People taking shots at G-machines
 

Read this thread. Come on guys, show Freiburger what a true G-machine is all about. They are saying no g-machines did drag week and g-machine owners are afraid to wring their cars out. I know there are plenty of badazz cars here that can kick some butt.

http://forums.hotrod.com/ubbthreads/...gonew=1#UNREAD

I think Frieburger is right; there just aren't that many g-machine type cars out there - yet. But also be aware that Friebuger WANTS something like to happen, and by him poking and prodding, he's trying to get a reaction out of the guys like us that are into the scene. He WANTS us to stand up and show him that he's wrong. A win-win for everyone. :thumbsup:

Keith,the guys at PHR need to feature your car. It's fast,it handles,it's not a Camaro,it looks killer,,what more can they want?

We just want it closer.. lol..

Nice Elky.. and finding nice pt El Caminos is NOT easy..

i agree with him to a point..... i see lots of PT "style" cars on the streets, but when asked if they would be interested in taking it to an open track day...many say "no way" fallowed by the "what ifs". i really dont get it.... kinda like the whole pro-show....er "street" deal, the whole street rod deal, etc..... people spending thousands and thousands of dollars making the car "look" like it would be worthy... but in the end are just building it to be trendy.

i really hope the poking and prodding make an impact. i really hope that the people spending money on gi-hugic brakes, hi-tech suspension parts, big sticky tires...etc...will actually put the cars in a sutuation to use them.

taking an old elco to a road coarse and spanking new technology is exactly what the "sport" is all about. building a 4000hp 4 turbo, twin supercharged, efi, kandy metal flaked , polished billet, sticky tire "show car" and taking it on a muli-state cruise... means nothin to me.

but then again.... what do i know... im just a nobody with a build plan bigger than my budget allows.... but when its done...you can say anything ya want about it...except its a PT "poser"

can i get an amen brotha :D

Car
 

I'm sick of all the BS about "have you taken it to the track". Whatever you want to do with your car is up to the individual, period. People are always judjemental of other people's stuff. Who cares. Build what ya want, do with it what u want and don't look back.

amen!!!
 

i could not have said it better....outstanding stuart!!!!!!

radrambler

Drag week is a single-minded event. Not much fun for a multi-purpose vehicle. Perhaps I'm some kind of rocket scientist, but I can't fathom why a pro-touring guy would want to participate?

Perhaps I can shed some light on the matter. Take Bike Week as an example: There are a lot of bikes because, umm...it's called Bike Week. Not a whole lot of reason to bring your snowmobile, is there?

I found some other examples through a basic Yahoo search:
-Wooden Boat Week: This apparently is a gathering for wooden boats and wooden boat enthusiasts.
-Fine Arts Week: A bit more challenging, but let's try. Here, you would apparently bring your oboe or paint brush--or a poem.
-Antique Week: For antiques.
-Shark Week: While not a "destination" event, Shark Week is apparently about sharks.

So.......?? Drag Week is for drag cars. I'm not sure why that's difficult to understand. Call me kookie, but I can only guess that not one drag car would show up at an event called "Pro-Touring Week".

so i take it that you "need" 1000 TT hp and giant brakes and sticky tires for commuting back and forth to work?

i agree.... do what you want with your money and your car.... but....if somebody is building a car and using the high tech parts to make it go fast, handle like a race car, and stop on a dime.... because thats the "style" or "trend" then i think its a waste of time and money. on the other hand, i give extra props to the guy who is upgradeing his car because it needs it... better brakes, better handling etc...because the owner actually drives the car to a point where it needs "more".

the track talk is more of a way of being pollitically correct, most if not all of us would consider "spirited" street driving a way of life, back roads where the posted speed limits are pointless to our mindset. this is however a lot more unsafe to us, the car, other drivers etc..... than if we were to actually take the car to a track.

my point is simple, if you build a car with upgraded everything because you think you might need it....GREAT. if you build a car and spend gobs and gobs of money on sh!t you dont need, because you are building like the trends mandate, yet never plan on "pushing" the car past the point of what the factory engineered it for.... then you are nothing short of a POSER

too many people are affraid, or unable to think outside the box. they would rather do what has been done time and time again. is there anything wrong with it...NO. but why should they receive special credit for doin nothin original.

i think rad ramblers project is great.... because its different. i think kieth's elky tearing up a road coarse, packin off late model muscle is what its all about, the full tube chassis mustang fastback...a lil extreme... but the idea i love.

these are just my humble meaningless opinions, i know a lot of people disagree with me.... and i really dont care.