Name: Tim Hancock

Age: 39

Location: NW Ohio

Family: wife and two teen daughters

Occupation: day- mechanical engineer designing special machines
night/weekends- IA/AP aircraft restoration/repair

Vehicles: multiple MX and street bikes, ATV, Snowmobile, 99 Tacoma, '69 Chevelle 396 SS, '77 924, '87 924S, '87 944 Turbo, '79 911SC, '92 BMW 325i, 2000 Audi A6 2.7T, '55 Piper Pacer, Minimax ultralight, Pitts S1C

Hobbies: Skiing, aviation, motocross, german cars, violins, guns, RC airplanes etc etc (basically too many!)

It is interesting (and sometimes shocking) to hear various opinions here in PPOT. I notice a huge difference in opinions depending on big city dwellers vs non big city dwellers.

Name: Jack Mehaffer

Age: 40

Where: Jensen Beach, Florida - 80% of the time, Sylva, North Carolina - June and July as much as possible the rest of the year.

Job: I own a small Land Surveying Company, also founder of a very small in car filming company www.cesirofilms.com, also in the process of trademarking and marketing a novelty item soon.

Married: Married 17 years, 2 boys, a 13 year old and 3 year old.

Cars: 1980SC, 2006 A-6, 2007 Toyota FJ, 1987 RX-7

Hobbies: DE's and Autocrossing, looking into Karting instead now. Most of my spare time is spent with the wife and kids. My family is the most important thing in the world to me.
Why OT: Found P-Parts via google search looking for a 911 to buy. Found it here on Pelican and then stuck around. I have spent countless hours searching topics and reading them about my car. Coupled with Waynes book I have learned alot about my new (to me) car.

O/T is fascinating, its fun to see people interact online. I have been limiting my time on here though and now I have reached my limit typing this up. :D

Oops - BTW this is the only online forum I use my real name on. I usually go by Jims5543. The Jack name was a joke.

Name: Terry Weeks

Age: 26

Location: Fort Myers, FL

Family: Engaged. No kids becasue I am one.

Occupation: Civil Engineer BSCE FAU

Hobbies: Creating cars that have insane power to weight ratios that make them impossible to drive.

Cars: 85' m30 turbo e30, 06' E90 330i, 99' Volvo S70.

Why Pelican OT: I sold the 911 but couldn't give up the good conversations with the people on this board.

Name: Rick

Age: 47

Local: Sunapee, NH

Family first and only wife of 5 years, two kids, Tyler 25 and Kaisha 22(dad by proxy 21 years ago)

Occupation: Some sort of manager for the Tecnica group, VP of Waller and Son Inc, part time LEO

Hobbies: work it seems, skiing, bicycles, cars, running and general pain in the ass

Cars: Series 900 backdated Targa, mean Mini ragtop, A4 and a pu

Why OT: This is some of the best reading going. I rarely get involved but, holy crap is it entertainment

Name: Gary
Age: 43

Location: Bellingham, WA

Occupation: Right now a chemical & building safety officer, purchasing agent and manager of a chemistry stockroom at a small regional university. Previously a graphic designer and before that a biotech research scientist. The current job is an early working retirement (at least that is how I look at it).

Family: Wife of 20 years, one beautiful 4 year old daughter and two great danes.

Hobbies: cars, racing sailboats, aikido, hacker golf

Vehicles: 80SC, 99 Subaru Outback, 03 Pacifica

Why Pelican OT: On the edge of banning myself. It is the yelling without listening or posters with personal agendas which I just do not have much time or patience for; discussion is sorely lacking. I have become better at seeing topics/posters to avoid so that may save it for me.

Name: David H.

Age: 25

Location: Arlington, VA - nestled up next to DC.

Occupation: Research and Development for US Army

Family: I'm unmarried, but my parents and sister are in the area and I try to see them as often as I can

Hobbies: learning to drive and wrench, skiing (although I'm slowing coming to the conclusion that I can't afford the track hobby and the ski hobby - both are too expensive!), I'm training for my first marathon right now. Goal is to qualify for Boston - 3:10. :eek: I'm also an avid hasher, where my hash name is "Blows A Tranny" because of my car obsession.

Vehicles: '87 BMW 325 (track) and '97 BMW 528i (daily)

Why PPOT: On the political threads, I like to know how the other half thinks, even if I disagree or don't really believe they're actually thinking. The other threads are always full of interesting or funny comments.

