Best adrenaline rush for those of us that are old enough to remember what it was like, before twin torbos, computers, and all the fancy stuff that handicap drivers need these days!
All a guy needed back then was a chassis, an engine, a full tank of gas, four tyres some simple tools and a lead foot... good days. Nowadays you need a degree in rocket and computer science to tune a car... SMH
My dad had a Dodge Dart with the 440 trim, with the push button automatic transmission of the left side of the steering column. His was a 318 two barrel but it hopped along quite nice.
My brother ( now 84 years old) raced from 1962 to 1995 or so. He had one real bad accident. You all know the kind.... where he lost traction at the start... slid a little left and right, thought he could control it, got on the gas....and tumbled at 100mph . He was the NHRA National record holder in some years during the early to mid 70s. He had a white Corvette, and a green 442. He changed the weight break by putting in a spare tire fulla concrete...or not. Just enough to change a class. So he held Class A Super Stock, Class A Modified Stock and class B Super Stock and Class B Modified Stock. All at the same time. Took him about 9 months to mend his Evel Knievel ass...but went right back to racing. As he told me many many times...his bets/purses covered the costs ... so he just never stopped. Drove his wife crazy. I was kinda lost , left home at 15 in 1965, then went to Nam in 1969. Got home 1973. Dropped by to see him ..Hadn't seen him in 10 or more years....but gee whillikers ..man what a cpla cars!!!!! Went to the track a few times, but he told me (winkin and noddin) the money was street racing... betting... I can't imagine having ...I don't know...maybe $100,000 tied up in a car and racing for "pinks" as they called them back then. If the guy lost , he usually paid off in cash and kept his wheels. Just some weird kinda times for damn sure. His name was Robert Seale Hurley....don't know if there are published records from then or not. I never found any...but I damn sure saw him win at the track.
The muscle cars of this era typically had their horsepower underrated to get them into a more favorable category at the drags. Also, maybe to keep the legislators off their backs.
You are correct. Also if insurance companies heard of such brut force premiums would go thru the roof. So they played down the hp advertising. Also another fact...back in the day tires were not as designed as today which made street racing calm compared to today. On my 64 375 hp corvette stingray I used bald snow tires on the rear. An animal on the street and a great time in the Bronx.
The last race had an interesting car in it a 1962 Ford Galaxy that came out from the factory with a 406 cubic inch engine and they rated it as 405 horses and they lied like a dog about the size and the horsepower and any regular guy could buy one,they only made five hundred of them in that year!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised the Plymouth Belvedere with the 426 wasn't on the list. I'm a Ford fan, BUT I'm also an American made car guy that loves and respects All of the Detroit muscle! I restored a buddy of mine, Plymouth Belvedere and I must say thee most wicked car I have ever restored. When he and my other good buddy run at the track, 427 T-Bolt and 426 Belvedere...it's a site to see! Throws me back in a time machine when cars were cars, with style and attitude.
Those 427 T Bolts were the ultimate drag strip cars.They were so built and tuned the avrrage driver couldnt handle one .Id line a fully original T Bolt up against anything and not be intimidated.
I remember the 64 Fairlane as a street vehicle that did not look all that impressive, with the unobtrusive ribbon egg blue. But , with the big engine it was very fast. 1964 was a very good year for Ford .
I wish that they made a recording of these car's running so I could hear it all the time. Call me strange but hearing these car's running is really soothing to me.
This guy knows what’s up! I’m a young guy and no one my age realize how dominate the thunderbolt was and still is. My money would be on any thunderbolt, cobra jet, or boss 429 vs any brand new ls engine!
The meanest factory drag cars ever built were the 68 Darts/Barracudas with the 12.5:1 compression 426 Race Hemi with dual quads on a cross ram intake. Definitely good for 600 plus horsepower easily. There's so many great ones...the 409 Chevy's, the 65 Biscayne 396/425 and 66 Biscayne 427/425, and the Chevy Camaro ZL1 and 427 COPO cars, the 390/406/427 Ford Starliners/ Galaxies and 427 Ford Fairlanes/Mercury Comets, the 389/421 Super Duty Pontiacs, and the 62-64 413/426 Max Wedge and 426 Race Hemi Mopar lightweights
@jimmy hawkins What I've come to learn regarding the Hp of a stock 428 Cobra Jet was researched and answered by Hot Rod magazine, ..the stock 428 CJ makes 365 hp. indicated in th HR article below. Another question, Were these cars acid dipped, have aluminum bumpers and other chassis and interior weight transferred to the rear ..as strategic launch ballast? www.hotrod.com/articles/testing-4-2-8how-much-horsepower-ford-428-cobra-jet-really-make/
Damn that 413 max wedge is the most gorgeous engine ever. Those off set air cleaners really look cool.imagine that motor in a 70 cuda with a pistol grip 4 spd. 4.10 rearend and posi.OMG.
