What is a Pro-Touring
 

I was recently reading a new french magazine with US cars (rods, muscle cars, kustoms,...) and i was amazed to find a strange comment about this 69 Mustang.
The author said: "Bad point goes to the too much modern wheels which would have been better seen on a Pro-Touring car(????), dechromed for exemple. Installing 18" vintage look would have been a better idea"

Here is the car (that you can find on this forum);
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/7442/69mustang.jpg

So, i ask the aficionados, What is exactly a Pro-Touring ?
Is it an old car with improved mecanic (engine, brakes, wheels,...) with a stock look or must it be modified with a lot of body mods (dechromed bumpers, flush windows, ....)??

I though it was both but perhaps m i wrong :unibrow:


The French Magazine:

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/3664/dscf2653.jpg

ah, the French................. gotta love 'em. :D And I am part french........ :) They obviously haven't a clue what pro-touring is, that car is pro-touring in my opinion. Looks like SW's old car.

Jody

Hey,

Is my car in that issue? Just curious...

Pro-Touring, to me, is making an old car handle, drive, and out-perform a modern car. To make it more fun to drive (or TOUR if you like)..

But in general the definitions get old after awhile.

Definition: There is no defiinition....end thread :rofl:

Yes indeed, it's SW's Mustang ...
No Bad Penny in this issue :(
There is the 70 Nova from Precision Coachworks, Bobby Werner's 71 Camaro, Bob Matranga's 69 Dart (built by Barry's speed shop), that's all for Pro-Touring....

Must be in the next one.. thanks! :)

and it has to have a name......................:lol:

Jody

I had a long discussion with the editor of that magazine while he looked my car over at the Car Craft Summer Nationals in St. Paul. I see they left the Car Craft portion off the headline on the cover. lol Probably didn't want to promote another magazine on the cover of theirs.

He seemed like a nice enough guy, I enjoyed talking to him.

Maybe next time, you can explain to him what a pro-touring car is!

The editor is Didier Soyeux, he had worked for a long time for a french US&Custom magazine called NITRO, where he completly restored a Camaro some years ago with a lot of good stuff (Brodix, American Racing, ...).
So i think that he knows what he is speaking about.
I will try to find pictures of his yellow Camaro.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4773/nitromag.jpg


Some people think that fitting big wheels on a car makes a Pro-Touring, but it's far away from the truth...


Didier try to create interest in other styles than those we can find here in the old Europe....you can still see Camaros with raised rear, and big tires and graphics ...:rolleyes: like your rednecks.
Overhere, rat rods or 60' style Kustoms ( metalflakes era!!) are very popular amongst the crowd but Pro-Touring and Kruizers ( cars lowered with big wheels ) aren't really known.
This is the first time that a french magazine is so eclectic and i'm very happy to see Pro-Touring inside, i just hope that people here are open minded enough to understand the feeling of these cars and that the poor european PT scene will grow up...:hail:

I think it was in the last issue from the Del Mar coverage. We have like 12 pages in the next issue. I have a copy of the last issue if you want to see your car in the magazine.....HEHE:D