Welcome to the Riverside Region of the Porsche Club of America. Our club represents the Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties of Southern California extending into the high desert north towards Las Vegas and south throughout the southern deserts and Palm Springs. We have one of the largest geographical areas of the 13 PCA regions in the PCA Zone 8 area of Southern California and represent approximately 650 members.

Every month we have a permanently scheduled breakfast event on the 1st Saturday of the month in a central location within the region. Our activity calendar also usually fills up the remainder of the month with tours, autocrosses, tech sessions, and after breakfast events.

Please refer often to this website and calendar for event information and updates, maps to events, and contact info.

We can also help you with information about your car regarding service and club discounts available at the Porsche dealers, auto insurance companies, and independent service and parts vendors.

We hope to see you at one of our numerous events soon. Even if you are not yet a member of PCA, come on by and “kick some tires” and join the fun!

July 2010

I just finished reading the July 2010 Riverside PCA Bulletin submitted by our club bulletin editor Kevin Driver. It is a fine piece of work with several club member submissions. An article about enthusiasm was authored by past president Jim Burke. Wayne and Christine Edwards penned an article about the recent Riverside PCA tour they led to Hearst Castle and Cambria. A third story about a recent after breakfast tour to the Kimberly Crest House was submitted by tour leaders Bob and Barbara Vose.

After closing the file on my computer I began to think about what I had just read and it occurred to me that there were some common denominators to these events. First.... everybody was having a lot of fun. Second.... some great driving was taking place on Highway 1, on San Timoteo Canyon Road, and at the El Toro Fields autocross track. And third....every article talked about eating.

What do we do in the Riverside PCA? We mostly drive around having fun with our friends and we eat a lot. Drive...Fun....Friends...Food. If Porsche had been marketing our club events they would add the word Porsche and create a cool acronym like PDFFF to compliment all of their other cool acronyms.

We do seem to eat a lot, and food, like the weather, seems to be a universal topic of conversation, endlessly fascinating and a constant part of our lives. Just like the Romans lived to eat and followed the motto “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may die”, the Riverside PCA seems to have somewhat the same motto.

Speaking of eating and being merry don’t forget this coming Saturday, July 3rd is our monthly first Saturday breakfast buffet at the East Valley Golf Club in Beaumont. If you haven't been in a while, the buffet has expanded with a greater variety of foods, including oatmeal, bagels, muffins, yogurt, fruit and different main dishes every month. Prizes and gift certificates are handed out for correct and incorrect answers to car trivia quizzes … and merriment seems to abound.

Plan on attending the breakfast.... Tire kicking at 8:15 and breakfast at 9:00. Also, take a look at the July Riverside PCA Bulletin. For directions and a map to the Golf Club see our club website calendar.

PDFFF

Jim