I'm actually a V8 stick shift man eyeing the 5.0 Mustangs. But in early 1987 I drove my god-brothers '87 T-Type and I was sold. I later purchased my '87 GN in September, my first new car. With a chip and test pipe(deleted cat) I ran 13.60s on the stock Eagle GTs. When needed I would replace the cat and stock chip when I had to go to the dealer for warranty work. The mid eighties kicked off the modern muscle car age. With the intro of electronic fuel injection and forced air inductions paved the way for what we have today.
Ironic how the same generation that was buying these cars are now running the EPA and trying SO HARD to kill motorsports. Do what we say, not what we did.
Mid to late 80s it was more like the IROC-Z and the Mustang GT were at each other’s throats. The Grand National was a cut above when it came to straight line performance.
@keith7630 yeah Iroc's to but I definitely know because I was a heavy street racer in Detroit back then with my first 5.0 in the 80's and it was always a Grand National lined up next to me
@keith7630 you still got that Grand National...I still own my Mustang...my '88 got stolen so in '91 I brought a Notchback and still have it in my garage
My dad bought an 86 t-type when i was 16 (and if i were good all week i could drive it to school on Fridays, lol). It was bone stock and ran 14.2 @ 98 at the track, which was enough to beat up on all my buddies' imports in 2000. When i graduated 2 years later i had ran a best of 11.82 @ 117 with pretty simple mods.
When I was in my early twenties I pulled up to a Grand National at a red light. I had a VW VR6 GTI. I knew what my car could do and I didn't give the car next to me a second thought. I know now how fast a Grand National is. That car blew me away with my jaw dropped. And it was being driven by a blue haired granny!
@@OhItsThat Jeff’s little 5.0 LX coupe was impressive with multiple 14.1 times. It was a very hot day. Better weather conditions he might’ve been able to squeeze out a 13.9 possibly.
@@nedaCFilms Did the Pure Stock class allow for any wiggle room or were they completely stock off the showroom floor at the time? Thanks for sharing, love these videos!
@@nedaCFilmsI was a bracket racer in the 90s in street stock class depending on the event .We had a 1990lx 5 speed with 3.27 rear gears on street tires 14.2 all day in the Houston Texas heat . My 1983 gt with a 5 speed would run low 15s all day in stock form . I can't remember seeing many gn or t types but they seemed to run low 14s in stock form . I left the sport in the early 2000s it just got too expensive. With tech fees and track fees.
My first "good" car was a 85GT. Traded my Zephyr when I graduated high school and could get a real job. That black Mustang was 100% stock but it would still move. When racing I would flip the breather cover over giving the carburetor a wee bit more air. Seemed to help. Love these videos.
Yes.... in those days I was in the scene. That is exactly how it was. GN''s ruled the drag strip (rich guys), 5.0L ruled the street, and Z28's and TA's had the best looking girls riding in the passenger seat. The rest of of us.... we wanted those cars
@@rolltide9547They really wasn’t that far apart. You had to be excellent at rowing gears and launching in the Mustang though. GN was point and shoot. So most of the time GNs won the drag race. The 5.0s are so much more fun to drive. Light and agile with a 5 speed. Just a set of gears made a big difference with them. Most came with a very tall 273. GN’s all though fast for their time were boaty floaty suspension wise. They was considerably heavier.
@@rolltide9547 I remember in 1986 going to bradenton. GN's were there with tire, boost increased, race fuel and tune adjusted. (they were all guys with wealth). Several of them were in the mid 11s and most were in the 12s. 5.0L guys were doing really well to break into the 12s. Most were in the 13.4-13.6 area if they had tires.
@@rolltide9547 Foxbodies had and still have a huge aftermarket parts availability. They GNs was cheaper to get to the 11s I agree. But it wasn’t hard to get a Foxbody into the 11s either. Just took a little more chedder $. HCI and some giggle gas or a centrifugal would get you into the high 11s. Much more than that though you would have to upgrade to forged internal. But the Buick GN wasn’t any different. You start dipping into the 11s the 3.8 needed a beefier bottom end as well
I bought a brand new 86 gt 5 speed ..gave 13k for it, I knew the GN’s were supposedly faster but they were so rare in my area you never saw one to race…5.0’s ruled, nothing else stock could hang…
Had a 85 GT auto and then a 89 5.0 LX 5 speed. One of the first tricks we would do is throw on a short belt to bypass the power steering and smog pump.. instant car length.
