pro touring lost its way????

[evilzee28]

Ok, tongue firmly stuck in cheek, here's a thought for you. Following on from the posting where there's talk of a set of billet hood hinges costing $1000.00, do you feel that Pro Touring has lost its way. A while ago there was a post on this forum asking where PT would be in a few years time & the majority showed concern that it didn't follow the Pro street thing, where it was a case of "monkey see, monkey do" looking like a race car, but couldn't be driven for more than a few miles, or the hot rod scene being watered down to the street rod scene, bling & billet everywhere & afraid to drive or use it incase it got dirty or marked. I know PT cars are able to cover large distances & that they've uprated brakes suspension etc, BUT & here's the big but, do you feel that PT is slowly starting to turn into the bolt on, bling brigade. Instead of individuality, it seems that it's turning into the norm to just buy stuff off the shelf, where is the originality of that?? My understanding was that the PT car, was a car that had immense amounts of power, that handled like a supercar, with the right stance wheels & attitude & would feel equally at home on the street or track.Do you think that the "must have bigger, better, louder, shinier" than the next man is taking over the true spirit of the PT movement??? OK, tongue out of cheek, time for me to stand in the corner now huh? Now, where was that dunces hat?