10 QUICKEST MUSCLE CARS Of The 1960s
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- The 1960s was a golden era for American muscle cars, as automakers competed to produce the fastest, most powerful, and most stylish vehicles on the road. In this video, I will rank the 10 QUICKEST MUSCLE CARS Of The 1960s based on their quarter-mile times.
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There's no way a GTO would do 0 to 60 in 4.6 seconds and a quarter mile time of 13.1 seconds with 350hp at the time.
That gto fast....115 in the quarter
@@ralphstamm4456 The 70 Chevelle LS6 which was the fastest mid-size muscle car only went a 13.2 at 106mph. The cars just didn't turn 115 mph stock out of the factory. I've been looking for a 69 GTO Judge.
My comment was on a GTO....a mistake
@@edwardskoda2409 I retract my comment...it was on GT O.....
I'm 70 and lived and breathed muscle cars in the 60's and the times/trap speeds in many of the posts below just weren't the case. Maybe a finely tuned factory stock Hemi with no air cleaner, open headers and slicks would get into the mid to low 12's WITH THE RIGHT DRIVER and that was one of the quickest of the era. I had a 67 Buick GS400 that I rebuilt with a Kenne-Bell street cam, headers, 3.90 rear and mods to the Super Turbine 400 trans. I rarely lost a street race with that car and I had many and nearly totaled it after taking a 440 6 Barrel Road Runner from a roll. That GS, with G70-14 Polyglas tires and open headers ran a 14.05 @101.5 at the Union Grove strip South of Milwaukee. Out of the showroom stock muscle cars of that era with air cleaners, stock exhaust and factory tires were running in the 14's at the local strip with many in the 15's and some even in the 16's. I had friends with stock 383 Road Runners with both 4-speeds and TorqueFlytes, that never saw a 14 second ET. Someone getting a 13 second ET at Union Grove with a factory stock car was rare.
Just trying to keep it real.
You are 100% correct, but you're not gonna get most of these posters to agree .... they're blind to facts.
Manufactures sent "ringers" to be tested by magazines back then. Then those legit numbers got adjusted to "sea level" specs to lower et's and raise speed numbers.
Cars were not running 11's, 12's & Very, very, very few hit 13's back then from the factory. Most had issues getting into the 14's.
I commented on a guy saying the '68 Firebird Ram Air II were doing 13.3's off the floor, lol.
My buddys got one from their mom back in the early 80's as a gift with under 70,000 miles on it. It ran 15's at a track that's about 900ft above sea level.
100% this. I'm a general car fan, but I grew up on the '64-'71 Muscle era - these times are like a second faster than the quoted ETs. They weren't hard to get to run these times but to say they're "stock" is false.
I knew as soon as I heard the AI voice I was gonna need to read the comments on this one...
Wow!!!! An honest Baby Boomer.!!!! You'll get voted off the island for telling the truth!!!
@danielfair4675 Lol!! On another channel some fool claimed a Ford Falcon was doing low 11s off the showroom floor and a Pontiac Tempest had a 4.2 second 0 -60!!! Pure fantasy island crap!
I did a lot of drag racing back in the '70's....and if you drove a car in off the street that would run in the 13's...let alone it being 'stock'...you were a force to be reckoned with. Especially running street tires there were NO 12 second cars showing up...ever.
The 68 Hurst/Olds had the 455. The 68 W30 had a 400. The Hurst was a workaround to GM's 400ci limit on mid size cars.
Yeah so what is your point of it
@@rodneyhopper22the video states the 1968 W30 had a 455 which is incorrect. It had a 400
This is true. W-30 until 1970 was limited to the 400 engine.
What is the fastest car in Iowa what What is the weather tomorrow?
Lists the Cobra, and the Corvette, which are actually Sports cars, yet ignores the Ford Mustang, and the Buick GSX, both Muscle cars.
People always forget the first cars to break 12s and 11s . 1962-1964 Max Wedge.
'63 Pontiac Tempest with the SD engines also ran in the 12's, no, I'm not reallly a Pontiac fan, but that is very impressive, very few were made, but Yenko autos hardly qualify as "factory"cars either.
The max wedge cars were indeed awesome!
413 💪💪
Not a Muscle Car
@@V8Deuce Factory 425 HP Sounds like muscle to me . 🤣
True but these were super stocks, not really street friendly at all. They were fiberglass and aluminum parts replacing steel components and to the extreme of removing
Windshield wiper and sun visors. Further they were advised by factory and dealers not to exceed full throttle use
For longer than 15 seconds. Meanwhile the
Stude R2+R3 engines ran for hours and days at Bonneville at speeds from 150+ to 178.5 mph without a single mechanical failure. And all twelve Studebakers that ran there for two weeks at such speeds used a TOTAL of 1/2 pint oil for ALL twelve cars.
Super Lark R3 2 door ran
12.6+12.9 at 114 mph in full "steel body". And could top 150+ mph with a 3:31 rear axle. 413-426 could not reach that.
Very surprised the 1970 GS Stage 1 didn’t make this list. It should have made 3rd or 4th for this list.
Me as well. The gsx was the hemi killer. Buick had it figured out. Just didn't have the following. Sadly.
I love them. Lol.
To be fair this was a 60's list.
I served in the Army back in the late 80s thru the mid 90s. One of the guys I served with had a 70 Buick GS. It was definitely a quick car. Especially since it weighed something like 3500 lbs. I admit it wasn't the quickest car I've ever been in or drove but for its weight and tire technology at the time it definitely would move
@@GorillaCookies Cool story and thank you for your service
Way back in the 80s Hot Rod magazine did a story on the rare Dodge Dart that had the Hemi from the factory and crowned it the quickest muscle car of the 60s. If I remember correctly it ran a 10.76 in the 1/4 mile at sea-level.
