YEAH BANGING GEARS WITH THOSE SHOES, THATS FUNNY!! LIKE GRUMPY SMOKING A CIGAR IN HIS BB CAMARO OR 9.5 SECOND VEGA--I USED TO HAVE A 67 RS CAMARO YENKO CLONE WHICH HAD A 427/425, 4 SPEED AND 456 GEARS, RAN WHAT WAS CALLED A BORG AND BECK PRESSURE PLATE, NEEDED LEGS LIKE PRO BODYBUILDERS JUST TO PUSH IT DOWN AND WHEN IN TRAFFIC FORGET IT BUT YES IT DID GRIP WHEN NEEDED COMPARED TO THE DIAPHRAM
I don't know what engine is in this vintage GT 350 Mustang, but man it sings when going through the tri-oval at Daytona! Probably a small block 289 or 302. Turn the sound up if you check this out... czcams.com/video/6G9wD1EjZNQ/video.html
In 1987, my Dad bought another classic car to restore. The seller gave Dad a VHS tape with about two hours of car show and old drag racing footage, including this clip. We didn't own a VCR yet, so we went over to our neighbor's house and all watched it together and ate popcorn. Great memories!
the last car in this club you could hear him speed shifting all the way down... now that's how to row a gearbox!!! don't even know if the kiddies of today even understand or know, how to speed shift a big block 4 Speed, but it's an experience I'm glad I've had. I loved driving my Big Block Pistol Grip 4-Speed '70 Road Runner and modified '69 440 Super Bee... it's been 40 years, but they were great cars... God they were great cars!
Stick shift class in drag racing is very popular now. Much more than it was 20 years ago. I don’t know how that equates to 40 or 60 years ago but its a preference thing now. As automatics are much faster than Manuals and DCTs are much much faster than both. It is kind of like everyone loosing their heads over the corvette “not having a manual trans” well it also doesn’t have an Auto... its hard to feel like anyone who says that simply doesn’t know what a DCT is. Perhaps if rowing gears is more important than going fast, a C8 is not for them... there is a reason racing went to DCTs a while ago, its just now available to us in street cars.
@@danh8302 rowing gears isn't necessarily more important than going fast it's just some ppl can still go fast rowing gears. You make it seem like a dct is gonna run a whole second faster than a well driven power shifted manual...not happening. The dct in the new gt500 mustang shifts 10 milliseconds I've seen manual guys set their WOT boxes to as low as 25 milliseconds so no it isn't "as fast" but it sure ain't much behind when you can row a gearbox. Once you get into really high power levels the automatics and dct become preferable more so because of the softer more consistent launch than the shifting. Everyone always makes it about the shifting but truth is compared to a good powershifter the difference isn't gonna be that much. I am ONLY talking about the shifting part of it. They have a launch advantage too on real high powered cars because its softer and easier on parts etc. They should give people the option to row their own gears they always have before until now. It's just being lazy period. I'll say it again they're not "much faster" than a WELL DRIVEN properly power shifted manual...there is more to it than just the shifting. But sure if you compare it to most of the manual drivers today who can't row em properly then ya the dct and autos are much quicker.
I met Hubert at a race track. A very nice guy. Explained a few things about his car to be !! He was running a T-Bolt at the time !! A 413 Plymouth broke his record that day ! He got on the load specker and said He would break it again and he did !! A man of his word !! I loved it being a ford fan !! A great memory.
Anyone out there who ever thought a FORD big block can't turn R's needs to see this video! Many who's seen this or will see it remember Dick Loehr and the FORD DRT, and can remember they and Ronnie Sox were the Kings of the 4-speed. Thanks Mr. FordMan and CZcams for sharing this vintage footage. Well done!
Back when drag racing was REAL & Grass roots. No electronics, no delay timers, just guys racing each other . I am happy to say, That I was privileged to be part of it when this is what drag racing was. I no longer care about modern day drag racing. Too much money & no comradery , like back in the 60s & 70s.
@@randycoursey7230 oh, the hemi is in its own class and the hemi head, as we all know, is what dominates the top tiers of drag racing. That said, on the street, the hemi wasn't the quickest. The 427s were much more tractable. And man, their sound! Best sounding, IMO, of anything out of Detroit. Funny - growing up, I was 100% Chevy. But the Fords, especially the built ones, were much less common in my area, and they always seemed exotic and mysterious, and FAST!