And to think this was before guys really learned how to tune ,after market parts, cool cans, and other performance mod to really wake up 3.8 Turbo's!!!
13:80 in a 1987 GN = I have a chip and exhaust 13:80 in a 1987 Mustang = I have a 3:73 rear gear and I can drive it like I stole it. Remove the cats for more fun. At 17 in 1987, I could afford neither. So I bought a 1981 6 cyl Mustang and dropped a modified 351W in it. These cars were no problem. Nobody thought they were going to lose to a kid.
@@HAL-dm1eh I took the turbo 2 intercooler parts from a Daytona Shelby Z, added the Mopar performance computer to and a bleed off valve to add more boost, and switched over the Dodge Daytona A555 transmission complete with its 5 speed setup. It was one bad mofo. Quickest run back then at Great Lakes drag way was 13.4 at 104 mph in 1988
I went way too far with my stock suspension Buick. It had an Indy v6 then a nascar V8 block both twin turbos. Smoking mustangs in the late 80’s was fun. I own an 87 turbo regal and a ‘22 s550 Shelby gt-500. Both great cars. It’s not really one or the other to me anymore, I love them both.
No Mustang SVO's, or anything Lima based like the intercooled T-Bird? Would have been funny to see the SVO against a Windsor powered car at the end to show how you didn't stand a chance in the 80's w/out forced induction.
I owned a 87 Z28 back in the day and got bullied by GT Mustangs all the time ,I was so proud GM came out with the Grand National to bully them back! I couldn’t afford a GN or I would have bought one!
@@jimmycline4778 unlike Ford which used the same 225hp 5.0 engine across the entire V8 line, GM had multiple versions that ranged from 170hp up to 245hp. Most 5.0 Mustangs ran across the LG4 and L03 5.0 Camaros unfortunately because they were everywhere. Most folks don’t realize that GM also had a performance version 230hp 5.0 LB9 / G92 5-speed model that performed just as well as the 5.0 Mustang, as well as the 5.7 L98 models. Both of those models could run lower 14s and came down to a drivers race against the Mustangs. Unfortunately the LG4 and L03 powered cars were so abundant, that they gave the 3rd Gens a bad rep sadly. I wrote a blog many years ago titled “not all 3rd Gens were created equal” that has a lot more detailed information on the 230hp 5.0 LB9 TPI with G92 package.
crazy my 85 gt was running 14.30''s stock at carlsbad and terminal island. Gears , underdrive crank pulley and exhaust and stock GN's i would take. Miss those days. Really miss those days.
@@wydopnthrtlyeah true. But the little 5.0 foxes had a lot of aftermarket support. It to could be in the 12s pretty easily. Both were kings of the era.
If you chance to encounter a GN nowadays, I guarantee your Accord would be the one hanging onto the leash for dear life. The top level Accord for 2017 could do 0-60 in 5.5 seconds; the stock '86 GN did it in 4.9 seconds. Interestingly, the Accord and GN weigh approximately the same, 3500-ish pounds. If you find a GN nowadays, it's a very slim chance it'll be unmodified. And modified, you'd be waterskiing behind it in your Accord.
I remember when the GN were new and my dad had one over the weekend to try out. He let me take it for a drive with him. I didn’t beat on it but was really unimpressed with the 6 banger sound and no torque around town. I guess if you beat on them they woke up a little
You must've been in a pre-1986 GN. The pre-intercooled GN's weren't the same thing, though they looked almost identical. The "hot air" cars were decent enough for a V6 but it wasn't until 1986 when GN's earned their well-deserved infamy.
It’s funny, my 5.0 is running 3 seconds faster than these cars, and I am way slower than modern hellcats and Shelby’s. Amazing how much things have changed.
