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President’s Message: Zone 7 Concours
Dear GGR Members, Hope you’ve all had a great summer so far. As I write this, school starts in a few more days for my daughter, so summer is almost over. On the bright side, that means football season is starting soon. I hope the Niners have another great season this year. On the college…
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GGR President’s Message for July
Dear GGR Members, June packed a wonderful one two punch for our Club! The first hit was the amazing return to Alameda for the Autocrossers. The location is so convenient for most members in the Bay Area and the event was a big success. I had not instructed in Autocross in many years, but once…
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GGR President’s Message for May
Dear GGR Members, It’s officially summer and for most of the time, it actually feels like summer! Our beloved Bay Area is known for its micro-climates, so if the weather is not great where you are, come attend a PCA event, the weather will be much better in your Porsche and other like minded members!…
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Into The Porsche-verse
Dear GGR Members, There are a lot of interesting ways to enjoy our Porsches, just look at all the various activities our region puts on every year. However recently three of us had a lot of fun driving Porsches in a Virtual Reality (VR) Racing Simulator. Eddie Pettis is a very enthusiastic member and is…
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Member Recognition and Awards
I recently attended the annual Zone 7 President’s Meeting, hosted by our wonderful Zone 7 Representative, Brian Adkins. It was a great event and one of the things that really stuck to me is that one of our primary responsibilities is to recognize our membership. There are so many outstanding individuals that contribute to the…
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President’s Message: PCA Raffle Winner!
Dear GGR Members, Besides all of you reading The Nugget every month, there is another PCA publication called Panorama that we also read once in a while. And within Panorama, you often see ads for these car raffles. Year after year, you see different amazing Porsches being raffled off. I’m certain many of you have…
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President’s Last Blog
Happy Holidays! As I sit down to pen this, my last blog of the year, and last blog of my term as club President, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on just how great a club GGR and PCA is. It really is about the people and just how much GGR members give…
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Rennsport Reunion 7
Rennsport 7 was certainly a highlight of September for me, a pretty busy weekend! Hello again if I met you at the track! Here’s one of my favorite pictures of the weekend, a whole row of 962’s ready to go out track (12 of the 100 odd 962’s built). The event actually reminded me of…
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A Porsche September
Someone’s car just came in (not mine BTW) Only one car comes from the factory with that high a rear wing! As of the writing of this blog, both are at Porsche Redwood City. Car week in Monterey was a blast as usual. I kicked off the week going to track to watch the historic…
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GGR Annual Concurs, Porsches Galore
It was great catching up with many of you at GGR’s annual Concours at Porsche Redwood City, thanks to all that attended and made that event a success. Many great Porsche’s were on display and lots of fun conversation to be had. Since I was there at the event, Captain Mike, the event organizer, enlisted…