Diablo PCA provides a welcoming and engaging community that enriches our member's Porsche ownership experience. What's New This Sunday - 10/22/2023 - Ocktoberfest, join us for an afternoon at Faction Brewing in Alameda. This year we are focused on raising money for the Red Cross to support our fellow PCA members in Maui Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross, Maui. Click here for additional information and to purchase tickets for the event. Tickets on sale now. 11/19/2023 - DE at Laguna Seca, registration is now open for our fourth DE of the year at Laguna Seca. We are expecting this event to sell out quickly, especially if you are a Beginner requiring instruction. We plan to run our typical four run groups (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Instructor), so there should be plenty of track time. Click here to register for the event. Registration is open. The Beginner w/Instruction run group is sold out. DE 101 for the Laguna Seca DE is scheduled for Wednesday, November 1, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM. This will be an online meeting. Meeting information will be sent to registered participants. 10/29/2023 - Diablo Region/PCA Zone 7 Concours #6, Porschephiles, this year's concours is sponsored by Porsche of Livermore and will again be at the Blackhawk Museum. You may enter your car as a Judged Car where your car will be judged against other cars in your class for cleanliness, preparation, and maintenance, or as a Car Show Display car. If your car is entered as a judged car in four or more of the Zone 7 Concours you will be eligible for a Zone 7 award. Click here for additional information and to register for the event. New - 11/11/2023 - New Member Tour, this tour is for New Members that joined the Club after January 1, 2022. Come on a tour with us, have some lunch, meet some of the Board of Directors, and find out more about Club activities. The tour starts after breakfast at the Buttercup in Walnut Creek and ends at the Back Forty Texas BBQ in Pleasant Hill (taking the long way around). Click here for additional information and to register for the tour. Tickets on sale at noon on Friday, October 13, 2023. New - 11/11/2023 - Tour Planning Meeting, Danville Station HOA, join us if you are interested in tours, have a tour idea, or would like to help out on the Tour Committee. If you have an idea for a tour, please come and share your idea. We will match you up with someone on the Tour Committee to work with you on the tour. Click here for additional information and to register for the meeting. Tickets on sale now. 11/12/2023 - Porsches & Coffee with Kelly Telfer, this is a rare opportunity to spend the morning with a Porsche artist legend. Kelly Telfer has done work for Porsche, PCA, Werks, and numerous other Porsche related organizations. We will meet at his studio in the beautiful foothills of Sonora. Kelly will share his history with Porsche and the many people he has met throughout his career. Come drink coffee, share stories and be a part of a very unique experience. Click here for additional information and to register for the event. General Information Check out the Diablo Region PCA home page (www.diablo-pca.org/) for a full calendar of events for the year, to sign up for an event, or to see additional information for each of the events. If you are interested in Diablo PCA logo wear and other items, check out our new webstore on the PCA.org site. Name Badges - Click here to order your personalized name badge. We encourage wearing name badges to avoid those awkward moments when you can't remember a name. The Summer edition of the Devil's Advocate is available this now. Please Click here to view the most recent edition. If you have contributions to the Devil's Advocate, please send them to Maiko Woodson-Mendoza at BOD Meetings - Board of Directors (BOD) meetings held on the second Monday of the month are open to all Diablo PCA members. If you are interested in participating in a meeting, contact our club president Bob Hilton (DiabloPCA. Affiliate Members - If you have a spouse or a friend that is interested in Porsches. consider adding them as an Affiliate PCA Member. Affiliate members get their own PCA number and can have a separate email address. There is no charge for adding an Affiliate member. If you need assistance with adding an Affiliate member, contact our Membership Chair, Michael Caine at Diablo PCA has a new way for members to connect. We have created a Facebook Group just for you. Here you will find members telling members about drives they've taken, cars they have seen, posting photos, letting each other know about informal get togethers and much more. You will also get news hot off the press from Diablo PCA. Everyone is welcome to join just click on Diablo Region - Porsche Club of America Group. So please come join the fun and share your love of Porsche, because; it's not just the cars - it's the people. As the saying goes, "many hands make light work". We are looking for members to raise their hands as volunteers. As Diablo Region members, we enjoy an active calendar of driving tours, DE days, social events and other club activities throughout the year. These events simply don't happen organically. It takes the combined efforts of many volunteers to make the magic happen. If you are interested in helping out, we can surely use your help. We are especially interested in people helping to plan events. Whether you are an original "Founding" Diablo member or joined yesterday, volunteer today by contacting Bob Hilton at Volunteers needed - Help improve Diablo's image! No, we're not looking for a campaign consultant. We need one or two volunteer graphic artists or designers to work with a team of other volunteers to design a distinctive "Diablo Shirt" in the next two months and participate in redesigning diablo-pca.org, our website, over the next year. Please express your interest by August 31st by contacting Bob Hilton, Diablo President, at Have you created your Digital Membership Card yet? PCA members can now opt in to the digital membership card, available for Apple and Android digital wallets. Visit PCADigitalCard.org for more information. Events Save the date for the following events: Date change - 12/1/2023 Holiday Party at Fat Maddie's Recurring Events
Tours Save the date for the following Tours: If you are aware of some fun roads to drive, or an interesting destination, please contact the Tour Committee (Susie George, Registration for tours and other events is done via Eventbrite (you will need to create an account with Eventbrite to register for a tour). Watch for a link to the registration site in this section of the ENews or on our website. Tours often sell out the same day tickets go on sale. Be prepared to sign-up for tours as soon as registration is open. If you are unable to register for the tour, add your name to the waitlist in case of cancellations. Emails regarding last-minute Tour information and openings for waitlisted individuals will come from Eventbrite and If you wish to purchase your own radio, the Club is using the Motorola Talkabout T800 radios. These are sold in pairs through Amazon for about $85.00. These radios are FRS/GMRS compatible, have 22 channels and 121 privacy codes (or sub-channels). Driver Education (DE) 2023 Diablo Region DE Schedule Click here for general information on Diablo PCA HPDE days.
2023 Golden Gate Region DE Schedule
Zone 7 Events 2023 Zone 7 Autocross - Click here for information on the Zone 7 Autocross schedule. 2023 Zone 7 Concours - Click here for information on the Zone 7 Concours series.
2024 Shasta Region Tour, June 20-24, 2024 PCA/PCNA Events Click here for a list of upcoming PCA events.
Click here to Contact key Diablo PCA Contacts Events: Gene Stoegbauer Tours: Susie George Driver Education (DE): Ed Won Communications/Eventbrite Registration: Carolyn Wong Membership: Michael Caine Devil’s Advocate: Maiko Woodson-Mendoza Webmaster: Anthony Mendoza President: Bob Hilton |
Diablo PCA provides a welcoming and engaging community that enriches our member's Porsche ownership experience. What's New Check out the following Recurring Events coming soon:
New - 11/19/2023 - DE at Laguna Seca, registration is now open for our fourth DE of the year at Laguna Seca. We are expecting this event to sell out quickly, especially if you are a Beginner requiring instruction. Don't be discouraged if you are waitlisted. We will clear as many names off the waitlist as possible depending on Instructor registrations. We plan to run our typical four run groups (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Instructor), so there should be plenty of track time. Click here to register for the event. Registration is open. 10/14/2023 - Berryessa/Napa Valley Tour, join us on a beautiful drive from Fairfield through Wooden Valley to Lake Berryessa. We will continue north passing through Pope Valley and Middletown before turning south towards the Napa Valley. We will pass through Calistoga ending at Gott’s Roadside Cafe where we will enjoy lunch, which will be no host. Please plan to join us for this beautiful Fall drive. Click here for additional information and to register for the event. Ticket sales end today. 10/22/2023 - Ocktoberfest, join us for an afternoon at Faction Brewing in Alameda. This year we are focused on raising money for the Red Cross to support our fellow PCA members in Maui Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross, Maui. Click here for additional information and to purchase tickets for the event. Tickets on sale now. 10/29/2023 - Diablo Region/PCA Zone 7 Concours #6, Porschephiles, this year's concours is sponsored by Porsche of Livermore and will again be at the Blackhawk Museum. You may enter your car as a Judged Car where your car will be judged against other cars in your class for cleanliness, preparation, and maintenance, or as a Car Show Display car. If your car is entered as a judged car in four or more of the Zone 7 Concours you will be eligible for a Zone 7 award. Click here for additional information and to register for the event. New - 11/11/2023 - New Member Tour, this tour is for New Members that joined the Club after January 1, 2022. Come on a tour with us, have some lunch, meet some of the Board of Directors, and find out more about Club activities. The tour starts after breakfast at the Buttercup in Walnut Creek and ends at the Back Forty Texas BBQ in Pleasant Hill (taking the long way around). Click here for additional information and to register for the tour. Tickets on sale at noon on Friday, October 13, 2023. New - 11/11/2023 - Tour Planning Meeting, Danville Station HOA, join us if you are interested in tours, have a tour idea, or would like to help out on the Tour Committee. If you have an idea for a tour, please come and share your idea. We will match you up with someone on the Tour Committee to work with you on the tour. Click here for