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Pirelli
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Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 Carrera GTS is a special version of the 911 sports car that offers more power and better performance than the regular models. It's designed for people who want a thrilling driving experience.
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Porsche 914
The Porsche 914 is a small sports car made by Porsche in the 1970s. It has a distinctive look and is loved by car fans for its fun driving experience.
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Porsche 356
The Porsche 356 is an old sports car made by Porsche. It's famous for being light and quick, making it fun to drive.
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brakes
Brakes help your car stop when you press the pedal. They can wear out and need to be fixed or replaced to keep your car safe.
Part
rear drum
Rear drums are round parts in some cars that help stop the wheels by pressing against them. They work differently than disc brakes.
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rotors
Rotors are round metal discs in your car's brakes that help stop the wheels from turning. If they get damaged, your brakes might not work well.
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vibration in the steering wheel
If your steering wheel shakes while driving, it might mean something is wrong with your brakes or wheels. It's a sign to check them out.
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rust on the hubs
Rust on the hubs is when metal parts of your car get rusty, which can happen if they get wet. This rust can make brakes not work properly.
Car
Porsche Cayman
The Porsche Cayman is a sports car that has its engine located in the middle, which helps it handle better on the road. It's loved by many car fans for its great driving experience.
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track days
Track days are special events where people can drive their cars fast on a racetrack. It's a safe place to see how well your car performs compared to driving on regular streets.
Part
titanium bolts
Titanium bolts are strong and lightweight fasteners used in cars. They don't rust like regular steel bolts, which helps keep the car in good condition.
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rusting
Rusting happens when metal, like iron, gets wet and starts to break down. This can make cars look bad and cause damage, especially if they are older.
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struts
Struts are parts of a car's suspension that help keep the ride smooth and stable. They absorb bumps from the road and help the tires stay in contact with the ground.
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Toyota Corolla
The Toyota Corolla is a small car that many people use for everyday driving. It's known for being reliable and good on gas, which makes it a popular choice.
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stabilizer bar
The stabilizer bar is a part of the car's suspension that helps keep the car steady when turning. It makes sure the car doesn't lean too much to one side.
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end link
The end link is a small part that connects the stabilizer bar to other parts of the car's suspension. It helps the stabilizer bar do its job of keeping the car stable.
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Porsche Clubs
Porsche Clubs are groups of people who love Porsche cars. They meet up to have fun, share stories, and sometimes even drive their cars together.
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Porsche Club of America
The Porsche Club of America is a group for people who love Porsche cars. They organize events and help members connect with each other to share their passion for these vehicles.
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Porsche Club Registro Italiano Emotion
This is a club for people who love Porsche cars, especially electric ones. They organize events where members can meet and enjoy their cars together.
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EVs
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Porsche Club Great Britain
This is a club for people who love Porsche cars in Great Britain. They organize events where members can meet and show off their cars.
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Chevrolet Corvette
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vintage cars
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ice race
An ice race is a type of car race that happens on ice, like a frozen lake. The cars are specially made to drive well on slippery surfaces.
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Porsche
Porsche is a famous car brand from Germany that makes fast and stylish sports cars. They are well-known for their quality and performance.
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Porsche Parade
Porsche Parade is a big event for Porsche fans where they can meet, show off their cars, and enjoy activities together. It's a fun way for people who love Porsches to connect.
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karting
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Formula One
Formula One is a top-level car racing series where teams compete in fast, high-tech cars on different tracks worldwide. It's known for its exciting races and skilled drivers.
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GT circle
The GT circle is a group for people who own special high-performance Porsche cars called GT models. It's not about the cost but about having cars like the GT3, GT4, or GT2, which are designed for racing and performance.
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Porsche 904
The Porsche 904 is a classic sports car from the 1960s that was built for racing. It's known for being light and fast, making it popular among car enthusiasts.
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Tesla Cybertrucks
The Tesla Cybertruck is a new type of truck that runs on electricity instead of gas. It looks very different from regular trucks and is designed to be strong and eco-friendly.
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Toyota Supra
The Toyota Supra is a cool sports car that many people admire for its speed and style. It's known for being fun to drive and has a strong fan base.
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Tesla Model 3S
The Tesla Model S is a fancy electric car that can go really fast and doesn't need gas. It's known for having a lot of cool technology and can drive for a long time on a single charge.
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Porsche Career Gt
The Porsche Carrera GT is an extremely fast and expensive sports car that many people dream of owning. It's known for its amazing speed and handling, making it very special.
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Porsche 928
The Porsche 928 is a fancy sports car that was made for a long time and is known for being comfortable to drive. It has a powerful engine in the front, which is different from many other sports cars.
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Porsche Carrera RS
The Porsche Carrera RS is a classic sports car from the 1970s that is loved for being light and fast. It's famous for its connection to racing and is very valuable to collectors.
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Welcome to the Porsche Club Insider, your one stop for all things Porsche and PCA.
Here's your host, Vu Gwin, and the Insider Crew.
Welcome everyone to episode 194.
On this episode, we're going to talk about Porsche Club's worldwide.
They had a virtual town hall meeting, as well as what we saw at SEMA, the Specialty Equipment
Manufacturers Association Conference, or big show that they have in Las Vegas, but before
we get into it, I'll make sure I want to thank our presenting sponsor, Pirelli.
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Today is a special day.
I have, well, not because I have Manny to the right, but it is a special day.
I have Damon to the left manning the controls here.
It's a special day because you know why, Manny?
Because I have a new laptop.
Well, you have a new laptop with only one sticker.
But today is a day 20 years ago, my hobby life and my career collided.
Wow. 20 years today.
So kind of cool.
Time flies when you're having fun.
You got some stuff in the mail from members.
I see this folder here.
Yeah, I think this is the, what is it?
It's a 914 mob.
It was a 914 group out of Philly.
Thank you.
I even sent me a new sticker, so it became my first sticker on my new laptop.
Very cool.
So this 914 calendar for 2026.
And you put it on my desk and I was kind of surprised.
Well, not surprised that you're putting it on my desk, but you said your car is in there.
I'm like, why would they feature a box of parts?
But I think as we go through all 914s up until
September and lo and behold, look at this,
my 356 invaded the 914 calendar from the boardwalk reunion.
Look at this, Damon.
How cool is that?
So thank you guys.
Thank you, everyone from the 914 mob for sending us stuff.
We love getting random things from the members.
So it's it's very cool.
Thank you for that.
I do have a little bit of a show and tell today.
Hopefully Damon can pull this up.
So you do.
I know you do your own breaks and I know Damon, you do your own breaks.
What do you what do people often forget to do when they're putting on
new rotors and rear drum if you I happen to have a car.
I happen to have done drums this weekend.
So I needed it.
But what do people often forget that can cause vibration in the steering wheel?
That sounds like rust.
