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From DER Prez P-Car Season 2001 Kicks Off by Don McGilvery, aka NINE44T Since our Winter newsletter, a lot has happened in our little club. March saw the annual banquet, our best-attended event of recent years. This event at the Portland Country Club in Falmouth featured (occasionally incriminating) videos of DER members driving (and spinning) at track events, as well as a continuous Power Point slide display of club members and cars captured at various events throughout 2000. Our guest Speaker, Ellen Beck, Past President of North Country Region PCA and currently their Chief Driver Education Instructor, provided a lively slide show and talk about her cross-country road trip to last year's Porsche Parade in Sacramento, CA. Her slides also provided great shots of road-tripping via 993 to spectacular sites all over our great country. We handed out our annual awards, voted in our Board of Directors for 2001, and loaded up on door prizes. The meal was great, the camaraderie enjoyable, and the location ideal--if you missed this banquet, you really missed a great time.
Our first club driving event started P-Car season 2001 as a huge success. Morong Falmouth opened its doors to our annual Spring Fling on April 22. The informal get-together drew at least 40 club members and assorted Porsches—the perfect excuse to get their cars out of mothballs, cleaned up, and on the road on what turned out to be a glorious Spring day. Weather was a bit less cooperative for our annual Midcoast Mountains Tour to Camden, but a dedicated crew rambled some 80 miles of back roads in the pouring rain. At Bonny Eagle Car show, we enjoyed a gorgeous day and about 1500 classic autos of every description. The ever-increasing list of PCA Driver Education track activities is the focus for several club members. So there are plenty of opportunities ahead to join your fellow Porsche freaks on road and track with our great little club. Speaking of track, I'd like to once again extend an open invitation to any member interested in observing and/or participating to join DER “trackies” at a future event. I got hooked on the track by attending an event with a fellow club member as an observer...and after that I just had to drive. DE events let us enjoy our cars on historic road courses. I know my fellow trackies will be very happy to “show you around” and we know you’ll have a great time, even if you never decide to participate further. Hope to see you at one of our upcoming events. Don
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