muscle cars were to 60s what smart phones are today. silly toys of distraction. they all basically perform the same. the rest is marketing. the effect is the rich get richer and the sheep go to slaughter
These cars are getting so old that it's probably a stretch to find something that is truly 'stock.' Nevertheless, they are probably about as close as you can get and they are a great measure of how fast modern cars are....and how far automotive engineering has come. I take everything I own to the track eventually. My F150 with the 3.5 Ecoboost has a best of 14.50. And my daily bmw 440i's best was 12.99 stock and 12.35 with a safe and mild tune. Great video and production. Edit is spot on. Burnouts and staging games are edited out. Just stage, race, results, next..... Great work
67 'El, same thing, reason. Been 4 yrs now just kills me. Refuse to let it go...sept it will be 30 yrs for me also . Started my first pool routes out of it when it was a primered heap
Do they ever do a tear down on the motors of some of the faster cars? I had the pleasure of living during the Muscle car age, I NEVER saw a 350 Nova go 11'S stock. Regardless of who put the motor in, Yenko of Nickey, they just were not that fast stock.
The Simpson guys are serious racers. However, I think this same car was running about 13 seconds a few years back. It has a 4.56 rear, and probably has the shift points up at about 6500 rpm. Probably not a highway cruiser.
1:15 is an extreamly rare 65 Barracuda S. There is one for sale at GR Auto Gallery in MI. A survivor. Its gold with orig black stripe, V8, 4 brl. 4 speed, factory tach and it has under 2000 miles on it. Check it out.
If I won the Lotto I'd build a 413 Max Wedge with that massive iron crossplane intakes, 331 or 392 Hemi barracuda, slant 6 Duster, and a 69 Roadrunner with a 440 and 8-71 running on methanol and 100's more cars
@@dublkrossr2059 hey , the 413 with the long ram manifolds are stuff of legend that still makes appearances from time to time. Check out the Beach Boys song shut you down or Jan and Dean song Little Ol Lady From Pasadena. That's nostalgia.
Man, I dig the muscle car drags, but it looks more like a "run what you brung" event... an ET of 12.40 for a 1967 SS396 Chevelle is two full seconds faster than stock...
We were in are youth in the 70s and were able to buy these cars cheap and had enough sense to collect many from 55 to70 all makes and models , now they live in are barn..?
The Ram Air 3 was a rebranded 400 HO. The Ram Air 4 is nearly identical to a RA2. I think the 68 Firebirds had a small weight advantage. There is a 69 GTO in this event with a RA4 that does low 12s.
I have always love the Quarter-Mile Cars of the 60’s and especially the 60’s.My Grand Pa Jim had a 1964 Dodge 440 Cornett 426 Hemi. The quarter mile stats were 11.6 seconds 126 miles an hour. Grandpa Jim only lost one race and that was another 1964 Dodge 440 Cornett 426 Hemi except this car had some work done because Grandpa Jim could see him pulling away with his front wheels off the ground at first.Well there might be two or three cars that would be quicker than Grandpa Jims car but Grandpa Jims quarter mile car would be worth a lot more than any stock car today !
Good concert, special at times, but could have been better if, in my opinion, they had done fewer of his songs at the beginning and cut the solos and left time for more genesis. Most artists like him do tend to want to play their own post band songs, but it’s kind of a disservice to the audience. The second to last song of the first set had everybody jamming, but then he ruined it and wasted time with some weird song at the end of the set that no one seemed to enjoy. He replicated this error, again in my opinion with a relatively obscure low energy song at the end of the encores, time which could have been used on a better song. was a concert with extreme highs and many unnecessary lows. I’ll give it a high B+.just my two cents.
@@markreilly7052 yes, There would undoubtedly be like REAL hacket fans who would like it all, maybe some who actually followed his post band career, as well as some people who actually KNOW music, or play instruments, and a few others I’d say, but for many I suspect, they would have preferred him just to split the first set between Nursery Cryme, and selling England. I appreciate your point of view, and am happy for those who were able to enjoy all of it, if I had known all of those other songs, I probably would have been in 7th Heaven! 😆
Plus simple 3 spd autos no benefit from 6, 8 ,10 spd trans wiht crazy low 4.xx first gears Love to see what a hellcat would do with a 727 auto and 3.23 gears
No way are they "Pure Stock". That 340 Duster ran 2 seconds faster than they did back then. At 3200 lbs +. . .no way it's factory stock. Maybe the title should have read "Close To Stock". But it sure was a fun video to watch!
Yep...wish I would have kept some of my old vehicles like my 67 Ford F100 stepside 6' Bed with a 352 and 4:11 rr, or my 69' 383 Road Runner. But my current car in a 17' Super Sport Camaro with a 6 speed manual so it takes away the pain.😁
I sold the 67 Firebird I built to a brother-in-law cheap before I left town. Never should've done that. It started out an inline six and ended with a built 350 from a 72 Ventura. 12.5:1 compression, TRW domed pistons, roller rockers, 513 lift cam, 750 Holley double pumper, headers, TH400 built for the track, 4.10 posi rear.y buddy totalled his Ventura that he just put $1500 worth of parts into the motor. I stopped at his shop and saw the motor on the floor. He said it would be great in my Firebird (running a Chevy 327 at the time with T-10 4-speed) so he let me have it for $200. Really, and I only paid $100 for the car from a guy who won it in a poker game. Paid $150 for the trans (my mom"s next door neighbor owned a speed shop), forget what i paid for the rear and headers. And I added a floor for console to cover the hole in the floor. All used parts except for the parts the motor. Really should not have sold that car.
@@davidscott1619 70s and even in the 80s you could mod cars that cheap. Junkyards were full of these cars with all the good stuff under the hoods. I remember seeing nicer cars in the junkards than flippers on CL sell today ie these rusty patina pos.
Rules allow a bump in compression ratio of 1.5. This really wakes up the low compression 73-74 SD motors and shows what beasts they would have been pre-1971.
Fantastic, a reality show, great to see what they really ran...ish LOL. I have had a 12.80s '68 Roadrunner here in the UK 40 years, life thing for me, cheers
Seriously Cars don’t get any better when you looking up from the 40s through the 70s 60s and 70s is the Muscle era. Great Cars call enthusiast love it.