Yeah, a lot of times rust on the hubs.
People just pull off a disc and throw on a new disc
and torque everything down.
And a lot of times if you don't clean the rust around the the studs
and the backing plate, yep, you you can definitely get vibration.
So there's this tool I saw online somehow.
You ever use one of these many because I I had I had a like wire wheel
and a wire brush that I would have to, you know, kind of maneuver around
all the studs.
That's what I use.
Is you have one of these?
No, I use a wire brush.
Oh, yeah.
So this goes and you can see the photo here on the screen goes right over your stud.
Put it on your drill.
It comes with a special detaching thing.
Spin it super clean, super clean and go around the hub and boom, you're done.
And these are replaceable pads just held on by Velcro.
Pretty cool.
I think it's like 12 bucks to minimize vibration.
Not too bad.
I've never used something quite like that to clean wheel studs or anything.
So I was just thinking about, should I order new studs for my Cayman?
Because I know that you're like they don't last forever.
Right.
But I think I'm just going to keep an eye on them and it doesn't get driven
in the rain all that much.
So no rust.
I think it'll be fine.
Because yeah, I mean, it's usually, I mean, on the track at all I did
at what 500 track days, I only broke one wheel stud.
Oh, yeah, I think if you're tracking, you know, I've read some things
there's some interval to replace them.
Yeah, I'm sure.
But for street driving, I'm probably OK.
Yeah, not that you're pulling that kind of consistent level.
Or unless you're driving over, you know, what is it?
The bumps and stuff all the time.
Yeah, true.
In Baltimore, right?
No, not the guys who told me that
why they switched over to titanium bolts versus, I guess, deal.
It comes standard on like a Cayman or anything newer.
Yeah.
And because I joked, I'm like, can you feel the lighter weight
and those bolts, you know, the between titanium and steel?
But they said it doesn't rust.
That's why they get it.
Oh, have you ever had a problem with the newer cars rusting?
No, neither by not really.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, this is mostly for working on older cars
and stuff that rusting.
I did have, you know how you always have that one nut
or that one bolt on a project that causes you to
lots of pain and anguish.
It's always the last one.
Well, almost, yes.
In fact, this was we were we were replacing struts
and I hate to go back to the Corolla, but we were putting struts
on teaching Jonah how to put struts on the front of the Corolla.
The left side, we did no problem.
The right side, all of a sudden, the one nut that goes to
the the the stabilizer bar, the inlinks.
It's just like an 18 mil and it just it was stuck somehow.
And we put an impact on it and just round it off.
So how would you get it off?
Not with an impact.
Well, I mean, I got it off with an impact on the other side
and it was no problem, but it rounded off.
And so, of course, you know, taking a deep breath, stand back.
And if you were to heat it, I thought about heating it up.
This is the end link.
So you don't have a lot of leverage
should be able to bang something on it.
Correct, correct.
And so I'm like, oh, man, if I put heat to it,
then I might mess up the end link
because it has a rubber boot on the other side.
I'm like, well, I don't want to do that.
And of course, you try the the one method that, you know,
never works, but you always have to try it.
Is I grabbed a pair of ice grips and just tried to man handle it.
And, of course, it didn't work.
And so I'm sitting there thinking I'm thinking I'm thinking.
So I love my dremel, my dremel with my baby cutting wheel.
And I and you have a nutcracker, too.
Well, yeah. So that was going to say.
So in my little toolbox,
what the dremel was, the nutcracker, because I put that in there
when you wanted to borrow it.
But I started first by just just carefully cutting the nut.
Of course, you want to make sure you don't go so deep
that you mess up the the threads on the on the bolt itself.
So I did, you know, cut it, cut it nice, clean.
And then I used the nutcracker to kind of wedge it and it popped.
It popped and came out.
It was it was like finger tight, you know,
came out no problem and finished the rest of the project.
So it worked. Jonah learned a lot yesterday.
Nice. So you you did all this to save an anti-roll or end link?
Correct, because I'm cheap.
And it was Sunday afternoon because my answer was this isn't something
where you just where you remove the bolt.
This is where you would just save it.
You just cut it somehow and just buy a new end link.
Because, you know, why not new end links?
They make the car feel better.
Well, this is this isn't I wonder how much a new end link calls for a curl.
I bet you probably 15 bucks, if not less.
So I win because I saved 15 bucks and I didn't have to go drive and get it.
But all right, let's talk about Porsche Clubs worldwide.
If you're not familiar with Porsche Clubs worldwide,
it's basically the nomenclature that they give for the gathering
of all the different Porsche clubs around the world.
And they come together in a town hall meeting,
I would say maybe twice a year.
And Club Coordination is a department at PAG.
And we're, you know, we're very fortunate to have a great relationship
with them with Sebastian, with Kristoff, that that lead our market
and the organization.
But it's a way for them to share best practices,
allow the different clubs to come together and, you know,
learn learn from each other.
I will say that a lot of times
Porsche Club of America is like the reference point just because we're so large.
And to put that into perspective, I don't know, Damon,
you probably know this answer.
But how many Porsche Club members are there in the entire universe?
So Porsche Club Great Britain, Porsche Club Germany, Porsche Club Japan,
PCA, add them all together.
How many are there?
So you said this in the
what was it, the open house meeting?
And I should know this, but I'm going to say it's like two hundred and eighty
five thousand worldwide and we're like one hundred and sixty.
So very close. We are in total.
There's two hundred and seventy thousand Porsche Club members worldwide.
And we are currently just over one hundred and seventy.
So one hundred and seventy thousand out of two hundred and seventy.
So and then then the next largest club
would be Porsche Club of Great Britain,
which I think today they're probably about thirty five to forty thousand.
So just think of, you know, the gap between us and the next largest
organization, very large. Yes, for sure.
But the interesting topic.
So some some highlights from the call.
Have you ever heard of Porsche Club Registro Italiano Emotion?
No, but that sounds like a Ferrari model.
It sounds very fancy. Yeah.
So this is one of the first recognized
Porsche Clubs that is dedicated to EVs.
And they had their first event at Hans Peter Porsche's Traumworks in September.
And it was all Ticons and I hope you had chargers there.
They did. So remember, I think you were on the one trip where
they brought it's kind of funny.
Because it's like this huge 18 wheeler
that has like 20 charging stations built into the 18 wheeler.
And I don't know that the charging
like is the 18 wheeler full of batteries or is there like a diesel generator
powering it? But they did bring a mobile charging station.
So it worked. Yeah.
How about this one?
Have you ever heard of Paradis Parade?
Paradis Parade, 20, 25, of course.
No, I haven't.
So it's a paradise parade or something.
Saint Tropez Saint Tropez
sounds very fancy.
And they they were very proud as they should be.
They brought how many cars do you think a big
a big gathering in Europe is considered?
