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TCI and RideTech announced today that TCI will now offer RideTech shocks exclusively in their chassis packages.

TCI VP/GM Sal Solorzano commented: "TCI has always led the Hotrod industry in offering the finest technology available. After careful evaluation we've selected the RideTech shock for our Muscle Car and Classic car,Classic truck chassis and suspension to ensure our customers have the best ride quality, handling performance, and reliability available today".
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Pro-Touring.com is proud to announce they will be sponsoring site members James Shipka & Mary Pozzi, Jimi Day & Saroja Raman and Carl Casanova & Jon Mahn as they take on the 2013 One Lap of America this May!
To help out Pro-Touring.com's Vintage American entries - The OneLapCamaro, The Centerforce AMXess, and the Honor Flight Camaro - Pro-Touring.com will be picking up the tab for about half of the Team's fuel costs during this year's Tire Rack One Lap of America.
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Starting on May 4 Jimi Day, James Shipka, and I will be beginning our OLoA adventrure. All of us have been feverishly preparing our cars and ourselves for this journey, but as we all know too well, stuff happens. Here's the basic route for the 2013 OLoA route:


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Long time Pro-Touring.com members James Shipka, Carl Casanova, Mary Pozzi and Jimi Day are about to embark on an event that that doesn't get any more Pro-Touring than this.

The 2013 One Lap of America is 7 days long, they will drive over 3,000 miles and they will compete in almost 20 events around the country beginning May 3'rd 2013. It is a test of not only the cars but the drivers and the drivers ability to do well day after day with little sleep.

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Nick Licata, Steven Rupp,Mary Pozzi,Jeff Smith,Wes Drelleshak,Chad Reynolds,Rick Seitz are all going down!!!

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The Centerforce AMX will joining both James Shipka and Carl Casanova in the Vintage American Class at this years One Lap of America. The Centerforce AMX will also represent OPTIMA Batteries as their entry into the field of nearly 100 cars that will make the week-long, 3400 mile, 12 event high-performance marathon. The event runs May 4-7 and the Vintage American Crew will be posting frequent updates here and throughout various social media channels. To follow the Centerforce AMX sponsored by OPTIMA ...

Bill and I were lucky enough to be invited to Adam's studio in Glendale and shoot an episode of Car Cast with him talking about the Redneck show and all things cool. This is great for all things Pro-Touring and came out better than I remember from the shoot. There is also a video of a small gift exchange from the hills of TN.

http://www.adamcarolla.com/CarCastBl...h-bill-howell/
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We have contests and do givaways all of the time on many forums. It's fun for all and many times the entire forum benefits from them.

I'm just sticking out some "feelers" to see if there is enough interest and participation on this forum as we are putting together our giveaway schedule.

What should we give away? In the past we have done benders, notchers, magnetic brakes and metal shaping equipment. We have also done $1,000 in Baileigh bucks a couple times ...

As many of you may know my father fell suddenly ill while James Shipka and I were in the middle of the 2012 One Lap of America. The OLoA with James was something that I will always look back on with mixed emotions. There are the highs of winning the events, driving with James, and co-piloting one of the greatest cars ever on a bucket-list tour of America.
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The paparazzi don’t chase Mark Stielow, but the GM program engineering manager has seen plenty of magazine photographers in his days. Follow the link below for more on the story and a cool video.

http://www.facesofgm.com/2012/12/06/...e-cover-stars/

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The first official release of the new show RU Faster Than A Redneck airing on Speed has been released. Please help spread the word and share this with the world. Season one is in the can and we need your help to make it a hit and get picked up for another season. ...

As an employee at Ridetech it was pretty exciting watching Bret slowly racking up points across the country at the GoodGuys autocross all this year. Bret and a lot of us at work put in a lot of time, like a "family", to ensure a 1st place finish. While it is kind of promotional for our business.... it felt much more like a personal accomplishment for us. Bret worked extra hard for the win, putting in a ton of time, I'm personally happy to see him succeed!

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I have installed a new classifieds tool that allows you to buy and sell items right here on the site. If you choose to accept payment through this site, the new classifieds section provides payment protections, a layout to showcase your items, and simple tools to manage your listings and purchases.

Having dealt with the team behind the new classifieds tool for a couple of months I find they are very responsive to feedback. I encourage you to try it out and use this section of the forum to talk about the new classifieds tool. If there's a feature you would like to see, ...

In this episode of HOT ROD Unlimited, David Freiburger meets up with Pro Touring legend Mark Stielow to compare old and new Camaros head to head. Mark Stielow is a GM engineer with a long history of building vintage, street-worthy Camaros with amazing handling prowess. His latest is the Red Devil, a '69 model powered by a 427ci, supercharged LS9 that tops 750 hp and 800 lb-ft. It runs a six-speed trans and complete suspension from Detroit Speed, and has won a number of shootouts with similarly ...

Pennsylvania’s Gary Bowers's bright orange ’65 Mustang won the Goodguys 2012 Optima Batteries Street Machine of the Year!

Bowers’ hi-tech, ground hugging Mustang, built by Ringbrothers represents the latest in track-ready, show-quality super muscle cars.

Well known for their ability to transform Mustang’s into modern masterpieces, the Ringbrothers have set the bar even higher with the Bowers ’65 named “Producer.” The body was widened four inches (two inches on each side rather than cut down the middle), the rockers ...

June 15, 2012 (MILWAUKEE) – Thousands of HOT ROD Power Tour participants descended on Grand Prairie, Texas to celebrate the end of their exciting journey. After a grueling 1,371-mile, eight day drive it would be easy for many to kick back and celebrate. Yet for more than 30 strong-willed automotive enthusiasts their day was just beginning.
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Big Red is my all time favorite car and they are working on a film about it. Check out it's official trailer here. ...