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From the Archives #9, November 2022

The Las Vegas Region newsletter, named “Sandscript” for the first time in February 1975, asked readers to support the advertisers. It was noted that without the advertisers, the monthly newsletter wouldn’t be possible. The issue contained 14 ads. These included a beauty salon, a jeweler, three restaurants, two gas stations, a printing shop, a house painter, a real estate agent, and four having to do with Porsches. The latter included a half-rear-cover ad from Sunland Motors, the Porsche-Audi dealer of the day. This was the largest and most expensive ad, so good on Sunland.

The February Sandscript included a listing of the PCA Zone 8 events scheduled for the 1975 year. It pointed out that the Las Vegas Region was the smallest Region in Zone 8, and that the LVR was fortunate in having such a well-organized and active nearby Zone in which to participate. (Nearby??) I can’t resist noting that the rally events for the year included one in the Santa Barbara Region, which was rallymastered by none other than your writer of these “Archive” columns. OMG, that was almost fifty years ago.

Indicative of the economics of 1975 in the LVR, it was reported that the Region’s profit from the spring Drivers’ Education (DE) event was $21.81. That brought the balance in the LVR treasury to $685.16. My, how times have changed. Also indicative of the simple and trusting environment in 1975 (compared to today), was the approval by the LVR Board of “an undetermined amount of money” for the development of the Region’s logo and production by a “reasonably priced company” of name tags and jacket patches.

And finally for this month, we see that the February Tech Session for the LVR, held at Porschaus (soon to be Carl’s Place), covered subjects from “cleaning the floor mats” to “how to negotiate a type one turn on a real race course.” (I don’t know what a type one turn is, so don’t ask me.)