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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 57,086
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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I don't get the nomenclature though. What does the "pro" signify?
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Pro Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pro Street is a style of street-legal custom car popular in the 1980s, usually built to imitate a Pro-street class race car. Pro Street cars should appear to be more at home on the drag strip than the street, while remaining street legal and not gutted like a Race Car or Bracket Race car. Typically called a Backhalf car (tubbed).
Cars of this type always feature two of the following three modifications:
A highly-modified, with supercharger or turbo, large capacity V8, V12, V10, V6, I6 engine.
A narrowed rear axle coupled with oversized rear wheels & at least an 11" wide tire (located within the wheelwells) for maximum grip and wheelie bars
An NHRA legal roll cage.
Cars of this type should remain modified from the firewall back but keep a full interior with windshield wipers, carpet and working lights.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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03-15-2015, 01:38 AM
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