Originally Posted by Gold Z

Ifyou are talking about the cars you could walk into a dealership and buy, not the super expensive, exotic, and never seen on the street cars such as the Motion, Yenko, and COPO cars then the answer is almost none of them. The cars were too heavy and the tires were crap. Even my 70 HemiCuda wouldn't run 12's stock. My 68 SS396 Chevelle only ran 15's stock. My 67 GTX was good for very high 13's. Probably 95% of the muscle cars at the time were 14 second cars or slower. Only a handful were capable of running 13's stock. With a few simple mods and slicks we were able to get a few of them in the 12's and still be street cars. Cars with automatic transmissions were much slower than the 4-speed cars. You sat high in the cars back then. The shifters were normally about 18" tall with throws of up to 10" between the gears. Surprisingly most of the cars were sold without positraction rearends. The engines in almost all the cars were large and cammed for torque. The shift point on my 440 375 hp GTX was only 5000 rpm. With tons of torque and very narrow, rock hard tires trying to get off the line was really tricky. You could spin the tires at almost any speed with a simple downshift. The suspensions were really soft so the cars twisted during hard acceleration. A straight line launch was almost impossible. They were a handful to drive but that is what made them so much fun. My present Camaro is much faster than those cars but isn't even half as much fun to drive. Tell your boss he is full of crap.