Cluxford:
Thanks for the input.
I know the answers to you questions/statements as I began driving "updated" cars back in 1977.
My first Camaro was a 1967, with 3 on the tree and a 327 2 bbl with 210 hp. Paid $500 for it and it was in pretty nice shape with no rust and 60k miles.
I searched every junk yard within 100 miles of my house looking for parts. Very rarely was anything available. (Remember no internet searching was around for a place to possibly look and most businesses at least early on didn't even have a computer so inventory look up of what they had was essentially non-existant.)
Please read below in your comments for some thoughts:
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Originally Posted by cluxford
surely it's just evolution.
Pro-street was all the rage in the 80's / 90's. Why there were very few if any road race, circuit track style events for street driven cars. It was basically only drag style events.
Pro-Street, in my opinion, was almost the only thing you could do to car, but most of the cars never got off a trailer unless it was at a car show, or onto the streets, or a Drag Strip. They looked cool, but I didn't see any "All Around" reason to build one, and after I dropped a 454 LS-7 into my car, I'm sure I could run (with some decent tires) with most of them without all the expense. (Low 11 second 1/4 mile)
BTW: As a possible point of interest, the LS-7 was one of the earliest crate engines I can remember. You could buy one at the local chevrolet dealership. I bought mine used with only 12 runs on it from a friend of mine for $1000.
I wanted a corner carving cars. During the ladder 1970's through the 80's and early 90's, but No one made ANY parts. The cars were to old for the dealers to stock anything for them, and to young for them to be collectable, and they were not worth enough to justify anyone making parts for them.
A straight line/Pro Street Car was not really a rage as I remember it, it was the ONLY thing 99% of the people could do with their cars to make them sporty, cool and sometimes actually perform well.
There were a few tracks around the country, but nothing like it is today. We live in a automotive Utopia compared to 25 years ago.
Also emissions laws and registration laws meant there were few if any limits, so driving a back halved, massively blown car on the street was doable.
I live in Texas and it is not uncommon at the local burger joints now to see "Back Halved" and "Blown" cars. The Zoomies made now really sell the edgy looking cars. They are really cool and I love them.
Is Texas an anomily as far as street registration laws are concerned? I know California is bad about things, but are there a lot of states where you couldn't run one of those cars?
What part of them would be illegal? For instance I have seen some '33 3 window coupes with blown engines and very visible Zoomies. They look really cool.
No longer.
Now restrictions limit that style of car.
Also there is way way more circuit track style events.
Praise the Lord!, but what good are the tracks if people don't or won't ever put their cars on one?
I hate the name pro-touring. To me it's evolution, and the thought leaders / pioneers will always be creating evolution long before it becomes main stream for us mere mortals.
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What would you think would be a better name for the cars we like?
Thanks again for your input.
Ty O'Neal