Mike,
Welcome to Colorful Colorado! There is pretty good scenery
here among other benefits. This photo was taken in Genesee
park, west of Denver in the foothills. That is the Continental
Divide and the peaks are above 13,000’. There are 53 peaks
over 14,000’. (Oh yes, that is 904-017 that I owned for 17 years.)
Where would you like to live? There are some nice old
established neighborhoods in NW Denver area (Edgewater,
Wheat Ridge, Arvada & Broomfield.) All of this was farming
so interspersed with more recent developments are nice
old farm houses with barns and equipment out buildings
(8-car garages).
Another popular choice is Evergreen and surrounding area
in the foothills. There is a noticeable difference in climate.
Altitude and location make a huge difference. Along the
eastern edge of the Front Range you can play golf 340±
days per year.
Right now it is 75F, 11% RH, very light breeze at my house.
To be able to view the High Rockies you have to get farther
east from the foothills or on top of one.
Where in Lakewood will you be working?
Do you have kids? What school plans?
Does your wife work?
If you guys will be here looking at houses, give us some
warning and we can have a PCA/Pelican party. I live east
of University of Denver, sorta near I-25 and Yale. We are
a small enclave of unincorporated Arapahoe County
surrounded by Denver and have some of the best schools
in the nation.
Here is Rocky Mountain Region PCA (RMR-PCA)
http://www.rmrporscheclub.com//
You should call and sign up on the web list.
Rock Mountain Vintage Racing (RMVR)
http://www.rmvr.com/
Colorado Region SCCA can be found through here.
http://www.scca.org/
We have two very strong PCA regions and are active in
almost every aspect of playing with our toys.
PCA members are permitted to participate in most RMVR
events. A PCA Club Racing license is now accepted by
SCCA for participation in Regional races. We are currently
down to two tracks; Pueblo Motorsports Park (2 hrs) and
La Junta Raceways (3 hrs). The plan is to build a new
track here in Denver to replace Second Creek Raceways
lost to creeping development. It will be owned jointly by
all the local sports car clubs as was 2nd Ck.
Aligning your 993 after suspension mods is probably best
done by Steve Rowe at 3R. 3R is a race shop but do some
specialty street 911s. They service lots of race 911s
(including Cup cars) and are just finishing the install of
993-997-Cup suspension on an early car (SC I think).
Compared to a normal alignment this will be expensive
but worth having everything right from the start. If done
wrong, you can eat-up a set of tires in short order and not
have the grip performance. You might give them a call
now, talk to Bob Raub.
I proposed to the Governor that we set up California
style “agricultural inspection” stations that will only
pass Porsches into the state. HeHe.
Best,
Grady