Like how many cars would it take?
I would say, I don't know, a big gathering, 150 cars.
No, this one had 300.
So it was OK for them.
It was really big. I thought it was a trick question.
So I'm like, I'm going to go a little less than pictures out of England.
When the GB does stuff, Porsche Club, Great Britain,
and they've got fields and fields of Porsches.
Yeah, GB is well, GB is the second largest.
So they can pull those numbers.
But I think the average
clubs, you know, they're they're very fragmented.
Like in in in Germany, you would think there'd be a huge showing, right?
But there's kind of like you always say the Corvette Club.
Like in Maryland, there's like 50 Corvette clubs, right?
So they all kind of have their own little world.
So in Germany, it's like that as well.
So for them to pull 150 to 300 cars for an event, that's quite huge.
And then also keep in mind, it's
the the ability to have a Porsche in other countries.
Like you have to be at the very, I would say,
most of have to be at the very top of the income level because cars,
the cars are more expensive, the taxes are more expensive,
the running costs are more expensive.
Just having property to store your Porsche, it's it's unlike the United States,
where we thankfully have the ability to have, you know,
fairly lower car prices and we have enough land to store all the cars
that we have. But yeah, it's it's a little bit different.
But most states, the laws,
I think are a little bit more relaxed, even though sometimes we think they aren't
with older cars, you have so many older cars.
You can run the older cars, you're not getting them inspected every year.
Some states do that, but a lot don't.
So that makes it easier when you're owning several vintage cars.
Yeah, they went into a little bit.
This one, Manny, you know about it.
And it's called the F dot A dot T, the fat ice race.
Tell all our listeners what the fat ice race is about.
So that was a ice race that was resurrected in Zellemse,
which is where the family, I guess, compound is.
The ferry Porsche bought at this home
in Zellemse, kind of a vacation home for the family is in Austria.
And it was right on the other side of the mountain where Gamund was.
So he would go back and forth from Gamund,
where they were building the cars originally to Zellemse.
And now it's become quite famous
because it's like race that was resurrected largely in part by
Ferdi Porsche, the son of Wolfgang Porsche,
who's really really taking the ball and run with this fat brand FAT,
which was a, I believe a French transport company.
And they were a sponsor of a lot of race teams.
Porsche and other brands back in the 90s.
So they became synonymous with endurance racing.
So can I have to say just because I'm going to get my mug up here
with my title since I haven't done that yet, but I'm going to say.
So I have back here on my screen if you're on YouTube,
a schedule of 2026 events, the fat ice race is the first one.
You want me to bring that 2026 schedule up?
Sure. At this point.
Yeah. It's kind of interesting to me, actually.
I really want to these are not all the events around the world,
but these are the major ones.
And I just took a screenshot during the during the presentation.
That's Kristoff Ritter, our liaison at Porsche Club Coordination.
And those are the major events.
And of course, in there, you should see Porsche Parade.
There it is Porsche Parade, Lake Placid, New York.
But the great thing about FAT is that they're doing it in the US too.
Is it Aspen, I think?
Yeah, I think it was.
It's not cheap to attend.
And Ferdi would love to make it where it would be affordable for everyone.
But it's right now it's it's a challenge in that kind of ski resort,
you know, having a race during the the season.
Zellemuse, I think it's a little bit more forgiving and it's easier for the
Europeans to attend that reasonably.
But he is bringing it.
He's actually starting a carding league for young people to be
who can't afford the tremendous cost of going pro-carding.
He's starting their own carding league to help find the future
Formula One champions and they're starting two or three.
They already have, I think, two here in the US.
They're starting a third one next year or two.
So yeah, that brand, if you see it, that's
partially owned by Ferdi Porsche, Porsche family.
You know, Ferdi being young and I think the price point and the way
that they set up these events, it's very hip and music.
It's like big kids playing in the snow.
I would love to have a player on the wall when he makes a phone call
and he says, yeah, I like to have a GT1 and maybe a WSC 95 at this event.
And then he gets to drive them.
Yeah.
So because there's pictures of you if you follow him on Instagram,
he's driving these cars across the pass from Gamoon to Zellemuse.
And that would be good to be a friend of Ferdi.
There's some iconic photos of people being towed
by Porsches and skiing behind them.
Was that part of fat like back in the day?
So I think they recreated that two years ago for Mark Porsche,
said he wore an Elvis impersonator costume and he was.
Yeah, I think they're recreated to recreate the glory of these
and I guess the fifties when they used to race on the.
I don't think they do it on the lake bed anymore,
but it was a lake bed back in the day.
And if you're wondering, can Porsches do well in the snow?
I can tell you with studded tires, they're incredible.
We've we've had the opportunity to drive
and they're just different millimeter studs.
I'm not proficient in stud tire technology,
but even a rear wheel drive Porsche with studded tires,
you know, it's almost unstoppable in the snow.
As long as it's not too deep.
Two years ago, Stefano Arcelli was driving the GT1 98.
Yeah, studded tires.
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Makes for incredible Instagram photos.
Yeah. All right.
And the let's see another event that they talk about.
And this is sort of a bucket list for me
because you see these photos on social media
and the amount of money that is poured into the event in 2026.
Icons of Porsche in Dubai will be their fifth anniversary.
May have you seen those photos?
I have, but I thought you were going to say Goodwood.
No, I you know, I didn't we actually we didn't even talk is good.
Bucket list, you've been to good wood.
Yes, but I haven't been to the one that you know that the revival.
That's what I wanted to say.
I've been to Goodwood and it is actually for anyone out there
wants to prank me, I don't want to be picky.
I'll take the first or the revival.
The same has been out too.
Did you go to festival speed or revival?
Yeah, I was the festival of speed and
it was a lot of fun.
I think for me, it was probably my I mean, I don't hate to say it,
but I wish it were like a purely Porsche event.
But oh, no, I can't.
It's it's like what is it?
A rentsport reunion in a lot of ways, like the feeling that you get there
at festival of speed because they have so much going on.
It's complete overload and it's the variety.
You know, so for me, you get to see Porsches, but you also get to see
all the other stuff that might have been running in period or brand new
things that manufacturers manufacturers often bring out to festival of speed.
I've never been to a revival.
I would love to go to a revival because you see the YouTube videos and
like Adrian Newie will be driving an early short wheelbase 911 s,
you know, sideways racing against other
motorsports celebrities, if you want to call them that.
And it's pretty pretty insane.
So for Dubai, and I see all the time when they do it,
Porsche is heavily supportive.
That's just like a car show.
Yeah, so it's it's just imagine, let's say a good wood or a rentsport,
but it's all I would say it's primarily modern and it's like a huge festival.
I would say it would be a motorsport, a motorsports festival.
Lots of dough.
