Thursday, March 25, 2010

Porsches 2 Oxford

Check out this event:
http://www.porsches2oxford.com/


Porsches 2 Oxford would be worth including this event on your busy summer schedule. We think you will find that the unique venue coupled with their “Casual Porsche Party” theme will make this one of the premier Porsche gatherings in the country.

Your attendance will help raise money for the American Cancer Society, their charity of choice for the second straight year. Everyone knows someone affected by cancer and they’re asking everyone to help find a cure. P2O’s brainchild, MaryLynn Roe, battled cancer with endless courage and this year we are continuing the tradition in her honor. MaryLynn’s Row is reserved parking directly in front of show center for attendees making a $100 tax deductible contribution to ACS. Space is limited so please reserve your spot when pre-registering. Last year the spots sold out in just a few days.

Porsches 2 Oxford 2010 promises to be bigger and better than ever without sacrificing the distinct personal touches that make it completely casual and relaxing. On Friday July 30th they will start with an open house during the day at the Taj Ma Garaj www.tajmagaraj.com in nearby Dayton, OH (1hr). The Taj is a must-see Porsche collection and museum that is very unique. Just a $10 donation at the door gets you inside and benefits the Ronald McDonald House. Starting at 6pm Friday night they will move back to Oxford for ‘Party in the Park’ — a preview show of the cars that will attend the Saturday show. They have included a beer garden and food vendors on the lawn of the town square. The beer garden and food will be open from 6pm to 9pm Friday night. Your survey results said you would like to see more vendors, sponsors and some informational demonstrations throughout the day. P20 is moving up to the ‘next level’ and providing those to you this year.

They will continue with their ‘Peoples’ Choice” car show with awards for the top ten percent of registered cars (Top-50 awards), along with the drive to Hueston Woods State Park following Saturday’s awards ceremony. Thanks to Porsche of the Village of Cincinnati, Griot’s Garage of Tacoma, WA, Autobahn Extremist of Rocky River, OH, and Forgeline Wheels of Dayton, OH, for enlisting as Major Event Sponsors. P2O also benefits from supporting sponsors to ensure our event is first class in every way.

This year they expect over 500 shiny Porsches to attend the uptown Oxford area on Friday July 30th and Saturday, July 31st. In 2009, they registered 468 Porsches from 17 states and Canada, with 409 braving a driving rainstorm to set a new attendance record. To accommodate the additional cars, They have obtained more downtown parking space along the brick-lined city streets and offer limited availability free covered parking after 4pm across the street from the Elms Holiday Inn.

Your $25 registration fee is a real bargain considering it gets you an event T-shirt, event poster, and entry into the car show where beautiful cars and sponsors will be on hand to help make your Porsche ownership experience even better. Attendees will also have a chance to win great door prizes that will be given away throughout the day. They think it’s the best bargain of the summer.

As great as the cars are, it’s the great people that create the success of this event. We hope you to choose to join them this July 30th and 31st in Oxford, Ohio. Based on the responses of those who have attended in the past, we are confident you are going to have a great time.


Life is good...

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Porsche 911 GT3RS


Check this out...

Select the "extreme" on the second page


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

Life is good...

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Monday, August 31, 2009

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.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

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:

Check out her website:
Life is good...

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Monday, June 1, 2009

4 door Porsche

Every month I get a Porsche newsletter e-mailed to me by my friends at Porsche in Germany. Last month they had an interesting twist - a 4 door that's not an SAV. It kinda has that Aston-Martin look to it so I wonder if it will show up in the next James Bond movie. They call it the Panamera but I still haven't got all the specs on it.

The extraordinary design of the Panamera is unmistakably Porsche. I wonder how sports car technology will do in the luxury class market. This will be a different kind of venture, Not a luxury car maker making a sporty car but a sports car maker making a luxury car. The real question is when will it come in a Cup or GT3 version.

www.videos.streetfire.net/video/Porsche-Panamera_201555.htm

Just a thought...

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

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...

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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...

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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...

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Porsche 906 E

I have gotten a great appreciation for German built cars working for Pap-Parts so I really enjoy traveling to racetracks with our sister company, Truechoice Motorsports. It gives me a chance to see some great examples of German engineering. This Porsche 906E was owned by the late Henry Paine III of Payne Engineering of Scott Depot, WV and now his son, Henry Payne III is carrying on the Vintage racing Tradition. The late Henry Paine III was just awarded the Prestigious Charlie Gibson Memorial Award by Sasco Sports at this years SVRA awards Banquet. Here are some pic’s of the beautiful restoration done on this car.
It looks fast just sitting there
This is chassis # 160
Simple but stylish back endThe last Porsche 906 e to leave the factory
A little last minute prep
A look under the hood?
simple yet functional interior
2.0 Ltr Fuel Injected Flat 6
220 bhp in 1966
Built May 1966New Eibach springs from Truechoice
This car placed 3rd in 1966 hockenheim with Hermann & Ling driving.
Placed 8th in the 1967 daytona 24 hour with Stommelon & Schutz driving.
DNF'ed in 1967 at Sebring 12-hourswith Stommelon & Schutz driving.
Life is good...
more pic's

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