🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE FASTEST AMERICAN MUSCLE CARS FROM 1969 & THEIR PRICES THEN & NOW!
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- 🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE FASTEST AMERICAN MUSCLE CARS FROM 1969 & THEIR PRICES!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To THE FASTEST AMERICAN MUSCLE CARS FROM ’69 & THEIR PRICES!
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The reasoning why you saw those engines being so pristine like that, is because the car was probably recently restored and was rarely driven. Some people can restore these older muscle cars to being better than what they looked from factory. So clean, you could literally eat off them lol
Yep. My retired high school English teacher buys up old muscle cars in bad shape then spends thousands restoring the engines and bodies and then flips them for thousands to collectors usually and no restoration he’s done took him any less than a full year. Last he did was restoring a 1967 Mustang he found rusting for $450 in a barn, flipped and sold for over $55,000 after putting $18;000 into it..collectors don’t buy these to drive. They buy them to drag around in haulers to antique car shows all around the country to show off to each other. Plus owning any vehicle 25 years or older makes one an antique car owner and lets owners gain entry to the massively popular American Antique Automobile Club. So when you see today this pristine is almost 100% because they’ve been restored and not because there are a bunch of old muscle cars looking this pristine and having been driven since 1969. Cars on all these muscle car lists you see live year round in temperature controlled garages or storage and are rarely actually driven. They are rich guy trophies these days because only rich guys can afford to buy and maintain them.
They're also pristine because people don't drive them because just the insurance alone would empty you wallet. These cars are pampered and well taken care of
In 1969 I was starting high school. My mother was a teacher who earned about $25,000 a year. Our four bedroom, ranch style home was purchased in 1962 with a mortgage of $21,500.
Hmm I think you number is WAAAAY .off at 25,000. Average salary was 7,900 per year. Unless she taught at some astronomically expensive private school.
Yeah way off on the pay and I bet the home price too pending on where you lived and or on the ocean.
All of these cars (except the Corvette which was a sports car) were 4 to 5 passenger cars you could put the family in unlike the little 2 seat English MGs and Triumphs.
My new '69 Mach I w/351 was $4100; using just an inflation calculator that would be $33,300 today. But those with a rare combination of body, engine, transmission, etc., drives the price, as well as ensuring everything is still as it was from the factory (numbers-matching). You can get reports based on the VIN of how many vehicles had those combinations and thus how rare (or not) a vehicle may be. Restoring any of those really drives up that cost. A "body-off" complete restore can easily drive that price over $100K or even much more depending on the car. I enjoyed my Mach I until I got married and had a young one. Who knew little kids needed so much "stuff" when you travel; especially girls? Swapped it for a '70 Road Runner. Plenty more room, plus the kid loved the horn! Oh, and no muscle car back in the day was ever all-wheel or front-wheel drive. My brother had a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado and it could light the tires; we enjoyed the looks from people with the fronts smoking up the place. Cadillac made the Eldorado in FWD back then as well.
Awe! Back when cars had personality & power!!!🏁🏁🏁
My family owns quite a few Muscle/classic cars. Like an all original mint condition 68 Mustang California Special, 69 AMC AMX, and a 65 Mercury Comet to name a few. I grew up around these types of cars so I will always have a soft spot for them. A lot of these have most likely been restored but there are a lot of these cars rotting away in fields and old barns that you could buy for a lot cheaper than these ones
Restoration alone costs probably 80% of the value of the car these days.
the modern price for these cars is completely restored just found a 68 mustang fastback for 4k but would have to spend 80-100k to refurbish it. Also the factories under reported the horse power to keep insurance prices down
I bought a 71 Olds Cutlass from my grandmother's estate. She had it maintained beautifully, with a 350 rocket motor & a 350 turbohydromatic transmission. I wanted to convert it to a 442, so I put in a Holley quadrojet 4 barrel carbuerator, duel exhaust, but I didn't want to cut the floor to put in the stick shift. The 442 designation literally stands for 4 speed manual transmission, 4 barrel carb, & dual exhaust. On a roadtrip using freeways, I buried the needle of the speedometer at 130 mph. I don't doubt that I was actually going closer to 140 mph, with a ride that felt like I was floating down the road. Because of the dual exhaust, it was super quiet, and unassuming to other motorists on the road. When I accelerated off a red light, I was GONE. In 84 I only paid $800 for it...