The absolute best sounding exhaust.... EVER... is a 5.0L w/o cats and flowmaster 40s. I have a 04Z06 with full exhaust and its awesome. But my 5.0L stangs sounded even better.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, if you had a car running in the 13s, you had a pretty quick ride. 12 second cars were street monsters and if you had a car running in the 11s, you might have to go to the next city over to find someone as fast.
@@Danlovestrivium I was a teen in the mid 80s. Quickest muscle car I knew of was actually a neighbor. In about 81-82 he spent $6k on a small journal 327 and TH400. 3.73 rear in a 74 Z28. On slicks he ran a 11.98 and on eagle ST's he ran high 12s as it would not hook. Everyone else I knew had 15-16 second cars. My first time running down the strip was in 86. I went all I could and YES 12's were all modified cars and had some kind of sticky tire. Anyone on street tires was only in the 13's at best. LOL.. that 74 Z28 was the first 1/4mile pass I took (passenger). We were on eagle ST's and he launched soft, rolled to the floor, and when it shifted into 2nd we left a 100ft long black patch. I was only 16 but I went back to that spot every day for a week just to be in awe. Now-a-days I've failed if my 04Z06 can't crack a 12.5 on all season tires
@@Dave86GT-fj6lk the Mustangs had 300lb-ft of torque and were also nasty out of the hole but they ran out of breath at 4500RPMs due to restrictive exhaust ports and long intake runners. There’s another longer “80s Shootout” video on the channel with a couple 5.0 Mustangs smoking the GNs out of the hole only to get caught before the finish
@@nedaCFilmsPersonally think the 5.0s had better 60ft times. Buick had some turbo lag out of the hole. Once the boost hits they just kept pulling away from a Foxbody. They simply just had more horsepower.
@@markball7028if you pre-“spool” the turbo like your supposed to, off the line it will leave launch with 3 to 5 lbs and will rocket that a55 down the strip and gett rubber in second gear like it should. 87 VIN code 7 owner.
These races are kind of boring to watch. Turbo GN against a car without a turbo. You already know who's going to win. Can you imagine if the mustangs back then had Turbos on them. I had a 82-5.0 stang and it was a nice car. But I would never Race. GN.
1st of all, back in 1987 no one understood forced induction like today. Everyone’s quotes were “no replacement for displacement”. So a 3.8L vs a 5.0, everyone mostly betted on the 5.0. But the 1985 SVO Mustang 2.3L turbo. So yes, Ford Mustangs did have turbos. Still wasn’t faster than the GN.
So many of these idiotic "turbo the 5.0" comments...well, Buick was well ahead of their time to build a turbocharged, intercooled V6, which is pretty much standard nowadays...but they were the first to do it in the smog-ridden 80's, and pull unreal performance out of a big badass grandma car...and that's all she wrote.
@@theewelder actually 5-speed trannys are lighter and free up more horsepower compared to an automatic, but automatics are generally more consistent. If I were building a purpose built drag car it would have a built reverse manual with shift kit automatic, but clutch cars are cooler and more fun. The 5-speed 5.0 Mustangs always outran the automatic 5.0 cars, unless the driver sucked lol
I'm actually a V8 stick shift man eyeing the 5.0 Mustangs. But in early 1987 I drove my god-brothers '87 T-Type and I was sold. I later purchased my '87 GN in September, my first new car. With a chip and test pipe(deleted cat) I ran 13.60s on the stock Eagle GTs. When needed I would replace the cat and stock chip when I had to go to the dealer for warranty work. The mid eighties kicked off the modern muscle car age. With the intro of electronic fuel injection and forced air inductions paved the way for what we have today.
Ironic how the same generation that was buying these cars are now running the EPA and trying SO HARD to kill motorsports. Do what we say, not what we did.
I'll never get tired or bored of watching these!!
@@RyanGallager was an awesome decade!
The good 'ol days...these 2 cars was always at each other's throat in the 80's...Grand National's vs 5.0 Mustangs
Mid to late 80s it was more like the IROC-Z and the Mustang GT were at each other’s throats. The Grand National was a cut above when it came to straight line performance.
