I bought a used 70 GS 350 when I was 18 and drove it as a family car for about 12 years. Just like the 455, the 350 was also a torque monster. I loved that car!!
Reminds me of the only "vacation" my family ever took before my parents divorced, we went to beechbend raceway in Bowling Green Kentucky to the Mopar Nationals. Dad was always a Mopar guy, he raced a 69' Roadrunner, and I remember him restoring a pair of GTXs as I was growing up. Great video, I wish there were more like this! As they pull the the line, he gives us a 5 second rundown of driver/car, they stage, greenlight, guy says the driver's name and the time-back to the burnout box. Nowadays watching a drag racing channel is similar to baseball, look at the ball, look at the batter, spit, wait ten seconds, shift nuts around, scratch nose, secretly smell finger, consider the pitch, restart the cycle, 7 minutes later...strike! Restart the process.
This is definitely a battle of beastly muscle cars. The Hemi and the Boss are legends of course, but those dang 455s from Buick are somehow the nastiest cars around!
They almost pulled the front wheels off the ground, I heard the only downfall, was 2 bolt main bearings that would fail when raced hard, if they put 4 bolt, forget it.
I too am a fan of all things Mopar. Back in 1973, there was a civilian out the back gate with a 1970 Buick GS 455, and no one from base ever beat him in the quarter. 😉
Great video and well narrated. I turned 16 in 1969 and lived and breathed muscle cars since I was about 13. My dad was a Buick guy and I had a 67 Buick GS400 with the Super Turbine 400 trans. Kenne-Bell Enterprises out of West Covina, CA were the specialists in making Buicks go fast. It was a partnership between "Pop" Kennedy and Jim Bell and it was rumored that though the two cars were pure out the showroom stock, it was Jim Bell that did the tuning of the two GS455 Stage 1's tested by Motor Trend where the TH400 car turned the 13.38 @105.5 MPH, slightly quicker than the 4 speed. I rebuilt the motor on my 67 and spent hours on the phone with Jim Bell who patiently answered and my questions and provided invaluable guidance. My 67 had the 400 which was part of the 400/430/455 Buick engine series where they all shared blocks, cranks, rods, intakes, etc. The only difference were the pistons and Stage 1's had specific cams, different heads with larger valves, tubular push rods, stiffer valve springs and a modified Quadrajet carb. The 400/430/455 were over-square designs, (bore diameter greater than stroke length) and when they bored the block to 455 inches it breathed better along with the larger valves for the Stage 1 option. My rebuild was mild with the only performance enhancement being a Kenne-Bell "Mark II" cam which was slightly hotter than a factory Stage 1. I also had Mickey Thompson Headers and a 3.90 rear end. The car was heavy with A/C, PS, PB and power windows and I had Goodyear G70-14's when I got two runs in at the local strip in Union Grove, WI. Lot's of trouble getting out of the hole but the better of the two runs was a 14.05 at 101.5. Frankly, there weren't any factory stock vehicles I lost to in street races with the exception of a 66 GTO where the owner swapped in a modified 421 SD who in the quarter from a dead stop got me by a fender. I remember races with a 440 6 Pack Road Runner, a highly modified 383 Road Runner, a 427 Vette, a highly modified Mustang with a 351 Cleveland and the Buick took all by at least a length or two. I nearly totaled the 67 racing that 440 6 Pack and though it was rebuilt I sold it and bought a 70 Saturn Yellow GSX Stage 1 auto with 18K miles from the original owner and paid $2300. Though my street racing days were done there was no question the GSX would've blown the doors off my 67. The massive torque of that engine was to be respected and I found out the hard way. In the first week of ownership I had 3 guys in the car with me when I was showing off and put the trans in 1st and lit up the G60-15's from a stop with the rear sliding sideways. Problem is I waited too long to shift and then the steering went heavy and all the idiot lights lit up on the dash. The 455 threw all the belts when it shifted to 2nd by the transmission over-rev governor. I spoke with Jim Bell after and he said it was a common problem and I needed to use heavier Gates belts as the A/C Delco's didn't hold up. One last comment, for as powerful as the 455 Buick is the engine was never designed for racing abuse like Hemi's, 427/454 CBB or certain Fords. It didn't have 4 bolt mains or the consideration for oiling at high RPM and keeping the bottom end together which was an issue. Above 5000 RPM it was common for the 7 & 8 rod bearings to starve for oil and spin. Kenne-Bell worked with Buick to revise the oiling system and those modifications were incorporated in all of the 455's in the 1970 MY. Another issue is the 400/430/455 were GM's first foray into "thin cast" blocks to save weight and $$. This worked against the motor's durability under high HP and torque and when modifying to get HP over 550~600 the engine needs a girdle or filling to make it a "hard block". This channel is a great trip down memory lane for me and I really appreciate seeing all those cars compete from my youth.
These times are more in line with what I remember back when these cars were new. I’ve never seen so many Mercury Cyclones at one time. Great races.👍👍🇨🇦
@@Gwhitebeard , I had a new ‘71 Duster 340 automatic with 3:23 gears in the diff. The car came with E70x14 polyglas tires. I took it to the strip bone stock and it turned 14:03 @ 100 m.p.h. I loved that car it was fun to drive. Only took it to the strip that one time.
My brother and me were there that day. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 19 and my brother was 18. Now I'm 56 and my brother will be 55 in two weeks. My... how time flies!!!😎🍻
Crazy how time feels so long or slow when you’re young. Then time starts to speed up when you hit 30 and REALLY speeds up when you hit 40. I am in my 50s as well and the last 15 years felt like 5 years. Time goes by scary fast 😔
"My brother and I". Maybe you should have stayed in school that day instead of cutting class and sneaking off to the track. :) Relax, I'm just bustin' your chops. I'm allowed to because I've got a few years on you. You're right about time though. "Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like bananas."
I was 15 in 1987. I bought a '77 Nova Concours Coupe in '89 and with help from my late dad and late older brother, made it street/strip in '93. Raced it '93-'95. I really appreciate this 1/4 mile video time capsule!!!
My brother bought a '77 Nova Concours in '87. A few years later he gave it to me and I drag raced it with a 350 and Muncie running low 12's as my daily driver. Makes me feel better seeing it was a lot faster than these legendary muscle cars.
If you follow this all the way through, you'll see that the black '70 GS Stage 1 was seriously sandbagging until the final rounds where it ran the quickest et of the event when it had too. I was there and saw it all. That GS was very quiet and docile ... not cammed up at all like some of the other entrants. It looked factory fresh and stock under the hood and even had factory a/c.