My elementary school principal drove the hemi Roadrunner in the early 1970s. He was the coolest! It was painted Roadrunner orange as well. He let kids look and sit in it for a reward, so I've been in one of those rare cars and felt that engine rumble.
Now you have to take in to consideration, these cars prices are based on a numbers matching car. means the same transmission , engine and rear end that was in them when the car left the factory floor. you can buy some of these cars for a lot less money that dont have the #'s matching of the high end factory options like aluminum heads and blocks etc... there are tons of camaro's and mustangs out there you can buy for cheap money.
A custom build with modern engine and suspension brakes tires and rims ect. would be cheaper safer better ride more reliable then a original stock version. I see the reason people would keep it stock as a investment but I prefer a car that I can actually drive instead of taking up space in the garage.
You should react to top 10 Modern Muscles cars of all time to see the evolution.
I have a numbers matching 68' Mercury Cougar GT-E 428 cobra jet sitting in my garage that I bought with my brother back in 87' Although not quite the standard of these cars she's still a sexy beast.
I always told him when we bought it, we split it down the middle, my side having the wheel and pedals and his side having the passenger seat. He passed away in 09' leaving his half of the car to me. A few months later his wife had a plaque made for me that says RAD (his initials) "Forever My Co-Pilot" that is mounted to the glovebox.
Not only are these cars iconic but to some of the people that own them they're priceless.
Hi Kabir, good to see you again Mate. Again I suggest you react to " Bullitt" (1968) starring Steve McQueen since you obviously have a thing for American muscle cars from the 60s.
Growing up in a car town in Canada you see classic muscle cars all the time, and even though they're fairly common too see, they still turn heads.
My first car was a 1967 Camaro. When I sold it I got 3x more than I paid for it. I wish I still had it today. My boyfriends drove a Super bee, 1966 Chevelle Malibu SS, 1966 Charger, 1969 boss 302. I never really thought about it at the time and it did not matter what they drove, but maybe I was secretly envying their cars. All I know is that I was right in there with them on auto repairs. In those days we were all poor. Poverty was the mother of necessity. If you wanted a car you had to fix it yourself. I had to rebuild one of my cars because the crank got damaged when one of the rod end caps came loose. I put the block and heads on cardboard and dragged them into my living room to work on them as it was Winter and it was my living room. Repair manuals and light flirting with the cute guys at the auto parts store got me a lot of good advice. It took me three months but I got another 100K miles out of that car. In those days everyone was surprised that a girl would even try such a thing.
The salary thing: A friend of mine in 1975 was a C.P.A. (Certified Public Accountant) who we all thought of as rich because he was making 15 K per year. Lol. A 4500 dollar car was quite a bite to the average salary back then.
My grandma bought her house in 1957 in center New Jersey for 2800.00 now it's worth almost 410,000.00 in todays market. But realistically it's worth 350,000.00 if market isn't over inflated. My friends Mom bought her house in same area for 4200 in 1966 now the house is worth 525,000. If market wasn't inflated its worth as round 435,000.00
I looked up my parents house that they bought in 1975 for $29,500. Last sold for $359,000. Current estimate of $525,000 with a rental estimate of $2,500/month.
Notice my Icon? Affordable version of the Muscle Cars Era. 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible 390 retromod, still working on it which is all part of the fun.
A reason for so many engines being offered for the same car is the way cars were sold back then. Today you order a particular car in a trim level, and can get A, B, or maybe C package. Back then, if you weren't buying one off the lot, the salesman would get out the option list and you would check off what you did or did not want.
