I'm sure this topic has been discussed before, but does anybody know what the fastest survivor car has been to date. I'm talking all original, never been apart, untouched from the factory, cars that ever went down the track at a PSMCDR event. My 71 LS6 car went 13.21 / 107.++ a few years back, with a dealer installed CE shortblock, due to Car Craft's rod through the block incident when it was 3 months old. So at 34,000 original miles it still technically, was not a true survivor. And I didn't have the balls to shift it past 6,000 rpms either. I remember several ass kicking cars that were purported to be unmolested examples. I'm guessing deep 12's but what kind of car was it?
both cars just tickled the 13's ............. Larry's LS6 ran low 13's with the original plug wires .........
The 13.21 that I referenced was actually run against Larry's blue LS6. He ran mid teens and squeaked by me every time we lined up that year. For some reason I was thinking that car had a rebuild at some point prior to that day. My other completely untouched yellow 71 LS6 survivor ran low to mid 14s, but that was with an incorrect breaker point distributor that liked to crap out at 4500 rpm. Surely some original LS6's, COPO's, A12's, hemi's, or RAIV cars have busted off some deep 12's.
What about that 1-2-1 "upshift" on that one pass at PSMCDR?? Or was that with the yellow LS-6? I remember watching you in my mirror and your Vette looked like you threw out an anchor. I kept waiting for the exploding parts to come hurtling past my Dodge. :3gears:
The Hodges' patented "121" shift maneuver was with the untouched 14 second car. The shifter was pretty worn out on that car. Wasn't there some guy out of Texas with an original max wedge that went pretty fast? There was also a guy from around Indiana with what I think was an original 68 hemi car going low 13s? Somebody must have some notes?
Brian Stefina has a buddy that brought his untouched all original pea green 70 hemi road runner a few years ago. Don't remember the times.
The best my father's 63 409 ran as a "survivor" was 13.80-90's @99-101 w/original plug wires/coil, clutch, exhaust, Saginaw trans, etc... With a few chassis-dyno sessions, 2.5" w/h-pipe & Dyno-max mufflers, wide-range box, 4.10, Pertronix, fresh plug wires, clutch, carb rebuild, it ran 13.31 @105 once in 2005.
67 Corvette 427-390 4spd 3.55 19250miles ran 13.97@102. Realized later that it had 2 broken valve springs. 71 Duster 340 auto 3.55 31000 miles 14.20@ 98mph Had a fresh tuneup with orig. plug wires. Orig. owner claimed that headers and 3.91 gear netted a best of 13.80 when the car was 6 months old and had 5000 miles.
My Ramrod ran 14.20's at 97+ our first year of Pure Stock(1999-before we broke the driveshaft). That was a totally untouched engine (other than tuneup...valve covers never off it). M20 4 speed, 3.91 posi, Michelin radials...
So a 12 sec survivor car is kind of like bigfoot, everybody's heard about one, but nobody (except Nystrom) has seen one? I thought for sure we had a Chevy, Mopar, or Poncho that had run a 12.
At the 1997 P/S drags my untouched 283 230hp '61 Vette went 15.53 @ 87.57 mph. :laugh: The hook was set. Johns low mileage '69 Hemi car had a bad rod bearing when he bought it so i'ts been freshened up. It did run 13.33 through the original exhaust. The 3.55 ratio had been swapped for 4.30 cogs also. Cogswell Cogs I think.o No:
So if I want to make a 12 second run to pick up some Christmas Spinach Filo Torte from Frank's grocery store, the best cars to take would be The 409, The Hemi, The GTO, or a couple of Vettes?
is the Weymouth's L88 vette that ran this year considered a survivor? o No: I know it had low miles, but don't know if it's a survivor, hence the question a few years ago didn't a 69 Chevelle 396 out of Illinois run? it was a pretty low mile car. I want to say blue ext. I have a pic somewhere (which would jog my memory), but not sure where at the moment
Chris, the LS 6 car has orginal paint, interior but not the motor. He did run it several years ago with the original motor before he had it rebuilt. Jody
