2025 represents Porsche Club of America's (PCA) 70th Anniversary. On Sunday, August 10th GMR President, Alessandro, and his wife, Anne Valentine invite all GMR members to join in the festivities at their home in West Windsor, Vermont.

Preceding the gathering Fred Sperling is organizing a driving tour that will commence in the Woodstock area and end at Stillwater Farm for the festivities. The tour is expected to begin around 11.00am and arrive at the Anniversary gathering at approximately 1.00pm. There is no cost to participate in the tour or to attend the party, The latter is strictly a social event and all you need to bring is yourselves.

A little background about PCA. By the mid-1950s there were already hundreds of Porsches in the U.S. and Canada including two cars in Vermont. Most, starting in 1951, were imported and sold by Max Hoffman in NYC, Brundage Motors in Jacksonville, John von Neumann in Southern California, some by “foreign car” dealers, and some brought home by U.S. servicemen. But – there were no service technicians, no parts, and very little accurate technical information.

The first “PCA” gathering could best be described as a gripe session held at Bill Sholar’s apartment in Virginia on February 8, 1955. The principal agenda items was focused on technical assistance. Subsequently, the group sought a charter from the factory, placed ads in car magazines to attract members. The PCA was chartered by Porsche as on September 13, 1955 where there the first official meeting took place at Blackie’s House of Beef in Washington. There were 12 members in attendance. By January 1956 PCA members totaled 190 located in 27 state, DC and Canada. The concept of a regional structure was always planned with the first group (Potomac, Central New York, San Diego, Chicago-Milwaukee and Rissentötor in Eastern Pennsylvania) chartered in 1957. The first issue of Panorama was published in December, 1955, R. Gamble Mann was the first editor. The size was chosen to fit into a 356 glovebox. That didn’t change until 2013.

And, as they say, the rest is history with a membership of over 100,000 in 2024 and a full range of activities at the local, regional and national levels