FROM THE PREZ

FSR members,
It is starting to get cooler outside but we still have a lot of driving weather over the next few months to enjoy our Porsches and the great camaraderie provided by fellow Porsche enthusiasts!
Over the past couple of months, in addition to our regular breakfasts in Richmond and the Hampton Roads area we also enjoyed a great Fall DE at VIR 24-26 September and our 2nd Annual Air and Auto Classic on 1 October raised around $4,000 for our charities! Most recently our Evening with Your Porsche Friends on 15 October was an outstanding party at Alex and Andrea Bell's where the food, weather, scenic views and friendship were perfect!

Please join us for First Settlers Region's Annual New Year Party at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, VA on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 6PM. 

Here is a new question to add to the Porsche Parade Tech Quiz question bank: “How many frozen turkeys fit into a Cayman S?” If you are David Jones from the First Settlers Region the answer is twenty one!!! David drove into the service area at Checkered Flag Porsche about ten minutes before end of the official weigh-in, popped opened both trunks of his car, and with the help of scurrying volunteers, starting pulling out frozen turkeys. The turkeys filled up the four by four foot board on the first scale, then the overflow went to the board on the second scale. The total weight came to 309 pounds and David became the winner of the Turkeys-in-the-Trunk contribution contest for 2011. For his efforts, David will soon be wearing a new Porsche leather jacket courtesy of Checkered Flag. This event also demonstrated a competitive edge where the mid-engine Cayman, with two trunks, has a clear advantage over the iconic Carrera!!

July 1972. I had come back home to Georgia with a new 911T and was excited. I talked my wife into going to my very first road race at Road Atlanta, a new road course about 40 miles from my in-law's home. We stood as spectators outside Turn 1 and watched George Follmer in a Porsche 917/10 outdrag the McLaren CAN/AM cars into turn one and win the race. After that moment I was hooked. In 1973-1975, I worked as an SCCA corner worker all the corners at Road Atlanta. That was a cheap way to see the races. I always wanted to drive the course but that remained a dream.

We'd like to extend our thanks to you for attending our second annual charity car show. Through your generosity and that of our sponsors, we raised almost $4000 for the VBSPCA, the Foodbank of SE VA and Special Olympics VA. We had 100 cars participate in the show and about 250 spectator cars; both numbers lighter than last year, but nonetheless a good turnout. The generous support of our sponsors was particularly critical to the show's sucees.

For our repeat attendees, we hope you saw some improvement over the way the show was conducted last year. We appreciated your comments and hope you noticed that we implemented some of your suggestions. We have some new lessons learned of our own, but we'd like to hear from you if you have any comments or suggestions on how we can further improve the event. Please send them to our registrar by replying to this email.  See show results here.

We'd like to plug the Foodbank's upcoming 15th Annual Mayflower Marathon Food Drive on 18-20 November. Donations will be accepted around the clock at 2 locations: in Virginia Beach at the Pembroke Mall parking lot, and on the peninsula at Coliseum Central next to Peninsula Town Center. They will be accepting non-perishable food items, frozen turkeys, and cash. We'll be showing up in force at the Pembroke location on Saturday, and we challenge all local car clubs to come out and join us in contributing to this great cause for our local communities. The Car Club Council of Hampton Roads is coordinating a schedule for member clubs to promote a steady stream of club donations all weekend, so if your club plans to attend, please reply to this email with the day and time.

We hope to see you there, and at the 3rd annual Air & Auto Classic next year!

Best Regards,
First Settlers Region - Porsche Club of America