Porsches to Oxford - July 29-31 Come see 400+ Porsches & Swap meet!

July 29-31 is the date for the annual Porsche's to Oxford event benefiting the American Cancer Society. Held in the city center of Oxford Ohio, a cozy little college town, P2O has become one of the largest Porsche events in the country, regularly drawing more than 400 cars. Spend the day hanging out with fellow Porsche owners while enjoying the convenience of several Bistros, coffee shops and ice-cream parlors within yards of your parking spot.

Like last year, there will be a swap meet for used parts. There is no charge for used parts venders, so pack up the truck with unwanted items and bring them out to sell. Few swap meets will have as large an audience as you will find at P2O! If you would like to reserve a swap space, please contact me at "Cornpanzer (at) Sbcglobal.net"

Hope to see you there!

http://www.porsches2oxford.com/

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Hhmmm, that would be a good event for..... something.:cool:

Just a reminder that this event is only 7 days away. If you have parts that you want to sell, bring them. The swap spaces are no charge for non-commercial venders. Great event with a Starbucks, ice-cream and several Bistro's and bars just a few steps away from the cars.

That's was an excellent car. I think that would be a good event.

Looks like Sat will be the coolest day of the week, so it should be good. Over 400 cars pre-registered as of this week. Bring your sunscreen and lemonade.

Dave...Sorry to say Carol and I won't be able to share the parking space next to you this year. Parade. Hope you have a good time!

Vic

Oxford, Ohio Show on July 30th.......uh
Show was great...but
The show was great and very HOT.

I took my all original low mileage 1973.5. 911T, even paint was original, car bought by my uncle new in 1973.

There were maybe 400-500 cars, but when a car like a 2012 Speedster gets top billing as one of the show cars, it just does not make sense to me. The car was no doubt great, but it just takes money like over 200k and bingo you get a brick.

The show was billed as a Porsche Party, but no one understood who was considered a nice car to get a award.

Out of all the cars I had the only 1973 911, the long hoods were only about 15 cars, much different then past cars show I been too. Mostly new cars and of course a group of 356. A 356 was best of show, that makes sense, and some 914 did well that's good, but why would the people judging not understand good great unmolested Porsche's, most were just new cars that people can buy for large money.

I know when I attends Wayne's Wine Tour in CA it was loaded with good early 911's that to me is the difference between Ohio cars and CA cars.

My 2 cents

Later

Yes, the show was very hot but I still had a great time. And yes, there was a lot of late model cars entered this year - there was more water in the car show than the community swimming pool! :D ;)

There are several reasons why there were not more vintage cars this year. The first and most obvious is because the Porsche Parade is this weekend also in Atlanta. I know that there are many 356 owners who don't miss the Parade for any reason. This likely drew some early 911s too. Also, it was 90+ degrees. Late model Porsches have that silly option called Air Conditioning. :confused: If the heat was going to keep anyone away, it would be those without AC

More longhoods at shows in California than here in the rustbelt of the Midwest...well, yeah I suppose you got us there.

Regarding judging. The only 2011 Speedster that I saw was the blue one by the square. This was owned by the Chairperson for the event who spent hundreds of hours to make the event happen and paid all his expenses out of pocket (transporting three cars, hotel, etc). He also paid full rate to have his cars in Marilyn's Row. Oh, and he didn't allow his cars to be included in the judging and thus did not win an award. So, I'm not sure what you mean by "top billing".

The judging policy was pretty simple - participant judging. The cars that won were the ones that were voted for by your fellow participants. People's choice. Yes, this leads to the occasional imbalance - fellow club members voting for each others cars for example - but it is the easiest way to to judge 450 cars over the course of about 5 hours. The cars that got awards were the cars that most people voted for.

I didnt win a brick, but I had a super time anyway. I talked to a lot of people, explained to many why a 6-cyl car would have 12 spark plugs and even got a ride in the 910! :cool: Its no mystery that I love the early cars, but funny enough one of my favorite cars yesterday was a new Boxter. :eek: The owner had chosen a creamy vanilla paint with brick red interior and it was stunning. He explained that salesman and several of his family members thought it was going to be hideous, but he did it anyway and got himself a really unique and attractive Boxter. Half the fun of these events is talking to the fellow participants. Sometimes you find out that there is a great story behind some of those "everyday' cars.

I took quite a few pics - will try to post later

Sure I had a good time.

But judging by follow Porsche lovers? Odd.....been to many shows and I find judging is a art. You MUST know the cars. I could see many judges do not understand how, when, parts, originally in vintage Porsches. To be fair it's quite complex and you must be a judge most likely on era. A 356 judge would not be able to know all the 911 long hood stuff.

As far as heat, from talking to long hood buddies, they have decided the show is geared more to "look what I have or could buy", not as many gear heads like here on Pelican.

These new cars, do not need parts from Pelican or Stoddard, they just go back to the friendly Porsche dealer with money in hand. Wish I had $100,000 laying around in a drawer, but if I did I like to wrench. But of course someone bought my 1973 new (my uncle) and I am glad he did.

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For my two cents, it was a warm weekend, with a broad cross-section of attendance which clearly led to a broad cross-section of folks who might think something was interesting when I didn't.

