TMCP #577: Pro-Touring Update with Tom Farrington – Insider Scoop on Attending and Racing in Pro-Touring Events

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Robert Kibbe

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It's once again is the quarterly Pro-Touring Update, Presented by Ron Francis Wiring, and normally starring Mr. Larry Callahan! BUT, Due to unforeseen circumstances we have a special guest host, Mr. Tom Farrington!
Tom has been on the show before way back in Episode #62 and a quick search of the internet returns many other interviews and articles ever since then. He and his wife Debbie are mainstays at Pro-Touring tracks and has a vast knowledge of the ins and outs of racing and attending these events. We asked Tom to give this quarter's update due to his high lack of participation in events. Basically, Tom's in the know!
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Be sure to stay all the way to the end on this one.....because our favorite firstborn kid is just about to graduate from high school. Emily will be attending Drake University this fall to study education and minor in music. Her birth was the big reason I knew I needed to find a new way to do life to achieve all of the dreams we wanted to attempt...and TMCP was one of the outcomes of that. Long story short, if you dig these shows, you have her to thank. Congrats, Em!

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 57.
0:05.6	This week, the return of the pro-turing update, long-time friends of the show,
0:09.7	and Avid Chevel Pro Touring racer Tom Parrington, joins us to give the latest on the events available to race it.
0:16.0	He's going to talk about the parts people are going with now.
0:18.4	Best ways to get into the hobby.
0:20.1	We'll talk about the best bang for the buck to get you started, like a C4 Corvette, and where the line really
0:25.6	is between a street car and a race car. Tom prefers that razor's edge. But one thing you'll need
0:30.6	to know about Tom is Tom's a realist. He loves the hobby and the sport, but he also loves
0:35.1	Chevels, classic 60s muscle.
0:40.9	So if you do too, here's the God's Honest Truth.
0:48.0	Which series do you think allows you with a 60s car to compete well appropriately against your class?
0:49.9	No series.
0:53.3	Right?
0:57.3	I was happy when good guys went up to nineteen seventy two right this is the muscle car place online podcast brought you by national parts depot
1:07.5	this is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American
1:12.8	muscle cars. If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:20.5	Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes indeed, I am Rob Kibby and welcome to the Muscle Car Place
1:27.3	podcast. Well, here we are with the firstby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.
1:28.4	Well, here we are with the first ProTrain update segment of the season, and this is indeed our 15th anniversary month.
1:35.6	So, calling in some favors here.
1:37.4	Our great friend Larry Callahan of ProTrain.com was ill this week, and he couldn't do the show.
1:43.5	So we asked Tom Barrington onto the show
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