Buicks,,, fast with class, and so underrated! Buick lover since childhood! I've owned just about every muscle car produced,,, chevelles, gto,AMC, 442, mustangs, buick wins my heart.. I'm always for the under dog, I currently own a 70 gsx, that I drive on the street,,, 10: 49 @ 128 m.p.h. chevy boys hate it.. l. o.l.
Wonderful format, with cameras at start and finish. The narration great as well. I don’t think I’ve seen a video formatted like this on any drag strips.
This is REALLY a nice video! All of these cars seemed to run honest times, as if they were driven straight out of 1970 to the present. A few clunker runs and slow starts... but as nice as it gets. Good to see the big boys come out and play.
Buicks always "accidentally" have the fastest cars. From the badass late 60/early 70s 455 GSXs here to that killer V6 Gran Nationals in the late 80s. They were always like "oops" about it...
@No Name The 1970 GS 455s were 13.4 cars off the showroom floor and the low compression ones were good for about 14 seconds flat. A set of sticky tires could probably get a stock 1970 Stage 1 into the 12.90s. I saw plenty of modified MOPARS that had slicks and other mods and the Buicks were spanking them.
My 2018 Regal 4-banger.(with factory turbo) ran 14.3 @ 96 exactly the way it came from the factory. Unbelievable. Huw times have changed. Manual transmission are not ideal for drag racing nowadays unless they're.sequential.
I was 14 y/o in 1987 . . . . I had a 1969 Dodge Super Bee poster hanging in my bedroom. Man this video takes me back to Summer 1987 at OHIO "Norwalk" Drag strip 😊
I had a Buick Skylark in high school in the mid 80s. That car was a torque monster. My friends nickname the car Rush. I miss that car it was my first muscle cars but not my last.
I saw a stock 428 Cougar that was his wife's car run mid 13's with only the exhaust removed in the very early 80s or late 70s. No slicks or anything that I remember. I had a 428 Galaxie but never timed it in the quarter.
At least we get actual representative times for these kind of cars. Instead of the lunacy I hear from some comments, thinking these cars were all in the 11's and 12's. No they didn't if they were stock.
@@fredc8346 Oh Hell no, lol. I had a very quick 67 GTO, but it took a ton of dollars to get there, plus Lots of work to make it hook up. Suspensions have come a long way, along with chassis tuning. For an old car to beat a new car it needs to be either set up to drag race, or have so much power it an drive by on the top end. And the old muscle cars neither stopped, nor turned, worth a damn.
@@timclaus8313 Yes you are honest about those cars. Right about the brakes and handling. The GM's were pretty good on both if with disc brakes. The mopars were a step down and the fords (what I started out with) were even worse. That front end was a widowmaker. I can't believe we would build those up with few ways to make them any safer! (Didn't know anything else) So you understand 1/4 mile mph to et. Even with proper gears, trans, suspension and driving you need about 105mph to get into the 12's. I would say many 426, 440, 427 etc cars would do that with open headers, some tuning and all the above but no chance in stock trim. Quick cars for the time but just not what some try to claim. I and maybe you lived those days to know. Bet you wish you still had the Goat. I wish I still had a couple more of the cars I had. We were young and didn't realize things would change!
@@fredc8346 Also had a 63 1/2 Falcon Sprint, 260/4 Spd car. Wish I still had that one too, and even the 62 T-Bird. All were cool in their own way. One thing the Mopars did better with stock suspensions was drag race. Having so little leaf spring ahead of the axle reduced wrap up. Didn't need slapper bars and all, just a couple of clamps on the forward part of the leaf. My Goat used the Moroso upper control arm traction links, they worked like a champ, without ugly Lakewood bars hanging out underneath, lol.
Funny how Buick ( gs455 stg 1's ) were a luxury brand of gm yet enjoyed pimp-slapping street hemis all day long with 6-way power seats, pwr windows & cold a/c.
When your pushing almost 450 cubes to a bit over 400, I'm glad to see Buick has so damn many track records and a legitimate history of being a strip killer and a NASCAR legend.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kronk9418 Seems you forgot the word overblown in front of legacy, on the street of course, Buick wasn't into racing or making racing engines, the hemi's we're mostly crap on the street because they were a tuning nightmare for your average back alley mechanic
This is just pure badass! The cars, the simplicity of the video, NO MUSIC thank god. Hell, even white short shorts dude. :) I think I had a pair of those in 87. Damn!
OHHH YES the buick Grand sports were one of the most underated mussle cars of those days,,,,It greatly miss the one I had,,,mine was the 1970 GSX package saturn yellow with the 455 stage one four speed package that I had built up quite a bit over stock engine wise, and had put a 10.5 inch ring gear 14 bolt rear with 3:73 gears, a spool diff with strange axle semi floater axle conversion,,,that thing was a freakin rocket (and wasn't no slouch by any means before the mods),,,I was just out of highschool a couple years and going to college (actually bought it damn cheap back then,,,,,,35 years ago now with what was supposed to be money from a student loan from my grandfather to buy tools and books and that kind of stuff for the auto repair and other classes I was taking,,,,,put pretty much everything else I owned including my pickup and 2 other cars I owned in hock at a pawnshop then buying the cheapest tools I could come up with from the same pawnshop and elsewhere to get what I needed for the auto course and borrowed books and even rented yes rented the books from other students until I could save up enough money to get my stuff out of hock and buy my own books,,,didn't take too long because I was also working a darn good job is hasmat removal and cleanup making mega good money for the times,,,,,,,eating ramen soup and bologna sandwhiches help save dollars as well,,,not to mention shacking up for a year or so with my girlfriend at the time to save rental costs on renting my own place helped,,,,but that car was totally worth it I used to attract sooooo much attention with that car everywhere I went,,,especially with the all four gear long freakin burnouts that thing would do,,,,I had a guy that I worked with that wanted to race me for the longest time with his chevy shortbed bigblock 454 pickup 1962 I think it was,,,,but I always kept telling him no,,,,then one day I got sick of putting him off and said yes,,,,,,well we never ended up racing after all because the time we were suppose to race on an old side road down by the river in Lewiston Idaho where I lived at the time, he showed up about the time I was doing one of my four gear long ass burnouts along with some donuts on dry pavement by simply just turning the wheel and drilling the go pedal and he simply chickened out is what I figure,,,,the tides had turned and now I couldn't get him to race me LOL,,,,that car was impressive to say the least,,,,ohhh how I wish I had never sold it but I had it at a car show about 10 years ago now and a guy also showing a car at the show just made me an offer I couldn't pass up,,,,basically three times the money I had in it and a nice Ford f150 4x4 pickup to boot,,,,,,oh well life rools on I guess.
@@looseballs1966 I actually got to see a street race in the 70s here in Cleveland, was a 69 L-88 vs 70 GSX! Man that dayum Buick launch off and was gone! L-88 couldn’t get that grip that GSX had.
