PCA Renewal, Worth it or not? Options

[EdwardBlume]

Every time my PCA membership comes up, I debate staying in it. I do nothing with the local clubs, appreciate Pete Stout in the monthly mag and some articles. Don't relate much with the modern factory cars, and can pretty much find parts and look at cars on free sites.

What do you think?

[mepstein]

what's a pca (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
I've owned my car for 31 years and I've never heard from Porsche. Why would I send them money?

[Tom_T]

what's a pca (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
I've owned my car for 31 years and I've never heard from Porsche. Why would I send them money?

It's nothing to do with Porsche AG or NA - so you're not sending money to them, but to a club of Porsche owners.

As others have said, for the price of membership, the national Panorama magazine & your local Zone 7 or Region magazine are worth it.

In addition to the Parade, club, zone & region (local chapter) events noted above, and the 10-20% dealer parts discounts which they offer from time to time (some dealerships will all year long) - & Porsche is coming out with some repop factory 914 stuff like the 901 5-speed shift knobs - there are also special bennies to members.

One I like is the club corral at the Coronado Speedfest historic races down in the San Diego area held on the North Island USNAS airfield, where club members get to park in the c lub corrals just behind/next to the grandstands & the SD Region hosts a great hospitality tent with food & drinks! Similarly at the Calif. Festival of Speed at the Ontario Speedway (AutoClub SW now).

We also had a private-club-only tour in conjunction with the 356 Club to the private Malmut Auto Museum last spring, as well as to the Peterson & others in past years.

We also have several breakfast & dinner get togethers & driving tours or gimmick rallies with the club every month too, the AX & concours at the regions around the zone, DE day & club racing at the Willow Springs & Buttonwillow tracks (fun to just observe & my son loved watching AX when home on leave last July), & other stuff.

I'm sure there are similar things up there in the Bay Area Rob, so it's up to you how much or how little you do.

IMHO personally think it would be cool to enter "Dad's 914" in a few concours - even if just Wash-&-Shine level - just as a tribute to him & your work restoring his car! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)

Email me if you want to do a little inter-zone CW too - or look online at the Zone 8 Events under Concours - cuz we do our OC one on the bluffs above Dana Point harbor/beach, & LA is doing theirs now at the Santa Monica Air Museum.

My 2 cents! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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