@keith7630 yeah Iroc's to but I definitely know because I was a heavy street racer in Detroit back then with my first 5.0 in the 80's and it was always a Grand National lined up next to me
Mustang was never at a Grand National's throat. More like watching its ass.
@@wood4278 If in the metro Detroit area, It could have been me in an ‘86 GN lined up against you one of those times. 😁
@keith7630 you still got that Grand National...I still own my Mustang...my '88 got stolen so in '91 I brought a Notchback and still have it in my garage
If you ran 13's in the 80's you were a big deal!
@@sm65-wj2bc yes sir!
I think the Brown buick that the guy just kept saying was a Regal was actually a T-Type.
My dad bought an 86 t-type when i was 16 (and if i were good all week i could drive it to school on Fridays, lol).
It was bone stock and ran 14.2 @ 98 at the track, which was enough to beat up on all my buddies' imports in 2000.
When i graduated 2 years later i had ran a best of 11.82 @ 117 with pretty simple mods.
The Dodge Omni was a big surprise at redlights back in the day.
Same with the VW GTIs.
@@korndawggy1801 Yup. those were some fast little buggers. the 90s GTIs were fast.
@@korndawggy1801 my two roommates had a 16V GTI and a G60 Corrado. I was surrounded by yuppy VW snots lol. I have some great stories though lol.
@@tangledline Dodge Omni GLH. Goes Like Hell.
I had one, kind of scary as it was a junky car except for being fast.
When I was in my early twenties I pulled up to a Grand National at a red light. I had a VW VR6 GTI. I knew what my car could do and I didn't give the car next to me a second thought. I know now how fast a Grand National is. That car blew me away with my jaw dropped. And it was being driven by a blue haired granny!
Sweet. My mom had one of the last GN’s made in 1987. Such a cool car.
A V6 eating V8s all day was shocking back then.
@@OhItsThat Jeff’s little 5.0 LX coupe was impressive with multiple 14.1 times. It was a very hot day. Better weather conditions he might’ve been able to squeeze out a 13.9 possibly.
@@nedaCFilms Did the Pure Stock class allow for any wiggle room or were they completely stock off the showroom floor at the time? Thanks for sharing, love these videos!
@@nedaCFilmsI was a bracket racer in the 90s in street stock class depending on the event .We had a 1990lx 5 speed with 3.27 rear gears on street tires 14.2 all day in the Houston Texas heat . My 1983 gt with a 5 speed would run low 15s all day in stock form . I can't remember seeing many gn or t types but they seemed to run low 14s in stock form . I left the sport in the early 2000s it just got too expensive. With tech fees and track fees.
it was/is boosted vs NA…..…..
Boost the 5.0 it wins
My first "good" car was a 85GT. Traded my Zephyr when I graduated high school and could get a real job. That black Mustang was 100% stock but it would still move. When racing I would flip the breather cover over giving the carburetor a wee bit more air. Seemed to help. Love these videos.
like anybody cares
@@brianfeeney3936 You are probably right. I’m just an old man reminiscing. I appreciate your comment smartass.
@@brianfeeney3936People like you make comments no one else should care about.
Thank you for your great classic postings! 🔥💥✨🔥
Those turbo Buicks were tough competitors back in the day. It was a good rivalry. Everything loved to line up against a 5.0. Good times!
Yes.... in those days I was in the scene. That is exactly how it was. GN''s ruled the drag strip (rich guys), 5.0L ruled the street, and Z28's and TA's had the best looking girls riding in the passenger seat.
The rest of of us.... we wanted those cars
On the street mustangs were grand national food.
@@rolltide9547They really wasn’t that far apart. You had to be excellent at rowing gears and launching in the Mustang though. GN was point and shoot. So most of the time GNs won the drag race. The 5.0s are so much more fun to drive. Light and agile with a 5 speed. Just a set of gears made a big difference with them. Most came with a very tall 273. GN’s all though fast for their time were boaty floaty suspension wise. They was considerably heavier.
