Man I grew up watching this beast rock dragstrips across America, always best of show.

Those days are gone, won't be back. What a shame, glad I was there.

@markg7030

4 жыл бұрын

What? Look at the 840 horsepower Dodge Hellcat Demon, its a factory race car with turn signals and a horn. Race tires on the back and skinnies on the front and you get to sign an agreement with FCA.

@leeduke9518

4 жыл бұрын

Tod Searle you should check out the classic gear jammers it’s the closest thing to it

@heavenstomurgatroyd7033

4 жыл бұрын

Then a guy with a ten year old corvette pulls up and blows your doors off.

@Moparmaga-1

4 жыл бұрын

Those days were gone for a while but are back & more efficiently making more power. The cars aren't as cool but you can thank the insurance companies & liberal activists.

@Moparmaga-1

4 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, but it's not based in facts

I had a 68 340 Formula S. Not a match for this by any stretch but IT DID RUN! I never could get enuf rubber on the road. (Wish Id thot about the weight on the right rear. Doggone!!) Best time Aug 1973 Magnolia Ohio 13.95/105.1. Lotta fun. One of 4 I wish I still had.!!

@timippolito1182

6 ай бұрын

My 1st car at 16 was a 68 Barracuda 340 S Notch Back. Came factory with 410 Gears. That one hooked up. It took a Mustang and a GTO 6 cars out of the hole with bald snow tires. No lie. I now have a built 340 68 Barracuda with maybe more power, but my 1st car would have taken it because of the way it hooked up..

@frederickwise5238

6 ай бұрын

@@timippolito1182 Let me make a suggestion. Add Cold Air Intake. Cut a hole in the plenum under the right side of the windshield. Beside cooler air you also get a slight pressure increase from the base of the windshield. A trick of Smokey Yunick. Some math for you to prove the value. For EVERY 15 deg F above 70F you lose ANOTHER 9-10% of your advertised HP. If your underhood air is 195deg you have lost HALF of the available HP. Also if possible alter the air cleaner intake to be larger. Greater diameter lowers the velocity of the incoming air and also "restriction". I made mine 3" all the way from that hole in the plenum to the Air Clnr.

I remember seeing that car at Gainesville Florida in 1985 . bring back memories or when i was a race fanatic watching the Hemis " roar down the track. R.I.P. Ronnie

Nothing cooler than the 68 sox & Martin Hemi cuda

Sox & Martin were my favorite drag racers in the 60's, loved to see them go against Dyno Don, Jenkins, Motown Missel etc, I guess everybody loves a winner, but I loved their color scheme and car choice. Dyno Don's Maverick was a cool looking car also though.

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

Mopar always leaves the Chevy and Ford boys in the back.

@Turbo4Joe363

Жыл бұрын

​@@wildestcowboy2668 Bob Glidden didn't see it that way....lol

THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES !🇺🇸

My all time favorite super stock car. Hard to beat

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

68 hemi dart walked all over it!

@peteloomis8456

Жыл бұрын

​@@wildestcowboy2668 No it didn't they were very close but who one the Super stock Nationals those years ? It was Sox and Martin on the end .

@wildestcowboy2668

Жыл бұрын

@@peteloomis8456 Ain't no one studying a GM junk and Ford clunkers. MOPAR always smoked them

Being from N.C. the Greensboro area, I had Butler bros. of Burlington build my 69 Chevy 427, 435hp. Butler bros did the machine work and freshened Sox & Martin's engines way back when. That engine they built for my chevelle pounded the ground @ piedmont dragway back in the 70s. Won a few $s on side bets, at least enough to pay for Butler bros. engine building. That was back when $1,000.00 went a long way. Thoughs were the good ole days.

@fromthebackofmymind

5 жыл бұрын

The 70's, when you could buy a tall deck 427 block, or longblock from an ad in Hotrod...........Miss it too.

I use to watch that car race. All Sox and Martin cars were awesome. One of the best ones was the early 70s Hemi Dodge Colt

That is such a badass car and Ronnie Sox was a badass driver

Me and my wife went to a Sox and Martin program in Colorado in Colorado Springs, what a great program! Looked at all of the cars they had with them. We have never forgotten this experience. What a great team, and a beautiful Cuda

Those old Hemi engines were hard to beat

@joemulnix6830

4 жыл бұрын

My 440 GTX could *sometimes* pull even with a Hemi, but those damn Hemis just did not blow up.

