June - Musik Stadt PCA

Solid Gold
June 2009
June 2009
Solid Gold
in the driver’s seat
with Frank Hodges, President
Can you believe it is June already! This year has flown
by or should I say raced by. With June comes the greatest endurance race of all races “The 24 Heures Du Mans”
This year is the 77th season for Le Mans. The race will
be held over the 13th and 14th of June. So far the ACO
has received 82 applications for the 55 grid positions.
The Flying Lizard Motorsports team campaigning a 2009
997 GT3 RSR was among the fifteen teams to receive an
automatic invitation to this prestigious event.
Good luck to the Flying Lizard Motorsports team in LM
GT2 and all the other teams contesting Porsches at the
circuit de Sarthe.
Closer to home, stateside, club members Denny Long,
Matt Shaw and Jade Buford continue to perform well in
their racing programmes this year. For the 2009 racing
season Denny acquired a 2003 996 GT3 Cup car and
placed 1st in class in his
campaign at Road Atlanta during the HSR Walter
Mitty. Denny races in the
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Rolex GrandAm series as well as PCA
club racing. Matt Shaw
recently acquired Denny Long’s 1993 993 RS
America and also campaigns
in HSR Rolex Grand-Am.
Jade Buford has signed on
with RSR Motorsports Team
driving a Mini Cooper S in the
Rolex Grand-Am KONI Challenge series. Congratulations
guys on your acquisitions and accomplishments. We
hope the checkered flag becomes your close friend this
season.
The club continues to accelerate forward. We just completed our first Drivers Education event at Talladega Gran
Prix raceway in Munford Alabama. All who participated
had a wonderful time and were very complimentary in
their critique and comments back to us. I want to say
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June 2009
Musik-Stadt officers:
President
Frank Hodges
[email protected]
Tel 615-414-3643
Vice-President
Paul Jones
[email protected]
Tel 615-516-9588
Secretary
Jud Scott
Tel 615-726-0514
Treasurer
Vic Davis
[email protected]
Tel 615-370-3308
Membership
William (Bill) Wright
[email protected]
Tel 615-306-8132
Driving Events
Matt Shaw
[email protected]
Tel 615-948-9090.
Newsletter Editor, Solid Gold
& Webmaster
Teresa Suarez
[email protected]
Tel 615-299-6521
Dealer Liason
Mike Gillespie
[email protected]
Activities Chair
Michelle Hodges
[email protected]
Club
Activities
Club
Meeting
–
June
9
Our
next
club
meeting
is
being
hosted
by
James
Corlew
and
the
team
at
Porsche
of
Nashville.
Porsche
of
Nashville
2350
Franklin
Road
Nashville,
TN
37204
Next
month’s
meeting
.
.
.
July
14
‐
El
Mariachi
Other
June
events
Drivers’ )ducation
–
KY
Region
at
Putnam
Park
Date:
June
20
Contact:
KYPCA
Driving
Events
Chair
http://kypca.org/driver‐education
Alabama
Region
at
Barber
Date:
June
20
Contact:
Tom
Fleming
([email protected])
Autocross –
Tri‐Lakes
Sports
Car
Club,
Motlow
State
Community
College,
Tullahoma
TN
‐
$20
for
6
runs.
Next
autocross:
June
14
Date
Title
Venue
City
Region
06.09.2009
Membership Meeting
Porsche of Nashville
Nashville
Musik-Stadt Region
06.14.2009
Autocross
Motlow State
Community College
Tullahoma TN
Tri-Lakes Sports Car Club
06.20-2009
DE – KY Region
Putnam Park
06.20-2009
DE – Alabama Region
Barber Motorsports
Park
Birmingham
Alabama Region
06.29.09-07.04.09
Porsche Parade
Colorado
Key Stone
National
07.12.2009
Autocross
Motlow State
Community College
Tullahoma TN
Tri-Lakes Sports Car Club
07.14.2009
Membership Meeting
El Mariachi
Nashville, TN
Musik-Stadt Region
08.09.2009
Autocross
Motlow State
Community College
Tullahoma TN
Tri-Lakes Sports Car Club
08.11.2009
Membership Meeting
Logan’s Cool Springs
Franklin, TN
Musik-Stadt Region
09.08.2009
Membership Meeting
Gerst Haus
Nashville, TN
Musik-Stadt Region
09.13.2009
Autocross
Motlow State
Community College
Tullahoma TN
Tri-Lakes Sports Car Club
KY Region
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June 2009
June Club Meeting
@ Porsche of Nashville
June 9
6:30 pm
2350 Franklin Road
Nashville, Tn. 37204
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June 2009
New Members
Primary Members 274
Affiliate Members 194
Total Members 468
Welcome!
