victoria. Who is this man?

Why have very few Australians, outside his immediate family, ever heard of him? He achieved a great feat of motorsport, to some, the greatest. That great feat was achieved in the brand we love. Hence, I want to share what I could find of his story.

I am not talking about him being one of only two drivers to ever crash into the harbour at the Monaco Grand Prix. Not bad dinner conversation though. I am not talking about trailblazing his way to the UK to get himself a drive in Formula One, which during his time, was not the pinnacle of global motorsport. That would be sportscar racing, where in my eyes he achieved greatness.

I want to share the 1967 Targa Florio.

Chasing a factory drive, from pillar to post, Paul managed a few. He really made his reputation racing Ford GT40s, and Lola T70s.

He was basically a driver for hire, networking with owners, and managers, at every race meet to try and pay next month’s rent.

His real break came, following his local involvement, racing Austin Healeys. He maintained his relationship with this brand on arrival in the UK in 1960. His first real outing was at the Nurburgring 1000km, where he placed 38th in a Sprite. I am sure you all know the little bug-eyed model, that smiles back to you. He followed up this up with his Le Mans debut in 1961, in the same model, with a retirement in the 8th hour. It would not be until 1965 that he tasted success at an international level, again in an Austin-Healy Sprite, winning his class at Le Mans. He was determined to make this dream work.

Paul grew up in between wars, in sunny(?)

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Victoria. Like all boys, he was fascinated with motor cars. His formative years though are the ones that really shaped him, like all of us. Post WW2, Australia was finding its own identity, every family was getting their feet on the ground and buying a new house and a car.

All of a sudden, after years of various rationing of both goods and lifestyle, we found our way as a nation, and we all needed to get around. Ford and Holden started making cars locally, and they became not only cheaper, but financing them was the closest we came to zero interest. The nation would not see that again until today.

Paul’s father was a man of the cloth. Prior to finding his calling, he had a bit of a reputation around both Victoria, and Tasmania as a very competitive motor cycle racer. You can’t help but feel this must have had some influence on young Paul, growing up, cutting his teeth racing the family FX, then FJ Holdens at the local hill climbs, in the mid-fifties.

Paul’s list of event results are comprehensive, across Formula racing, Sports car racing, and Can-Am. Racing occasionally for the Porsche Works team, his first big result for that team came in 1966 at the Nurburgring 1000km, placing fourth outright in a Porsche 906.

1967 was his breakout year for Endurance racing. Winning the premier Sportscar event on the calendar, Targa Florio. He backed this up with second at the Nurburgring 1000km. Both these results were achieved in Porsche’s new 910/8. He was partnered with Rolf Strommelen at Targa Florio, and Gerard Koch at the Nurburgring 1000km.

14th May 1967 saw the 51st running of Targa Florio. After Le Mans, the greatest motor race on the calendar. 10 laps of the Piccolo

Circuito delle Madonie. Those with any understanding of Latin, will see the irony of calling a 72km lap, the “Small” circuit. The original “Grande” circuit, was 146km long.

Hans Hermann and Gerhard Mitter were the team’s lead drivers. They would test all the cars at Weissach before the event, then decide between themselves which car they wanted to drive. The balance of the drivers were allocated their seats by Hushke von Hanstein, who managed the race team.

Porsche entered six works cars. All were the latest 910. Three had the evolving 8 cylinder motor, the other three the tried and tested 6 cylinder. Whilst Hermann and Mitter claimed two of the bigger 8 cylinder cars, von Hanstein took a chance on a rising star of German motor racing, Rolf Strommelen.

To give that third car a bit of experience and increase its chance of a successful result, Paul Hawkins, a veteran racer by this time, was teamed up with Strommelen.

The team arrived in Sicily for practice, a week earlier for unofficial practice. This clearly paid off, as the drivers in the team less familiar with the 900, yes 900 turns per lap, had the chance to try and find their lines. To put things in perspective, Nurburgring has about 180 turns per lap.