ken barr The white 62 Ford came out from the factory with the engine in it that one had,and they were for sale to the general public!!!But they only made five hundred of them in that year!!!!!!!!
@@johnnyhawkins43 Well Holman Moody offered factory shelf parts back then as well... You couldn't step in the dealer and buy a Holman Moody full race cam, but you could get a 3/4 race cam... Ultimate was just to have H/M blueprint and balance it along with their preferred race cam... But you had to be one of their drivers to get their choice cams....
the buick 430 in 69 what an engine anyone who has looked at the casting and machine work from the factory a thing of beauty wow and enough power with out spenging a dime something like 425 hp 450 torque
These cars were "Gods" in their days. Now, they're "Saints"! One great car was Plymouth's 1967 Belvedere GTX with its one year exclusive cylinder heads. 375 "rated" horsepower. More like 450. Not bad considering the 440 was not a "race" engine designed to rev. They were designed and built for "luxury" cars and the torque was to spin all the accessories including the A/C compressor. Why could you not get A/C on Street Hemi's? Because they revved so high, the A/C compressors wouldn't be covered under warranty when they grenaded. Little known fact: Plymouth's Superbird and Dodge Daytona's had the wing on the back high so you could open the trunk. That's it. Had nothing to do with "better down force". Argue if you may, but it's true.
I was able to run my street car at the High School Nationals at Norwalk a couple of years ago. There was more to it than what I expected, and the racin part was a hoot. Ah... the combustion-engine. It was fun while it lasted. JfromOH
I'll never forget my Father bringing home a 1962 Dodge Dart, Identical to the one here in the video, I was 13 years old, my mother had a fit! Damn, that car was fast, for the time. lol
Having been 19 at the time of many of the pictured cars were racing I can tell you that the high compression cross ram dual quad Mopar ruled the streets and drags to a large extent. Their competitors were the 409 Chevys which made a bit less power and were heavier. Ditto the 40y Fords which were much heavier. The 427 high riser T bt was quite rare and not really a factor in street racing. A huge advantage for the Mopar boys was the very rugged Torqueflite trans. Ford and Chevy had nothing like it At the time I had a 1957 Olds post coupe with a pretty hot 39r Olds engine mated to a B and M hydro which reached the fragile JetaWay tra s. I was running a 3.9 rear end My car could run in the mid to low 14s. Adequate to deal with most street cars of the time. Including the 64 GTo. The 400 ci hipo 409s 413s 426s 406s and 437s were at the time on the street running very low 13s to the rare mid 12s. Thats how fast for their time the hipo factory cars were. Completely above and beyond the usual American car. I never saw a 42qSD Pontiac on the street. These were quite rare. Saw one T Bolt on the street ....impressive. it sqared off against a Hemi Mopar and blew its doors off but the Mopar was in absolute street tune so....
I liked it too. I must have towed 2 or three Dodge Chargers home with my 63 Galaxy back in the early 70's because every time you spooked them they threw something off. Aka, broke something.
Forgot the Mercury Comet/Cyclone they ruled the A/fx and B/fx classes with drivers like Ronnie Sox and Dyno Don Nicholson then in 65 Jack Chrisman invented the funny car class with his 65.
I always heard that someone commented on Dyno Don's flip top 66 Mercury that "that's a funny car", & the funny car class came to be. That's what I read in a Super Stock & Drag Illustrated mag. anyway I believe.
