To register please make a donation of $30 or more to participate and enter a car in the Show & Ride. Return rides from Dundarave to Cypress Mountain will be sold for a minimum of $30. Official tax receipts will only be issued for donations of $50 or more. A great selection of door prizes will be drawn. Please register at  www.showandride.ca/dundarave2012.php

For more information please visit our website www.showandride.ca

For 2012 the annual PCA-CWR Canada West Weekend will be held Septmeber 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th in Osoyoos B.C.

This relaxing Porsche weekend of golf, driving tours, Porsche show & shine, guided wine tours and banquets will again be at the fabulous Spirit Ridge Vineyard Resort & Spa,

Spirit Ridge, located in Osoyoos, British Columbia is ”Napa of the North” is surrounded by dramatic sun-drenched landscapes, miles of vineyards and views to Lake Osoyoos’ warm, blue waters, Spirit Ridge’s vacation suites are within reach of desert golf, luxurious spa experiences, convention centre and unique cultural opportunities at the cultural centre.

The 4.5 star accommodations embraces you with exacting details from nine-foot ceilings to gourmet kitchens, opulent bedrooms with room enough for all of you, plus spacious balconies and patios. The resort can cater to variety of desires. Sonora Desert Spa, Sonora Dunes Golf Course,  NK’MIP Cellars winery and Passatempo Restaurant.

Porsche Club members are privileged to special room rates for this event. We are still in the planning stage and registration is tenatively set for early Spring 2012.

Event Details and registration cost will be sent out as soon they are available.

We look forward to seeing you again !

For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed
an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports car. That means that the
launch of the new Type 991 is an important event for the Porsche Museum
Stuttgart as well. As a curtain raiser for 2012, the new generation is being
welcomed as part of a major special exhibition from 31 January to 20 May, 2012
under the banner “911 Identity”.

More than 700,000 911s have been produced in
Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen since it was unveiled in 1963. The recipe for its
success is its uniqueness, because the 911 combines apparent contradictions
such as sportiness and everyday practicality, tradition and innovation,
exclusivity and social acceptance or design and functionality like no other
car. No wonder that each of the now seven 911 generations has written its own
success story. As a result, the Porsche Museum is exhibiting all the 911
generations, from the “original 911” to the new Type 991 – against the backdrop
of the prevailing mood of the relevant decade or year in which the sports car
icon came to market.

Rare motor racing variants such as the Porsche 911 Carrera
RS 2.7 “Safari” or Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid will also be on show. In addition,
to unique technical exhibits and cutaway models from Weissach, the visitor will
also get to see one of the new 911 generation “Erlkings”, before being able to
slide behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 Carrera at the end of the special
exhibition. The special exhibition also showcases steering wheels and wheel
rims from 1963 to the present day. Finally, the automotive retrospective is
rounded off by documents from the company archive that have never previously
been on public display.

Special Offers for Visitors

As part of the “911 Identity” special exhibition, the
Porsche Museum is also expanding its guided tour offering. 911 fans can brush
up their knowledge of the sports car icon during an one hour themed guided tour
– after first registering with the visitor service using the e-mail address
info.museum@porsche.de.

The son of company founder Ferry Porsche, F.A. or “Butzi” as he was known spent most of his career at his eponymous firm Porsche Design, where he oversaw the styling of thousands of products from watches to yachts, many with the tag “Designed by F.A. Porsche.”

But it’s the 911′s emergence in 1964, when Butzi Porsche was just 25 years old, that made him a historic figure. While his father and grandfather had been famous German engineers — the original Ferdinand Porsche engineered the first Volkswagen Beetle — F.A. Porsche chose to study design. A year after enrolling in a prestigious school, Porsche was in his own words “kicked out,” and took at job at his father’s fledging car business in 1957.

At the time, Ferry Porsche had created the successful Porsche 356, but needed a follow-up model. He set the car’s basic layout —a rear engine, a short wheelbase for agile handing — but pushed the designers and engineers to fashion a more sporting look than the men who built the Beetle had produced so far.

Prowling the auto shows of Europe, F.A. Porsche formed an idea of how the car should look as a smooth, curving fastback, rejecting the flat angles popular in American cars of the era. “I just think you start creating edges when the body of a car is bad…they are lines that support something that ties the designer down,” Porsche would say years later.

The new car’s design spurred a dispute with the older designers in Ferry Porsche’s shop, to such a degree Ferry went around them, taking his son’s blueprints to the body fabricator. The first production-ready model, called the 901, appeared at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September 1964, and after Peugeot objected to the name, Porsche changed it to 911. Despite the timelessness of the 911′s shape, F.A. Porsche believed his greatest design came a few years later, with the Porsche 904 race car.

When the company went public in 1971, the Porsche family withdrew from management roles — although F.A. Porsche would remain a presence on the company’s board and in its design studios. “He established a design culture in our company that has shaped our sports cars to this very day,” said Matthias Müller, President and Chief Executive Officer of Porsche AG. “His philosophy of good design is a legacy to us that we will honor for all time.”

Don’t own a Porsche yet? PCA Quest might be for you!

Although membership in PCA requires ownership/lease of a
Porsche or that you be in a Porsche-related business, we do offer something for
those of you actively trying to become Porsche owners.

The PCA Quest program provides you a six-month subscription
to Porsche Panorama, the club’s monthly national magazine. You’ll not only have
access to hundreds of Porsches for sale by PCA members in The Mart, but you’ll
also gain access to valuable technical information about the cars through the
many articles in Panorama. You’ll also have access to the on-line Mart during
your six-month subscription period. A logon account will be assigned to you
when you sign up for the Quest Program.

Although PCA Quest is not a full membership in PCA and does
not entitle you to some member benefits (attending member-only events, voting,
or becoming a member of a region), our region will welcome guests and you are
encouraged to contact us at Canada West Region.

PCA Quest is $40 for a one-time, six-month subscription
(non-renewable). The fee is non-refundable and cannot be applied toward a
membership in whole or in part should you acquire a Porsche and join PCA prior
to the expiration of the 6-month subscription.

To sign up for PCA
Quest, please contact the PCA Executive Office at 1-410-381-0911, Monday -
Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EST.

The company has begun advertising the 911 as, of all things, a practical vehicle that can serve as a good-looking way to get around in the workaday world  and even, in some cases, can demonstrate the same capabilities as a minivan. In its “Engineered for Magic. Everyday” campaign, Porsche highlights 911 owners using the car for a series of mundane activities including hauling groceries and picking up kids from school.
Source: AutoObserver.com

The 57th Annual Porsche Parade in Salt Lake City, Ut. Make plans now for this outstanding multi-event weekend. This is PCA’s premiere annual event and everyone should make it to at least one while they are a member. Make plans now if you haven’t already. Registration is now open

http://parade2012.pca.org/

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