9 Quickest Muscle Cars Of The 1980s!

I call bullshit on 1/4 time of grand national.more like 13.6
To 14.35. were the hell do u get them mid 12. U need to do better research insted of this nonsense.

Talking about that 5.0 Capri showing it getting smoked by that old Chevy truck on the dragstrip...LOL

I bought a 1990 Thunderbird SC brand new in the fall of 1989. It was a great car. I believe that the power was under rated as it was really fast.

you forgot the 83 hurst olds, I had one great Boulevard brawler, handled great and a real cruiser

I don't know where you people are getting your information,but the 5,0 Mustangs didn't have 210hp.
I remember reading an article in Road and Track magazine, and in Car and Driver magazine, in 1991, and that's when they claim,the Mustang had finally broken the 200hp mark, with 205hp.
You did get the numbers right about the Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z's.
I must congratulate you for that, because most people get it mixed, and wrong!!!
They claim that it was the Mustang that had 235hp, instead of the IROC-Z'S.
They are sadly misinformed!!!
The Camaro IROC-Z's, and even the Z28's, were far better than the Mustangs back then!!

Notchback Fox body 5.0s.

GNX DIDNT GO 113 LOL

The fastest car of the 80's was the 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans Am!

85 corvette probably fastest American production vehicle of that year , not mentioned

If you think a GNX is .7 quicker in a 1/4 mile than a 89 TTA and does 113 bone stock I have some swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you

That mustang commercial was very 80’s lol

So called fast cars of the 80s were utter shit. The industry sucked ass back then. Absolutely terrible. 180hp from a 305? that’s less than a damn Honda Civic today lmao

What made me buy my '88 IROC over the vette at the time was the "bang for the buck." It also handled incredibly well, had decent acceleration (LB9), and pretty good mpg. I still love driving it, 35yrs later.

The 87-93 Fox bodies had 225 hp, so why show the 85 and not the 87-89?

My late model Tahoe runs a 15 second 1/4 mile…

I had an 82 GT t-tops 100 miles an hour the front end with the stupid.308 gears Ford putting back in the day my good buddy had a 87 RX7 kick my ass on a regular basis I could jump him out of the hole but he kicked my ass at 8000 RPMs f**** wiggles

I'd be willing to bet the SVO would beat it. Summit point

Road course

I'll give it to the GNX it was a stud

The 86 SVO mustang was stupid my big brother was a Ford salesman and he would tell me we'll switch cars and I'll beat you again. No matter what you drive

85 mustang

1985 that car was fast. Not as fast as my 68 Torino though

That’s my IROC on your thumbnail and my wife driving the yellow 2nd gen.

Why did you show all the cars you were talking about LOSING in the quarter mile??

Never seen the Yenko Z wow,

I'd love one of those GNX's or even the 442. IMO the best looking cars of that era.

The 87 to 89 5.0 LX would smoked all but the buick and then it would have been close. The fastest stone stock low option mustang in 89 went 13:9 at a 101.

These AI narrated videos are garbage.

The syclone was faster than the buick gnx

Gn overrated unless it was GNX it was no faster than 87-93 foxbodys facts

The 87-89 Mustang 5.0 -LX and GT is missing

I had a built 280Z in the early 1980’s. A few Z28’s, 6.6 TA’s & 5.0’s came up short when playing stoplight roulette with me.
The only car I ever raced that I lost to was a whale-tailed 911 on Lee St. one night. 1st gear was a fender, 2nd gear he was a 1/2 car ahead and 3rd he just drove out of my life.

I did encounter a modded GNX. The car ran 7.3 in the 1/8th mile and was owned by a mechanic at Black Olds in Greensboro North Carolina. It was probably the fastest street in Greensboro at that time. Too fast for my little NA 2.8L. I watched him run at Piedmont dragstrip several times. It was surprisingly fast & consistent at 7.35 in the 1/8th.

There were no muscle cars in the 1980s the were only cars that used to be muscle cars....

Where's the Buick Grand National and T-Type's...?!? This list is garbage...!!! My 81 Camaro is an high-eight second quarter mile car... My 79 Z28 is a 468cid powered street car with a th400 and 12-bolt 4.10 rear end... My 72 SS Camaro is a 383cid/t56 6-speed car... she loves corners and is setup for vintage road racing with modern parts...! Thanks, but this last really is garbage without the Grand National...! It was faster than Ferrari and Lamborghini's of the 80s...! Keep up your awesomeness, but you need to work harder from the looks of this list...!

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Why would they use the 85 mustang as the 80s example of that car ? The 87 lx 5.0 5spd was quite a bit faster

As someone that started drag racing in the 80s and love the cars from the 80s the 1/4 mile times in this video on most of the cars is not even close, in reality they were much slower

Loved my 1986 Dayton Turbo Z, 5 speed. It was quick. Wish I still had it.

I had an ‘86 Grand National
I added boost, bigger intercooler & turbo
Was very quick

I also remember there was a small dodge pony car size. That was turbo. They where quick too. I never owned one. But a guy in my unit had one.
I don't know the time. But I know it had to be fast enough to be on this list.
I believe it was a Daytona. Maybe wrong on name. 85 ish.

Boy I really wish much more research had been done.
This missed a lot of faster cars.
The 84 mustang SVO should have been on this list.
Not it had to be the 84. 85 and newer had to tone it down.
I'm not a 4 cyl person.
But that SVO ATE UP 5.0s and many other cars. Ford had problem from law enforcement over it. Since they sold them on the idea of the 5.0 GT
SVO were out running the CHP. Hence why the 85;was toned down.
But some took the parts from 84s and put them in 85s
There also was a thunderbird SVO.

By the 80's most cars were boxy, boring, and way underpowered. Imo car design was killed in the late '70s and today's cars are just aerodynamic plastic buckets with a little metal in them.

2001 WS6 Trans Am
6spd.
373 gear,
Shorty Headers,
free flow cats,
Cat Back Bola,
Smaller pulley and a tune,
Beat any car that ran a
1/4 mile in. 11:8 to 12:0
From a roll In first gear to fourth gear.

lot of people I raced taught I was spraying NOS, that’s how bad I beat them.

2003 Cobra with 500 HP, I beat, and he kept saying I am spraying NOS, I had to stop and show him that my car was not spraying NOS.

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My 2006 Mega Cab
5.9 Diesel Dually wt.7,500 pds.
Ran the 1/4 @ 15:5 @ 9? Mph.

Could of beat most of the cars of the 1980’s .

How could you leave out the sleeper OMNI GLH Turbo!!!!!! I had one and beat 5 of the cars on this list!!!!

Where was the Firebird on the list ?

Where are the hp/tq numbers taken, net or gross?

Outstanding video! All the numbers that matter...0-60 & 1/4 mi.