Yes it's was the Mr. Norms dart GSS!
Lol, not factory stock and it was what folks call a "ringer".
Even a factory '70 HEMI Cuda only ran low 14's ... those were/are LEGIT numbers.
just goes to show you can't believe everything you read
Not a Muscle Car
@kevinlanders2499 Mr norms GSS was a 440 car. This guy is speaking of the L023 hurst Hemi Dart which Was not a street car.
If you’re going to include Yenko’s then factory specialty cars should be allowed. R-code fairlanes ran 12’s and the Thunderbolts ran 11’s.
Correct 👍
Don't forget the Boss 429 mustang was faster than any of these cars in this video except the cobra
@@stevebell6415 The Boss ran from 0 to 60 in 7.1 seconds and sprinted the quarter mile in 14.09 seconds at 102.85 miles per hour.Jul 11, 2022
68 hemi dart documented sub 11 quarters
Could the general public buy those R code Fairlanes? I thought you had to be a factory sponsored racer.
You forgot the AMC AMX. In January 1968, AMC AMX set 106 world speed and endurance records at Goodyear's track in Texas.
you get this out of a comic book
My brother had an amx with a 390. That thing was FAST!!!!!
@@jonesy4588 Nope. Do a quick search and see for yourself. I had one and the thing was scary fast.
I owned a 1968 AMX in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Mine had the smaller 290ci V8. Not as ground-pounding but still very spry. It was still quicker than several 455 Trans-Ams I raced, off the line. They ate me on top speed though. My car was geared lower, topped at 104MPH, but got there PDQ! Most uncomfortable seats I ever sat in, but that little car was amazingly maneuverable. It could break traction and regain it at will, and do a very quick Bootleg Turn. Wish I still had it, most fun car I ever drove.
@@jonesy4588
Do your homework before you make a fool out of yourself the race driver was Craig Breedlove that set those 106 records in an AMX look it up.
I grew up in that era as a teenager and an avid competitor. It was a grand time to be an American. Dandahermit
Sure miss those days
Guess we’ll hear about the 1970 454 Chevelle SS in the next video
LS6 legend. Brutally fast.
Click bait as usual
My uncle had one and let me drive it when I was 16 yo in 1984. When my dad saw me afterward and the big smile on my face he said, “He must have let you drive it.”
My car was fast. Very fast. Are you sitting down? I owned and regularly drove, a 1967 Ford Fairlane Ranchero with a straight, in-line six (banger). Three speed, on the column. A clutch on the floor and full drum brakes on all 4. It was one very rare and highly special machine. An absolutely amazing powerhouse. It topped out at over 80 MPH!
Lol., too funny. I own Japan's recent version of that. An '08 Civic coupe 1.8L 4 cyl that is blistering fast (downhill). We are both legends in our own minds!
I had a rare prototype GTX with a special Grabber hood scoop. From Mopar. It wasnt suppose to be sold to the public. They didnt know and sold it to me.
Top speed 200mph.
Got incredible gas milage.
Super fast quarter mile 10.7seconds.
Only one of its kind.
They tried buying it back.
Said no and they kept following me to try and get it back. Had it shipped overseas. No one really knows what happened to it. My friend in the military had it.
1968 olds 442 is a 400 4speed dual exhaust.
Hurst olds had the 455
3.23 gears and it sure would hit 200 mph, but then my stock 426 Hemi would run 170 mph with 3.54 gears and had I had an overdrive 200 mph would have been a cake walk as it would turn out to 7 grand with ease in fourth as if it wasn't even trying. Man, I miss that car.@@LionsTigersBears
I had a 66 Vauxhall Viva with 52 horsepower, a 4 speed and Italian "baldini" racing tires.
Hand painted in Tremclad red.
A 1963 R code Galaxie 427 lightweight could do the 1/4 mile in 12.1 @ 118 mph. Comparable to the zl1 vette on this list.
Had a 69' Charger RT with 440 4 barrel, wish I had kept it. Sold it for $1400, value went way up years later.
Yah, 60k now...
NO, the 440 six pack wasn't called that because it was like a six pack of beer. It was called that because it had 3 two barrel carburetors, instead of 1 two barrel, or a single 4 barrel carburetor. 🤦
I wished I would have read this before pouring 6-12oz cans of black label down the intake.
I didn’t feel right at the time now I know why.
Yo dude I grew up during those years and yeah that's right they also put them on the 340 small block Mopar motor as well I'm almost 60 years old dude so I do have a clue to what I'm saying Goofy people
Well you have to the it up with the AI voice
Plus it looked like a six pack is where name came from video just said thatit
Triple duce is another term.
The narrator lists the 68 442 W-30 as having a 455.....it didn't; they all came with 400 cubic inch engines. You could only get the 455 in the Hurst Olds in 1968.
a poorly done presentation for sure
A little disappointing. top 10 fastest, and no 454 ss Chevelle, 455 Buicks, 455 SD Pontiac Transam, and missed a ton of fords, 428 CJ, 429 CJ, and all of the R code 427 cars like the Fairlane. Includes Yenkos, but no Boss 429, Boss 351, 289 Cobra, or road going GT 40s. if you include a Vette that only 2 were made, what about Hemi darts, Thunderbolts?? Not really hating, just saying there was some really cool stuff you may have over looked.