Race day, like all race days, did not go to plan for the Works Team, with both lead drivers in the 910/8 cars retiring. The tried and tested 910/6 cars were running flawlessly, but the great victory of the day was to be the 910/8 car of Hawkins/Strommelen. Porsche took their 7th Targa, with five cars in the top seven, including a clean sweep of the podium. With only 47 seconds separating the first two cars, the 910/6 very nearly stole the new 8-cylinder powered car’s thunder.

Porsche 910-8 car 228 on its way to victory 1967 Targa Florio Whilst this result was seen by many as the pinnacle of Paul Hawkins’ career, it was his crash into the harbour at the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix, that really cemented his reputation in international motor racing circles.

Paul’s career was dotted with minor results, and the rare win, across many classes, but this all came to a sad end, on 26th May 1969.

He was racing a Lola T70 at Oulton Park, on a typical drizzly UK day, when he crashed into a tree, and his car burst into flames, killing him instantly. At 31 years old, he died too young.

Let us remember the only Australian outright winner of Targa Florio.

• Porsche 910/8 car 228 • 720km 6:37.01 (108.812kmh) • Paul Hawkins References:

Paul contemplating the race ahead

- Porsche Excellence was Expected – A complete history of the sports & racing cars.

- Karl Ludvigsen - Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1977.

- www.racingsportscars.com Race results database.

- www.motorsportmagazinecom Drivers database.

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As sponsors of the magazine we have been given the opportunity to present an article about our business services, to let other Porsche owners know what we do.

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Story: Michael Broughton

Goodwood Revival Meeting 2018 - Chichester, SUSSEX. U.K.

The Goodwood Revival is all about recreating the glamour of motor racing as it used to be.

let me have 5 laps in a Porsche Cayman and 5 laps in a Formula Renault single seater.

This is the only historic race meeting to be staged entirely in period dress, and sees a return to the halcyon days of Goodwood as the spiritual home of British motor racing.

It’s a celebration of bygone days and wheelto-wheel racing around this classic circuit, which remains unchanged since its heyday.

Third stop was Brooklands, the world’s first purpose built racing circuit, with a fabulous collection of sports cars, adjacent to a Mercedes Driver training track, where I managed to get a 15 minute driving display as a passenger in a Mercedes 6.3 Black S sedan, following 3 other identical cars at high speed on a wet and dry track.

For the world’s most collectable historic cars, World War II aviation memorabilia and fashion from the 40’s and 50’s, this is unique.

This being my second visit, I decided to track down as much motoring excitement as I could, after Goodwood.

First stop was Brands Hatch with the following cars available for my indulgence: • Ferrari California, • Lamborghini Gallardo, • Audi R8, • Nissan GTR • Ariel Atom.

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Having then visited the Imperial War Museum in London and in Duxford, I only had one more box to tick.

My final extravaganza was a ride in a dual seater Spitfire at Biggin Hill, south east of London.

My pilot (Smithy) gave me the controls for 15 minutes and let me do a left bank and a right bank, before taking over the controls & executing two 360 degree barrel rolls on a perfect day, overlooking the Thames and London, cruising a 2500 feet.

On a local note, my next adventure will be Phillip Island in March in the 356 for the second time.

Being a motoring tragic does have its advantages.

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Story: Andy Stack

This is a sad story…

You would not lend your partner to your friend.

So why should you lend your Porsche to someone else?

New Porsche owner gets a new Porsche and lends it to his mate to meet at the track for the first time.

Fast forward, frantic phone call to owner from his mate! “Not sure? Can’t get gears?

Must be gear linkage or gear box is faulty? Or something?”

Next the Porsche arrives on a tow truck. No track work, no friend, just a sad new Porsche owner.

This is not a common story but a sad one nonetheless.

The owner was all excited to be taking his new purchase for a few laps on the track and entrusted his friend to drive it to the track for a fun day.

The one thing about physics and 911’s is the massive weight transference when a rear engine car is accelerated away from a stand still.

Ready to install

So with his mate thinking he was driving a commodore and excited about dragging people off from the traffic lights, an incident was not too far away.

As you will see from the pictures he made a good job of destroying an otherwise perfectly operating clutch.