AMC started grouping their more popular options into packages in the mid '60s when they realized it was just cheaper to do it that way. John DeLorean pointed out there were almost 400 variants possible for the dashboard in the Firebird alone. It was insane for a company like GM to try and run like a custom car manufacturer. He introduced the package system for Pontiac and it quickly spread throughout the industry.
The exhaust notes emitted from those big blocks is an eargasm
Lived in that time my friend. Had a GTO and later a SS396 375hp Nova. It was a glorious time. I can still smell the rubber...
My first step-father had a 69 Roadrunner. It was a beast and I loved it, but his 39 Dodge Business Coupe will always be my favorite.
My mother-in-law's first car was a 69 mach 1. Her father-in-law, my wife's grandfather, helped her finance it. Her and my father-in-law kept it until a couple of years ago and they gave it to my daughter, my first born. Now my daughter and her husband are trying to restore it.
It was not a 428. But a 351 Cleveland.
So glad my fav car got on the list. '69 Roadrunner 426 :) Such a beautiful car.
my last ride was a 69 Elkie SS. she had a 468 with an ed pink supercharger and dual holley racing-kit carbs. 900bhp, and yes, she ran on straight trick-gas.45 grand and you could outrun air-support.
My husband had a 1969 Mustang Mach 1 when I met him. The saddest part of it getting totalled was the guy that hit him( totalled both cars) was driving a 1965 Mustang.
That is a sad sad story. Makes me want cry because I love both cars.
I bought a '70 Superbee in '84 for $3000, it was in very good condition, no rust at all, interior was a bit rough though. Being that I was 18 I couldn't afford the insurance(which was almost as much as the car) so I hired a towtruck to bring it back to my place. When we got there the towtruck driver thought I was selling it and offered me $6000. I took the offer and was happy with my 100% of profit after owning the car for 3 days but I sure wish I still had it now.
Generally if your looking for a pristine frame up restoration, yeah you might be spending upwards of maybe 30k depending on the car. But if you don't mind a little elbow grease and some rust then there are still deals to be had. You used to be able to find $500 rollers(no engine, trans) on every street corner at one time, didn't take a lot of money to throw in a new engine. Now those same $500 rollers average several thousand dollars. The beauty is though these cars are easy to maintain, anyone with a set of wrenches can do it.
$4,200 in 1969 is about $30,560 today.
Car prices shot WAY up in the late 70s. I know because my mom told me, "If we had known car prices would shoot up like that, we would have bought you one when you were 16." So I really missed out. LOL
These muscle car videos are so much fun. They bring back memories of my childhood. I am the youngest with three other siblings who are quite a few years older, so I got to see a parade of fun, and sometimes unbelievable hot rods that were traded in for practicality. Aaaaahhhh! My oldest sister neglected and trashed a mint-condition Studebaker Lark with the adorable chrome grill, white with baby blue interior. It belonged to my grandma who likely only drive it on Sundays. Then my oldest sister let it sit on the side of the house until it grew mushrooms inside. My dad's Jaguar limousine (I'm not joking), my second oldest sister who drove a cherry '67 Dodge Charger, maroon with black leather interior, a parade of Volkswagens; a '62 blue Bug, my '72 Super Beetle, my '71 blue Bus with white wall tires, my second oldest sister traded in the Charger for a maroon Karmen Ghia with black interior, my mom's "snot green" '65 Chevy Super Nova. They're still trading in beauties for practicality. My brother moved to Texas to be near his daughter who is attending Texas A&M. He sold his Porsche Boxter!!! I almost screamed in a pillow when he told me that! I remember my uncle, who was a racecar driver in the 60s and 70s, GAVE his EX-girlfriend who broke up with HIM, an 80s Porsche 944. Another OMG moment. He said he did it because he still loved her. How lame is that? He did, however, keep his metallic baby blue Mercedes 450SL. Personally, I'd have kept the red Porsche. Nobody who breaks up with you should get that grade of severance!