My man has a real steel nose Plymouth hemi car and it a 1964 4speed. But when he got the car the race hemi was gone but now it has a Ray Barton 528CI hemi in it now. And yes he has all the paper work proving it is a real hemi car. But there is some nice cars on here. To us the 62 to 65 cars are the best dodge Plymouth Ford Chevy but we are all mopar the hemi was the best motor and fastest cuz to this day all top fuel cars hemi don't care what it says on it. Its a hemi. But ty for the video
All of the horsepower in the world doesn't mean one will win a race. Remember the old AC Cobras? They were fast up to 160 mph. Aerodynamics prevent it from going any faster. Then came the Daytona coupe. The 289 Daytona coupe will out run a 427 AC Cobra. They beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
They also had 427 FE motors in them not "425"?? I could be wrong though because they did make a lot of weird FE truck motors. Hint for car guys: iirc The 391 FE is a truck 390 with a forged crank. 390 guys don't want the 391 block, but they do want the crank. So if you ever come across one intact it might be worth snagging for resale.
@@64fairlane305 My 1979 Yamaha SR500 put out 32.5hp, stock. Thanks to its Hi-Per-Kinetics Stage Two 650 build, it's now more like 55 to 60. The Stage Four was 716cc's! HP unknown. No electric starts on these bikes!
I'd prefer the SD421 over the tri-power any day. Stick that in the SS Tempest for 1963 and it's probably rarer than any other muscle-car ever at 12 made.
WOW!! White Mustang at 3:10,, that's a stick car! Grumpy Jenkins and Ronnie Sox would have been proud to have shaken that drivers name 'cause he takes yank'n a shifter to another level,,
You got that so right, thr guy that designed the 413 wedge was a engineer for Chrysler yet he designed it at home and brought blueprints to work with him. Chrysler made the 426 wedge to out do his design. But they did not figure out why the 413 made more power until 1967 and it was in the tulip exhaust valve that made the difference. Then they started making tulip racing valves for all types of engines. Since then, big block Mopars come with .0005" oil clearance on the crankshaft. Excellent choice!
My brother had a 63 Galaxy with a 427....it twisted so many drive shafts in two, he quit.....Ford and all other makes UNDERATED the HP for insurance reasons....some of the better known Hot Rod mags tested performance engines of that era...the Ford 427 was in the high 600 HP range
The old cars look heavy but when Clint Eastwood picked up the front end of a car in “ Any which way but loose “ it was Not a stunt !that’s how strong he was .
Yeah really. Other than the Max Wedge Mopars and maybe the 64 Fairlane Thunderbolt, they were the fastest super stockers out there. That 421SD would put a 409 Chevy on the trailer real quick
@@johnmarshall3903 those 421 super duty Pontiac factory lightweights we're in the 12s right out the box. So I don't think they have much to be embarrassed about
@@jeremythompson9895 I'm a Ford fan first,but I can remember the first 427 Camaro that beat the hemi in SS/A class. The 427 T-Bolt ran SS/C & THE 427 Fairlane ran SS/D. Now I might be a little off on some of these, I can't remember if any Fords ran in SS/B, maybe the 427 dual 4 did, & the 427 single 4 ran SS/D, I think that's how it was.
Rog5446 obviously it's another one of those Rich Foreigner purchases of American muscle car. There is a lot of it going on today from all of the ranks of manufacturers of American muscle cars. Germany England Sweden Japan Etc... Why wealthy people are taking our American hot rods overseas. Hard to tell the fate of some of these things around all of that salty air over there. When I was stationed in England I did see barracudas Challengers Etc and that's been 35 years ago
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end. All the mopars, vettes, fords and gtos ain't got nothing on the 409. Unique horsepower and torque in a 3200 lb impala, Hurst and positive rear ate the street up. Those were the days.
MAN... as Manufacturers have legal monthly payed "Freaks" in their development departments !!! What a nice Era it was... because, there were born many other awesome crazy Monsters. Oh Lord, what a good time it was.
They sed the impala had a 0 to 60 time of 4.3 seconds making it the quickest on the video. BULL!!! There was no 63 impala that was faster than a T bolt or them mopars! .
The Cobra Jet Mustang and the 406 Galaxie were the readily available muscle cars in the video. The rest were very rare. For example, they only made 57 Z-11 Impalas.
Best adrenaline rush for those of us that are old enough to remember what it was like, before twin torbos, computers, and all the fancy stuff that handicap drivers need these days!
All a guy needed back then was a chassis, an engine, a full tank of gas, four tyres some simple tools and a lead foot... good days.
