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Remarks... Our Porsche Summer Events were a great success. Thanks to all who participated and especially those who planned the Autocrosses and volunteered to help including timers Sid Jepson and Mary Jane, registrars Tanya Meyer and Maralee Dyson, safety officer and advisor Bob Dideriksen and flagman Chris Mulherin. Thanks also to Vice President Jason Walter for helping the steering committee and for our excellent club web-site http://vista.pca.org//cia/ Check it out for great color photos and details of events. Special thanks to Maralee who produces each of these newsletters. Fall is another exciting Porsche season. Our drive to Winterset to the Covered Bridge Festival during peak fall color is a must for your personal calendar on October 14th. A festive Holiday Party is planned for December 1st. with door prizes, driving awards and our raffle drawing. Check out more of the details in this newsletter. One of our newest assets are the fine color photos provided by Steve O'Brien and Bob Wasielewski. We still have a few to pass out when we see you again! The Bridges of
Madison County We have a great event in store for all Central Iowa Region members in October! We will meet and drive together to Winterset, IA. where we will enjoy the Madison County Covered Bridge Festival on Sunday, October 14, 2001. Please join us as we have fun at one of Iowa's great autumn attractions. The festival features old-time craft demonstrations, food, music, guided bus tours of the covered bridges, John Wayne’s birthplace and much more! There are 6 covered bridges, with 3 of those on hard surface roads. Cedar Bridge is the only bridge that you can still drive through today (it is on hard surface). We will meet in the north Sears parking lot at Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville around 8:15 am. We will depart from there at 8:30 am. We will make a stop in Des Moines for anyone from the Central Iowa area that wants to join us. We will meet at Ramsey Porsche, leaving there at 10:30 am. We will arrive in Winterset around 11:30 am. We will meet/park at the Madison County Fairgrounds, south of Winterset. To get there, take Hwy. 92 around Winterset, heading south. At the junction of Hwy. 92 and P71 (this is where 92 turns back west), turn east onto P71 and continue to the fairgrounds on the south side of the road. There is a shuttle to take into town, in order to enjoy the festivities. Upon arriving in Winterset you are free to independently enjoy the sites. See you there! If you have questions, please call Tanya at 319-338-8403.
It was a great day to be on the track. It was dry and cool. We had a good group of drivers including some new people that had not been on a track before. What a fine day. John Dyson 1:22.40 Bob Dideriksen 1:23.09 Todd Jacobs 1:23.47 James Mulherin 1:24.78 Darrel Frett 1:25.10 Jason Walter 1:25.22 Tanya Meyer 1:25.94 Tom Rusk 1:27.66 Gary Milavetz 1:29.16 Maralee Dyson 1:30.75 Mary Milavetz 1:32.16 Austen Vandeberg 1:33.16 Wayne Melzer 1:34.84 B. Al-Shawwa 1:35.19 M. Abu-Hason 1:36.66 September 16th autocross time for other than a Porsche: Kent Jacobs 1:22.06 Ronald Daly 1:26.25 Pete Lammers 1:28.81 Don Bailey 1:36.69 It's Beginnin
to Look Alot Like...A Christmas Party! Tanya Meyer The Holiday season will be upon us before we know it. So, we are already planning the Central Iowa Region Christmas Party! This year's party will be a wonderful event at the Amana Holiday Inn. We will have a fine German "Amana-style" feast, Porsche fellowship, and lots of excellent door prizes! Please join us for the Christmas party on Saturday, December 1, 2001. We will begin with cocktails in the lounge at 6:00 pm. At 7:00 pm, we will move into a private dining room for dinner, prizes, and lots of fun! The Amana Holiday Inn is located at exit 225 off Interstate 80 in Amana. You may even want to consider making a weekend of it! This location at that time of year could make for a pleasurable weekend of Christmas shopping, dining, and Porshce driving in the Amana Colonies! Those wishing to indulge in the party evening will need to register by check or cash ahead of time. We must confirm an accurate number for dinner. The meal cost is $19.00 per person. This includes a family style dinner with 3 meat choices, beverage, dessert, gratuity, and tax. It is absolutely necessary to send check or cash to Tanya Meyer no later than November 23, 2001 to reserve dinner. Please send your check or cash, with the name(s) of those attending the party to Tanya at 2335 Mulberry St. #6, Coralville, IA 52241. If you have questions, please call Tanya at 319-338-8403. It will be a wonderful time of year to enjoy the Amana Colonies and fellow Porsche enthusiasts! Hope to see you here! Big
Welcome To Some New Members: Joseph and Katherine Sulentic are from Oxford, IA and drive a 1989 black 964. Rick Holste lives in Clinton, IA and has a 1987 black 944 turbo. Timothy Curl has a 1984 944, and lives in Mt. Vernon, IA. David and Carolyn Flaherty have transferred into our region from Southeast Mischigan. They have a 1979 911. Welcome to the Central Iowa
Region of PCA. We hope to see you soon at a club event. Porsche
Club Of A M E R I C A John Dyson By acts of terrorism we have all been called to find better answers to conflicts between people, their societies, economic systems, traditions and religious beliefs. The infamous terrorist attacks caused the desired initial effect... Fear causes many of our citizens and media commentators to publicly declare that life in this country can never be the same. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps the terrorists have won. Perhaps we will all give up and adopt the expedient solution of trading liberty for security. Current trends in our society have encroached upon the very things that define us as a free people. It is a slow insidious process motivated by our desire for safety and security. To solve a problem, we often accept an expedient solution, not necessarily the best one. The price we pay is often extracted from our freedoms. This has been going on for years of course, way before recent terrorist attacks. No doubt these events will only accelerate the process. To the degree terrorists steal our liberties, they have won. It is enlightening to recall that on another dark day in history an American President said, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." Edmund Burke observed, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." For these and many other reasons it is appropriate that Porsche Club of America, and each member, stand up for the meaning of liberty and freedom as we denounce acts of terrorism. Our problem is not liberty, it is terrorism. A large part of the solution may be in the words of Professor Porsche himself: "Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we do from start to finish that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will have fulfilled our potential and performed well."
