Your PCA e-Brake News June 2019 Recap

Published: Mon, 07/01/19

July 1, 2019

Dear e-Brake subscriber,

As you know, Porsche Club of America delivers e-Brake News to your inbox every Tuesday. This is the June monthly recap.

To the left, check out the June issue of Porsche Panorama. Scroll down to find a recap of the top five e-Brake News articles of the month.

As always, scroll to the bottom to vote for the Porsche of the Month, and to see May's winning photo.

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If you didn't take the May or June surveys yet, you can still do so. Please note you are no longer eligible for the May or June prize.

Any questions? Contact PCA National Office: 410-381-0911.

1. New Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder get normally aspirated 4.0-liter flat six

PCA—Two of the most exciting and unexpected cars Porsche has produced in the past few years were the Cayman GT4 and Boxster Spyder, both with the 3.8-liter normally aspirated flat six sourced from the 997 Carrera GTS. Porsche announced the successors of those two cars today, the 718 Boxster Spyder and 718 Cayman GT4, both of which have a 4.0-liter normally aspirated flat six.
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2. What's going on with the Porsche 997.2 market?

PCA—In April of 2018, I wrote that the 997.2 base Carrera was a Porsche that we should all be shopping for. Shortly thereafter, I took my own advice and bought a Guards Red six-speed manual base coupe for $36,000. It was advertised in The Mart and it had 62,000 miles on it. It wasn’t necessarily the color that I wanted, but the choices were relatively limited at the time, just two other cars on the East Coast— There was a white/sand ’09 (same spec as my car) at a dealer in New Jersey with 44,000 miles on it. They wouldn’t come off their ambitious $46,000 asking price, and as a result, they had the car throughout the entire winter. A more aggressive BMW dealer in Richmond, VA had a 28,000-mile car (also a manual base Carrera) and was willing to sell it for about $40,000, but I was out of town at the time, and the car was Seal Grey, the same color as the 996 Turbo I had been driving. In hindsight, this car was a screaming deal.

3. Video: Watch pro racer set fastest lap at PCA Club Racing in Watkins Glen

PCA—Every year PCA Club Racing visits more than two-dozen racetracks in North America as members compete to win their respective class championship. While most of the racers have non-automotive day jobs and compete on the weekends, occasionally professional drivers show up for fun, such as Lehman Keen at the club race at Watkins Glen a couple weekends ago.

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4. Rennbow, a searchable Porsche color database

PCA—PCA has launched what promises to be one of the most ambitious Porsche enthusiast-related sites to date. Rennbow, The Porsche Color Wiki (www.rennbow.org (link is external)) will be the largest collection of Porsche images on the web organized by color.

5. Timelapse: Farewell to 'The Porsche Effect' at the Petersen

PCA—In 2018 Porsche marked its 70th anniversary as a carmaker, and one of the many significant ways the occasion was celebrated was with an exhibit called “The Porsche Effect” at the world-famous Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit wasn't intended as a purely chronological stroll through the company's seven-decades-long history, nor specifically as a model-by-model review; instead it highlighted an all-encompassing roster of greatest hits and design landmarks, to include production models, prototypes, race cars, scale models, artifacts, and artwork, with considerable recognition to the people who built the company and made it great. After multiple extensions due to visitor demand to keep it open, “The Porsche Effect” closed to the public, and for good, in mid-April.

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Griot's Garage partners with PCA for e-Brake Photo of the Week contest

PCA—Griot's Garage is sponsoring our Porsche Photo of the Week contest. Winners will receive a Griot's Garage Concours Lawn Kit, a $99.99 value. We will also randomly award a PotW voter each month a PFM Speed Shine Kit, a $28.99 value. All you have to do is cast a vote for your favorite Porsche photo.

Vote for your favorite Porsche Photo of the Week

Each month, we will feature the Porsche of the Week photos from the previous month. Then we will tally the votes and crown a new Porsche of the Month winner. PCA, in partnership with Griot's Garage, will be giving away a Concours Lawn Kit to contest winners and a PFM Speed Shine Kit to randomly selected voters.

Got a stunning shot you want to share? Submit your pictures to [email protected]. Be sure to include your contact information, your region name and a few sentences about your picture.

Click here to vote for your favorite photo

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Please note: The above photo was mistakenly submitted by Alberto Scherb from Golden Gate Region, though he quickly contacted PCA to say that the photographer is actually Christopher Garcia of Los Angeles Region. They're good friends and it was an honest mixup, so we'll let them duke it out over the PotW prize should Garcia's photo win.

May's Winner - Dr. William Fong. Pacific Northwest Region.

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