Nowadays you need a degree in rocket and computer science to tune a car... SMH
for me the ford fairlane 500 thunderbolt wit 427 c.i. engine. it run de quarter mile in only 11.6 seconds. very fast for the age
No 65 Plymouth/Dodge A-990's,..68 Hurst Hemi Darts/Cudas,...Super Duty Pontiacs.
So much for the "Greatest Drag Racing Muscle Cars"...
Great mix of the big 3s best and brightest.
That is one beautiful 1962 Red Dodge and included the many other stock classics that have been kept in such perfect condition.
that last car, the driver shifted it like an old grandma! ronny sox woulda laughed his ass off watching him, they didnt call him mr. 4speed for nothin
Ah yes, those were days when you could actually crawl into the engine compartment to work on it. Now you can't even see the engine.
Soon there won't be an engine to look at
Nice video ,I still have my 1969 ford Torino 428 super cobra jet,and my 1970 ford Torino 429 scj.
Does the 1970 outperform the 69?
#FoMoCo #thanktheLordforthebigblockFord #noreplacementfordisplacement
I always liked the early and mid 60s mopars, they sure knew how to make them back then
Nice touch with the classical music after all the big block big cam engines and cars racing
Great video, gotta love those 1960's muscle cars. Especially those early Mopars with their "funky" body styles.
Ford and Chevy was your brother's and sisters.. Dodge was your crazy uncle
1968 Dodge Dart Hemi Super Stock, 1969 Mercury Cougar Boss 429, 1968 Plymouth Barracuda BO29, 1969 AMC AMX Super Stock
Old school Mopar baby!!
A Ford Hemi? You betcha! Mopar was not the only one.
I lived in that era and lived that life.
Chevy/Pontiac guy most of my life, but there is nothing as cool or unique as the early to mid 60's Mopars.
I’m a Chevy guy, but they do look AWESOME.
Damn the 413 max wedge has gotta be the most gorgeous engine ever.Those offset carbs look ULTRA COOL.
"Cross Ram Induction" or something like that I think Chrysler called it.
Still love these cars fun to watch and listen to
Go Bob Tasca, #3 Funny Car win in a row next Sunday in Epping NH. See you there 😊
My dad had a Dodge Dart with the 440 trim, with the push button automatic transmission of the left side of the steering column. His was a 318 two barrel but it hopped along quite nice.
My brother ( now 84 years old) raced from 1962 to 1995 or so. He had one real bad accident. You all know the kind.... where he lost traction at the start... slid a little left and right, thought he could control it, got on the gas....and tumbled at 100mph . He was the NHRA National record holder in some years during the early to mid 70s. He had a white Corvette, and a green 442. He changed the weight break by putting in a spare tire fulla concrete...or not. Just enough to change a class. So he held Class A Super Stock, Class A Modified Stock and class B Super Stock and Class B Modified Stock. All at the same time. Took him about 9 months to mend his Evel Knievel ass...but went right back to racing. As he told me many many times...his bets/purses covered the costs ... so he just never stopped. Drove his wife crazy.
I was kinda lost , left home at 15 in 1965, then went to Nam in 1969. Got home 1973. Dropped by to see him ..Hadn't seen him in 10 or more years....but gee whillikers ..man what a cpla cars!!!!! Went to the track a few times, but he told me (winkin and noddin) the money was street racing... betting... I can't imagine having ...I don't know...maybe $100,000 tied up in a car and racing for "pinks" as they called them back then. If the guy lost , he usually paid off in cash and kept his wheels.
Just some weird kinda times for damn sure.
His name was Robert Seale Hurley....don't know if there are published records from then or not. I never found any...but I damn sure saw him win at the track.
The muscle cars of this era typically had their horsepower underrated to get them into a more favorable category at the drags. Also, maybe to keep the legislators off their backs.
You are correct. Also if insurance companies heard of such brut force premiums would go thru the roof. So they played down the hp advertising.
Also another fact...back in the day tires were not as designed as today which made street racing calm compared to today. On my 64 375 hp corvette stingray I used bald snow tires on the rear. An animal on the street and a great time in the Bronx.
