You lovingly wash and wax your vehicle on most sunny weekends, spending time detailing every single blotch, nick, scrape, or other damaging mark on your car's exterior. Part of the deal with owning any vehicle is making certain that it looks its best week in and week out. Still, you may not be doing all that you can to protect the finish. Other enemies including bird excrement, acid rain, and even harmful UV rays can thwart the best efforts of even the most diligent car owner. Fortunately, there is one automotive accessory that can help keep your car clean, provided you use it when your car is parked for an extended length of time. What am I talking about? Car covers!

Picture this: It’s a late night in March 2011. The events of 2010 still swirling in you head. It is a cold night, pouring rain, the wind howling, it begins to sleet, {no you’re not at Pocono One, get back into the moment,} your fumbling for the keys of your brand new GT3. You are in a vast, freshly paved parking lot, it seems to have no end in sight.  There is only one other car in the lot, could it be? It looks like a 356 but could it be, no it couldn’t be the number one. There is a man, tall, well maybe not so tall, dressed in a trench coat standing next to it, with his back towards you. You begin to walk over and hear a phone ring, the man answers, and you hear: Tom it’s me, we got trouble, big trouble. The Usual Suspects, round them up, they got some explaining to do. He hops into the mystery 356 and roars off, taillights fading into the late night’s rain.

It has been a long standing NNJR tradition. We kicked off our 2010 season with the Annual Swap Meet at Shade Tree Garage in Morristown. Some came to make room and money by selling. Others came to add to their stuff or find a bargain. Some came to see NNJR friends and talk about the upcoming driving season. It has always been a great excuse to get everyone together and see what you can buy or sell. Every space was taken by something Porsche; be it seats, wheels, tires, shirts or model cars.  Some members had brand new items that they practically gave away. I wish it was something I needed. We also had a limited number of Porscherama travel mugs for sale. If you missed out, I think Marlys has a few stashed away; a bargain at $5.00 each. Yes we had it all, including 611 and HoosierDaddy.