@markball7028 You could make buick an 11 second very easy vs a 5.0.
@@rolltide9547 I remember in 1986 going to bradenton. GN's were there with tire, boost increased, race fuel and tune adjusted. (they were all guys with wealth). Several of them were in the mid 11s and most were in the 12s.
5.0L guys were doing really well to break into the 12s. Most were in the 13.4-13.6 area if they had tires.
@@rolltide9547 Foxbodies had and still have a huge aftermarket parts availability. They GNs was cheaper to get to the 11s I agree. But it wasn’t hard to get a Foxbody into the 11s either. Just took a little more chedder $. HCI and some giggle gas or a centrifugal would get you into the high 11s. Much more than that though you would have to upgrade to forged internal. But the Buick GN wasn’t any different. You start dipping into the 11s the 3.8 needed a beefier bottom end as well
Very cool old footage!
I bought a brand new 86 gt 5 speed ..gave 13k for it, I knew the GN’s were supposedly faster but they were so rare in my area you never saw one to race…5.0’s ruled, nothing else stock could hang…
Had a 85 GT auto and then a 89 5.0 LX 5 speed.
One of the first tricks we would do is throw on a short belt to bypass the power steering and smog pump.. instant car length.
Foxbody hit their stride in 1989.
I still got my 5.0 HO + 5spd
Me too
well great .. whats your point
And to think this was before guys really learned how to tune ,after market parts, cool cans, and other performance mod to really wake up 3.8 Turbo's!!!
@@doncnunez6231 and some GN owners didn’t yet understand brake boosting either. Finding that sweet spot rpm range with roasting the tires
Barely 70CI less than the 5.0 with boost. It was a monster.
But, we wonder what would the 5.0 do with 10psi?
Damn i thought the fox bodies were supposed to be so quick 😂
13:80 in a 1987 GN = I have a chip and exhaust
13:80 in a 1987 Mustang = I have a 3:73 rear gear and I can drive it like I stole it. Remove the cats for more fun.
At 17 in 1987, I could afford neither. So I bought a 1981 6 cyl Mustang and dropped a modified 351W in it. These cars were no problem. Nobody thought they were going to lose to a kid.
351W sounds about right. Anything else required that $600 adaptor kit kids like me and our working dads never afford.
I miss those days when we just run what we brung at the track. Nowadays, these shit heads race on the fwys and takeover intersections!
I had an Omni 1986 GLH Turbo. My favorite car ever. Sold it to help with my wedding. Miss it badly.
Still married?
@@nedaCFilms yup lol
@@HAL-dm1eh I took the turbo 2 intercooler parts from a Daytona Shelby Z,
added the Mopar performance computer to and a bleed off valve to add more boost, and switched over the Dodge Daytona A555 transmission complete with its 5 speed setup. It was one bad mofo. Quickest run back then at Great Lakes drag way was 13.4 at 104 mph in 1988
Another great video!
Always my favorite racing ❤🐾🐾 little v6 that could ❤ one of my favorite tracks tooooo
It’s amazing to me how slow the fast cars were back then.
I went way too far with my stock suspension Buick. It had an Indy v6 then a nascar V8 block both twin turbos. Smoking mustangs in the late 80’s was fun. I own an 87 turbo regal and a ‘22 s550 Shelby gt-500. Both great cars. It’s not really one or the other to me anymore, I love them both.
No Mustang SVO's, or anything Lima based like the intercooled T-Bird? Would have been funny to see the SVO against a Windsor powered car at the end to show how you didn't stand a chance in the 80's w/out forced induction.
I owned a 87 Z28 back in the day and got bullied by GT Mustangs all the time ,I was so proud GM came out with the Grand National to bully them back! I couldn’t afford a GN or I would have bought one!
@@jimmycline4778 unlike Ford which used the same 225hp 5.0 engine across the entire V8 line, GM had multiple versions that ranged from 170hp up to 245hp. Most 5.0 Mustangs ran across the LG4 and L03 5.0 Camaros unfortunately because they were everywhere.