New Members:
John Jones - Franklin, TN - ‘02 Boxster
Patrick Mckennon - Nashville, TN - ‘09 911S
John Nanni - Nashville, TN - ‘07 GT3
Member Anniversaries:
John Byrne
Paul Pletcher
10 yrs.
10 yrs.
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President’s Message cont ...
a very special thank you to Matt Shaw, our Driving events
chairman, and David Bearden, our chief Driving Instructor,
for hosting a very successful event. Drivers and instructors came from all over the Southeast to participate with us.
Thank you all for helping make our first DE a memorable
and successful event. The month of May also saw us host a
new member mixer at Sambuca Restaurant in the gulch area
of downtown Nashville. Once again we had a high turnout
on a beautiful evening. Porsche of Nashville gave away a
Porsche golf bag – congratulations Lynn Gratkowski. Club
members new and old made new friends as well as reaffirmed
old acquaintances. The TN tubs once again held a premier
concours and BBQ at Cal Turner’s Brush Pines farm. For
all who braved the threat and realisation of weather the
collection of cars was awesome. The 356 carrel held some
prime examples of coupes, cabriolets, and roadsters. Other
Marques were well represented as well – Ruf, Aston Martin,
Ferrari, and BMW. How often does one get to see a BMW
M1, a Ferrari 512, a Porsche Carrera GT, and an Aston Martin DBS all sitting together?
The club leaders are working to publish the summer and fall
drives. If these drives are half as fun as the spring drive to
Lynchburg and Jack Daniels you won’t want to miss these.
Please check our website often for the latest and most complete list of activities.
This month the club meeting will return to the Porsche of
Nashville showroom. James Corlew and Anita Leonard have
a wonderful evening planned for us.
I hope to see you at our events during the second half of the
season. The leadership team has been working hard to assemble a diverse collection of activities to ensure we provide
something for all.
As always, we want your feedback on activities, meeting
venues, speakers, and more.
Until next time, see you behind the wheel,
Frank
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5/1/09
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all times. Optional equipment shown is extra.
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Showroom hours:
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New Member Mixer
Photos by Michele Hodges, Activities Chair
Porsche 250 at Barbers Motorsports Park
by Mike Gillespie, Dealer Liason
Jade Buford, the son of Club Member Mark Buford, will be running in the KONI Series during the
weekend of the Porsche 250 at Barbers Motorsports Park. Mark has extended an invitation to any club
member who would like to come into their pit area and check out the team, drivers and equipment. For
further information, you can call Mark at 615-465-7070.
KONI Series Schedule
Thursday July 16 – all day practice for the KONI Series
Friday July 17 – 1pm – 1:45pm Practice for the KONI Series ST
Saturday July 18 – 8am – 8:30am Practice KONI Series ST
Saturday July 18 – 11:10am – 11:25am Qualifying KONI Series ST
Saturday July 18 – 2:30pm-2:50pm prerace and Recon Laps KONI Series ST
Saturday July 18 – 2:50pm Start of the KONI Series ST Race (2 ½ hour limit)
"He's too fast for his Dad's
GT3 street car. He's a race
car driver." Porsche Club
RacerjInstructor, August '07
VIR Drivers Ed Event
"...a 19-year old Auburn
University Student was the star
of the group... Jade Buford is
his name and perhaps we
should remember it for the
Information:
Birthdate:
1988
future." Leigh DiffeyjSpeed TV
reporting from the Skip Barber
Racing School
Home:.
Brentwood, TN
Buford did so well in 2008
that he was offered a
Education:
Auburn University
Major
Racing
position with the three-car
RSR Motorsports Team for
the full 2009 Rolex Grand
Am Koni Challenge Series
season. He'll co-drive the
#196 Mini Cooper S with
Owen Trinkler.
- Liberal Arts
Timeline:
2006-2007
Porsche Sport Driving School
Various Drivers Ed Events
Skip Barber Racing School
2008 Porsche Club Racing
Sebring
Road Atlanta
Barber Motorsports Park
Virginia International Raceway
Best Finish:
1st PlaceOverall
August 2008, Virginia
International Raceway Porsche
Club Race
Team Affiliation:
RSR Motorsports
Website:
jadebuford.com
Contact:
MarkBuford615.465.7070
I
,
Going Fast ...
From his first weekend at
Porsche Sport Driving School in
March of 2006, to his first
overall win at a National PCA
Club Race at Virginia
International Raceway in
August of '08, Jade Buford has
impressed coaches and
competitors alike.
At the conclusion of that
winning weekend at VIR Buford
was awarded the Novice Award
for best young driver as well as
the Worker's Choice Award for
outstanding driver of the
weekend.
