In 69 I bought a Hemi, 4 speed Road Runner coupe, Bahama Yellow with black interior. It was my daily driver for 8 years. I still own it today.

@user-zi8ux6fy2n

29 күн бұрын

God bless you hoss, and I DON'T play when it comes to the Almighty!!! I only wish I could've kept my '69 Charger.😢

The 440 Six Pack was no slouch either, the monster torque made it fun to drive.

I had a 1970 HemiCuda back in the 80’s. Was an awesome car. I miss it. Found a 440 Cuda in 2002. Now my favorite car.

The meanest of them all is the LO23 Dart from 1968. 10.2 in the 1/4 mile at 130+ MPH

@1080sucks

Ай бұрын

Crazy fast & just when you think it will never happen again. Hellcat!!!

@cutlets6152

Ай бұрын

Not stock at all. Highly modified in order to go that fast.

@markdubois4882

Ай бұрын

@@cutlets6152 No......just a different version of the 426 HEMI. The Street HEMI is known as A102. The Drag version which is in the HEMI Dart is known as A990. The NASCAR version is known as A864.

@cutlets2118

Ай бұрын

@@markdubois4882 l know but these were not stockers in the least and a special order from Chrysler. I don’t know if they made a hundred of these and they could hardly be driven on the street.

@markdubois4882

Ай бұрын

@@cutlets2118 80 were produced. More than the 69 Camaro with the ZL1 427 (69 were built)

70 Hemi Cuda Hard top in Plum Crazy is my all time favorite!

My favorites this video: 1. 0:11 2. 2:23 3. 9:17 4. 10:49 Thanks for the amazing vid!

1970 was definitely the best year for pretty much any muscle car and my favorite would be the GTX

Fantastic and gorgeous cars! Nothing compares to classic muscle cars and the golden muscle era. And of course also Plymouth power!💪😎

@American.legends

3 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@charliechristie2949

Ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to be 17 years old in 1970. I thank God I was there. It was an AMAZING time to be a car nut !!

@plymouthdie-castreplicas

Ай бұрын

@@charliechristie2949 That's awesome and it must be somerthing! I read here that you had a '69 RR Hemi. Absolutely bestial machine!

@charliechristie2949

Ай бұрын

@@plymouthdie-castreplicas I am now 70. I made the decision to leave racing, marry and have kids..No regrets !!............. We had a team back in Brooklyn,N.Y. street racing in controlled spots, then at the tracks on Wednesday night, Friday night then all day Saturday and Sunday.It was a great time to be involved with Mopar. The Hemi was bright blue (c-5 I think), Two 440 six pack RRunners. A 69 1/2 Vitamin C orange and a 71 440 + 6........It was WILD !

@plymouthdie-castreplicas

Ай бұрын

@@charliechristie2949 Wow! Really wild, no doubt about that. It was definitely the greatest time not only for the muscle cars but for the American automotive industries as well.

There are a couple of rare Darts that were absolute beasts. As far as style goes, IMHO the '68 Charger is a beautiful car.

I'll never forget the first challenger ever saw. A friend were snooping around the pro stock pits at the us nationals and this car that I'd never seen before pull up and Dick Landy got out.

I had a 1969 RRunner ,Torqueflite, 4.10 Dana. Bought it new. Hit the gas and it BOILED the tires and went nowhere. At the track I even rolled it out off the line and as soon as I stood on it, smoke and no go. Put 7" M & H Slicks on it. Nothing else. Power braked it and stood on the gas at the green. Left it in "D". 12.87 @ 111.00. Through the factory mufflers. You cannot drag race a Hemi on street tires.......Even the "docile" street Hemi.

@davewilkirson2320

Ай бұрын

1972-1979......Yellow with black vinyl top. Posts. My first car. A lot of car for a 16 year old. Roadrunner. Sold it in mint condition for $900 in 1979. Paid $900 in 1972. Tires, batteries, belts....that was it. Texas

@Welcometofacsistube

Ай бұрын

Interesting. My 2014 srt 300 bone stock has run 11.93 @111mph. Would be a great race

@charliechristie2949

Ай бұрын

@@Welcometofacsistube That’s so nice. You enjoy !

