History
CENTRAL NEW YORK
REGION
PORSCHE CLUB
OF AMERICA
In the year 1957 several enthusiastic
Porsche drivers in the
Central New York area combined forces and began
to lay the groundwork for a new and very elite organization.
Elite because Porsches had only been in America
since 1950 and there were only a handful of them on the roads.
Banding together seemed like a wise idea.
Obviously for the sake of camaraderie, but also for the advice
and assistance a fellow owner might provide about these strange little
newcomers!
Dorothy and Clarence Rutbell, Max
Bunnell, and several others prepared the Charter proposal.
An official Porsche Club of America Charter was granted to
Central New York Region on August 24, 1957.
CNY was the third region chartered.
The national organization had been established in the
Washington
D.C. area in 1955.
And so, the CNY Region was off and running with a handful of
members.
Today, some 50 years later, the
tradition is strong. CNY has
275 members and ranges geographically from
Canada to Pennsylvania.
We are a close-knit group which, as our predecessors did, relies
on and involves our fellow members on a regional, zone and national
basis for assistance, advice and fellowship.
