First Sunday each month – Cars & Coffee – Vintage Oaks, Novato

4/7 - ESCA's April Fools Rally - Santa Rosa. Flyer

4/21 - 356 Registry Cars & Coffee – Vintage Oaks, Novato

Sept. 26 – Sept. 29 – Third Annual Murphys Ironstone Concours D’Elegance.

This is another overnight in beautiful California Gold Country. After a spirited drive from the Bay Area to Murphys the weekend will include:

 28th Annual Ironstone Concours D’Elegance.

 Group BBQ dinner at the Historic Murphys Hotel.

 Tours on the twisty roads of Calaveras County.

 In-town wineries, shops, and galleries and more…

Stay tuned for registration information. While the host hotel has been sold out with members from last year, there are many more lodging options in the area!

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Spring is finally here and hopefully some better weather.

I am looking forward to some longer sunny days to get out and drive my Porsche.

We have a new site for our monthly board meetings. We have moved to Torches Restaurant in Petaluma. The room in considerably larger and they are open later at

night so we don’t have to rush through our agenda. Just

a reminder, board meetings are open to all members.

You are always welcome to come and find out how the club operates. If you are interested and can’t attend in person we do offer a zoom option every month. Just contact our Secretary, Eileen Gaines, if you want to be on the list for a link to the meeting.

I want to offer a big Thank You to Don Magdanz and Craig Steele for their work

obtaining new radios for the Region. Touring is at the heart of our activities. We now

have new Region Radios that will improve our communication and hopefully enhance

everyone’s tour experience.

I hope everyone has an opportunity to take advantage of the nice this nice weather and

drive your Porsche. See you at an event soon.

Questions – email me.

Sharon

It’s April already and Treffen is almost upon us! It’s going to be a busy lead up to the PCA National event hosted by our Redwood Region at the Fairmont Hotel in Sonoma. I have the honor of being a lead driver for one of the driving tours heading into and through the beautiful Napa Valley. I will have my wife Katherine in the right-hand seat as my navigator. It should be a memorable tour!

As I mentioned in last months newsletter, I was in the Middle East for over 3 weeks

visiting Jordan and Egypt! It was the trip of a lifetime experiencing centuries of ancient history and culture. I only saw a few Porsches while on the road. Mostly Cayenne’s, one 911 in Amman, Jordan and a Taycan parked at a charging station at one of our hotels.

Looking at our Regions calendar, which you can find on our website, we have an exciting new event for the 4 th Sunday of each month. The Porsche Owners Sunday Social Event. It’s a "Meet & Gree."t with coffee from 8AM to 10AM in front of the Starbucks at the Vintage Oaks Shopping Center in Novato. Last month it was well attended by our members from across the area. I look forward to seeing you there on the 28th!

On May 4th, we are excited to be hosted by one of our great sponsors, Auto Sport Detailing of Santa Rosa, where we’ll learn all there is to know about detailing while enjoying coffee and pastries. One lucky member in attendance will win a complimentary car wash. After the demo, we’ll embark on a 50-mile tour through Sonoma County ending at Kin Windsor Restaurant for lunch. Please register early as it will sell out quickly. There’s a registration link on our calendar!

There are many other events both Redwood PCA and Non-PCA listed. To name just a

few, there are autocross events, rallies, a tour to Paso Robles in May, and in September… a weekend in Murphys to attend the Ironstone Concours d’ Elegance, and many, many more events to enjoy.

As always, I’m extremely honored to be your Vice President and I look forward to seeing you at one or more of our future events and, if we haven’t met, please introduce yourself. I’d love to meet you! You can always reach out to me directly at email.

I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you!

Hello Zone 7,

So great to see many of you at the Zone 7 Annual Awards banquet. Autocross,

Concours and non-competitive awards were presented. Congratulations to all

who participated throughout the year and to those bringing home the trophies.

I did want to highlight and congratulate those who received special Zone 7 non-competition awards. PCA, your Zone and the Regions really are “Fueled By Volunteers.” These awards are given to those who bring that volunteerism and passion to higher highs or if it is fuel, let’s call these folks Race Fuel.

Autocross Zone 7 Chair Brant Ballantyne and a team of Region Chairs, along with an army of volunteers continue to make the Series a success. The Autocross and Concours Series results are posted on the Zone Website.

2024 Autocross event 1 & 2 are open for registration. (see info below)

An exciting change for this year is that all participating Regions are now using the Zone 7 Classification system (we had been “borrowing” another system). Info and link are on the Zone website. Another change is that ALL participants who take part in a Zone 7 Series designated Autocross will automatically be earning points for the Zone Series. Not only

the Regions day of event results. When at an autocross look for the #1 car. We have added an award for Overall PAX winner from the previous year to carry the Zone 7 Terry Zaccone #1 car number. Congratulations to Himanshu Patel for earning that award in 2023 and to carry the Car #1 in the 2024 events.