Funny I caught your video. Ive always considered 69 to be the best year for cars. Its also my birthday lol. ALL muscle cars are rear wheel. Sad to see the pricing today on them. In the 70s as a kid or even the 80s as a teen you could buy these cars for less than $1000 bucks. In the 70s my granny had a Dodge Coronet 500. I didn't appreciate it back then but would love it now.
'70 is my favorite year
my first car was a 73b Plymouth Valiant. A slant 6 225 cc but it really gave me that love for old cars. My all time favorite car is a 64-65 jaguar e type. Enzo Ferrari called it the most beautiful car he had ever seen.
I love the early E Types. As a former girlfriend described one we saw at a show, "Sex on wheels."
the minimum wage in 1969 was $1.25 an hour
In 1964...my pay was $.99 per hour!!
True. But you didn't need expensive computers, cell phones or every little consumer gimmicky crap.
I would suggest that you might want to start watching some episodes of "Jay Leno's Garage", he has a extensive vehicle collection that's over 180 vehicles that are fully restored and in mint condition housed at Hollywood Burbank Airport aka. Bob Hope Airport in 122,000 square foot garage.
A new McLaren may cost less than some in the video but have you looked into what it costs to service a McLaren or replace all 4 tires? It is ludicrous the amount of money required for just maintenance of a McLaren, or any other European supercar.
My 1st car, at 16, was a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda with a slightly built 340 cu in V8. It was very quick albeit a bit rough but I paid $1,200 for it in 1982 a deeply regret ever selling it.
1969 Mustang 429 Boss is a work of art. I wish my kids were rich and felt obligated to do a RUclips video of them surprising their dad with one.
I can remember back in the 1980's, when many of these cars could be bought in fair condition for under $5,000. My dad daily drove a 1969 Plymouth GTX with a 440ci engine and a 4-speed... he bought it for $3,500. Many of these cars do not have a high top speed, since they didn't have overdrive transmissions and had steep final gearing for acceleration. They may have only topped out at 125mph-130mph, but you were doing it in less than a 1/2 mile.
I looked at a '70 GTO convertible back around 1986. Interior, engine, and everything mechanical was great. But the body, mostly paint, was trashed and there were some cuts in the roof. The guy selling it admitted he may have cheated on his girlfriend and she retaliated against his car.
He wanted $3,000 (Or around that) because it would need a full paint job and new roof.
I passed because cars like that were considered old, not quite collectables at the time. Besides, I could always find another one cheap. Been kicking myself ever since then.
I think it was soon after that when boomers, wanting to relive their youth and didn't have kids to worry about started driving the costs up. Especially on certain legendary names.
Muscle car was all about quarter mile performance, not top end. Some were geared so low that they would not have had a high top speed. Also, those are vinyl interiors not leather. Front wheel drive and leather interiors were unheard of in 1969. Muscle cars were mid-size cars with large car engines put into them for performance reasons. The Corvette is a sports car, and the Camaro and Mustang are both pony cars which are small cars, but I think were included in this list because they had muscle car engines in them.
Kabir, you might enjoy the channel Rare Classic Cars & Automotive History. The cars are mostly sedans from the 60s and 70s.
A house in Chicago in 1967 was about $20,000. Today it is about $280,000 - $320,000. So the cars appreciated better than a house.
My first car I bought was a 67 mustang. In 2977 I bought it for a grand. My brother had a road runner. Bought it brand new. It was green.
Trust this: for insurance purposes the HP/TQE ratings by the factory was up to 20% under-rated. Many in depth vids by those in the know will verify this. In the late 60's and 70's, 1/4 mile Bracket racing was big. You had to get as close to say, 12 seconds, without going faster. My 1969 Chevrolet SS 396 I bought used for 2200. Previous ownder blew up the 396; and it now had a 327 small block all tricked out to race the 12-second Bracket class. Factory 411 rear gears with posi-traction, and Muncie 4 speed meant I couldn't keep the widest fifty series tires on it, thanks to being 17 yrs old and leaving looong burnt rubber stripes all over town, lol!
take in account these are prices for mint condition, factory correct numbers cars ... can easily (sort of) find reconditioned or customized versions for under $100k ....
