Thread: 50 fastest musclecars

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This is an interesting discussion/argument but the truth is, very few people back in the day drove them around or raced them like they were delivered. If you had a muscle car or even some of the sleepers that were not technically muscle cars, chances are you put bigger tires on in, even if they were Polyglas GTs or some manner of cheater slicks, they were still far better than what came from the factory. Next step most people did was put headers on them and get rid of the tail pipes dumping the exhaust right in front of the rear axle. When you went to the track, you opened the headers and bolted slicks on if you had them. I have mentioned before, I had a '68 Biscayne 427/425, 4 Spd, 4.10 gears in 1971. The Magazine test had it running 13.65 with 4.56 gears. With just a set of 7" slicks mine ran 13.40 the first time I took it to the track. Later with a set of headers it ran 13 flat. If I knew how to drive it better I know it would have easily run 12.80s at least. I never could get the launch just right without bogging it. That is completely stock except for headers and slicks. I drove this car every day to work, to the store, and on dates. I drove it in the snow in the winter and on 100 degree days in the summer. It was the only car I had at the time. I'm not sure what my point is except to say that judging the cars from "back in the day" only as they came from the factory is not reality, because that is not how we drove them. There were guys that came out to the Friday night cruise with pure stock show room cars thinking they were hot stuff, but after being embarrassed a few times by supposedly lesser cars, they learned.

Thanks for the great memories

Pat