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History of 914 SIG Events
Written by Charles Davis, Past Advocate

Before the 914 SIG was formed in 1998, there were several groups organizing events. The current Mid US 914 Rambles have borrowed ideas from several of these prior events.

The first big Porsche event in the world, was the Porsche Parade, first held in 1956 by Potomic Region of the Porsche Club of America. This event has grown to be the Premier Porsche event in the world. It's format and name have been copied by clubs around the world. In the US, many PCA Regions put on "mini-Parades" each year. Many of these multi-event, multi-Region activities are quite famous and historic, having been started over 30 years ago.

In the 914 arena, several Clubs started inviting other owners to get together in the mid-'90's. In 1995, Perry Kiehl organized an event in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. In 1996, Rich and Diane Johnson took over and held one in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The next year, they again held one, but this time in Branson, Missouri. Unfortunately, the 1998 event didn't happen. These first 3 events were organized under the "914 Renegade Club" umbrella and called "Renegade Festivals".

John Dunkel and Ed Villela also organized a 914 gathering in 1997, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia. John called it a "914 Ramble". Another Ramble was held in 1998, in Woodstock, Connecticut. These East Coast events were sponsored by Rennlist, since John had some influence with them.

Alan Barrilleaux wanted to meet some of the people he talked to on the Rennlist, so he suggested that the owners in the central part of the US again organize something (everything else seemed to be on the two coasts). Charlie Davis suggested that we form a Special Interest Group, as a part of PCA. This would give us access to liability insurance coverage for the activities we anticipated.

The 914 SIG was founded in late 1998 as a part of PCA. We asked John Dunkle to allow us to use the "Ramble" name and he graciously consented. Thank you, John! We really like that name. In 1999, the first Mid US 914 Ramble was held. All the previous ones on the East Coast (and the future ones, too) became, by default, East Coast Rambles. We tend to refer to them by the shorter ECR and MUSR handles. Note that the ECR was the inspiration for the original MUSR, and that without RennList and PCA, the event would not have happened.

There was a 2000 914 event on the West Coast, organized by John Larson. It was initially called a "West Coast Ramble", but someone revised the spelling to "Wramble", because they are mostly attended by wascally wabbits? Thus the initialism is "WCW". This event was not sponsored by any club or organization.

Rich and Diane Johnson were an integral part of the MUSRs, having experience with the earlier Renegade Festivals. The first MUSR was in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the second in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas, and the third in Solana, Texas.

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