"He did a good job," said
Porsche Sport Driving School
Instructor and RSR Motorsports
hot shoe Owen Trinkler. "That
was a good race for him to
understand, it's different being
a leader rather than chasing
somebody. To lead it and run
consistent
laps
- it was
a good
way for him to finish the year,"
Trinkler added.
Buford got his first taste of
the Mini Cooper S recently
at the Daytona test days:
"The Mini is a great car," he
said. "It's braking and
handling is out of this
world. "
There will be many new
tracks to learn and it all
begins for Buford at the
"Fresh From Florida 200" at
Daytona Interanational
Speedway on January 22,
23 when the twelve-race
championship series begins.
As a rookie, Buford is
keeping his priorities in
order. "My goal, first of all,
is to bring the car home,
and then to bring home a
win or some podium
finishes," he says.
"It's going to be a good year
for RSR all the way around,"
says team veteran Trinkler.
"As Jade Buford keeps
developing you may see two
Minis battling for a win."
***
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Porsches in the Movies D - H
I Am Sam
911
In Car 956
Joy
Kid, The
King of the Mountain
Kiss the Girls
K2
Lady Bugs
Last Chase, The
956
356
996 Cab, 356 Speedster
356
911
356
911
917
Last Dance (1996)
911 Targa
Le Mans
Legally Blonde
917, 911
Boxster
Leonard Part 6
928
Life is a House
911
Lifeguard
Local Hero 1983
Looker
914’s, 911’s
Love Potion #9
Marque of a Legend
Martial Art II
Mask
Matador, The
930
Matrix, The
944
Matrix III
911
Middle Age Crazy
928
Mission Impossible 2
Monkey Shines
911 Cabriolet
928
964 Speedster
Michelle Pfeiffer drives this newer
911
entire video
starring Bruce Willis
racing up and down Mulholland Drive
Morgan Freeman drives a black 911
1-2 scenes
stars Lee Majors. Cool footage especially the chase between the 917 and
a vintage 1953 Sabre fighter jet flown
by Burgess Meredith
Movie starts with Rob Morrow driving
a 911 Targa pulling a trailer. Though
out the first part of the movie the 911
Targa is shown.
entire video
Reese Witherspoon drives a blue Boxter throughout the movie
928 with a tank turret for a roof in this
Bill Cosby movie
Kevin’s Klein’s character is kind of a
loser but there are some nice shots of
the car
gold 928 blinded by looker light gun
and driven into fountains
1-2 scenes
Porsche Feature Video
One scene at night club
A turbo blows up within the first 30
minutes of the movie
profile of 944 as seen out the window
of sedan our good guys ride in
a black 911 is featured; possibly a
1970
Bruce Dern trades his Olds wagon for
a 928
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Modern Problems
911
Modern Romance
Mr. Destiny
National Lampoons Vacation
911
550 Spyder
914
Nine Months
Nine to Five
911 Cabriolet
914
No Mans Land
Not Another Teen Movie
911, 930
944
Ocean’s Eleven
993 C4 Cabriolet
Office Space
Old School
911
911 SC
On the Beach
550 Spyder
One Hour Photo
Pacific Heights
Boxster
993
Parenthood
993 Cabriolet
Patriot Games
Point Break
Porsche
Porsche, Story of
Porsche 356 Close Up
Porsche 911 & 930 Close Up
Porsche Video Manual
Porsche 911, 944
Porsche, The Racing Legend
Pretty in Pink
Private Benjamin
Project 2078
Carerra
356
356
911, 930
911, 944
911
911
“You can’t commit suicide, you just
bought a Porsche!”
when Clark buys the gun, it’s in the
background
Two of them when the girls take their
boss to the hospital
tons of cars
1986 Guards Red 944 with chrome
“phone dial” rims
in one of the final scenes an Arena
Red 993 is parked behind the SWAT
van at the MGM Grand Valet
driven by the boss
the character played by Craig Kilborn
drives and crashes (on top of Jeremy
Piven’s character actually) a Guards
Red 911 SC
racing while waiting for the nuclear
fallout
mistress entering the hotel
Michael Keaton ‘s character drives a
silver 993 Cabriolet
Matthew Modine’s character drives a
silver 993 Cabriolet (not sure this is
correct)
1-2 scenes
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Feature Video
Porsche Indy Car Project
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Cal Turner’s Annual TN Tubs Event
photos by J. Neiland Pennington, Musik-Stadt Member
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Porsche board still favors merger
with Volkswagen
1947 to 1950 Porsche number 1,
Coupe and cabriolet
Porsche’s board of management said Monday that
it still favors a merger with Volkswagen and doesn’t
want to limit the potential
deal to a specific time frame.
