Woolery Navigator's Award

Wiggie and Mike Woolery present the Bill Woolery Memorial Trophy to 1962 winner Curt Skou.

The Porsche Parade award for the Navigator with the lowest total score is still known today as the Woolery Award. It was given to PCA by Mrs. Wiggie Woolery in honor of her late husband Bill Woolery. They were charter members of Nord Stern and quite active in the Club at both local and national levels.

Article from the January 1963 Panorama

We would really like to find the Woolery Trophy. Any leads would be appreicated.

LeMans Winners at 1976 Brainerd Parade

Manfred Jantke, 917 owner Gerry Sutterfield, LeMans winning driver Jackie Ickx

Porsche sent the LeMans winning 936 and it's driver Jackie Ickx to the 1976 Porsche Parade at Brainerd. The headquarters was at Madden's and the Concours held on the golf course there. The autocross was at BIR.

Basically about 15 people made this remarkable event happen. Nord Stern had less than 100 members at the time. An amazing accomplishment!

Leonard Turner To Do Presentation For Nord Stern

Just confirmed. Leonard Turner, the extraordinary photographer for Panorama will do a very special presentation for Nord Stern the afternoon before the 50th dinner. (Saturday January 17th at Interlachen. Sign up today by clicking here.) Leonard will share with us his travels attending Porsche new car introductions all over the world. His presentation will include his fabulous photographs of very special cars in very special places and the stories that go with them. Betty Jo will be there as well. Maybe another special guest as well.

There is no sign up for this presentation. Just show up at Interlachen at 2:00.

Be sure you sign up for the dinner. We will have to cut off sign-ups on Wednesday of next week to make the food deadline. If you go to the presentation and meet these people, you will be very sorry you didn't sign up for the dinner. It is without a doubt going to be a very memorable event.

Email if you have questions: rsamerica93@comcast.net

Not sure what to make of this...

Peter Kitchak sent me some great photos this evening. You'll see a few more at the party. One of the subjects I had specifically asked him about was ice racing. Here he is in 1974 racing his 911 on the ice. I think it is fair to say that the wing is up in the "clean air." It would be worth buying Peter a glass of wine to hear this story...

First Club Race Trophy

This was the trophy for winning the first Club Race. The photo fails to show the really cool ear flaps. These were the trophies until 1998. How truly Minnesotan!

Cool Cars Abound!

The aluminum body 910 on display at a Nord Stern car show at Carousel.

Jack Zimmer, then owner of Carousel Porsche+Audi, took note of the 910 at the SCCA Run-offs at Road Atlanta one year. That winter he located one in Canada and purchased it FOB Detroit. The seller just threw it in the back of a truck without properly securing it. On the trip to Detroit, the car bounced around and the lightweight 910 body was destroyed. He then had California aluminum race car body builder Troutman-Barnes built a custom body for the car and it was converted in a "street" car. The car was on display for many years at Carousel until Tom Countryman bought it and put a 910 body on it. He sold it to a Japanese collector.

Fallon Interviews Ferry Porsche

Photo from Fred Senn, Fallon Minneapolis. Ferry Porsche was 80 years old in 1989 when this was taken at his home in Austria.

Received from Fred Senn, Fallon Founding Partner and active Nord Stern member:

Who would imagine that Porsche's advertising would be created in Minnesota?

The strength of Nord Stern, and the creative reputation of Minnesota's advertising community combined to accomplish that feat twice. In the fall of 1987 Fallon won the Porsche national advertising account. The agency celebrated the win by placing a mint condition 1963 356 in their new offices on the 31st floor at 9th and Marquette in downtown Minneapolis. Nord Stern was involved from the very beginning, helping the local agency come up to speed.

Nord Stern hosted two PCNA marketing executives at a BIR Fast Fling to give them a firsthand taste of club activities. One of those clients, Hartmut Kristin, went on to become worldwide head of Porsche Motorsport. The agency did award winning work for Porsche, and the team was invited by Ferry Porsche himself to a film interview in his Stuttgart home. Those interviews became classic long form commercials and auto show videos for years to come.With a change in top management at PCNA, the account then moved to a San Francisco agency. But not for long. In 1999 Carmichael Lynch parlayed their experience with Harley Davidson motorcycles and brought the Porsche account back to Minnesota.

Roger's comments: I remember visiting with Hartmut Kristin and Fred at BIR. The conversation revolved around bringing the 964 Carrera RS to this country. A couple of years later we had the RS America which wasn't exactly what we were asking for and sales languished. The conversation was right on the money, however, as today we have the GT3 and GT3-RS which sell very well for Porsche and are very popular in PCA.

You can tell when speaking to Fred about his two days at Ferry Porsche's home in Austria with then-retired octogenarian the that project was one of the highlights of his stellar advertising career.

It was a phone call from Fred to Carmichael-Lynch the fall of 2002 that sparked our current relationship.

Met Stadium Autocross

Jim Harris readies his 356 Cab for a run at an autocross at Met Stadium
May 1971. Photo from the Skoglund Collection.

For many years the competitive driving season for Nord Stern kicked off with an autocross at Met Stadium. Early SCCA races were held there as well. For you youngsters out there, the Stadium in the background is where the Mall of America is now, roughly Nordstroms's, and the car is where Ikea is today. Jim Harris was Nord Stern President the year this photo was taken, 1971. He will be at the Winter Party so be sure to say "hello" and ask him about autocrossing at Met Stadium.