Name: Dave E. (duh)

Age: 50

Location: Central PA (Altoona area)

Occupation: Field service engineer for locomotive maufacturer.

Family: Happily married 33 years (!!). Two daughters, four grandchildren.

Hobbies: SCCA club racer in ITB (BMW 2002). That's all I can afford.

Vehicles: '78 911SC, '65 911, '65 912, Audi 90Q 20V, Audi A6.

Why PPOT: Not sure. Like to present/defend the liberal perspective when possible. Like to read political discussion.

Name: Dan

Age: 45

Local: San Jose, California

Family: Married (18 years) Have one fantastic daughter (7), two cats, and one dog.

Occupation: Porsche wrench

Hobbies: My family, Nascar, finding new things to do to my Carrera. :p

Cars: 1987 Carrera (my fun toy), 2001 Toyota double cab 4x4 (my work horse), and the wifey's car a 2005 MBZ C230 Kompressor.

Why O.T.?: Well, since I work on these cars all day long its something different. I'm not a fan of the political discussions with all the ranting and raving. I do like some of the interesting stories about different things. I love the random pics threads!

Name: Grant

Age: 26

Local: Lowell, MA

Occupation: Software Development, currently developing for financial services

Education: BA in Computer Science and English Literature

Family: Getting married this coming May

Hobbies: Antique car restoration, cigars, backpacking and mountaineering (former professional guide)

Cars: 1989 Porsche 944, 1938 Buick Special 41

Why OT: Exposure to other P-car guys without technical discussion.

Name: Chris
Age: 27
Location: Bloomington, IL
Job: Systems Analyst
Family: Married 2 years, no kids. Sister lives in Andersonville, Chicago.
Cars: 1986 951, 1997 F150, 2002 Sunfire
ETC: Used to play paintball, until I got a Porsche. I weight lift 3 times a week, run, bicycle, play video games, work around the house. I love BBQ, cigars, beer, and gin.
Why OT: Found the forum to be much more mature than the 13-year-olds on the paintball forum I used to frequent. I used to get overemotional about politics, but soon realized that no-one's opinions were changing. Try to stay away from most political threads or at least post before they devolve.

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Name: Art Zasadny
Location: Wyandotte, MI (Southeast Michigan, south of Detroit)
Job: IT Auditor with Ford Motor Co, IT engineering (LAN, WAN and security professional since 1991)
Family: Married 19 years (20 years in January), Daniel is 14 years ld, Rebecca is 10 years old. Great kids!
Car: 1974 Porsche 911 Targa
ETC: Drummer, homebrewer, home improvement and tinkering. Being a "dad" keeps me busy and the Porsche is my summer hobby. Homebrewing is my winter hobby and I play the drums at church. We are a very musical family ... We just finished a major renovation project on our 77 year-old house. I'm getting ready to tear down my old 1 car garage and build a new man-cave!!

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Name: Art Zasadny
Location: Wyandotte, MI (Southeast Michigan, south of Detroit)
Job: IT Auditor with Ford Motor Co, IT engineering (LAN, WAN and security professional since 1991)
Family: Married 19 years (20 years in January), Daniel is 14 years ld, Rebecca is 10 years old. Great kids!
Car: 1974 Porsche 911 Targa
ETC: Drummer, homebrewer, home improvement and tinkering. Being a "dad" keeps me busy and the Porsche is my summer hobby. Homebrewing is my winter hobby and I play the drums at church. We are a very musical family ... We just finished a major renovation project on our 77 year-old house. I'm getting ready to tear down my old 1 car garage and build a new man-cave!!

This is me...
 

Name: Art Zasadny
Location: Wyandotte, MI (Southeast Michigan, south of Detroit)
Job: IT Auditor with Ford Motor Co, IT engineering (LAN, WAN and security professional since 1991)
Family: Married 19 years (20 years in January), Daniel is 14 years ld, Rebecca is 10 years old. Great kids!
Car: 1974 Porsche 911 Targa
ETC: Drummer, homebrewer, home improvement and tinkering. Being a "dad" keeps me busy and the Porsche is my summer hobby. Homebrewing is my winter hobby and I play the drums at church. We are a very musical family ... We just finished a major renovation project on our 77 year-old house. I'm getting ready to tear down my old 1 car garage and build a new man-cave!!

