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Chevrolet Camaro Performance Times

November 11, 2009
Pete Dunton

 

special note: all peformance times are listed in seconds.

Year

Model

0-60 mph

  1/4 Mile

Engine

Trans.

Source 

1969 Camaro Z28  7.4 15.12 @ 94.8 mph 302 CID V8 n/a  CL 8/69 
1982  Camaro Z28  9.1 n/a
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2010 Mercury Grand Marquis LS – Last of the Greats

November 11, 2009
Pete Dunton

10grandmarquis-s.jpgOnce upon a time the dinosaurs roamed the earth exclusively, so too at one time the big V8 powered full-size cars roamed the United States in the same fashion. Small cars were rare and for the eccentric, small sports cars

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1976 Cadillac Seville – Good Things Come in Small Packages

October 26, 2009
Pete Dunton

76seville1a-s.jpgAfter World War II until about 1980, Cadillac was the standard of the world when it came to luxury cars. No other automaker did it better or sold more luxury cars than Cadillac. Even Lincoln, which had its share of

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1985 – the Year American High-Performance Returned

October 12, 2009
Pete Dunton

1985-perf-s.jpgEveryone has heard the saying – “it is always darkest before the dawn”, for American performance car fans the period of the mid-1970s to early-1980s was a very dark period. During this time engine displacement shrank faster than the current

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1984 Ford Mustang SVO – Ford’s Fuel Efficient Road Rocket

September 15, 2009
Pete Dunton

84svo-s.jpgFord having muddled through the 1970s without any major breakthrough innovative cars, was changing its tune by the 1980s. Ford decided by the early 1980s to cast its stodgy image aside and begin to build innovative and modern looking cars.

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2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited (5.7 Hemi) – the Legend Continues

August 30, 2009
Pete Dunton

09grandcherokee-s.jpgLong before the term SUV was invented, Jeep was delivering to its customers a solid off-road capable four-door family friendly SUV.  The first of these was the 1963 Jeep Wagoneer. It was rugged yet very comfortable – it was as

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1984 Chevrolet Corvette – the Reborn Corvette

August 11, 2009
Pete Dunton

84corv-s1.jpgFor those old enough to remember, the Corvette (GM’s premier sports car) had turned into a flashy two-seater by the mid 1970s. The 1978 film Corvette Summer epitomized how flamboyant the Corvette had become. The Corvette by this time looked

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1970 Pontiac GTO Judge – Color Me Gone

July 23, 2009
Pete Dunton

70judge-s2.jpgThe GTO was one of the biggest success stories in automotive history.  For the first time an inexpensive fast performance car was available to the masses, creating a whole new market segment called muscle cars. Within a few years just

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2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8 – the Perfect Modern Muscle Car

July 2, 2009
Pete Dunton

2009srt8cha-s.jpgLife is full of compromises. Usually you must give something up to get something in return. So it is always a nice surprise to find something that is not a compromise. The 2009 Challenger SRT8 is just such a find.

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The Penske Plan and Free Trade Part Deux

June 21, 2009
Pete Dunton

penske1-s.jpgHow the times have changed. In the last thirty years free trade and U.S. Government regulations along with a few other factors have put the U.S. auto industry, once one of the largest employers of Americans, on the ropes. Chrysler

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