I respect your opinion, and im not a child im 24, and been around muscle cars my whole life, and what I continue to do for a living. But that hardly makes me an old hardass that thinks their opinions are fact. And if you doubt that my father doesn't have the car I just said he did I'd be more then happy to go take a few pics to prove otherwise.
Pretty sure he never said it was factory stock just how it came. Of course it has a full exhaust/headers under it, doesn't sound stock at all. (As I give my dad hell all the time as his is, they're pretty quite)
And we all know the marketing scheme back in the 60s They WAYYYY over advertised as far as track numbers go, yet claimed to underrate the HP for insurance purposes.
I know on sites like these some guys who've turned a wrench think they know everything. But still the only thing I asked was why do you think its NOT stock. Not sure why you feel the need to throw the claimed numbers of what these cars ran back in the day, or why that matters if this car is stock? Don't recall the old man saying what he ran in his, or how any of that was relevant to this car being stock.
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Originally Posted by ChrisBlair
 I know that on a website like this, we get a lot of kids that just say anything
My 20 years of experience with old muscle cars is what makes me think that. Doesn't sound stock at all to my ears. It has more bark than my 462 with 7/8" primary, long tube headers.
The Goat that had the really impressive numbers that are sometimes cited for a "production" '64 GTO was specially prepped and modified by Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak Michigan.
This is exactly the GTO that Car and Driver tested in which they have the car doing 60 in well under 5 seconds and doing a practically unholy-for-the-time 13.1 second quarter mile with the tripower. Some of the more skeptical folks feel that a Poncho 421 was under the hood of that car, not a 389.
Road and track tested an actual production tripower 389 '64 GTO in March '64 and had a 14.1 second 1/4 mile at 104 mph. Not too shabby. Hardly great even for '64. It was beat handily by '63 Ramchargers
I prefer old muscle cars. I used to eat sleep and breathe them, and work on them every chance I had. I'd rather have your Pop's '64 than my Camaro. But I know they weren't as fast as nostalgia makes them |