And yeah, maybe because I've been to Goodwood that I wouldn't, you know,
Goodwood, here's the thing, I was impressed with Goodwood.
I also didn't go when it was the best of weather, but I still enjoyed it.
There is a, you know, a tremendous amount of history there.
All makes and models, as Damon said,
but the infrastructure to get to Goodwood is not good.
Like it's it's little country roads
and it's the event itself is in the middle of nowhere, like an old airport.
And it's you and thousands of people going to the same place.
It's not that organized.
Yeah, but it's it's England.
So is that just maybe don't say it's the charm waiting in line?
It is part of the waiting in line is not in traffic.
So I didn't know the queue, sir.
I didn't wait.
I didn't. It is the queue, right?
I didn't wait super long in line.
I mean, yeah, there was a line, but I felt like when when I went
to the Festival of Speed, it was fairly smooth, considering that you're
on a two lane road and there is a lot of like a one and a half lane road.
I mean, it is well, that's two lane roads for them, one and a half for us.
It is tight. You know, that's what I mean.
It's a little bit different in that sense, you know, I mean,
but are you going to find anything as big as here in the U.S. out there?
You know, infrastructure?
What I did like very much about it was similar to how like the Porsche Museum
is set up. You could walk up to anything and everything.
Like there was no boundaries.
You know, cars are flying by.
Like, I guess attorneys aren't as involved.
Like you can truly feel the experience.
I mean, there's barriers, but you get close up close to a lot of stuff.
Hmm.
But yeah, Goodwood definitely is a bucket list.
I feel like it's easier for Porsche
to ship cars to Goodwood or Dubai than it is to the U.S.
It's rare that we get factory museum cars.
I would say I would say it definitely would be easier to get them to Goodwood,
but I don't know that's any easier to get them to Dubai.
I think the reason why they get to Dubai.
Well, they don't have that big pond.
Yeah, but still, I mean, it's not like they're driving it to Dubai.
They still got to put it on a plane.
So once it's on a plane, you know, stays in the air a little bit longer.
But I think it goes to Dubai because guess what?
Big dollar buyers are sure you want to buy, right?
So it's like you can you can sell pretty much anything in Dubai.
That's why they're not having rents for that Walmart parking lot.
In fact, it's been shared that they're trying to pull off
the largest collection of career GTs in 2026 in Dubai.
And that would make sense.
I mean, there's probably a lot of career GTs in Dubai
and the people that have career GTs probably would be willing to ship them
to have an incredible experience at Dubai.
Wasn't it remember for rent sport, wasn't it the original intent
that there was going to be a lot of Porsche, Dubai setup theme?
And I think once the once budgets kind of came in,
it was for sure Dubai cost revealed themselves.
They pulled it all back.
They went back to the Walmart.
Yeah. Yeah.
But anyways, so that's that's something maybe to put on your radar.
If you have a lot of travel points,
I think traveling to Dubai is quite the long air air flight, right?
Probably 20 some hours to get there.
Yeah, now I have I have kind of put this
like little little idea into Luan's head
because my cousins, when they fly back and forth from Vietnam,
they actually go through Dubai.
So if I can get to Dubai and then just be like, oh, well, we're already here.
We can do Vietnam as well.
Like that would be kind of cool.
Then I have two bucket list items in one trip.
So I'm trying to angle.
I'm trying to work it.
So, you know, something I saw on the
the list of 2026 events is if you and if you're on YouTube,
you can see this PCA Kuwait Festival.
So we got something going on in Kuwait or is that Porsche Club of Africa?
That's I. Oh, wow.
I didn't see that.
Well, it's obviously not us, but it's another Porsche Club now.
Yeah, no, I first made me look there for a second.
I don't think they have a Porsche Club Africa though.
Well, that's the continent.
So yeah, it'd be it'd be a country.
But they there's a lot of, you know, you hear of Porsche parades,
the various Porsche parades from in.
Yeah, I think there might be one less even works for unions in there.
Trefins, you hear in there.
So, yeah.
Let's see, let's talk about.
Oh, so they they gave out some awards
and and one of the big things that
Porsche AG is really focusing on is how to attract younger people.
I think it's no no secret that all car clubs are looking
to attract younger people for the, you know, for the future of your clubs.
You got to get people coming in as people exit out
and they have this new community that they're going to recognize
called Porsche youngsters.
Now, it's not juniors where it's like little kids.
I think they're looking for probably anywhere between 25 to.
Well, I do not think that age 2535 maybe.
So people that Damon, you miss being a young you're not a youngster.
Yeah, but but Baghdad is a youngster.
Baghdad is actually Baghdad would be like their primary target,
like someone that is aspiring to be in a portion, not necessarily
already a portion. If I call anyone a youngster,
I just age myself at another 10 years or whatever age I am.
When you say that, you say youngster.
What happened to young timer and old timer?
That's that's all I was going to get that.
So youngster is very American, I feel like in Europe.
They say old timer and it's not necessarily a negative.
And they say young timer a lot.
We don't say young timer over here.
No, yeah, but yeah, I just don't want to be old timer and oldster oldster.
Yeah, they also gave us an update on.
Did you know that there's a Porsche GT circle?
First of all, some people don't even know what a GT the GT circle is.
You want to share what that is?
I was waiting for you to tell me, you know what the what is the GT circle?
That's it's not the spider circle.
No, that's different.
So the GT circle, obviously you have to have a GT car
and it's not like a cost associated or anything.
And not a GTS.
It's got to be a GT three, GT four, GT two.
And it's I don't I don't think it's a spider either.
I don't.
Well, that's very interesting because at Rensport,
they did let the spiders in.
Really? Yeah, yeah, because I was the guy who was
a spider contacting me about their cars in the.
Does that have to be a spider RS?
Well, back then there was an RS that was just a spider.
They were saying it's the same car as a GT four.
So they're allowing it.
So maybe so interesting.
Maybe someone that's listening, if you're in the Porsche GT circle
and if you were approved with a spider, let us know.
Does it it was established in twenty twenty three.
They actually have a GT circle app about 10,000 members
in 50 countries.
And so, yeah, it's it's I guess you get access
to certain updates and information.
And they have GT circle events.
I've heard of GT circle events happening
at the Porsche Experience Center in the past.
So just one more, you know, it's kind of a golden ticket kind of thing
you get by owning a GT car.
But that's different from the nine 18
spider circle.
That's that's that's that's really the Willy Wonka.
But I thought it ended or it's ending soon.
I think it has ended.
But yeah, that that was pretty cool.
But you have a nine twenty eight GT.
Man, that that also is a or nine oh four
Carrera GTS going to say no to one of those guys too early.
It doesn't count, though.
Yeah, I think it really has to do something
that's originated out of Wysock.
I've got a feeling it's like GT cars starting with the GT three
or maybe the nine and three GT two for going to be like nine
of an R is included.
