Pro-touring is dead

[Derek69SS]

In the history of hot-rodding PERFORMANCE has never gone out of style. Nobody has ever gotten in their hot-rod and thought "I wish this thing would handle a lot worse" or "I wish these brakes would fade and stop working" People have however, sacrificed the braking and handling to gain performance in another area (such as straight line accelleration). With today's technology, that's no longer necessary. There are many PT cars that are knocking down 11.50s no problem. Sure, they could sacrifice all their driveability for a few tenths, but then they require a cage... that may impress some people, but it wouldn't impress my wife when I tell her we can't put our kids in the back seat anymore, or drive the car on our vacations 750 miles from home (and race it while there) anymore.

My brother is into bigblock/4spd & 15" wheels... I have updated everything on my car. He put 500 miles on his car this summer, I put 5,000 on mine. My car is faster than his too.