Wow he aced me with the wing tips, had a 69 torino 428 cobra jet 4 speed, surprised everybody at Frisch's big boy,cruiser hangout, when I and backed up to the dumpster and side stepped the clutch, burned all the way out onto street, across two speed bumps, looked back, place looked like it blew up, big old thing ran in 1975. Still at it just finishing 1962 Chevy C1 406 cu. in. new N24 ultra pro muncie, polished Currie 9 inch. will do till I die !
Just think if you would have access to the factory goods that factory teams had. That had to be skunkwork stuff that only a few got those parts. Secrets still exist from those days
That's half of what makes it so fun you either make it and feel like a hero or have parts scattered on the ground and clutch blown thru the floor like all fun things there's a risk associated but if you ain't having fun you ain't livin
My dad did automotive advertising. We went to a seminar at a Ford dealer with Ed Terry. When it was over and he was pulling the car out the dealer asked him to give me a ride. I remember him flooring it to redline and dumping the clutch. We did two hairy burnouts on the used car lot. What a thrill! I was ten at the time. I will remember it for life
I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Mr. Hubert Platt at Indy this past year. I got a DVD from his son that is about ten minutes longer than this one..They had the blue Georgia Shaker Mustang on display.. It was worth the trip to Indy just for that! My DVD shows a lot more of Ed Terry's driving.. One word: DAMN.
is that called speed shifting or power shifting?....or do they both mean the same thing? I guess if you miss a gear you blow an engine and I would guess you shift well below red line so you don't over rev the engine?
They basically mean the same thing. You shift on or a little over the red line. A automatic with a shift kit is way better then any stick shift. Every run is consistent
I was only 8 yrs old when I first met Ed Terry at Fremont Dragstrip in 1962. Several days prior, my dad had taken possession of his new (black) 1962 Galaxie 500, a special option factory drag car with the 390 hp 4/sp. posi. Ed was also campaigning a 62 Galaxie (white) factory drag car and had interfaced with Ed over the years while racing several other factory Ford drag cars. Ed owned a race shop in Hayward Ca. just a few streets west of the Hayward Ford and Hayward Lincoln Mercury dealerships where Ed had worked selling cars. A friend and I went to visit Ed at the shop in 1973 and were amazed to see, not only his old race cars but ..along the entire southern wall was a vertical engine bay, two rows high that held ..maybe fifteen 'new' factory Ford race engines. Boss 429's Boss 351 Cleveland's, 427 Cammer engines and High Rise 427 r-code engines. It was like Heaven on earth..
I saw Herb Plat and Ed Terry 428 mustang win almost ever race and run each other for the win, and finish with in one hundred of a second of each other !! The cars were set up perfectly !!
i ordered a 1969 ford ranchero with the 428 cobra jet engine.it had a 4 speed and posi.rear end.i won stock eliminator twice at our local race track.i had to sell it when i bought a hurst amx race car.i was sponsored by amc and they asked me to sell the ranchero.i still miss it and that was 50 years ago. jim
It still seems so unusual not having "Buster" Couch standing there by the tree in those western boots starting the cars even after all this time since he left us.
I'd be willing to bet all those engines were the 351 Cleveland...I had a '70 Mach I with the 4 bl Cleveland with the big valves, and with headers, a cam, alum intake and an 850 holley they were documented to jump from 290 hp up to 465 hp...they had huge valves...anyway that's pretty much what mine sounded like...I recognize it.
I currently have a '69 fastback with a 351C, dual plane air gap edelbrock, AED 750, .600/.610 flat tappet solid lift cam, 10.5:1 Keith Black pistons, 1 3/4" long tube headers, stock crank/rods. Bolted to a 4 speed 4r70w manual valve body automatic. 3.89 rear gears. The car is a 100% drive anywhere street car. I can cruise at 80 mph. Best time in the 1/8 mile is 7.52 @ 89 mph. With a t brake and a better torque converter I believe 7.10s is possible.
Man, I have serious fever for the 427. I want one bad. I was going to settle for my 3rd Coyote Stang. Whatever I end up with, it's 100% going to be another manual. The racing back then, it really put the driver out front.
