If you like muscle car drag races then this is the channel for you! Most of the footage is from Factory Stock and Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race classes.
My Dad bought a 69 Dart GTS 340 and said he could abuse that car hard with its 3 spd automatic black interior the dodge white body and black GTS strip around it.brand new in 69 .
keep up the sillines the video was great as always to many crab asses out there sit back and enjoy these videos the guy too alot of time to make for our entertainment
My 1967 American with a transplanted drivetrain from a totaled 1968 Javelin fooled many mainstream muscle cars back in the very early 1970's. We used to call it the glow factor. Because you felt so warm inside when you smacked a Camaro or Mustang because you knew they were pissed getting beat by a Rambler. 343 with a little headwork. Edelbrock intake with a 650 dual line double pumper. Crane cam, Schiefer clutch, 3.54 gears, Lakewood slapper traction bars because of the horrible wheel hop without them. Had to have the driveshaft shortened because the Javelin had a 109- inch wheelbase whereas the American had a 106 -inch wheelbase. Local machine shop connected to a speedshop did the headwork and the driveshaft for me.
i have ownede pontiacs all my life and my friends even call me pontiac pete but that g8 is a chevrolet with pontiac emblems on it your videos are always great but gm should have never dropped oldsmobile and pontiac for a saturn????? lol
I used to drive a GS 455 (not stage 1) and, like most people at the time, thought HP determined 1/4 mile times. That’s when I learned about the secret of Buick: Torque. It was a fun car to drive and I’m glad that I survived as a teenager. 😅
Back in 1978 in high school I almost bought a dodge demon dart for my first car. Thankfully I ended up buying a Pontiac 69 GTO. 400 , auto with 3.55 gears. Way better looking car with plenty of power. A guy at my high school had a 1970 340 Duster. He had a small cam, headers, thought it was fast. We lined up many times.,I beat him by 5-6 car lengths every time. Then raced his friends 69 Road Runner with a 383 , auto and 391 gears. Beat him by 3 lengths. Mopar or no car I will always take a Pontiac. I still have one today.
I think if the AMX had slightly taller gears, she might have even ran a little better. That 390 winds up a lot quicker than the longer stroke 455 and was getting out of it's power band a little early from what I observed. If I remember correctly, AMC had a 3.73 diff option, but it was a Dealer install option. If you bought an AMX new, the next taller gear ratio from the 3.91 was the 3.54. Compression Ratio also had a factor. Those extra 65 cube's weren't sqeezin' as hard as that 390. That's where that torque comes from. If the Firebird was against a '72' Javelin AMX, 401/4 speed, at 8.5 C/R, the Firebird would have womp it all day long. If the AMX was against a '70' 400 c.u. Firebird, I think it would lose that race as well. I grew up in Kenosha Wi. so I've always been partial to AMC products and you can make em' run with the best of them. It just cost's more. Back in the '70's a performance cam & lifters for a small block chevy was under a hundred bucks, while the cam alone for my 401 was over 150 bucks. Overall I think AMC's are underrated. I had a '72" Ambassador 4dr sedan, 360/4bbl/duel exhaust that completely destroyed a (new at the time) '85' Iroc Camero from a dead stop. To this day, I always think about how that guy must have felt about getting his ass kicked by a "Rambler". Any AMC fans in my area, drop me a line. I'd love to shoot the shit. Best regards fellow gear heads.
I guess I don't know what a coup is. I believe that all Dusters were coups. 2 door. Hard top. They didn't make any convertables. 340 wedge, 727 torque flight, 323, 8 and 3/4 rear end that I would swap for a 454 gear when going to Bean Blossom eight mile drag strip. I owned three of them back in '80 to '84. Good times!
You just can't give up 26 ci to a hemi and win. Still solid performance... from both cars. Dipping into the 11s in the Cuda got me a little sticky below the belt too...
I knew a few guys who worked with the big Hemi at the proving grounds. They said the 426 would dyno at 500 hp all day long. I have to believe the same would have to be true with the Chevrolet 427. Those Chrysler big blocks had the hole shot, but big block Chevrolets sure could make high end power.
My father had a brand new 68Z 28 crossram cow induction JL8 brakes . He was associated with Bill Jenkins and Dave Strickler. Set a record at the local dragstrip PID for 11.97 But didn’t back it up.