Tim McAmis Announces New Product: Pro Mod Starter Kit – $149 With Free Overnight Shipping
That’s right folks, for just $149, you can be a Pro Mod driver! All it takes is one phone call to legendary chassis builder and former Pro Mod world champion Tim McAmis, or a quick trip to his website, and you can order everything you need. The best part is obviously the price, an insane $149 that includes free overnight shipping!
For your $149, you get everything it takes to drive a Pro Mod in 2017: a button, a bag of Cheetos, and a drink. And you even get your choice of drink flavor, so there’s a kit for you, regardless of your taste in beverages. Simply mount the button to your steering wheel – or you can probably just leave it loose in the car and hold it in your hand, to be honest – and it controls everything in the car. You press the button and the car stops. Release the button and the car goes. It’s literally that simple. Once you release the button, the car will shift itself as it traverses the track and will then shut itself off after passing the finish line. That’s where the Cheetos and cold drink come into play. Once you’ve released the button to launch the car, you’re likely to be bored during the trip to the shutdown area, so you can open up the snacks and have a cold refreshing drink while the car does the work for you.
As noted in the video, you will have to put your drink down to steer the car off of the track at the top end, but as soon as you’re clear, you may go back to munching while the crew retrieves the car and tows it back to the pit, but other than that you are free to enjoy your Cheetos and drink.
Of course, this is all tongue-in-cheek, a fun way for McAmis – who drove Pro Mods back when men were men and Pro Mod drivers were actually drivers – to drive home the point that as awesome as Pro Mod is, technology has taken the driver out of the equation for the most part. While his example takes it a little to the extreme to drive home the point, if you watch the in-car footage that plays throughout the video, you can see there was indeed more going on inside the cockpit of a Pro Mod in the 90’s than there is today, so he certainly makes a valid point that the class, despite the huge numbers the cars put up, is a bit watered down because there’s basically little more going on in the cockpit than reaction time and steering as far as the driver’s role goes.
What do you think of the current state of Pro Mod? Many fans seem to love the class, but as a fan of the class itself from the 90’s, I can’t argue Tim’s point that a lot of the driving that was required to win consistently back then has been washed away by technology. Would you guys rather see big numbers or the driver’s brought back into play with less automation and electronic gadgetry in the cars?
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