Most folks don’t realize that GM also had a performance version 230hp 5.0 LB9 / G92 5-speed model that performed just as well as the 5.0 Mustang, as well as the 5.7 L98 models. Both of those models could run lower 14s and came down to a drivers race against the Mustangs. Unfortunately the LG4 and L03 powered cars were so abundant, that they gave the 3rd Gens a bad rep sadly.
I wrote a blog many years ago titled “not all 3rd Gens were created equal” that has a lot more detailed information on the 230hp 5.0 LB9 TPI with G92 package.
What a nice race track! Must be beech bend raceway..😊
crazy my 85 gt was running 14.30''s stock at carlsbad and terminal island. Gears , underdrive crank pulley and exhaust and stock GN's i would take. Miss those days. Really miss those days.
I was there in the 80s in central Fla. A GN with a few mods would run high 12s on street radials. 5.0's ran low to mid 14's.
If you done modifications that's not stock lol.
@@wydopnthrtlyeah true. But the little 5.0 foxes had a lot of aftermarket support. It to could be in the 12s pretty easily. Both were kings of the era.
what is even point of your comment
Imagine showing up there from the future driving a 2024 Mustang Cobra their faces would be priceless
Or a kids electric bike from 60 yrs in the future running any late model (to us)car
When I ran my 1991 lx basically stock I routinely ran 13:90 at 100 or so. These cars must be stock and heat soaked!
Man, hard to believe the GN would get walked by my 2017 Accord. I thought those things were faster than 14.5.
If you chance to encounter a GN nowadays, I guarantee your Accord would be the one hanging onto the leash for dear life. The top level Accord for 2017 could do 0-60 in 5.5 seconds; the stock '86 GN did it in 4.9 seconds. Interestingly, the Accord and GN weigh approximately the same, 3500-ish pounds. If you find a GN nowadays, it's a very slim chance it'll be unmodified. And modified, you'd be waterskiing behind it in your Accord.
Buick Grand National/GNX/Regal T-Type are great cars. I'd take a stock Regal V6 right now
The Omni GLH/GLHS was a bad little car too
The 80's 302 ho 5 speeds 👍🏾
I remember when the GN were new and my dad had one over the weekend to try out. He let me take it for a drive with him. I didn’t beat on it but was really unimpressed with the 6 banger sound and no torque around town. I guess if you beat on them they woke up a little
You must've been in a pre-1986 GN. The pre-intercooled GN's weren't the same thing, though they looked almost identical. The "hot air" cars were decent enough for a V6 but it wasn't until 1986 when GN's earned their well-deserved infamy.
5.0 stangs were so damn slow lol. I had one used to get my ass handed to me on the regular.
good old days ...
Never thought I would see a Dodge Omni outrun a Mustang 😂.
@@hurricaneaquatics the Mustang won that race 😉
They bring fans with them put under hood between races major turbo lag when gn got hot
A set of 3.73 gears ⚙️ in the mustang would take care of them grand nationals all day long
Yup 👍 didn’t need much
I doubt it!
You needed alot more than gears to beat a gn.
In that era buicks won 95% of the time.
Ya but after couple run Buicks got hot had cool off
It’s funny, my 5.0 is running 3 seconds faster than these cars, and I am way slower than modern hellcats and Shelby’s. Amazing how much things have changed.
The absolute best sounding exhaust.... EVER... is a 5.0L w/o cats and flowmaster 40s.
I have a 04Z06 with full exhaust and its awesome. But my 5.0L stangs sounded even better.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, if you had a car running in the 13s, you had a pretty quick ride. 12 second cars were street monsters and if you had a car running in the 11s, you might have to go to the next city over to find someone as fast.
@@Danlovestrivium I was a teen in the mid 80s. Quickest muscle car I knew of was actually a neighbor. In about 81-82 he spent $6k on a small journal 327 and TH400. 3.73 rear in a 74 Z28. On slicks he ran a 11.98 and on eagle ST's he ran high 12s as it would not hook.
Everyone else I knew had 15-16 second cars.