@charliechristie2949

Ай бұрын

@@davewilkirson2320 makes you cry that you did not keep it. A mint, survivor, numbers vs matching 383 RRunner is worth about 40K if it is “mint”

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

@@Welcometofacsistube especially since no stock SRT with 425 hp engine will do 11.93 LOL....

Chrysler Corporation was the only car company which made the most full scale Hot Wheel cars back in the day ,,,, like the vid , cheers !

Back around 1985 my boss at the time bought a mint condition 1970 Plum Crazy Hemi ‘Cuda. His friends mocked him for paying an enormous amount for it. $10,000.

I watched. Adam 12 when I was a little kid, and when I saw the Cop 1969 with 4 doors I like it? Those beautiful rear lights and badass looking body style? I just fell in love with the 1969 Road runner and when I found out you could buy one with the Elephant motor that was It, I love the 1969 road runner and for me the best body style and year beautiful.......

#1 the legendary 1970 Hemi Cuda!

I had a '69-GTX w/ 440, 4-sp, 4.10 super drag-pack Dana 60, and Doug Thorley headers. I owned it in 1970. Fastest car in my H/S, as well as the neighboring H/S. Man! I wish I still had that car! Later, I had a '65-Vette Coupe, 327/350 L-79 engine, 4-sp, 3.73 posi rear, and factory AC. Gorgeous car, but nothing like that GTX as far as pure muscle.

I wish I had my car from 1977 bought it from a friend who was in Vietnam was a 69 dodge coronet 500 with a 426 hemi for speed. Headers was special order from the factory,I liked it better than the Dodge charger because the rear had three lights going across and the color combination was so cool flat black rocker panels and flat black around the rear lights with chrome around that and the teal paint so fast meet my friends, 71 formula 400 Pontiac not off the line but we raced for 45 miles at about mile 10 miles on a new stretch of highway. I pass him flying .

The 70 hemi cuda was and still is in my book the best ! Ihad one in 72 and wish I had kept it. Green with silver shaker hood,four speed hurst pistol grip shifter. Sure miss my hemi cuda!!!

I don’t know where these guys got there info but these cars when tuned could rum much faster than what is stated here. I ran a 1967 ford fairlane GTA that ran consistent mid 13 second near 105 mph quarters with a hi po 390. It was competitive with many 440 mopars. The hemi cars were tire burners to say the least

@fartdonkey8290

Ай бұрын

"when tuned" Typical useless comment that I have to scroll past

@tomlewis4345

Ай бұрын

@@fartdonkey8290 The old hemi’s 426s were very sensitive to how they were tuned, and what I meant by that was timing, point settings and carb jetting. When set up correctly they were untouchable.

@cutlets2118

Ай бұрын

What’d you do to it to go that fast?

@tomlewis4345

Ай бұрын

@@cutlets2118 it had cobra-jet heads and i changed the advance curve in the distributer that made a big difference in acceleration I also added an electric fuel pump at the gas tank because the forbore carb would run out of gas in second gear. The car was special ordered from Ford for the dealership I bought it as a left over after the 68s came out. It had 16 miles on it when I bought it. It had 3.25 gears and I shifted At 6000 rpm. Other than that I don’t really know it was just faster than most. My cousin had a 69 cobra-jet mustang with a 428 CJ in it and he could only beat me a car length at most and that was in high gear right before the quarter line. I street raced it and strip raced it for 9 years and only got beat a few times in 9 years

@tomlewis4345

Ай бұрын

@@cutlets2118 it also had a special cam from ford so it really wasn’t the average production 390. There wasn’t a 383 Plymouth that could even come close to it and many 440s had a problem keeping up I sold it to my brother an he sold it to a kid that wrecked it several times the last time I saw it was in 1980 stacked in a junk yard to be crushed.

I had a 64 Plymouth sport fury 426 4 speed in high school pretty unbeatable car

I bought a new 69 Roadrunner sedan, Sunflower yellow. Do I wish I had it now? 55 years later. Total price $2800 I still liked my 67 GTX the best.

I owned a 68 roadrunner with a hemi that had 2 / 4s on it, and had 23,000 mi. on it when I bought it. I paid 2150 for it! I was 19 yrs. old!! I'm 73 now! Boy, talk about living large!

