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Magazines have a habit of doing poor comparasons, without standarizing the testing. They'll take other people's 1/4 mile times and republish them while comparing to a separate car run at a different track, on a different day, often during a different decade. I have seen my chevy vary as much as .7 seconds and 10 mph in the quarter at the same track, different day, just cause the track conditions changed. If they test vintage musclecars now, are they truly factory stock, or more like NHRA stock-eliminator , which allthough blueprinted to factory specs (mostly) are quite a different beast than what you would have drove off the showroom floor in the 60's. Apples and oranges comparisons are what car mags love to publish.
MPH in the 1/4 mile is an indication of HP, whereas ET is a function of traction.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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