A lot of those didn’t come out till 1970. This video was for the 60s
454 was in the vet. Not chevell. Until I think 69? Or am I wrong? My 67ss had the 402 ci ( 396) with 411 gears limited slip. M22 Munsey and 859 cfi holly with a torquer high rise. They used to sit slightly at an angle to the body line. It would pull the front tires off the ground about 4 inches
Hence “from the 60ies”.... those are 1970 cars 😂
@@rovervitesse1985 the R code 427 fairlanes were in 66, 428 cj was 68, the boss 429 was 69, the other did cross over the 70 mark if that was the premise of the video
@@Wheelhouse812 I stopped reading your initial post after reading 454 SS Chevelle, 455 Buick and 455 SD Pontiac. Those are 70ies
The 1968 Ram Air 2 Firebird was a 13.3 second car right off the showroom floor. The Buick GSX was too.
You're a full second faster than MT magazine got, lol.
And Motor Trend correct their numbers to sea level specs back then. They were legit very high 14's to low 15 sec cars off the floor.
I had a pair of brothers from my high school days that got a Red on Black one gifted to them from their mom.
I'll guarantee you it didn't run 13.3's stock.
Kil-Kare Dragway said so. 😁
@@danielfair4675
I’ve seen a bone stock, low compression, Stage 1 run 14.20s with the AC on in the Florida heat and a GSX was a lot quicker than that.
There used to be a Ram Air 2 Firebird in the pure stock drags that ran mid to high 11s. Just a little 400 with a hydraulic cam running with HEMIs and L88s.
@@timsharpe3498 Pure stock rules allow modifications. Visit their site for rules.
@@danielfair4675 Had a 68 Ram Air 2 back in 76' that ran 14.20 to 14.30 sec. @ 102 to104 mph all day long. 4 speed, 3.90 rear. You're way off lad.
@@markhartung You had 1 of 98? A WU engine code? Doubtful.
When I was a younger man my Dodge friends were pulling the Hemi out of their street cars for the 440 because it was "hard to keep in tune and needed constant attention."
I was lucky back in the late 90s to be passenger in a 64 GTO with a Tri power swap 455 swap it was a beast
You forgot the 1966 Chev Impala SS with a 427/425 hp. Dinoed at 462 HP with Bill Thomas headers. I bought it new in 66 raced and beat a lot of the cars you reported on at the local drag strip. Can't locate the original sticker but believe it was about a $600 option for the engine and close ratio 4 speed. Had the opportunity to ride in a 427 Cobra. Now that was fast.
Do you happen to know if they put the 427 in a station wagon badged SS? A guy down the street, he's dead now, had a 66 station wagon badged ss and with a 427 badge. If it was for real I'm betting it was pretty rare.
I built 71 440 six pack Challenger, for my wife. Other then the headers, it appears stock, and uses stock heads, six pack forged pistons, stock block. Runs 12s on the street tires, and 11s on the drag radials.
The 427 Cobra was not built by AC Cars in England. It was built by Shelby American in California.
the bodies were, they came sans motor and drive train, built by AC in England, it was originally called an AC Ace, there was also a Bristol body but Shelby never did one up
@PD Evolution - 07:45 - For the 1969 Yenko Camaro, Don Yenko Chevrolet never added a fiberglass hood. The, "interior details", were limited to an under-dash gauge package and with the early 1969 Yenko Camaro's they had a Stewart Warner tachometer installed as there was not a factory one available from Chevrolet. A small handful of these cars had the mag wheels and headers, as these were expensive options with an already very expensive car. I know, as I owned a 1969 Yenko Camaro for over twenty years.
I had a 1966 Plymouth Satellite with a 383 and a 4 speed that was very quick. Probably not by today's standard but back in the late 80s when I got it there wasn't but a few cars around that could even give me and challenge light to light. I ran a 13:04 109 mph at the local drag strip running all season radial tires.
My FIL got a '67 Cornet as a handmedown from his spinster aunt with the same set up around the same time as you. He said he smoked a brand new Corvette coming out of the toll booths on the Mass Turnpike. That was the car my wife learned to drive on!
Ah yes, a 383 with maybe 270 Net HP ran low 13's at 109. Got it. 😀
@@justme307When did he say it was stock?
The video is about stock performance. Next someone will post his 68 VW Bug ran 9's at 140. @@jhutch1470
The older I get, the faster I was...@@justme307
Cars of my childhood. My dad had a Pontiac GTO back in the 60's I enjoyed in that car❤❤❤
Amazing 🤩
The Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 would have been my favorite. It was comfortable and reliable something most of those muscle cars weren't!
Yea, slow, but luxurious.
Chevelle is better
Insurance was the killer in the muscle car era. I priced a 396/375 Camaro in 1969. Car payment $100/month. Insurance payment $100/month. In those days if you brought home $100 a week after taxes you had a pretty good job.
Why I put my 67 Satellite 426 Hemi in my mother's name. Remember working for a buck and a quarter an hour, changed jobs often until I finally landed a good job with good pay and benefits.
yeah, $3 an hour was big money. @@stephenwest798
In the late 1970s, my 1968 AMC AMX two-seater got insured as a "Rambler". Insurance guy (Allstate) knew nothing about AMC cars! But my premiums were cheap! 😂
You for got the 1964 Plumber sports fury with the 426 max wedge. O and the 1968 or 69 Dodge Dart with the hemi.😊
You might've mentioned the great Ken Miles' involvement in convincing Shelby that the big block 427 was necessary if the Cobra was to win against the big block Corvettes. Also, the points made by Robert Baron about real world 1/4 mile racing are spot on-I'm 68, raced foreign stock in the late 70's. Finding a stock muscle car that would actually dip into the 13's in the real world with polyglass tires, without slam shifting and beating the holy crap out of the drivetrain? Good luck with that.
