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 […]
The membership meeting on May 5th featured a guest speaker who is the CEO of Laguna Seca Racetrack – Lauri Eberhart, introduced by Ted Voigt. Lauri comes from North Carolina where she was legal counsel for Charlotte Motor Speedway and Speedway Motorsports, and has been here about a year. Her background has been with oval tracks, so […]
The meeting at Granite Rock on April 7th featured a presentation by vice-president Al Munoz-Flores on the 70th anniversary of PCA. Al showed slides from PCA showcasing their history and their areas of activity. He went through most of them rather quickly as there was more to come. —— Past president Dave Terdy then took […]
MBR members met on a bright and sunny morning at the Windmill Market shopping center in San Juan Bautista to go on a tour through San Benito County. Ted Voigt was at the helm, with help from president Mark McMahon, vice-president Al Munoz-Flores, and Vega Roecker to sign people in. In past years this was […]