The 455 Stage 1 and the very rare Stage 2 were pretty much the baddest of the late 60s, early 70s muscle cars in stock trim. For years they ruled their class in NHRA super stock and super stock/auto. Back inn '74-75, I hung out with a guy in Colorado Springs with a '72 GS Stage 1. Even at 6200' above sea level, that car was a rocket.
Excellent video- reminded me of South Washington Ave in Grand Forks ND in High School! One thing I saw was GM midrange Torque/ HP wins if you nail the lights!
Norm Diele used to bring that green GS Buick out on the street here in Detroit around 1988 was first time I saw him. Even then the car was a low 12s performer, not much later car was running low 11s. It was ridiculous how quick that car was on the street back then. Everything just worked.
Perfect examples of all the cars you would meet on the street in the day. The Black Ghost could not have dominated any scene as proven by so many cars in this video, especially the Stage 1 Buick.
I had a 74 trans am with a 455SD it got stolen back in the 80s never got it back and insurance only gave me 3 grand ..now they go for 150 grand ..so upset to this day
87? I was 14. Too young to drive but aware of this stuff and have some memories of those days. Used to see this stuff on the street all the time, all the cool kids drove older stuff like this too. Great vid , it gives a little window into how quick some of this stuff was back then.
Stage Is and II's were arguably the best pure street engines of their era. Not so much with Pro Stock, but they ruled their classes in Stock and Super Stock, auto and stick.
Had many a fun race with 1972 skylark. After I installed a 1971 Buick 455 engine with a bigger carb bigger cam headers and a street and strip turbo 400 tranny.
Just love seeing what to many would be sitting in a collection hidden from view. Love seeing the old ground pounders out there throwing asphalt and slamming gears. NO pc to plug in the grab another tune.
having grown up in the 70s and 80s few people are left that remember the raw juice these cars had even before any modifications. i was fortunate enough to own a few of these cars and i do miss the rumbling thunder these big blocks were known for.
I had a 68 Buick GS,that I wish I had kept. It had 400 ci and had ram air and factory 4 speed with a Hurst shifter. It had a Sun tach in the console that went up to 10,000 rpm s. It had factory air that worked perfectly with a 5 speed fan. Also low geared posi.
These are actually lighter than most people think. 3800 lbs is about as heavy as the biggest here got. A lot are in the mid to low 3000's. Some of the true pony cars are sub 3000, find me a Mustang or Camaro under 3000 lbs today! Fun to watch, and good memories, but cars are so much faster and generally heavier nowadays. Biggest reason for it is tires and suspension. They made good power and power to weight ratio was good.
@@nathanaelcole8466 My '69 Z/28 was equipped only with standard Z/28 options and weighed in at '3032 lbs. w/o me in it and my best friend's faster and well-optioned 1970 GS Stage 1 w/ac was 3882 w/o driver. Both cars with very close to 10 gallons of gas. .That's how we used to race them. I still have the old yellowed DOT weight slips from March 1970.
Love these videos. Hard to believe how "slow" these cars were by today's standards. My 1972 Mach 1 runs 13s (not stock) but is still slower than today's average car...amazing. And my C63S can run high 11s....with every possible creature comfort. I miss the old cars, but there is something to be said about new technology.
You are right on about technology. Crazy what cars today can do. They learned how to balance efficiency and emissions and performance and power now. They started figuring it out in mid-late '80s and just got better through '90s and even better through '00s and now look at it lol. If someone back in the day told you base model GT Mustangs and Camaros would be making almost 500hp from the factory and Dodge would reintroduce a V8 model Challenger you would've laughed at them lol
It's because of gross vs net horsepower. The majority of manufacturers rated their engines' gross horsepower rating. For a quick reference, a 306 horsepower Shelby GT350 made closer to 220 horsepower.
i have the orange gs455 car that was john chamberlins car..buicks are quick but no mph.. the just go...and it has ac...for the ride home.. i miss the real street drags like these were, now 9sec on bias ply tires, but 800hp , but its fun..
Mine started out with a 3 on the tree.....I've never seen or heard of another one configured like that.....I've been called a liar several times....but I know what I had .
ah the good ol days, my 66 GTO use to run 11.7 to 11.8 with 750 holley double pump, hooker headers, high lift cam street 60 series tires on premium pump gas
@@tskraj3190 Yeah right. Beating up on Fox Body Mustangs. What the Hell is a single barrel Edelbrock ? I know Holley made 3 barrel Carburetors, but a single barrel Edelbrock, C'mon man.
This was awesome to watch. So many nice cars.. I have been a Chevy guy all my life because my dad had a 1970 Chevelle SS but I love all of the muscle regardless of brand. Nothing will ever compare to these cars in my opinion. You can see a few video's of my Chevelle on my home page. Thank you for sharing this
When I turned 17 in 1980 my mother gave me her Buick Skylark that she had bought new. My brother tried talking her into upgrading the GS Version and she said it would burn to much gas. Wished my brother would I pushed the issue more!
Back in the day I owned a 428 Torino GT. So, yeah, I like muscle cars. Now, I drive a slightly modded 08 Civic SI econobox. On my everyday street tires, the car does 14.5@100 mph. Gets 33mpg@75 mph cruise. Depreciates every day, LOL. Luv it.
I owned a few Hondas throughout my 50yrs on planet earth lol. Actually still have a 2.4L CRV that I've given thought to dropping in a cheap mid '90s Civic coupe project lol. The mid '90s Civics are my favs I guess. I owned one almost 20yrs ago. Had a late '80s Prelude before that. But I've owned more muscle cars than I can count on my fingers and toes lol, and that's where my heart is. There's something special about 300+lb-ft of torque, 5 speed and stiff set of gears in a little 2,800lb. Foxbody 5.0 Mustang coupe that gives me the warm & fuzzies lol. But it would be fun to drop that 2.4 liter Honda CRV engine in a super stripped down lightweight Civic.
notoymotor4me: well my friend I still drive the borring old 2001 ford f150 that the guy traded to me in the deal I mention on here when I sold him my 70 GSX,,,that's just life brother,,,,we get old overly matured if you will and painfully simple and borring in time or over time you might say LOL,,,,,Oh and my F150,,,,,,,BONE A-- stock,,,,hows that for plain and borring LOL.
Wonderful. Loved the '62 Galaxie and the Cyclones, much rarer than the others. Definitely a lot of difference between the concours class cars and the more modified ones; curious mixing but i really liked this, anyway!
@@clyde5491 i think not, considering weight and 50 years old technology... And issues trying to put the big torque in the asphalt with relatively thin tires. With that in mind, 13-14 quarter mile times aren't bad. The fastest cars here were more or less modified.