All of these cars are awesome.
True...modern cars are quicker, and faster...but with 60 yeats of development, the should be.
What they cannot, and will never replicate, is the "Soul", of the original muscle cars.
Current Camaros, Challengers, Mustangs, etc. are fine, but I don't even notice them, on the street.
All of the older muscle cars, in the day, were noticed by... literally everyone!! Even Mom's and Granny's.
Not just car guys.
They just exuded thier presence, without looking excessive.
Back in the day I was tooling around in a '62 Chevy (Bubbletop) (327/375) - My street bros owned the following:
'69 AMX (390)
'68 Chevy Camaro (396)
'69 Roadrunner (383)
'68 Charger (440) (road shotgun at 150 mph)
'68 Mercury Cyclone (390)
I thought these were fast - couldn't imagine those 10 beasts.
"power shift here we go" ........................................
My 73 Plymouth duster was faster than my 67 cutlass. Supreme, which, except for the fact it had a 2 speed. Automatic and dual exhaust was a 442. My 318 Doster had a 323 sure-grip rear. It was loaded power steering power breaks AC. But it was quick off the line. The fastest I ever got it was. I pinned it to 120 on the needle on the New Jersey turnpike. It followed it literally felt like you were floating in air the power steering. You could have turned with the feather a little too fast for that car. But it's haul-ass. Kept pace with z-28. It came with D78. Two ply tires, I changed them to FR 70R Even with that torque flight, I could lay twenty-five foot patch of Black rubber. Paid $3200 cash in 72. And the only reason it had a 318 was my dad found out I was buying the road runner. Then he got wind of the 340 and that was the end of that. I was 17 so I needed a signer even though it was cash. Pumped a lot of gas to get that.
As a college student in 1969, I bought a '64 GTO, tri-power, 348 hp, 4-spd, posi-traction. I was in heaven. It was definitely fast. However, I had the chance to ride in a '65 Chevelle, 396, 375 hp, 4-spd a few years earlier while in high school. It was hands down faster, and there were even faster cars than that to be had especially late '60s Chrysler hemis. The 425 hp hemi was underrated and was the true beast. Did someone else have something faster? Yeah, there were faster cars out there but they were typically specialty cars. ANYBODY could buy a hemi without having to special order something. Another thing to remember, engines built in factories nowadays are the equivalent of having a blueprinted engine back then. A few guys had blueprinted engines but again those were specialty built. Back then carburetors mixed the fuel with air, and they were crude in comparison with today's direct fuel injection controlled by an ECU and multiple valves per cylinder not to mention those '60s cars had points and condensor ignition systems. Let's not even talk about drum brakes.
Pretty sure the Chevelle didn’t come out with the 396 until ‘66. I had a 360 hp ‘66 and got beat by a ’65 but it had a 350hp 327.
@@mikekydd8818 The 65 Chevelle did indeed come out in 65. Labeled the Z-16. They made. 201 of them 200 hardtop's and 1 Rag top. Dan Blocker of Bonanza fame was given one by General Motors. Who sold it after a while. The 65 L79 Chevelle had the 350 hp 327. They were both strong running cars.
@@tonyd1031 Ah. 201. No wonder I didn’t know about them.
Nice thing back in the day, we could rumble down to the local K-mart, buy the plugs, filters, ignition parts and do a "ten minute tune-up" right there in the parking lot. The motors weren't as efficient, but a Hell of a lot easier to work on. 😎👍
In 1968, the Phase III Camaro from Baldwin Motion on Long Island
was guaranteed to turn 11.50 1/4 miles times at over 120 mph with a M/P (Modified Production) licensed driver on an NHRA or AHRA sanctioned track. This car was "reliable & streetable" and was able to run these times shortly after being driven off the showroom floor. The warranty on the SS-427 Camaro was 90 days or 4000 miles on the powertrain and 24 months/24000 miles on the rest of the car - excluding all speed options. There was no warranty on any engine that was fitted with "internal engine modifications", such as a camshaft and high rev-kit.
455 W30 wasn't available until 1970, only Cutlass available in the 60's with a 455 was the Hurst Olds and it wasn't a W30. Their was a W30 package in the 60's that was 400 cid.
That's because no one can spell ...Gran Turismo Omolagato ........
The 66 Chevy 2 with the 327 / 350 HP option was a giant killer. Bill Jenkins won with one of these verus 426 Hemi powered cars in the A/stock catagory. Somehow you miss this.
Had one-the 66 chevy II SS and it was outragaeously quick! I cruised the red light dragstrips of Mineapolis ( Hennepin, Lake st, Lyndale and Portland and even w 7th in St Paul). I added a Crane cam, headers, Holley 650 double pumper and Edelbrock hi-rise intake mani--all on a teenager salary from a garden center and Mobil service center. Thanks to the Vietnam vets and swap meets ( those guys were so helpful) It was rare I was beaten! A 62 Chevy II with a fuel injected 327 from a Corvette and a 69 Chevelle with a L 88 had me but not by much! Best and most memorable run was against a ss 396 Camaro on 50th street in Edina from France to Wooddale. Was a rolling start and I launched in 2d gear and he never had a chance! I built that motor after memorizing Smoky Yunick's " how to hot rod small block chevys" and can still hear to exhaust notes 45 years later! So happy to be part of that era! Great people, great cars and a fun factor thatwill never again be duplicated. Feel bad for the screen swiper generation--they get 'vicarious' and nothing more!
