PCA at Sebring

The PCA kicks off the new year with a Porsche Club event in Sebring, Florida at the legendary Sebring International Raceway. The races being heald the first week in Febuary makes for some cold mornings but some great racing

The pink falimangos are part of the theme so we had one hanging arround the Truechoice/PAP-Parts trailer all weekend. (I kinda liked it)

Because of the size of the track I got to see some graet examples of Porsche race cars. I bet they had 50+ cars on the grid at any given time.

Amazing just how long those rows of cars are.

In the course of the weekend, I got to see about everything raced or driven through the pits.

I love the on the track action.

Only bad thing about a track this big is that the cars thin out in a few laps.

But they still buzz arround there at a pretty good clip.

The most interesting thing is the people and their passions.

Some folks rented U-haul trailers and some folks like TRG brought 6 haulers.

Life is good...

Detroit autorama 09

Every year I make the trip to Detroit for the annual Autorama and this year was no exception. The car club I am in has been putting on this show for 57 years and every year it gets better. If you have never been it's worth going. As I walked through the show, I figured I would take some picture of the German cars for our Pap-Parts clients. The VW's were represented well but there were few Porsche's, and only one Audi.

This is my personal favorite - a Volks Willies - VERY COOL

All the details... sorry small print

The first give away is that Beetle front suspension

You have to admit this is cool

Second give away is that rear engine but check out the exhaust (exits in front of the rear wheels)

A lowered '66 - great detail on this car

The '66's specs.

A very clean '67 - the owners dressed in 60's clothes all weekend

a nice 356 sorta - replica but really neat

They still used a lot of Porsche parts

This is owned by the same guy with the Volks Willy

Very cool - very well done - nice detail work

From the tuner section of the show

very cool - nice wheels

Bug convertible with some add ons.

The only Audi... but it represented well

Oh yea, it's badddd

It's a boxster... it's all closed up...

boxster specs??

A bad bug... granted it has been slightly altered

and it will bug some purists

but a turbo charged small block Ford

Has got to be a blast... no matter who you are.

Just a Thought...

New arivals

One of the highlights around here is when packages arrive from Germany for 2 reasons:

1) Cool new parts (kinda like Christmas)
2) A chance to increase our German vocabulary

The word for this shipment is: Wappen which must mean hood emblem (how it really gets pronounced is another story)

Life is good...