another pro-touring milestone

[1970cuda]

larry's great site should hit 4000 members today or tommorrow. wow i remember when there was only a 1000 or so of us hanging around
congrates

[LowBuckX]

AHH I remember when there was about 4 or 5 of us..

For a few months then after the EZ Boards forum started boom people started coming out of the wood work..


Anyone remember the first board... The one with the running threads and all the questions just ran together with no seperation of topics.

That would be hell now with all these people..

[Larry Callahan]

Thanks guys. We could not do it with everyone. I'm currently trying to find a copy of the old forum and post it for all to see. It was pretty bad.

[Steve68]

Larry, when did you first get the forum online, well year?

[TonyHuntimer]

I remember the old board. This place has come a long way. I wonder if Larry has a list of the first 100 members of the original site...and how many of them are still here.

Congrats Larry,
Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

[andrewb70]

I remember the old board. This place has come a long way. I wonder if Larry has a list of the first 100 members of the original site...and how many of them are still here.

Congrats Larry,
Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

I too remember the original board. That was a trip.

Tony, it looks like I joined 2 days after you did. Damn time is flying.

Andrew

[Jim Nilsen]

The old board was so bad that I couldn't even register from my computer because the kid in the house was registered on the same computer somewhere else on that board and it wouldn't accept another user name.

I remember it well and don't miss the format. I also remember the first few guys that didn't have Camaros wondering if they could join since they didn't have a first gen LOL. Now look at where we are at.

I also remember posting that some people needed to watch what they were saying because magazine people and car company engineers and execs were watching even though they weren't posting. Now look at who is here. This is probably the most LURKED site by prominent people in the industry ever.

Jim Nilsen

[Steve Chryssos]

4000 members or not, Pro-Touring.com hasn't been the same since our female membership abandoned us. It's all Allen's fault!! Posting that naked picture of himself scared all the ladies away. It used to be that you could talk cars AND get a date. Now it's just cars, cars, cars.
Thanks a bunch Zbugger!














p.s. not a true story. Congrats Larry.

[Steve68]

Tony and Andrew, I see you guys joined in 2001, I joined in 2000, how many were around back then do you guys remember, I don't, I thought I wouldn't like the new fourm, but I can't even remember what the old fourm was like, sheesh,

[Larry Callahan]

The site has come a long way. Once again I need to thank all of our member, moderators, sponsors, advertisers, Ralph LoGrasso and of course my wonderful wife. It has been fun. Just for kicks here is a little history on the site. It's not complete but these are some of the basics.

In 1999 Pro-Touring.com begins as a web site for my Camaro on my free EarthLink space.

The URL Pro-Touring.com was registered on March 09 2000 and was still run on my free EarthLink space.

June 16 2000 Our first message board opens. It's one I created myself using front page and it sucked.

April 2001 Pro-Touring EZboard goes live. Our first true message board!

2001 SEMA Dinner at the NASCAR Cafe. Our first dinner with about 14 attendees.

August 14 2002 Pro-Touring.com more then doubles it's server space and moves to a shared server at OLM Hosting.

Nov 2002 2nd Annual SEMA Dinner at Denny's. About 60 people attend.

February 2003 Pro-Touring.com moves to a faster shared server and more then triples in size.

March 2003 Pro-Touring.com opens it's first LIVE chat room with a weekly scheduled chat.

June 2003 Pro-Touring.com exceeds allowable bandwidth and is hit with an overage fee. Order is placed to increase hard drive size and bandwith.

Nov 2003 3rd Annual SEMA Dinner at the Greek Isles Casino. About 80 people attend.

July 2004 Pro-Touring.com doubles it's server space again and upgrades the server.

August 16 2004 Vbulletin message board goes live! Our former message board since stats as of 4/7/01, 6511436 Page Views and 91223 posts

Nov 2004 4th Annual SEMA Dinner at the Greek Isles Casino in the big room. Over 160 people showed up!

Dec 10 2004 added Sigmachat room

Dec 12 2004 moved forum from IP site to main site to eliminate cookie problems.

Dec 13 moved entire site to a new rack at OLM. Old rack was overloaded.

Dec 16 2004 Placed order to double ram, double resources and up hard drive size to 5 gig

Jan 23 2005 placed order to raise hard drive size again

Jan 29 2005 Update forum to Vbulletin 3.0.6

Feb 03 2005 VbGarage opens

August 5 2005 Order is placed to have a dedicated server built. Our capacity will jump 10 fold when we move to it.

Nov 2005 5th Annual SEMA Dinner. 180+ People attend.

[Martin71RS]

I remember the first messsage board back in 2000...the white one with the curvy road was it?
I was new to the www and US cars...founds Jim's Cormaro page and came to Larry's site through it.

Thanks Jim! You've made me spend more than I ever thought I would on a car....
(not gonna thank Larry AGAIN ...allthough he deserves it )

[Larry Callahan]

Anyone remeber these home pages?

[Travis B]

the link works but i'm not authorized......

[Larry Callahan]

Try it now.

[nancejd]

Pretty close to 4,000 now, only three to go! What does the 5,000th member win?

[1970cuda]

i had forgot about them. this was the very first forum i ever signed up on

[LowBuckX]

I remember it well and don't miss the format. I also remember the first few guys that didn't have Camaros wondering if they could join since they didn't have a first gen LOL. Now look at where we are at.



Jim Nilsen

My first post was something like "Is a 72 Nova a good platform for a pro-touring build"


Ive learned a ton since then..

Larry Id love to see a copy of the og boards first few posts.

[Martin71RS]

yep...the right pic is the one I was talking about...

[trapin]

I've been here 4 1/2 years now. Still addicted and loving it.

[Castlesmith]

larry's great site should hit 4000 members today or tommorrow. wow i remember when there was only a 1000 or so of us hanging around
congrates

Thanks for the site. I could not be where I am on my car if it was not for this site. I have received gracious information and encouraging consolation from members who have been through the process of building their dream car. It is priceless. I am not finished yet but we're getting close. For those responsible for managing and producing the site, Thanks for a job well done!

Castle Smith