Drag Race: 1970 Hemi 'Cuda Versus 1971 Buick GS 455

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These were two of the hottest muscle cars available back in 1970. Let's settle the score once and for all: which is fastest?

If you were to write up a top ten list of the best muscle cars of the original era – between 1964 and 1974 – you had better make sure these two are on that list. The 1970 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda and the 1971 Buick GS 455 are two of the most potent machines of that era, hands down.

This video by Cars and Zebras on YouTube shows the two muscle machines of a bygone era squaring off against each other in the modern age. Both cars are stock, but obviously restored.

While the '71 Buck GS 455 isn't the legendary Stage 1 model, its engine has been rebuilt to exacting standards and it is running as well or better than a factory Stage 1 car would have back in 1971.

The rules of F.A.S.T. Factory Stock drag racing prohibit almost all deviations from stock. However, the engines car be rebuilt to much better standards than the factory used back in the day.