Factory 0-60 & 1/4 miles times

Some interesting stuff I found while bored. Obviously gonna vary depending on options, driver, location, etc. but still neat to see. If anyone else has some proven stock times from magazines, personal experience, or otherwise let me know & it will be added to the list. Maybe we can even start a separate fastest G3 section for modified cars.

Year.....Car..........................Engine.....0-60.....1/4

Buick
1973.....Buick Century GS.........455ci.......7.4........15.3
1974.....Buick Regal.................350ci.......11.9......18.0
1974.....Buick Regal.................455ci.......8.5........16.7

Chevrolet
1973....Chevrolet Laguana........454ci.......9.5........16.7
1974....Chevrolet Chevelle........400ci.......11.4......18.0
1975....Chevrolet Chevelle........400ci.......11.4......17.7
1975....Chevrolet Monte Carlo...400ci.......10.2......17.5


Oldsmobile
1974....Oldsmobile Cutlass........350ci........9.0......17.6
1975....Oldsmobile Cutlass........350ci........11.7....18.0

Pontiac
1973....Pontiac Grand Prix........455ci.........7.7.....15.8
1974....Pontiac GTO................350ci.........9.4....16.5

i measured my 0-60 acceleration once but it wasnt very acurate, just informal

77 malibu classic 305, edelbrock 450cfm, edelbrock single plane intake, headman headers, dual exhaust... it was around 11sec with 4 people inside.

this was right after i bought the car and the spark plugs were about 100 years old, cables too

I thought my car was wicked fast when I started driving it. Remember, it had 350,000 miles on it when I started, but still had the original drivetrain.

350/350 combo with 3.42 gears. I had 295/50/15 tires on it, but everything else was bone stock. 2 barrel - exhaust manifolds - smog equipment... you name it.

I believe I ran a 17.5 at 88mph and had a blast.

I'll double check the numbers tonight, but I'm 99% sure that was it.

Years ago, I worked for a short time in a machine shop that made carbide tool bits. There was a guy who worked there who had a 60s Furd with a 352 engine. He was always hassling another guy, that had a Buick Century, about drag racing on the road near the shop.
I told the Buick guy to take him on, that the Buick would blow the doors off of that Furd. He did. And it did! At least the Furd guy finally shut the hell up!

My first 74 came to life with a 4bl, but was not that bad with the 2bl. Hate to see what they had for the base 350 that year.


Bill

Mini vans today are faster and quicker. I have an old Road test of a 73 similar to mine and they got it to go 14.92.
I think alot of cars the many think were beasts when they were new were really slugs. I bet a new Camaro 6 cylinder could smoke many of them.

The times for passenger cars hasn't changed all that much in 50 years. The '55 Olds 88 was an 8.2 sec 0 to 60 time car, with a 324 cu in engine, and the old 4-speed hydromatic of those days. Of course cars were built for mileage as well as some performance, so rear end ratios varied.

My dad bought a new 55 Oldsmobile Super 88 and he was a racer on and off the strip. It would outrun anything on the road except a 55 Buick Century and he came close to beating him. The only thing was there was not a new Chrysler 300 within 300 miles, so he never tried one of them. He was playing around with a guy in a 56 Furd on I-65 who was determined to catch him and pass him, but dad could run off from him at will. Then he came to a road block and then he found out the other guy was a cop. JB

The Buick Century was a fast car alright. I bought a new Super 88 in '55 when I got out of the military. It was a quick car for it's day, and I pushed it pretty hard. I almost bought a Pontiac instead of the Olds, but it had a small engine. I bought the Olds after a night of celebrating my discharge from the military, and told my mom that I bought a green and white car. Next morning I discovered that it was blue and white! So much for celebrating.

My 77 Malibu Classic sedan 305/350 with a 2.56 rear end and stock-ish 215-70-15 tires. It still has the box stock 305, right down to the 2 barrel carb still bolted to it.

When I first got it, it did 0-60 in 22 seconds. Topped out at 70mph.
Replaced the transmission, tuned it up to stock specs and it would do 0-60 in about 15 seconds.

Tweaked the jetting (I've got a couple 2 jets to swap parts around) and supertuned it, dropped it to 10 seconds.

!/4 mile time I'm guessing will be about 17-18 seconds. It's adequate for a cruiser but I've got plans to wake it up.

Do you mean topped out as in it wouldn't go any faster than that? O.o

Some of the cars from the 50s and 60s had a quite high speed top-end. In those days, we all knew how fast our cars would go Burying the speedo needle was something we did all the time. Hard to do that these days, with all the cops around.

texan01 wrote:My 77 Malibu Classic sedan 305/350 with a 2.56 rear end and stock-ish 215-70-15 tires. It still has the box stock 305, right down to the 2 barrel carb still bolted to it.

When I first got it, it did 0-60 in 22 seconds. Topped out at 70mph.
Replaced the transmission, tuned it up to stock specs and it would do 0-60 in about 15 seconds.

Tweaked the jetting (I've got a couple 2 jets to swap parts around) and supertuned it, dropped it to 10 seconds.

!/4 mile time I'm guessing will be about 17-18 seconds. It's adequate for a cruiser but I've got plans to wake it up.

My 76 had the same set up, although my stock gears were 2.73, not 2.56. I could top out at about 80mph, but that's all these turds had. I'd have to agree that the stock 1/4 mile times were close to 20 seconds. The thing would barely even spin a tire even after I played with the timing & done a fresh tune up.

Psh, 80.

Gotten my Monte to 120.

305 buddy, 305. It got good gas mileage & never complained on a long trip, but I needed more.