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Name: Jeff
Age: 36
Location: NC
Job: IT Project Manager for Eaton Corporation
Education: BA degree in Accounting and getting ready to start my MBA
Family: Married for 12 Years (dated her exclusively for 3 years before that), 8 year old son, 3 year old daughter. Wife is a "stay-at-home-mom".
Car: 1987 930 (mine), 2001 Dodge Durango (wife's).
ETC: I have expensive taste and like all things well made and well engineered. My other passion is tube driven home audio equipment - two channel. I love music...all sorts, from Hardcore Punk to Reggae. I love to cook. I love tools. I love my family. My Father is my hero: always has been, always will be...

Name: Chris
Age: 52
Location Texas Panhandle
Job Operator Major Chemical Company 26 years
Married 30 years in Jan to a great gal
Beautiful daughter 24 a major Porsche nut learned to drive the 930 at 13 because we could scoot the seat up enough for her to reach the pedals.
Son 18 could be a rock star if he didn't have so many irons in so many fires.
Car 1976 930 owned 21 years. Is now almost perfect.
1963 356S Outlaw owned 15 years. needs another paint job but in great shape.
Ex private track coach. Big music fan. And I am my sons manager/roady. Also buy him way to many guitars, one of which I use for my handle.

Name: Aurelien
Age: 36
Location: Red Bank, NJ
Job: Assistant Research Professor at Rutgers, The State University of NJ. Working on new concepts for batteries and solar cells.
Education: PhD. in polymer chemistry-electrochemistry
Married for two years, one adorable daugther Audrey, 4 months old.
Cars: 1978 911 SC Targa owned 4 years, 2000 Nissan X-Terra, 2001 Lexus 300.

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Name: Jack
Age: 58
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Job: Mfg Systems supervisor, Delphi Catalysts
Education: MBA
Family: Married 24 years (This time!) 3 boys, (22, 22, and 21) all in college.
Cars: 1 owner '70 914-6, 1957 Stude truck, Volvo S40 (wifey's) and a coupla Cherokees.
Hobbies: Water skiing; wrenching; reading Pelican OT

Name: Toby P
Age: 28
Location: Colorado Springs
Job: Electrical Engineer at a semi-conductor company. Working on RFID right now.
Education: BSEE
Family: Married 3months. Acquired a wonderful 3yr old step-daughter in the process.
Cars: See sig. Also a few off-road toys to try and hurt myself with.
Hobbies: Was working on vehicles, now doing house chores :eek:
Why PPOT: Sold the 944 because it did not fit a family well. (The GTP supercharger helps lessen the pain of a family car:D) Persist in appearing on OT because it seems the stereotype of "People with expensive are generally smarter that people with crappy cars" has some merit as the discussions are more "mature".

Name: Peter
Age: 40
Location: This year - Florida, Cali, NewMexico, and North Dakota (:eek: )
Job: Physician - arteries and hearts plumber. Frustrated physicist.
Family: Wife of 10 years & 18 month daughter.
Cars: As sig line
Other: Fishing, multistring kites, kayaking (sea), used to love to work on cars, but can't really do it now (because of the job), same for guitar. No I don't golf - used to. Trying to get back on the bike. Someday will get back into carpentry, learn marquetry, start doing auto restos.

Why PPOT? It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Name: Howard (doh)
Age: 64
Location: SoCal
Job: Insurance agency president (almost retired)
Family: Happily married to Marianne for 40 years (she made me say that), Greg is 37, a commercial pilot, Suzanne is 34, a real estate tycoon. Granddaughter Samantha age 7 going on 22.
Car: See sig, and some other 'real' cars
ETC: Cars, of course, golf, single malt, acoustic guitar, tilting at windmills, slaying dragons, curing the ills of the world, and Prozac.

You work in Chitown now? When did you move to Elmhurst? I thought you were waaaayyyy out there before....

Name: Mike Holloway
Age: 42
Birthday: September 11th
Location: Highland Village Texas

Job: Director of Technical Development & Reliability, NCH Corp (best job in the world for the best company in the world), Adj Prof at UNT dept Eng (cuz its easy money and fun), Freelance Writer for Manufacturing.net (all proceeds to go to the Targa refurbish)

Education: BA Philosophy, BS Chemistry, MS Pl Eng, PhD cand. Mat Sci (quit PhD to pay child support and work for GE)

Family: 19yr old Daughter (from 1st attempt – still a work in progress), 7yr old Son, 3yr old Daughter – both are my reason for life, every minute away from them rips away a piece of my soul and every minute with them builds it back. Married to a natural redheaded farm girl who amazes me on a weekly basis and sometimes if the kids go to bed early… on a nightly basis as well.