I got some answers on final upholstery details for my '59 356 cab (even while I noticed one guy who had upholstered his entire engine compartment). I saw a chopped-and-apparently-channeled "356" which had to be the weirdest porsche I've ever seen, but the builder apparently had fun doing it. I was heartened to see a bunch of nice 912s, including one that lacked the rain deflector, itself, even while it had the spacers for the rain guard (which, ironically, was for sale if he had only gone to the swap meet across the street).

I could say that the swap meet was disappointing, with only two little vendors, but I managed to find a special window crank that I've been seeking for at least a year, so it wasn't so bad.

My personal preferences always run to the historic cars. Personally, I've never figured out the allure of aftermarket wings, but that's just me. Letting any attendee vote for their favorite is certainly one way to do it, but given that premise, and based on the attention she was getting, I'm kind of surprised that the long-legged brunette in the cowboy hat didn't get 'best of show.'

Like I said, it's just my two cents.

ms

Yes, there was another long leg girl in 4 inch heels, I almost voted for her.

But, seriously I could not figure out some of the things people spend good hard money on.

That's why I like the long hood guys, most are motor heads, the early 911's are great track cars and they were a daily affordable driver then and now.

Later

Here is a good cross section.

A few more

Got to go for a ride in a 910 - more on this later
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Ludwig, the Mad 2.8 ran great to and from. What a fun little motor.

Solid photos Dave! That Slate Grey car is damn beautiful! Plus that black one with the 2.8 is pretty decent. ;) I think your car is quickly becoming one of my favs.

Great pics. Dave your motor looks fantastic. That 910 is too cool....I bet the ride was insane in that.

This is Ron Thomas; I am the chairman of P2O. Bill sorry you did not win a brick at P2O.I can tell you this event is a TON of work. Last year in my first year I added the Taj Ma Garaj Tour, The Rally in the park friday night and vendors around the park. I have thought about the voting system a lot over these two years. You are not the only one that has mentioned that they got upset about not winning a brick. Unless your Boxster has special wheels or an odd color you wont get a brick. 924's, 968's, 944's, 928's, kit cars. Cayman's, Cayenne's don't usually win either. There was at least one long hood that won this year, we will post the results soon at www.p2o.us Last year my long hood would have won a brick but I gave it to another contestant, I exclude my self from the results. As far as what usually wins are early cars including 356's and cars with unusual features win bricks. I can tell you my $205,000 2011 Speedster got a lot less votes than my 1956 Speedster which I bought for $35,000 so spending a lot of money on a car is not the answer either. With around 450 cars and 50 bricks we send home 400 people with out bricks.Only 10% of the cars/people win. With the sponsor bricks I have to pick up 75 of them, glue the plaques on and carry them to the show. If I could get more help we could increase that to 100 bricks but I do need help with that. I have thought about adding classes so everyone has a chance to win even if you drive a Boxster, Cayenne, Cayman or 924,944,928 etc. Not that there is anything wrong with those cars, i own some of them also. Prior to being chairman they use to count the 4500 votes by hand, Last year I had a software guy make a system so my fiancee could simply enter the 4500 votes (450 ballots x 10 votes each) cars in a computer and it spits out the results. That system took it from 5 people to one person but still takes over 3 hours to do. We could do it by class but that would really make figuring out the results even more time consuming, if again we could get some help that would be great. I still feel that peoples choice is better than a judged show for this event. As an owner of 7 long hoods believe me I love those early cars. My suggestion is that you get as many long hoods as you can to come next year and vote for each other, that way you may go home with a brick. Please keep in mind that this show is billed as a casual Porsche Party and we want it to be a fun event to raise money for cancer. Please feel good about your attendance at the show, you helped raise over $11,000 for the American Cancer Society. I can tell you I have already started planing for next year. If you would like to help out that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Ron Thomas

PS; Dave is wrong about a $5 trophy the bricks are $.60 each but the plaque that gets glued on them cost about $9 so a total of ten bucks

PSS; At least I did something right, I hired the Brunette with the cowboy hat to sell 50/50 tickets:)

Nice response Ron. I started to comment earlier but removed it as i felt it didnt add anything.. its a bummer the way cars that just rolled off the lot win, but at the same time, its a democratic vote. the people spoke. its hard to put on an event of this magnitude and you do it very well. like the old adage says, you cant please all of the people all of the time

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PSS; At least I did something right, I hired the Brunette with the cowboy hat to sell 50/50 tickets

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ROFLMAO

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Solid photos Dave! That Slate Grey car is damn beautiful! Plus that black one with the 2.8 is pretty decent. ;) I think your car is quickly becoming one of my favs.

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Yeah I'll second that Bob! Mark's slate gray car looks fantastic. I can't believe he mentioned over on Pelican moving back into a 993. Silly guy, someone down in Dayton smack him one.;)

Olivia looks great too Dave. Can't wait to experience the 2.8 personally.:)

Ron, I know it takes work and the main cause is to collect money for cancer.

But, the show is not for me, when a 1974 911 Targa highly modified, and a 2010 Porsche win it's just a popularity contest.

