Pro-Touring well represented

[vanzuuk1]

Its a nasty, race influenced, new york style, post apocalyptic, all purpose hot rod with rubber in the fenderwells and dead bugs on the windshield. Its protouring with scars and tattoos. You can even say the nascar/moonshiner look is in the same family.

No smooth firewalls,candy colors,blingy rims,matching numbers or trailer queens need apply. No mirrors around the car, no fuzzy dice.



Steevo launched the first strike when his camaro graced the cover of hot rodding. I saw the magazine and loved it.

The name streetfighter came from England when limey hooligans with missing teeth crashed their gsxrs and hondas, stripped off all the plastic and built mad max bikes to taunt the police and chase birds with. The whole stunting scene grew out of this movement.

Thats how I see it, some would disagree.

[Steve Chryssos]

It's a stripped down pro-touring car. Reduced to the lowest common denominator. Like a chopper (a real chopper not some OCC contraption) But whatever you do. Dont skip floor insulation to save weight. I lost 12 pounds on Power Tour driving in a 1968 Chevrolet Sauna. Open mouth. Insert foot.

[SicMonte]

VERY WELL SAID!!! Reading that kinda made me proud to be a part of this group!! I was unablke to make it to Power Tour...but my buddy did in his 86 Olds 442. It is black and silver with 18" TT2's. Did anyone see it??

Like you said above...I go to cruise ins all the time in my monte...and I have the small pro-touring sticker in my rear window. I get questioned all the time about what it is...and I tell them...and they look at my car and go...huh...whats the point?? Then I explain to them that it is 2006 ...not 1956 and things have changed....and some times they open up...and some times they dont...oh well.

All I know is that ever since I joined this group..my car has grown leaps and bounds. It used to be a stock 88 monte carlo ss....now it is a full on pro-touring car. I got it back from SC&C last week...and they did an awesome job. I will get pics up soon.

[formula]

I gotta say, the power tour really rejuvinated my belief in pro-touring too. I live in a tiny little town, and the car scene is either rice or your standard restomod stuff. Thus, I walk alone. My car is far from being the street beast you heavy-hitters have built, but it felt so good to walk (and ride) around and see like-minded people who I knew appreciated what I was after with my car, even if I haven't achieved it yet. It was kinda like a silent "keep it up" after so much "whatcha wanna do that crap fer?". It was also great when, by the end of the day, my best friend's 69, which is currently under the knife, had turned from a drum-brake restomod project into a rack-and-pinion sporting, baer-clad street machine in the works. Pro-touring's no blinged-out fad--it's a better, modern way to hot rod.

It also felt really good to drive 3 hours at 80+ mph on a single tank of gas in a muscle car.

[yellowrallys]

Steevo, you really summed it up. I must say that you represent PT damn good yourself. Although I only cruised with ya'll a few miles, I felt that I was in the best company of the tour. To finally see your car and Jason's also was worth the trip for us. And the Goat, which I saw for the first time at YOE really topped off the group. I had wanted to long haul, but due to my precious mother in law being on her death bed not knowing from one day to the next, (she did however pass recently) I just could not. Hope to maybe see some of you at Pigeon Forge in Sept.

[PeteRR]

The 3 core cars in our group all had aftermarket overdrives installed. 2 Gearvenders and my Keisler. 2 had 3.23s and one had 3.55s for gears. It made cruising at 75 easy. The cars that joined us for part of the tour were hardpressed to keep up. The only problem with the Challengers are the tiny gas tanks: 12 gallons for the 472Hemi vert and 15 for the 500/6Pak Hardtop. I was filling up 1/2 as often with my 19 gallon tank. It became a running joke in the group. Mine was the only PT car, but both Challengers had big front disc brakes and some handling mods. Their cars looked stock.

The shocking car was this '70 Coronet:

360 small block with a single turbo. He blew the Hemi car away from 70 mph on up, and I was having trouble keeping up. He was getting 20 mpg without an overdrive! The car is totally stock looking, but has a bunch of bolt-on handling mods. I was really impressed. And unlike us, he was burning 87 octane, while we were using 93.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

whoa!

[Steve Chryssos]

Very cool. I got to see your Road Runner up close in the Columbia hotel parking lot. Great car. I wish we had the chance to share the road, Pete. Maybe next year.

[Kenova]

The shocking car was this '70 Coronet:

360 small block with a single turbo. He blew the Hemi car away from 70 mph on up, and I was having trouble keeping up. He was getting 20 mpg without an overdrive! The car is totally stock looking, but has a bunch of bolt-on handling mods. I was really impressed. And unlike us, he was burning 87 octane, while we were using 93.

I hope this guy is ready to talk, because there are going to be more than a few questions.
I'll start with the first question: How the hell did he do it??
Ken

[trapin]

I keep trying to beat this Pro-Touring stuff into peoples heads around here (Detroit) and so far it falls upon deaf ears. My cousin has got to be the most frustrating for me. He's got a great car but it sure could use some TLC in the suspension. And a set of 17's would look WAY better than those tired old Weld Wheels that he has. They are so played out. 15 inch wheels. C'mon...that's a bygone era already.

He just won't listen. Same with the rest of them. Still stuck in 1986.

[PeteRR]

I hope this guy is ready to talk, because there are going to be more than a few questions.
I'll start with the first question: How the hell did he do it??
Ken

I'll talk to the rest of our crew and see if I can get some contact info for him.