This takes me back to my days spent in New Hampshire at the New England Dragway back in the early 1970s. I'm a Chevy man and it was nice to see that Camaro kick ass!!
i built a 10 second 68 camaro back in 86 at the height of my muscle car days. (i loved wiping the IROCs with my ass lol). I've built them all but my 71 olds vista cruiser was my favorite. yeah it was a wagon but who suspects a grocery getter to have 310 horses under the hood? and that was straight out of the factory.
@@1heavyelement There was a guy from my hometown here on the Cape who ran a big station wagon or a four door bomb (This was in 1970, so memory no longer serves like it once did) in Epping, New Hampshire's New England Dragway. His last name was Mayberry, and of course he named his car: 'Mayberry RFD'. The car was a big hit with the fans.
Ha my 383 4bbl B body. Ran 12.70 and that was in Automatic in 1970. Stock class but built by me from front to back. I worked in the engine lab at Chrysler. ROYAL dodge protested my run with them and retracted it when they talked to me.
Those Buicks were really sleepers… massive torque and understated body. Lost to them many times back in the early 70’s. Good memories though!
I bought a used 70 GS 350 when I was 18 and drove it as a family car for about 12 years. Just like the 455, the 350 was also a torque monster. I loved that car!!
Really they were truly the only sub 13 cars
The real rockets were the GS stage 1 and stage 2s.
Reminds me of the only "vacation" my family ever took before my parents divorced, we went to beechbend raceway in Bowling Green Kentucky to the Mopar Nationals. Dad was always a Mopar guy, he raced a 69' Roadrunner, and I remember him restoring a pair of GTXs as I was growing up. Great video, I wish there were more like this! As they pull the the line, he gives us a 5 second rundown of driver/car, they stage, greenlight, guy says the driver's name and the time-back to the burnout box. Nowadays watching a drag racing channel is similar to baseball, look at the ball, look at the batter, spit, wait ten seconds, shift nuts around, scratch nose, secretly smell finger, consider the pitch, restart the cycle, 7 minutes later...strike! Restart the process.
This is definitely a battle of beastly muscle cars. The Hemi and the Boss are legends of course, but those dang 455s from Buick are somehow the nastiest cars around!
They really were...
Yes they are I got A 71 GS stage 1
@@ronaldadams8417 I had an Electra with a 430” . It was surprisingly quick
No replacement for displacement 😉
They almost pulled the front wheels off the ground, I heard the only downfall, was 2 bolt main bearings that would fail when raced hard, if they put 4 bolt, forget it.
Excellent video. It is refreshing having the speed and times called out as well as the car's performance packages.
Thank you for making these classic drag videos available to us!
Agreed! Your efforts bring back all of these special memories.
I agree, I'm a Mopar fan, but that 455 Buick was a killer
It sure was a powerful beast
Buicks are torque monsters
The 455 Buick is known as the hemi killer
I too am a fan of all things Mopar. Back in 1973, there was a civilian out the back gate with a 1970 Buick GS 455, and no one from base ever beat him in the quarter. 😉
SERIOUS suspension mods helped the Buick from leaving in a ton of smoke.
Great video and well narrated.
I turned 16 in 1969 and lived and breathed muscle cars since I was about 13. My dad was a Buick guy and I had a 67 Buick GS400 with the Super Turbine 400 trans. Kenne-Bell Enterprises out of West Covina, CA were the specialists in making Buicks go fast. It was a partnership between "Pop" Kennedy and Jim Bell and it was rumored that though the two cars were pure out the showroom stock, it was Jim Bell that did the tuning of the two GS455 Stage 1's tested by Motor Trend where the TH400 car turned the 13.38 @105.5 MPH, slightly quicker than the 4 speed.
I rebuilt the motor on my 67 and spent hours on the phone with Jim Bell who patiently answered and my questions and provided invaluable guidance. My 67 had the 400 which was part of the 400/430/455 Buick engine series where they all shared blocks, cranks, rods, intakes, etc. The only difference were the pistons and Stage 1's had specific cams, different heads with larger valves, tubular push rods, stiffer valve springs and a modified Quadrajet carb. The 400/430/455 were over-square designs, (bore diameter greater than stroke length) and when they bored the block to 455 inches it breathed better along with the larger valves for the Stage 1 option. My rebuild was mild with the only performance enhancement being a Kenne-Bell "Mark II" cam which was slightly hotter than a factory Stage 1. I also had Mickey Thompson Headers and a 3.90 rear end. The car was heavy with A/C, PS, PB and power windows and I had Goodyear G70-14's when I got two runs in at the local strip in Union Grove, WI. Lot's of trouble getting out of the hole but the better of the two runs was a 14.05 at 101.5. Frankly, there weren't any factory stock vehicles I lost to in street races with the exception of a 66 GTO where the owner swapped in a modified 421 SD who in the quarter from a dead stop got me by a fender. I remember races with a 440 6 Pack Road Runner, a highly modified 383 Road Runner, a 427 Vette, a highly modified Mustang with a 351 Cleveland and the Buick took all by at least a length or two.
I nearly totaled the 67 racing that 440 6 Pack and though it was rebuilt I sold it and bought a 70 Saturn Yellow GSX Stage 1 auto with 18K miles from the original owner and paid $2300. Though my street racing days were done there was no question the GSX would've blown the doors off my 67. The massive torque of that engine was to be respected and I found out the hard way. In the first week of ownership I had 3 guys in the car with me when I was showing off and put the trans in 1st and lit up the G60-15's from a stop with the rear sliding sideways. Problem is I waited too long to shift and then the steering went heavy and all the idiot lights lit up on the dash. The 455 threw all the belts when it shifted to 2nd by the transmission over-rev governor. I spoke with Jim Bell after and he said it was a common problem and I needed to use heavier Gates belts as the A/C Delco's didn't hold up.
One last comment, for as powerful as the 455 Buick is the engine was never designed for racing abuse like Hemi's, 427/454 CBB or certain Fords. It didn't have 4 bolt mains or the consideration for oiling at high RPM and keeping the bottom end together which was an issue. Above 5000 RPM it was common for the 7 & 8 rod bearings to starve for oil and spin. Kenne-Bell worked with Buick to revise the oiling system and those modifications were incorporated in all of the 455's in the 1970 MY. Another issue is the 400/430/455 were GM's first foray into "thin cast" blocks to save weight and $$. This worked against the motor's durability under high HP and torque and when modifying to get HP over 550~600 the engine needs a girdle or filling to make it a "hard block".
This channel is a great trip down memory lane for me and I really appreciate seeing all those cars compete from my youth.