Car: Honda Pilot (Wife’s ride), Volvo 850 (no real reason to get rid of it), 77 ROW Targa (Son’s)

Why Porsche?: Wanted something that our Son and I could learn from and with.

Name: Dave Mason
Age: 33
Location: Encino, California
Family: Divorced, five fish, two birds, one chameleon
Job: IT slave
Cars: 1984 Targa Carrera (Dad was first owner), 2001 Toyota Corolla (daily driver in urban camouflage)
Hobbies: skiing, R/C gliders, wrenching on my p-car, anything besides computers
Why PPOT: Lots of good stuff to be had here.

Name: Scott
Age: 37
Location: Seattle, WA
Family: Married to Lori for 11 years, Persian cat Pugsley
Job: Attorney, solo practice, estate planning
Cars: Currently, 2003 986 S / 1999 Lexus RX300
Why? Originally, the car. Now, good friends I met here.

Name: Scott R
Age: 42
Location: South Orange County, California (60 miles south of LA)
Family: Dawn, my beautiful, funny, intelligent wife of 19 years; three dogs (Lucy -14, Sarah - 4, Vinny - 2); two Macaws (Abby and Caesar)
Job: Fifteen years as a pilot for American Eagle, the small-jet arm of AMR corp., sister company of American Airlines. Currently a Line Check/IOE captain on the Embraer EMB-145 Regional Jet based out of Los Angeles. I absolutely love my job but I don't take it home with me.
Cars: Black 1984 Porsche Carrera Cabriolet, Guards Red 2000 Porsche 996 Coupe, Silver 2004 BMW 525i (my wife's baby), 2003 Chevy Tahoe 4X4 comfy gas guzzler.
Hobbies: 911's of all years, snow skiing, world travel, flying
Why OT: I only lurk on this particular forum (although I am active on the 911 technical forum). I can spend hours reading long threads about religion and politics, and I love the humorous threads but I never get involved because it always turns into a pissing contest with no upside. I let others get their blood pressure up and I just sit back and watch in amusement.
ETC: I've made many personal friends in the two years I've been a member of this forum. SmileWavy

Name: David

Age: 39

Location: Houston (Clear Lake), TX

Job: Mechanical Engineer for a utility turbine & pump repair machine shop

Family: wife of 12 years with a 12yo son (do the math), black lab mutt, yellow lab

Hobbies: Cars, motorcycles, racing a shifter kart (when I have time), working on my house (currently remodeling the kitchen and removing a wall so that I have more invested than it's worth), past house project was to extend the garage back so it'll hold 4 cars, fishing and boating when someone else has the boat, I used to ride and race bicycles but I lost the desire years ago and I can't seem to get it back.

Cars: 01 Chevy Silverado (I'm not a truck guy but I found I needed it for kart racing and house projects), 79 930 (the never ending project that actually seems close to completion), 06 Intrepid kart, 99 R1100S, 99 323i BMW (wife's car, she said she had to have a RWD manual tranny car, another reason I love her), 06 650SV Suzuki (wifes), PW80 (son's and he never rides it)

Mottos I live by: "Don't sweat the little stuff" and "Indecision is the key to flexibility" (don't worry, I can still make the decision when it's time).

Name: Louie
Age: 43
Location: Brooklyn House of Detention
Family: Abandoned.
Job: Stamping licence plates
Cars: Matchbox 911 (smuggled in)
Hobbies: TV, law library
Why PPOT: Need references for parole hearing.

good thing you didn't try to smuggle in an F-1 matchbox..with all them sharp edgs and stuff , could have been really painfull

Name : Bill
Age : 38
Location : Las Vegas
Family : Married for 15 years. 3 Boys 9yrs, 7yrs 4yrs, 4 step children
Job : Event Production/ Asst Stage Mgr/ Crew Steward/ along with a load of other responsibilities for around 20 years
Cars : 1976 911S Targa, 74 Toyota Land Cruiser, 87 XJS Jaguar, 67 MK II Jaguar, 04 Sonota.
Hobbies : Guitar, Drums, Bass, Porsche collectibles, music collectibles, BMX, sports,etc
Why : So much knowledge/information, its mindblowing

