Porsche Race Car Donation “Pays it Forward” to WOT
By Jim Weidenbaum | SCCA Foundation Board of Directors
“Pam’s generous donation will help fund the continued growth of the Women on Track scholarships and mentorship programs that are helping to lower the barriers to entry to SCCA racing in all forms.”
Pam Susslin is an adventurer and a competitor, but more than that she is a generous and gracious individual, especially thankful for those who have helped open doors for women race car drivers. When not pushing herself summiting a mountain, skiing down a slalom course, or racing down a single-track bike trail, Pam loved nothing better than racing her 1998 Porsche Spec Boxster. Though not an SCCA member, she was so impressed by SCCA’s Women on Track program she looked further into the SCCA Foundation where she also discovered outstanding programs such as Tire Rack Street Survival for teen drivers. When a chronic vision condition recently ended her ability to continue competitive motorsports, she generously donated her race car to the SCCA Foundation to be used as a fundraiser.
Pam’s Porsche has been professionally maintained by ex-Andial Racing’s Dwain Dement’s Vision Motorsports, a Porsche-only race car shop in Laguna Hills, CA. The car has recently been race-prepped with a rebuilt motor, refreshed cooling system, and brakes. The car should be fully race-ready to roll off a trailer and go racing subject to inspection and updates of driver safety equipment.
The Porsche Spec Boxster is a fun, safe, reliable race car which has been granted favorable competitive adjustments to race in SCCA Touring 3 road racing competition and – new for 2025 – Touring 4, as well as being legal for SCCA Time Trials. The Boxster has its own dedicated race class with PCA and can also race with NASA, ChampCar, POC, endurance racing series, and more.
The Foundation listed the car for sale on our website and received several expression of interest. Texas Region’s Ralph Siebert made a generous offer of $24,000, which was accepted by the Foundation Board of Directors.
“Pam’s generous donation – and Ralph’s purchase of the car – will help fund the continued growth of the Women on Track scholarships and mentorship programs that are helping to lower the barriers to entry to SCCA racing in all forms,” said SCCA Foundation Chair Jeff Jacobs. “And the added financial support for teen driver education through the Tirerack Street Survival program comes just in time for the launch of our 2025 schools across the country.”
The Foundation also thanks Tom Berry for assistance picking up the car when it was donated, and to Wilwood Brakes for safely storing the car in California for us for several months.