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Fred, I heard Cindy picked out her new car in the top picture.
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The group started things off right by visiting Hennessy Porsche on day one.
Early Friday morning, the group walked out of the lobby of the Kimpton Hotel and were greeted with some light rain.
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precautions due to COVID-19: we would not be having instructors in the car, but would be lead-follow only. This would be interesting.
As with the last event, on arrival day we arranged a side excursion to a local Porsche dealer to get us in the mood. This year Fred made an executive decision and we headed to north Atlanta and visited Hennessy Porsche. The staff were excellent, and the facility was first class
and included a fantastic Porsche Classic area on the second floor, featuring a couple of exceptional classic Porsches. We strolled through the service garage and discovered some interesting hardware including a Carrera GT and a very rare Python Green 718 GT4! For me, a highlight was
a fantastic 2022 992 Turbo S in Carmine Red that was waiting for its new owner in the delivery area. Some day...
After discreetly stealing some Porsche logo napkins from the Cappuccino bar, we loaded up in our Chrysler Minivans, with my St. Louis PCA cohort Jonathan Neizing graciously assisting with the shuttle driving. We decided not to recreate the infamous rental car scene in Days of Thunder
and headed back to Hapeville for a casual dinner and called it an evening as we had an early start the next morning.