Quickest cars of the 60's...
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RPMagoo
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For more info check http://roadtests.tripod.com/ -- neat info, but don't see 68 Hemi Dart, Shelby Cobra, Mustang etc. ???? -- Times have sure changed, today, with a little tweaking these cars are 11 and 12 second cars. -- (convertors, exhaust, carbs, cams, tires etc.)
Frankie
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On the street, these cars are in a statistical tie.
...and there isn't a car on the list that cost over $5000.00 I sure do miss those days.
I bought a new Hemi RoadRunner in 1968. The Hemi option, which no only included the engine, but a bunch of extra chassis gusseting and reinforcing, cost $800.00. The car cost me $4200.00 That included a Dana 60, an 833, and a couple of other things.
In 1970 I purchased a used 1969 440/4Bbl, 833, Dana 60 GTX, The car had 1600 miles on it. Cost me less than $2500.
I sure do miss those days. Today's equivalents start in the $30K+ range and go up from there.
RPMagoo
Just An Old Motorhead
hemi a-bodies weren't street legal and Cobras aren't muscle cars. I'm betting Shelby mustangs were heavier and geared taller than regular mustangs....making them not as quick.
RPMagoo
Just An Old Motorhead
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RPMagoo
Just An Old Motorhead
-- I believe that a 67 Chevelle 427 was street legal, and pretty quick. ???? -- Also the time for a 66 Nova L-79 / 327 - 350H.P. is way off. I had one. With Atlas Bucron sticky tires, I was in the low 13s, and it was my daily driver. -- Bill Jenkins tweaked one, and set a class record of 11.66, back in the day. -- Great Times !!
The 65 427 AC Cobra would eat them all for breakfast. 0-100 and back to 0 in 13 seconds. Nuff said.
I put a 427 into a 67 Chevelle, but I dont think it came from GM that way. And boy was it quick! It would come close to my friends 455 Stage one Buick. We raced them in Palomar strip. :burnout: This was in 1979,1980
No the 67 Chevelle never had a factory 427. That's been an argument for decades. Never happened.
stroked340
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Wheres the 69' 1/2 440 sixpack roadrunner bet it would beat all those cars..Knew a guy that worked at a Plymouth dealership back in the early 70' they use to run the car's down a street behind the dealership told be the sixpack car would beat the hemi every time..
Yeah, I always heard that too. The Hemis always had too many valve train issues. Least that was the word on the street. Even a well tuned 440 Super Commando would spank a Hemi.
I got one right! That 'Rat" motor was wicked.
RPMagoo
Just An Old Motorhead
-- Yep ! I think --- The 427s were put in by Yenko and possibly by Baldwin Motion, also.
What did weight ?
Right. There "WERE" some, just none from Chevy. I think 69 was the only year Chevy did put them in.
Shortly after we moved out here about the middle of 2003, I acquired a 78 El Camino, sans engine and transmission. I found a 454 block, 396 crank and the good large oval port closed chamber heads and build a 425 horse 427 and slung it in. It would NOT hook up. I built it to sell. I put that truck on Ebay and got just about five times what I had in it.
Mt dad in the CAWLEYs garage use to tune street HEMIs & max wedge cars. He told me guys use to come to the garage & have them tune up there cars because from factory they ran like ****, no guts. Stock 440s would spank stock hemis & 409s. Boy the stories I could tell you guys that I heard from my dad or uncles.
The 427 cars weighed around 2450.
Frankie
Member #9641
Not even close, Tim, even adjusting for inflation... There is nothing on that list in the OP that was over $5000.
When my original 1971 Dart was new it cost me $2295.00 and that included a/c, vinyl roof and interior, PS, PB, and auto.
ir3333
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L88 vette was a force
dynoed over 500 hp?
and when the 440 six packs arrived they were all but unbeatable
dynoed over 500 hp?
and when the 440 six packs arrived they were all but unbeatable
fact is the 6 pack actually reduced basically nothin off the time slip.
stock hemi vs stock 440 same gears etc , the hemi would take the 440 at the very end of the qtr because of better breathing. top end that's another story.
that Buick in that is list is probably under rated.
othe r day, found the original invoice for my puny 170 '62 Lancer 2 door post car, it was like $1725 !!!! radio and heater only car... ha O K so it has nothin to do with fast cars!!!!
look at it this way, if a guy was making $8000 a yr gross, and a 68 roadrunner cost him $2800. he would have to be making $110,000 now to have the same buying power!!!??? ha
beam me back to '68 Scoty and leave of Nam!????
stock hemi vs stock 440 same gears etc , the hemi would take the 440 at the very end of the qtr because of better breathing. top end that's another story.
that Buick in that is list is probably under rated.
othe r day, found the original invoice for my puny 170 '62 Lancer 2 door post car, it was like $1725 !!!! radio and heater only car... ha O K so it has nothin to do with fast cars!!!!
look at it this way, if a guy was making $8000 a yr gross, and a 68 roadrunner cost him $2800. he would have to be making $110,000 now to have the same buying power!!!??? ha
beam me back to '68 Scoty and leave of Nam!????
ir3333
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