On Saturday, October 18, Monterey Bay Region members (and Ed Hunt of GGR) met at the Crossroads shopping center at the mouth of Carmel Valley in beautiful weather to go on a short tour ending at Lugano’s Swiss Bistro for an Oktoberfest luncheon. We gathered into three groups of 5 or 6 cars each, and […]
October is the time for Halloween-related activities and Monterey Bay Region used to have a Halloween Rally sometime during the month. This is a photo from 1997 of Jack Angel with the trophy from winning the Halloween Rally. […]
On Saturday, September 2, Monterey Bay Region went on a tour to Rancho Cielo vocational school, the second one this year, after the first tour on Thursday, February 7. The first tour was so popular that a second tour was set up. The group of 19 cars met at Chile’s in Seaside and checked in […]
Monterey Bay Region celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Porsche Club of America with a dinner event at Veloce Valuations in Monterey. Food was catered by Michael’s Grill & Taqueria in Pacific Grove and special 70th anniversary cookies were provided by Freedom Bakery in Monterey. Steve Kittrell of Veloce and Adam Mohr of Mohr Imports […]
The guest speaker at the August 4 general meeting was Gill Campbell, who currently works for a marketing company but previously was the manager at Laguna Seca raceway. Her topic was “Women in Motorsports.” She told us about an organization called Women in Motorsports North America, co-founded by Lyn St. James. This group has the […]
Steve Fields thought it would be fun to have a drive in the middle of the week for those who didn’t have to work that day, so he set up a lunch run on Thursday, July 31st. We met at the Crossroads Shopping Center near the Starbucks. A total of 17 cars ventured out on […]
For the general meeting on July 7 we had a member as a guest speaker who is a retired NASA astronaut, Dan Bursch. Dan has been on four missions, three for 10-11 days and the fourth for 196 days in 2001-2002. He brought a number of slides to show us what he looked like in […]
The Hecker Pass tour on June 8th started at 9 am at Chili’s in Seaside, where 20 Porsches and their drivers and passengers gathered for a drivers’ meeting before hitting the road for San Juan Bautista, where we would meet another 5 Porsches with their drivers and passengers at the Windmill Market. We drove through […]
The membership meeting on June 2nd had a guest speaker, Ashley Chesney, who was speaking on behalf of Set Free Monterey Bay, a nonprofit that fights sex trafficking in the Monterey area. She spoke from experience, since she grew up in Pacific Grove and was a victim of sex trafficking herself. She has written a […]
The May 18 tour to Moss Landing and Elkhorn Slough was a great experience. The original booking was for an afternoon tour on Eco Tour’s 37-ft electric catamaran, but the prospect of windy weather in the afternoon prompted the company to change the booking to a morning tour. We arrived in time for a 9:30 […]
