In the first free elections held since the conquest of AHPBBFM by the Coalition of the Willing to Swallow Anything, I was recently elected to serve that group as its very own White Tornado II, purveyor of unwelcome truths. No Sunnis are known to have voted, and the Kurds are muttering about secession, but I won fair and square -- unanimously, even -- and I intend to serve my full term.
As my first official act, I reported the following timeslips of actual, reputedly bone stock muscle cars, running head to head in the September
2004 Pure Stock Drags. I thought some in this ng might like this post too. And besides, NoOp Patrick has dared me to post some race results involving the old iron in this group, just to see what happens. Readers of Mustang & Fords magazine have already seen these, because M&F reported this event in its March 2005 issue. Because it was M&F, they reported only on the matchups involving Fords.The winner of each of these best 2 out of 3 showdowns appears in the first column.
'70 SS 396 Chevelle vs. '71 Mach 1 429 SCJ
14.95 @ 92.83 vs. 14.952 @ 92.83 14.92 @ 92.61 vs. 15.010 @ 93.08'72 Gran Torino Sport (351C-4v) vs. '72 Buick GSX (350-4v)
14.78 @ 97.87 vs. 14.71 @ 92.44 14.72 @ 98.00 vs. 14.73 @ 92.36 (Torino wins with a .575 RT) 14.63 @ 98.96 vs. 14.72 @ 92.83'69 455 ci Hurst/Olds vs. '70 Cyclone 429 CJ
14.38 @ 96.11 vs. 14.19 @ 98.14 14.27 @ 96.13 vs. 14.35 @ 98.31 14.53 @ 95.98 vs. 14.29 @ 97.50 (Merc redlights and loses the 2 of 3)'69 440 Cuda vs. '71 Mach 1 429 CJ
13.72 @ 99.21 vs. 14.14 @ 98.56 13.74 @ 99.16 vs. 14.05 @ 99.54 (Cuda loses on redlight) 13.82 @ 98.91 vs. 14.02 @ 100.07'64 427/425 Mercury Marauder vs. '72 455 Buick GSX
13.37 @ 106.21 vs. 13.80 @ 103.16 13.43 @ 106.96 vs. 13.48 @ 103.55 (Buick wins on .545 RT) 13.28 @ 107.50 vs. 13.49 @ 104.16 (Check those traps. This Merc weighed 4,367 lbs! For that matter, the Buick weighed 4,208.)'70 455 Olds 442 vs. '69 Mach 1 428 CJ
12.69 @ 109.63 vs. 12.92 @ 108.12 12.71 @ 109.60 vs. 12.91 @ 108.39 (This time it was a 3,915 lb. Olds vs. a 3,686 lb. CJ.)If you want to see the class rules, here they are: