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Dragoon Trail Drive
Fall Drive
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Officers and Board Members
President’s Apex
Calendar of Events
Prevette’s
Hoosier and Beckley
Porsche of Omaha
Sharing the Experience
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SCHONESLAND OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS
Jeff David
Skip Hammerman
Casey Flanagan
Mary Alice Hill
Jeff Krausman
Garry Seemann
Lynn Frank
Tom Rusk
Ron Newman
David Safris
Kent Lehr
President
515-229-5616
Vice President
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Secretary
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Administrator
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Membership Chair
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Co-Chair, Track Events
515-865-1422
Safety Chair
515-490-6802
Board Member
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Board Member
515-266-1594
Treasurer
515-965-0964
Co-Chair, Track Events
515 208-1119
ZONE 10
Kim Fritze
Zone 10 Representative
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President’s Apex
November 2014
Jeff David
President
This is the next to last of 48 APEX
columns that I will have written for
SPINNER. Boy, four years sure
went by quickly, didn’t it? It has
been a lot of fun watching the Region grow in numbers and events
and to get to know so many new
friends. I’ve enjoyed every minute
of it.
Undoubtedly, our communications
efforts have been a significant contribution to this rapid growth, which
consists of our new Schonesland
Facebook page, thanks to Sue
Larson and Casey Flanagan, and
our recently reworked website,
www.schonesland.com thanks
to David Safris and his crew at
Visionary.Com. Between our Facebook page, our (award-winning!)
website and SPINNER, you can
always find out what’s going on
around Schonesland. And, by the
way, while you’re visiting the website or Facebook, check out Skip
and Tracy Hammerman’s latest
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video creation, “2014 Fall Drive”.
At 27 minutes long, Skip suggests
you get a cup of coffee, or a glass
(or two) of wine and enjoy the trip.
It’s skillfully set to great music
that tastefully segues each stint
of the trip into the next. You can
also enjoy Skip’s latest creation,
a 7-minute video of the Dragoon
Trail Drive that just happened on
Saturday morning, October 25th.
Our gratitude also goes out to trail
bosses Ron and Alice Newman
for putting together, once again,
a memorable and well-prepared
two-day fall tour, that seamlessly
made for a very pleasant weekend
for 28 members and guests. After
four years of leading this drive, the
Newman’s will get a well-deserved
break, as this tour will not be on
our 2015 calendar so that you
may consider attending NEXT October’s 2015 PCA ESCAPE to the
BLACK HILLS. More information
on that will be coming in the next
few months.
Our thanks also goes out to
Dave and Mary Alice Hill, Garry
Seemann and Sue Larson, who
conceived a little gem of a driving
season finale this past Saturday
morning, October 25th. Our inaugural Dragoon Trail Drive saw 19
cars, mostly with the tops down
(thank you, Mother Nature!) wind
their way up through Boone and
Webster counties, ending with a
splendid lunch in Paton, IA. The
consensus is that it’s a keeper for
next year’s schedule.
Looking forward, please put a couple of dates on your calendar:
First, track events co-chair Kent
Lehr, has put together a very
special CARS & COFFEE on
DECEMBER 13th. We’re going
GO- KARTING at the new MB2
Raceway in Grimes! This brand
new indoor facility features two
sizes of very quick electric go-karts
for kids and adults. Plans are to
run separate qualifying races and
Grand Prix races for adults and
kids. To drive a kart, kids must be
over 48 inches tall. We will have
the facility all to ourselves until 11
am. As usual, we’ll provide coffee,
breakfast goodies and juice and
snacks for your kids.
More details will be coming in
mid-November so for now, get
your Christmas shopping done on
some Saturday morning other than
this one!
HOLIDAY PARTY that will return to
Skip’s Embassy Suites, downtown
on SATURDAY, JANUARY 10th,
2015. Last year’s event had 70
members present to enjoy a worldclass meal and Skip’s “little surprises” that made it an evening to
remember. Rumor has it that he’s
already scheming for this year’s
event. More details will be coming
in November and December on
this event as well.
That’s about it for now.
Happy Thanksgiving!
See you on the trail.
Jeff
And secondly, please mark your
calendars for the SCHONESLAND
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Adventures on the
Dragoon Trail Drive
by Will Mac Farland
The weather could not have been better for Schonesland’s Dragoon
Trail drive this past Saturday. The sky gleamed blue with the occasional bit of glittering cirrus frosting as a procession of Porsches nearly two
dozen strong filed out of the Machine Shed in Urbandale, bound for
parts north. Convertible tops went down as temperatures cleared the
mid-sixties and climbed into the seventies. From my point of view, last
in line with my wife Anne and my two boys in my 996 C4S, trailing just
behind Sue’s gleaming black-on-tan 987 Cayman S, things had started
off pretty perfectly.
Shortly before we crossed onto the the IA-210 bridge over the Des
Moines River, running parallel to the famed High Trestle rail bridge,
I noticed that I wasn’t last in line anymore. Somehow a lovely silver
993 had taken the tail-end-Charlie position from me, and I was having
trouble keeping my eyes off the lovely front end of it as it winked in my
rearview mirror. This was not a standard 993 Carrera, I noted by the
low-slung artistry of the front bumper.
The convoy ducked into the Casey’s on Mamie Eisenhower Avenue in
Boone, IA for a quick stretch. The marching order got a bit scrambled
as we all scanned for parking spots, and the 993 passed in front of me.
And I’d been right! Not just any Carrera, but a 993 Carrera 4S. Oh,
how I’d wanted one of those when my search for a 911 began. In my
eyes, they had just the perfect look for a 911—the right hips, the right
ride height, the right wheels, the right lights. The perfect mix of subtlety,
menace, and style. Sadly the 993s hovered just out of my price-reach,
and I “settled” for my car. (And you’ll pry it from my cold, dead hands,
you air-cooled purists!)
We turned keys to press on after our break and relished the chorus of
the boxers. These were accompanied by at least two 944 inline fours,
plus a lone BMW V8—bless Skip for nearly having reached 100,000
miles on that stunning Z8 of his. We passed the Scenic Valley Rail
Station—stop by there during this coming holiday season for a ride, I
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highly recommend it—and proceeded north out of Boone.
Positions had again switched; Sue’s Cayman was now behind, and
the 993 C4S was in front of me. This was delightful, for as lovely as
the front of a 993 C4S is, the back is perhaps even more perfectly
formed. I could now hear the rasp of the flat six and watch the rise
and fall of the rear wing as the group negotiated intersections and
stop signs. I noted that said rear wing on the 993 didn’t seem to abide
by the same numbers as my rear wing; mine rises at 75mph and
remains up until the speedo falls back below 37mph. The 993’s numbers seemed to both be a bit lower.
And then, as we pulled up to a stop sign just outside Stratford, IA, the
993’s wing didn’t retract at all. Anne and I both said something to the
effect that that was odd. And then I heard the 993’s starter clicking
away, and the driver waved me past. Right, as if I was going to leave
the automotive equivalent of Christie Brinkley stranded on a random
road an hour from home.
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I hopped out, introduced myself, and met Karen, the driver. First order of
business was to get the 993 off the road, so Karen put it in neutral and
Sue (who’d also stopped, bless her) and I pushed the car into a nearby
driveway. I had some jumper cables, and when I brought this up, my
boys, ages 4 and 5, got very excited—they thought the cars would physically leap off the ground when the cables were put to use. They seemed
sort of surprised that this was the first they had heard of jumper cables,
and if they’d put a bit more thought into it, might have asked why we
don’t just use the “jumper” cables all of the time and avoid traffic.
Anyway, over the course of the next hour or so, I learned where a 993’s
battery is (different spot, further forward and lower down than in my
996), as well as that it doesn’t much matter how many times you jumpstart a 993 if the accessory drive belt is broken. Note: it’ll run for as long
as the cables are hooked up, but not long after that. Karen spoke with
her insurance company, but before they could respond, a helpful local
from a nearby shop had gotten word, arrived, and fairly quickly diagnosed the root cause of the problem. Karen begged us off to lunch, and
I thought we’d best go, as our boys had been well-behaved thus far but
would soon get tired and antsy.
Sue’s 987 led the way as we two Porsches shot across the farmland
from Stratford toward 209Main, the massive restaurant at the same
address in Paton, IA, where we rejoined the group, actually arriving only
minutes after they did due to our direct, non-scenic route. Sue went the
extra mile by recruiting Gary to follow her back to Stratford to retrieve
Karen and her daughter, bringing them both to the restaurant once the
993 was safely in a shop with a replacement belt ordered and on the
way.
