Riesentöter Region: Porsche Club of America

2010-01

Print vs. Pixels: The Newsletter Quandary raises its head during the January edition of Der Gasser. (See March 2012 for the winner)

2010-05

President Graham Knight places his 2004 911 GT3, white with natural brown full leather interior for sale in Der Gasser's Marktplatz for a cool $54k/OBO. (He drives a BMW now so I guess he sold it)

2010-07

An ad in Der Gasser is seeking a home for 200

used by the autocross team as Brian Minkin needs his space back.

2011-01-28

Lainey Drake and Steve Landstra tie the knot at the Daytona International Speedway in Victory Lane during the Rolex 24 Hour. The reception was held in the Daytona 500 club lounge which overlooks the front straight of the speedway

2011-04-9

Nick Benz of RTR and Dogfish Brewery gives us the special tour as over 35 Porsches make their way down to Delaware and later over on the ferry to Cape May to spend the night.

2011-05-20

Todd Reid wins Race Track Combat, a DocuDrama, at NJMP in the rain by a full 39 seconds over the #2 car.

2012-03

After a small hiatus Der Gasser makes its digital only premier.

2012-04

Linda Erwin's 2003 Lapis Blue Metallic Porsche 911 Turbo (996T) is featured as Der Gasser's Porsche of The Month

2012-06-24

Spelunking with Riesentöter as we go to Crystal Cave in Kutztown then visit the Virginville Hotel for lunch

2012-08

August's Der Gasser back-cover picture trivia is a Porsche 718 F1 car owned by privateer Carel Godin de Beaufort which was raced between 1961 and 1964

2012-09-09

We visit the first distillery in Pennsylvania since prohibition Philadelphia Distilling

2013-06

Riesentöter wins best Website Award from PCA

2013-06-22

110 members show up for the RTR annual picnic at the Valley Forge Fire House. Along with catered picnic food there is a Drive-in Movie double feature:

2013-08-04

Riesentöter raises close to $10,000 for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley during an autocross at Coca-Cola Park.

2013-08-09

Riesentöter drives to another country as we caravanned to Niagara Falls Canada. View some of the pictures here

2014-02-22

Riesentöters participate in the February Farm Freeze Run. It's a top down, windows down, hats on, gloves on, scarves on, drive through the country to have lunch at Wyebrook Farm

2014-05-17

President Jeffrey Walton hits what he dubs the "Trenton Trench" as he leads a group of members to Grounds for Sculpture.

2014-08-01

Over 60 Riesentöters drive to Annapolis to spend the weekend where we toured the Naval Academy and ate our way through this lovely city.

2014-10-10

Riesentöters holds the first ever Porsche club race at the famed private Monticello Motor Club

2014-12-03

A Literal Food Drive

131 Porsches
7,460 pounds of food provided for Philabundance
2 miles of caravan
Over 8,000 meals supplied
5th largest donation to WMMR's Camp-out for Hunger
Riesentöters at their best.
Check out the pictures

2015-04-25

35 Porsches show up for Detail Day at the warehouse of our fellow member Jonathan Santomauro. Inside was stuff dreams are made of as well as coffee donuts, pizza and soda for all.

2015-08-01

73 Riesentoters and 37 Porsches trekked 6 hours to Grafton Vermont for the annual road trip.

2015-12-02

Bigger and Better

182 Porsche
17,640 pounds of food provided for Philabundance
3 miles of caravan
Over 20,000 meals supplied
Bucks, Conshohocken, Delaware, Lehigh, Main Line Porsche dealers all sent cars
Capital Grille and Fabspeed sponsored as well
Check out the Jeep vs Porsche banter on WMMR

2016-07-23

Riesentöters take a caravan to the Mecum Auctions at Harrisburg to partake in the jaw-dropping experience of a-live-on-air car auction.

2016--07-29

66 members travel to The Omni at Bedford Springs and on Saturday we visit Falling Waters a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. before ending up at the Flight 93 Memorial for a few moments of silence.

2016-08-06

Teaching Teens to drive though Tire Rack's Street Survival as Riesentoter, SSCA, and the BMW club all join forces to ensure there are better drivers in the future. Car accidents are the number one cause of death among teenagers.

2017-03-16

Porsches and Pinball and 30 or so members assemble at the Pinball Gallery to take the edge off the end of day light savings by having a happy hour while playing the silver ball. Cheese, wine and beer was available during tense rounds with the flippers and bumpers.

2017-05-14

Surprise charity laps takes place at Pocono when a group of disable kids happened to be there for a State Police event. 75+ DEer's took the kids out on the North Course for 3 laps as well as some of the officers. No tickets were given.

2017-09-8

Riesentoter's 60th Anniversary Bash was held in the Pocono's at the Camel Back Resort and the Pocono Raceway. We rented out the entire track and held 3 days of DE and 2 days of AX. There was a scenic drive to Lake Wallenpaupack and an 84 mile rally on Saturday - won by President Walton and his navigator Wendy Walton. Satruday was a free dinner at Camel Back where you could purchase our 60th Anniversary Knob Creek Bourbon made especially for our club.

2018-05-19

We visited the quintessential watch maker in the United States - Roland G. Murphy for the second time in 6 months. The first event proved so popular we had to add a second. Our members were given a private tour and first-hand experience of each step in the watch making process. The following year we raffled a special Riesentoter Watch made by the RGM Watch Company

2018-06-23

Back for a second time, 25 cars received a RTR Cooler Tote and a set of directions which led them through the countryside in search of cheese. Along the way they stopped at:

2018-11-03

Take a ride on the Colebrookdale Express. We booked the entire dining car of the famous Boyertown train and had a nice little jaunt through woods and over hills and back. It's was a crisp fall day and just perfect for the 2 hour ride.

2019-05-18

Once again a few fastest finger members were lucky enough to grab seats at our Bourbon Tasting at The Capital Grille in King of Prussia. 22 members dined on bone-in, Kona-rubbed strip steak, while we sipped Maker's Mark 46, Basil Haydens Dark Rye (a table favorite), and a special appearance by our Riesentoter's 60th Anniversary Single-barrel, Knob Creek. One hell of an evening.

2019-10-23

First ever night rally was Halloween theme. Each team was given a flashlight pen, a set of directions, candy and blow pops, and two envelopes. Directions were encrypted like turn left on a street where his ghost might be seen in Valley Forge Park. Along the way they made stops at:

Pennhurst Asylum
Fricks Lock - an abandon town
Corn Maze to seek a box with directions
A Spookie Cemetery visit
Trick or Treating at an in-laws house
Final Stop at Sips Bistro for some grub and prizes

2019-11-30

Our big annual charity event was given a new name because we invited all area car clubs to join us on a Saturday at Citizen Bank Park. Plus we are now the official kickoff event for WMMR Preston and Steve's Campout for Hunger.

27 car clubs joined us, like Mopar, Corvette, and Mustangs
Over 800 cars packed the parking lot
We had food trucks, a band, vendors, and of course porta-potties
Raffle prizes out the ass.
Total poundage a WHOPPING: 162,556 pounds of food
See Phil-a-Trunk for more details

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