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This 1966 Pro Touring Corvette is No Poseur
« on: August 25, 2007, 11:07:37 PM »


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Tired of Fancy Show Cars That Don't Turn a Tire in Anger? Then Check OutBrent Jarvis' '66 Corvette, a High-Dollar Hot Rod That Just Earned ItsStripes on the Road Course.
By Matt King
photographer: Rich Chenet

For years we've said that Pro Touring is becoming too much like ProStreet. Big-inch wheels framing pizza-pan brakes with sway bars thickenough to hold a dump truck flat through a corner remind us an awful lotof the days when an 8-71 through the hood, a four-link, and 16-inch-wideSportsman Pros signaled the high probability that a car couldn'tactually make a quarter-mile pass if it tried, let alone one worthy ofall the bolt-on hardware. Most Pro Touring cars strike us the same way,even if we do find the look infinitely more tasteful. The typical ProTouring machine with the latest C5 Corvette-derived front suspension,18-inch Fikses, and 14-inch rotors with more pistons than enginecylinders certainly talks the talk, but can it walk the walk? We suspectmost can't.
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