So we all successfully made it to lunch and enjoyed some views of harvest-time Iowa. And while this article (and its’ author) may not have followed the route that the reader may have expected, it really does serve
to highlight PCA’s “cars…people” tagline, does it not? One might join
the club to see some beautiful cars, and see beautiful cars one certainly
would. But what keeps the community alive and well are the people that
go out of their way to make it so outstanding, no matter what happens.
See you next time!
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Events Calendar
November 2014
Sun 11/2 -- Schoneslanders Visit to Bonobo Park
(CANCELLED INDEFINITELY)
Sat 11/8 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8 -10 AM
Tue 11/18 -- Schonesland Drive and Dine Event
Mon 11/24 -- Board Meeting
December 2015
January 2015
Sat 1/10 -- 2015 Schonesland Events Planning Meeting; 8 AM. Attendance is required for board members,
but all other members are welcome to join.
Sat 1/10 -- Schonesland Cars & Coffee; 8 -10 AM
Sat 1/10 -- Schonesland Holiday Party
Tue 1/20 -- Schonesland Drive and Dine Event
Sat 12/13 -- Cars and Coffee at MB2 GoKart
Track; 9-11 AM
- There is no board meeting in the month of December -
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Fall tour: miles of smiles
763 miles door-to-door in 49
hours…….and a case of “permasmile”. 13 cars and 25 happy
drivers/riders drove, ate and
socialized their way through SW
Wisconsin and SE Minnesota in
the 4th version of the Schonesland
Fall Tour Oct. 3rd – 5th.
During a group dinner in Dubuque
Friday evening, participants took
advantage of the chance to meet
some new Schonesland members
(Chuck Stewart & Jolene, Frank
& Julienne Krennrich) and guests
Daryl & Kitty Metzger.
Saturday morning we met new
members Mike & Karen Phillips,
held a brief drivers meeting then
hit the road. Despite an overnight
shower, the group left on dry (but
chilly) roads making our way into
Wisconsin. During our morning
drive we encountered a closed
road in Mt. Hope, WI…….but the
road construction crew “opened
the road” for our group and we
enjoyed clear sailing back into
Potosi, WI.
Potosi Brewing Co. prepared a
pulled pork/brat buffet luncheon
that included beer cheese soup,
cole slaw and homemade kettle
chips. A selection of local brews
to sample was also awaiting our
group. (These brews must have
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been pretty tasty as several in our
group were seen carrying 6-packs
they purchased out to their cars
after lunch).
The afternoon drive was
SPECTACULAR as the sun broke
through the clouds from time to
time. Twisting, turning roads and
scenic views had everyone smiling
as our group gathered for drinks
and appetizers before sitting down
to dinner Saturday evening at the
Green Mill Restaurant.
Sunday morning dawned sunny
and cool as 9 cars participated
in the “pre-breakfast” drive. We
even had to clear frost from our
windshields before departing
shortly before 8:00 AM. A hearty
breakfast followed this early
morning jaunt on Wisconsin roads
and like the night before – there
were smiles all around the room.
As the trip resumed Sunday
morning, scenic roads led us to
our stop in Whalan, MN, where we
enjoyed visiting Ernie’s Vintage
Gas Station and the requisite stop
at the Aroma Pie Shop. If you
like pie (& who doesn’t??), this is
the place to satisfy that craving.
Several tour participants enjoyed a
piece of pie during our visit, while
others bought pie to take home
(some did both!!).
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As all good things must come to
an end, our group said its goodbyes and people made their own
way home. A weekend filled with
great driving, fun people/cars and
opportunities for socializing left
smiles all around.
The Schonesland Fall Tour will be
taking a one year hiatus next year
as our club plans to participate in
the Porsche Escape event in the
Black Hills in the fall of 2015. We
hope you’ll join us for this and
future Schonesland events.
I think that may be the most
rewarding part of organizing and
participating in driving events
with Schonesland members. The
SMILES. We spend so much
of our lives completing one task
– then hurrying on to the next.
During our club events we get to
slow down (except while we’re
driving), enjoy a conversation
with someone interesting, talk
about something fun – like our
cars, reflect on a day spent
driving challenging roads and truly
appreciating the gifts we take for
granted most days. Even days
later a smile emerges on our
faces, one that friends and coworkers inquire about; “Why are
you so happy?” they ask. You’re
a Schoneslander, you smile even
broader and say “I had a great
weekend”.
Ron Newman
Alice & I want to thank everyone
who participated in the 2014
Fall Tour and helped make it a
smashing success. A special
thanks to our new members who
joined the trip – we hope to see
you at another Schonesland event.