My first time running down the strip was in 86. I went all I could and YES 12's were all modified cars and had some kind of sticky tire. Anyone on street tires was only in the 13's at best.
LOL.. that 74 Z28 was the first 1/4mile pass I took (passenger). We were on eagle ST's and he launched soft, rolled to the floor, and when it shifted into 2nd we left a 100ft long black patch. I was only 16 but I went back to that spot every day for a week just to be in awe.
Now-a-days I've failed if my 04Z06 can't crack a 12.5 on all season tires
The tourqe of the GN's got them out of the hole quick and the Mustangs just couldn't make up the difference.
@@Dave86GT-fj6lk the Mustangs had 300lb-ft of torque and were also nasty out of the hole but they ran out of breath at 4500RPMs due to restrictive exhaust ports and long intake runners.
There’s another longer “80s Shootout” video on the channel with a couple 5.0 Mustangs smoking the GNs out of the hole only to get caught before the finish
@@nedaCFilmsPersonally think the 5.0s had better 60ft times. Buick had some turbo lag out of the hole. Once the boost hits they just kept pulling away from a Foxbody. They simply just had more horsepower.
@@markball7028if you pre-“spool” the turbo like your supposed to, off the line it will leave launch with 3 to 5 lbs and will rocket that a55 down the strip and gett rubber in second gear like it should. 87 VIN code 7 owner.
That trans am was wickedly slow
They werent supposed to be fast. Smogged out engines, 2.41 axle ratio they were more for style and handling. Almost nothing in the 70s went fast
You could buy two new Mustang 5.0's back then and still have money left over vs the cost of a Grand National, 😂😂😂
Yeah maybe, but who'd prefer to have two 5.0's? I'd take a GN over 3...maybe 4 or even half a dozen 5.0's.
Been better off with the SVO mustang than those 5.slows
Not just a mustang, but the much lighter capri, and the GN still spanked it.
Gotta love dragging with no helmet . Ahh the good Ole days
The Mustang was sandbagging
Turbo NO VALE.....pongake al 302 un Turbo a ver
But Ford 302 did not come with turbo from factory, the Buick V6 did. The Buicks were faster when they were new from the factory.
Well just put turbo on the 5.0!
Silly response. Sure, turbo the 5.0. Then twin-turbo the Buick. Duh. Back in the 80's, Ford DIDN'T turbo the 5.0. And that's that.
These races are kind of boring to watch. Turbo GN against a car without a turbo. You already know who's going to win. Can you imagine if the mustangs back then had Turbos on them. I had a 82-5.0 stang and it was a nice car. But I would never Race. GN.
1st of all, back in 1987 no one understood forced induction like today. Everyone’s quotes were “no replacement for displacement”. So a 3.8L vs a 5.0, everyone mostly betted on the 5.0. But the 1985 SVO Mustang 2.3L turbo. So yes, Ford Mustangs did have turbos. Still wasn’t faster than the GN.
@MrNismopro in 1983 there was a 4 cylinder turbo Gt mustang. Not very fast.
So many of these idiotic "turbo the 5.0" comments...well, Buick was well ahead of their time to build a turbocharged, intercooled V6, which is pretty much standard nowadays...but they were the first to do it in the smog-ridden 80's, and pull unreal performance out of a big badass grandma car...and that's all she wrote.
Lawnmowers will outrun these guys nowadays 😂
A 3 Cylinder Corolla can keep up, and there are stock F-150’s that are quicker. What a time to be alive haha
@@JoeStill-un9gp to me it’s just a little funny is all, even my car with a cheap tune will keep up with these cars.
My damn 2012 Silverado will outrun these guys.
the Buick is turbo charged, duh
I forgot how slow these cars actually were, lol.
autos are so much faster......
@@theewelder actually 5-speed trannys are lighter and free up more horsepower compared to an automatic, but automatics are generally more consistent. If I were building a purpose built drag car it would have a built reverse manual with shift kit automatic, but clutch cars are cooler and more fun. The 5-speed 5.0 Mustangs always outran the automatic 5.0 cars, unless the driver sucked lol
Lol 5.0 H.O.😂