The C is included.
Oh, it is. So it's not just GT cars.
It's almost a car that Andy Pruninger has blessed.
Yeah. OK, so you're talking about newer ones.
Newer ones. Yeah.
But you bet the the the old school GT cars,
which are all are equally, if not more valuable,
probably want to be in that circle, too.
Yeah. At what point do you turn down a 74 RS owner?
Correct.
But is that really a GT car?
Oh, man, I wouldn't be the one to have to explain
the people that it's not.
All right. Here's another bit of trivia.
How many Porsche clubs are there worldwide?
Damon, we're one of them.
I'm going to say so in our regions,
I'm guessing is all just part of PCA.
Yeah. So even though we have one hundred and forty nine regions,
we're just one. OK, so I'm going to say there are 80.
Oh, is it way more?
Five hundred something.
Three hundred and sixty six Porsche clubs worldwide.
Wow. That's a lot more than I thought.
Yeah.
You'd be surprised how many like alluded to earlier are in Germany.
Yeah. And I always say, you know, right place, right time,
right attitude that PCA was able to corral
what would have become all separate clubs in the US and Canada
to be all part of one big club.
Because if not, we would have fallen to the same thing Germany has,
where you have all these different small clubs.
And that's really why Porsche clubs worldwide exists,
is to help provide resources to these clubs,
which are essentially the size of some of our regions.
And so, yeah, they look at us
about they meaning the other clubs of management.
They look at PCA and amazement,
especially when they find out is run by volunteers.
How much I remember when I was president
and somebody said, how can you run a club
with a hundred and some members, thousand members?
And I was like, well, I don't run it by myself.
I said there's I showed them.
I almost did it like in a government type of thing,
you know, federal government, local government, you know,
we have all these volunteers that make it possible.
Yeah, when you when you talk to these other clubs,
they are just amazed by what our volunteers are able to achieve.
And, you know, volunteerism is very different
in the rest of the world.
I a lot of these clubs, the members have money
and, you know, want to be a part of the club.
But when it comes to actually running the events
and the administrative side of the club,
it's actually Porsche that conducts the events
and manages that on a day to day basis.
They don't have their own, you know,
Porsche Club like we do in terms of staff
as well as volunteers.
So it's very different.
And they're they, you know, their eyes kind of,
you know, get really big when they hear when we have events
that, you know, our open house will pull 600 people
on almost 300 cars.
I was going to say the same amount of cars
that they pulled for their recent event.
Exactly. Exactly.
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All right, so let's get into SEMA,
the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association
convention, which takes over
the Las Vegas Convention Center
the beginning of November.
This is an industry event,
meaning for the first two days,
it is purely open to those that are employed
and are open businesses.
So it's a B2B meeting.
It's not until the last couple of years
do they open it up to the public, which is on Friday
and to be honest with you, if you're there for business,
you know, being there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
is when you wanna be there for business.
That's for open up.
You've been there earlier than that.
Oh, yeah.
The vendor because you're setting up.
Exactly, exactly.
And then Friday is just honestly just mayhem
because the general public comes
and it's a car industry event.
Everything automotive aftermarket from,
you know, when we started going
probably 14, 15 years ago,
it was a lot of motor sports and sports cars
and hot rods and such.
They had truck stuff, but now I would say it's probably,
gosh, I would say maybe even half of it
is truck and overlanding
since it's been so incredibly popular.
But yeah, it's a great place to go to see,
especially for PCA, many of our partners and sponsors.
And we run into members that own businesses there
and are advertisers for, you know, Panorama,
the podcast, they're all there.
But it's also a great place to see current trends
and certain things that are coming down the road.
And it never ceases to amaze me.
You know, there's certain cars that are the theme.
You know, when Cybertrucks came out,
they were a theme, a lot of booths had Cybertrucks.
When the Supra came out, you know,
Supras were in a lot of booths.
But you can count on every year at SEMA
that there will be a nice collection of Porsches in the booths.
Like they're just, they still draw a crowd.
And this year was no different.
In fact, you know, the Porsches that are at SEMA
are typically highly modified.
And this is where we got the idea for creating Unstock
because at the time, all these fantastically modified
Porsches were built for SEMA.
But then after SEMA, you know,
one, the general public didn't get to see them.
And they all kind of went back to wherever they were birthed
and they were not really to be seen by any other group.
So the idea was that we would invite,
and we've done the same thing this time,
is to invite some of these cars to come out
to Unstock just two weeks later.
That way it gives them time to kind of recover
from SEMA, but then also a lot of these cars reside
in the West Coast.
So it's pretty easy for them to get to Unstock.
And that way our members can see it
and we can get it on social media and such.
I got a lot of questions on what was the vibe
of SEMA this year?
You know, was it lightly attended?
Was it, you know, lack of international partners
because of tariffs and stuff like that?
It was a full house.
It was a full house from day one.
You definitely saw the larger manufacturers pulling back
on the size of their footprint, but they were all there.
They were all there.
And so when these manufacturers, you know,
have a smaller footprint, it enables other groups
to get on the show floor, so to speak.
And it's very hierarchical at SEMA.
Like you get best spot because you go every year,
you invest and it's not cheap.
So some of these smaller organizations were able
to get on the main dance floor.
So it was still very full.
There's been tons of renovations
at the Las Vegas Convention Center,
you know, bright lights, open air.
There's also this Tesla tunnel
that goes from one end of the Convention Center
to the other and you just basically line up
and they have a bunch of Model 3s
and whatever Tesla's that go,
that can, you know, it's like a little tunnel taxi service
that you can go back and forth and it's pretty cool.
So have they improved the ride
and all that stuff of the tunnel?
Because I remember it being pretty not great.
Some people could get kind of nauseous.
I didn't ride this time,
but I saw people going back and forth.
There's also a rail system that drops off
at the Convention Center
and you can take the rail back to that main,
main strip.
I always thought the Tesla tunnel
would be the ultimate trunk driving test.
Because it seemed like there was like very little room
for error, I guess first of all,
for people listening,
you're not driving it yourself.
We have other people driving these.
You just hop into the passenger seats
and they will drive you from one end to the other,
which I think we took it because it took us
from one part of the Convention Center
all the way to the other.
Yeah, from like the South Hall up to the West Hall.
Yeah, it's free.
Kind of like a Metro,
but you just get in line and get driven underground.
Yeah, I remember when we first went
and this reflects sort of the industry,
like one hall was pretty much car audio, right?
Like car audio and entertainment and stuff like that.
Now the whole car audio section is probably
a third of one hall.
Yeah, that's pretty sad.
I mean, cars today have incredible sound systems
that satisfy probably 99% of the public
and there's no reason to modify it,
but there is a very niche market for some crazy stuff.
But I would think that cars still age
and even these cars just need electronics and everything.