19:47 Sometimes? I'd say most times, the old designs are way better than modern vehicles. I'm especially fond of the late 30's to early 50's American cars.
My dad had a 1970 Mach 1 428 Cobra Jet from 1971-1975. It affected me..
Dreaming of my spotless '67 GTO convertible that burned no oil. I bought it used for $200 in 1973.
The '69 Camero SS, still one of the best cars ever made.
Still have our 1971 Z28 Camaro mint condition always parked in our heated garage and only drive it in the summer months.
There are 2 modern muscle cars/sports cars you should watch RUclips videos of.
1) Camaro ZL1, 6.2 LTR, 650hp, 10 speed auto transmission. 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds and sounds amazing.
2) 2024 Corvette Z06, 670hp flat plane crank, 8 speed duel clutch Transmission. 0-60 in 2.6 seconds, red lines at 8700 rpm with steam rollers for rear tires. It's the most powerful naturally aspirated engine in the world. It can beat any Porche, and most Ferrari and Lamborghini.
I remember they guys in my high school built their own hot rods. Around the mid 70s, you could pay 4 or 5 hundred bucks for a decent basic car and build it up. I spent my money on guitars. My friends had mustangs, camaros, chevelles, dusters and cutlasses. Great times. Gas was 40 cents a gallon.
I owned cars or trucks with standard transmissions from 1977 to 2004 and loved driving them. They were especially good on snow covered roads which I often encountered here in Wisconsin commuting 25 miles back and forth everyday for work. On top of that they were just fun to drive.
Yeah, show cars are rarely driven. Got friends that have 50's Chevy's through 70's MOPAR. They are very well taken care of, being stored in garages or trailers.
I learned to drive with a 1969 Camaro. I could barely see over the hood. Lol. It had some serious get up and go. I can honestly say now it helped me be able to drive about any type of vehicle. It was an amazing car.
In 68 hubby worked for a oil refinery and earned 125.00 a week
Born and raised in the Motor City. If you would like to see the greatest collection of American muscle cars on the planet, come to Detroit for the Woodward Cruise. A 10 mile stretch of some of the most beautiful and amazing cars you'll ever see. People from all over the country come to show off, and see these amazing vehicles. The city of Detroit is a shadow of its former self and has a lot of crime, but for you or anyone else who dares the "D", its definitely worth it. Be sure to stop by the Henry Ford Museum, a world class museum of Americanna, especially cars.
Side note 69 Charger RT also better known as the General Lee from a TV show called Dukes of Hazzard the most famous TV car of all time it's my dream car that I really really want
My father bought a house in Yardley Pennsylvania which is outside of Trenton New Jersey 4 bedrooms 1.8 Acers, a huge 4200 ft² House for $32000 in 1963. In 1970 could have sold for $65,000
Hey Kabir, you'd probably love the 1987 Buick GNX as well. Another powerful and mean looking car produced during a particularly dismal period of American car design.
Those are pricey, but 1969 was actually not the most collectible year for muscle cars. There 70 and 71 Mopar cars go for 3-4x as much due to the higher power and better designs. It was the end of an era before the clean air act kicked in.
Would love to see more videos like this. I'm a huge car guy and have driven/rode everything from a vintage single cylinder Honda Cub to a Dodge Viper with it's angry V10.
Sorry you're wrong. In 70 the compression ratios and horse power started going down. By 76 a big block Charger had 190hp.
If you’re ever back in the states, you should check out a Mecum Auto Auction 😁 we live 20 minutes from the one in Indianapolis that is held annually
Kabir,
you can buy new reproduction "body shells" from Dynacorn bodies for 65-72 mustangs, 67-69 firebird and Camaros, older truck cabs, and 70 Dodge Challenger.
