Best textbook definition for "Pro-Touring."

[Revved]

What is your best definition for "Pro-Touring?"

I'm doing website updates and wanted to integrate a definition but I haven't found a good text blurb online that I feel really encompasses what Pro-Touring is. Most definitions only define it as only muscle cars, or only expensive professionally built race cars with license plates... but Pro-Touring is more than that.

I'm going to be sitting down and writing one that I'll post up but I wanted to hear from other guys that are living the life.

[coolwelder62]

Pro-touring,See What Mark Stielow Does,then do the same.

[Revved]

A few quick thoughts....

Pro-Touring:

A style of modifying vehicles mechanically, structurally, and visually for increased performance, comfort, durability, and style with the intention of driving in a wide range of environments.

A style of modifying vehicles with modern electronics, high performance suspensions, engines, and styling with the intention of driving them in environments ranging from street use to high performance competition.

A style of integrating modern electronics, structural modifications, high performance engines, suspensions, wheels, brakes, and styling to create well rounded vehicles with the intention of driving them in conditions ranging from daily street use to high performance competition.

Originally Posted by coolwelder62

Pro-touring,What Mark Stielow,then do the same.

Good point... I should go look through his build book to see if there is a good definition in there.

[dontlifttoshift]

It might be easier to answer this question. "How long is a piece of string?"

[ccracin]

Originally Posted by dontlifttoshift

It might be easier to answer this question. "How long is a piece of string?"

The length is the square root of the square of half the length multiplied by 2!

[Revved]

Originally Posted by dontlifttoshift

It might be easier to answer this question. "How long is a piece of string?"

Originally Posted by ccracin

The length is the square root of the square of half the length multiplied by 2!

True... but if you don't know where you are... how do you know where you are going? Pro-touring is fluid concept which is likely the reason why there is no "textbook" definition per-se.... I'm just trying to put some words to it that describe it but don't limit it.

Man.. that is deep.

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by dontlifttoshift

It might be easier to answer this question. "How long is a piece of string?"

That is such a vague question, but the answer is probably less than Steilow's string.

[Bucketlist2012]

My Car is better than it was before , and not where I want it yet...

[hp2]

Originally Posted by Revved

A few quick thoughts....

Pro-Touring:

A style of modifying vehicles mechanically, structurally, and visually for increased performance, comfort, durability, and style with the intention of driving in a wide range of environments.

Kind of generic, but all encompassing.

Originally Posted by Revved

A style of modifying vehicles with modern electronics, high performance suspensions, engines, and styling with the intention of driving them in environments ranging from street use to high performance competition.

A style of integrating modern electronics, structural modifications, high performance engines, suspensions, wheels, brakes, and styling to create well rounded vehicles with the intention of driving them in conditions ranging from daily street use to high performance competition.

This infers that it is applicable to older vehicles since you are putting "modern" touches on things. This also means that eveantually things become outdated and require regular updates to maintain its modern status. In most of our cases, these definiations are probably very accurate since we are predominatly starting with pre 1975 vehicles.

However, if you take a 1990s vehicle which already has strut type suspension with decent geometry and you update it, is it still pro-touring?

Does converting newer 4 banger or 6 cylinder cars to V8 power constitute pro-touring if they already have all the amenities but not the power?

Is there a difference between a "Touring" build vs a "G-machine" build?

[Bill Howell]

There, I feel better now! BTW, just checked ebay and obviously their definition by the cars listed as pt is as follows
1. cut springs
2. TT2 wheels

anything above that is just fluff, a waste of money and really necessary.