They get old, I mean, Porsches, for example,
you know, the PCM gets old
and you wanna be able to upgrade it
and sometimes Porsche just doesn't,
they only go to a certain model
and so aftermarket then becomes a viable alternative.
That's interesting because I would think,
I think about that, I think about like,
there's both systems out there that are 25 years old
and you know, these speakers get old
and they start to crack and they don't sound the same.
So while this new, this boxer may be new to you,
that system may be sitting out in the sun
just aging itself and suddenly crap
so you wanna be able to upgrade.
And there's, so it's, I wanna say the fittest survived
because the companies out there
and the systems that are available, they're incredible.
Like the amplifiers that used to be two feet long
and you know, say a thousand watts,
like that same thousand watts is now in your hand,
in the palm of your hand, it's much more efficient.
Is it something that you need a pro shop now
to install it or?
I, yeah, I definitely a pro shop,
especially with the new cars.
I don't think like the old days
where you had a positive and negative
and you just hooked up to speakers
and you were good to go.
Exactly, you can, you know,
newer systems have fiber optics,
do you have all these sensors in the car?
Anytime you, you know, some people are very aware
of even taking off the negative cable
on your battery and causing some kind of spark
and some kind of shortage.
Computers and the systems that are in newer cars now
are so incredibly sensitive.
Yes, I would say if you're upgrading a newer car,
take it to a professional and yeah,
don't run the risk of frying a computer board.
Yeah, totally not worth it.
Maybe I'm reading this a little bit wrong,
but I feel like the,
and I'm gonna focus a little bit better here,
but maybe car audio was the big tech back, you know,
10, 20, 30 years ago.
And I used to be,
I wasn't obsessed with car audio,
but like, you know, I bought a set of speakers
for the Corrado and was looking into subwoofers
for other cars.
But I don't know,
you just don't hear about car audio,
what you do hear about touch screens or like,
you know, Rob, you know, putting in Rob's ass,
putting in an aftermarket, you know,
what was it, car play, basically into a really old car
and it just sits on top of the dashboard
and all these little knickknacks
that have almost nothing to do with car audio.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
So it's-
I didn't even call it car audio anymore,
I'm sure it's probably-
Yeah, it's in car-
But the game's point,
that is a misnomer, it's not just audio,
it's a full integration,
but there's gotta be a market for it.
You know what's also missing,
that we used to have all the time?
What did we used to have all the time?
Red or Texas?
Well, yeah, that's also smaller.
That's down to like three major manufacturers.
Yeah, I could say CB Radio, are you?
No, alarms.
Remember how everybody and their brother
had an alarm on their car?
Yeah, and it was like after,
it didn't come stock or something and yeah.
There's, I mean, there's a few,
but it's just not like it used to be.
Or like in a mobilizer,
I forget if I'm pretty sure.
Well, he doesn't own this car anymore,
but my uncle's old Aris America,
for example, you know,
there was like some button he had installed
underneath the leather shift boot leather
and you push the button with,
you would never see it,
you would never know if you don't know.
Yeah, it's a relay to disconnect the ignition system.
It's like, we used to do all that stuff,
but now-
I just remembered that movie from the,
I guess, 80s or 90s with Charlie Sheen.
Oh yeah.
It's still porcious.
Yeah.
This advertisement for Ungo Box was,
he looks in it and he tells the other guy,
he goes, this got an Ungo Box,
so I'll mess with it.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a name for the box.
What a rolling advertisement for Ungo Box.
Yeah, so none of that.
What you do see though,
that is proliferated,
especially three quarters of the hall,
is paint protection film.
Oh my gosh, there's so much paint protection film
as a new car audio.
Yeah.
Well, so there's vinyl wrap,
let me actually be more specific.
There's tons of vinyl wrap
from all sorts of companies in all different colors,
but then last year it was like PPF in color.
And then PPF came,
which was clear paint protection film,
but then color PPF was like the big thing last year.
So you could get black.
Because everyone knew that wraps
weren't really paint protection film.
Right.
They're like three mil stick
whereas paint protection is like eight mil stick.
And now the latest thing is a new printable PPF.
And this is actually one of our PCA members, Tanvir.
You remember Tanvir?
He brought the Career GT to work.
This is his company.
And this Carlos,
Carlos is the name of the company.
They, you can print on this PPF.
And Damien, if you show the picture of the mirror there,
so that mirror with the lady's face there,
that wasn't a ball.
Like they were done with that.
And I basically unraveled the ball
and put it on the mirror
and it laid down perfectly with no water, no any,
the tack was perfect.
I could stretch it, but not disfigure her face.
And you can basically wrap a compound surface
so incredibly, I don't say easy,
but back in the day, it would be almost impossible to do.
Now you can wrap it.
And I have a video that we'll probably put
on social media later.
So that's really cool.
But that's not the latest cool tech,
although that is cool.
And that'll probably work really well
for the commercial trucks that need to get wrapped
in cars that want some crazy design.
About three years ago,
I was at the Porsche Classic Center in Germany
and they showed me this 928 in silver.
And they said, take a look at the front end of this 928
and let us tell you, tell us what you think of this finish.
It looks pretty good, whatever classic silver it was.
They're like, touch it.
And I like, I touched it and it was like,
it wasn't like, you know how like metal
has like that sharp kind of coldness to it?
Like this one felt like it was vinyl.
And it turns out it was some sort of spray PPS.
They put it on like paint, but it's removable.
Or I'm like, wow, that's incredible
because with spray, guess what you don't have to do?
Now all you have to do is mask.
There's no blades, you know,
because so many people get their cars wrapped
and let's face it, you're trusting the installer
to put a blade and cut the PPF, but not.
By the time you take it off, the installer is long gone.
Exactly, exactly, right?
So just think of being able to put PPF on your car
and compound circles or compound shapes are no problem now
because you don't have to wrap a flat piece of film.
And when you say sprayed,
this is in a professional spray booth.
Yes.
Now, some people say, well, what about plastic dip?
I see them do that.
Okay, that's like a very consumer grade application.
And for those of you that have tried to plastic dip
your badges or wheels,
like you know how much of a mess that can be.
Now I don't know about modern plastic dip paints,
but think of that, but on steroids.
So now there's this company called Peel Clear.
I think you have a photo of that, Damon, Peel Clear.
Yep, okay, so you see that wall of paint there, Manny?
And you see that turbo S there?
So that purple is painted on PPF.
That car was taped.
No panels were taken off that car.
They taped all the edges and it's like a four part system
where you paint a base with like a body shop
grade paint gun and you spray the base
and then you choose any color.
Look at the depth of color in that chroma flare paint.
And then once it's done, you can actually,
you can see how that has been wet sanded at the top
and then it can be polished like regular paint.
And it goes, that car had some sections of it
where they chose to make it thicker up to 11 mils.