The Zone 7 Concours Series spearheaded by Co-Chairs Simone Kopitski & Roy Schauben. Who do SO much, supporting the Region Concours are to be applauded. The winners are all listed on the Zone website. Here again we find another tank of that “Race Fuel”…. Zone 7 Concours "Appreciation Awards" for Volunteering and their passion to the Concours Series. Given to people that attended 5 or more events and volunteered on all those events.

Zone judging class (zoom) is open for registration followed by your choice of 1 of the 3

in person class. You know where that info is … on the Zone 7 website,. Zone7.pca.org The first event will be held on Memorial Day as part of the

Diablo Region 40th Anniversary 3 day celebration.

For more photos, please take a look at the Zone 7 Facebook page we had a blast!

See you next year at the awards …

The cake was delicious …(decorated by yours truly.) 

Please look below for 2024 events and information.

See you at an event SOON!

Brian 

Zone 7 Website Loads of info and links.

Zone 7 Facebook main page

Zone 7 Facebook Autocross page

Zone 7 Facebook Concours page

Memorial Day weekend will be full of beautiful cars, tours, events, members, and guests. Following is a brief description.

• 5/25/2024

* 3-Dealer Tour/Poker Rally, or

* Painting with Kelly Telfer

* Hors D'oeuvre Party at Karpark

• 5/26/2024

* 7-Bridges Tour/Gimmick Rally, or

* Livermore Wine and Beer Trolly

* Dinner at the Doubletree

• 5/27/2024 (Monday)

* Annual Car Show (Wash & Shine) @ Danville Livery

* Zone 7 Concours @ Danville Livery

• Sacramento Vally Region invites Members of

Registration is OPEN.

What Better Way to Combine a Thrilling Drive in Our Cars with the

Equivalent Experience in the Wine World?

Come join us for a drive to the St. Helena wine region and this unique winery,

world renowned for its vintages.

Sitting on forty acres, this will be a truly unique, highly personal

and educational wine tasting experience.

Meet in West Sacramento (details TBD) @ 8:00 am, driver’s meeting

and departure at 8:30.

A wonderful drive to St. Helena via Lake Berryessa and Pope Valley

Details and Registration at http://msreg.com/ConnValleyWinery2024

For a list of upcoming PCA events check out pca.org/events/

 April 21-25, 2024 - PCA - Spring Treffen – Sonoma, Ca. - Treffen website

-SOLD OUT in less than 8 Minutes!

 June 9-16, 2024 - Porsche Parade, Birmingham, AL, - Porsche Parade website

-Registration open.

 July 27th, 2024 - SVR invites Members of Zone Z Regions to join them:

SVR Tour - Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards II, Registration opens Feb. 1st, at 8:00 a.m.

What Better Way to Combine a Thrilling Drive in Our Cars with the Equivalent Experience in the Wine World?

Come join us for a drive to the St. Helena wine region and this unique winery, world renowned for its vintages.

Sitting on forty acres, this will be a truly unique, highly personal and educational wine tasting experience. If you are

● Meet in West Sacramento (details TBD) @ 8:00 am, driver’s meeting and departure at 8:30

● A wonderful drive to St. Helena via Lake Berryessa and Pope Valley

Details and Registration

 July 28th to August 4th, 2024 - Treffen at Sea - Alaskan Adventure (Alaska Inner Passage) - Seattle departure and return port. Treffen at Sea website.

 August 16, 2024 - Werks Reunion, Monterey, - Werks Reunion website

-Registration opens May 22, 2024.

 Porsche Parade, Oklahoma City, OK, 2025

It’s the Porsche Owners Sunday Social Event…

On “Pi Day” (Thursday March 14th ), Redwood members

were at it again working as a team at the Redwood Empire

Food Bank in Windsor, repeating last October’s “work a bunch and earn your lunch” volunteer event. As we did then, this Charity Adventure included a one-hour driving tour beforehand and a club-hosted lunch afterwards.

The weather cooperated wonderfully with a warm day sandwiched between rainy ones,

as 9 Porsches in tight formation headed east on Mark West Springs Road then up on Franz Valley Road. With great relief as a gravel truck got out of the middle of our pack,

we had uninterrupted fun up and over the mountain to the mythical town of Kellogg (it’s there on the map, but nothing to see). After sweep Jeff Hall gave the "all clear", we turned north along Highway 128 before heading back to Windsor on Chalk Hill Road. The great news is that all the construction work of the last two years on 128 is done, leaving fantastic new pavement. The less great news is that trucks still travel it and there aren’t any real turnouts through the twisties. We still had a great run, but ended up a few minutes late to the food bank.

There, our gang of 16 went into action in “the big room”, where we were greeted with massive boxes of apples and potatoes. After picking a spot, a scale, and a giant handful

of net bags, it was time to crank out as many 3-pound bags of either fruit or tuber as possible, and fill other giant boxes that the warehouse staff take away.

