Pro-touring is dead

[firewood]

Front spoilers on RWD cars are wrong, then? How about FWD touring cars with rear wings?

Touring cars don't have rear spoliers that look like bleachers. This is too far off topic to find pix.


Hmm. I take that one sentence back.




But everything else still stands.

[Ron L]

Touring cars don't have rear spoliers that look like bleachers. This is too far off topic to find pix.

We were discussing function, not what they look like. If you're just talking looks then people can put spoilers and sideskirts on whatever car and whichever end they want.

[southernfriedcj]

Why the bashing of the '70s cars?

My first car (in '78)was a '69 Firebird convertible.
The first mod I made to the car was Cherry Bombs.
Then came the Cragar SS/Radial T/A's, 15x8 & 14x6, with Gabriel HiJackers.
After that I purchased some Hooker Show tubes (chrome side pipes with 4 into 1 front pieces.
Then came the RAIII out of a '70 Trans Am, M/T valve covers, 780 Double Pumper, ect.

Shortly after that I started to want the Road Race look & performance I had been seeing at Road Atlanta.
I switched to a set of Honeycombs (same size on all corners), 4 wheel discs from a T/A, WS6 steering box, T/A steering wheel, anti sway bars, Koni shocks, Ciba (?) driving lights, ect.
I wanted some Recarro seats and a roll bar, but I couldn't afford them.
I also wanted to flare the fenders and put on wider wheels & tire on all 4 corners, but cost was an issues, as was my mentor telling me not to cut up a classic (in '79/'80!).
There were also IROC style cars hitting the streets in the early '80s and Cafe' style cars in the late '70s. Folks were flaring wheel wells, putting wide tires and handling equipment, big brakes and BIG spoilers on cars. All the car rags sold anti sway bars, fiberglass fender flares (Greenwood Corvette style was popular), side pipes (like those seen on Trans Am racers), fiberglass spoliers ect.

I would say that ProTouring is not new and is not dying, it's been here for a few decades.

Here's a couple IROC cars from '77 & '78. This style soon started appearing on the street & parts started appearing in the magazines.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

southernfried... but all i can say is those 2 cars are the shi t.

and for fries and burgers..

['70rs]

I'm gonna stick with the pro-touring theme. And David Frieburger can go pound sand.

Kinda what I am thinking too.....

[chicane67]

Kinnan actually stated that Pro-Touring was dead... not Freiburger.

There is a big difference between the two of them... Freiburger can drive and Kinnan thinks he can drive. Just as with the magazine... Freiburger is also a better editor.

And kudos Kurt... well stated.

[coolwelder62]

Pro-touring is to say, it will ever die.Just you and see, it will go down in history as the greatest thing to ever be.

[trapin]

Annnnnnnnd THAT'S A WRAP!!!

We'll go ahead and call it. Time of death; 1:08pm.