Some random pics of Andrew and I at the IMSA Monterey Grand Prix on May 1, 2016. I was able to score a PCA car corral ticket last minute which was great, thank you PCA and their volunteers! Their hospitality tent is always nice, and the people there are generally great. The open grid walk before the first race is always a great time to do some great car (and people) watching, you end up seeing all types of both. These pics are random, but started with a fill up on the way down and ended up with a thoroughly tired out kid on the way home. What I didn’t include was a quick trip to a local beach on the way out, no better way to end a great day at the track, great weather too.
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991.2 Unveiling
The new 991.2 unveiling at Livermore Porsche on April 17, 2006. Pretty awesome event, must have been 200-300 people there at least, very cool. I don’t have tons of 991.2 Pics here, frankly because those are everywhere now. What I thought was really interesting was a $1 Million 918 Spyder in the air with all it’s ass end hanging out exposed… and a very pricey Carrera GT in the house too.
SEMA 2015
Well, a last minute road trip to SEAM presented itself and I hit the road! Arrived on Wed afternoon, hit the show for a few hours and headed over to the Red Bull Global Rally Cross Finals. What a wet muddy mess of a track, I can’t remember when it rained during SEMA. Great first experience with that, even though Ken Block didn’t win!
Spent Thursday and half of Friday wandering the many halls and aisles. There are endless things to see there and 2 days just isn’t enough time, it never is. The RWB Porsches were out in force, several scattered throughout the event. The Ford out Front area was as great as last year and the new GT Le Mans car on display was simply awesome. Chevrolet had a great area but as last year it just didn’t seem to have as much excitement as the Ford areas had. Enjoy the pictures…an 8 hour ride home is calling. Until next year!
Porsche Rennsport Reunion V
Holy Cow, Rennsport Reunion is in the books and what an event! I literally could not count the number of Porsches there, from your everyday Supercar Turbo S to the humble 924 to the very early of 356’s and everything in between! It was truly Porsche heaven. I went down with my little girl Friday late in my 87 S4, set up camp and just tried to take it all in. I watched the giveaway of the Club Coupe, which by the way is a stunning collectible edition and saw some fellow 928’s in the crowd… which if I may comment… there were only a handful at the entire event. There needs to be more of these future classics out there. 911’s are great and all but there were so many varieties of them… we need some of the other models to step it up!
Mindelheim and Ottobeuren en route to Lindau
Here’s a small village and Cathedral that we stumbled upon just after our visit to the Ruf workshop, on recommendation from the service manager there, along with a few shots on the Autobahn en route to Lindau.
Porsche Audio
From the Porsche Museum, you step into the middle and various Porsche sounds begin, starting with a 928!
Visit to RUF Automobile GmbH
Really fantastic to visit and meet the man himself, Alois Ruf at their workshop in Pfaffenhausen. Very nice people, went on a tour of the facility – both their manufacturing site and their Porsche Center across the traffic circle. The original workshop has two engine dynos for development work and the breaking in of every customer engine before installation, along with a small paint and body shop. Very cool to see where the magic happens. Some really interesting and historical vehicles on site including an odd Ford GT in for servicing, owned by a very ‘special’ customer of theirs. This man’s most famous creation, the Yellow Bird from 1989 graced my walls as a kid, so this was a very special visit… Their website is here
Porsche Museum
Visited the Porsche Museum and took a Factory Tour on Tuesday June 16. Fantastic factory tour, but wish we would have been able to see the paint shop! And no pics inside the factory tour. The Museum was a great walk through too, lots of history here.
The Garage Files 