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And now for the final post in the series ... showing what got added to The Garage at The Place in The Valley. We added the show poster to the bar up on the mezzanine. This was a nice poster that was printed on a rigid card stock of some type. I also made magnets from all of the stickers I...

@Trapps - The rain was gone long before the spectator part of the show started. It was only an issue for people trying to keep their cars in the show clean. It was definitely a fun show and worth attending!

So this is the post I have to do once in a while to show that I do still work in my garage.... After the HPDE at Gateway, I needed new tires and new brake pads. The rotors were nearing the end of life and I could see some very small surface cracks starting. I decided to just do the rotors as...

Das Renn Treffen was always on my bucket list to attend and I accomplished that back in January. Another show that I had always wanted to attend was Checked It Out in Chicago. I drove to Miami by myself to spectate at DRT. We decided to mix things up and actually put my wife's 997 in the...

Miata Update So an acquaintance of mine that I know from AutoX also has a white 2013 Club Miata. I kinda felt bad after I realized I bought a twin car to his but it was the spec I wanted. I can say he has good taste. ;) My Miata was bought with only ~25k miles on it but the suspension was...

We continue to enjoy doing activities with the Porsche club and the Miata club. We went to the annual start of summer event with the Miata club where we got frozen custard at Ted Drewes along old route 66 in St. Louis. We drove the Porsches over to Lebanon, IL for the Porsches on the...

I realized I have been really bad about posting updates. We continue to enjoy our cars and our garage with lots of local drives and some updates to the cars. We have also had some excitement... I'm going to back track a little. We had a big hail storm at the house back in late May. It...

We drove our Porsche sport cars today on a STL PCA tour to a winery for lunch. Afterword, we decided to drive down to The Place and swap out our Porsches for our Miatas. We had our entire fleet there and no one else was at the facility. We decided to take a fleet picture. Enjoy!

My wife has been getting into the Miata scene. She joined the local STL club that has quite a few activities. I've spent some time in the passenger seat of the our '24 ND Miata Club and I've come to the conclusion I really do not fit. I'm only 5'10 and around 180ish lbs but I guess the...

@ TX4runner - My wife has a 997 C4S that is modified to look like a 997 4.0. We know it is not but the graphics on the side and the big wing just look soo gooood.... @Jon69RagTop - Honestly it was not too bad. The hardest part was the first4-5 hours before the sun came up. I should have...

Day 6 - The Long Road Home So, I'll start this the day before. I got back to the hotel from the Key West Side Quest and happened to turn on the TV. The weather happened to be on. To my shock, they were talking about the "Storm of the Century" that was going to blanket snow over New Orleans...

Day 5 - Key West Side Quest I drove over 1300 miles to get to Miami. I thought... I might as well drive all the way down to Key West. Google estimated it as only 6.5 hours roundtrip from my Hotel to Key West and back. Once in Key West, I figured I'd eat lunch, drive by the southern most...

Day 3/4 - Das Renn Treffen Show Outside It many ways, the show on the streets is the real star. There are pre-staged special cars but the vast majority of the cars are ones that are brought in by "regular" folks. I say "regular" because these are Porsches. And the cars in that portion of the...

@Jon69RagTop - There is a story....

@GRN96WS6 - He did. He had a small store set up with high end simulators and some merch. I picked up a couple stickers from his pile of free ones. I always pick up stickers to convert into magnets. I think I actually met him because I was there really early on Saturday and was the only...

Day 3/4 - Das Renn Treffen Show - The Mall Das Renn Treffen was held at the Sunset Place Mall. While a few stores are in operation, the majority of this open air multi-story mall is abandoned. That allows the show organizers to take over the mall public spaces and many of the empty stores...

Day One - Just Get Warm! I pulled my Cayman out of the Place the night before the trip was to start. There was still snow all over STL from a storm earlier in the week. This was going to be a solo trip so I had tons of space in the frunk and trunk to pack. I packed a compressor, tire repair...

Unreported here, but I retired this last summer. After 35 years with one company, I decided I needed a break. I told myself, that part of retiring would be giving myself a chance to do a few things that I would not have taken time off work to do in the past. One of those things, was to...

While I am here, I thought I do one more quick post. I had another quick impulse buy over the Black Friday weekend. I subscribed to the Instagram account for WJP Aerial which does most of the photos at Ozark International Raceway. He does some pretty amazing drone shots in panoramas. I...

Recently, one of the four TVs in the quad setup on the mezzanine stopped working. It showed the LED light was powering up but no image on screen. I tried doing some research and did a factory reset but nothing worked. We installed the TVs in October of 2017 so it lasted 7 years in a not...