The last race had an interesting car in it a 1962 Ford Galaxy that came out from the factory with a 406 cubic inch engine and they rated it as 405 horses and they lied like a dog about the size and the horsepower and any regular guy could buy one,they only made five hundred of them in that year!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised the Plymouth Belvedere with the 426 wasn't on the list. I'm a Ford fan, BUT I'm also an American made car guy that loves and respects All of the Detroit muscle! I restored a buddy of mine, Plymouth Belvedere and I must say thee most wicked car I have ever restored. When he and my other good buddy run at the track, 427 T-Bolt and 426 Belvedere...it's a site to see! Throws me back in a time machine when cars were cars, with style and attitude.
James Wilson I think that’s what some of the guys got back in middle school.
Great video - thanks for sharing. Makes me wish I would’ve been around during the time these beasts were roaming and ruling the streets....
I'm glad I was. Today's traction controlled, computer designed $75,000 plastic fantastic hot rods have more power but less soul.
Those 427 T Bolts were the ultimate drag strip cars.They were so built and tuned the avrrage driver couldnt handle one .Id line a fully original T Bolt up against anything and not be intimidated.
68 Hurst Hemi Darts/Cuda's were the ultimate factory drag cars of the 60s......10.5sec 1/4 mile times on factory 7 inch rubber
@@68bobba2 Tbolt's held the top 10 stock car ET time in the world for years, until drag racing actually became a thing again back in the mid 2000's...
@@68bobba2 bad info ?? . the Tbolt held stock record for years
I remember the 64 Fairlane as a street vehicle that did not look all that impressive,
with the unobtrusive ribbon egg blue.
But , with the big engine it was very fast. 1964 was a very good year for Ford .
64 was a good year for hot rodders. Every American manufacturer produced at least one fast car. Hot rod station wagons were also great.
Enjoy seeing the love for classic American Muscle in Europe. I live close by military base and see genuine imports to the U.S. often which is awesome.
I wish that they made a recording of these car's running so I could hear it all the time. Call me strange but hearing these car's running is really soothing to me.
Can't wait for the Nostalgia Drags at US41Dragway on July 6, 7, and 8th, 2018, Morroco, Indiana.
Now, the Ford Thunderbolt ... that’s real !👍
This guy knows what’s up! I’m a young guy and no one my age realize how dominate the thunderbolt was and still is. My money would be on any thunderbolt, cobra jet, or boss 429 vs any brand new ls engine!
cool video
Great job on this, because there were a lot of great factory racers. Would have loved to see the AMX 390 but they probably are somewhat rare...
The meanest factory drag cars ever built were the 68 Darts/Barracudas with the 12.5:1 compression 426 Race Hemi with dual quads on a cross ram intake. Definitely good for 600 plus horsepower easily. There's so many great ones...the 409 Chevy's, the 65 Biscayne 396/425 and 66 Biscayne 427/425, and the Chevy Camaro ZL1 and 427 COPO cars, the 390/406/427 Ford Starliners/ Galaxies and 427 Ford Fairlanes/Mercury Comets, the 389/421 Super Duty Pontiacs, and the 62-64 413/426 Max Wedge and 426 Race Hemi Mopar lightweights
Jeremy Thompson forgot the ‘69 302 tunnel ram Camaro: small block that ate big blocks for breakfast.
Im A chevy guy and theres no displacement for cubic inch the 302 was never A high horse power monster of anykind
@@pleasegrowabrain no true ' if you ever had A properly tuned Chev Big Block you wud wake up & smell the coffee ! No displacement for cubic inch !
Tunnel rams are so beautiful
Buick GSX 455 stage 1 I had one
The 68 Mustang 428 Cobra Jet pulled the wheels up in second gear ..335 hp, yea right!
Sir FarSide a WHOLE LOT OF B.S. going on with this video hahaha
@jimmy hawkins What I've come to learn regarding the Hp of a stock 428 Cobra Jet was researched and answered by Hot Rod magazine, ..the stock 428 CJ makes 365 hp. indicated in th HR article below. Another question, Were these cars acid dipped, have aluminum bumpers and other chassis and interior weight transferred to the rear ..as strategic launch ballast? www.hotrod.com/articles/testing-4-2-8how-much-horsepower-ford-428-cobra-jet-really-make/
Some Car manufactures were under rating hp.
@port nut you sure got that right lmbo
@jimmy hawkins Super stock.
Damn that 413 max wedge is the most gorgeous engine ever. Those off set air cleaners really look cool.imagine that motor in a 70 cuda with a pistol grip 4 spd. 4.10 rearend and posi.OMG.
