P2O Fans: Gear UP For Taj SpeedFest!

What better way to wet the appetite for P2O than participating in another top-shelf event like the Taj Kreuzers SpeedFest in suburban Dayton, Ohio?  The SpeedFest kicks off the season on Memorial Day weekend with their signature event: The SpeedFest Car Show on Saturday May 23, 2009 (11-4PM). Support the Taj Speedfest because the Taj SpeedFest supports Porsches 2 Oxford. Taj Kreuzers Charities return for their third year as P2O trophy sponsors.

The entire weekend is devoted to SpeedFest activities, but the founding event will be held at Kettering’s beautiful and spacious Lincoln Park Boulevard, just minutes from downtown Dayton. This low-key car show will feature Porsches and notable cars of all types displayed in a unique closed street setting for incredible panoramic views of the area’s most beautiful cars. Venue also includes: food court, permanent restroom facilities, public shelters and more. Commemorative event decals for the first 300 cars, awards, and trophies. Closing ceremonies by 3 PM.

Sponsored by Mobile Used Car Inspections & OmniSpear Web Solutions.

Admission and spectators free, donations accepted. Underlying charities include Daybreak, Ronald McDonald House, and We Care Arts.

Looking for the perfect car show nightcap to your SpeedFest weekend? Join the low-key fun for Tube Steak Extravaganza @ The Taj (6 PM – 10 PM). For twenty bucks American, we will meet at the Taj Ma Garaj (www.tajmagaraj.com) to consume mass quantities of the world famous Heart’s Hot Dogs and libations. You must be 21 to attend. The food and drink are sublime, but the Porsche eye candy is priceless. You can’t lose, so be a weiner (that’s winner) and drop on by!

For more information on all of these great activities, visit www.tajmagaraj.com.

P2O Pre-Registration Reaches 100 Earliest Ever

Official pre-registration numbers cracked the 100 mark for Porsches 2 Oxford this week, the earliest point in the event’s five years that plateau has been reached.  All the more impressive is the fact that P2O 2009 pre-registration started nearly three months later than 2008, making the gains even more exciting.  Marylynn’s Row sold out in the blink of an eye and pre-registrations for Sunday’s driving tour with the professionals at Scenic Road Rallies, LLC, is on pace to break records as well.  Enthusiasm for this year’s event is at a fever pitch and organizers are working hard to publicize and advertise P2O goodness to North America’s Porsche community.

Even better, first-time participation is over 20%. P2O veterans will be expected to do their part by welcoming the newbies with open arms and showing them the ropes.

P2O Hits the Press of the Miami University Newspaper

Enjoy the following article about Porsches 2 Oxford that appeared today in The Miami Student, the student newspaper of  Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Miami Student is the oldest university newspaper in the United States — first hitting the press in 1826.

http://tinyurl.com/d8u83n

Marylynn’s Row is SOLD OUT!

Porsches 2 Oxford organizers thought it might take eight weeks to sell all 40 Marylynn’s Row reserved parking spaces to benefit the American Cancer Society.  It took less than seven days.

P2O instituted a new reserved parking section for 2009 that allowed 40 generous attendees to donate $100 to the American Cancer Society and park their car in a prime location in uptown Oxford. The parking, known as Marylynn’s Row in honor of event co-founder Marylynn Roe, reserves street space directly next to the town bandshell and within shouting distance of show center.  Like any new wrinkle, organizers were unsure of the prospects and didn’t want to oversell it to the P2O legion of loyal supporters.  Tonight we’re gorging on humble pie!  The response was so overwhelming in the first minutes of Pre-Registration that the new hamster wheels of the P2O  web site hit redline.  We apologize to anyone who had trouble pre-registering!

With Marylynn’s Row accounted for, that still leaves 460 great spaces for other attendees to casually park and enjoy the atmosphere of P2O for just $25 — $5 of that registration going to the ACS as well.  With a goodie bag valued at nearly $40, we think P2O is the best Porsche car show bargain in the country!  Who else practically pays you to attend?  It would never happen without the continued commitment of P2O major sponsorships and supporting sponsors.

Sincerest thank yous to everyone who opened wallets and went beyond the call of duty to fill up Marylynn’s Row so quickly.  This was Marylynn’s event and her fingerprints remain all over the casual fun and good times you have come to expect in Oxford on the last weekend in July.  To leverage Marylynn’s vision with your generosity to help fight cancer is a perfect way to ensure her spirit lives on. Cancer took Marylynn from us far too soon, as has the disease for so many of your friends and family. Perhaps a few of you are courageously fighting your own battle. The ACS is there to help make a difference.  We have come this far together, and together we will help those less fortunate and dealing with a tough hand.