Porsche Slipstream, Volume 8, Number 3, March 1969 Page: 3 of 4
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PORSCHE PRATTLE
Saw VINCENT and GLADYS BOMGREN up Tulsa way recently. They send
greetings to one and all. Know they're enjoying the great state of
Oklahoma, but would enjoy seeing them "down heah" now and then. . .
CAPTAIN LARRY SMITH, USAF, Test Pilot, is now MR. LARRY SMITH. He
resigned his commission to go to work for Western Air Lines in Los
Angeles. It appears that PCA-MR is always losing the good members.
LARRY left on March 4. We wish you the best in your new job, LARRY.
DICK and PEGGY SELCER took a short vacation the 3rd week of
February to visit relatives in Tennessee. (Hummm, see what becoming
club Treasurer can do.) Unfortunately, they got there just about
in time for the snow and other nasty weather that hit that part of
the country that week. Guess you can't win them all. . . . . . . .
MARGE ABLES received two bits of correspondence from JIM lately.
The first included a very nice Turkish harem ring (you really have
to watch out for these traveling husbands, MARG) for a combination
Christmas and birthday (Jan. 1) present. The other item concerned
one of our past members, STEVE BEHR, who left the U.S. to work for
the Porsche factory. . . . . . . JOHN BUFFUM and an army Lt. entered
the Lt's 911 in the Monecarlo Rallye this year as a private entry
and took 12th place. The Europeans all went bananas over this!
It is the first time any private entry has ever placed anywhere
close to this high in the finish standings. . . . . . . .. .,.
An ex-member of PCA-MR, BILL GEORGE, who many of you probably did
not know, is returning from Germany around the first of August
of this year with a new 911T Targa. BILL was a member only a short
time after graduating from dentistry school when he was drafted and
sent to Europe. He has been driving a 2 liter Carrera until re-
cently. He reports that German Porsche service is little better
than in the greater part of the U.S. because his Porsche friends
there have trouble with their auto service, too, . . f. , .. .
GUS BROOKS, newlywed and U.S. army helicopter pilot extrordinaire,
finally got "settled" in Vietnam. Some of the excerpts from his
letter are as follows: "I live in a town....,. north of Saigon.
It's an old French rubber plantation. It has an air strip down the
middle of it and we live right on the runway. The place is fairly
secure, we've only had two mortar attacks since I've been here.
They missed both times.
"It's really not too bad here at all. The weather has been
cool and dry (and) about 60 degrees at night and 80 - 90 degrees dur-
ing the day. At 3500 feet it is more like 60 degrees F. We live
in 6 man tents with wooden floors, also equipped with a refrigerator
and electricity for radios, t.v.'s and tape recorders. The PX is just
a few hundred feet away so we keep well stocked up on beer, cokes,
and various foods. "War is Hell,"
"Tell the club members I said hello, and hope to rejoin about
January, '70." GUS
*If anyone would care to write GUS, his address is ------
Lt. Gus W. Brooks III
Aco 227th AHC 11th AVG
1st Cav, Div.
APO S.F. Calif. 96490
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Porsche Club of America. Maverick Region. Porsche Slipstream, Volume 8, Number 3, March 1969, periodical, March 1969; Southlake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth848862/m1/3/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Maverick Region Porsche Club of America.