Oh God how I miss real drag racing that Symphony of cylinders at the end of the video is the most beautiful music I've heard in a long time. Have you ever heard the sound of a race GT350 Shelby I'm talking just the 289 it literally is as loud as a Nitro funny car and sounds like one. To my ears there is no engine that sounds as good as Ford's.
I love the video. What is with the old posts bash the Hemi? Some of these guys need an education and to get their facts strait. I am a hard core Mopar and AMC guy but I love all muscle cars. Without the competition and rivalry we never would have even had muscle cars. So next time some of you, like 6 pounds soft, need to compensate why don't you take it down a notch and just know that all muscle cars are great!
MrGGPRI: The Boss 429 crescent shaped combustion chamber was so close to hemispherical, you might as well call it a Hemi. The 427 SOHC was a Hemi, and "the first" American V8 Hemi, the 1947 FORD Flathead Hemi Ardun was a Hemi. Which Chrysler being the thieves they were basically copied. lol..
bobba68: Sorry bobba, you're wrong! Typical chrysler (now FIAT) fans. The denial of you poor FIAT Boys . lol.. The first American V8 Hemi was in fact the 1947 Ford Flathead V8 Hemi Ardun. Ardun worked specifically for Ford to design an OHV Hemi head for the Flathead. Ford installed these heads on mainly trucks, and gave it's customers the option to buy them over the counter also. And many took that option. There were many Ford Flathead V8 Hemi's on the road 5 years before FIAT chrysler's V8 Hemi. Even Hot Rodders of the time were running the Ford Flathead V8 Hemi, before FIAT chrysler's V8 hemi was ever introduced. Many historians and even professional drag racers, including Garlits admitted that Ford had the first American V8 Hemi. And I'm sure their knowledge and experience far exceeds yours. Funny how the 1951 FIAT chrysler hemi intake manifold has the identical bolt pattern as the Ford Flathead V8 Hemi, ehh? Now go play with your Legos kid. lol..
Chevy, Ford, Mopar, or AMC. As long as it's made in the USA. I still wanna know where I can find a 427 SOHC. I hear they made over 600 HP from the factory. That's amazing.
@capriracer351 back then you shaved every other tooth off 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears for a crash box. The power shift gift is lost today on automatics and lencos.
Open faced helmet, cigar, 4-speed, and wing-tipped shoes. Doesn't get any better than that!
YEAH BANGING GEARS WITH THOSE SHOES, THATS FUNNY!! LIKE GRUMPY SMOKING A CIGAR IN HIS BB CAMARO OR 9.5 SECOND VEGA--I USED TO HAVE A 67 RS CAMARO YENKO CLONE WHICH HAD A 427/425, 4 SPEED AND 456 GEARS, RAN WHAT WAS CALLED A BORG AND BECK PRESSURE PLATE, NEEDED LEGS LIKE PRO BODYBUILDERS JUST TO PUSH IT DOWN AND WHEN IN TRAFFIC FORGET IT BUT YES IT DID GRIP WHEN NEEDED COMPARED TO THE DIAPHRAM
@@zxtenn why are you yelling
@@zxtenn he ran a 327 in his Camaro not a big block
68 was a BB
I wish I was born in the time I could've done that. Those guys are my heroes power shifting their way to heaven
ain't nothing finer THAN THE SOUND OF A FE AT HIGH RPM. LOVE MY FORDS
Jeff Kerr me too til.death do us part
Fuck yeah!!! They sure have a sweet song!!!
427 FE v8 ftw!!
I don't know what engine is in this vintage GT 350 Mustang, but man it sings when going through the tri-oval at Daytona! Probably a small block 289 or 302. Turn the sound up if you check this out...
czcams.com/video/6G9wD1EjZNQ/video.html
Testify!
In 1987, my Dad bought another classic car to restore. The seller gave Dad a VHS tape with about two hours of car show and old drag racing footage, including this clip. We didn't own a VCR yet, so we went over to our neighbor's house and all watched it together and ate popcorn. Great memories!
Fuck! Now that's how you shift a toploader!!!!! God damnit give it hell!!!