911 clutch abuse

Brand new clutch replacement parts

Many small jobs achieved when the motor is out

Leaking rear main oil seal

The sometimes forgotten to fit ring gear.

Believe me I have seen it done!

Easy engine foam replacement while engine out

The good news from this misadventure is that the clutch is really the safety fuse in this situation. Otherwise the massive amount of engine torque being transferred through the drive train could destroy gears in the gearbox and ultimately a lot more tears.

The positive side to this story is that we used the opportunity to rectify several other issues which were present with this car whilst the engine was out of the car including renewing the dreaded engine bay foam and several oil leaks that were spotted.

So remember with every negative there is always a positive!

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Story: Andy Stack

A Brief History; Porsche Spare Tyres - Known As The Space-Saver

Two versions of emergency wheels left up to 1997 right 1997 onwards.

Since the early 70’s, Porsche has struggled with fitting a full-size spare wheel into their tiny sports cars.

Space is always scarce on all Porsche models and with so much technology being crammed under the bonnet and the requirement to not leave us stranded by the side of the road, it was then up to the Porsche engineers to shoehorn a spare wheel under the already space poor bonnet area, and now with staggered width tyres fitted, an additional problem has arisen.

Wider tyres were first introduced with the 1973 911 RS. This allowed the space saver to be used for either front or rear wheel applications. The space saver spare wheel as we know it today, started life with a heavy steel rim and with a Vredestein brand collapsed tyre on it. This allowed the wheel to take up little space in the boot area and this also allowed a larger capacity fuel tank to be fitted to 911’s.

The spare wheel was then fitted to the car and inflated with a supplied compressor. This works perfectly if you have the compressor in the car and if the cigarette lighter socket actually works.

This is something to think about and check before your next country drive.

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With the introduction of the 17 and 18 inch rim on the 1990 964’s, a much lighter aluminium rim was introduced with Vredestein brand tyre and the rim being painted bright red and followed by a big 80kph sticker firmly attached.

This space saver tyre has seen many model Porsches and with it being used in all models up to 1998, it was last used on the 993 series.

From 1997, with the introduction of the Boxster, it was decided to fit a fully inflated (60PSI) space saver spare with continental tyre in the front boot area.

The fitting of a full width spare wheel would not allow sufficient boot space, so a thinner, inflated tyre was the solution.

Fast forward 21 years to today and these newer type spare tyres are developing a few issues of their own which Porsche owners will be unaware of until it is too late.

The early space saver wheels of the past had steel fittings for inflation whereas the newer, fully inflated wheels use a rubber tyre valve connection. The repair industry is now finding leaks in several spare wheels during vehicle servicing and it is discovering that the wheels are flat, or that the valves have deteriorated.

This is an easy fix while servicing but not when you are stuck on the side of the road.

For those of us that can still remember the evolution of telegrams, to letters, to faxes to electronic mail (email), or from vinyl records, to cassettes, to CD’s to thumb drives, you will recognise how much our world has progressed in such a short period of time.

Likewise, the advancements have also been made in the spare wheel department.

Porsche has now progressed to such wide tyres on their cars that even if there was a space saver spare wheel, the original wheel will not fit back inside these little cars.

So another option had to be thought of.

Porsche has now adopted the squeeze bottle of tyre sealant that is squeezed into the valve and the tyre is then inflated with the supplied compressor. Again, this is only any help if the tyre is not badly damaged or the sealant is not more than 4 years old [recommended replacement life of sealant] So Porsche owners, please give your spare wheel a squeeze. And if it feels a little soft you need to give it some attention. Safe travels.

Problem rubber valve stems 1997 on

Critical that inflated spares are checked from time to time

Yes they do have an emergency wheel . You just have to find it.

Early orange compressor and 964-993 compressor

Complete rubber valve failure Boxster-996

Tools for tyre sealant. Also sticker for inside of drivers sun glasses.

Tyre Sealant for later Porsches. BUT has a recommended life of 4 YEARS ONLY

Early heavy steel emergency wheel

997 compressor used in conjunction with tyre sealant

Red larger diameter rim from 964 Issue 3 - 2018

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