Member Update: 7/21/24

7/24/2024 – Wednesday – Our popular Happy Hour returns on a new night and a new venue! Join your fellow members Wednesday, July 24th at Steiner Ranch Steakhouse located at 5424 Steiner Ranch Blvd., Austin in Steiner Ranch. Steiner Ranch Steakhouse has a great happy hour menu. 

This event begins at 5:00 pm – hope to see you there!

7/27/2024 – Saturday – A brand new event, Ladies Brunch, at the League Kitchen and Tavern at Avery Ranch, 10526 W.Parmer Lane, Austin. The venue is located in Building 4, Suite 401. This event is designed for the Women of Porsche who cannot attend a weekday lunch, but would like to gather and meet each other on the weekend. Ladies Brunch begins at 11:30. Please register on Club Registration.

8/1/2024 – Thursday – Our advertiser, COBB Tuning, holds an event each first Thursday of the month at their headquarters in Austin, 2311 W. Rundberg Lane, Suite 500. COBB sells their Accessport which remaps a car’s ECU to gain horsepower and torque.  They also manufacturer and sell aftermarket performance products; air induction, exhaust, cooling etc.  This is a non-PCA HCR event, and various other car manufacturers will be represented there as well.  COBB got their start with Subarus and have since branched out to Fords, VW, Audis, Porsches and a few others.

What COBB has planned for us:

  • Food and drinks (non-alcoholic) provided for all
  • Tech seminar on our Porsche-specific approach to tuning
  • On-dyno session with a 95B.1 Porsche Macan GTS (Stock, Stage1, Protune)
  • “Garage sale” on past products we’ve used in development that we no longer need
  • On-site flashing/installation for any customers that purchase an AP
  • Flash-sale pricing across our entire apparel line-up

Everyone is welcome, Porsche owner or not! 

Please RSVP by emailing Crystal at “crystal@hcrpca.org” by July 31, 2024, for headcount purposes.

8/3/2024 – Saturday – Porsche and Coffee at Werks 11, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. Julian Avent, HCR member and owner of Werks11, hosts Cars and Coffee 201 FM 1237 Troy TX.  This is an increasingly popular Saturday opportunity to meet HCR members and other Porsche owners for informal conversation and a chance to ogle the cars in the Werks11 shop.

8/4/2024 – Sunday – CENTRAL – Let’s Get Together Rudy’s Country Store, 7709 RR 620, Austin, 9:00 am – 11:00 am. This is a great opportunity to chat with your fellow Porsche enthusiasts, while showing off your own Porsche beauty! Swing by at your leisure – no reservation needed.

8/6/2024 – Tuesday – Sippin’ in Dripping’ – The monthly HCR Meet-Up in The Hill Country – this is a standing event on the 1st Tuesday evening of each month 6:30 – 8:30 PM! Just drop in. No reservation needed for this informal opportunity to Meet-Up with your fellow Porsche enthusiasts. This is a no host event but please contact Mike Seningen mike.seningen@hcrpca.org with any questions. Join us at –

Suds Monkey Brewing Company
12024 US-290, Austin, TX 78737
(512) 222-3893

8/7/2024 – Wednesday – Ladies Lunch, Please join the Hill Country Ladies at Freda’s Seafood Grill for the August Ladies Luncheon. Freda’s is located at 10903 Pecan Park Blvd., in Austin. Lunch starts at 11:30 am and please RSVP and register on Club Registration by clicking here. See you there!

If you have any questions email  michelle.freudenberger.hcr@gmail.com.

8/8/2024 – Thursday – Lunch Bunch adds yet another new venue to our list of interesting Austin area restaurants.  This month we will convene at Pappasito’s Cantina.  We have had several successful lunches at Pappasito’s sister restuarant, Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen.  This month we will sample Pappasito’s extensive menu of tasty Tex-Mex dishes.  Join us to enjoy some great Tex-Mex food as well as the always enlightening company of your fellow club members. 

11:30 am – 1:30 pm at Pappasito’s Cantina, 6513 I-35 N., Austin, TX 78752. No pre-registration or RSVP required.

8/11/2024 – Sunday – Doin’ Coffee and Donuts in Drippin’ – Sunday morning 9:00 am – 11:00 am. We meet at Le Muse Coffee Bar, 505 Wynnpage Drive, Dripping Springs (in Caliterra). Contact Crystal Zarpas crystal@hcrpca.org with any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there!

8/15/2024 – Thursday – Brewery Night, more information to come!

8/17/2024 – Saturday – Boxster 101 with Chris McChesney, one of our most popular Tech Sessions returns to the schedule on 8/17/2024. Details and location to be announced. 

8/18/2024 – Sunday – North informal Get Together, join us 9:00 am – 11:00 am at Red Horn Brewery & Roastery, located at 1615 Scottsdale Drive, Building 1, Suite 110 in Leander. The entire back parking lot is set aside for HCR members, with picnic tables and our own access through the rear entrance. Red Horn serves great coffee and breakfast items. See you there! 

8/24/2024 – Saturday – Please join us on August 24 for a Tech Session at Driven by Design, a new advertiser for the club.  We’ll hear a little bit about the services provided by Driven by Design, our local authorized Techart Dealer but the main focus will be understanding how police radar is used and how increased driver awareness and protection can be achieved with the use of the latest radar detector/ app based technology whether you have a radar detector or not. The conversation will include insight from a 17 year veteran police officer who happens to own Driven By Design after retiring. 

Of course, breakfast will be available to get the morning off to a good start.  Plan on arriving around 8:30 to allow for check-in and breakfast.   We’ll get started at 9:00 AM and the session will run for about two hours or so.

There will be a free raffle for a new Escort Max 4 radar detector for all participants in attendance. Driven By Design is located at 12100 FM 1826, Suite 950, Austin.  Registration to open in Club Registration on July 25th.

8/28/2024 – Wednesday – Our popular Happy Hour continues at its new venue! Join your fellow members Wednesday, 8/28 at Steiner Ranch Steakhouse located at 5424 Steiner Ranch Blvd., Austin in Steiner Ranch. Steiner Ranch Steakhouse has a great happy hour menu. This event begins at 5:00 pm – hope to see you there!