Sorry for you doubters, but my '64 GTO, when new, with Carter AFB, 7.50X14 Uniroyals, 3.90 gears and wide ratio Muncie would do 0-65 all day between 4.3 and 4.6 seconds using a mechanical stop watch. This was with my brother-in-law in the passenger seat running the watch.
I used 0-65 since that was the speedometer error--65 on the speedo was exactly 60 mph as determined by highway markers and a stopwatch.
That same car also ran 14.08 @100.00 at the drag strip. This was before any mods to the engine, but with a pair of Hoosier recapped drag slicks I borrowed. Drag strips were much different in the '60's. Anything but slicks would result in wheelspin as though you were driving on wet pavement. There were no bleach boxes--that came later. After adding Tripower and the "Royal Bobcat" treatment, Doug's three-tube headers, the car ran a best of 13.29@109.75.
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