Cross Ram intake manifold.
It is very nice of you to put peoples channel links to the clips. A lot of people don't do that. Thanks again Car News TV you have a great channel..
Some of these cars were factory prepped drag cars that were not sold to the general public.
ken barr The white 62 Ford came out from the factory with the engine in it that one had,and they were for sale to the general public!!!But they only made five hundred of them in that year!!!!!!!!
@@johnnyhawkins43 Well Holman Moody offered factory shelf parts back then as well... You couldn't step in the dealer and buy a Holman Moody full race cam, but you could get a 3/4 race cam... Ultimate was just to have H/M blueprint and balance it along with their preferred race cam... But you had to be one of their drivers to get their choice cams....
the buick 430 in 69 what an engine anyone who has looked at the casting and machine work from the factory a thing of beauty wow and enough power with out spenging a dime something like 425 hp 450 torque
Don't forget the stage 2 455. Full tilt ready to go about 600 to 650 hp, who knows how much torque
These cars were "Gods" in their days. Now, they're "Saints"! One great car was Plymouth's 1967 Belvedere GTX with its one year exclusive cylinder heads. 375 "rated" horsepower. More like 450. Not bad considering the 440 was not a "race" engine designed to rev. They were designed and built for "luxury" cars and the torque was to spin all the accessories including the A/C compressor. Why could you not get A/C on Street Hemi's? Because they revved so high, the A/C compressors wouldn't be covered under warranty when they grenaded. Little known fact: Plymouth's Superbird and Dodge Daytona's had the wing on the back high so you could open the trunk. That's it. Had nothing to do with "better down force". Argue if you may, but it's true.
I was able to run my street car at the High School Nationals at Norwalk a couple of years ago. There was more to it than what I expected, and the racin part was a hoot.
Ah... the combustion-engine. It was fun while it lasted. JfromOH
STILL here Bro
Gee..these cars are just swell! Anyone giving a thumbs down and saying the cars in this video are not simply keen are being totally unreasonable.
my all time favorite, in those days was, ready, wait for it beep beep. yup that one
bob stock And the usual reply as I recall was beep beep yer ass. Ah the memories.
Means nothing to me without quarter mile ETs & speed.
I'll never forget my Father bringing home a 1962 Dodge Dart, Identical to the one here in the video, I was 13 years old, my mother had a fit! Damn, that car was fast, for the time. lol
How is the top speed on the Thunderbolt 124 mph when it would run the quarter at over 140mph?
Nowadays it's chips and turbos...The nerds took over
Rice rockets and rap and crap! What a combination!
What is amazing is the improvements since then 3 l cars have more hp than older 6 l engines
There is only one word for these cars... cool.
I grew up driving these monsters....
Having been 19 at the time of many of the pictured cars were racing I can tell you that the high compression cross ram dual quad Mopar ruled the streets and drags to a large extent. Their competitors were the 409 Chevys which made a bit less power and were heavier. Ditto the 40y Fords which were much heavier. The 427 high riser T bt was quite rare and not really a factor in street racing.
A huge advantage for the Mopar boys was the very rugged Torqueflite trans. Ford and Chevy had nothing like it
At the time I had a 1957 Olds post coupe with a pretty hot 39r Olds engine mated to a B and M hydro which reached the fragile JetaWay tra s. I was running a 3.9 rear end
My car could run in the mid to low 14s. Adequate to deal with most street cars of the time. Including the 64 GTo.
The 400 ci hipo 409s 413s 426s 406s and 437s were at the time on the street running very low 13s to the rare mid 12s.
Thats how fast for their time the hipo factory cars were. Completely above and beyond the usual American car.
I never saw a 42qSD Pontiac on the street. These were quite rare. Saw one T Bolt on the street ....impressive. it sqared off against a Hemi Mopar and blew its doors off but the Mopar was in absolute street tune so....
Wow nice.
The Mopars in 62 were so friggin ugly but that dual quad 413 Max Wedge with the cross ram intake made up for it
but in today's world of rounded curvy cars and some modern stylish wheels they are hella sexy.
They must be the ugliest cars ever made
So "ugly" that they were actually "beautiful".
THIS WAS A BEAST
Liked the Hemi Hunter Thunderbolt.
