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 […]
Last Tuesday, the Vin Wine Bar in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Region celebrated our 4th Annual Porsche Pit Cru. We had over 50 Porsches, ranging from the 1950s to current models, on display for this Monterey Car Week event. The First Tee of Monterey County was the featured charity. Our Porsches started to arrive […]
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 […]
It was a beautiful day in Carmel Valley – sunny, warm and calm. Just perfect for our annual Concours in Paradise. This was the 3rd concours in Zone 7 Concours Series. The gathering of 91 Porsches, ranging from the 1950s to current models, was impressive and drew 150 attendees from 6 Regions. There were 42 […]
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 […]
Porsches leaving the Coast Riders Inn in San Simeon. Video by Albert Barreto, Coast Riders Inn, Managing Partner. The overnight tour to San Simeon started at Chile’s in Seaside on a sunny Saturday morning. Once everyone had arrived we headed down Highway 68 to River Road, then down River Road until the turnoff onto Fort […]
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 […]