Thanks Robert!
Mesmerizing, can’t stop watching
These times are more in line with what I remember back when these cars were new. I’ve never seen so many Mercury Cyclones at one time. Great races.👍👍🇨🇦
Yes, agree.... LOW 14's ruled the daily drivers back when. These are real pure stock. Today everybody packs crate motors 100 cubes over stock.
@@Gwhitebeard , I had a new ‘71 Duster 340 automatic with 3:23 gears in the diff. The car came with E70x14 polyglas tires. I took it to the strip bone stock and it turned 14:03 @ 100 m.p.h. I loved that car it was fun to drive. Only took it to the strip that one time.
Loved seeing guys I know racing back in the day! Muscle cars aren’t as fast as these newer cars but are much cooler!!
My brother and me were there that day. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 19 and my brother was 18. Now I'm 56 and my brother will be 55 in two weeks. My... how time flies!!!😎🍻
Crazy how time feels so long or slow when you’re young. Then time starts to speed up when you hit 30 and REALLY speeds up when you hit 40. I am in my 50s as well and the last 15 years felt like 5 years. Time goes by scary fast 😔
"My brother and I".
Maybe you should have stayed in school that day instead of cutting class and sneaking off to the track. :)
Relax, I'm just bustin' your chops. I'm allowed to because I've got a few years on you.
You're right about time though.
"Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like bananas."
I was 15 in 1987. I bought a '77 Nova Concours Coupe in '89 and with help from my late dad and late older brother, made it street/strip in '93. Raced it '93-'95. I really appreciate this 1/4 mile video time capsule!!!
My brother bought a '77 Nova Concours in '87. A few years later he gave it to me and I drag raced it with a 350 and Muncie running low 12's as my daily driver. Makes me feel better seeing it was a lot faster than these legendary muscle cars.
I was 17! had my 1972 Plymouth satellite 440... Still have my baby today
These are the days I first started going to the drag strip. Seemed more fun back then. Some of the cars weren't as fast as today but it didn't matter.
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Thank you for making these classic drag videos available to us!. Thank you for making these classic drag videos available to us!.
Real times that these cars ran back in the day. 😀
If you follow this all the way through, you'll see that the black '70 GS Stage 1 was seriously sandbagging until the final rounds where it ran the quickest et of the event when it had too. I was there and saw it all. That GS was very quiet and docile ... not cammed up at all like some of the other entrants. It looked factory fresh and stock under the hood and even had factory a/c.
You are spot on. He was sandbagging high 14 second times early then blasted that sucker off lol.
Yeah i knew that car was faster than what he was showing.
in the second race the mustang left first 5 ft later the GS was a head of it lmao !!!
@@shaunnesbit1698 Yes you're right ... pretty funny.
Buicks,,, fast with class, and so underrated! Buick lover since childhood! I've owned just about every muscle car produced,,, chevelles, gto,AMC, 442, mustangs, buick wins my heart.. I'm always for the under dog, I currently own a 70 gsx, that I drive on the street,,, 10: 49 @ 128 m.p.h. chevy boys hate it.. l. o.l.
Wonderful format, with cameras at start and finish. The narration great as well. I don’t think I’ve seen a video formatted like this on any drag strips.
Well said. And a straight to the point commentator. No music covering those beautiful engines.
yes nice to see the photography near the finish line, i agree
and the ETs every time! nothing worse than when they don't say or show the times and speed
These are the same speeds & Times the regular Harleys make. My 86 GSXR 1100 is doin this in the 1/8th... & with luck 10 seconds & a bunch of change...
This is REALLY a nice video! All of these cars seemed to run honest times, as if they were driven straight out of 1970 to the present. A few clunker runs and slow starts... but as nice as it gets. Good to see the big boys come out and play.
This is from 1987 so most of these cars weren't even classics yet lol
Agree. The same cars are today probably more fine tuned according to what regulation allows.
80's and early 90's, the golden age of used cars. You could find these cars for sale everywhere for a few hundred bucks.
Yep, even up until the late '90s you could still find reasonable examples... then around 2001 prices exploded🚀🚀🚀🚀
Try a few thousand but definitely cheaper than you can find today. Bought an original 68 chevelle ss 4 speed for 3k in the 90s.
Never found that cheap 426 HEMI but ya Chevy's were a dime a dozen. I like when the 79 Camaro leaves early and the Mopar passes him in 3rd gear...
Your absolutely right! In 77 I bought my 1st car a 66 GTO for 1200 bucks, beat it to death!! What a mistake, young and dumb!! But it was fun!!!!
@@nedaCFilms these cars must have been pure stock
Wish the 60's, 70's, and 80's were just set on repeat
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Hell yeah
That's what this channel is for lol. #MuscleCarTimeMachine
Everything about the 80's was just cool --- the music, the attitude, the friends, and good times
Buicks always "accidentally" have the fastest cars. From the badass late 60/early 70s 455 GSXs here to that killer V6 Gran Nationals in the late 80s. They were always like "oops" about it...
L.O.L. Those V6 Grand Nationals hauled arse and came turbo charged. First 6 to get my attention.
@No Name Yep, just like most of the cars in this video........
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The 1970 GS 455s were 13.4 cars off the showroom floor and the low compression ones were good for about 14 seconds flat. A set of sticky tires could probably get a stock 1970 Stage 1 into the 12.90s. I saw plenty of modified MOPARS that had slicks and other mods and the Buicks were spanking them.
@No Name note the other gs ran a 13 flat faster than all them Mopar and ford's....
My 2018 Regal 4-banger.(with factory turbo) ran 14.3 @ 96 exactly the way it came from the factory.
Unbelievable. Huw times have changed.
Manual transmission are not ideal for drag racing nowadays unless they're.sequential.
I was 14 y/o in 1987 . . . . I had a 1969 Dodge Super Bee poster hanging in my bedroom. Man this video takes me back to Summer 1987 at OHIO "Norwalk" Drag strip 😊
Thank you for posting this! I was at Beech Bend at this very race in 1987 with my dad, brings back some great memories!
@Tom Smith No, it is in Kentucky.
Beech Bend Raceway IS in Kentucky! Bowling Green, to be exact. @@mrho4speed
@@LR-my2di Thank you and yes I know = I was there. A very fun day!!
Yes ... I remember your car! A good runner, too! @@mrho4speed
I had a Buick Skylark in high school in the mid 80s. That car was a torque monster. My friends nickname the car Rush. I miss that car it was my first muscle cars but not my last.
great cars,, they all should be in the low 13,s even as stock.. Them 455 Buicks are incredible and NOT ugly like many cars of the time.