The Hemi was great , but when Mr. Norm took a 1969 Dodge Dart GTS and dropped a 440 in it and made it a GSS , The Rules Changed....

@sparkywirenut

Ай бұрын

I lived in Chicago them , I remember the ads on WLS & WCFL radio all the time for them ,

My outright favorite Hemi powered Mopar back in the 60s and 70s would be the Dodge Daytona Charger, with its big assed wing, followed immediately by the Plymouth Superbird with its also huge rear wing. For a slightly more demure look I am split between the Hemi Challenger and the Hemi 'Cuda almost equally. As for the Road Runners and GTX vehicles with Hemo engines, gosh, I guess you could convince me to get into one also. There is not a bad or undesireable car in the bunch - and not jus tbecause of the Hemi engine.. The 440 6 pack engines were also very powerful, as is the 440 4v engines. The 383 engines were adequate when it came to performance, but are smoked by their larger 426 and 440 engine equipped cars. Still, I would be fine with a 383 powered Mopar, they are not exactly slouches and can be built into some really powerful engines.

In 1978 I had a 69 Roadrunner 383 & 4 spd bench seat, 81 had a 71 Cuda 383 pistol grip 4 spd and I blew rods in both but they were pretty fast for back then, wish I still had them, got a 68 Chevelle now with a 590hp 489ci

graduating from Nebraska ROTC in '69, went downtown to replace my MGB and intended to buy a 340 Dart. Saw a 69 Charger, realized it wasn't much more expensive, so ordered a base green, white stripe, no radio, just the 727 Torqueflite transmission, with the 440 engine. Hemi was a $770 option. Drove it about 35 K miles, mostly in speed unlimited Germany for a year. Put "mag" wheels on it, and it would not make one full stop from 100 mph even with the 3 inch Imperial drums. I never went over about 105 or so, was just too scared to do more. When the salesman asked if I wanted the Hemi, I asked if they shipped the extra engine to me in a box, or how did I get the 440 motor. I thought i got two motors for my $770. Salesman asked if i had ever bought a new car before, because I didn't get both motors. Put an Offy intake on it, the cast iron was almost too heavy to lift off the engine. Made up my own gaskets, taping shoe box cardboard together with masking take, and it was running well when I sold it to a solder who promptly went off the Autobahn in Germany. Fond memories..... . NAM VET

@bikerguy5829

Ай бұрын

The salesman is still laughing today. What a knob

I owned a 1965 CHEVROLET NOVA 400 SPORTS COUPE 327cid 365hp 2 speed POWERGLIDE, 4:10positraction. 13.10ET @ 109mph. This automobile was a quick street car with a weight of 2800lbs.

The crazy part was those times were on stock trash wheels, tires, and fuel. A modern demon 170 on those wheels, tires and fuel would be lucky to run a 12.

1970 roadrunner it da bomb

The 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda 440 super commando was 11 second, 1/4 mile @130 nph!!

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

Not stock it wasn't.

I'll go with the 64' Coronet that had the race Hemi.

A.I., you made several mistakes- one is that a Super Bee is NOT a Road Runner as you stated in one part. Loved the cars, hate the artificial "intellegence".

I outrun a GTX with my 70 Chevelle from a rolling 60 mph. But not by much. remember it like yesterday.

I own a 1967 Charger Hemi, 4 speed A833 Transmission, which they made only 58 cars in 1967. They also made 59 with automatic transmissioin.

Plymouth was the car Plymouth was top especially the Hemi cuda

A hemi is a good engine if you need to anchor a boat. The 440 wedge produced more low end torque and would beat a hemi every time.

Yenko Camaro : 12.96 Quarter mile run @ speed world late ‘78 We drove back to Daytona with Our tools and cooler on I - 95 Total ear busting , sweat trip - Fun when you are 21 years old . 😅 Thanks to Mac and Byrle - 3 crazy bastards ! Automotive DBCC - 3 successfull careers ! Thanx to our instructors - Good men all .

