Recent content by Greg_STL

My 2021 Cayman that I got on Thanksgiving weekend in 2020 is over 5 years old now and fully paid off. I used to daily drive it to work - but now that I am retired, it has mainly become my track car and a car to drive to Porsche club events. I ordered it from the factory with the intent to...

Miata Challenge 2026 We were late getting a start on the Miata Challenge for 2026. The STL Miata club puts out a list of 10 different sites to visit each January. If you visit and document attending each, you get a little grab bag of stickers and misc stuff at the holiday party. The weather...

My wife was flipping through Facebook tonight and a photographer (George Dill Photography) had linked in some photos from the last HPDE to our PCA clubs homepage. He only posted about 15 photos but six of them were of my car. These are great action shots of my car and this lucky find made my...

Nancy and I have been driving in HPDE regularly over the last 5 years. I have almost 40 HPDE (track) days under my belt. I've slowly worked my way up from novice, to intermediate and even advanced run groups. I decided to take the next step and took the Porsche National Instructor Training...

We were at the Place a few days ago and it was pouring down rain outside. I was watching on the camera system to see if the rain was letting up. I decided to grab a couple screen shots of the the views from our updated camera system to post here. The old system was starting to get unreliable...

There is a unit that is for sale at The Place. It is one of the smaller 750 sq.ft. units. That makes it ~30'x23' where ours is ~45'x23'. They do not come up for sale often so I thought I would post here. PM if you want more details. We found out because they were doing an open house while...

With our two Miatas, the death of the Macan, and the Honda Passport replacement - we are more of a JDM garage than a Euro garage at this point. Including our daughter's Subaru BRZ (that regularly gets worked on in the garage), we have 4 Japanese cars to only 2 European cars. The garage still...

I think it can be stated that my wife likes her bling. Her 911 has a big wing, lower front spoiler, and graphics that makes it look like a GT3. I think everyone could guess that the little grey Miata was not going to stay that way. After much consideration, my wife decided to do a cherry...

Mid week this week, we picked up our Macan replacement. Having four two-door sports cars is fun but we really do need something to be able to pick people up at the airport, take four people to dinner, and haul tires/wheels to our tire guy. We really wanted something for winter that could...

Some Miata Club updates today. During 2025, we participated in the challenge from our club to drive to 10 different locations and document that with a picture of our cars and the site. We made it to all ten - with two cars. At the holiday dinner, they gave out little goody bags for people...

I wanted to create a small wall of remembrance for my Dad at The Place. I selected this small section of wall an measured out the space available. I had a Corvair hub cap that was converted to a clock, some old badges, and some license plates from my Dad's time in the Panama Canal Zone. I...

This thread start started 10 years ago today. 10 long years of posting about The Garage At The Place in The Valley. It all came about because we had bought a Porsche 997.2 Carrera 4S and really did not have a place to park it. We thought about buying a bigger house with a bigger garage but...

@Dig Doug - I really enjoyed the TTS that I owned but the TTRS is another beast. I'm sure your wife loves it. The floor is holding up well. The chips that are inherent in the floor pattern make it so that anything gets lots on the floor- even the damage on the floor. I have scraped the...

So now for some NC Miata attention... Since my daughter is home for X-mas break from college, we let her use one of the spots in our 2 car garage at the house. With the Macan gone, our winter car is my wife's Miata. That will be fixed as we need something to pick people up at the...

Just a short clean up post here that got missed with all that has gone on this fall. As is my habit, I picked up a bunch of stickers while I was at Porsche Palooza. I converted most into magnets to add to my ever growing collection. I had to start using the side of the cabinets by the wash...