I am a Chevy fan but those Buiks were the class of the field
I saw a stock 428 Cougar that was his wife's car run mid 13's with only the exhaust removed in the very early 80s or late 70s. No slicks or anything that I remember. I had a 428 Galaxie but never timed it in the quarter.
Those "Cougar Eliminators" would run. Badass cars!
This is the reason for this channel, to hear and share the old memories & stories from back in the day. Thanks for sharing that bud.
3:09 - that rumbling "bleedee - bladda- bleedy- bladdah" idling is like sweet chocolate audio.
At least we get actual representative times for these kind of cars. Instead of the lunacy I hear from some comments, thinking these cars were all in the 11's and 12's. No they didn't if they were stock.
Much of the problem was crappy stock size tires, no way they could contain the torque of those big blocks.
@@timclaus8313 Ok, but I hope you are not going to be telling me the old cars would run what some think they did with tires and suspension are you?
@@fredc8346 Oh Hell no, lol. I had a very quick 67 GTO, but it took a ton of dollars to get there, plus Lots of work to make it hook up. Suspensions have come a long way, along with chassis tuning. For an old car to beat a new car it needs to be either set up to drag race, or have so much power it an drive by on the top end. And the old muscle cars neither stopped, nor turned, worth a damn.
@@timclaus8313 Yes you are honest about those cars. Right about the brakes and handling. The GM's were pretty good on both if with disc brakes. The mopars were a step down and the fords (what I started out with) were even worse. That front end was a widowmaker. I can't believe we would build those up with few ways to make them any safer! (Didn't know anything else)
So you understand 1/4 mile mph to et. Even with proper gears, trans, suspension and driving you need about 105mph to get into the 12's. I would say many 426, 440, 427 etc cars would do that with open headers, some tuning and all the above but no chance in stock trim. Quick cars for the time but just not what some try to claim. I and maybe you lived those days to know. Bet you wish you still had the Goat. I wish I still had a couple more of the cars I had. We were young and didn't realize things would change!
@@fredc8346 Also had a 63 1/2 Falcon Sprint, 260/4 Spd car. Wish I still had that one too, and even the 62 T-Bird. All were cool in their own way. One thing the Mopars did better with stock suspensions was drag race. Having so little leaf spring ahead of the axle reduced wrap up. Didn't need slapper bars and all, just a couple of clamps on the forward part of the leaf. My Goat used the Moroso upper control arm traction links, they worked like a champ, without ugly Lakewood bars hanging out underneath, lol.
Funny how Buick ( gs455 stg 1's ) were a luxury brand of gm yet enjoyed pimp-slapping street hemis all day long with 6-way power seats, pwr windows & cold a/c.
When your pushing almost 450 cubes to a bit over 400, I'm glad to see Buick has so damn many track records and a legitimate history of being a strip killer and a NASCAR legend.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Go Fast with Class!
Just remember that the 455 doesn’t, and will NEVER have the legacy the 426 has and will have 😉
@@kronk9418doesn't need to,when it's spanks them slopars like a red headed stepchild.
@@kronk9418 Seems you forgot the word overblown in front of legacy, on the street of course, Buick wasn't into racing or making racing engines, the hemi's we're mostly crap on the street because they were a tuning nightmare for your average back alley mechanic
I'm amazed some of these cars were raced. The was just the start of the muscle car craze and some of these cars were worth major bank in 87
That is absolutely right.
NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Cars are definitely a spectacle, but this drag racing is more fun to watch.
Absolutely! I’ve always thought 13-second cars were the most fun to watch.
This is just pure badass! The cars, the simplicity of the video, NO MUSIC thank god. Hell, even white short shorts dude. :) I think I had a pair of those in 87. Damn!
Those cars are music to my ears
Dayum Buick’s was running 12s absolutely a badazz car❤️❤️❤️
Buick did it again in the '80s with the GNX
OHHH YES the buick Grand sports were one of the most underated mussle cars of those days,,,,It greatly miss the one I had,,,mine was the 1970 GSX package saturn yellow with the 455 stage one four speed package that I had built up quite a bit over stock engine wise, and had put a 10.5 inch ring gear 14 bolt rear with 3:73 gears, a spool diff with strange axle semi floater axle conversion,,,that thing was a freakin rocket (and wasn't no slouch by any means before the mods),,,I was just out of highschool a couple years and going to college (actually bought it damn cheap back then,,,,,,35 years ago now with what was supposed to be money from a student loan from my grandfather to buy tools and books and that kind of stuff for the auto repair and other classes I was taking,,,,,put pretty much everything else I owned including my pickup and 2 other cars I owned in hock at a pawnshop then buying the cheapest tools I could come up with from the same pawnshop and elsewhere to get what I needed for the auto course and borrowed books and even rented yes rented the books from other students until I could save up enough money to get my stuff out of hock and buy my own books,,,didn't take too long because I was also working a darn good job is hasmat removal and cleanup making mega good money for the times,,,,,,,eating ramen soup and bologna sandwhiches help save dollars as well,,,not to mention shacking up for a year or so with my girlfriend at the time to save rental costs on renting my own place helped,,,,but that car was totally worth it I used to attract sooooo much attention with that car everywhere I went,,,especially with the all four gear long freakin burnouts that thing would do,,,,I had a guy that I worked with that wanted to race me for the longest time with his chevy shortbed bigblock 454 pickup 1962 I think it was,,,,but I always kept telling him no,,,,then one day I got sick of putting him off and said yes,,,,,,well we never ended up racing after all because the time we were suppose to race on an old side road down by the river in Lewiston Idaho where I lived at the time, he showed up about the time I was doing one of my four gear long ass burnouts along with some donuts on dry pavement by simply just turning the wheel and drilling the go pedal and he simply chickened out is what I figure,,,,the tides had turned and now I couldn't get him to race me LOL,,,,that car was impressive to say the least,,,,ohhh how I wish I had never sold it but I had it at a car show about 10 years ago now and a guy also showing a car at the show just made me an offer I couldn't pass up,,,,basically three times the money I had in it and a nice Ford f150 4x4 pickup to boot,,,,,,oh well life rools on I guess.
@@looseballs1966 I actually got to see a street race in the 70s here in Cleveland, was a 69 L-88 vs 70 GSX! Man that dayum Buick launch off and was gone! L-88 couldn’t get that grip that GSX had.
@@donnellrobinson7189 I saw the same race in the mid 80's in Alabama🤣
Same result😎👍
The 455 Stage 1 and the very rare Stage 2 were pretty much the baddest of the late 60s, early 70s muscle cars in stock trim. For years they ruled their class in NHRA super stock and super stock/auto. Back inn '74-75, I hung out with a guy in Colorado Springs with a '72 GS Stage 1. Even at 6200' above sea level, that car was a rocket.