Like super thick.
So how long did it say it can stay on there for,
did it say?
I mean, 10 years easily.
And you basically do a color change on your car.
Not a single knife has been touched to it.
You can simply tape it off and body shops will do it
in a dust free environment.
And is the labor to put it in equal
or more than a traditional wrap?
So, I can say the materials costs on it
is gonna be cheaper than vinyl wrap.
The labor is very similar to what a body shop does today
in terms of back taping a door and windows
and stuff like that.
I would say the labor's probably...
But they don't have to sand the original paint or anything.
Nope.
They just clean it and...
Yup.
Unless there's a defect in...
Basically they treat it like a regular wrap.
Regular wrap you would get the paint ready
but you're not sanding or anything
getting the paint to stick to it.
Wow.
How crazy is that?
I think that's gonna be a game changer.
Like you can do a clear if you want,
but for those of you that wanna do a color change,
you can do it and I'll put a video later
on social media Bogswell.
So they let me peel off certain sections of it
and it came off clean, came off one piece.
It was quite a neat engineering feat.
So I think you're gonna start seeing that in the future.
So let's go to this cool car
and let me see if Manny knows what this is.
This old rusty car.
It's German.
And it's lowered and actually when I was there,
Richard Rawlings offered the guy that he would buy it
and the guy wouldn't sell it
cause he literally just got it working and running.
It's on air ride.
It's got a...
Obviously it's front engine.
It was front engine.
It was, okay.
It was front engine but now it's got a Type 4 motor
in the back.
Oh, you see a little clue?
I see it.
I just see it from there.
What did he do?
Too late, too late.
Show him the clue, show him the clue.
And this car is from 1960.
Oh, wow.
No, I would have never guessed that.
Is it Audi 80 or?
No, it's an auto union.
Auto union.
Wow.
I was gonna say Audi, but wow, auto union, huh?
Auto union.
How cool is that?
I don't think I've ever seen one before
and he said it was pretty rare.
Was that real patina or is that...
That's real patina.
Yeah, real patina.
There's it, there's it.
Wow, I've never seen that.
Auto union.
Never really guessed that.
That's what Richard Rawlings was like.
I've been around cars for a long time
and I've never seen one this car
but how rad...
I would just love to be able to walk around a show
like that randomly and be able to make offers on cars.
Oh yeah, because he walked up to the guy,
he's like, all right, how much?
And the guy was like, it's not for sale.
And he goes, no, no, how much?
He's like, oh, it's not for sale.
So he said, here's my car
and let me know when there's a price tag on it.
I'm like, whoa.
Wow, yeah.
Because auto union, I usually think the V16.
Yeah, the Grand Prix car.
Grand Prix car
and then I think there was the top speed car
or something that they used.
They had body work, so anyway.
All right, so can you look up the green car
from the Toyo Tread Pass?
There you go, that one.
Yep.
Oops.
So it's actually all...
Not me, I'm the wrong person.
It's actually Olive.
Now this car was featured,
there's a, it's called the Toyo Tread Pass
that connects one of the halls to,
I think it's a central hall to the south hall
and Toyo has their curated collection of cars,
obviously very modified.
But this one is, this one was,
one, it was a PCA member, Philip.
And Philip owns and Decent out of Houston.
We recently dropped a social media post on it, 991.
And the wide body kit on this car is incredible.
Very tastefully done, a very custom olive color.
But the story behind this car is the owner
wanted the car to be themed after his Nikes
and his Nike green dragons.
So the interior bits that you see matches the shoe.
The lining of the shoe is hand painted
on the roof of the car.
The shoe is called green lobsters or something?
Yeah, green lobsters.
So the wheels are inspired by lobster claws
with carbon barrels.
Very nice wide body kits.
It's got a supercharged 550 horsepower motor,
methanol injection, custom carbon seats.
The suspension was done by Isenor.
Isenor, Isenlor, Isenlor.
And so it's not simply big wheels with spacers.
I mean, it was tastefully done.
Some exposed carbon fiber.
And more importantly, the starting price
for this car is actually quite reasonable.
Of course, you have to start with a donor car,
but you can have a wide body kit installed similar to this.
Not as many options, but starting about $135,000.
Oh wow, just in my ballpark.
Just in my ballpark.
I mean, for a bespoke car, like, you know, that's not.
Yeah, yeah.
That's not crazy.
Yeah, you could spend a lot more money
on something like that.
It's got unique details.
What do you think of RWB cars?
And RWB, I think the kit is probably about 150 or so.
Yeah, yeah.
But I would say the execution on this car.
Some people, you know,
they don't mind getting their fenders cut and, you know,
put on.
But 991, I think, to begin with, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So anyways, SEMA was very productive for us.
We saw tons of partners and members.
And if you ever get a chance to go,
even if you're not in the industry on Fridays,
they do open up to the public
and you can get tickets to it.
And they're doing all of the social media influencers
in the automotive world are there
and you'll see them, you know,
at various places doing seminars,
they're doing burnouts and yeah.
So pretty cool, pretty cool if you can do it.
And it's actually quite inexpensive
because there's so many hotel rooms in Las Vegas
and flights to Las Vegas are fairly cheap.
So yeah, put it on your list to do in the future.
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And let's get into the news.
Maybe the first one is the most recently added news item
and it's talking about a Porsche win.
Yes, so Monty won the LM GT3 championship
for the WEC, congratulations to Monty.
Unfortunately, the Penske boys couldn't say the same thing
with the 963, their final hurrah
since they're leaving WEC was not memorable at all.
Very sad in my opinion.
I would love to in a perfect world see him come back
and go for a Le Mans win with this car
but for now it's not happening.
Yeah, and that ties in with the first one you listed, right?
The proton unlikely to continue.
Yeah, they haven't formally announced at least not yet
but it's highly unlikely that they will also
continue racing as a privateer with the 963 at WEC.
Maybe they'll take it over to IMSA where they can run it
and be competitive but for now, yeah, we're not gonna see.
It'll be kind of sad to watch these big races
and not see Porsche going for it overall, yeah.
Maybe let's end Porsche news on a good note
and talk about their JD Power study rankings.
So Porsche is very, very cognizant about JD powers.
I think they live and breathe by it and how they do.
Same thing goes for Toyota and Lexus
but this time they were rated as the top premium brand
that was just released on Thursday.
The third consecutive year, they ranked number one.
So this has a lot to do with how the dealer treats you
in the first few years of your ownership.
So that's why dealers will say you're gonna get a survey
and if you don't give us anything but fives,
please let us know before you submit the survey
what we can do to get those top ratings
because they don't want any kind of blemish,
anything to hurt them with these state JD power surveys.
So congratulations to Porsche.
Well done, well done.
All right, let's talk about upcoming Porsche or PCA events.