If you want to see some muscle cars, plan to be in Detroit for the Woodward Dream Cruise. It's the ultimate collection of every car in the place where they were all born.
The ZL1 is available with a 6 speed Manuel trans.
To put into perspective how powerful these beasts were in 1969 the Ferrari Daytona made 347 and 318 lb ft (431 nm) of torque horsepower and the Lamborghini Miura made 345 hp and 262 lb ft (355nm) while the Mustang Boss 429 made 375 hp and 450 lb ft (610 nm) and the charger Daytona made 390 hp and 490 lb ft (664 nm) of torque. These were more powerful than the Ferraris and Lamborghinis of their day
My father in law owned an original 1969 camaro stock. He recently sold it for a pretty penny.
I drove stick in my cars for decades and at work I drove an 18 wheeler with a 13 speed transmission and after time you just listen to the sound of the engine almost without realizing your doing it and shift without even really thinking about it
Luckily there are a lot of good condition and nice vintage muscle cars you can pick up in the us for not too much-like around anywhere from 15k-60k depending on condition and trim -the ones in this video the cars and prices are definitely the TOP of the line highest end ones at mint condition with like auction prices
Love these kind of videos.
i remember my brother worked at a gas station about 1975, and he was impressed with $1.25/hour wage!
my dad was a steel worker and made about $8/hour. back then it was all about overtime!
but, gas/gallon was about the same as a pack of cigarettes(maybe $.27/gallon)lol!!!
Check out Jay Lenos collection, it's quite large.
I'm old enough to remember all these cars in my high school parking lot (73 graduate). But I was always a motorcycle guy. My Kawasaki 500 Mach III (H1) turned the quarter in 12.6 seconds. Ate these cars for lunch. Love all these cars. Love those days. But two wheels have always been my passion to this day.
In a straight line. A friend had the 750 version. High speed cornering was a test of survival. But, if you were willing to wind out the throttle it was a lot of fun.
My house cost me $33,000 when I bought it in 1971 , I had a real estate agent appraise it last year ,the number was $950,000
Keep in mind that the US had half the population it does today and a person could buy a “starter” house for a little over $10,000 (2-3BR), an nice average size house(3 maybe 4 BR) for $25,000 , andand quite a nice house (4or 5 bedrooms )for $50,000. These would all be detached homes with about a quarter acre of land. Outside of the big cities and suburbs houses were super cheap and for the price of the same house in the big city or nearby Suburbs one might add $10,000 more. Houses were priced by the square foot and so the size of the house, number of bedrooms, and baths would figure into the price. The average salary during this time was about seven to $10,000 a year.
As the narrator said, some of these cars aren't strictly speaking "muscle cars". Purists draw a distinction between muscle cars and "pony cars".
A true muscle car starts its life as an ordinary mid sized car, with lower trim levels sold to families, business fleets, and rental car companies. The manufacturer, or a licensed after market tuning shop would then drop as large of an engine as possible in it, make the necessary modifications, and strip down other comfort accessories (air-conditioning, radios, etc) for weight savings. The Chevrolet Nova, the Plymouth Belvedere, the Oldsmobile Cutlass, and the Pontiac LeMans are examples of such cars. The muscle version of these cars were originally trim levels of existing models, but would later be categorized as their own models (Chevelle, GTX, 442, GTO, etc)
Pony cars are purpose built, distinct models unto themselves. They are characterized by short rear deck lids, larger rear wheels, and long front ends (hood/bonnet). Mustangs, Camaros, Chargers, Plymouth Super birds, and AMC AMXs are examples of pony cars.
By 1969, insurance companies were getting nervous about the growing horsepower of cars on American roads. As a result, car manufacturers were quite careful to publish conservative numbers for factory rated horsepower and torque. Engines of the day were actually 10-25% more powerful than factory declared figures - and easily tunable to far greater levels. What held them back from being as quick as today's cars, was their analog nature, and quality of tires.