@donrutter6765

4 жыл бұрын

Grumpy Jenkins Chevy beat Dick Landys Hemi in quite a few finals.

I love that it still has the factory blinker lever.

My favorite sox & martin car.great vid

Sounds and Looks Great! I have a big smile now! Thank you.

Man, that was so interesting ! I think I seen that car at the old and forgotten Houston International Raceway back in the 70's

@eltonspurlock

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

One of my favorite drag cars ever.

The Hemi is King!

@robhill3378

4 жыл бұрын

To out run a hemi takes another hemi.

@biggusdickus3838

3 жыл бұрын

Small block Chevy gave them the toughest competition bill Jenkins didn't mess around

@bubbakushingtonIII

3 жыл бұрын

Im a Chevy fan but I have to admit that the HEMI is one of the best sounding motors out there and performance is unreal.

@Dave-ur5ub

2 жыл бұрын

Back then a Boss 429 was a good run for mopars 426 Hemi...But then again..A Boss motor is a Hemi too...Bc like a Hemi,it has Hemispeherical combustion chamber.Lol that's a good question to ask these idiots buying and wrecked bone stock hellcats ...What makes a Hemi a Hemi?

@Dave-ur5ub

2 жыл бұрын

I know this bc Ronnie Sox did my dad's heads on my dad's 70 Hemi Challenger and my uncle Joe had a '69 Boss 429 Mustang..That accumulated a grand total of 1,500 miles bc it was a drag car and then sat in the garage until around 1998 when he sold it to my dad and we completely restored the car on a rotisserie throughout the 2000s.Dad sold the car in 2012 and its in Maryland with a collector. We're from Delaware.Dads Challenger burned down at Cecil County Dragway back in 1978..We put that car back together as well. Its in my garage right now...And it's Plum Crazy with a black top/interior..The car lived its life as an automatic car and when we restored it we pulled the factory numbers matching auto and sent it our for a rebuild but we installed a 4spd and a clutch pedal which can all easily be swapped back out for the original automatic..While this car isn't a concours restoration it is in Very Good condition.I drive it once in a while for a few miles when the weather's nice and the salt has worn off of the roads for the spring through the fall.Its been incredible to have two iconic trademark cars in the family.

One of my favorite drag cars

There is no other sound like that on earth.

a piece of history, Awesom!!!

I live in a small town in Florida near Gainesville and believe it or not two of the 50 Cooters that were modified by Hearst were in this town. One was formally owned by Judy Lilly, and the other one was on originally by Sox Martin. The Sox and Martin one was sold twice the second person that owned thought it was a good thing, a Street Racist car and destroyed it in a wreck. I remember when you open the door on the post where the hinges were there was a sticker that said this car was not intended for highway use.

Gotta watch MR 4 SPEED. Awesome original Pro Stock cars and factory race cars. This car is in it. Herb McCandless was Sox/Martin teammate. Drove their 2nd car and was a badass. Definitely worth watching if you're into the old factory racers.

Finally starting to put the Sox & Martin 71 roadrunner together.. my father will be pissed I’m even typing this on here because he’s owned it he car for 50 years an doesn’t really like talking it up about those days out of his circle. He owned the 71 cuda at one time. I’m hoping I can get a buddy to make some videos of the process to upload. The process of rebuilding the motor has begun and it’s going to be fun..

The epitome of a factory drag racer.

I seen Ronnie Sox drive this car back in 93 at IRP ! I've never been more excited

Saw Ronnie Sox at ATCO New Jersey in 1970. Guy with us announced to come with him and check out the engine because the hood was off. Said it had 16 spark plugs, 16 spark plug wires and 2 distributors. Everyone looked at him like he was crazy.

That Hemi Sound!!!

Who would thumbs down this video?

@imanaxbert6620

8 жыл бұрын

A dumb ass ricer.