I liked it too. I must have towed 2 or three Dodge Chargers home with my 63 Galaxy back in the early 70's because every time you spooked them they threw something off. Aka, broke something.
It's the solution to Mopar fanboys saying Mopar or no car
Nice cars and video. Thumbs up and happy 4th of July everyone.
this old iron is so cool! ...not very fast, but cool
Love the MOPAR sound
How about the Pontiac 421SDs? These cars bested all the Plymouths, Dodges and Chevys listed for the early 1960s.
Has the c.i. On the hood of the Thunderbolt and still could not copy right. You had one simple job!
Great example of what happens when you make a video but know nothing about the subjects in it. A for effort my friend.
Robert Leavy yeah I'm with you. These people are dreaming up ETS and times for various ....no knowledge here of facts . lol.
Nice...
Forgot the Mercury Comet/Cyclone they ruled the A/fx and B/fx classes with drivers like Ronnie Sox and Dyno Don Nicholson then in 65 Jack Chrisman invented the funny car class with his 65.
I always heard that someone commented on Dyno Don's flip top 66 Mercury that "that's a funny car", & the funny car class came to be. That's what I read in a Super Stock & Drag Illustrated mag. anyway I believe.
The king will always be the T-Bolt.
Evidently the maker of this video forgot about the hemi in 64. The A990 cars were unbelievably dominant.
My man has a real steel nose Plymouth hemi car and it a 1964 4speed. But when he got the car the race hemi was gone but now it has a Ray Barton 528CI hemi in it now. And yes he has all the paper work proving it is a real hemi car. But there is some nice cars on here. To us the 62 to 65 cars are the best dodge Plymouth Ford Chevy but we are all mopar the hemi was the best motor and fastest cuz to this day all top fuel cars hemi don't care what it says on it. Its a hemi. But ty for the video
Meka Stroik + Thank you and Merry Christmas :)
Ford's Thunderbolts were closer to 600HP, not "425" but we know...
All of the horsepower in the world doesn't mean one will win a race. Remember the old AC Cobras? They were fast up to 160 mph. Aerodynamics prevent it from going any faster. Then came the Daytona coupe. The 289 Daytona coupe will out run a 427 AC Cobra. They beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
They also had 427 FE motors in them not "425"?? I could be wrong though because they did make a lot of weird FE truck motors. Hint for car guys: iirc The 391 FE is a truck 390 with a forged crank. 390 guys don't want the 391 block, but they do want the crank. So if you ever come across one intact it might be worth snagging for resale.
@Bryan Eberle Oh, yup you got me. I used to remember that. lol
Most hp-numbers are way off here, as usual. Factorys "lied" and promised "425" hp at mid-rpm wich was true enough. But the engines revved higher..
@@64fairlane305 My 1979 Yamaha SR500 put out 32.5hp, stock. Thanks to its Hi-Per-Kinetics Stage Two 650 build, it's now more like 55 to 60. The Stage Four was 716cc's! HP unknown. No electric starts on these bikes!
wapwapwapwap love to hear those cams
Was that ZL1 Camaro the one with the "Winters" all aluminum engine block. I would say YES!
Missed the "Swiss Cheese" Pontiac Catalina 421 tri-power.
I'd prefer the SD421 over the tri-power any day. Stick that in the SS Tempest for 1963 and it's probably rarer than any other muscle-car ever at 12 made.
i owned and raced a 1969 hurst amx.two were shipped to canada.i also owned a 1967 comet capri with the 427 engine one of only six built by ford. jim
WOW!! White Mustang at 3:10,, that's a stick car! Grumpy Jenkins and Ronnie Sox would have been proud to have shaken that drivers name 'cause he takes yank'n a shifter to another level,,
You got that so right, thr guy that designed the 413 wedge was a engineer for Chrysler yet he designed it at home and brought blueprints to work with him. Chrysler made the 426 wedge to out do his design. But they did not figure out why the 413 made more power until 1967 and it was in the tulip exhaust valve that made the difference. Then they started making tulip racing valves for all types of engines. Since then, big block
Mopars come with .0005" oil clearance on the crankshaft. Excellent choice!
.0005 is not enuf oil clearance for any engine. It is especially not enuf oil clearance for a performance engine
I'm in love with a Hemi
My favorite parts were when the time clock got edited out at the end of the runs.
