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John Dyson Drivers Training: It's clear your President needs a little more. I am determined to cut down my agricultural driving at our next Autocross. It's embarrassing to be out in the weeds, but I think the driving experience available to all of us is invaluable. You can safely test the potential of your Porsche, improve your driving skills, and learn your limitations... all in the company of good friends. Put the date on your calendar and join us on June 16. Porsche Art: Be sure to get a chance to win a numbered Limited Edition Porsche 911 Sign, or the Tiffany, "Racing Porsches" oil painting. Raffle tickets are available at each of our events. Sincere thanks to Lujacks for donating the sign valued at over $120.00. Tweeks Funfest Porsche Gathering: A great Porsche week-end is coming July 21 & 22. Over 400 Porsches, free food and drinks, free admission and parking, concours both days and live music from the bandstand. Located on the grounds of this great Porsche aftermarket parts supplier, it's a great place to enjoy the cars, find some really neat parts and accessories, and socialize. There is also a wonderful Auto Museum on the spacious grounds. Tweeks is located just outside of Effingham, Illinois. This event should definitely be on your calendar! Pre-register free at: http://tweeks.com/funfest01.html April Event
– A Driving Day By Bob Dideriksen The skies cleared and the rain stopped at 10AM to start our CIA Spring Rally. We began with 6 cars and finished with 5. Gary and Mary Milavetz brought both of their VIPERS (something about more room for the kids) Mary selected some great high speed back roads for the drive to our lunch stop at Bonaparte's Retreat on the DesMoines River in Van Buren County. Jason Walter made some excellent digital photos of our gang. On the return to our homes the group stopped by Bob and Tanya's place in Coralville to play with the baby chicks from Easter. Check out the shots at our region website www.pca.org/cia Many thanks to Mary and Gary for this well planned event. OBTW, I really enjoyed passing the VIPERS at speed !
Dave Everett 1:23.63 Darrell Frett 1:23.75 Steve Everett 1:24.15 Bob Dideriksen 1:25.69 Jason Walter 1:25.70 John Dyson 1:26.25 Tanya Meyer 1:27.25 Mark Yost 1:27.81 Tom Shinrock 1:28.12 Tom Rusk 1:29.49 Michael Edl 1:29.69 Maralee Dyson 1:32.53 Gary Milavetz 1:32.66 Jeff Shinrock 1:32.72 Charles Sladek 1:33.15 Mary Milavetz 1:34.44 Pat Killean 1:34.59 Our thanks and gratitude to Sid Jepsen and his friend Mary Jane for doing all the timing. Also a thanks to the Yost family for running the flags. It is so helpful to have all those bases covered for the drivers. June 16th – Autocross Now that some of us have driven the first autocross of the year, it is time for the next one. Came join us and drive, watch, or just hang out. It is a great day to see a bunch of Porsches and to drive your own around the track if you wish to do so. We can always use flag persons and time keepers if you don’t want to drive. It helps the event and gives you a feeling of participation. If you have any questions or need additional information call John Dyson, 319-335-9843 or john-dyson@uiowa.edu . New
Members: Welcome to new members: Steve and Christy Nelson live in Des Moines, and drive a gray 1984 944. And James and Kristin Novak of Cedar Rapids have a black 2000 996 cabriolet. We look forward to seeing you all at our events this year. For
Sale: 1993 Red Mercury Capri convertible, excellent condition, A/C, power windows, cruise, air bag. 90,000 miles, $5,000. 319-338-8403 2000 C4 Millennium. #403 of world-wide production of 911; 360 in U.S. Rare, exclusive factory limited edition car. Every available option, including navigation, extensive wood and leather interior, 18" chromed wheels, hi-fi sound, 6 cd changer, three spoke sport steering wheel, heated power seats, chrome exhaust tips, and much more. Viola chromaflair metallic paint with new brown supple leather. Under 10k miles, asking $85,500; Bill, 515-327-0710 Des Moines, IA The Clubs Web Page Jason Walter is our Porsche-webmiester. He is doing a great job of keeping up the Central Iowa Region page. If you wish to look at the page go to, www.pca.org/cia If you have any ideas for the site or contributions please let Jason know at jasonray@sbt.net . Once again, please visit our website, www.pca.org/cia Check out the pictures and our events calendar. Information Needed and/or Updated We would like to thank all of you who have responded and sent your information to us. We still hope to hear from more of you and we are in need of your phone numbers and e-mail address. There are times that we might need to contact you about an upcoming event that we don’t have time to send a mailing. Please consider getting this information to us. The bad news is that some of you have changed you e-mail and forgotten to let us know about the change. We have been making it a practice to send e-mail reminders just before an event. This has prompted us to check on some of the e-mails that did not get through. If you have a FAX number we can send information by that method. Send information to : Editor, Maralee Dyson: jmdyson@home.com, or 837 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240, or (319) 337-5367. President, John Dyson: john-dyson@uiowa.edu, or 837 Kirkwood Ave., Iowa City, IA 52240, or (319) 337-5367
For Want of a Nail By Tom Comeau, San Diego Region (from The Windblown Witness) Most everyone is familiar with the old saying, "For want of a nail, the battle was lost," which dealt with a nail retaining the shoe on a horse and ended with some general unable to ride to battle, resulting in a lost battle. I have the modern day equivalent with my experience at Holtville this past month. Ted Myrus had requested a ride in my RS America. I had been having trouble with a brake warning light for some weeks prior to Holtville, and after checking out every component in the brake system, twice, had decided to just live with it until I got around to removing the bulb. We launched for a very spirited lap or two around the course and, while charging down the back straight, Ted shouted "brake light" as we approached the left-hander. I assure him that it was a false signal and that I had plenty of brake. Ted was less than impressed when, failing to adequately brake from 100+ mph, we shot straight through the turn in a cloud of blue smoke. Those who are familiar with my smooth driving style realize that I depend heavily on my ABS system. As you've probably guessed by now, the brake light was not the usual one that had been pestering me, but a real warning light, informing me that my ABS was taking a break from work. I tried to continue with a measure of grace and headed for the pits with a flair (which is hard to do on square tires). Inspection revealed that I had managed to flatspot two brand new Khumos, down to the cord! After the usual kicking of the car and tires and looking for something to kill, I simmered down to analyze the problem. The light was caused by the battery terminal coming loose. This, in turn, was caused by the battery thrashing around after it had broken loose from it's tiedown. The tiedown became loose after one of the screws backed out due to vibration on that very rough surface of the track. So, for want of a screw, the race was lost, so to speak. My times suffered in direct proportion to the new shape of my front tires. For the technically inclined, the signal to the ABS brain comes directly off the battery. An interruption in battery power throws the ABS off line. We all have checklists we refer to prior to going zoom, zoom (at least we should). Added to my checklist now are the battery tie-down blankety, blank screws. I've apologized to Ted for adding to his grey hair, to the car for kicking it, and I redirected a few of those kicks to myself for not being more observant. So what's the lesson here? Hell, I don't know. I just felt like whining. Seriously, you can't be too thorough when inspecting your machine. It was an expensive lesson. I may have more such lessons, but I won't have that same one again!
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