Ill bet you that if you rode with me in that cop car,you would know better.Way better.Im not talking about a quarter mile or even a mile.It would take a mile to get the old Ford wound up.You had to play with the footfeet to stay on the ground.You didnt dare hit those quick little hills very much over 120 by the speedometer.Also with drum brakes that would fade,well its just hard to describe.I could burn rubber with that thing until it roasted the tires off of it,if I could get it spinning in a little loose gravel or something,it was way high geared.I was only 16 when I had that car,and I drove the heck out of it.People were afraid to ride with me,it was really wild.I bet you have not even seen very many solid lifter cam engines,but at one time there were lots of them.They will blow up,Ive done that too.Thats part of it,plus higher gears.Everybody is always talking 4:11 gears well try some 3:30s,or some 2:92s.I think thats what the cop car had was 2:92s.Seems like I remember that for some reason.Tell me how fast you would have to go,to get 13 miles down the road in 5 minutes?Thats real fast with bias ply tires and drum brakes,and 45 MPH curves and thats not all of the curves,but some I would slow down to 100 for,7 at 65,tires squeeling.Plus I know that car was fast,but it was not,by a long shot,the fastest car around here.I rode in that GTX and some other stuff like a 409 Chevy Convertable that went faster.I dont even remember all the cars that people had around here.Other people had newer Police Interceptors than me being a 16 year old kid,I just never rode with them,or knew them very good.There was a guy here who sold old cop cars for a living.They didnt do very much to them,like took off the lights and stuff and that was about it.The alternator went out on mine and it cost me 125 dollars back then to get another one when for 15 you could get a normal one. There was a guy that had a Roadrunner with a 440 in it that got killed.I dont remember how long the skid marks were but they estimated his speed at 160 MPH when he hit a car head on in a curve.His girl friend who was with him, flew a long ways and landed on a railroad track and killed her.It looked like half a quarter mile to me.All that was left of the car that you could recognize was one Crager Mag and tire.The rest of it was in little pieces. What it is,is that you dont think old cars would run that fast.Old cars would run real fast.Studebakers,stock, in the 50s would run 140 if I remember right.Dragsters would go over 200 MPH in 1970 in the quarter mile.So we could go,and once they had disc brakes we could stop. Even Nascar cars ran faster than now.They made those winged things and some other stuff and ran up there in speed.Seems like more engines blew up,but the ones that survived averaged higher MPH than nowdays,and mostly were big blocks if I remember right.
Things have improved for sure,Engines dont burn as much oil,or as much gas,as back then,and last longer now.We have way better cams now and other stuff.But maybe the new stuff will get there a little quicker,but I dont thinks its any faster,maybe not as fast unless you spend a lot of money for some special engine.
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