@dthellland9738

8 жыл бұрын

cuz I want to see it run and not him jabber

Mopar or No Car OMG Will love that hemi roar. Till the day i die. Trust me theres nothing like setting behind a Big Block Mopar from a dead take off. Beast

@robertcrittenden497

5 жыл бұрын

Dont get me wrong respect n love a 429 mustang or 427 camaro. But the elephant 🐘 is The Boss

@chrismc.4437

4 жыл бұрын

Oh? Have you ever actually owned or driven one?

I used to watch Ronnie Sox back when this car was new to their team do match races with Landy, Jenkins, Dave Strickler etc, etc. Still my favorite Barracuda body style vs the 70 year change over and still the fastest Super Stick car I saw back then. Ronnie Sox was king of the 4 speeds and shited them with amazing speed

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

shifted

@kimmorrison9169

2 жыл бұрын

@@wildestcowboy2668 Indeed, I fat fingered that message big time. I usually proof read these posts but evidently not on that one🤪

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimmorrison9169 Fat fingered, I like that one. I was just messing with you. Brotha I'm from muscle shoals Alabama and definitely a Mopar guy.

Very cool before my era but just love it I caught the end being early 80s

I remember watching Ronnie run a “62-63” Chevy 409 close to Greensboro NC.

I got a bone on hearing that beast fire up.

That's the coolest damn piece of automotive pornography ever created. It is not subtle but all up in your face AWESOME.

I remember seeing match races between Sox & Martin in this car and Bill Grumpy Jenkins in his Red & White '66 Chevy II at Cecil County Race way in Maryland. Small block against big block. They would trade places in the winners circle on a regular bases. David against Goliath. Damn, did Jenkins have that small block screaming. He'd dump the clutch at 8 grand off the line. At the time, besides Smokey Yunick, the best Chevy man in the country

Would have liked to see the car converted back to a four-speed.

I wish we could bring back those days

I owned a 68 340, four speed Electric Blue fastback. It was known to be fast but I had a edge. Radials for when you race on wet streets! The old bias tires sucked. but that was what was available.

@SolamenteVees

3 жыл бұрын

1-year-only cam in the '68 340 4-speed cars. Neat!

i remember seeing that car with Ronnie driving it. i was very interested in his starting line prosses. at that time a lot of guys would rev the engine up and down. and the engine would load up. i was in the pit to see how Ronnie did it. he started the engine, brought it to 3,000 rpm. held it at 3,000 rpm rolled around to the starting line, 3,000 rpm. when he was lined up at the starting line he hit the throttle. NEVER ONE TIME reving the engine up and down.

@croozin2

5 жыл бұрын

Moe Shouse I was taught the same type of thing when I was just beginning in drag racing. Every time you touch the pedal, the accelerator pump shoots a shot of fuel down the intake. Now, I didn’t hold 3,000rpm all the way around, but after the burnout, when it was time to clear the motor, bring the revs up and hold it till the engine cleaned up. Words of wisdom from a mentor of mine.👍

I had no idea Bill Stepp owned this car. I was born and raised in Dayton Ohio, Billy the Kidd's home town

Love those overkill top fuel plug wires

@ellias9900

3 жыл бұрын

me too.

Sweet machine, still intimidating!

I saw Ronnie drive this car many times at my home track , York , Pa. The most desired car of this type because Ronnie's name is on it ! A prize posession !!!

Smoke like hell!

Now that was a real hemi nothing like the modern engines today that they call hemi’s.

@Really-AintBuyn-nit

3 жыл бұрын

426 was a semi-Hemi. The 392 was a real Hemi.

Had pictures of this car in my bedroom as a teenager.

That is the Holy Crail of Cuda's.

Todd Werner is selling off all his collection, including this very car, which was the Boycott Car. MECUM in PA., this weekend.

Looks like the old hemi needs a ring and valve job- blue smoke out the pipes

@calebkey2050

3 жыл бұрын

Probably an unpopular opinion, but that’s a part of this cars charm to me. It’s so cool to see an old car like this still using its as-raced motor!

2:23 I dont understand the statement that 4 speed transmissions were not able to keep up with the engines horsepower. I never heard that before If there was ever a trans that could hang its the Chrysler A-833 it is one of the best 4 speeds ever made. Furthermore, By the late 1980's there were still no transmissions that were so superior to anything from the 1960's If anything By the late 1980's the guys coming up in racing were not as good at shifting 4 speeds for competition so many guys were choosing the easier stab and steer combination.

