Off the top of my head:
'64 Plymouth, Stage III
'66 Vette
'64 Chevy 409
'66 427 Ford
I don't have them at my fingertips buy you can look up the NHRA records and see who outran who. If you don't wanna' go NHRA then the Pilgrim wins hands down. A Stage III right off the showroom with only tires would run low 12's, easy. The Corvette with tires, maybe mid-high 12's. The 409 Chevy and the 427 Ford were a joke in street trim however they would wind your crank on the strip when properly prepared but not showroom.
The Plymouth was good for high 11's on 7 inch tires, NHRA stock. Maybe mid 11.0's The way the rear suspension was set up, they would leave the line with anybody.
But the other side of the coin, I remember sitting in Sammy's Drive In, in Gary, Indiana in 1963 one night. Two guys in Stage II Mopars talking the stuff. Pulled out on the four lane in front of the restaurant. White '57 Bel Air sneeks in between them. Bel Air blew both of them off, with a 327. By the way, there was a '63 Z-11 in the joint that wanted no part of any of them.
It's MY OPINION that if you bought a FACTORY STOCK CAR between '62 and '64, and you didn't have the fastest stock car on the street, then you didn't have one of the original Ramchargers(Dodge term) or whatever Plymouth called them. Just taking the caps off the headers on the FACTORY SYSTEM picked you up about 4-5 car lengths.
'64 Plymouth, Stage III
'66 Vette
'64 Chevy 409
'66 427 Ford
I don't have them at my fingertips buy you can look up the NHRA records and see who outran who. If you don't wanna' go NHRA then the Pilgrim wins hands down. A Stage III right off the showroom with only tires would run low 12's, easy. The Corvette with tires, maybe mid-high 12's. The 409 Chevy and the 427 Ford were a joke in street trim however they would wind your crank on the strip when properly prepared but not showroom.
The Plymouth was good for high 11's on 7 inch tires, NHRA stock. Maybe mid 11.0's The way the rear suspension was set up, they would leave the line with anybody.
But the other side of the coin, I remember sitting in Sammy's Drive In, in Gary, Indiana in 1963 one night. Two guys in Stage II Mopars talking the stuff. Pulled out on the four lane in front of the restaurant. White '57 Bel Air sneeks in between them. Bel Air blew both of them off, with a 327. By the way, there was a '63 Z-11 in the joint that wanted no part of any of them.
It's MY OPINION that if you bought a FACTORY STOCK CAR between '62 and '64, and you didn't have the fastest stock car on the street, then you didn't have one of the original Ramchargers(Dodge term) or whatever Plymouth called them. Just taking the caps off the headers on the FACTORY SYSTEM picked you up about 4-5 car lengths.
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