Sunday, January 10, 2010
New booklet highlights 50th Year
Gordon Maltby has just put the finishing touches on a new booklet that features the highlights of Nord Stern's 50th year. When you read through this booklet, you will marvel at what a year it was. The booklet will be available at the Winter Party at Carousel on January 23rd. Your copy will be signed by David Murry who is featured in the booklet for his part in our history. The pilot of PCA Club Racing Coaching was at our Club Race and will now be rolled out in 2010 starting at Sebring next month.
Winter Party Silent Auction Items
We will have 4 or 5 great silent auction items benefitting Courage Center at the January 23 Winter Party at Carousel Porsche. Here is what is planned:
Book: 917X17 by Jeff Zwart signed by featured driver Vic Elford
Sponsor: TBD
Sells for $150 without the autograph. Jeff Zwart set up a studio at Porsche Rennsport Reunion III and created these fabulous photographs of these fabulous cars as well as interviewing their drivers. Certainly a piece of Porsche history as who knows if anything like this will be assembled again.
Book: Ferry Porsche 100 years by the Porsche Museum
Sponsor: TBD
Value: None are for sale currently - $50? $100? Hey, it is for the Courage kids!
This book was put together by the Porsche Museum as part of the commemoration of Ferry Porsche's 100th birthday. It took me 6 months to get it and it is already out of print. It contains all the great Ferry Porsche photos that are so famous as well as many other great shots you have not seen before. Complete record of the great man's life. Small in size at 5 x 8 and about 150 pages, high in content.
Breakfast for 4 with former Porsche Factory Driver David Murry
Sunday morning January 24th at Hell's Kitchen in downtown Minneapolis 8 am - 9:30 am
Sponsor: Roger Johnson
Value: $1500
Here is a great opportunity to get your racing and driving questions answered by someone who has been there. David has raced professionally for close to 30 years in everything from Formula Fords to a prototype Porsche at LeMans to NASCAR. He has championships driving some great Porsches like the 968 and the GT2 turbo (one of my favorite Porsche race cars). He currently is driving the Robertson Ford GT in the ALMS and recently put car on the pole at the latest Petit Le Mans against huge competition from Flying Lizards, Corvette, Rahal BMW, and Risi Ferrari. Guaranteed to be a delightful and memorable time. He will give you his email address so you can ask him the questions you will certainly run out of time to ask at the breakfast. (I didn't ask him to do this but I know he will.)
Porsche GT3 chronograph watch (We didn't get it for this event. Look for it at the Club Race.)
Value: $695
Sponsor: TBD
More to come on this item. They are no longer available from Porsche in the US, but we hope to get one from Germany.
Of course, all proceeds benefit Courage Center and are tax deductible. Bidding at the Winter Party or contact me or Keith Jones if you want us to bid for you.
Book: 917X17 by Jeff Zwart signed by featured driver Vic Elford
Sponsor: TBD
Sells for $150 without the autograph. Jeff Zwart set up a studio at Porsche Rennsport Reunion III and created these fabulous photographs of these fabulous cars as well as interviewing their drivers. Certainly a piece of Porsche history as who knows if anything like this will be assembled again.
Book: Ferry Porsche 100 years by the Porsche Museum
Sponsor: TBD
Value: None are for sale currently - $50? $100? Hey, it is for the Courage kids!
This book was put together by the Porsche Museum as part of the commemoration of Ferry Porsche's 100th birthday. It took me 6 months to get it and it is already out of print. It contains all the great Ferry Porsche photos that are so famous as well as many other great shots you have not seen before. Complete record of the great man's life. Small in size at 5 x 8 and about 150 pages, high in content.
David Murry being interviewed at Road America
last August by Minnesotan Greg Cramer.
Breakfast for 4 with former Porsche Factory Driver David Murry
Sunday morning January 24th at Hell's Kitchen in downtown Minneapolis 8 am - 9:30 am
Sponsor: Roger Johnson
Value: $1500
Here is a great opportunity to get your racing and driving questions answered by someone who has been there. David has raced professionally for close to 30 years in everything from Formula Fords to a prototype Porsche at LeMans to NASCAR. He has championships driving some great Porsches like the 968 and the GT2 turbo (one of my favorite Porsche race cars). He currently is driving the Robertson Ford GT in the ALMS and recently put car on the pole at the latest Petit Le Mans against huge competition from Flying Lizards, Corvette, Rahal BMW, and Risi Ferrari. Guaranteed to be a delightful and memorable time. He will give you his email address so you can ask him the questions you will certainly run out of time to ask at the breakfast. (I didn't ask him to do this but I know he will.)
Porsche GT3 chronograph watch (We didn't get it for this event. Look for it at the Club Race.)
Value: $695
Sponsor: TBD
More to come on this item. They are no longer available from Porsche in the US, but we hope to get one from Germany.
Of course, all proceeds benefit Courage Center and are tax deductible. Bidding at the Winter Party or contact me or Keith Jones if you want us to bid for you.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Drivers Visiting Nord Stern
Nord Stern has had some great (actually some of the greatest) drivers come and speak over the years. Here are a few:
Derek Bell and Bob Johnson
Dave Weisel and Phil Hill
Leighton Reese, Mark Skweres, Vic Elford
Mike Jekot, David Hobbs
Of course, Jackie Ickx, fresh from winning LeMans in 1976 with a 936 came to Brainerd with the winning car.
And as long as we are name dropping, let's not forget Mark Donahue. The pit lane at BIR (then Donnybrooke) looks al little funny without the wall.
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