By the time you hear this,
we will have wrapped up Unstock at Porsche Santa Clarita
which is looking to be almost as sold out,
not almost, but pretty much sold out.
Right now we're a little oversold
but we always have cancellations so we'll be fine.
But I would say probably the best set of cars I've seen
at least from the photos.
Awesome.
It's kind of like online dating.
I'm not sure what's gonna show up,
but at least what's the register?
The initial photos look promising.
The photos look really cool.
I'm really excited to see some of these cars.
And it was cool to hear a lot of folks
at SEMA know about Unstock.
Yeah, and it's interesting
because I get a lot of people saying
when is the East Coast Unstock gonna happen?
As if they wanna show to West Coast folks
that they can do just as good as that in modified cars.
But I thought this year's crop of cars that are coming.
I'm like, ooh, is there really up in the game up here?
And for those of you that aren't coming,
don't worry, we have both Damon and Boggs
going to Unstock so we're gonna cover it
and make sure you get to see everything.
As long as our flights aren't canceled.
Oh man, knock on wood, knock on wood.
All right, we also are planning
for Tech Tactics East and East in Pennsylvania.
We don't have dates yet,
but we will be moving forward with that.
Correct.
And then Works Reunion Amelia Island.
Make sure to have that on your calendar.
That will be March 6th and registration
for Amelia Island registration opens December 10th.
Damon, you wanna talk a little bit
about the Carrier 3.0 Buyer's Guide?
Yes, definitely.
So the Carrier 3.0, Carrier 3.0 Buyer's Guide.
This is a car that most Americans
probably aren't super familiar with
because it was only sold in Europe.
It's also mistaken is by a lot of people
is a 911 SC prototype or the precursor
or it's just another 911 SC.
That's probably how I knew the car
when it was sort of in that gray area.
And I never really researched to figure it out
what it actually was.
Well, it's not a 911 SC.
The engine is more related to the 73 Carrera RS 2.7s.
And this video, and these cars are now
older than 25 years old.
So it's one of those things where
if you want something that's maybe
a little bit more under the radar
isn't gonna break the bank like an RS 2.7
but is maybe a little more special
than a 911 SC or a 911 Carrera 3.2 liter.
A Carrera 3.0 is one of those cars.
I didn't drive one, Nathan did.
I rode passenger and I can say that the engine does have,
he talks about the special sauce a lot in this video.
But I'll be, by the time you watch this podcast
it'll be on YouTube, it's an hour
and I've gotta make the last couple of edits
but it's gonna be a little bit over
an hour and 20 minutes, I think an hour and 22.
So it goes through everything,
well I shouldn't say everything
because there's always something else.
Almost everything you could possibly want to know
about these cars.
It sounds like it may be the definitive guide
for the Carrera 3.0.
Definitive guide for the Carrera 3.0.
Because there's not a whole lot out there.
Yeah, this is one of those things where
Nathan has picked over the years popular cars,
cars that have already received a lot of attention,
maybe not received an in-depth model guide,
like he's known for doing now.
But this Carrera 3.0 I think represents
the first really niche sort of model guide that he's done.
You could argue the GT3 guide was sort of like that
but everybody knows the GT3.
What's a 3.0 like the price range of a 3.0?
You know what's funny is,
I don't know, we didn't really quite talk about that
and I haven't researched prices.
I think he didn't talk about it
because it's supposed to be an evergreen sort of guide
so we didn't name any prices.
So it doesn't date us since 2025.
What do you think 3.0's are?
Well, let's look at Bring a Trailer.
All right, my Gucci guy.
And I really have no idea.
I haven't looked once at the prices.
I've just been editing the video.
I'm thinking a Carrera 3.0 now is probably 90 to 150.
I'm gonna guess that it's in the,
yeah, I'm gonna say 80 to 110.
And let's see what a many brands have said.
77, this is AI, which is never wrong.
77.3.0 brought in 90,000.
90, yeah.
Yeah, interesting.
Look at that.
It kind of reminds me of the 74 Euro Carrera.
Oh yeah.
It's a lot like that.
It's a lot like that.
They had the 2.7 RS engine to your point.
Not many people understood it
because they thought it was like the American version.
That was a 2.7 but not RS.
And so people kind of dismissed it
but those in the know knew.
And so finally those two worlds collided
and suddenly people were like, oh, wait a minute,
this is the car to get as a European version.
Yeah, that's a secret out now.
And it's only 1976, 1977.
And unlike the earlier Carrera RS's,
it doesn't use MFI.
Gosh, why am I, tell me what MFI stands for.
I'm drawing up mechanical fuel injection.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it's talking about there.
This one is CIS.
Which is technically mechanical too,
but that's mechanical we know.
So you get probably 80% of the awesomeness
of an MFI RS motor,
but it just doesn't have quite that edge.
And that was part of the reason why people
just immediately confused it with the SC
because the SC is also CIS.
If you look on the Vintag, it says 911SC on it.
Does it really?
Yeah, it does on your trunk.
So you look in there, it says 911SC.
I remember the unique Carrera 3.0 script
that was on it, but yeah, it sounds like a...
A lot of misconceptions and confusion around this model.
So hopefully we set it straight.
All right, we'll check it out.
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Manny Damon, anything else to cover
before we head on out?
I know it'll be, by the time you hear this,
it'll be, we would have already recorded it,
but check out Tech Tactics Live.
It will be, this week's gonna be with Tim McNair.
Oh yeah.
Who is a world-renowned detailer,
prepares cars for the highest of concours
like Pebble Beach, but super nice guy
and so willing to share his knowledge.
There's gonna be a lot of tips.
We're gonna have him on the podcast
to talk about how he got into,
turned a hobby into a profession.
But on Tech Tactics, he's gonna show us
some new tricks, some new product he's bringing down.
And like I said, he does it for like everyday people
who wanna just clean their cars,
not just how to prepare your car for Pebble Beach.
The best thing about Tim is he details cars
while wearing a Brooks Brothers button-up shirt.
He does a fantastic job.
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About this episode
Exploring the global Porsche community, this episode dives into the recent Porsche Clubs Worldwide town hall meeting and highlights from the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Host Vu Gwin and the crew discuss membership statistics, unique club events, and innovative projects like the FAT Ice Race. They also share insights on the latest trends in car modifications seen at SEMA, including impressive PPF technologies and custom builds. With engaging anecdotes and expert advice, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the vibrant world of Porsche enthusiasts.
Original notes
On this episode, Vu details his recent trip the SEMA show. We hear about some of the Porsches that were featured, what’s hot in relation to Porsche and how the overall vibe was this year at the industry’s most important show. We also talk about the recent virtual meeting held by Porsche Clubs Worldwide. You get an inside look at what other Porsche Clubs are doing around the world. Of course, we have the latest Porsche news and updates on PCA videos and events.
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