Spike TV looking for 50 Fastest List Members !!

That event is going to run amuck with people trying to slip warmed over cars in. How many Factory Appearing cars do you think will show up to try and make a statement?
They need to have a tech procedure BEFORE cars are accepted and have alternates ready in the event that someone is too fast. Otherwise the whole shootout will be comprimised and the validity ALWAYS in question.
If the cheaters show up the cars they brought will not be represented if they are booted and how can you have a shoot out with half the cars disqualified?
It will never be cut and dry. :Smarty:

 

You're right, they should have just gone to Stanton and saved the track rental :Brow:

 

Ah, Stanton actually publishes the Top 130 list. :TU:

 

can you imagine the look on the producers face when a Stude shows up ??

 

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Realy sounds like a great event to be at. Seeing all those nice cars that run so crisp, Is there a picture area for fans to have shots with what ever cars they would like? Im sure lots of spectators would love a personilized photo's available for purchase. Will the camera crew take rides filming live down the track? A door prize for a spectors challenge of 2 cars of there choice, say there dream cars for a passenger ride down the 1/4, how cool would that be? Ive never riden in an AC cobra.

 

Other Lists...

This Mopar list I found should fan the fires nicely...

Fastest Lists

If a list doesn't come up, try hitting "refresh"; don't go to the "world link."

 

It is nice to be included in something, rather than having someone exclude you from the game before it is played.That is usually what happens with my 1964 Dodge.On the fastest list it made third place with an 11.4@125 behind the the Hemi A bodies and a Buick, I wonder if they are talking about an Aluminum front end car or steel front end 1964 Chrysler. The horse power rating is funny for the 1964 with 425 HP.This is a rating for a street motor that has 10 to 1 pistons,very little lift cam and inline two four barrel intake.My motor has factory 12 1/2 to 1 pistons,a lot larger factory cam and a cross ram intake manifold,it is basicly the exact same motor Chrysler put in the Hemi Darts and Hemi Barracudas in 1968, but the 1964 has different exhaust manifolds,and 1968 Hemi A bodys came with headers.The Horse Power rating on these motors is in the very upper 500 range easily.

The 50 fastest muscle cars list is a complete joke. The list was made in haste and not researched deep enough to include some real fast cars.

Lets type about the Buick/Hemi races from the past again.The Black Hemi Runner was not a ringer,it was a very low mile,low option car, making it the ultimate choice to be picked to race the Buick the second time.Each car had good drivers and both the Buick and the Plymouth ran real fast back in 1987 and I would be proud to own either one of those cars.Now lets talk about the Cuda from Montreal,it was just plain slow and I just do not know why the owner did not bring his other Hemi car to race instead of the Cuda,it was quite a bit faster.He was a disgrace to the event and wasted a lot of peoples time and money and should never be asked to participate in an event like this again,thankfully he has sold the Cuda and can never do this anyway.

 

[QUOTEHe was a disgrace to the event and wasted a lot of peoples time and money and should never be asked to participate in an event like this again,thankfully he has sold the Cuda and can never do this anyway.[/QUOTE]

I have a question! What E.T. did the Buick run during that event. If it was advertised as a stocker, and ran better than a mid 13.0 pass. I would have put my Cuda back on the trailer also!

Patrick

 

Speak for your self! :rant:

I could NEVER afford a musclecar nowadays. If I did not own my GS since 1985, I would never have one. I consider myself extremely lucky.

With these cars starting to cost as much (or more) as houses, it is unfathomable how anyone can afford these things anymore; not to mention collecting them.

But that's just my opinion. Sorry to take the thread sideways. uzzled:

 

Patrick it is not how fast the Cuda went but the way he acted at the race.I know who this owner is and he is always hyper 24/7.You can not win every race even if you have the fastest car and he needed to get back to reality and suck it up and race like a real professional or even an adult,not a child.

Most E bodies run from 13:30 to about 12:70 for a well tuned car,that is just the norm for them,some can run faster but it takes knowledge of the motor and chassis and a dedication to put all this together to make the cars run fast,most E body owners are worried about what Roger Gibson is doing with paint dabs and date coded parts and do not care to drive their cars once they are restored let alone race them on a drag strip.

Lets get back to the Cuda owner, like I said before he has another car and it is very fast and has raced in pure stock classes from the old rules and in the old days,I believe his Challenger ran 11:72 best time.I do not know why this car did not show up instead of the Cuda,maybe it did not fit into the decided rules for the race.

Everone who participates in this kind of Event like the Buick/Hemi Challenge has a good idea of what the other car will run and a good idea what it will take to win,there are no excuses here, just race the cars.If the T/A hooded Hemi Challenger gets spanked on the first pass will it be loaded up on a trailer and towed away home to be sold the next year like the Cuda was.

 

Back to my original question. What did the Buick run? And what T/A Hemi-Challenger are you referring to?

As far as the list you posted. The only time I would really question is the ZL1 Camaro. Where did that time come from?

Patrick

 

It's not really "these" cars that cost as much as a house, but rather "certain" cars that cost as much as a house.

If you paid as much as a house today for a GS like yours....or even a

Marauder like mine I've got a bridge you might be interested in. :laugh:

Seriously.....being a reader of auto traders like most people read the news I've seen a lot of cars for pretty reasonable money. :beer

 

Just got my June Hemmings. At least they used a colour picture from the Pure Stock Drags when announcing this event. Hugger orange everywhere!
Peter

 

jeez....my car didn't even crack the top 50?

Guess I built the wrong one huh?

 

How cool are Buicks, the ultimate sleeper and still under 100K. When will they be discovered by the main stream baffoons, and when will the price go through the roof? o No:

Hopefully not for a while

 

As was pointed out, the original list was from 1984. A little later - I'd guess '86 - they updated the list with more magazines. They also weeded out the ringers, like the 390 Mercury that was in the 6-Way Shootout. I believe a third installment was a guy in TX who was trying to collect the 50 Fastest cars, and the fourth installment was the list of hp/lb ratios of "all" the muscecars. If there was a third revision of the 50 Fastest list, I don't recall but it could exist - would have to go through my collection.

If you know of a test that should be on the list and isn't, it could be you're not looking at the updated list, or the list wasn't inclusive enough. That has no bearing on what's fast and what's not. If this kind of thing interests you, there's a very hard-to-find privately-pressed book called "How Fast Were They" where some guy compiled cars and their times for a whole lot of magazines and years.

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The official top musclecar list is posted every year at Stanton!:TU:

 

That's ~ONE~..............

 

That's ~TWO~...........

I agree on both counts Rob!! PSMCDR has been doing the job that these magazines could only dream they could. What's there to argue??

The REAL list is published as soon as it spits out of Dan and Bob's printer.:bglasses:

 

I will be there and legal 20 mile from home to raceway park.I hope they work on the track its always greasy on testand tune nights .