View Poll Results: Pick the one that most fits your idea of protouring and your car.
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Reworked car with modern updates, making it as desirable and comfortable as your new car.
41 16.47% -
Reworked car with some modern features, and a focus on nice paint and the showcar scene.
11 4.42% -
Reworked car, with handling and power main focus, but still mostly street driven.
186 74.70% -
Reworked car, with plans to truely push the car at the tract, even if it restricts streetability.
11 4.42%
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07-03-2005 #1
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There is a big difference between a Pro-Touring car and a full on race car.
I think my car lands more on the race car side of the equation since I have sacraficed a lot of driveability for speed.
If you ask me Jody Bernard's old 'yellow 69 Camaro with the Blown/FI Aluminum 540 Wayne Due subframe and 5-speed TKO pretty much defined pro-touring
1971 Camaro, 383 stroker ~500HP,M21 Trans with lightened flywheel. All Sorts of Auto-x Goodness in the Suspension. 12" Brakes ->SOLD
But ask me about my 2004 STi Auto-x car...
Just call me Brett
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07-03-2005 #2
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To me..
Originally Posted by Lowend
The Mule, Chicayne and such = pro-touring
Your car, Katz's car and such = g-Machine
Steveo's car, my 68 and such = Street Fighter
But all our cars are one thing.. fun-touring."A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
1968 Track Rat Camaro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHJ5c1yLIo&t=2s
1971 Chevelle Wagon with a few mods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBVPR3sRgyU
07-03-2005 #3
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Because that's the way it is ?
After something one of you or all of you said I got the Idea that maybe? just maybe? when I started building my car there was no pro-touring and I really wasn't sure what it was. I came to this site and found out that I (myself not my car) Fit in here in a way that I didn't fit in anywhere else.
So maybe it's not my car and that it is truely me that is pro-touring then my car is a P/T just because I am here and if you want a P/T car anywhere in the world you have to come here to have a P/T car!!!!
So when others don't get it or don't want to be here they don't have a P/T car or a clue.
If you have been here 1 time you are in the P/T way whether you know it or not because liking it or not liking it makes it a reality either way.
So long live this site and PRO-TOURING forever . Thanks Larry
07-05-2005 #4
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Just absolutely craziness. Don't titles or descriptions of the style of car to be given, pro-touring, street fighter, etc. take time to evolve? What I get from reading these post on this web site, is that we are still learning. Still making changes. Adding, deleting parts, etc. Most of us are still trying to figure out what we have, what we want, what we can afford, and what works best for our needs and how the car is to be used. Remember, at the 2005 Detroit Autorama these cars are just beginning to show up on display. Debate is good thing. Crying, and never coming back to this forum is wrong, as someone on this forum plans on doing. If you have a belief, stick to it. Support it. Do not walk away from it because others disagree.
Oh, by the way, here is my two cents worth. Even though I'm becoming more interested about road racing our cars and how much safer it is then on the street, I'm not sure I would want to take my GTO out on the track. I have too much time and money invested. The Mustang Saleen S/C I have, yes. So does that now make my Judge an antipro-touring car because I'm not going to race it? Titles, titles, titles, I don't give a sh^t. I building what I want, with my vision, my dreams, my sweat and tears and my money. The hell with anybody else. Love it, hate it, whatever works for you. Have a good day.
R.P.
