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Originally Posted by FETorino
Pro Tourning  Its a street legal car of vintage decent modified by the owner, in the way the owner envisions it to be the ultimate roadworthy version of a car the owner has chosen.
PT is in the eye of the beholder. |
Im with you for the first half of this statement but by the second half of the above definition, any restored vintage car can be a PT car. Even Jeff Lutz 57 Chevy Drag Week car. Perhaps the the roadworthy portion can be redefined as "with an emphasis on posting as many G's under both cornering and breaking as accelerating."
I'm not sure where the emphasis on racing came from. When I first joined, ProTouring was a style, not class. The first car I remember seeing and referring to as ProTouring was Stielow's Mule. To this day, I dont know if its ever seen a day of competition but yet I still consider it ProTouring. What it does have that makes it protouring in my eyes is the appearance of being able to take a corner at speed. Think of Hellfire... What makes it the ultimate protouring car. By GW's definition, "It's truly long distance comfortable, easily driving in stop and go traffic, and we know it's track capable (far in excess of most drivers ability)". If it never hit a track would we still think that? We know comfort and ease of driving are subjective criteria otherwise, the race car vs street car debates wouldn't be going on at events. Track capable however is objective. What would make a car have the appearance of being track capable yet still have the street manners GW defines. Big break kit, lowered stance, larger/wider than normal front wheels and tires (not too big) to fit the big break kit?