Pipercross to Supply AMD BTCC Golf

One of Pipercross top UK distributors, AmD Essex are entering the 2010 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). "The really interesting news is that our chosen car is a VW Golf, a manufacturer unseen in the BTCC arena for over 20 years".

"We are really proud to be bringing the Volkswagen name back into top-line touring cars. We have been working on a plan to move up to the BTCC arena after winning the Dunlop Sportmaxx Cup in 2009 and a BTCC VW Golf is a perfect fit," said AmD's Shaun Hollamby. "The VW Golf is one of the UK's most popular cars and it would be great to see hordes of VW Golf owners cheering us on throughout the year!"

Hollamby will be the main driver and Simon Shaw, who won the Dunlop Sportmaxx title for AmD, is trying to raise the necessary budget to campaign the car at selected rounds of the championship.

The car is based on a MK5 VW Golf shell with a 2.0 16V normally aspirated power unit with a competitive 285bhp. Pipercross filter,Sadev sequential gearbox, KW competition suspension, Milltek exhaust, HJS Sports catalytic converter and Alcon brake and clutch parts complete the performance package.

"Starting with a new car package, we expect 2010 to be a gradual development season but I am confident I can get a few competitive results. Winning races is not a realistic target at this stage but, having won races in every series in which I have competed, I would like to think I can hold my own at this level," said Hollamby.

PAP-Parts will be offering the Pipercross line shortly...


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Upcoming Events

At Pap-parts we are proud to be part of events.

We are involved with the following events:

Oct'dubber Fest '09

Saturday Oct. 10, 2009

Tynan's VW

Aurora, Co.

11AM to 4PM

http://www.metrodubs.com

OktoberFiesta

October 23 thru 25

New Mexico

Carrera-region PCA

915-490-2028

Fixx-Fest

Saturday Nov. 21, 2009

Bradenton Motorsports

Park Bradenton, FL

Noon to 7PM

http://www.vwfixx.com/fixxfest/

If you have an upcoming event let me know

VW TDI Cup Crash

Through our sister company, Truechoice, we sell a lot of road racing parts and safety parts. One of our vender's sent us this and I thought it was worth posting.

SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup driver Devin Cates had a high speed roll at Round 7 of the series in August........he went off big time at the infamous "Canada Corner" and sustained major damage to his car. Thanks to all of the safety equipment he was wearing - including the defNder Head and Neck Restraint - Cates was able to walk away from the crash to fight another day. He rebounded quickly, with a double header opportunity at New Jersey Motorsports Park this past weekend. Cates wasted no time, with a convincing win at Round 9. The win earned Cates a black colored defNder, which all TDI Cup Winners have received this season.

See the video of his Road America crash here:

Cates crash at road america

This is also a cool VW link

http://media.vw.com/

Just a thought...

Up comming events

At Pap-parts we are proud to be part of events. We are involved with the following events:

8th Annual All German Car Show
Sunday 20, 2009
Germania Club
Columbus, Ohio
11AM to 4PM

Http://www.mbca.org/central_ohio/carshow.htm

Oct'dubber Fest '09
Saturday Oct. 10, 2009
Tynan's VW
Aurora, Co.
11AM to 4PM

http://www.metrodubs.com

OktoberFiesta
October 23 thru 25
New Mexico
Carrera-region PCA
915-490-2028

Fixx-Fest
Saturday Nov. 21, 2009
Bradenton Motorsports Park
Bradenton, FL
Noon to 7PM

http://www.vwfixx.com/fixxfest/


If you have an upcoming event let me know

Porsche 911 GT3RS

Check this out...

Select the "extreme" on the second page


http://www.porsche.com/microsite/911gt3rs/usa.aspx

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INTRODUCING PAP-PARTS’ NEW SPAM-FREE EMAIL MARKETING PROGRAM

Or why we don’t like don’t like spam or AOL for that matter!

Earlier this year both of our companies, PAP-Parts and Truechoice Motorsports, sent out broadcast emails as our way to offer specials, discounts and other valuable information to our customers. We had been doing this off and on for seven years with no problems.

