Porsche Club Concours

This morning, I went to the PCA's Connecticut Valley Region Father's Day Concours. It was held in the back yard of a typical Connecticut home.

Loves me some Tartan seats!

This car was featured in Excellence this month.

More Tartan:

Lots of plug wires...

This was my favorite car:

The yellow cabriolet had Rudge wheels (sorry, no photo)...

912s

This was in the parking lot. I love this color.

Saratoga Top:

Some day, when they are fully depreciated, I will buy a car with these brakes, because everyone else will be afraid to. Then I will remove them, lock them up somewhere and replace them with some "cheap" aftermarket upgrade until I decide to sell the car.

If I had the means upon graduating high school, I would have bought a car that looked exactly like this. I no longer wish to own a Cabrio and I don't need a Turbo, but, damn, I still love this color.

The grounds:

There's a few in that group that I would allow to grace my garage !!

So much want in these pictures

Any and all please.

You keep reminding me how much I dig the P-cars. Love the scruffy 356 - seems like my style. I take it Max's imports = Max Hoffman

Reminds me of why I don't really dig Concours.

Lots of nice hardware their for sure though.

T.J. wrote: Reminds me of why I don't really dig Concours.

I hear ya. My car was one of the dirty ones in the parking lot. It probably gets driven a lot more than all the pretty ones, though.

oldtin wrote: You keep reminding me how much I dig the P-cars. Love the scruffy 356 - seems like my style. I take it Max's imports = Max Hoffman

I was going to ask about that m'self! Would be cool if it was, I wouldn't remove it either.

Hey! I know that place. That is my guest cottage.

Smithers, get rid of that rubbish and their new fangled machines.

On a serious note - there was a "Power Wheels" car show here today for Father's Day. My dad has a '70 Chevelle SS 396 that he grills out with at these things and he asked me if I would come along... so I did.

I not only had the ONLY old 911 there, I had the only german car. I parked between our Chevelle and and the only other guy fool enough to bring a "fringe" automobile. A '57 Autobinachi FA. Between the two of us - we were like exotic fish in a bowl. Guys with perfect numbers-matching huge $ hardware poured from trailers and were staring at that sweet little italian mini and my fake RS wing covered in bug splatter like it was from space. I seriously didn't even wash the car first and people were still like "Dang, there ain't no carbooorators and the eeengine is in the back, honey".

My key take-away: Why do people sit in a row of cool cars when there is no race track nearby? It felt like waiting but there was nothing that was going to happen.

Woody wrote:

T.J. wrote: Reminds me of why I don't really dig Concours.

I hear ya. My car was one of the dirty ones in the parking lot. It probably gets driven a lot more than all the pretty ones, though.

Yep, I can surely appreciate them when they look like new, but I don't get a whole lot of satisfaction over cleaning and polishing. I like to drive them.

Semi-serious question - where do they hide all the trailers these came in on? That would make an amusing photo set :)

peter wrote: Semi-serious question - where do they hide all the trailers these came in on? That would make an amusing photo set :)

I should have snagged a pic - there was a whole lot behind the park full of trailers. When we were leaving they were all loading up. It would have made a neat wallpaper pic... a bunch of perfect muscle cars all lined up behind trailers in bright sunshine. There was a lot of very, very pretty old stuff there today.

peter wrote: Semi-serious question - where do they hide all the trailers these came in on? That would make an amusing photo set :)

I only saw two trailers at the PCA event.