Fifty! Fifty years old!

This year marks the 50-year anniversary of the Porsche 911. On Saturday morning we met at the local Porsche dealership and drove in a caravan of about 30 other Porsches out to Skamania Lodge in the Columbia Gorge for a 911-0nly show and anniversary celebration. There were about 130 911’s on display which was pretty impressive. Mine isn’t show quality (I didn’t even wash it when we got there, egads!), but it was still a lot of fun to see a car representing virtually every year of the model. We had the only car with a car seat in it which for my money makes it the coolest one there.

 

Interesting car. It was built for Roger Penke’s International Race of Champions series (one of 12 built). Emerson Fittipaldi put this car on the pole in his first IROC race. It was eventually purchased by Pablo Escobar and raced in South America. It was recently restored and is worth about $900k.

 

Vada hung in pretty good, but was pretty pooped by midday. When she started laying down on the driving range mats we knew it was time to go.

 

We made it about five miles before both Vada and Carmen were asleep. I realize that going to a car show isn’t as cool as last week’s trip to pet tigers, but it sure beats the steam engine shows I went to as a kid.