These are the type of drags that really excite me love watching these type cars run
Have a bunch on the channel!
Excellent video- reminded me of South Washington Ave in Grand Forks ND in High School! One thing I saw was GM midrange Torque/ HP wins if you nail the lights!
Great video brings me back to the day
Norm Diele used to bring that green GS Buick out on the street here in Detroit around 1988 was first time I saw him. Even then the car was a low 12s performer, not much later car was running low 11s. It was ridiculous how quick that car was on the street back then. Everything just worked.
That’s too cool bud! Thanks for sharing that 😉
Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy you one these which is close enough
Of course money CAN buy happiness. Other peoples money make me happy. C'mon ...stop with that nonsense
@@vibes3360 this comment is nonsense.
It would be hard not to smile leaving the line in any of these cars.
Perfect examples of all the cars you would meet on the street in the day.
The Black Ghost could not have dominated any scene as proven by so many cars in this video, especially the Stage 1 Buick.
The black ghost is a 100% fabrication, he had no clue how to tune or even drive if you listen to the stories 😂🤣
Some of the all time Muscle car legends in this video, I wish they were all this good, not to mention the narration is awesome!
Omg! Great vid! I had a full E rection from the beginning to the end ❤
There’s many more on the channel. Be sure to subscribe for more 😉
I had a 74 trans am with a 455SD it got stolen back in the 80s never got it back and insurance only gave me 3 grand ..now they go for 150 grand ..so upset to this day
Oh no unreal, that is heartbreaking!
😮😮😮😡😡😡 that's terrible
Very realistic ET's for for true stock muscle cars of the day.
TRUE street cars!
87?
I was 14.
Too young to drive but aware of this stuff and have some memories of those days.
Used to see this stuff on the street all the time, all the cool kids drove older stuff like this too.
Great vid , it gives a little window into how quick some of this stuff was back then.
Those Buicks with the 455 were impressive.
They weren't called the "Hemi Killer" for nothing.
yes i agree
Stage Is and II's were arguably the best pure street engines of their era. Not so much with Pro Stock, but they ruled their classes in Stock and Super Stock, auto and stick.
Stage Buicks So unpretentious. Luxurious with a sinister undertone.
@@badass6.0powerstroke10 I never did see a stock 455 outrun a stock hemi...and I never saw a hopped up 455 out run a hopped up hemi.
Had many a fun race with 1972 skylark. After I installed a 1971 Buick 455 engine with a bigger carb bigger cam headers and a street and strip turbo 400 tranny.
That Boss 429 that raced is extremely rare considering it is a notch back! One of a kind.
There all fastbacks the boss was built off the Mach won platform
@@darrellsomers5427 Technically you could order any of the boss engines into coupes or grandes
Never seen one of the Boss 429 go under 14 sec
Just love seeing what to many would be sitting in a collection hidden from view. Love seeing the old ground pounders out there throwing asphalt and slamming gears. NO pc to plug in the grab another tune.
Awesome comment!
Well done, cameras at each end of the track. Very cool, really takes me back. Narrator does a great job. Those torqueee Buicks really launched.
Love watching these old rods 😍
Thank you for the support!
Really great video. Love that these cars were running stock times.
All the cars were fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
having grown up in the 70s and 80s few people are left that remember the raw juice these cars had even before any modifications. i was fortunate enough to own a few of these cars and i do miss the rumbling thunder these big blocks were known for.
Ah yes....back when 14s and 13s were respected as FAST and 12s and 11s made you a street god!
Amazing times
OLD SCHOOL!!! HELL YEAH!!! brings back memories... Love it
Chevy fan but those Buicks 455/510 ftlbs of torque were kicking butt.Those Fords and Mercurys with the Boss 429 didn't show me anything.
Im born in the wrong Year... Damn i would love to see those Cars drive around..
Man I love that 455 GS
And the Buicks rule the track - again!
The only Buick GS to lose was to another Buick GS 😁
I had a 68 Buick GS,that I wish I had kept. It had 400 ci and had ram air and factory 4 speed with a Hurst shifter. It had a Sun tach in the console that went up to 10,000 rpm s. It had factory air that worked perfectly with a 5 speed fan. Also low geared posi.
@@glennpresley2103 I sold a few cars back in the day that haunt me terribly still.
HaHa! TRUE!
455 Buick is one of my dream cars.
Shh, don't tell anyone, funny how nobody noticed 😏
So many great cars. Thank You I really enjoyed this God Bless
Looks like gm muscle spanked the mopars again. That's the way it was.
Miss those days. I had a 66 goat 6-pack and a 70 challenger 440 six pack.
All beautiful cars . Good to see them run
This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen.
Gotta love them Buick's
Amen👍😎
@@tracewallace23 love the Grand national
yes
Impressive times considering the actual weight of these behemoths!
These are actually lighter than most people think. 3800 lbs is about as heavy as the biggest here got. A lot are in the mid to low 3000's. Some of the true pony cars are sub 3000, find me a Mustang or Camaro under 3000 lbs today! Fun to watch, and good memories, but cars are so much faster and generally heavier nowadays. Biggest reason for it is tires and suspension. They made good power and power to weight ratio was good.
@@nathanaelcole8466 My '69 Z/28 was equipped only with standard Z/28 options and weighed in at '3032 lbs. w/o me in it and my best friend's faster and well-optioned 1970 GS Stage 1 w/ac was 3882 w/o driver. Both cars with very close to 10 gallons of gas. .That's how we used to race them. I still have the old yellowed DOT weight slips from March 1970.
Love these videos. Hard to believe how "slow" these cars were by today's standards. My 1972 Mach 1 runs 13s (not stock) but is still slower than today's average car...amazing. And my C63S can run high 11s....with every possible creature comfort. I miss the old cars, but there is something to be said about new technology.
Many of these cars were sandbagging though. Notice a couple 14 sec cars were hitting 13s and 12s at the end lol.
You are right on about technology. Crazy what cars today can do. They learned how to balance efficiency and emissions and performance and power now. They started figuring it out in mid-late '80s and just got better through '90s and even better through '00s and now look at it lol. If someone back in the day told you base model GT Mustangs and Camaros would be making almost 500hp from the factory and Dodge would reintroduce a V8 model Challenger you would've laughed at them lol
It's because of gross vs net horsepower. The majority of manufacturers rated their engines' gross horsepower rating.
For a quick reference, a 306 horsepower Shelby GT350 made closer to 220 horsepower.
Traction control, VVT, suspensions, etc. It was never a HP thing.
@@wymple09 How does VVT make a car faster? That usually exists just for emissions and fuel economy.
i have the orange gs455 car that was john chamberlins car..buicks are quick but no mph.. the just go...and it has ac...for the ride home.. i miss the real street drags like these were, now 9sec on bias ply tires, but 800hp , but its fun..