I had one in '70 Boss 302 race car. We could not tear that transmission up. One touch transmission.
that's how you powershift!!!!!!!!!! those were the real days of factory drag racing
the last car in this club you could hear him speed shifting all the way down... now that's how to row a gearbox!!! don't even know if the kiddies of today even understand or know, how to speed shift a big block 4 Speed, but it's an experience I'm glad I've had. I loved driving my Big Block Pistol Grip 4-Speed '70 Road Runner and modified '69 440 Super Bee... it's been 40 years, but they were great cars... God they were great cars!
the t56 in my 2004 gto doesnt let you speed shift it like an old 4 speed. you can bang 2nd, but 3rd and 4th it wont let you. sucks.
Dude if you shifted a import that hard you'd grenade the tranny immediatley lolololol
Stick shift class in drag racing is very popular now. Much more than it was 20 years ago. I don’t know how that equates to 40 or 60 years ago but its a preference thing now. As automatics are much faster than Manuals and DCTs are much much faster than both.
It is kind of like everyone loosing their heads over the corvette “not having a manual trans” well it also doesn’t have an Auto... its hard to feel like anyone who says that simply doesn’t know what a DCT is. Perhaps if rowing gears is more important than going fast, a C8 is not for them... there is a reason racing went to DCTs a while ago, its just now available to us in street cars.
Sa Wu not a Honda transmission that’s for sure. They’re pretty solid.
@@danh8302 rowing gears isn't necessarily more important than going fast it's just some ppl can still go fast rowing gears. You make it seem like a dct is gonna run a whole second faster than a well driven power shifted manual...not happening. The dct in the new gt500 mustang shifts 10 milliseconds I've seen manual guys set their WOT boxes to as low as 25 milliseconds so no it isn't "as fast" but it sure ain't much behind when you can row a gearbox. Once you get into really high power levels the automatics and dct become preferable more so because of the softer more consistent launch than the shifting. Everyone always makes it about the shifting but truth is compared to a good powershifter the difference isn't gonna be that much. I am ONLY talking about the shifting part of it. They have a launch advantage too on real high powered cars because its softer and easier on parts etc. They should give people the option to row their own gears they always have before until now. It's just being lazy period. I'll say it again they're not "much faster" than a WELL DRIVEN properly power shifted manual...there is more to it than just the shifting. But sure if you compare it to most of the manual drivers today who can't row em properly then ya the dct and autos are much quicker.
Real "Man" racing ... 4 speeds,Thom McAn shoes, Street cars !!!!
Prog X I used to wear Tom McCann shoes ha
Thom McCann GTO Shoe boot.
Prog X real man racing No Doubt Bad Dudes banging them Gears man
You hear that no lift shift
I met Hubert at a race track. A very nice guy. Explained a few things about his car to be !! He was running a T-Bolt at the time !! A 413 Plymouth broke his record that day ! He got on the load specker and said He would break it again and he did !! A man of his word !! I loved it being a ford fan !! A great memory.
Jhonný.. finland
The sound,THE SOUND....T H E S O U N D ! ! !
Greatest Drag Racing era. Miss it. Race on Sunday , sell on Monday. The big three Dunkin it out. Real times man.
These are the men that helped build this wonderful country
Anyone out there who ever thought a FORD big block can't turn R's needs to see this video! Many who's seen this or will see it remember Dick Loehr and the FORD DRT, and can remember they and Ronnie Sox were the Kings of the 4-speed. Thanks Mr. FordMan and CZcams for sharing this vintage footage. Well done!
Those days were great.
I'm glad I got to live in it.
God, I had a '69 428 SCJ Drag Pack Mustang, and I still miss it! Awesome video!
Back when drag racing was REAL & Grass roots. No electronics, no delay timers, just guys racing each other . I am happy to say, That I was privileged to be part of it when this is what drag racing was.
I no longer care about modern day drag racing. Too much money & no comradery , like back in the 60s & 70s.
427 SOHC still the best carbureted V8 ever made.
Some came equipped with two four barrel carburetors.
The 427 Cammer? Sure! But the 426 Hemi should also be mentioned. And I Bleed Ford Blue.
@@randycoursey7230 oh, the hemi is in its own class and the hemi head, as we all know, is what dominates the top tiers of drag racing.
That said, on the street, the hemi wasn't the quickest. The 427s were much more tractable. And man, their sound! Best sounding, IMO, of anything out of Detroit.
Funny - growing up, I was 100% Chevy. But the Fords, especially the built ones, were much less common in my area, and they always seemed exotic and mysterious, and FAST!
