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The big limitation in those days was tires. Put good drag radials on those cars and see what happens!
This is the truth plain and simple..
My buddy has a survivor 69 396 Camaro. It had header and exhaust the that were done sometime in the early 70's. Otherwise the car is stock. On the stock tires she's a 13.90-14.00 car all day at around 103-104. With a set on Mickey drag radials it's a 13.10 car without beating it too hard. I'm not sure what the best run was but i've seen a dozen 13.10-13.20 runs.
My buddy has a survivor 69 396 Camaro. It had header and exhaust the that were done sometime in the early 70's. Otherwise the car is stock. On the stock tires she's a 13.90-14.00 car all day at around 103-104. With a set on Mickey drag radials it's a 13.10 car without beating it too hard. I'm not sure what the best run was but i've seen a dozen 13.10-13.20 runs.
My boss still has his '68 Chevy II Nova 396 SS, 4 speed, 4:10 he bought brand new. It's a one owner car.....HIM. I don't know what the numbers are but I will say it's fast as hell.
Did you mis-type when you said 10.8 for a stock 68 Charger, auto, 440 with no mods except 8" slicks? You do realize that in 1968, NHRA Pro Stock cars were running around 10.4? I have a 70 340 Duster that has minor head work, carb, ignition and exhaust and ran it on 8" slicks. The best the car ever went was 13.91 and that was a car that ran 14.85 stock. My friend runs a 70 GTX with a 440 in C/SA, the car runs around 10.6 and the motor was dynoed at 635 h.p. i've been going to the track since 1966 and never saw a stock 440 car run that fast.
I need to correct myself. I meant to type 1970 NHRA Pro Stock cars.
I bought a Charger R/T with a 440, auto 727b, new back in 1968. After I had about 3000 sanely driven miles on it I bought a set of American Mag wheels and a set of Goodyear 8" slicks for it. Plain stock, driven to the track, I ran thru the clocks several times at an averaged 10.8 seconds. After a few mods, I managed an occasional high 9 second run but it wasn't real common. The real nasty part was that one of my kuzins had a 69 442 with a 455 modded up that I never could beat. But todays cars are more about computers and programming than a guy and his wrenches against another guy and his wrenches. My 34 D Gas coupe that I had, I only had $750.00 in the entire car....and it'd pull a one wheel wheelie down the track. Now a days a set of heads cost a lot more than that. Times have changed and it's no longer a game that anybody can play. Like they say, the difference between men and boys is the price of the toys.
My '66 Impala 425 HP 427 in A Stock in 1966: 12.43 seconds (with open headers and cheater slicks).
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