[camaro_69]

my english is bad, I´m just wondering about.....

[69ProTouring]

I'm not really sure. lol

[DjD]

From Wikipedia:
Pro and Touring

From Team Camaro:
Pro-Touring

[camaro_69]

excellent, thanks DjD

[novaderrik]

a "pro touring" car is what they feature in Hot Rod, Car Craft, and Chevy High Performance..
a "G machine" is a car that is featured in Popular Hot Rodding or Super Chevy..

[davidpozzi]

Here is another definition of Pro-Touring, or at least an attempt to define it.
http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11764


http://www.pro-touring.com

[Dayton68Z28]

Originally Posted by novaderrik

a "pro touring" car is what they feature in Hot Rod, Car Craft, and Chevy High Performance..
a "G machine" is a car that is featured in Popular Hot Rodding or Super Chevy..

Also, dont' forget. In order to be a true Pro-Touring car, your car must have a "name" and a 3D rendering done by Kris Horton.

[novaderrik]

i thought Kris only drew "G Machines" for PHR...

[Mkelcy]

Originally Posted by Dayton68Z28

Also, dont' forget. In order to be a true Pro-Touring car, your car must have a "name" and a 3D rendering done by Kris Horton.

Yes, the "help me name my car" threads on the Pro-Touring and Lateral-G sites drive me crazy. I responded to one that I named my light blue '68 the "Light Blue '68," I named my dark blue '68 the "Dark Blue '68" and my '67 the "'67." The naming guys didn't see the humor in that.

[69ProTouring]

I agree, Mike. I can only see a name for a car if it's going to be marketed.

[DjD]

It's not a pro-touring thing, people have been naming their cars from the beginning of automotive time. Having to ask for suggestions just shows a lack of imagination or an insecurity in the car owner (name has to be cool with peers). If you give a car a name it needs to mean something to you relating to the car and it's personality or something that happened involving the car.

[cody]

a protouring car is basically a hotrod. A car that has been lowered, has 20" billet or 3 piece wheels, preferably which ever is more expensive, has smoothed body and the latest parts including fuel injection, turbo chargers, and baer brakes are mandatory preferably the biggest ones you can get. A custom interior is nice and it must have at least some new suspension pieces, doesn't really matter if they work good, but they need to be new and tig welded, and probably have polished billet coilovers.

One must talk about going to the mystical place called "the track" you must always mention that when thinking or talking about the car in question. However it is not required to actually go, but when building it, always ask yourself if whatever part you are going to buy will make it look more "racey". If you want to see the top protouring cars, going to the "SEMA" show IS mandatory, these are the finest examples of "protouring" cars. Mostly ex-hot rod builders that put 100,000K plus into the cars to create on off special machines that are kept stowed away or sold on ebay.

[1stgenCR]

Bitter much?

[Silver69Camaro]

Originally Posted by cody

One must talk about going to the mystical place called "the track" you must always mention that when thinking or talking about the car in question.

That is so true!! Lapping your car will change the way you think about the hobby and how you build your car. Very rarely to people actually do it!

[novaderrik]

Pro Touring is at the same place today that Pro Street was in the late 80's...
how many "Pro Street" cars did you see knocking off the 8 second 1/4 mile times they were made to look like they ran back then?
how many Pro Touring cars do you see knocking off the record-breaking lap times at the road course today?
i bet the percentages are about the same..
now, that's not to say that there aren't some "pro touring" style cars that get driven regularly and get driven hard.. but i'd bet the posers far outnumber the real cars.