drhoward

You can never trust those old school hp measurements, they always "under rated" them for insurance reasons.

3.0Taurass

didn't they rate them without the alternator, ac, etc?

Riptide

They rated engines in gross horsepower up until about 1975 I believe.

94Blk5.0

^ Negatory. Cars should have been rated by the net numbers by 1972. Not only did they change the way they rated them, they strated detuning a lot of cars as well.

Take it for what's worth, but one site states the 440 4V made 370 HP and 480 TQ in a '71 GTX.

Riptide

You're right I stand corrected it was '72.

And right again, they started in with the emissions standards about that time which turned "muscle" cars into giant turd sandwiches. Chevy had some wonderful 350ci V8s in the mid 70s that put out a whopping 150 horsepower. lol

94Blk5.0

^ Yes sir, there is a 10-13 year span where not much was going on. Finally by '85 they started to slowly but surely breath life back into the pony cars, and they haven't stopped yet...

drhoward

It's not like those old engines had much for accessories on them....power steering! That's a luxury!

okbfd

Agreed




But still like these better


Nice run OP......that had to be a very cool run for you

Riptide

The superbird was kinda ahead of it's time in a way.

I like the barracudas, chargers, challengers, etc. better than the GTX. But I think the GTX was probably more rare than those cars?

Mustang_NTriangle

yeah, very cool as it was my bro's car and the car i grew up with.