The 68 442 never came with a 455. It was a 400.
The 68 Hurst Olds were converted 68 442s. 390hp 455s
As usual, we have to start pointing out the errors... LOL!
Thank you. Had to go back and watch #7 again after I began thinking about what narrator said. I was just getting ready to pose the question about the availability of 400’s vs. 455’s in the W-30 offering.
Yeah that's exactly right it was the short stroke 400 of the 2 that was made in the years that they were making them
@@dartlong4353 yeah that's right they had the type h head on the 400 block
* I was around in those days. Those cars looked and felt so fast ! But now the lady next to you at the light with a kid in a car seat smokes you off the line in her 2.0L 4 Banger not even realizing she's in a race !!! 😳
If you're gonna include the yenlo, you gotta let in the 64 T bolt 427 , The 64 413 max wedge . 2 engines that would wipe the floor with anything lined up in the opposite lane.
Yep, Thunderbolts were mid eleven second cars and quicker.
Ray Paquet 64 Thunderbolt just won his class at Indy and goes 8.5 154 mph. It's a real 64 SS/A CAR .
@@jimmyhawkins5357 Those T bolts were the baddest on the planet. A bonafide DRAG CAR built for street racing. Only a complete fool lined up against a 64 Bolt CUZ the race was already OVER.
What about the hemi darts and barracudas, true they were factory built drag cars, but if you're going to include the cobra, then why not them? There were much faster
To Say The Least!!!
Hemi darts and Barracudas were to fast for this list.
@@sargesarge7783talk about Mis information when they don’t include the fastest car that you could buy at dealership and drive it straight to the track. All other cars don’t even come close to the 68 hemi dart. Likely more than half the price of the cobra too
We used to go to NY state drinking when the age limit was 18, I was 16 at the time but no one checked this was 1970. We always drove by a Plymouth Dealer in Westfield NY, a very small town, one time we noticed 3 Plymouth Superbirds on the lot for sale. Those 3 cars sat there for at least 2 years before they finally one day just disappeared. Don't know if they sold or Plymouth sent em someplace else. I wish I would have known at the time how rare they would be.
Yea those Super bird weren't all that super
Many of the times they are referring to were mags like Motor trend and Road & Track of the time. Remember these cars came with 70 series bias ply tires that basically had no traction for these torque monsters.
Don't forget Car & Driver, the outlaw car mag.
I noticed from reading a variety of magazines, including Car &Driver, Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Popular Hot Rodding, Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords, and an assortment of other magazines. Car & Driver usually recorded quicker acceleration times probably because of better driving techniques. But I do remember reading that the quicker times recorded were with factory provided test cars, timing, open intake, open exhaust, some times with headers and slicks,mother tuning. On the street with closed exhaust and bias ply tires, most of those cars were 14-15 second machines. Add slicks and better air flow in and out and the cars would dip into the 12s and 13s.
@@sombra6153 all those mags also corrected their test number to sea level specs back in the day.
Nothing that magazines put into their publications would run what they said, stock off the floor.
Brother-in-law put a Ford V8 into an Austin Healy 3000. Tight fit. Corvette killer. Had to change the spark plugs thru the wheel wells.
Austin Healy 3000 - great handler but limited power. Buddy of mine installed a 327 Chevy motor - made it a GREAT car. 😂
Re the origins of the GTO name. Back in the day the standing joke was that the name "GTO"
actually stood for "Gas, Tires and Oil"!!! 🤣🤣🤣
GTO was created in 1963, as a 1964 model package on the Tempest. Created by; John DeLorean, Bill Collins, and Russ Gee.
GTO stands for the Italian
Gran Turismo Omologato ("grand tourer homologated"), designating being certified by the FIA for racing in the grand tourer class as a production car with at least a hundred units made.
Those Pontiacs with the right tuner were blistering fast. My ‘69 421HO motor Ram Air with Muncie M22 “Rock Crusher” trans was the fastest ‘69 hot Rod made. It was tuned by Nunzi Romano of Nunzi’s Automotive in Brooklyn NY. Known as “Mr Pontiac” he built the fastest Pontiacs around. He later was a writer for Pure Pontiac magazine. 1970 brought the ‘70 Chevelle SS 454 LS6. It’s the king of all muscle cars of the era.
Joel Rosen of Motion Performance only made one Phase III Camaro. So it stands alone as guaranteed fastest car in 1/4 mile.
@@ejp75 - Back in the day the standard joke going around was that the initials "GTO" really stood for "Gas, Tires and Oil"!🤣🤣🤣
my buddy with a 69 442 said it stood for "Go to Olds". I had a 69 GTO Judge at the time
kinda optimistic performance numbers. Car and Driver put Ken Miles behind the wheel and the 427 Cobra did 12.2 sec. Most of the other cars were 14-ish seconds. Went to Fremont Drags and a few 427 Vettes were there, c.1985, None broke 14 Sec!!
No 69 COPO Camaro or 68 Hemi Dart? Somebody needs to do some research on muscle cars.
I owned a 69 z28 ZL1 Camaro, that I sold (unfortunately) to pay off My Mortgage on My house later on..sadly.
@amannybon My heart goes out to you my friend.. The drag racing team I crew for, the owner has a COPO, and that thing is beautiful.. I hope you got every penny it's worth.
The SC Cobra is the one for me. I've not had the pleasure yet.
