Am I the only one that is a fan of Pro Street Cars? I hope not because otherwise this week’s Theme Tuesday is going to land a bit flat.
By Pro street I mean drag race styled cars. Low front ends, stock height or raised rear ends, Weld Wheels, Hoosier Or Mickey Thompson tires, narrowed axles, tubs, cages, often wild paint, the whole nine yards as it were.
Basically cars that push the boundaries of ‘Street Legal’ to the point where you wonder whose palms were greased to allow the car to get registration.
The style may have lost some steam after being incredibly popular in the 80s and early 90s but I still see quite a few Pro Street styled cars in my travels so one could argue that is a timeless style.
Either way I like them, and hopefully you do too, enjoy!
This is one of the most easily found photos of a “Pro Street” car online, the wheel and tire set up on this car is massive.While not quite as extreme as the car above, I’ve seen many a 60s era Camaro styled similarlyStreet Classics Cruise Ins in Etobicoke are always worth attending if you are in the area, sadly I am in the area less and less these daysThe Camaro and this Chevy II were at the same event as the car belowand this car was at the same event as……this one…….and this Nova!This ‘Yenko’ (not sure if it is real) is phenomenal, it’s been around for awhile and is always spotlessThe Vega, Tri Five, and this car actually come from the same shop A&D PerformanceTheir builds can be spotted from Brampton to EtobicokeAs much as I do miss the Street Classics events the ones at Canadian Tire in Pickering are pretty great as wellTwo cars over from that Trans Am was this Camaro sporting Mickey Thompson Sportsman tires and strange axlesAnd right near that was this Camaro that swallowed HoosiersEngine bay of the same Camaro, gotta have some power to turn those big wheels and tiresI have reason to believe that the owner of this Nova indeed cannot drive 55This Holley blower is a contributing factor to that assumption of mineThis was actually a fairly clean build all around, the interior was quite nice as wellI’m fairly certain this car could have leapt out of the pages of Car Craft magazine in the 80sOn the topic of Magazine cars, Hot Rod Magazine featured this oneI’ve only seen this ’69 Mach 1 at a single event, it’s actually one of very few 60s Mustangs I’ve personally seen done Pro Street styleTrucks are not exempt from the Pro Street StyleDoes anyone want to Hazard a guess at the average MPG of this post? 8 maybe?I can’t imagine how often the headers on this car hit the groundReunited was a great show that sadly just never came back after one event, I’ve not seen this Nova sinceProbably one of the coolest (if not the coolest) Chevettes in OntarioI bet it is an absolute riot to driveOn the scale of ‘internet famous’ Pro Street builds this double blown GTO is high up there
Rock Dobbertin is perhaps the #1 Pro Street Icon with his crazy J2000 PontiacThe car is absolutely looney, and hopefully still hiding away somewhereTwin blowers, twin superchargers, and nitrous!