Sorry, I did not know it's just people voting for their buddies cars. I belong to a different PCA group and only knew one person and I never asked him to vote for me.

Sure, people sometimes will vote based on originally , but its not that kind of show and this is why most long hoods stayed away. Only one 1973, only one E car, sure Cornpazer has photos, but the bulk of the cars are new.....

Regards

No, that's not a good cross section, your just showing the few vintage photos. I seen very few 1969-73 911 long hoods, I should know I had the only 1973 period, my friend had only one E car a 1970 E, no S cars. Only one 1972 Targa.

Later

Ron or Dave - can you guys make up a special brick and mail it to this guy? That way we can get this thread back on track. The rest of us just want to see more photos of the event itself. :rolleyes:

Over the weekend we lost a wonderful P-car mechanic and shop owner here in DC to a long battle with cancer. I have not been to P2O, but it sounds like a wonderful event and the type of event our friend would have truly loved. A bunch of guys coming together to talk shop and swap lies about Porsche cars. He got great satisfaction out of helping all kinds of folks with answers on topics ranging from 4 cam to GT3RS and he knew them all. This spring he was helping me with an engine, the kemo had effected the sensation in his fingers, so he could not start bolts etc....So he stood over me and gave me direction...it was wonderful..he would let me go down the wrong path just far enough and then stop me and say..So..take a look at that, don't you think ______, and then he would describe why the part I was working on was designed the way it was and how Porcsche developed it over the years...it was a wonderful learning experience and we will miss our friend.

Please let me know if their is a website for donations as we would like to make a donation in his name

Thx..DM

fwiw, there were a number of early cars there, including 9 912s... several of those walked away with bricks.

i forgot my camera at home so no pics here curt. :(

Hope I didn't raffle a bunch of feathers here.

I said no long hood 911, not 912.

I apologize to whom ever I offended.

Regards,

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Originally Posted by wgwollet

Hope I didn't raffle a bunch of feathers here.

I said no long hood 911, not 912.

I apologize to whom ever I offended.

Regards,

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This is a hobby that crosses many borders. When crossing borders you learn tolerance........

I know Ed Pimm was going to bring his E model 911 and did not make it. He probably got busy at his shop. Any how since there were 21 long hoods and 10 bricks awarded I think that was more than fair.Remember on 10 percent of people that attend the show win a brick. Obviously the crowd like 10 of the cars but not all of them. Your car must not have been what they are looking for? The idea is to have fun at this "Casual Porsche Event" at this point I am not having any fun defending the results. The other idea is to raise money for cancer. when my father died last November I asked the funeral director what percentage off people die from cancer, he said if you counted the ones that die from other complications related from cancer the number was 70 to 80 percent. You got a T-shirt, poster, program and a pen. 80 people won door prizes at either $10 each or $25 each so I would say this event was a good one for all. If you dont want to come again that is fine, but please dont bash the event. That is just not right and fair to everyone that works so hard to make this a great event. We did take your name off the P2O email list so you wont be bothered with the show again. Thanks Ron Thomas Chairperson

Ron,
Dude, keep the faith!

Luke

I actually didn't know there was a 50/50 drawing, but if the Chairman hired the brunette to sell those tickets, he's a genius. i would have bought 50 of them. one at a time, of course. in fact, i would have bought tickets from her after the drawing was over.

in restrospect, i should have hired her to 'encourage' people to drop by the swap meet, but i'm not as smart as the chairman.

ms

Ron

Its a people's choice meet, great show and hope you continue the good work. Next time you should have that long leg girl hand out the bricks, I am sure no one would complain.

Regards,

Ron,
Just want to say thanks for putting on such a great show. I appreciate everybody's hard work.
Last year was my first Porsche show with my first car. I have been to a few others since then, and P2O ranks at the top with me.
I'm grateful to all for the opportunity to enjoy the people, cars and charming town, as well as supporting a worthy charity. (and the bricks)
Please keep up the good work!

Bud

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Solid photos Dave! That Slate Grey car is damn beautiful! Plus that black one with the 2.8 is pretty decent. ;) I think your car is quickly becoming one of my favs.

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Thanks Bob! I think it turned out pretty nice. Taking it to the dyno tonight. It still has some jetting issues that need to be addressed. Hopefully will have that all taken care of by the weekend. Also, still waiting for my spare from Harvey and my last door pocket from Porsche. Should be all done in a few weeks. And Brian, I do miss my 993 and will get another one. Most fun car I have ever had (not including Lilly since I have only driven her 100 miles) but I will probably just add a 993 and not sell Lilly to get one. It is always fun to ruffle feathers. Most of it is intended to get to Dave :)

Anyway, the event was awesome! It was nice to take a car that means so much to me and that I have so much time in to an event like this and have it appreciated! It makes it all worth it. I am not a car show guy. I like to drive them not show them but it really felt good to have her appreciated. Oh yea, was also awesome to get the bricks :) Sorry WG......but I saw a few longhoods get bricks. I also saw your car and it looked nice. And Ron, awesome event!! All of your efforts are extremely appreciated and I cant tell you how happy it made my daughters that helped on the car come up on stage!! Thanks!!! [/B]