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    1. #1
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      Pro-touring is dead

      You guys probably didnt know it, but it is....according to David Frieburger and in the new Hot Rod magazine. "Tasteless Resto" is the new rage?? Blowers, centerlines, leaf springs, metal flake??? Seriously??



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      He must have inhaled too much second-hand smoke in the 70's.... JMHO

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      so what do we change the name of the site to??????????

      tasteless-restos.com


      forget it

      im sticking with protouring
      Blake Foster
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      You have to remember the audience of Hot Rod. I'm willing to bet most of them are the folks stuck in the 70s and 80's with air shocks, Cragars, and side pipes.


      BTW - Didn't Hot Rod (or maybe PHR?) claim Pro-Touring was dead a while ago, too? How'd that prediction work out?
      Todd S.

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      Quote Originally Posted by killer69 View Post
      so what do we change the name of the site to??????????

      tasteless-restos.com....
      But then you all would have to ADD back the leaf springs, and the sparkle paint.

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      The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.

      David has declared this "thing" dead on at least 5 different occasions that I can recall.

      You can do one of the following:

      a) Get all pi$$ed off and write a foaming rant on this website, or to the rag thus fulfilling the very intent of his comments (to inflame and polarize).

      b) You can laugh about the fact that he keeps saying it, but the event registrations keep climbing, the vendors that cater to us are (mostly) doing well and mainly that the advertisements in the back of his rag (and the rest of the Source Interlink rags) seem to indicate otherwise. Where are the advertisers who are rolling fat based on the "tasteless resto" trend?

      Hint: They are in the same place as the NASCAR for the street advertisers.
      Last edited by Damn True; 10-07-2009 at 10:39 PM.
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    7. #7
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      yep protouring is dead... and STREETFIGHTERS are alive and well!

      ahhaha

      i guess hes Fried-his-burger way too much with that Cali dro..

      ill stick with my pro-touring.com addiction thank you... because my HOTROD alternative aint doing a THING for me..

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      I'm gonna build a zombie car.
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      If David is right then I better hurry up and buy some air shocks again like I had in the mid 80's....

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      True,

      You hit the nail on the head.

      David is going to say it until it does die and then he'll be able to say that he predicted it.
      Here...I'll do the same thing and in the future they'll say I really knew what I was talking about. ...what can I say?... DVD's are dead. SUV's will get 60 MPG. Pro-Touring lives on.



      Oh, and if you haven't been around for a while...I think David Frieburger said Pro-Touring was dead back in 2003. I guess we didn't get the memo.
      David loves to get everyone fired up and talking about what he says. That's his job. He sells magazines by writing crazy stuff.
      Last edited by TonyHuntimer; 10-07-2009 at 09:26 PM.
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      what pisses me off it the whole RAT-ROD rage...how menny times have i seen a perfectly restorable 20's-30's car get hacked up perposley just to get the RAT-ROD look for a quick buck... SO SO SO SAD
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      Funny, I was at Buttonwillow this past Friday with Penny, Jackass, CarlC's supercharged '68 Camaro, Mary Pozzi's '73 and a number of other '60's and 70's era pro-touring cars, and they all seemed quite alive and active.

      Maybe the issue is that the rags are dying and this is what they're saying in their death throes? If Hot Rod wants to alienate a portion of their potential subscriber base, I guess that's their choice.

      For my part, I'll support those magazines that feature my aspect of the hobby, and not support those that don't. Bye, Hot Rod.
      Mike Kelcy - '68 Camaro with some stuff done to it.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Mkelcy View Post
      Funny, I was at Buttonwillow this past Friday with Penny, Jackass, CarlC's supercharged '68 Camaro, Mary Pozzi's '73 and a number of other '60's and 70's era pro-touring cars, and they all seemed quite alive and active.

      Maybe the issue is that the rags are dying and this is what they're saying in their death throes? If Hot Rod wants to alienate a portion of their potential subscriber base, I guess that's their choice.

      For my part, I'll support those magazines that feature my aspect of the hobby, and not support those that don't. Bye, Hot Rod.
      Mike,
      Did you see all the metal flake vans at Buttonwillow too?
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      I guess I better hurry up and buy all my needed PT parts as they will soon quit being made Hey, if it was in HotRod it's gotta be the truth right?
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      whew....man its a good thing i havent sold my 73' Nova yet. With a little unrefining that thing is right up Daves alley. I guess i should untuck the back tires and shackle that bad boy up. Maybe airbrush an Iron Maiden graphic on the hood. Complete it with a tape deck and a jean jacket. YEAH!!! Who wants to go kick some ass!!! I think ill put a comp 304 hydraulic in an 8:1 350. Top it it off with a dual tunnel ram, maybe a 4.86's out back and hang some Glasspacks off the headers to boot! Ill have a hotrod cover car........Its either that or ill work on my GTO I guess ill have to do some thinking

      I like DF for the most part but this "tastless resto" is a bold prediction
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      I'm gonna call it "the living dead".
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      Never let 'em see ya sweat applies here.
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      based on my local cruise-in, I'd believe that the tasteless resto cars outnumber the pro-touring cars 50 to one...so, by that metric, maybe he's right.

      :bsjerk:

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      Quote Originally Posted by formula View Post
      based on my local cruise-in, I'd believe that the tasteless resto cars outnumber the pro-touring cars 50 to one...so, by that metric, maybe he's right.

      :bsjerk:
      The same thing can be said for most cruise spots around the country. The difference is that these old 70's and 80's hot rod tasteless resto cars never changed. They are the same cars from back then. For the most part, the only new cars are our cars. Nobody has the heart to tell all these guys stuck in the 70's and 80's cars, that they have been out of style for decades. So to say tasteless resto is back...is more like...it's tasteless and the bad taste never went away. That doesn't make it a new fad. It just makes it dated. Thanks for yesterday's news David Frieburger.
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      Quote Originally Posted by TonyHuntimerRaceHome View Post
      The same thing can be said for most cruise spots around the country. The difference is that these old 70's and 80's hot rod tasteless resto cars never changed. They are the same cars from back then. For the most part, the only new cars are our cars. Nobody has the heart to tell all these guys stuck in the 70's and 80's cars, that they have been out of style for decades. So to say tasteless resto is back...is more like...it's tasteless and the bad taste never went away. That doesn't make it a new fad. It just makes it dated. Thanks for yesterday's news David Frieburger.
      You have a very valid point. The local cruise that I go to usually has about a 100 cars every Friday. Of those cars, about a 1/4 are imports, about 1/4 restored stock muscle cars, and the last 1/2 are the hot rods from the late '70s and '80s with the 15" Cragers and Centerlines. Then there's my car. Naturally mine sticks out like a sore thumb but it gets attention.
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