On March 15, 2025, the Porsche dealer in conjunction with 000 Magazine held a Cars and Coffee for Porsche owners, and members of Monterey Bay Region were there in force, including president Mark McMahon, vice-president Al Munoz-Flores, Treasurer Paul Sedillos and Activities manager (and nametag guru) Steve Ponsi. Catered coffee and snacks included burritos, fresh […]
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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. […]
Due to the power outage at our Holiday Party venue, we were unable to show our photo slideshow highlighting the club’s events for 2024. I uploaded the photos to a shared Google photo album and added the Holiday Party. The photos are representative of our club’s events throughout the year including cars & coffee, clinics, […]
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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For a while, we thought our last event of the year, the Holiday Party, was going to be cancelled just like the first event of the year, the Annual Tour to Big Sur. A big storm had passed through the area Friday night through Saturday morning, knocking power out to many areas including Pebble Beach. […]
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 […]
It’s complicated! This event was a replacement for our Annual Tour to Big Sur originally scheduled for February but cancelled due to a huge storm which made the roads impassable. The Big Sur River Inn could not accommodate us – so Mark found the Big Sur Taphouse. Due to space limitations, the tour was divided […]