additional information and to register for the meeting. Tickets on sale now. 11/12/2023 - Porsches & Coffee with Kelly Telfer, this is a rare opportunity to spend the morning with a Porsche artist legend. Kelly Telfer has done work for Porsche, PCA, Werks, and numerous other Porsche related organizations. We will meet at his studio in the beautiful foothills of Sonora. Kelly will share his history with Porsche and the many people he has met throughout his career. Come drink coffee, share stories and be a part of a very unique experience. Click here for additional information and to register for the event. General Information Check out the Diablo Region PCA home page (www.diablo-pca.org/) for a full calendar of events for the year, to sign up for an event, or to see additional information for each of the events. If you are interested in Diablo PCA logo wear and other items, check out our new webstore on the PCA.org site. Name Badges - Click here to order your personalized name badge. We encourage wearing name badges to avoid those awkward moments when you can't remember a name. The Summer edition of the Devil's Advocate is available this now. Please Click here to view the most recent edition. If you have contributions to the Devil's Advocate, please send them to Maiko Woodson-Mendoza at BOD Meetings - Board of Directors (BOD) meetings held on the second Monday of the month are open to all Diablo PCA members. If you are interested in participating in a meeting, contact our club president Bob Hilton (DiabloPCA. Affiliate Members - If you have a spouse or a friend that is interested in Porsches. consider adding them as an Affiliate PCA Member. Affiliate members get their own PCA number and can have a separate email address. There is no charge for adding an Affiliate member. If you need assistance with adding an Affiliate member, contact our Membership Chair, Michael Caine at Diablo PCA has a new way for members to connect. We have created a Facebook Group just for you. Here you will find members telling members about drives they've taken, cars they have seen, posting photos, letting each other know about informal get togethers and much more. You will also get news hot off the press from Diablo PCA. Everyone is welcome to join just click on Diablo Region - Porsche Club of America Group. So please come join the fun and share your love of Porsche, because; it's not just the cars - it's the people. As the saying goes, "many hands make light work". We are looking for members to raise their hands as volunteers. As Diablo Region members, we enjoy an active calendar of driving tours, DE days, social events and other club activities throughout the year. These events simply don't happen organically. It takes the combined efforts of many volunteers to make the magic happen. If you are interested in helping out, we can surely use your help. We are especially interested in people helping to plan events. Whether you are an original "Founding" Diablo member or joined yesterday, volunteer today by contacting Bob Hilton at Volunteers needed - Help improve Diablo's image! No, we're not looking for a campaign consultant. We need one or two volunteer graphic artists or designers to work with a team of other volunteers to design a distinctive "Diablo Shirt" in the next two months and participate in redesigning diablo-pca.org, our website, over the next year. Please express your interest by August 31st by contacting Bob Hilton, Diablo President, at Have you created your Digital Membership Card yet? PCA members can now opt in to the digital membership card, available for Apple and Android digital wallets. Visit PCADigitalCard.org for more information. Events Save the date for the following events: 12/2/2023 Holiday Party at Fat Maddie's Recurring Events
Tours Save the date for the following Tours: If you are aware of some fun roads to drive, or an interesting destination, please contact the Tour Committee (Susie George, Registration for tours and other events is done via Eventbrite (you will need to create an account with Eventbrite to register for a tour). Watch for a link to the registration site in this section of the ENews or on our website. Tours often sell out the same day tickets go on sale. Be prepared to sign-up for tours as soon as registration is open. If you are unable to register for the tour, add your name to the waitlist in case of cancellations. Emails regarding last-minute Tour information and openings for waitlisted individuals will come from Eventbrite and If you wish to purchase your own radio, the Club is using the Motorola Talkabout T800 radios. These are sold in pairs through Amazon for about $85.00. These radios are FRS/GMRS compatible, have 22 channels and 121 privacy codes (or sub-channels). Driver Education (DE) 2023 Diablo Region DE Schedule Click here for general information on Diablo PCA HPDE days.
2023 Golden Gate Region DE Schedule
Zone 7 Events 2023 Zone 7 Autocross - Click here for information on the Zone 7 Autocross schedule. 2023 Zone 7 Concours - Click here for information on the Zone 7 Concours series.
2024 Shasta Region Tour, June 20-24, 2024 PCA/PCNA Events Click here for a list of upcoming PCA events.
Click here to Contact key Diablo PCA Contacts Events: Gene Stoegbauer Tours: Susie George Driver Education (DE): Ed Won Communications/Eventbrite Registration: Carolyn Wong Membership: Juan & Rowena Fernandez Devil’s Advocate: Maiko Woodson-Mendoza Webmaster: Anthony Mendoza President: Bob Hilton |