Porsche Club of America, Upper Canada Region
It was the Summer of 1962, in France, when Porsche won its first and only F1 race as a constructor with Dan Gurney at the wheel. Nearly 10 years later, Dan and Brock Yates drove from NY to LA just under 36 hours (albeit in a Ferrari Daytona) to win the first official Cannonball Read More …
Story and Photos by Mike Blinn of The Blinn/Zuccato Team and UCR Members (from August 2017 Provinz page 34) On Sunday, May 22nd, we were finally able to find a day of sunshine and decent temperatures to accommodate our “Erie” (but not eerie) way to start the season. After a rainy Saturday night, we were Read More …
By Neil Dowdell, UCR Director, Photos by Graham Jardin Provinz Contributing Photographer (from August 2017 Provinz page 30) To call it an “eventful” fun run would be a bit understated. The Run, in effect, started at the new Pfaff Classic dealership in Vaughan, where we started with nine cars before heading over to Porsche Oakville to Read More …
By Stefan Walther, PCA Member (from July 2017 Provinz page 30) Weather whiplash– Sunday, May 28 was one of those peculiar spring days in Niagara. At dawn, the sun had its job cut out with temps hovering around a cool 10 degrees and fog engulfing parts of Lake Ontario’s southern shoreline including the lanes of the Read More …
Story by Peter Helston, UCR Sponsorship Chair, photos by Stefan Walther, UCR Member (from June 2107 Provinz page 20) Another successful event, courtesy of Peter Hoffman and Umberto Duarte. Twenty-five cars, 48 participants, literally everyone showed up, even one driver who hiked up from Niagara Falls to our early morning rendezvous north of Orillia. That’s Read More …
(from March 2017 PROVINZ page 14) CYNTHIA WONG My passion for cars probably started sometime during my high school days. During those years, I was a huge fan of Formula 1 – waking up on Sunday mornings to watch cars drive around in circles, 70 times. Eventually, the interest spilled over into road-cars, once I Read More …
Story by Mike Blinn with photos by Rick Zuccato, UCR Members (from January 2017 Provinz page 30) On Sunday October 23rd, a group of 18 shining German works of art gathered at the Casablanca Tim Hortons to enjoy a day of beautiful weather, awesome scenery and friendship. We met for 9:15, and filled up our coffee Read More …
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By Guenter Gamauf, UCR Member (from December 2016 Provinz page 16) It was a dark and stormy morning. The top of my Boxster was up, which is a rare occurrence since some of a roadster’s magic spins from driving it topless. We rendezvoused with two other Boxsters, also headed from KW to the Porsche of Read More …
Story and photos by Larry Funnell, UCR Member (from November 2016 Provinz page 28) The forecast for the Muskoka Fall Fun Run was not promising a few days ahead of the event. The night before suggested rain and when I woke up the morning of October 2nd, it was a dreary day with a persistent mist. Read More …