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For Sale: Mint set of 95-98 993 Shop Manuels and Volume X of Up Fixin’ der Porsche; First $250.00 or make offer. Bob Hartzler (151) 964-2627, hartzler911@webtv.net The Club's 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 . Please visit our website, www.pca.org/cia Check out the pictures and our events calendar.
Just the Details: Interior Stains and Odors by David Bynon, San Diego Region (from The Windblown Witness) Protection is Worth a Pound of Cure Porsche upholstery fabrics and carpet are more likely to stain than vinyl or leather. To best prevent stains altogether, it is necessary to properly treat upholstery, carpet, vinyl and leather. The best treatment for carpet and fabric is a spray on fabric guard product. The Scotch Guard™ brand products are the best known, and most widely available. Other products, like 303 Hi Tech Fabric Guard, offer newer fabric protection formulas. To protect vinyl and leather, simply use your favorite cleaner and protectant on a regular basis. Some leather protec-tant products, like Eagle One Leather Conditioner, contain mink oil, which is excellent for protecting against stains. When the inevitable happens, and your three-year-old drops (or barfs!) his mustard-loaded hotdog on your 928’s “Porsche Script” velour upholstery, stay calm, and remove as much of the spill as possible (by blotting, not wiping, with paper napkins, paper towels, etc). Then, don’t let the stain sit too long before you get to work on it. Within a day or two, most spills will set and permanently stain your upholstery or become very difficult to remove. It will only take one such incident for you to realize that a $15 investment in fabric and carpet protection is worth every penny. Stain Removal Basics Even without protection, you would be amazed at how easy it is to clean up most stains with nothing more than a neutral detergent and water. A neutral detergent has a pH of 7 (on a scale of 0 to 14). A detergent with a pH less than 7 means it is acidic, whereas a pH higher than 7 is alkaline. Neutral detergents will not bleach fabric or remove fabric protection. When cleaning a stain, try detergent and water first. If this does not remove the stain, then go for a cleaner with a little more oomph! Common cleaning agents for interior stains include: 1. Neutral detergent (Ivory Liquid) and water (1:20) 2. Mild ammonia and water solution (1:5) 3. Distilled white vinegar and water (1:1) 4. Dry-cleaning fluid (Carbona, Renuzit, Perk)
Tools you’ll need to remove interior stains include: 1. Spatula or putty knife 2. Clean, white terry cloth towels 3. Soft bristle scrub brush 4. Wet-dry vacuum
Removing Odors I get a lot of questions about removing smells. The most common questions are “How do I remove the smell of cigarette smoke?” and “My child vomited, how do I get rid of the smell?” Most bad smells in cars are organic (i.e., food, urine, vomit, tobacco, grass, mold, mildew, etc.). I recently had a professional detailer tell me a client had spilled fish in his car, which I know from experience is not pleasant. As a teen I hid an open can of sardines under the seat of a neighbor’s car. They had to sell the car to get rid of the smell! Smell problems are pretty easy to take care of with some of the new cleaners on the market. My favorite is called “Kids and Pets Brand Stain and Odor Remover,” by Paramount Chemical Specialties (www.kidsnpetsbrand.com). This cleaner, and others like it, use enzymes, a surfactant, and denatured alcohol to remove stains and kill odors. The enzymes kill odors in their tracks by stopping the organic material from decomposing. So, spray this stuff where your girlfriend just heaved her guts all over the woll carpet in your new 911, and the mess and stain are gone. Don’t use it, and you’ll be smelling that night for a long time. Other products that also work okay for dealing with organic smells and stains include Febreze (Proter and Gamble) and FreshCare (Clorox). Tobacco smoke is one of the most difficult smells to remove from a Porsche. The smoke permeates everything, including the foam rubber used in the seat cushions. You can successfully remove most of the tobacco smell by shampooing the carpets and wiping down all interior surfaces with a sponge and Kids and Pets Brand Stain and Odor Remover. After the carpet has dried for 24 hours, sprinkle baking soda on the carpet, rub it in with your hands, and leave it for a week. After a week, vacuum your carpets. The baking soda will absorb the remaining odor in the carpet. Don’t forget to scrub the headliner, as this is the source of a lot of the smell.
Future Parades Mark Your Calendars! Parade 2002 – Boise, Idaho – July 28 to August 3 Parade 2003 – Tampa, Florida – last week in June at Saddlebrok Resort The registration forms for the Boise Parade will be in the November Panorama. |
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