120 is about all a pickup will do.Horsepower is not what gets you speed,its gears and RPMs.Most of this stuff had a different Carburetor,different intake,headers,and other stuff.Even a 454 Chevy pickup from the 1970s with a standard transmission will only run 120 or a little more.Its got lower gears stock from the factory than a car is why.Pickups and station wagons had lower gear ratios for pulling trailers and just for heavy loads in general.Ive been 110 a lot of times in a pickup.High geared cars will go faster.Then when you wind them up to 5500 or 6000 or 7000 RPMs,with high gears,you are moving.Look at Nascar cars they go close to 200 mph,and they did go over 200 MPH except they wouldnt stay on the ground. As far as stock,right off the showroom floor,you might find some cars back then that would run 140.Once you do a few modifications,you can get more MPH.Cars now probably have a rev limiter,but I dont know.I have a Lincoln with a 4.6 4 cam V8 engine that will get to 100 MPH real quick.Thats about all I can stand any more,but I bet it will do 110 or 120,and if I knew how to get some more RPMs out of the computer,or put a different firing system like on dragsters,there is no telling how fast it would run,and get there quick.4 valves for every cylinder,its almost like a motorcycle engine,or a Indy race car engine. If you can think of it,and have enough money,you can do about anything,go however fast you want to.There are high dollar cars that will run way over 200 MPH,Probably wind higher than 10000 RPMS.
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