Positive Press is always welcome

We take a lot of bashing in the media day by day due to the types of cars we choose to drive.

So its refreshing to finally see some positive press out there abeit even a small mention.

www.Hardtuned.net as a Australian wide modifyers network that organises cruises in every state.

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RESPONSIBLE: Tom Painter, front, who organises cruises through car club Hardtuned, with Talia Nitschke and Kris Beck yesterday.

MODIFIED-CAR enthusiasts say reckless hoons give them a bad name and they have backed the work of a specialist anti-hoon police unit.

Tom Painter, who organises car cruises through club Hardtuned, said he and club members suffered "constant grief" for driving Skylines and WRXs because of the behaviour of idiot drivers.

"Just because I drive a Skyline, it doesn't mean I am out doing something illegal," he said.

"I even get people glaring at me as I drive past. We're involved in the scene because we like the cars - not because we want to drive at crazy speeds."

He said Task Force Diagonal - a police unit created a year ago to target car clubs - had helped his organisation grow by shutting down irresponsibly run clubs

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