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Now that we have wrapped up the 2003 Northeast Region, Porsche club of America’s activities here is a recap of what we did. We kicked off the year with the largest participation event every year the annual Ramble, this time back to the Woodstock Inn in Vermont. Over 120 cars including our first Cayenne enjoyed a rather wet day coupled with a great route courtesy of our course master Bruce Hauben. The cone pilots started their season in May with the yearly school, another sell out as usual, followed (after a rare rain out) with 5 more fun filled days of autocrossing. We reinstitution rallys this year; Drew and Carol Ley along with Vic and Margie Zeller showed that there still is interest in the region for these road events. In fact the recent fall event that the Zellers hosted drew a record 18 cars that all finished. Charley and Martha Dow presented this year’s fall tour, ending at long time member Kim Saal’s summerhouse in Southeastern Mass. A large crowd of almost 75 members made it a huge success, in spite of another drenching rain (do we see a pattern for our tours). Our second annual Porschefest was a rousing success with a record turnout. That event included a concurrent photo contest, plus a talk by noted photographer Tom Burnside who was a big hit. Finally and most impressive Arnie Zahn and the hard working track committee presented an unprecedented 18 days at 5 different tracks in both the USA and Canada. Many members took advantage of this wide diversity of locations to hone their driving skills. As of this writing (just before Thanksgiving) we have confirmed our usual autocross school in May along with 5 events throughout the season, plus we’ve reserved an extra day for whatever use we deem suitable. Also one-track date has been reserved. The annual planning meeting in early January ‘04 should lock up the rest. A slimmed down schedule is planned for this year, but with still plenty of variety. Bruce Hauben is continuing work on next years first ever Ramble to the Camden, Maine area for mid April (Look for entry information in the January Nor’easter). We hope to have an additional rally for a total of 3. Also the “Coffee Run”, a short Sunday morning tour to a nice breakfast/brunch location will make a comeback in the late winter/early springtime span. Our annual Porschefest at the Museum of Transportation is already booked and last years’ chairman, Kim Saal has again volunteered to head this fun filled event up. Finally the fall tour is being planned but we are still looking for a volunteer to head up this venture (if you’re interested contact myself or any of the board members) Speaking of board members our elections will be finalized by the time you read this column and you will notice two new faces on the board, one a veteran. Karen Adams along with hubby Doug have been hard workers in the club’s activities since joining us many years ago after buying Susana Weber’s Porsche. Similarly our new Secretary, Ron Mann tried an autocross 2 years ago and then volunteered to write for the Nor’easter in an interesting style unlike other columnists. When approached to serve he relished the idea of being able to write some more for the club. Ron was the recipient of the “coveted” Seymour Lisker award for one who tries hardest but does not quite win, and this year he received the Newsletter contribution award for the aforementioned stories. Now to the technical side, I did get a response to my story on winter storage from our webmaster, Bill Hawe who reminded me that we do already have information on winter storage on our website, just click on http://www.porschenet.com/winter.html. This month I came across and interesting if somewhat small technical question. A customer had accidentally changed his Boxster instrument reading to metric from US and did not know how to set it back. Well the answer is the clock knob needs to be turned and held until it switches back. Then we realized that since the problem occurred near the clock change in late October that is why it was changed in the first place. To review to set time on a Boxster or 996 push the clock knob until the hour or minute display blinks then set by turning the knob. When done push again and you are set. Another interesting point for the earlier 911 drivers did you know that by holding the clock reset button it speeds up after a short period of time being held. (It would be a monstrous effort to hold that knob down for 23 hours of setting the clock back at one minute a click. Another point on controls, if you have a 996 or Boxster and lose electrical power, your express windows may not function. You need to resynchronize them by putting the window up all the way, hold the button up for a few seconds, then repeat the process in the down position. Then they work fine. Here’s another reason to make sure your drains are cleared on late model 996’s and Boxsters. The area in front of the brake booster can fill with so much water that the booster itself can be flooded and cause a locked brake symptom, a fairly expensive proposition to fix. Have a great holiday season and a happy New Year. |
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