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Both iconic cars no matter who won!

Those 340s were a gem.

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.

Sure, the ‘Cuda is all stock.

What was your lightest car raced here? Maybe early Mustang?

Both awesome machines

I love it

Ford Chevy and dodge agree 450 HP But all of them had motors over 500 HP

Daddy came back from the service with a man from Alabama He had that Torino and that car was fast 429 cobra jet

BONE STOCK lol ... mopar guy but the chevy is a screamer... built to blow away all stock cars

To put it in perspective, $200 was roughly 2 and a half weeks average pay in 1970.

A12😮 ITS ov'A

I’ll take either one!!👍👍

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!

Given identical torque ratings I think the shorter final gear ratio gave the advantage here to the Buick. Plus those tires on the Chevy are crap

I love how mopars little 360s and 340s brawl with big block Chevys and fords like little minions

Ive watched a few of these now and it appears that the right lane tends to be a bit slower than the left. Appears to be.

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.

And that is why ALL top fuel and funny cars are based on the 426 HEMI!

If the Camaro had a cowl induction hood for raceing it would have been even faster. Beautiful car!

Awesome, thx

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.

I was bright I thought the Buick would do it. I figured traction would be critical

Yeah, that was a no brainer. The Camaro had the added luxury of not having to cut the light.

Im a Ford man but the 340 was the hardest one for a 289.

My 71 clone was punched out 0.30 455. single exhaust hah.. I burned all those 5.0 mustangs back in th day.. they never knew what hit em. I had a 3/8" chain on th driver side holding down the torque side. Beast mode....

chevy 2 nova ?

Gallons per mile?

great race...never seen a zL1 before with automatic on the steering wheel...awesome...

Ok that Fairlane is butchered a bit, GT was manual GTA was automatic, that 15.2 quarter mile was from a hot rod magazine and thats the only numbers you find on internet, l owned a 67 GTA, in consistently ran low 13's, it was a great sleeper car

They have done a lot of work on that chevelle..they wouldnt fall out of a tree

Is Roscoe driving the mustang 😮

So, which one do I want for free? My answer is YES ! Either is a dream car for me!

It looked like the Pontiac driver had slightly quicker reaction times, but the Cuda was just a little faster.

The 429 engine was great for melting tires but Ford never did it properly for the street or drags. I think the 428 or 427 would have run much better. IMHO.

I know people has told stories this car cant be beat. That car cant be beat. The truth of the matter, if there was a 426 mopar a 427 chevy and a 429 boss in the same parking lot, be careful who you put your money on!

I miss my 340 Duster. I called it the little engine that could.

Its unbelivable for People who not live or born in this Time. You go to the Dealer pay around 3000 Usd. and become a Street Monster with 426 HP. It must be incredible, to this time. I think no Police Car cant Catch these Cars. Perfect Movie.

Why didn't they match year to year 67 to 67?

Gto ran on leaded gas new. So if it that it would of won...leaded gas ups the compression a TON!!!!

I’m surprised the Chevhell was in the 14’s! Classic smog mobile. These W31’s were quick cars in 1968,1970. Thats about average for a stock W31

I thought the Boss would do better then this... the times were close..

Nice

I had a 69 tornado and it was rated at 410 horsepower

No way that duster was stock. That kind of result with those power to weight numbers don't even remotely work out from a math perspective. Either that or that 340 was HIGHLY underrated from the factory.

Dang😊

These "stock " races are a joke, cars with 12.5 comp dual carbs race solid cams racing factory standard engine cars are as in balanced as you can get,that's why NHRA have "class " based categories.

Great match up race. thanks for posting 😎