The Porsche board released a
statement that said: “We are
convinced that the targeted
integrated car-manufacturing
group is the best industrial solution for all stakeholders involved. That is the case for the
companies as well as for the respective workforce.
Thus we do not want to put anybody under time
pressure.”
Shortly before the end of the 2nd World War, the Porsche
company emigrated to Austria. It was in Gmünd in the state
of Kärnten that Ferry Porsche began to realise the idea of a
sporty Volkswagen. His father had long
had similar plans, but was a prisoner of
war in France at this time. In 1947 a cabriolet was produced with a tubular frame
chassis, aluminium body and a centrally
located tuned-up VW Beetle engine.
The Swiss car magazine Automobil Revue tested this Porsche number 1 and
was full of praise, remarking “this is the
sort of
performance we envisage
for a modern car.”
By GREG MIGLIORE, autoweek.com
Porsche also said its workers are still supporting the potential deal with VW. Porsche issued
the statement in response to concerns by the VW
works council over
the financial state
of Porsche. Niche
sports-car
maker
Porsche owns 51
percent of voting
stock in the much
larger VW, which
is the biggest car
company in Europe.
Porsche has been
forced to dial back its takeover attempts, and its finances have been have been a point of contention.
Porsche’s statement said it maintains a double-digit operating margin.
www.porsche.com/usa/accessoriesandservices/classic/world/models/
The positive response to
the roadster spurred Ferry Porsche on. A small
series of sports cars was
produced, but in a design which made more practical use
of the available space. The engine was relocated to the rear,
as on the Beetle, and the tubular structure was abandoned
in favour of a sheet-metal frame. There was a coupé and a
cabriolet variant, and the
bodies were hand-crafted
in aluminium. The original version of the 356 was
born, its sporty performance and speed immediately causing a stir. With
only 40 bhp of power under its bonnet, it reached
a top speed of around
140 km/h.
The production run for
this series began at the
end of 1948 and finished
two years later. In all, around 50 cars were delivered. The
lightweight and torsionally rigid Gmünd cars proved excellent for the race track.
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Technical Specifications Engine: Four-cylinder horizontally opposed engine, aircooled, central camshaft
Power: 40 bhp (29 kW) at 4000 rpm
Displacement: 1086 ccm
Fuel system: Two Solex downdraught carburettors,
tank capacity 50 litres
Transmission: Four-speed gearbox
Chassis: Coupé and cabrio no. 356/2-001 to 356/2-052 (not
all numbers allocated)Sheet-style box-type chassis with aluminium body
Dimensions and weight: Wheelbase: 2,100 mm
Length: 3,870 mm
Width: 1,655 mm
Height: 1,300 mm
Weight: 680 kg
Performance: Top speed: 135 km/h (84 mph)
For Sale
I have some Porsche prints that may not be terribly
valuable but are in good condition and which I treasure.
I would like to sell them to someone who appreciates
the “brand”.
There are 2 framed and signed pen and ink drawings by
H. Shoemaker of Porsche race cars. These were done in
1969-70 and are print #111.
There are 6 matted and framed prints of pictures which
came with “Christophorus” calendars in the early
1970’s. In 1975 I selected my favorite images and
framed them to match. They were prominently displayed in my house for several years. There are 43
unframed prints - the remainder of the calendar prints
for a 4 year period in the early 70’s. Most of these are
in good to excellent shape.
There are a few posters from Sebring races in ‘67-’75
featuring Porsches.
I am in Nashville and prefer to deliver rather than ship
articles like this. If you think your members would be
interested in any of the prints I have described please
give them this e-mail address to contact me. All of
the framed prints are in excellent shape and tastefully
presented.
“Nancy B. Johnson”
[email protected]
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Please join the Nashville British Car Club, Music City Jaguar Club, The
Tennessee Tubs and The Tennessee Region of the
Ferrari club of America and others at
TYNELEA
The home of Jane and Tom Smith
881 Tyne Boulevard
Nashville
Saturday, June 13, 2009
4:30 PM
At the conclusion of the 5th annual
“Rally by the Stars Tour”
which begins at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, Cool Springs,
2001 Meridian Blvd, Franklin, TN at 2:30 pm
The rally begins at 2:30 and the party begins at the conclusion of the tour,
or if you don’t complete the drive at 4:30 pm. There will be swimming,
lawn games, tours of carriage house and an impromptu and
informal “Concours” on the front lawn so drive your vintage or classic car!
Casual Supper Will Be Served
Bring your own Beverage
Admission: 5 items of non perishable food items to be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank
RSVP 615-297-0350
[email protected]