Everybody worked incredibly hard, and we bagged 7327 pounds of these babies, the equivalent of 6106 meals for our less fortunate neighbors. That doesn’t count the damaged apples that made it to the feed-the-local-pigs bins, so we helped them too. The good apples actually looked better than a lot of the ones you might find at your local grocery! As we got close to lunchtime, it was sort of difficult not to just grab one and take

a bite.

After cleaning up the scales, tables, and floor, we made the quick trip to the

Barley & Bine Beer Café. It’s apparently no longer a secret, so busier than our original experience last fall, but we all got to sit together along their large high-top table, and the food and drinks were again excellent.

Kudos to Larry Badiner, David Bunch, Lisa Davoren, John Dolan, Peter & Margie England, Essy Fariab, Kurt Fischer, Eileen Gaines, Jeff Hall, John Jackson, Cheryl Lawton, Don Nohai, Kathleen Smith, Rod Williams and especially Duke Ferris, as this was his first ever driving tour with the club! It’s both fun and rewarding to represent our PCA region in this way. It’ll happen again later in the year and I hope you can join us then!

For more pictures of the day, please check out Paige Gaines’ collection in our

On March 29th, seven intrepid members embarked on what was initially planned as a three-hour tour… The goal was to get in, yet another, practice run for our upcoming Treffen event but… Soon,

the attention turned to, “what if we use this adventure to learn more about using our new, high-end/tech walkie talkies?”

We started our day at the Viansa Winery where the GM was kind enough to open the doors to save us from the torrential downpour. Craig Steele and Don Magdanz, our radio gurus, proceeded with a primer on how to effectively utilize our new-found technology. After about 45 minutes of learning everything there was to learn (absolutely no one was ‘glazed over’) we all received our RoD (our doctorate in

Radio-ology)!

The next five hours were spent on twisty roads, in pouring rain, testing various channels to

determine the best ones for us to use… Between FRS, GMRS, high frequency, low frequency, squelch, pigtails and booties AND learning proper FCC etiquette by which to address each other, we were all a little bit Radio Ga Ga!

For lunch we luxuriated at the Turtle Rock Bar & Café or, as we like to call it, the Sistine Chapel of roadside cafes… Is that Michelangelo’s picture on the one-dollar bill? The meal consisted of Polish Dogs and chili after which Kathleen stated, “ever since we bought our Porsche, we’ve been dining in the finest establishments.”

A special thanks to Craig and Don for their tireless efforts in making sure we optimize all the technology at our fingertips with our new radio system.

Once again, Happy Fifty-Fifth Anniversary to the Redwood Region! Special decals commemorating the special event will

be handed out at our events and Board meetings! Everyone is welcome to join our Board meetings AND the club picks up

your dinner tab.*

It was great to see so many new faces (new and long-time members) at the March 14th, Charity Adventure at the Redwood Empire Food Bank! From the start of 2024 this seems to be the “year of new member involvement”!!! Let’s keep this trend intact!

Keep your eyes on the Calendar of Events as more events are in the works and being added constantly! Keep your eyes out for upcoming tours and rallies! The “Devil is in the Details II Demo, Tour and Lunch will be on May 4th! A Monte Carlo Rally is on May 25th. The “Weekend at the Ironstone Concours” in Murphys is in late September and there will be more information on that soon!!

On behalf of the entire Redwood Region of the Porsche Club of America I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all our new members and transfers (from other regions) who enrolled in the month of March! If you are new to the club, you will soon be receiving a complimentary Redwood Region name badge. Please wear your badge to our events and meetings.

My member quote of the month was from a new member transferring to Redwood from another region: “Word on the street is that the Redwood Region hosts a lot of wonderful events – that’s why I transferred!” So, c’mon out!

In the month of March, the Redwood Region celebrated fifty-five anniversaries! Twenty-six members celebrated ten plus years and TWO members celebrated being with the club for over forty years!!

Congratulations to all those celebrating anniversaries, but a special mention goes out to Stanley Crane and Marvin Gross, both of whom are celebrating 42 years with the Region! Congratulations gentlemen for being such dedicated members!

*Food only – alcohol is ‘no host.’

As always, please send any and all questions about membership, email me.

Don’t forget to patronize our sponsors and always ask for our PCA membership discount! If you ever have ideas on how to add to, improve or have questions about our Sponsorship Program please don’t hesitate to ask me. Please don’t reach out to the sponsors directly as we may already have discussions in the works about the exact idea you are enthusiastic about. Thank you!

Our sponsors are in the der Riesenbaum monthly and are on our website. They are:

Porsche Marin, Hi Tec Automotive, Auto Sport Detailing, Autobahn Automotive and Santa Rosa Body Shop!

Keep an eye on the calendar for upcoming events at Auto Sport Detailing (May 4 register here) and Autobahn Automotive (July 20 th Pech Merle event) and Santa Rosa Auto Body (September 21 Octoberfest Tour).

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