@rebeccajohnson1407

Ай бұрын

yes it was tweeked a bit with cheater slick we are talking bone stock remember top end is all hemi in stock form , . i like my chevys to

I ❤ the hemi I have a high performance 5.7 Dodge ram. But my favorite is a 1970 purple 6barrel Road Runner absolutely ❤ it!

mine was a copper '66 belvedere 2... 2 dr post factory 426 A/T

The panther pink 1970 Dodge Challenger in this video is a 340 6-pack Challenger T/A

@American.legends

2 ай бұрын

yup, sorry about that, i noticed it after I've published the video 🤧

@perrywillits

2 ай бұрын

I believe there is also a 440 Road runner!

1970 Plymouth Superbird.

1970 426 dual quad Hemi Super Bird

Out of the ones you showed , the 1970 Cuda , out of any Chrysler … 1964 Dodge Polara … Polara was light and could make the tires Scream Mercy please !!

Shame none were 5 speed manual with a longer diff and gearbox ratio

The Plymouth Fury was available to have a 440 -4 bbl, or 440 - 6 bbl, or a 426 Hemi Engine with dual 4 barrel Carter AFB's!

@fartdonkey8290

Ай бұрын

Or a retarded big block 318

They are worth millions in the 21st century 😮😮😊😊

Like to say all of them. Since I'm not rich and some owners won't let go of them. 1970 cuda conversation red 1970 charger R/T Black

Yup the Hemi Cuda was fast!

What about the Hemi Superstock Darts?

A Desoto motor, heat soak was a problem then and still is

Hate the computer generated voice over. Wish I still had my 69 Road Runner and 70 440+6 Cuda'.

When is someone going to do the top ten top speed ( not accel, MPH TOP ) kings of the OLD mopars?

@sparkywirenut

Ай бұрын

From the 383 on up they are all about the same , they would all red line out , do the math with rear end ratio , tire diameter and they will all top out the same if they're geared the same .

@adcoxrobert3786

Ай бұрын

@@sparkywirenut Not necessarily true. A Hemi 4-speed Superbird had a much higher top speed than, say, a '69 Super Bee with a 383 and 4-speed.

@sparkywirenut

Ай бұрын

@@adcoxrobert3786 Not if they had the same rear gear ratio's and tires were the same diameter , basic physics ....

@sparkywirenut

Ай бұрын

@@adcoxrobert3786 Another easier way to put it , take the hemi car , pull the engine and put a 383 in it , it will go the exact same speed at 5000 rpm with either engine .

Err,what about the 68 dart?

I owned this car back in 1969!

@bikerguy5829

Ай бұрын

Can you not bore us and srate which car you owned?

The problem with ranking them like this is it's based on one or two road tests of each vehicle from back in the day. Entertaining but way to many variables to really take this seriously. Cars were not setup the same, various track conditions existed, state of tune varied from one car to another, and even the magazine's own test drivers ability makes this this comparision kinda pointless. Some of these cars were flogged pretty hard before whichever enthusiast magazine of the day even got a hold of them and laid down some numbers. All I'm saying is don't take these old et's for gospel.

@457rick

Ай бұрын

True. Same could be said for any car someone owns

@cutlets6152

Ай бұрын

Many of these cars knowing a magazine was going to test them, had factory "go overs" where they altered the car that you could not get off the show room. A friend of mine had a 383 68 Road Runner. It was much faster than any Road runner encountered with my 68 Mustang Cobra Jet. I beat him by half a car where others I raced were like 3 to 5 car lengths away at the end of the quarter. When we took off the air cleaner, underneath it was scrawled in magic marker, "you're welcome" with a guys signature. Who knew what they did to this car at the factory but it was definitely not your average 383.

1968 dart gt hemi

I had a 69 gtx with 500hp 10.2 142miles per hour quarter mile.

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

sure you did kid...

71 Hemi cuda

Super Bee,2-4's

69 Z/28 cross ram had these for breakfast

@dudeman1378

2 ай бұрын

Maybe the 69 zl1 but they were extremely expensive and rare with around 70 produced. As far as a cross ram intake for the z28 i always thought it was a " trunk option" not necessarily a factory installed peace

@johnwilburn8319

Ай бұрын

Yea,right?

