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The Pro Touring Appeal

@john.mcgann

ur Spring 2024 issue prominently featured Pro Street cars. Pro Touring is the antithesis, or some may say antidote, to that style of car. Where a Pro Street car embraces the look of a drag racer, a Pro Touring car adopts the look of a road racer. “Muscle cars that handle,” is a quick and easy aphorism that sums it up well. Of the

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