Most Impressive Stock Muscle Car

[Born30YrsLate]

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in your underwear?...

mine has to be a ZL1 camaro...

[olredalert]

------Fastest "stock" street-car I ever had was a 1965 Griffith,,,hands down.The standard Griffith came with a 2-barrel 289. The one I ended up with in 1969 was one of probably 4 delivered with a dual-quad 350hp Cobra version 289. Not much, you say??? The difference was it weighed 1900lbs with a full tank of gas. I remember the beast as having a 370 or so gearset and it was ferociously fast to 60 if you didnt just get it going sideways. I bought it outside of Boston and took it to Florida with me. It is the main reason I have a 4 page rap-sheet with the Ft.Lauderdale Police, and deserved every ticket!!!
------Now if we are talking modified, you know what I have to say.........Bill S

[3macs1]

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I've driven Ls-6, l-72 and a l-88 vette and hate to say it but the r series 427 Ford would eat them if you could get it to hook up. How would the zl-1 hold up to the 67 427 R Ford. That would be in the league of a Zl-1 would it not.

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Actually, an FoMoCo 427 is spec for spec pretty close to an L72...other than the 2-4 setup and the better exhaust manifolds on the FoMoCo, the technical specs are *very* similar. Brian Stefina and I have compared our 427s (he has a '63 425hp Galaxy) and it's almost like they came off the same drawing board, also performed *very* simliarly on the dyno...

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I was only 16 at the time but have something wrong. This thing was not even close to a l-72 in performance.
It had cross bolt mains, what looked like factory cast headers, at least 12:1 or better compression since it would not run on anything but av gas and huge AL heads with the plugs on top like the hemi 426.Huge oil pan that would take like 8 quarts of oil.
The hood was fiberglass with a black scoop, no hood hinges, no heater, no radio, a rubber floor mat and the windows no winders except the drives door.
I have to make a few calls now to find out.

[nova67]

66 L79 Nova with 373's boy would that little car pull. I remember my cousin getting it newc and riding i9n it. He still has the car to this day.

[Chevy454]

macs: I misspoke above, seems the '67 R code in a Fairlane woulda been a medium riser, which would be a step up from the low riser setup in the Galaxy/Marauder...

[71-LS6]

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. The second memory I have that typifies the definition of a muscle car was when a close friend took me for a ride in his '72 Hemi Road Runner. I know what you're thinking, the Hemi was discontinued after 1971. The car started life as a 340, 4 speed and in 1974 had a dealer exchange Hemi transplant.



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I know this is off the topic, but didn't I read somewhere that 2-3 1972 hemi cars actually got built. I'm thinking they were "B" bodies too.

[tom406]

"huge AL heads with the plugs on top like the hemi 426."

Please do find out more about where you got this ride. The engine you're describing is an SOHC 427, aka "Cammer". It was never a production install, but many were available over the counter, and Ford built several mules and exec cars, including the Ford racing chief's '66 Ford 7 Litre (Galaxie) hardtop. Hundreds of engines were produced, and many production-looking components such as exhaust manifolds were tooled while they tried to get it homologated for NASCAR to compete with the 426 Hemi. Super neat looking motor, but had a 6ft long timing chain on the front of the motor to run the overhead cam setup. Racers learned to run the second driven valvetrain several degrees advanced to make up for chain stretch at high rpms.

[69hurstSC]

wow, such a loaded question?? for driving my lil 74 Nova was the first car that i had that spun the wheels so i guess that was very impressive seeing that i grew up in the early 90's. i also remember riding in my dads 81 el camino when i was a youngster and watching him bury the needle at 85mph and i thought that was just crazy fast!

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. The second memory I have that typifies the definition of a muscle car was when a close friend took me for a ride in his '72 Hemi Road Runner. I know what you're thinking, the Hemi was discontinued after 1971. The car started life as a 340, 4 speed and in 1974 had a dealer exchange Hemi transplant.



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I know this is off the topic, but didn't I read somewhere that 2-3 1972 hemi cars actually got built. I'm thinking they were "B" bodies too.

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In the Mopar world, never say "never". But I don't believe that to be true.


Patrick

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Not a true musclecar, but when m