Name : Steve
Age : 57
Location : San Jose
Family : Been with my bride for 30 years. Daughter, 25, trying to find her way in LA, son, 22, a senior in college and discovered that he is not immortal last year when he contracted collitis, a nasty disease, and daughter, 19, is a sophomore at Berkeley and doing quite well. I had prostate cancer surgery last year and can discuss if pm me.
Job : Rocket engineer, principally working with explosive characterization for some 27 years, a little CFD work in there, taught 7-8 grade science/math for three years and worked for Pan Am in 1969-1971 as a co-op engineer. BSME, BS Math, MSME, K-12 lifetime credentials.
Cars : current is 1992 964. Had a 1969 912, 1960 MGA, 1973 Vega, 1965 Fairlane, 1969 2002, 1969 Volvo. Son is into 60's land cruisers, 65 FJ45 and 69 FJ40.
Hobbies : Done a bit, traveled some, now just try to find time for golf, and shortening the "honey-do" list.
Why : If you only listen to yourself, you get stupid real quick. I've always told my kids that there is always someone smarter than them out there and maybe they'd better listen to what others have to say.

Name: Craig
Age: 46 (look 26, it's the Norwegian blood)
Location: Fillmore, Ca.
Family: Married to Wendy 20 years, no kids, lotsa animals.
Occupation: Art Direction, Props and Set Dressing for the Motion Picture industry.
Vehicles: See sig below, although the LandCruiser is for sale.
Hobbies: Wrenching on the cars, flyfishing, backpacking, telemark skiing, side by side shotguns, acoustic guitar, mountain dulcimer, ukulele, home brewing, carpentry/woodworking..I think I've spread myself out a little thin.
PPOT: This is where I come for all my political, religious, theological, welding, healthcare, sexual, "what to do about noisy neighbors" knowledge. No need to go anywhere else. You guys are the best..

Name: Wayne

Age: 29

Location: Wichita, KS

Family: Married(3 yrs), One son(16 months), One on the way(Feb), One male Chocolate Lab(4yrs)

Education: B.S. Interior Architecture @ Kansas State University

Occupation: Owner of Industrial Design firm(DesignSource)

Cars: '05 Nissan Murano(wife's), '98 Grand Prix GT(DD), and finally as of two weeks ago '69 912(I still can't get that silly grin off my face).

Name: Prithvi

Age: 30

Location: Currently Tokyo, Japan - Moving Back to Singapore soon

Family: marrying my uni sweetheart in November (dating for 10 years)

Occupation: me, Investment Banker, Wife to be is a Lawyer

Cars: 83 RoW 911SC, 1992 BMW 318i, Boxster soon to be added to the stable for the wife after wedding

Hobbies: Playing pool and having a couple of beers (usually together) and spending time with my fiance.

Name: John

Age: 41

Location: San Diego

Family: married for almost two years, one spoiled German Shepherd (rescue), and lots of aviary birds

Occupation: Collections Mgr. /Herpetology Dept. San Diego Zoo, wife: bird keeper

Cars: Venetian Blue '87 911 coupe, '83 red 944spec car, white Toyota 4x4 p/u, and a black Titus Loco-Moto (daily driver)

Hobbies: track days, autox, mountain biking

why PPOT: the vast pool of knowledge here is staggering, you can get an informed answer to almost any question.

Name: Paul
Age: 38
Location: Thornton, PA
Family: Married just under 2 years to the love of my life. Also one big, slobbering, spoiled Saint Bernard (rescue).
Occupation: Hard to describe - I wear many hats in the operations world of a major investment bank - and I'm actively trying to escape the hell that it is.
Cars: See signature.
Hobbies/Interests: working on cars, beer, home theater, fishing...anything other than work really....
Why: the diversity and vast knowledge base here fascinates me - and it's darn entertaining at times!

Name: Rob
Age: 35
Location: Kingston, ON
Family: divorced, joint custody, two children
Occupation: Secondary School Administrator
Cars: 90 Miata set up for autox, 92 Camry
Future Cars: Locost (started already), someday a 911
Hobbies: Cars, reading, being active
Why: the random pic thread made me a lurker for a long time

Another Wichita guy, sweet! That makes for a grand total of 3, at least that I know of.

3's a crowd, but one more and it's enough for a shin-dig :D

onewhippedpuppy,

It is nice to know there are some more Porsche people in the area. I am relatively new to Porsche ownership so if you have any shop recommendations I am listening. Also, is there a local PCA, and are they accepting of us lowly 912 owners?

Wayne

Sent you a PM.