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Bad driver?! YIKES! Not to speak for Terry, but I'm guessing he was having some kind of problems or something on the early run(s)...I even think rain was an issue at that event. Any way, that car has ran 11.4s, and even ran 11.70 at that event...that car will FLY.

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The reason I said a poor driver I saw a video where Terry was a sleep at the light more than once
Very poor reaction time, so I was led to believe he did know how to drive it [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/blush.gif[/img] Maybe He did have problems but my frist reaction was that he was a little slow off the line
Norm
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Look at his mph on that run....96 or 98 something happened...maybe rain
in his other runs, in this issue of hot rod, his mph is more like 121 [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] that got him an 11.48
Don't worry, I am sure COPO Pete should have some numbers for us in no time in his "new" zl1 [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

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"new zl1"...? Do tell!

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Nice...should have finished reading before I posted!

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If you want to say Hemi dart/Cuda, then ya, it's a toss-up on whether you can consider them 'Factory Built'.

But the 1965 A990 Hemi Coronets and Belvederes came down the assembly line, and produced 11.09/125mph.

Read more about them here: 1965 A990's Bevedere and Coronet

Any Hemi car that was not equipped with the Factory Crossram race hemi cannot be considered a contender. The inline dual quad motored cars were a much milder version (street hemi) than it's previous cars.

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Found a pic of new Hemi Darts and Barracudas. It was built by a vendor to race in Super Stock and was sold as an unfinished race car with narrow tires just for shipping. I don't think it would run in the 12s in the as delivered condition but it is not really a factory built car. The ZL1 Camaros were also built for Super Stock but were sold as a complete car. I would vote for the ZL1 Corvette as the quickest car to leave a real factory assembly line. (for the old school cars)

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Was the 11.09@125mph done through the stock exhaust and on the skinnies? Didn't they still come with regular exhaust installed?

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According to one article the Hemi Dart came with headers but it does not day if there was any mufflers or exhaust pipe.