Incidentally, I know that Europeans aren't used to cubic inches as a measurement of cylinder displacement. One litre is roughly equal to 60 cubic inches. Therefore, a 427 cubic inch motor has a metric equivalent displacement of about 7 litres.
Truly monstrous engines.
The Corvette fuel costs $10/gallon because it uses leaded 110 octane racing fuel. You can substitute Aviation fuel, commonly called AvGas. Its around 108 octane and runs about $7.50/gallon these days.
I run AvGas blended with 89 octane in my Mercedes. Its tuned for 100 octane, so it's a pretty good balance. Gives me an extra 50whp and 70tq.
You left out the SS454 chevlle
The astronomical costs are because these are rare antique classics. It's not because of regular inflation.
This video failed to mention the Yenko Camaros, Chevelles and Novas. Don Yenko was one of the most famous muscle car tuners during the late 1960s.He started out with souping up Chevrolet’s 67 Camaros at his Chevrolet dealership. He continued to work with the Camaros until 1969 when he decided to expand his inventory with the Chevrolet Nova and Chevelle. The Yenko Chevelle ran a 13.31-second quarter-mile pass traveling 108 miles per hour, and really should have been on this list
ALL muscle cars are rear wheel drive. Front wheel drive garbage did not appear in full force until the 1980's. Even today all serious performance cars are still either rear wheel drive or all wheel drive. It is almost impossible to overcome the torque steer inherent in FWD cars. Asking the front wheels to lay down serious power and steer is just too much. FWD was simply a way for manufacturers to make cars more cheaply. Manufacturers did a good job of brainwashing people into buying their new over-priced junk. It was a lie then as now that FWD is superior.
They missed the Corvette ZL1. They only built 6 with the all aluminum 427 cubic inch V8. It was $5,400 new and the last time one crossed the auction block it sold for $3.2 million dollars.
Nice rides! I have had a couple of these over the years some of them the same shown others same model but not the same platform. I love me some american muscle!!
Most, if not all those cars were geared more towards acceleration. Top speed numbers weren't that impressive usually, considering their rated horsepower. Those pushrod V8s aren't exactly known for their high-revving ability, either. It was all about torque and acceleration in the muscle car era.
But damn if they aren't some of the best looking and sounding cars ever made.
9:30 the GOAT...
Yes, they are all were wheel drive
The 120 horsepower on the inline 6 is deceiving. Those engines had lots of torque
The jump from $4300 to $170,000 takes into account the fact the car is a classic, hence expensive. $4300 isn't itself equivalent to $170,000.
To see the inflated original prices, add 716.01% to the prices shown (A x 7.1601). For example, the $4,300 Mustang Mach 1, translates to $30,788 in 2022. (Don't do the math for 2021 or 2020, the inflation will just depress you.)
Don’t worry most base model v8 classic muscle cars like classic mustangs, Camaros, challengers, firebirds, etc etc are around ~$30k-$60k in good running condition, the ones in this video, the reason why they’re so expensive is because these are the cream of the crop, the rarest of the rare, like only 20 to 300 made cars that are unicorns
Surprised my 69 GTO didn't make the list..probably one of the most sought after muscle cars today
The high dollar amounts of the cars you saw are restored models most of which seem to be Chrysler products which war basically cheap daily driver coupes that were muscled up with racing engines, bright paint, and decals. The king of the hill in the mid-60s was the dodge Daytona which a friend of mine claimed to have run up to 140 miles an hour. Most of these cars could not begin to compete in road races with European cars but we’re primarily set up for quarter mile drag races and oval track races. There were many other cars that were just as beautiful, if not more so, that did not usually come with the kinds of engines found in the strictly muscle cars. They did not have good suspensions for road racing, radial tires, or disc brakes and drank gasoline morning noon and night. Some of these cars were so fuel inefficient (No fuel injection)that you could literally watch the gas gauge drop upon acceleration. Luckily, gasoline was only about $.35 a gallon during that time. Most of these cars had fairly large gas tanks as well. Kids could drive their cars around most of the night on two dollars worth of regular gas. Many kids worked at retail stores and groceries in order to buy these cars in their basic model and then added parts as the money became available search that grease monkeys were pretty common in garages of the day.
