New member, 45 year Porsche owner

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Type 47
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Location: West of St Louis
Just saw this forum ad in Pano, so I signed up.

Name: Gary Eldridge

Location: West of St. Louis, MO

Current fun cars: 75' 914 2.0 (currently being reassembled and restored), 06' Corvette Z06 (track car), 19' Corvette Z06

Occupation: retired 5 years after 40 as an engineer for UPS

First Porsche: 1973 914 1.7 signal orange- other Porsches: 74' 1.8 silver then painted black, 83' 944 guards red, 86' 928S silver, 73' 914 2.0 signal orange, 89' 928S4 Baltic Blue, 85' 928 black, 72' 914 1.7 phoenix red, 74' 914 1.8 yellow, 75' 914 2.0 black (currently being restored and is now signal orange), 88' 951 (944 turbo S) still kicking myself for sell it,18' Cayman S.

Current fun thing to do: Track events since 1995 at: Gateway, Road America, Road Atlanta, Barber Park, Autobahn CC, Heartland Park, Corvette Motorsports Park, and the new Ozark Intl. Raceway.
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Past cars: 6- 914's, 3- 928's, 944, 951, 718
Currents cars: 06' Z06, 19' Z06, Silverado LTZ

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Type 47 wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:02 pm Just saw this forum ad in Pano, so I signed up.

Name: Gary Eldridge

Location: West of St. Louis, MO

Current fun cars: 75' 914 2.0 (currently being reassembled and restored), 06' Corvette Z06 (track car), 19' Corvette Z06

Occupation: retired 5 years after 40 as an engineer for UPS

First Porsche: 1973 914 1.7 signal orange- other Porsches: 74' 1.8 silver then painted black, 83' 944 guards red, 86' 928S silver, 73' 914 2.0 signal orange, 86' 928S4 silver, 85' 928 black, 72' 914 1.7 phoenix red, 74' 914 1.8 yellow, 75' 914 2.0 black (currently being restored and is now signal orange), 88' 951 (944 turbo S) still kicking myself for sell it,18' Cayman S.

Current fun thing to do: Track events since 1995 at: Gateway, Road America, Road Atlanta, Barber Park, Autobahn CC, Heartland Park, Corvette Motorsports Park, and the new Ozark Intl. Raceway.
Welcome aboard Gary! That's quite a Porsche resume -- you'll fit in just fine here. :)

Did you already receive your Pano in the mail? You must be in the first batch to go out -- it seems like they ship in batches over the course of at least a week....

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Type 47
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Yes Tom, I got it yesterday.

Thanks for the welcome, looking forward to the new forum.
Past cars: 6- 914's, 3- 928's, 944, 951, 718
Currents cars: 06' Z06, 19' Z06, Silverado LTZ

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