It's hard to believe that Pypes has been around for 15 years now. Many of you long time members may recall that Pypes got its start right here in the Pontiac community. Before Pypes was a brand, it was an accumulation of components assembled into a kit to fit the GTO. We had sourced a pair of tailpipes and X-pipe, added a choice of readily available mufflers from famous brands and sold them to many of you here on the PY Forums.
The PYPES name was soon after inspired by the PY forums. PY was short for Performance Years and seemed like an appropriate name for the forums. The 'PY' tag stuck and later the PYpes brand was born. . Otherwise, the company name would have been 'Pipes'!
Here was the initial announcement:
http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=428420
At some point, someone made the observation that PYPES stood for Performance Years Performance Exhaust Systems. Very clever but yours truly never even made that connection until someone brought it up to us years later.
Around 2005, we had a contest on these forums. We wanted a new name for our loudest muffler. One of our members came up with the winning name. 'Violator'. That muffler still remains one of our most popular mufflers.
Another marketing compliment we got was with our URL.
http://pypesexhaust.com Many people citing how clever it was to put 'sex' in the middle as a subliminal reference. Again, I'd love to take credit for that but it was simply an accident.
Now to the reason for the trip back in time.....We think it's time to freshen up our logo. We'd like your opinion. Take a look at these logos and give us your vote.