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The Joys of Detailing
Winter Care
No matter what ride you use during the winter months,
extra care must be taken. The cold weather brings
about its own particular set of challenges.
Of particular note is the fact that we face all too often the use of salt and chemicals to keep our roads
clear and free of ice and snow. While this approach does work wonders in helping to keep our roads
safer to drive on, it wrecks havoc on our rides. The very nature of mixing salt and deicing chemicals with moisture and
oxygen creates a highly effective corrosive atmosphere. But don’t despair, there are many things that we can do to help
combat the effects of this corrosive soup. Let’s take a look at a few . . .
To start, be sure that you go into the winter season with a good wax or sealant as a protective coating on your paint. In
addition, all of the rubber, plastic, vinyl, leather and fabric should have been properly cleaned and protected. The waxes,
sealants and dressings are your first line of defense against all that Mother Nature can throw at your ride.
Your second line of defense against the corrosive effects of the road deicing mixtures is to keep it off of your ride as
much as possible. Since we do have to drive in these conditions and we cannot completely avoid it, this means washing
our ride often. When washing, it’s easy to realize that we need to wash off all of the paint, the chrome, the plastic, the
wheels, etc. But, some of the more neglected areas are just as equally important. Take the time for the following:
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The first thing that you will notice is that the automatic car wash is not going to get the job done for you. You
are going to have to do this yourself. Flush out underneath with a good stream of running water. You’ll probably
have to get down on your hands and knees and get wet, but flushing out the undercarriage will go a long way to
making your ride last longer. You’ll be removing salt, sand, grime, dirt and who knows what else. All of these
hold moisture and will highly promote corrosion.
Now, take that same strong stream of water and flush out each of the wheel wells, especially up around the outside
lip. As best as you can, be sure to reach back in behind the tire to flush out the suspension system, top of the
frame rails and all of the hoses and fittings back there.
Reach up into and behind bumpers to flush out grit and salt that may have gotten packed in there.
Open the doors and rinse around the edges and bottoms of the doors. Continue rinsing around the inside of the
door frame being sure to rinse the door hinges and hardware. Open the trunk and rinse and wipe down the inside
edges and channels.
Remember the engine compartment. I’m not talking so much about the engine itself, but around the edges of the
engine compartment. Rinse off any salt residue that has sprayed up into the engine area.
As you wash, pay particular attention to seams and any areas that are especially prone to holding salt and grit.
Lubricate all hinges and locks to help keep them working freely and resistant to freezing.
Finally, be sure to remember the inside, especially the carpeting. Keep it well protected with a good set of rubber
floor mats that will contain all of the moisture from the snow that melts off your shoes. It’s a good idea to have
the carpeting professionally cleaned at least once during the winter season to extract out any salt residue.
On those days when the salt is especially thick and the air is well below freezing, you would be doing your ride a favor
by leaving it parked outside overnight rather than bringing it into the garage. Why? When you stop and think about
it, for the damaging effects of the deicing mixtures to really move forward, they need one more thing – water. On those
really cold days, the air is well below freezing and water and moisture is in a frozen state. When moisture is frozen, it
cannot react with the deicing mixtures. But when you bring your ride into a garage that is typically much warmer, the
moisture turns back into a liquid state and reactivates the corrosive effects of the deicing mixtures that have nestled in
just about everywhere on your ride. Keep your ride as cold as possible until you can wash off this corrosive coating.
As always, enjoy your ride . . .
Rick Prevette
Prevette’s, Ltd.
www.prevettes.com
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HISTORY
The Porsche Club of America was founded in
1955 with the following objectives in mind: to
promote the highest standards of courtesy and
safety of the roads; to enjoy and share the good
will and fellowship of owning a Porsche; to maintain the highest standards of operation and
performance of the marque; to establish a
mutually beneficial relationship with the Porsche
factory, dealers and other service sources; to
exchange ideas with other Porsche clubs
throughout the world; and to establish mutually
cooperative relationships with other sports car
“We know the joy that Porsche
ownership can provide, and we've
built a community around that”
clubs. Membership in the PCA will add to your
enjoyment of owning one of the finest automobiles in the world.
For over 55 years, the PCA has been
dedicated to enhancing the Porsche
ownership experience.
Your local PCA Region contact:
Social, technical or
competitive - no
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With over 100,000
members, PCA is the
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