Two quickest rips for me were in a 1967 427 Corvette and a 1970 1/2 Camaro Z-28 👀
My cousin had a 69’ 427 Vette and damn did those babies run wow.
As for me I like older cars especially the good older antiques .Ford . Chrysler . Chevrolet . DeSoto . Plymouth .Dodge .cars and trucks
First car a 67 Olds 442. Fast enough but 5 to8 mpg. After 2 weeks returned it to dealer for a loss and got a 70 VW Square Back. Electronic Fuel Injection, automatic trans 25 -32 mpg at top cruising speed of 81 mph, with up to 6 aboard. Backseat folded into 6 ft bed.. Rack on top carried rafts, tents ski equipment for high school ditch days,weekend river trips. Didn't frighten girls parents,300 miler to Nevada to Horse Ranch.
Did consistent 23.4 second 1/4 mile at the Friday night drag race handicaps. Was passed a few times at the finish line by hotrods doing 150 mph.
That car died in Fairbanks Alaska winter of 76. #3 sparkplug hole blew out at 155000 mi.
A high school buddy had a 1969 Squareback. He kept blowing the engine, so he'd go to the local junkyard and buy cheap motors out of wrecked cars. He replaced the quirky FI with a carb.
The Hurst 69 Hemi Dart and Hemi Barracuda with 833 4 speed and Dana 60 rear was the fastest period.
Yeah that's right
100% correct
That’s why they had their own class at the race track. No zl1 or boss or a Buick was a match for them.
Was a factory race car not sold for street use. Though no doubt it is a fast car.
Most of the big block muscle cars with a similar setup of compression ratio, camshaft, tires and gearing could provide similar performance.
@@robb1165 That was soon forgotten. Ive seen one registered and driving. What 3200 pound car was available that could compete with it? It held the super stock record for decades
How in the hell do you not have the 1970 Chevelle SS 454 on here ?
Had to make it different from every other Top 10 list...
Because its cars of the 60s
Ok, the ‘69 427 Chevelle SS is faster than half these cars.
This is about muscle cars, not boat anchors.
@@joeayers3777Then I take it there’s not even one Ford on the list? LOL 😂
The 67 GTO with a 400 and a single four barrel had more power than a '64 389 with Tri-power.
Big heavy car.
Even some family cars had 400 horses or more.
What a great era !!
I wouldn't consider the Yenko Camaro's as a factory stock car that you could order from your local dealer, you had to have some "pull" to order these cars
I read an article in a Hot Rod Magazine years ago that listed the fastest 1/4 mile times of all the 60’s cars factory stock and at the top of that list was the 63 or 64 ( can’t remember which) Pontiac Catalina with the 428. Based on all the comments and conflicting data, this video, although entertaining, is not accurate.
My brother bought a new 68 Camaro 396 SS RS with the aluminum head option. It had all the options except auto trans.
ZL1 cAMARO ENGINE WAS MORE THAN THE CAR
Interesting but forgot to include one car that beat almost all mentioned except last 3.
That was the 1964 Studebaker super Lark R3.
Ran 12.6-12.9 at 114 mph and could top 150+ mph or faster than a 63-64-65 Vette by 12 mph. In the Avanti it ran 178.5 mph top end or 40 MPH faster than those vettes
Studebaker doesn't get the respect it deserved. They had some truly great cars. As happens too often in industry, the top brass made some poor business decisions leading to their demise. But the cars were excellent.
Perhaps it was the supercharged version? Were those vettes supercharged ? Just curious what you are comparing.
@@scottshumaker4969 comparing the cars of the era. Grew up with all these and loved most all of them. Most people,especially younger crowd have not a scintilla of knowledge about how fast Studebakers were , not just in 63-64 model years, but some of the fifties in the hawks as well. 63-64-65 vettes fuel injection and 396 half year Vette ran 133-140 MPH tops. The super Lark R2 ran 132 mph and the super Lark R3 ran 150 plus MPH, or twelve mph hour faster than those vettes. Avanti superiority mentioned in my last
Post. And I failed to mention the experimental Avanti R5 which produced
575-638 HP from just 5 litres and ran 198 mph at Bonneville in 1963. Yes 1963. Projected top speed was 220+ mph, but failed to achieve that due to loss of traction.
Detroit muscle including
Nascar prepared racers couldn't match the R3 Avanti top end and couldn't begin to even approach that experimental R5.
@@scottshumaker4969don't matter they were factory equipped
@@vernanderson4358 I’m aware I live only about an hour from the Studebaker factory if I recall, didn’t they only make 12 to 15? R3
I was waiting for dodge dart
Whoever produces this channel should know that the automated narration is an instant notice that all information is highly suspect.
leaving out the 3000 pound 350 horsepower L-79 Chevy II which would easily beat most of the cars on your list is a serious error .
I think a lot of cars were left off here I have personally seen a bone stock 73 SD455 trans am consistently run 13.2 1/4 miles times
well... you do realize the car you said is a 73.. and this video is about car's from the 60's right...?
@@evan7476 of course I do
Having been there...magazines and dynos aside, on the street, from me own eyes: The 1966 Chevy 2 350 hp 327 was a gisnt slayer. In the world of big blocks, 375 hp (aka 425hp) 396 in any bodystyle with low rear gears (your choice) would hangwith Any other ride. Then the unabtainable Z-11 motor... NO I am NOt a Chevy fan, just reporting the way I saw the era.
The L79 327 gave most big blocks owners a reason to sell their cars ! 😂 snappy lil muthas !!