@username8171

6 жыл бұрын

I think maybe they mean the extra two gears could not keep up with the speed that the engine was pushing the car down the track. Kinda like dragsters using only a two speed tranny, the faster they go the less gears they need, to an extent.

@ronalddaurosr9686

6 жыл бұрын

Dodge King nothing like power shifting a 440 mated to a 9.75 Dana sporting 4.10 on the street . 😎 1969 road runner East Rockaway Long island n.y early 80$

@stevea5985

6 жыл бұрын

Plus Ronnie sox was one of the best when it came to racing with a 4 speed manual .

@devillockj

6 жыл бұрын

Ronnie Sox had a crew swapping out transmissions between rounds. Go pound off some 8500rpm shifts in an 833 behind a hemi and you will see why . Lol

@devillockj

6 жыл бұрын

Art Vandelay everyday, and if your 18 spline is holding up fine and you still have third gear behind 800hp ,you aren’t going much further than the school zone and Dairy Queen. Find me a mopar stick car that races rounds in the last 40 years still running 833’s. all went lencos or Jericho’s back then. Those 833’s are great up till 600ish hp and with some tire slip. In a stick car you pick what you want to feed the beast with. Whether it be tires, u joints, or clutches or transmissions. But you need to feed the beast something. Ps-I have an 18 spline 833 behind a low deck stroker. I won’t kid myself or anyone else on what it will handle.

Beautiful car! I hope the next or now current owner takes it to shows and the occasional rip down the 1320! It SHOULD be run!

@fromthebackofmymind

5 жыл бұрын

Guy with squeegee at water box asking new driver/owner--- "Ever dropped the hammer in a car like that?"

Curious .... How much did it sell for please ? As this is my number one drag car of all time . My parents ran the Mopar Muscle Club GB back in the early '80's and Dad drove 2 RHD (South African "Valliant " originals ) 318/727 . Beautiful car , just perfect !

@adamrister6774

5 жыл бұрын

The car sold for $198,000

My all time favorite.

5-6 revs on a cold engine. Good job dude.....🥺

He backs it out so cavalier and almost wipes the paint off the left side.

Awesome Car《☆》Too bad it will fetch an astronomical price & likely never see competitive racing :*: It would be cool to see it racing in the Hemi Challenge & Hemi Shootout series🤓☻🤠

Bubba was hard at work with this.Good luck selling it.

The car has special light weight glass to eliminate 4 and 1/2 pounds of weight to make it faster .......and special lead weights in the trunk that add 125 pounds !!! makes perFUCT sense !!!

That thing sounds nuts.😆

I need to find out what the car sold for. It's sad that cars liked this are priced way beyond what the average person could ever afford to pay. But, one upside to the high collector value, the car will always be taken care of and preserved for generations to come.

@fromthebackofmymind

5 жыл бұрын

Most builders/owners take a bath on sale of any car. Man hours to assemble, test, restore, never get fully factored into price. Fame will get the top dollar. In many cases, skilled crafting of a one of a kind, translates into new price of the unmodified car. Now add all the custom parts. Buying and driving will bring smiles like nothing else. Cars to men, is like chocolate to women. It feeds our mind.

@Wickhaven1

5 жыл бұрын

Selling again in Harrisburg PA August 2019

So cool. Does it run rich when it warms up ?

Yes

AWESOME !

Just wondering...what was the selling price?

I know where there is one still in primer black identical but it was never painted he also has one of the prototype hemis that never made it into production

@chrismc.4437

4 жыл бұрын

K.

Does anybody by chance know what the car sold for?

50 of them came with a VIN tag that said, "Not For Street Use".

When America was America. I watched all of the pro stock at the national speedway on Long Island NY. Best time to grow up, not like now.

saw sox + martin in '65 or '66 run a hemi barracuda 4 spd ss/a(?) at englishtown nj

You can hear that that motor was thrashed on. But its still running and didn't blow up.

That is one sick fish

the baddest plymouth that anyone could order from a dealership. rip the boss ronnie sox .

