Pro-Touring Show Cars?

[parsonsj]

I just figured something out. First, Steevo's sig: "4 fat tires are better than 2". What does that mean? Motorcycles are more fun than cars? Nope. I finally get it: drag cars have 2 fat tires and 2 skinny ones. Road racing cars have 4 fat tires. That makes them more balanced, right Steve? So 4 fat tires are pro-touring, 2 fat tires aren't.

Damn. That had bugged me for months.

Second, I was generally perplexed about why these definition threads so often got out of hand. People saying things, others arguing. Then name-calling, etc.

I finally figured it out: it's that people are concerned that the definition will leave them out (thanks Dark Buddha ... your post yesterday got my brain going on this).



My take is this: the definition threads are fun to bs over and talk about what makes a car a certain way: A way to give a car a general classification. But that's all they do. Each person gets to decide how much of the group definition they wish to meet. Some will get in all the way. Some won't. I consider it a guideline, or a measuring stick, and only that. Does it influence what I do on my car? Sure. However, I'd like to think that what I'm doing is because its what I want, and not for some arbitrary definition.

So let the definition threads continue. They are fun to think about and write about. They are used to define us collectively. They shouldn't be used to define us individually.

jp