@rebeccajohnson1407

Ай бұрын

we watched it happen in the day DZ 302 no pull have track it was over remember its a 302 very small ...yes fast put no top end for breakfast remember stock

Mine is always been the 426 hemi cuda it was without challenge the fastest car in the world I drove one and it had a top speed of 169 mph Deadwood is scared the s*** out of any Corvette of that era holla if you hear me

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

sure it did Gomer--downhill

Tooo heavy . Killed it for top performance vs . The lighter cars - Fun tho

@thomasward4505

Ай бұрын

I'm not sure how heavy you think they are but probably lighter than a Chevelle or GTO

The Hemi had and always has had a Reputation, but in Factory Stock form the 440 could beat it in a Quarter Mile... Racers liked the Hemi because they could do more with it....

The 426 Hemi was actually closer to 500 HP.

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

no it wasn't. net horsepower was only 350.

Challenger RT 14.1in 12 place, I disagree. The quickest published 1/4 mile time for a stock 1970 Challenger R/T SE with a 426 Hemi, 4-speed, and 4.10:1 gears was 13.10 sec. at 107.12 mph

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

They lied.....no 426 ever did more than 13.6 stock

69 dodge charger rt

Hemi Darts were fast because virtually all were set up from birth to go drag racing. Light and with an ability to rev quickly and get into the HEMI engine's power band quickly the Dart had potential to be a wicked fast car when set to go drag racing. The bigger cars not-so-much. Most ran harder with 440 and it's bigger, flatter torque curve in the low mid range. This shouldn't be surprising at all. The 426 Hemi was optimized for NASCAR racing. Richard Petty never cared if his race car made good power under 4,000RPM. He never saw that range anywhere on the track. Entrance and exit from the pits he'd see it for but a few seconds. ON the street though......you better care. In a street race I'd never bet on the Mid to Full sized Hemi car to beat a similar sized 440 car.

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Awesome video. 👍Please check out my 1968 Barracuda fastback powered by a rowdy 512 stroker backed by an A833 4 speed manual. I think you'll approve. 👌

@fartdonkey8290

Ай бұрын

Sounds slow

@glengabruch4664

Ай бұрын

@@fartdonkey8290 You sure do. 🤣👌

426 horsepower was listed at 425 but that was the old fake gross number...the REAL SAE NET was only 350 horsepower, 35 less than the 2024 5.7 in the RAM truck at 385 NET horsepower.

@rebeccajohnson1407

Ай бұрын

the old days not today

@chadhaire1711

Ай бұрын

@@rebeccajohnson1407 Today fake numbers just like then

@fartdonkey8290

Ай бұрын

"technology from last century isn't as good as technology today" Thanks

@chadhaire1711

Ай бұрын

@@fartdonkey8290 You seem to have a problem with understanding the subject matter......the old horsepower ratings were FAKE..get it? Guess not.

@chadhaire1711

Күн бұрын

@@fartdonkey8290 has nothing to do with my point..the 425 hp rating of the Hemi is BS..it is 350 net horsepower.

For you nuckle heads out there, There is not many E74 or 73 option cars where made in existence! 😔

@bikerguy5829

Ай бұрын

At least they can spell correctly

who ha mopar no car stevo

A LOT of wrong information in this video.

@RightDucman

Ай бұрын

Yes, and in the comment section too 🤣

426 Hemi and you show me a 440 6-Pack. What the heck is wrong with your AI? 00:16

Hemi ? More like hemroid!

@mikepersia5362

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, because it was a real pain in the ass to those Fords and GM’s!! 😂😂😂

@RightDucman

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Put on cheater slicks and the times will drop at least a second!

My family SUV with 670 hp can take them all! Tesla model X!

@adcoxrobert3786

Ай бұрын

A 426 Hemi-equipped car can fuel up in about seven minutes. Your family Tesla takes so long to charge that its value depreciates.

@RightDucman

Ай бұрын

​@@adcoxrobert3786🤣🤣🤣

Cuda.

Pc voice lol

Dude it's pronounced 426, NOT four-hundred- and twenty-six🤬😖

Do yourself a favor and get a Real Cover Shot - That's pretty bad Computer Art and I was ready to scroll on 🤔

four hundred and twenty six ? how annoying

A I voice over sucks !!

I had to watch just to let you prove you don't get that all your 'fast' numbers are actually a measure of acceleration times (quickness). I do agree that for acceleration @markdubois4882 is right about the 68 Barracuda & Dart Hemi cars being #1 & #2.