TMCP #425: Larry Callahan – Twenty Years of Pro-Touring.com and Helping Make Old Cars Go Very Fast!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week is a very special show marking a huge milestone for the Pro-Touring.com web site. It has been twenty years, this March, since Larry created the first launch the infamous site. It pre-dates nearly all of social media (Instagram, YouTube, Facebook) and even most forums! Thanks to Larry, many thousand people have visited to gain knowledge regarding go-fast-old-cars and share friendships over racing and "G's". Events and businesses have formed ENTIRELY around the Pro-Touring movement and the trend of Pro-Touring cars has become as mainstream as apple pie and kids taking selfies. I believe that Larry Callahan deserves the bulk of the credit for tossing gasoline on a match - and for fostering a place to take this industry from nothing to SOMETHING! This interview was a look book at how it all began.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 425.
0:04.0	This week our guest is the Larry Callahan, founder of ProTuring.com.
0:09.1	Now, normally Larry is on the ProTuring Update, which is a segment in this show, but this time he's on for the whole full-blown interview.
0:16.9	Why?
0:17.9	Because this year, this very month, in fact, marks 20 years of pro-turing.com.
0:23.6	An entire industry has spawned out of that phrase, pro-turing.com, perhaps even a race series,
0:29.0	suspension companies have certainly come from that phrase. The fast and furious movie franchise
0:34.1	has pro-tore cars. Maybe they got some help there. But it all got started and was
0:39.2	spreading like crazy. And one guy was there to build the platform to make it happen. And he maintained
0:44.1	it for us all. And even when he had buyout offers that pretty much all of us would have taken,
0:49.1	he didn't because he wanted to see it grow. Why? It is all over the world. I mean,
0:53.4	I've met so many great people,
0:55.3	you know, in person and just on the site and chat it with on the phone. It's an awful lot of fun.
0:59.5	It's all about the people.
1:06.9	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. Brought to you by National Parks Depot. This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:13.0	Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:19.1	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:25.4	Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:33.6	Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:40.6	Wow, what a difference a couple weeks makes. I thought two weeks ago that I was heading out for a spring break with my family, a little work trip, little spring break trip.
1:46.1	I'd come back here to normal C.
1:51.0	And that's not true at all, not even close.
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