I guess I'm the only one coming around here with something to say. I can't be the only guy that loves his car, that loves his tuner, that loves to be heard. If I am, then so be it. I will speak when no one will listen. It is better to have said something and then to die, and be remembered, than to live without ever saying a word of importance. Maybe that is a little too deep for a forum post. But I don't care. I was looking through an Import Tuner, be it that that is the magazine in which Andy's and Summit Racing caught my eye. I was looking at some of the pictorals, some of the articles and I was seriously disappointed with most of the content. 70k builds, cars sponsored out the yin-yang by GReddy and HKS, AEM and CompTech, AMS, Stillen. Man, that would be nice. That's part of the dream though, right? Isn't that part of what this fight to the top is all about? My issue with these cars is not their sponsors; but these nearly impossibly obtained dream machines. Of course, the average guy would rather see real builds, the analysis of parts and the power they achieve, the dampering force of a set of Tein coilovers with EDFC or the numbers a car built from the ground up can post on the dyno. At least that is what I want to see. Within that, it can be said that Project Car is better suited for me. But still, a boy has the right to dream. I believe in that. Very mcuh so. I want to be the guy taking one of those bad boys around the track. I want to tune the hell out of my 300zx and hit the track. But not only that, I want to win. I'm not going to hate on these guys that can go to SoCal and hand pick a tuner house and get every little part custom fabricated. The crazily priced widebody kits and custom made underbodies and so one and so forth are both gorgeous and awe-inspiring. If anything, the main reason that I appreciate companies' will to build machines like these and the photographers that snap the pics, the writers that pop off the articles, is because they have helped to make me who I am. They have helped to shape my will to be something more than a Sonic Manager. maybe I don't have much going for me aside from my love for cars, my ability to write and my intellect. But that's fine by me. That'll get me somewhere in this crazy, crazy world of ours. I don't want it all, I just want everything that matters.






