2025 May Club Meeting
Our monthly club meeting in May focused on member experiences with various Porsche models, this time exploring examples of air-cooled models.
Six club members talked about their experiences owning a variety of these older Porsche models. The models range from the 356 that came out in the 1950s to the 993 version of the 911 from the 1990s.
For each car, club VP John Beidler asked the owner a variety of questions, such as “Why did you pick this car?”, “How long have you owned it?”, and “How often and far have you driven it?”. As you might expect, answers varied. Some of the cars are garage queens whereas others are daily drivers. Some owners do all of their own maintenance, whereas others leave that to mechanics. These cars have a lot less electronics than new models, so you don’t need a fancy computer setup to work on them. John’s dialog with each owner led to lots of subsequent questions from the members at the meeting.
Two of the members who presented cars are in the photos from the meeting shown below. That’s Jeff Gelfand on the left in the photo on the left, and that’s Alan Thomas in the photo on the right. You can find the names of all six members who presented their cars and pictures of the cars on the following slides.
(Thanks to Bob Helm for the pictures from the meeting.)
Presenters and Cars
Alan Thomas, 356
Alex Au, 914
Jay Reinert, 912
Jeff Gelfand, 911
Pete Debusmann, 911 [993]
Mike Bono, 911 [964]
