10 Quickest Cars of 1970: Muscle Car Of The Week Episode #201

One of the questions we frequently get about Muscle Car of the Week is what's the fastest car we've ever driven, and while we have the ability to drive the

cars

we feature from the brothers' collection in our Muscle Car of the Week . Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to take them all to a race track and test them all to determine the fastest quarter mile time, but there were plenty of magazines back in the day that did

muscle

car testing on race tracks when they were like is new, in this

episode

we thought it would be fun to look back at the 10 fastest

cars

of

1970

as recorded by some magazines in

1970

or 1969 and we can show you some recent footage we filmed from our Muscle Car

episode

s of the

week

, so occupying Ranking number 10 in the Top 10 Fastest Muscle Cars on Record from 1970 is a 1970 Dodge Challenger RT and the car they tested in Carcraft magazine in November 1969 had a 440 cubic inch V8 that made 390 horsepower and they were able to make that sucker hit the track in 10 seconds at 14.28 mph to get the number 10 spot.

Now remember that this quarter mile time is the one recorded by Carcraft magazine back in 1970. I'm not saying these cars could go. faster or slower than this, but if we consider in the past, the car was new, probably had a factory tune, ran on partial supply tires, so 1362 to 104 is a pretty solid number and in our case , featured a similar 1970 Dodge Challenger, but this one had a 426 Hemi uh in our 164th

muscle

car of the

week

episode. Ford fans should be excited because, uh, a 1970 Ford Torino with a 429 Super Cobra Jet landed at number nine in the 1970 Fastest Charger Test, that big Torin had a 391 gear and a 3-speed automatic transmission. speeds and the Charger Superstock got one turning 1362 at 105.9 mph in their March 1970 issue, we featured a cool 429 Super Cobra Jet Torino.

On a Muscle Car episode of the week, you can look for it in episode number 16, at number eight in the top 10, the fastest 70 is a 19 70 chevel SS 454 LS6 car and this car actually appears three times in the top 10 because We weren't going for the 10 fastest cars, we were looking for the 10 fastest recorded quarter mile times, uh, and this particular car was published in Superstock magazine, uh, of course, the LS6 is the 450 horsepower 454 cubic inch V8 uh and with a three speed automatic and a 331 gear uh clicked a 13 55 at 104 mph uh we feature numerous 1970 chevel LS6 in the brothers collection , you can see a very interesting one in episode 182, very well, if you were a subscriber to high performance car magazine in May 1970, you would have seen our car number seven appear, this is a 1970 Plymouth hemicuda convertible, a convertible of all things, took the number seven spot, ripping off an A4 mile time of 1345 at 105 mph, now the convertibles most people know are a little less rigid and a little heavier than a hardtop and the People ask us a lot saying, hey, do you know why you would drag race a convertible because of those factors?

Well, these performance car guys pointed out the reason is because they were still fast. We did a couple of articles on 70 hemicuda convertibles here on Muscle Car of the Week. You'll see a cool one in episode 161. The guys at Hot Rod Magazine tarted up a 1970 Chevel LS6 454 car in our issue. six points, they were able to use a four-speed version, a 411 rear gear to click a 1344 to 10817 M milph, which is the fastest trap speed of any of the cars in the top 10, although it is not the fastest , but that tells you that even with a 411 rear gear, uh, this thing really pulled hard on the big end of the track, as the Hot Rod guys discovered in 1970 at number five, the authors of Motor magazine Trend caused some serious controversy with an Apollo white 1970 Buick GSX 455 stage one car uh they clicked a 1338 at 105 mph in one mile time of the big Buick and what was controversial about it is that they said that was the Fastest car they tested in 1970, so of all the muscle cars.

Trent motor tested in 1970 hem cudas chevels any of the Pontiacs, they say the Buick was the fastest, pretty good, it was powered by the 455, makes 510 foot-pounds of torque and we did a really interesting feature on an episode of the car muscle of the week. number 45 and that controversy continues today because a Tren engine called it the Hemi Killer and on the race tracks of the USA. Even today, the battle continues between the Hudas and the stage Bui in our number four spot, a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner with a 426 horsepower 425 Hemi car making 490 foot-pounds of torque and a three-speed automatic with a 410 gear was clocked at 1334 at 107.5 mph by superstock magazine. uh a big car a light car makes a lot of power obviously goes very fast now interestingly we don't.

I have footage of a 70426 Hemi Road Runner, but we shot footage of a 692 Road Runner a12 car, which is the 440 car and the 32 Barrel configuration. You can see him in episode number 152 making his third appearance in the top 10 of our issue. three-slot is the 1970 Chevel LS 6454, again, this one has a 355 gear and a four-speed dual manual transmission, so each of the three cars in our top 10 is powered by a slightly different transmission, the 355 four speed seems to be the winner. At this point, running a 1312 at 107.1 mph as tested in the November 1969 issue of Carcraft magazine, that's fast, but it's still only number three.

Number two in our magazine's Top 10 Fastest Road Tests from 1970 is a '70 Dodge Champion Challenger SE powered by a 426 Hemi uh this one was tested by Carcraft magazine and they were able to get a four speed version with a rear gear 410 to go the quarter mile in 13.10 to 17.12 mph and that's spectacular. This car is a very elegant car. featured a similar one on the 86th episode of Muscle Car the week and the moment you've all been waiting for or the moment many of you have known since 1970. The number one car in our 10 Fastest Magazine Reports of 1970. uh, a Plymouth Hemi Cuda 70, yes the 426 Hemi is king of the hill again. uh, this particular Cuda was featured in the November 1969 Carcraft magazine.

There were a lot of good road tests in that November 69 issue. You might be able to find one on eBay. Anyway, that car had a 355 gear and a four speed and they were able to get 1310 at 7 mph out of a 70 Plymouth Hemi Cuda and we have a feature on a 70 Cuda type car similar muscle car episode 169 of the Now We Know These Cars with some simple tuning tricks and better tires can run much faster, but again, these are published reports of how these cars ran in 1970. We welcome your comments on our YouTube channel, Facebook page or our website and please favor.

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