Yes , you are right ! I still Love small blocks !
428 , 429 , 🇨🇦👍
It's good to be old. No youngster ever had the chance to do this, or see it.
Ive come back to watch this every year or so. Nothing beats the sound and that flat foot powershifting.
All i can say is, man those were the days. When racing was nothing but fun an tons of gear heads all around. If we could just turn back the time. 😁👍👍
Ditto!
Old school forever🤟 super 👍👍👍👍tanks for video👍👍👍👍
That's some skilled powershifting! Damn.
One of the best videos on CZcams!!!
Awesome shifting i loved it
Proper Drag Racing!!!!!!! pure muscle , and the cars looked so good
Gawd, remember rebuilding top loaders, replacing clutches and resurfacing pressure plates, EVERY WEEK... Great footage,
I find it amazing nothing breaks. Well its Ford tough.
Wow he aced me with the wing tips, had a 69 torino 428 cobra jet 4 speed, surprised everybody at Frisch's big boy,cruiser hangout, when I and backed up to the dumpster and side stepped the clutch, burned all the way out onto street, across two speed bumps, looked back, place looked like it blew up, big old thing ran in 1975. Still at it just finishing 1962 Chevy C1 406 cu. in. new N24 ultra pro muncie, polished Currie 9 inch. will do till I die !
And this is how the Mustang earned it's reputation.....
Racing Mavericks and other Mustangs?
sure aint on the street lol
And a look a few years ahead of this and you'll see how the mustang lost its reputation.
nemodapimpfish mustangs win on the streets
@@TheBb6prelude wins against what... A 150hp Honda. Cuz it sure as hell ain't beating a Camaro or Corvette.
427 sohc is the best engine from those days
Just think if you would have access to the factory goods that factory teams had. That had to be skunkwork stuff that only a few got those parts. Secrets still exist from those days
It’s the engine that Won Le Mans for Carroll Shelby and his race team. Watch the movie Ford versus Ferrari. RIP Ken Miles and Carroll Shelby.
@@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 427 sohc was not the engine that won the le mans.. learn your history
Hemi says otherwise...
Hemi can't beat cammer idiot
love that full power shifting..
That 428 Cobra Jet sure sounds sweet and mean at the same time.. Nice vintage video here, love it!
Ford the best their is the best there was the best there ever will be
Ford's suck
Obviously you can go far with any of the main ones. Knowledge and Hands-On is way better than jumping on a bandwagon.
@@SlowRide723 just like you
The aggression of those gear changes just blows my mind.....blow the shift=blow the engine to pieces !!
That's half of what makes it so fun you either make it and feel like a hero or have parts scattered on the ground and clutch blown thru the floor like all fun things there's a risk associated but if you ain't having fun you ain't livin
My dad did automotive advertising. We went to a seminar at a Ford dealer with Ed Terry. When it was over and he was pulling the car out the dealer asked him to give me a ride. I remember him flooring it to redline and dumping the clutch. We did two hairy burnouts on the used car lot. What a thrill! I was ten at the time. I will remember it for life
Thanks for posting! Love those FEs!
John
The almighty Top Loader 4 speed. Ain't nothing like rowing the gears in a BBF connected to a Top Loader with a Hurst Shifter.
In 69 and 70 anything with a 428 SCJ in it was fast and sounded just like that last run in that video...lol...kick ass!!!
I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Mr. Hubert Platt at Indy this past year. I got a DVD from his son that is about ten minutes longer than this one..They had the blue Georgia Shaker Mustang on display.. It was worth the trip to Indy just for that! My DVD shows a lot more of Ed Terry's driving.. One word: DAMN.
The young guys don't understand full power shifting, you don't let up on the gas peddle while shifting. I bought a new white fast back boss in 1970.
is that called speed shifting or power shifting?....or do they both mean the same thing?
I guess if you miss a gear you blow an engine
and I would guess you shift well below red line so you don't over rev the engine?
They basically mean the same thing.
You shift on or a little over the red line.
A automatic with a shift kit is way better then any stick shift. Every run is consistent
Automatics are great if you either can't drive a manual trans or lost your left leg.
Boteenracing, best fucking reply about an automatic transmission EVER!!!
they are speed shifting , I think power shifting is ,on the gas no clutch shift
Now that was fun! Some great footage.
You gotta watch 25 videos before you find a good one like this!!!! That guys a gear jammin Mo Fo!!!
That is what you call real drag racing.
I can't stop to watch again and I can't wait to finish the restoration of my mach1!
FE's are fun, even the 352
Oh wow, I used to have this video on VHS but lost it and have been looking for it for years - thanks a MILLION for posting this!
Bad ass Stangs. The grandstands are packed. Today's races seems like there's hardly anyone in the stands.
I remember seeing Hubert Platt at the tracks here in the south when I was a boy..He was a great racer..
Really nice old vintage video. Love me some Fords!
Drag racin' in wing tips... love it!!!
@capriracer351 i totally agree this how to shift never lift!.... love the sound.... more engine then exhaust!
Chrome reverse were such NICE!! Mag's espiallaly in the back with torqe thrust in the back AWESOME!! Look throw does gears boy!!
Holy Hell !!! Goosebumps.
That's some sweet shiftin'
how hardcore is that guy smashing that bang shifter (lol) so cool.
I was only 8 yrs old when I first met Ed Terry at Fremont Dragstrip in 1962. Several days prior, my dad had taken possession of his new (black) 1962 Galaxie 500, a special option factory drag car with the 390 hp 4/sp. posi. Ed was also campaigning a 62 Galaxie (white) factory drag car and had interfaced with Ed over the years while racing several other factory Ford drag cars.
Ed owned a race shop in Hayward Ca. just a few streets west of the Hayward Ford and Hayward Lincoln Mercury dealerships where Ed had worked selling cars. A friend and I went to visit Ed at the shop in 1973 and were amazed to see, not only his old race cars but ..along the entire southern wall was a vertical engine bay, two rows high that held ..maybe fifteen 'new' factory Ford race engines. Boss 429's Boss 351 Cleveland's, 427 Cammer engines and High Rise 427 r-code engines. It was like Heaven on earth..
A Factory Race car with the SOHC engine would be legendary. I remember reading about them in car craft in the 70's
Nothing better than a good old days
Truly a great video.
This video could've lasted at least 30 minutes, or more & I wouldn't have been upset! Fast Fords Forever!❤😎👍🏁🏆
That guy is drag racing wearing a pair of black wing tip shoes?
Ain't nothing, NOTHING like banging gears in a high performance car!!
Finally! Someone that actually knows how to drive a mustang without taking out half of the crowd.
Hahaha
That's cuz Mustangs are wild horses 😁
Man, I don't what I like more, Hubert's badass hairdo and chops or those wingtips
awesome video
I saw Herb Plat and Ed Terry 428 mustang win almost ever race and run each other for the win, and finish with in one hundred of a second of each other !! The cars were set up perfectly !!
This is how these cars were meant to be driven!!! Not idling around town on a holiday or parked in some museum.
Man this guy can shift. I love stickshifts and this shows you don't need an auto to shift FAST.
i ordered a 1969 ford ranchero with the 428 cobra jet engine.it had a 4 speed and posi.rear end.i won stock eliminator twice at our local race track.i had to sell it when i bought a hurst amx race car.i was sponsored by amc and they asked me to sell the ranchero.i still miss it and that was 50 years ago. jim
It still seems so unusual not having "Buster" Couch standing there by the tree in those western boots starting the cars even after all this time since he left us.
Buster was "The Man" So was Steve Evans! Oh Yeah!
Not to mention announcers Dave McClellan and Steve Evans! They lived and breathed drag racing!
I Am So In Love With Mustangsssss
hell shifting lol awesome, and that sound !!! :o
hell yea, the good ole days.
Love Fords I'm a Ford guy
I miss the good old days.
Powershifting greasers, that's too cool.
Power shifting done well!
Magnificent!
I'd be willing to bet all those engines were the 351 Cleveland...I had a '70 Mach I with the 4 bl Cleveland with the big valves, and with headers, a cam, alum intake and an 850 holley they were documented to jump from 290 hp up to 465 hp...they had huge valves...anyway that's pretty much what mine sounded like...I recognize it.
70-72 351C with closed chamber heads have huge potential. Matched with 3,000 stall and 4.11's and it's good-bye big blocks.
I did too. Great memories. 351C 780 Crane cam headers 31 sline axles and 3:89 rear.
