A visit to the Kernersville Auto Museum

 On March 17th, the Triad Area hosted its March meeting at Kernersville Auto Museum in Kernersville. We had just over 60 members attend. Calvin Nikolas, Nick Loomis, and Joe Paccadolmi, of Porsche Greensboro attended and presented a nice Porsche shirt as a door prize. We thanked Jim Taylor and Richie for opening up the Kernersville Auto Museum to host our Triad Area PCA meeting.

We also want to thank Spencer Gates and Carol Huff of Hagerty Insurance for providing a variety of pizzas and sodas / waters to our members for the evening.

Next, we recognized and welcomed Mike Sveda, Chuck Robinson as new PCA members and visitor Shri Haputantri who brought a low mileage blue G body 930 Turbo.

We heard from Kim Moses in lieu of TJ Gottwalt, Area Membership Ambassador, update us on the Triad Area membership status and anniversaries.

Next, we celebrated March birthdays.

Kim Moses

Dick Abbott

Kim Davis

The lucky birthday individuals were serenaded by Jerry Kilcrease’s golden pipes. Jerry also sang us an Irish song for celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

After the initial opening meeting rituals, Spencer Gates of Hagerty Insurance gave a presentation on current market Porsche valuations and took questions about having Hagerty Insurance

After which we had our Door prize giveaway and 50/50 prize of $165.00 and closed out the meeting.

Since I missed the cut off for March’s TR submission, here is an article about our drive 1st drive of 2026 from February 21st. We had about 20 cars show up. 

The weather was overcast and a little wet when we met to start off. Eventually the roads dried up and we enjoyed some of the best curves that North Carolina has to offer. 

Many thanks to Josh Burcham, our Area Driving Coordinator for setting up this fun and exhilarating drive.

Please ensure to visit the Carolinas Region Calendar for a complete listing of all events.

For the Triad Area, the next events are as follows...

April 8th, Wednesday, 11:30AM – 1:30PM GIPs Meeting

Roosters in Winston-Salem

Elaine Huskins for more info.

ehuskins@kent.edu

Please register for the next

monthly meeting at Porsche Greensboro so that we can

obtain a head count for food that they will be providing that

evening.

April 14th, Tuesday, 6:00PM – 8:00PM Triad Area Monthly Meeting

Porsche Greensboro

Register on ClubRegistration.net

May 9th, Saturday, 9:15AM Lunch and Laps @ VIR

Meet at Porsche Greensboro

Join PCA members on our Fifth Year of Laps & Lunch! Enjoy 20-30 minutes of track time on VIR’s main course and an excellent meal while you support Racing for Heroes...a charity dedicated to helping veterans with PTSD and other post service problems.

Here is the Plan:

Meet at Porsche of Greensboro by 9:00 AM, coffee & a brief meeting

We will leave by 9:30 for the drive to VIR and proceed to the Skid Pad. (Those who prefer can go directly to VIR. Please arrive by 11:00.) 11:50 brief meeting on skid pad and leave for the false grid. By 12:05 we enter the track for 20-30 minutes of time. After we get the checkered flag, proceed to the “Barn” for a hot lunch.

Notes:

On the track we will drive at “highway speed” so no helmets are required. This is to support a very worthy charity so additional contributions are appreciated (please make your checks out to Carolinas Region, PCA).

Thanks to Porsche of Greensboro for providing the coffee and pastries at the start of the drive.

Questions: Dixon Johnston, email:

dixon.johnston@gmail.com

Please sign up on ClubRegistration.net

PCA, it’s not just the cars, it’s the people...!

Alan Teague - Triad Area, Director