Pro-Touring

These modified muscle cars have been developed to function as well as, or to surpass, the capabilities of the foremost modern performance vehicles.

Whether they are driven on the street, the race track, the drag strip, or through cones at an auto-cross is of no difference.

[1] Credit for coining the term ‘Pro-Touring' itself to define the emerging genre is widely attributed to Mark Stielow, GM Program Engineering Manager, and Car Craft magazine’s Tech Editor Jeff Smith, who was heading up Chevy High Performance magazine at the time.

Mark Stielow can also take credit for helping grow the new concept through his own projects such as the white 1969 Chevrolet Camaro known as Tri-Tip that competed in the One Lap of America in 1993.

The Camaro was widely covered and created a surge in interest, and once the term was put in print, it stuck.