I could watch these races ALL DAY LONG. Rare factory musclecars, not on trailers, going all out like they were built to do. Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed every second of it! Except when the Ram Air II lost. That was a bummer but that's why they call it "drag racing" and not "drag winning" I suppose.
this vid is so addictive. if it were 2 hr I'd end up watching the whole thing. the only shady biz I saw was the last race. could have been thrown but the firs half of the video is how these cars run unturned. I love it. I have a 400 Pontiac tuned headers3.42 and go 13.50 104. this vid makes me feel pretty good automatic car too.
At 22:30, that beautiful '71 Mustang 351 sure sounded awesome and ran hard. The Ram Air IV Judge and Stage 1 Buick at 32:30 was a clash of the luxury GM titans, and the result seemed as one would expect (Judge had higher trap speed and the Buick torque pulled ahead at the start). Really good stuff!
A lot of people won't admit it but back in the day when people were first learning about their muscle car in a race as soon as they stomped on the pedal they would stumble on themselves a lot of races were lost that way because of cheap Factory carburetors and then engines not tuned properly.
The older pure stocks had more of a variety of cars than recent ones . Today Fords dont even show up. This is not a put down for Fords but just a mention
9:10 The Studebaker R4 was not :...even more experimental..." The R4 was the same 304.5 cubic inch displacement as the R3. The R4 had higher 12.5:1 compression and dual four-barrels in place of the R3's single four-barrel and supercharged intake.
Im from MI and this is the real deal. Did you see that Berger 427 Camaro run a 12.33?? Superchargers are nice, but theres no replacement for displacement.
Awesome races, but I don't know how "pure stock" a late 60s Vette is running mid-11s. Tuning, yes, but none of those cars back then could run anything close to that in anything remotely like showroom floor conditions.
I’m calling fouls too. Tuning is great, but let me just say ‘street tires’. Nyet. These times all seemed quick by a full second - across all races and cars.
hckyplyr9285 trust me the 69 ZL1 427 could definitely run into the 11’s on a Drag tire, & so could the 68 Hemi Dart. & there are several cars that would run into the 13flat high 12’s on a drag tire, cars like the 69 Boss 429, 70 Yenko Nova, 70 Hemi Roadrunner, 70 Buick GSX stage 1 455, 70 LS6 Chevelle, 71 Hemi Cuda.. all on Modern Drag radials would surprise you how quick they are
+ghm389 One of the fastest street cars back then was the Hemi Road runner. My class mate had one and his quarter mile time was 13:46. I never saw mid 12s in any stock cars. Not saying it's not possible. Just saying of all the races I went to back then, never saw the first stock anything off the floor run 12s.
Correct, they are very close to stock but allow for mods. (ported heads - roller tip rockers - upgraded pistons up to 1.5 more compression - 2.5" dual exhaust - upgraded rear axle gearing. wheel hop bars or clamps for leaf springs. Here is a link to the rules. www.fastdrags.com/11.html
I agree a 3500-4000 lb car running 12 seconds is not going to happen. Today a Camaro ZL1 with 650 has 200 hp more than any of these cars had and probably less weight and that thing will probably run high 11's.
