1962 the scurge of the drag strip,Mopar 426 max wedge . I didn't forget G.M. and Blue Oval boys.,playing catchup. I hope I didn't tick off anyone, it's only for discussion .race on !!

Larry Apodaca bout the '63 "Melrose Missile" and drove it on the street.

It's almost like they are so ugly their cooler than the good looking cars. That they were so fast helps too!

409s were garbage lol.

@@frigglebiscuit7484 Thats why it was replaced by the 396/427

The 4 speed 'bolts would beat the MoPars in stick shift classes. The MoPar 4 gear was not easy to powershift.

There were what was called the clutch flite trans which was a 727 set up for drag racing that had its bell housing removed for a bolt on piece then a clutch adapted to the input shaft of the trans so the pump would work the automatic transmission half of it. Basically you use the clutch to launch & stop with but once under way you shifted the automatic by either push button or just letting it shift on its own . Not sure if they ever used them in Super Stock though being the cars had to be pretty much stock from the factory but I do know they used them in the altereds that were alcohol or nitro enderle injected Hemi's just for the fact that torque converter technology at the time wasn't very good especially on engines that had huge duration cams & needed a loose converter to get the engine in a better rpm range to launch hard . The other reason for the ban on neutral drops was because with the 727 if you neutral drop at high rpm's then drop it into low gear that shocks the rear sprag which back then they didn't have the better bolt in sprag with more roller bearings on it to take more abuse from racing but once that sprag let's go the clutch drums can also explode tearing the transmission in half or possibly even cutting the drivers foot or leg off which eventually led to better made parts for the 727 & the development of the trans blankets .

Polycarp Hunter Did your brother take you to any of the street racing in the hood??? I had my brother and sister and brother in law take me all the time and I feel in Love with it real young. Woodward was cool and on Nothline Rd was far out before they expanded the airport and the Silver Bullet was the king of Woodward and Terry was in Bob Seagers band... Man those were the days!!!

In your dreams.

@@jameswinter6125 And to top it off, the MOPARS were running an automatic transmission, a pushbutton beating those also rans," yes, we were there but we were not even close to those MOPARS".

a first year mustang!

@@strangelyfamiliar1729 booby prize

I know, right? I was thinking the same thing!

I have a buddy that raced dirt track... he was a real plumber with 6 crews, so they had TONS of lead around. One day we went to the track and someone had stuck a bunch of tools in the trunk of the dirt car.. So, Andy moved them out ... people see him taking a huge amount of weight out. Soooo, he soon became the guy to buy lead from.......

Yeh I agree😀

Yep, NHRA could not stand that the Mopars were so dominant. If it had been a Chevy with that sort of domination, they would have been fine with it. NASCAR did the same thing, after the Hemi came out and dominated, they let the Fords and Chevies continue with two four barrel carbs and allowed only one on the Hemis. When the Hemis started to win with just a single carb, they made them start putting Restrictor Plates between the carb and the manifold to choke them down. If that hadn't worked, they would have come up with some other way to restrict them.

Wally parks said we don't care about Chrysler we want this to be a Ford and Chevy battle,and that's when they added weight to the Mopar pro stocks in order to slow them down.talk about blatant hate for mopar.in my view Wally parks was a piece of Shit💩

@@justenough730 Doing it again to Factory Stock Challengers

Yep, GM = Big Money . Something Chrysler couldn’t compete with.

Mopars have looked bad ass since the mid 50s for the most part.

Today's technology is a soy boy's dream,

You put the same technology in the motors today and you have 330 MPH Top Fuel cars...So it's all relative...

show me a mid 60s import doing 128mph in the 1/4...

never was beet by a Hemi sorry my lady with a 355 chevy

@@jimnitire street hemis were garbage. 440s would eat your 355 though. so would a 340.

Some of it is the low stall TQ's, but I think it's all the tires could put to the ground also. tires were only 9 inchs wide and not very good, they didn't want to break traction and spin the tires

@@summitdrinker I agree. I went to the drag races back at that time and the worst thing that a driver could do would be to smoke the tires and lose traction. Any time you saw a stock or Super Stock car smoke the tires, they almost always lost the race.

Traction was a killer. That's why Landy moved the rear wheels forward for better weight transfer.

I went to the 50th anniversary birthday party for the HEMI at the CHRYSLER MUSEUM in March '03. Some of the RAMCHARGERS team were there. A great evening!

Michigan Mafia MX That’s farout did you meet any of the guys from Ramchargers???

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! me to.

Thank you for a really neat insight into this part of racing history.

ulijohnne yeah man . we are same age . I miss the 1970s but I still mess around with the Mopars and I've had a lot of them six pack cars xcetera. The 70's era was really something else either racing or on the street. And they have gotten so much more out of the super stock cars these days. The ET times are truly incredible and the horsepower figures of the super stock race hemis really astounding these days

sorry

You ever see a black Mopar with "The Man from D.O.D.G.E." on it? 4 speed Hemi car. A buddy owns the car now. NW car from Lithia Motors

+fourfortyroadrunner I wish I was, but I was a little kid in 1964

+Andre Casey I don't know