They were all good ! Stop bickering !
Lol yeah these salty Mopar fanboys
Thunderbolts!!!Cobrajets!!!💪😎
Good old days... Memorys
My brother had a 63 Galaxy with a 427....it twisted so many drive shafts in two, he quit.....Ford and all other makes UNDERATED the HP for insurance reasons....some of the better known Hot Rod mags tested performance engines of that era...the Ford 427 was in the high 600 HP range
Typo. The Ford Thunderbolt has a 427 in it, not a 425.
That video is a cure for E.D.
super stock dart (flying out it low)
The old cars look heavy but when Clint Eastwood picked up the front end of a car in “ Any which way but loose “ it was Not a stunt !that’s how strong he was .
And then there’s people in this world that actually like electric cars..😂😂😂
Liberal tards lol
typo at 3:40 ish right...427 not 425?
Really What about the super duty Pontiac's
Yeah really. Other than the Max Wedge Mopars and maybe the 64 Fairlane Thunderbolt, they were the fastest super stockers out there. That 421SD would put a 409 Chevy on the trailer real quick
Their all still 13 second cars and too embarrassed to be seen on here
@@johnmarshall3903 those 421 super duty Pontiac factory lightweights we're in the 12s right out the box. So I don't think they have much to be embarrassed about
@@jeremythompson9895 no not 12s your crazy the 421 tempest ran 11s
@@jeremythompson9895 the 68 hemi dart was the fastest they got them into the 9s
What about the 68 hurst hemi dart?
jeep grand wagoneer they prob couldn't find one. I know somebody with a primer hurst hemi cuda .
Steven Bean nice
That's the ultimate super stocker in my opinion
Hemi Under Glass
@@jeremythompson9895 I'm a Ford fan first,but I can remember the first 427 Camaro that beat the hemi in SS/A class. The 427 T-Bolt ran SS/C & THE 427 Fairlane ran SS/D. Now I might be a little off on some of these, I can't remember if any Fords ran in SS/B, maybe the 427 dual 4 did, & the 427 single 4 ran SS/D, I think that's how it was.
Great video!!
Ryan David + Thank you Ryan :) Have a nice day
SaWEET f'n rides !!
FORD ⚡🏁💪
Badass white stang!!
What on Earth was the 1969 Camaro ZL01 doing within the grounds of the Chateau De Vincennes in Paris?
Rog5446 obviously it's another one of those Rich Foreigner purchases of American muscle car. There is a lot of it going on today from all of the ranks of manufacturers of American muscle cars. Germany England Sweden Japan Etc... Why wealthy people are taking our American hot rods overseas. Hard to tell the fate of some of these things around all of that salty air over there. When I was stationed in England I did see barracudas Challengers Etc and that's been 35 years ago
Today's cars are better built, more reliable and all that other practical crap, but they have nowhere the soul of real American made iron.
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end. All the mopars, vettes, fords and gtos ain't got nothing on the 409. Unique horsepower and torque in a 3200 lb impala, Hurst and positive rear ate the street up. Those were the days.
Zl1 Camaro badass too!
That 69 COPO Camaro sounded pretty wicked
MAN... as Manufacturers have legal monthly payed "Freaks" in their development departments !!! What a nice Era it was... because, there were born many other awesome crazy Monsters. Oh Lord, what a good time it was.
Your 0-60 times were wrong on almost every single car that went down a track.
Those figures were for STOCK motors.
Most of his "information" is way off. Like with the 427 sideoiler in the Thunderbolt, it made some 550hp, depending on version. Low 9`s on slicks
@@64fairlane305 -The T-Bolts were good for mid 11s from the factory...can't see them doing low 9s just by adding slicks.
@@68bobba2 The 9 sec. zone came in later years with big advancement in parts & technology.
They sed the impala had a 0 to 60 time of 4.3 seconds making it the quickest on the video. BULL!!! There was no 63 impala that was faster than a T bolt or them mopars! .
The Cobra Jet Mustang and the 406 Galaxie were the readily available muscle cars in the video. The rest were very rare. For example, they only made 57 Z-11 Impalas.
I don't know about the 406 galaxie that's a pretty rare car
Old enough saw some of these cars race Dave stroller and the Bob ford thunderbolt especilly