That is amazing!!!
I had a 1970 skylark that looked just like it. Was the 350 model, but I loved it. Had a rv cam in it,, buried the OD many times.
Had same 🍊 🟧 70......what a blast.....
@@timluther3431 doooooood...
Mine started out with a 3 on the tree.....I've never seen or heard of another one configured like that.....I've been called a liar several times....but I know what I had .
Wow that's awesome love the videos thanks
I was there. Great day..
Great vid. I love seeing the classics going at it.
awesome commentary, awesome cars and drivers, and ofcourse awesome video
Loved that Chevelle with the 454, that’s one awesome ride!
thats why i watched it, then he lost
My compliments go out to the narrator of this video. Very nice appealing voice.
Vern is the best!
ah the good ol days, my 66 GTO use to run 11.7 to 11.8 with 750 holley double pump, hooker headers, high lift cam street 60 series tires on premium pump gas
Which motor? I had a 67' Catalina that only had a 400 with a single barrel Edelbrock but it still stomped the Fox Body Mustangs in the quarter.
@@tskraj3190 Yeah right. Beating up on Fox Body Mustangs. What the Hell is a single barrel Edelbrock ? I know Holley made 3 barrel Carburetors, but a single barrel Edelbrock, C'mon man.
@@badass6.0powerstroke10 Considering I owned a 79' and a 84' Foxbody not including the 95' yeah it is right. Go Powerstroke your tiny manhood.
@@tskraj3190 O.k. i Will, and you also with your single barrel Edelbrock. Your boat Pontiac wouldn't come close to my Fox Body.
@@badass6.0powerstroke10 You're right. The 67 Catalina would spank it.
Catalina 360 HP/375 lb-ft Torque 4:33 Posi Gears
Standard 80's Foxbody
225HP/300 lb-ft Torque 2:73 8.8 Posi.
Cool video. Love these old classics.
The '60 406 brought back some memories.
This was awesome to watch. So many nice cars.. I have been a Chevy guy all my life because my dad had a 1970 Chevelle SS but I love all of the muscle regardless of brand. Nothing will ever compare to these cars in my opinion. You can see a few video's of my Chevelle on my home page. Thank you for sharing this
In 1987 we thought these were the most powerful cars Detroit would ever build.
Yes we did. Never would we’ve thought that 30 years later Camaros and Mustangs would be flirting with 500hp from the factory lol.
When I turned 17 in 1980 my mother gave me her Buick Skylark that she had bought new. My brother tried talking her into upgrading the GS Version and she said it would burn to much gas. Wished my brother would I pushed the issue more!
My first car in 1985 was my dad's 1972 Skylark. I drove it through high-school, wishing the whole time that it was a 455 GS.
Great video! Very well done!
great stuff, right there!!
Great footage and excellent production.
Really like the way you narrate this...
When I hit the lottery the 1st car I'm finding will be a 1970 Buick GSX 455 in apollo white
Invest $1000 in Dogecoin Cryptocurrency and next year you might be able to buy that.
A friend has one with a factory 4-speed … my all time favorite as well
Golly are those buicks monsters!
Wow. All you have to do is call it Pure Stock Drag and run them in. I hit an for a -2second ET 1/4.
Great video, realistic times.
Uh (???) .... Pls. rephrase .
The mopars an the Buicks severely kick butt...
Back in the day I owned a 428 Torino GT. So, yeah, I like muscle cars. Now, I drive a slightly modded 08 Civic SI econobox. On my everyday street tires, the car does 14.5@100 mph. Gets 33mpg@75 mph cruise. Depreciates every day, LOL. Luv it.
I owned a few Hondas throughout my 50yrs on planet earth lol. Actually still have a 2.4L CRV that I've given thought to dropping in a cheap mid '90s Civic coupe project lol. The mid '90s Civics are my favs I guess. I owned one almost 20yrs ago. Had a late '80s Prelude before that. But I've owned more muscle cars than I can count on my fingers and toes lol, and that's where my heart is. There's something special about 300+lb-ft of torque, 5 speed and stiff set of gears in a little 2,800lb. Foxbody 5.0 Mustang coupe that gives me the warm & fuzzies lol.
But it would be fun to drop that 2.4 liter Honda CRV engine in a super stripped down lightweight Civic.
notoymotor4me: well my friend I still drive the borring old 2001 ford f150 that the guy traded to me in the deal I mention on here when I sold him my 70 GSX,,,that's just life brother,,,,we get old overly matured if you will and painfully simple and borring in time or over time you might say LOL,,,,,Oh and my F150,,,,,,,BONE A-- stock,,,,hows that for plain and borring LOL.
Great stuff. No music or yapping. Just good old racing. Thanks for the upload!
This is oldschool at its finest!!!!!!👍
That yellow Buick and cyclone are beautiful cars.
Wonderful. Loved the '62 Galaxie and the Cyclones, much rarer than the others. Definitely a lot of difference between the concours class cars and the more modified ones; curious mixing but i really liked this, anyway!
Yes,even though they were slow
@@clyde5491 i think not, considering weight and 50 years old technology... And issues trying to put the big torque in the asphalt with relatively thin tires. With that in mind, 13-14 quarter mile times aren't bad. The fastest cars here were more or less modified.
This takes me back to my days spent in New Hampshire at the New England Dragway back in the early 1970s. I'm a Chevy man and it was nice to see that Camaro kick ass!!
i built a 10 second 68 camaro back in 86 at the height of my muscle car days. (i loved wiping the IROCs with my ass lol). I've built them all but my 71 olds vista cruiser was my favorite. yeah it was a wagon but who suspects a grocery getter to have 310 horses under the hood? and that was straight out of the factory.
@@1heavyelement There was a guy from my hometown here on the Cape who ran a big station wagon or a four door bomb (This was in 1970, so memory no longer serves like it once did) in Epping, New Hampshire's New England Dragway. His last name was Mayberry, and of course he named his car: 'Mayberry RFD'. The car was a big hit with the fans.
@@felixmadison5736 yeah getting old sucks. my memory is having issues too. if it weren't for these cars i owned i probably wouldn't remember anything.
Love those Buicks
Ha my 383 4bbl B body. Ran 12.70 and that was in Automatic in 1970. Stock class but built by me from front to back. I worked in the engine lab at Chrysler. ROYAL dodge protested my run with them and retracted it when they talked to me.
Can you provide a video?
I can't believe I found this channel, what a blast!
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Thanks bud!
Like Edith Bunker sang, "Those were the days".
great youtube channel, thx for posting it..
Thanks!!!