I've seen time slips in a 65 GTO glovebox from Detroit dragway. 1 /4 mile 15.38
1964 ford Fairlane Thunderbolt 11.61 seconds at 124.8 mph
My 1962 fuelie with 4.56 gear and 7inch cheater slick, went 12.48,@ 110mph
2.20 first gear trans
How many Ford models were absent.. like a variety of Mustang Models alone lol
I love these cars. That '69 Camaro SS with a 396 and a 4-speed is amazing! That '69 Yenko 427 Camaro Super Car is legendary.
Love this!!!
How about a 65Chevelle -Z-16 BB - or 69 Chevelle SS - 66 Chevelle’s 427 -67-427 Impala SS ?
...not a great list....some of the info is wrong. Mostly 0 to 60 times. They were all around the 5 to 6 seconds....definitely no sub 5 second cars! No traction ,no tires back then.....i didnt wait till the end. The Vette and Cobra were not considered muscle cars they were exotic sports cars ...hi end for the day! ....The list forgot the Bad ass King Rat LS6 454 Chevelle!
I was born in 1958, so you know I seen them all. My favorite is the 69 Chevelle. Can't touch that
The ZL-1 and L88 Corvettes were the fastest and rarest Vettes ever made! Today any of the base model C6, C7 and C8 would easily blow their doors!
Traction control,computers, blowers
The 69 Ram Air 4 in either the firebird or gto is faster than the 64 gto. There is no boss 429 or 428 scj on this list. It should be.
The ford's were slugs, that's why their not on the list. They were 15-16 second machines....
I beat so many fords with my gtx I got sick of racing them....
3 cars that were missed that should have been on this list:
1963 Z11 Impala SS with the 427 W-Block
Low 12s in the 1/4 @ 117 mph
57 produced
1969 Dodge Dart GTS 440
Low 12s in the 1/4 and between 115 and 120 in the 1/4
640 produced by Chrysler and 52 by Mr. Norm
1968 Dodge HEMI Dart
10.2 in the 1/4 @ 130 MPH
80 produced
Those were basically racers cars on slicks...
@@BuzzLOLOL No.....bias ply tires.
@@markdubois4882Slicks are bias ply tires.
And the 70 LS6 chevelle. Nice video but not accurate.
@@robertreighard1444 A 70 Chevelle isn't from the 60s.
Its crazy how things have evolved. Big V8's with high HP and massive torque running 13 sec 1/4's. 60 years later we have 4 bangers like my wife's '21 Mazda 3 that can scoot a 1/4 in 14.4 secs. I know there's a lot more at play, but on the surface its just funny to think. Still love the classic muscle's though.
It's true that modern cars have come a long way in performance. But remember that tire technology has, as well. If you run modern, high-performance tires on a muscle car, the acceleration is much improved.
I hate that you show drag clips of Oldsmobiles losing!
My teenage hotrod was a '68 Cutlass S. It used to eat IROCs & TAs. I bought the body for $200 and every Olds 98 & 88 with a 455 sitting in some old man's yard in my small hometown.
~~The '64 Tempest (GTO) tri-power 389, 1/4 mile:13.1 is stock tires but w/slicks it ran 12.8 There were only 2 cars quicker 0-60 than the Tempest's 4.6 sec in the 60's. '63 Cobra 4.5 sec & '61 Cobra 4.3 sec however, again, w/slicks the Tempest nearly cracks 4 sec mark. Pretty damn impressive for straight off the production line mid 1963.
~~THIS GUY DESERVES PROPS FOR INCLUDING IT. I'VE SEEN DOZEN/MORE OF THESE LISTS COMPRISED OF WHAT LOOKS MORE LIKE BY POPULARITY THAN PERFORMANCE. EVEN ABSENT ON THE 0-60 LISTS IS THE NORM,POSERS,
What's this 61 Cobra? The 1st Ford powered Cobra's where in 63. With 260 Ford motor. 64 289 Cobras, now that's different- real deal
@@sparkyguitar0058 Brainfart,IDK where '61 came from. Possibly hitting keypad bit to quick¬ paying attention? Suppose to be '65, Sorry.
A Muscle Car is defined as a Full Sized Sedan not a 2 seat sports car. The Corvette and The Cobra raced I believe on the SCCA circuit.
BS! None of the cars you named ever achieved those times out of the factory and sold to the general public. After extensive mods and money possibly. No Tempest ever did 4 second 0 to 60 mph from the factory. Lol. You Boomers are getting more asine every year. 12.8 second quarter mile !!! Lol. You fools need to stop smoking so much weed and listening to crappy Led Zeppelin albums.
MOPAR STILL RULES 😅😅😅😊😊😊
If the list was expanded to include muscle cars up to 1973, what would it look like? What about to 1979? The Olds 4-4-2 was faster in the early 1970s than it was in the late 1960s and the same for the Buick Grand Sport GSX torque monsters. Some of the early to mid-1970s Firebirds and Camaros were quick, too.
73 Trans-Am SD-455 was a Very, VERY under rated beast...low- to mid 13`s
You forgot to mention the 2nd quickest car from the 60's which was a Boss 429 Mustang which was only a tick slower than the 426 hemi!
Z-11 beat them all.
Had a 68 RR 383, put headers on it straight pipes with GTO resonators at the end of the exhaust, Installed 430 gears and a short Hurst shifter. Rebuilt carb, Installed a Mallory distributor and all associated parts. Installed 12" ripple Walls in the rear. Had it dynoed and was putting out 410 hp at the wheels. There wasn't a 440 around that could touch me and I beat most auto hemi's! Track times were in the low 12's.
