Hey TJ,
Where are you guys at in Oregon? Just curious, My wife has a few friends out there, she went to Chico State and went up into Oregon alot from NorCal.
I love seeing cars with this quality of build getting some rubber on the fenders. I have also seen you on pt.com and think it's great there are more Mopars on that site.
The other day on there a thread was started about where pro-touring is going. There were a few people that were disappointed that p-t is going the way of Pro Street, where the emphasis went from insanely fast drag cars being street legal to monochrome and billet street rods that had no emphasis on going fast and just looking good with huge rear tires.
I am glad to see you guys are not contributing to the dilution of what pro-touring is. Pro-touring evolved from corner carving enthusiasts proving that track cars CAN have a show car finish and a comfortable ride. Now it just seems, for the majority of people claiming P-T, want to start out with a beautiful 69 Camaro and a set of 20's and do the necessary mods to fit them.
I believe the topic was "Where is Pro-Touring Going". If it is going where you guys are aiming I think we "all-around" performance minded guys are going to have a valid genre to call our own.
There are a few of us here that have gone or are going the route of pro-touring but are reluctant to say so because of the stigma that it is just the new Pro-Street. I would have loved it if Pro Street stayed true to it's roots and the basis remained as a drag car first.
If you break down what pro-touring means, and many have tried, I believe it is "Pro" meaning a prurpose built track car as in great brak package on a chassis designed or modified to take the rigors of auto-X or road racing, performance wheels and tires, and an engine and transmission suited for a respectable outin on the track. "Touring" would derive from driving, cruising, enjoying the road, being comfortable in the thingypit guiding the sled through canyon roads and fre-way jaunts. Melding these two things you would have a carthat is truelly dual purpose and a blast anywhere you go, track or street.
If one were to build a trailer queen show car in the PT style it would not be Pro-touring. It would simply be a showcar highlighting the fundamentals of a true Pro-touring car. Just as in te later years of the Pro-Street craze where the cars were more show than go I think eventually these awesome examples of Pro-touring "themed" show cars are going to force Pro-touring to give way to some other genre.
The best thing of all though, cars such as your dads will never go out of style because cars that are tuelly used to do what is at the roots of the style or niche the were inspired by never go out of style. Think about the F-Bomb Camaro Frieburger was working on. It is so anti-Pro-Street it isn't even funny. But if you break it down it is in a sense Pro-Street in almost every sense of what it was meant to be when Pro-Street started out, it is super fast, it catches the eye, it is "show" where it needs to be and it is "go" where it needs to be.
Rock On BAD! You guys are oing it right and it's for the right reason, to do with a car what they were designed to do ever since people got tired of riding horses, to be driven.
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