sweet.
Nice car.
I am sure non of you will believe what I am about to tell you, but that is fine. I didnt at first, but it infact proves to be true. When my dad was my age, 19, he purchased a 1969 Camaro. We have another one today, but it isnt nearly as nice...or as fast as his first. The following are actual times that he pulled in his car on a regular basis.
0-60:1.9 to 2.1 sec
0-100:3.0 to 3.4 sec
Top speed:220..maybe faster he never had enough space to go faster than that.
1/4: 8.0-9.0 sec (his average was around 8.7 sec) but he pulled a few 8.0.
Now the car was street legal...sorta...it was extremely loud. It went headers to a 3 foot pipe to 2 turbo exhausts. Wasnt that loud in the car caues he put damping board in it to make it not so noisy.
Also another problem that the car had was rippin its rear axel apart, In the years he had the car he went through 20 or more axels...he said he would easly rip one apart a month, racing seemed to do the trick. He ran 12:1 compression, custom built A LOT of the engine parts. When he had the car he was working for SRI in the nuclear development department, and also under the mility devision doing some sort of development work....wont go into what.
Anyways back to the car. He had enough compression and torc that when he launched himself off the line it would come off all 4 wheels, and propell itself a few feet forward. He was actually heading to the coast with my mom in the car and went to pass a line a cars, he was running in 3rd and he dropped it down to 2nd, and just stompped the hell out of it, and than after getting up speed shifted to 4th, than at about 185 the front end lifted off the ground.
Anyways, thought I would share that cause of the orinigal top of fast cars. I know you guys wont believe it, I didnt for a few years, than I seen the pictures, and talked to his friends about it. Hopefully soon the Camaro we have now will be as great as his first.
If I can find the pictures I will try and scan em to post em!