How bout the 62 Impala SS 409 Dual Quad!!
that orange & black ‘69 Camaro SS 396ci.
is beautiful.. all these cars are that pure ol’American Muscle!
Great video on some great cars 👍
I used to run a Hemi horse cart to the Amish market.
It was easily in the twelves. Around twelve minutes and 30 seconds to be exact 😁 🐴
LOL
This guy must hate all the badest muscles car’s ever made in this period , which were FORD’S, just for example the NHRA winners 428SCJ mustangs!!!!🐍
Hate? Regardless these cars aren’t taking a backseat to anything
Right you are!
Yup the 428cj mustang is faster than half the cars on this list
@@taedarI thought stock it ran 13.7 ?
@@gearyheidinewaccount3237 13.3
I thought that the fastest street legal muscle was the upgraded version of the Charger R/T 500, the Dodge Charger R/T 500 Daytona equipped with 426 hemi with the stage 5 scat package that made 550hp, and was aerodynamic thanks to the Jonh Pointer's design. If i recall correctly it's top speed was 190mph, the NASCAR racing version had the 426 super stock hemi with over 700hp and had a top speed of about 215mph...
crazyone3494 wow. I salute your knowledge and thank you for sharing those Gothic numbers.
Say... I heard few years ago about a special Thunderbird Ford built circa 1963 called BLACKBIRD. Built for top end. Allegedly ran a little better than 200 mph on Salt Flats UT on high octane pump gas. Can't find any info on it now. Know anything about that??
Yes yes Mopar I want em all
@@californiadreaming9216 well, i did heard of that blackbird story, but no details, however, i know that the Salt Flats UT was the place that the Daytona reached 212mph in late 1970, tough i heard of it reaching as much as 230mph, with the hemi making somewhere around 720~760hp...
@@californiadreaming9216ford's were slow as shit, I blew away so many 351c, 429 scj and 428 cj I got sick of racing them....the 396 turbo jet Chevy nova was quick though.... though.....
@@jeffrey501green how many Ford Thunderbolts did you blow away ?
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The car i drove in my teen years in the 60s, was a 65 Plymouth fury 3. It came with a 383 four barrel carb, duel exhaust with a large cam, factory hurst four speed. In the floor. It looked more like a family car, but very fast. 13.8 in quarter mile. Loved that car
The cars used back in the day were ALL ringers from the manufactures, it was a common thing.
Car & Drive, Hot Rod, Motor Trend .... they've all threw accusations out there in years past.
El camino 0-60 5.5s quater mile 13.0s???? You forger
I really like this video PD Evolution keep up good work 😃👍
Thanks so much 😅
Excelente video un hola de la República Dominicana 🇩🇴
Where's my 66 mercury cyclone 390s?
had a 62 chevy belaire bubble top in the early 70,s. big cam,solid lifters,high rise,dual quads ,headers with a 4spd. never had no one beat me down hueneme rd. would smoke em in all 4gears when racing. what fun times that was.i was never ever beat!
The quickest two MUSCLE CARS were the 1970 LS6 Chevelle SS and the Hemi Cuda no matter what this article says both on true street rubber, exhaust manifolds and zero mods ran 13.1
So accurate!
The Chevelle LS6 was causing huge uproar in the mustle car world. In stock form. Beastly
Buick GS/ X Stage 1 as well.
@@danbaumann8273 the Buick official was 13.38 @ 105 the Cuda and LS6 Chevelle mph was 113, not to take anything away from Buick.
No Chevy SS Nova? Another bad list.
Former 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner owner. Automatic, 383, B5 Blue. Loved that car.
Had a 68 Cutlass S coupe back in the 90's.
Man I miss that car. So different from anything I have had since.
Big curvy body and roomy, rode like a caddy compared to the newer stuff, and had that classic car feel to it. One of the best out of GM imho. Hope to have one again.
427 SC , 0 to 100 and back to 0 in under 14 seconds. Not bad for an old car. Heard that once , hope it's true for the Legend.
There was a bit of mis info on the '68 442! There was NO 455 offering in 1968 EXCEPT for the Hurst model. Otherwise, it was a 400, either W-29 = 325 or 350, and the W-30 with 360 hp.
I had a 1968 W-29 442 back in 1974, and with the TH 400 transmission, it was rated at 325hp. and 350hp. if you had the 4 speed.
You learn a bit when you are now 71 years old, and the muscle car era was falling apart due to the gas crunch back in the day when I was 22. I lived it through that and got laughed at when I bought and restored the '68. Today? (no more laughing)..
68 W30 NEVER had a 455 engine available. Cmon man!
Sorry but you guys missed the 1970 Chevelle SS. An iconic muscle car that should have been included
What about the 69 Baldwin Motion Camaro? 11.5 in the 1/4. Hemi Dart and Hemi Barracuda in 68 and 69 ran 10s out of the box.
I know those cuda’s were no joke but 10’s? I imagine they would need some upgrades and tuning to run 10’s
@@josephjenness6956 Not the 69s. They were race specific. A racers permit was required to buy one. They were faster by the time they got to the track.
Camaro 1969 Yanko 427 SYC was the fastest muscle car. 12.59 at 109 mph. Dig it. Theirs no stock 426 Hemi that Ran 10s.
Urban legend. 13.5 at best. High 9’s 1/8 mile.
Do the research and you'll see. 68 hemi darts and 69 hemi cudas did run 10s from the factory. Racers like Ronnie Sox ordered them.