Cool car, but I would like to see one of those cars restored to exactly the way it was delivered to the dealership when new.

It will sell for around $160,000

I had a '68 Barracuda with the factory 383 option. It was just my daily driver. That big block put 60% of the weight on the front wheels. So the handling was terrible for spirited twisty road jaunts, and you couldn't get any traction on the rear wheels for street drag racing either. But I loved that car. I could have moved the batteries to the trunk and done other things, but I wanted it to be easy to live with for daily driving.

@darrellsomers5427

Жыл бұрын

The 383 wasn't that great what was it 335 HP you could get a 396 with one carb that made 425 HP

Yup, nothin' cooler than a Sox and Martin Cuda with a HEMI. BUT to think you can go to a dealer and buy a car that will beat its best 1/4 mile time and it won't even make a sound!! Times have really changed.

someone know what the cam specs were in these race hemi's?

I saw this car and Mr.Sox at Norwalk in 1992 it must have been

OHC 427 Ford, the true Hemi Hunter

@loyalamerican8776

4 жыл бұрын

The 427 Ford's could not hang with the Hemi engine

@justenough730

4 жыл бұрын

@@loyalamerican8776 yeah no way could it hang with the Mopars

@justenough730

4 жыл бұрын

@@brettdenisegibbs6533 NO!!!

@justenough730

4 жыл бұрын

@@brettdenisegibbs6533 not with the factory super stock Hemi Darts and Plymouth Barracudas.

@justenough730

4 жыл бұрын

@@brettdenisegibbs6533 and so were prostock and top fuel and funny cars all Chrysler powered,and GM had nothing when it came to Nascar,until the Hemi cars were gone.every class from stock all the way up to top fuel was won by a Chrysler powered car at the 1971 winternationals.chrysler dominated drag racing.back in the day of the factory muscle cars.

I watched a vid of about 2014 of modern Pro-Stock boxes and shifter assemblies. This is now "alien billet hardware." Just to compete.

It's epic!

this is by far, the way a barracuda body style should be,

Wooo theres alot of blow by in that engine sounds good but you could tell that motor needs to be worked over be it piston rings, valve guilds, etc. alot of blue smoke, blow by, it seems cold but i was not there that day if he had already warmed the engine up or not anyway that engine looks like it needs refreshing but sounds unbelieveable............

They just sold Sox & Martin Duster not long ago I think they just sold out right it's floating around somebody's got a hold of it

wow..

A rare beauty.and im a chevy guy

@marksnow9274

4 жыл бұрын

Me too but a dodge with a hemi is a beast.

That's Strickler....NOT Stricklin.

Wonder where the car is now? Vinwiki anyone?

Two stroke?

3:15 for glory

Yeppp it's a MOPAR world !!..

Ronnie was mr.4speed why is this car a automatic?

@rickyedwards5911

5 жыл бұрын

Shukin Andjivin probably c plus

@racer774

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky Edwards - Good point. Also, the quarter glass has the SS/B class designation (Super Stock B) which is a stick shift class. My guess is the car was converted to an automatic for the later exhibition runs it made in order to be a bit more reliable and/or easier to drive for the last owner whom drove it. Ronnie certainly wouldn't have changed it to an automatic. Additionally, I've never witnessed any lightweight '68 Super Stock HEMI Barracuda or Dart run in the SS/B or SS/BA classes, only the SS/A or SS/AA classes.

@racer774

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky Edwards - Okay, I just read Chris Nizer's post on why it had the SS/B designation. I had an idea that it was just the NHRA being cautious because of the potential of a faster vehicle being manufactured. The Chevrolet part I had no idea of although most of us are probably aware of the ultra-rare (3) ZL1 Corvettes manufactured.

@kevinpatrick8788

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky Edwards ronnies nickname was the boss the guy who was nicknamed mr 4 speed was herb mccandless but both of them were very skilled at driving stick pro stock cars .

Was that car ever owned by Mike McMahon?

"Not that u need it,but,u hav my "go"";

The exhaust goes all the way to the back...!!!

I want grumpys camaro

How much did it sell for

Salesman: "keep talking until they give in". Yep, there's about a minute of content in these 7 minutes...