Properly built a 351 C was a track terror...
I currently have a '69 fastback with a 351C, dual plane air gap edelbrock, AED 750, .600/.610 flat tappet solid lift cam, 10.5:1 Keith Black pistons, 1 3/4" long tube headers, stock crank/rods. Bolted to a 4 speed 4r70w manual valve body automatic. 3.89 rear gears.
The car is a 100% drive anywhere street car. I can cruise at 80 mph.
Best time in the 1/8 mile is 7.52 @ 89 mph. With a t brake and a better torque converter I believe 7.10s is possible.
Actually, NONE of them were Cleveland's.
Detroit dragway was my backyard when I was a kid and man do I miss it,
Nice video. Thank you.
Love those Ford FEs. All of them doesn't matter which one.
That sound man that sound omg😭😭😭😭😭
Man, I have serious fever for the 427. I want one bad. I was going to settle for my 3rd Coyote Stang. Whatever I end up with, it's 100% going to be another manual.
The racing back then, it really put the driver out front.
I saw 2 Mavericks ! Sweet.
Awesome!
MustangMedic PROPS
thats awesome
Oh God how I miss real drag racing that Symphony of cylinders at the end of the video is the most beautiful music I've heard in a long time. Have you ever heard the sound of a race GT350 Shelby I'm talking just the 289 it literally is as loud as a Nitro funny car and sounds like one. To my ears there is no engine that sounds as good as Ford's.
fords forever!
I love the video. What is with the old posts bash the Hemi? Some of these guys need an education and to get their facts strait. I am a hard core Mopar and AMC guy but I love all muscle cars. Without the competition and rivalry we never would have even had muscle cars. So next time some of you, like 6 pounds soft, need to compensate why don't you take it down a notch and just know that all muscle cars are great!
+Randall Price how right you are, thanks
+Randall Price BOSS 429 is Hemi.....
that's SEMI-HEMI-- not a REAL HEMI...
MrGGPRI: The Boss 429 crescent shaped combustion chamber was so close to hemispherical, you might as well call it a Hemi. The 427 SOHC was a Hemi, and "the first" American V8 Hemi, the 1947 FORD Flathead Hemi Ardun was a Hemi. Which Chrysler being the thieves they were basically copied. lol..
bobba68: Sorry bobba, you're wrong! Typical chrysler (now FIAT) fans. The denial of you poor FIAT Boys . lol.. The first American V8 Hemi was in fact the 1947 Ford Flathead V8 Hemi Ardun. Ardun worked specifically for Ford to design an OHV Hemi head for the Flathead. Ford installed these heads on mainly trucks, and gave it's customers the option to buy them over the counter also. And many took that option. There were many Ford Flathead V8 Hemi's on the road 5 years before FIAT chrysler's V8 Hemi. Even Hot Rodders of the time were running the Ford Flathead V8 Hemi, before FIAT chrysler's V8 hemi was ever introduced. Many historians and even professional drag racers, including Garlits admitted that Ford had the first American V8 Hemi. And I'm sure their knowledge and experience far exceeds yours. Funny how the 1951 FIAT chrysler hemi intake manifold has the identical bolt pattern as the Ford Flathead V8 Hemi, ehh? Now go play with your Legos kid. lol..
The Go Pros of 1969 were a lot bigger.
Also, kinda times out to be a 10-11 second pass at the end. Very nice, especially for back then.
Chevy, Ford, Mopar, or AMC. As long as it's made in the USA. I still wanna know where I can find a 427 SOHC. I hear they made over 600 HP from the factory. That's amazing.
600 HP is about right for the cammer. Pops Performance has reproduction cammer heads and kits to turn Ford FE engines into cammers. Check it out.
+James Sawchuk There are a few places offering new cammers, around $25K
25k is a bit much.
@Cobradriver99 -650 with two 4 barrels,you mean
Jon Kasse will sell you as many as you can pay for.
There was a Drag Team Maverick?? WTH??
Sweet!!
Fords are f'n BAD ASS
Saturday Nights were made for racing with T 👍
@capriracer351 back then you shaved every other tooth off 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears for a crash box. The power shift gift is lost today on automatics and lencos.
Crazy how things have went from that to what we have now....other than dirt track most racing has completely went to hell
badass!
@Italianrocker81 I agree man, I just keep watching it!