We always kept in mind people hate spam. We felt we were not sending spam as we understood it, since we were sending legitimate offers only to email addresses furnished to us by our own customers and saved in our own database. We even had clear email titles identifying the sender and the offer and we did have opt-out links for our customers to have us take them off of our email address list if they so wished.

What is that old-time saying about one rotten apple spoiling the entire barrel? Our entire email marketing program heard from the one rotten apple…an unidentified AOL user.

About a week after an email was sent out we received an email from our web store site hosting company stating that if we didn’t stop using their servers to email spam, they would have to shut us down totally and take us off their servers due to Ameritech, their IPO, asking them to cease and desist from allowing spam from PAP-Parts.

Upon receiving the notice about being labeled spammers we did what any party that thinks it is innocent would do…state we were wronged and then try to prove it to whoever lodged the complaint we were not spammers.

That is pretty hard to do in the undefined and elusive e-world. We started with our hosting company and explained that we had been sending marketing emails for years and had had no problem and even asked them to review the alleged spam. They seemed to agree but with the heat on from Verizon, they took the easy way out and suggested now would be a good time to go to a full email marketing specialist that could help us run a proper opt-in, spam-free, good-practices email program.

Our second tack was to contact Verizon. Us against the big guys! Well, sadly Verizon couldn’t tell us what we had done wrong, only that we had done it. They wouldn’t listen or allow us to show proof…to them we were spammers based only on the complaint of one single AOL user labeling us as such. The Verizon representative said the industry was riding very hard on spammers and they take the complaint of someone in the public as serious. Guilty…forget about proving it!
I bet you can guess where we headed to complain next?

That’s right…AOL. Let’s be short and to the point about AOL. Here is a company that markets itself as a leader in internet communications technology and guess how you contact them with a question about one of their customers labeling you a spammer? You write them a letter and mail it to them. I guess that is some kind of a low-tech way to hide from hi-tech complaints. Is AOL even a player in this new internet world anymore?

We were, left with a barrel of rotting apples. It was now time to check into complete broadcast email packages. The thinking for this seems to be if they can get the real non-spamming marketers into legit programs that can be tracked, edited and managed better they might be able to slowly eliminate spamming by the real internet bad apples. It makes sense, what hidden spammer is going to come out of the internet darkness and identify itself with a legit program?

Welcome to the new world of fully spam-free, opt-in-only marketing system through GoDaddy Express Marketing, one of the companies our store hosts recommended.

We sent out new PAP-Parts email marketing opt-in forms at the end of June to have our old customer list sign up for the new controlled program. We waited for our customers to respond to the opt-in form, and after about a month's time we have discovered our email list has been pared down considerably.

It is going to take some time for the news to get out that the only way you will get an email from PAP-Parts from now on is if you opt-into the entire program as it is designed. You can only do that from your own computer by using the opt-in forms we sent out to the old mailing list customers or by going to the front page of the PAP-Parts web site and clicking on the “sign Up to Receive PAP Email” graphic to take you to the form you will need to officially sign up. This is how GoDaddy and others control and prevent spamming.

Our first PAP-Parts email generated from the new Express Marketing software went out a few weeks ago and was sent only to the PAP-Parts customers that sent back the opt-in forms sent to the old customers list. Maybe word will get around there are real benefits in receiving the PAP-Parts marketing emails. Please help us spread the word by telling others that drive Porsche, Audi and VW cars about the current email they missed and how not to miss great sales and special offers in the future.

My daughter racing

I do realize that my daughter's Jr dragster has nothing to do with VW, Porsche's, and/or Audi's but the car does say PAP-Parts on the side. I know it would be a stretch to make comparisons because it's air cooled or rear engined. I think it is interesting and pretty impressive that an 8 year old can go 0 to about 50 mph in about 12 seconds. (A proud dad has got to take every chance he has to brag a little)

Check out what it is like to drive a Jr Dragster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JELHcR1hEOg

Check out her website:

www.mikieracing.com

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