The membership meeting on March 3, 2025, featured Membership Chair Michael Hesse as guest speaker. Michael talked about his job. He works at NASA in Mountain View and he showed slides about his work. Michael is a director and he says he spends most of his day in meetings. His job includes the Science Directorate […]
Sunday, February 24th, the day for the drive to and lunch at the Big Sur Taphouse, was a gorgeous day, with blue skies, cirrus clouds and temps in the mid-60’s. We gathered at the Carmel Crossroads center, had a drivers’ meeting, and set off. We had more people than had signed up, since once the […]
The visit to Rancho Cielo Youth Campus on February 7th started with a light rain in the parking lot at Chili’s. Despite that, most of those going had brought their Porsches. We had 17 people and 14 cars. The cars were dispatched in two groups to drive through the back roads of north Monterey County. […]
The paint chip clinic held at Monterey Touring Vehicles was a big hit. Andrew from A Brilliant Shine in Carmel Valley came in and showed us how to tackle those nasty rock chips. After cleaning the work area with alcohol, he prefers to use paint from Dr Rockchip since it spreads more easily and dries […]
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We met in the Crossroads behind the Starbucks for a 10:00 start under clear blue skies. Steve Ponsi took the lead since Mark did it for the September tour. It took us a while to all get together, since after we stopped to consolidate, we took off into traffic. Heading south to Big Sur and beyond, […]
The Oktoberfest event on September 28th started for Monterey Bay Region at Chili’s in Seaside, where 9 cars left and headed north for Santa Cruz County. We rendezvoused with two other MBR members at the Summit Store on Skyline Drive, then continued on Skyline Drive to Highway 17, which we took to the Bear Creek […]
On July 14, Porsche of Monterey hosted a detailing clinic for us at their shop. President Mark and another member volunteered their cars for demonstrations of how to spiff up a car by A Brilliant Shine, who explained what they were doing as they went along and had them take a stab at it as […]
For the Springtime Sojourn, we met at the Windmill Market in San Juan Bautista on a sunny day, Then we headed to Highway 25 in two groups, led by Ted Voigt and Mark McMahon. Once we got to Highway 25 we headed south through green countryside with occasional cows and California poppies. It was National […]
Saturday, March 16th started with Cars and Coffee at Laguna Seca from 7:30-9:30. Like most Cars and Coffees at Laguna Seca, there were a lot of cars there, more than 1,000. Mark McMahon, MBR president, got there around 7:30 and it was already so full he couldn’t park on the island. It took him a […]
Ryan Sullivan graciously hosted a tire clinic at his shop on Feb. 17th. He gave everyone a handout that explained different types of tires, tire pressure monitoring systems, tire codes, other sidewall markings, tire design, balancing, plus sizing, and alignment, and talked us through it using two different types of tires as examples. There were […]