My grandmother had a 1969 Camaro SS. I wish I had gotten hold of it.
Some of those cars were probably found at junkyards or abandon somewhere in a rural area with their tires rotted out.
in america the top speed matters much less than the acceleration needed for a good quarter mile.
I also like Capri's cars in red and black
My Dad bought a 1972 Dodge Charger brand new. Unfortunately he converted it into a drag racing car(added roll cage, revamped engine, added nitro and replaced panels with aluminum to reduce weight). Over the last few years he has been trying to convert back to a street car so he can sell it but he will never get the kind of money muscle cars go for because of the conversion. So sad.
These are muscle cars with specific trims, engines, and years with a full restoration. You can still get a like new, basically rust free muscle car that will need minimal work in the US for less than 50 grand USD. It just won't be specifically the features of the legendary famous muscle cars, or if it is a legend, a lower price will mean it will need a good amount of wrenching and welding. The UK weather absolutely murders American muscle cars with rust. They were made for the California Coastline and the dry roads of Texas and the Southwest.
Another great video. Do keep in mind that these cars are the "Apex Predators" of the muscle car world at that time, thus they are going to be astronomically expensive. However, if you truly love muscle cars there are a multitude of other more reasonably priced cars of that era that are available, as well as the lower trim optioned versions of the cars on this list. Most muscle car enthusiasts dont have the dough for these legendary machines, so they buy lower trim models of them and buy any one of the multitude of others available that are not mentioned here. The nice thing about doing so is that you can customize the car however you like and it doesnt hurt the value as much as doing so to one of these high dollar machines. Many guys choose to pull the stock engines and either rebuild them with go-fast performance parts or swap in a more powerful engine from another car. Just saying, theres plenty of options out there for you if you want a muscle car of your very own brother. Keep up the great work. 🤘🇺🇸
My dad got his hands on a 70 or 71 440 Magnum engine. I'm sure the engine needs a fair amount work done but he needs to find a good Mopar to put it in.
The price appreciation is often called the Boomer Tax. Their affluence and protracted midlife crises drove up the prices of even modest cars from this era way beyond reason. Now it's hard to find well-preserved ordinary Chevelles, Novas, LeMans, etc, because they've all had the badges of their rarer, musclecar cousins slapped on as "tributes", with a modern crate engine and a giant price tag.
Corvettes are usually considered actual sports cars, being two seaters. Classic muscle cars are rear-wheel drive, and they often DIDN'T have top speeds like you'd expect. Why? Gearing. Those rear differential ratios in the high 3s and into the 4s meant that all the torque was used up hauling the car as fast as possible in 1/4 a mile- the standard length of a drag strip. That and 0-60 were the measures of muscle cars. These cars, many cannot cruise at modern highway speeds, because with those ratios and 3 or 4-speed transmissions with NO overdrive, these massive engines are spinning madly, near redline. They'll be loud and roaring at 65 or 70, but spinning ridiculously fast fir their size- these engines are not meant for high revs. By comparison, police cruisers of the era often had the same engines and automatic 3-speed gearboxes, but numerically lower gear ratios and things like oil and transmission coolers for high speed highway cruising.
If you want to know the price differential of cars from then and current, just add a zero at the end of the original price tag of the old cars and you'll be close. The 69 Dodge Charger highest selling price is $1,320,000. A 1971 Hemi Cuda convertible sold for $3.5 Million. It just depends on the condition, original parts, and how rare the model is.
Being born in ‘69, I’m partial to this list of cars.
I'm from Columbus Ohio and my mom got her 3 level house in 1970 for 15,000 as a second owner