Muscle car shootout on TV.....

[x Baldwin Motion]

I dont have that stuff Bruce.
Don't make me ask the kid for one more favor!!
It's such an inconvenience for a teenager to record things for the old man.

(I used to be Santa, remember?)

chris

[Denis]

Kevin Suydam sent his 69 Yenko Nova and his 69 Baldwin-Motion Camaro up there for Peter Canuck to bang on.

[DarrenX33]

Who's Norm's Bee?

[Charley Lillard]

He wanted the Super Snake for that shootout...I said uhhh no.

[COPO]

That is awesome! Can't wait to watch the shootout.

[Chevy454]

Bruno...I'm gonna guess that's your green Poncho? And if so, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it smoked the others in the drag strip portion of the event?

They shoulda hollered at Pete and got a COPO Camaro to at least keep 'em honest...

[bashton]

The shot of Suydams Yenko Nova doing the smokey burnout followed up with a "power slide" is just too cool.

Can't wait to see this episode!

BA

[69hurstSC]

thank you to everyone who let there cars get rung out on that show!! i really hope no one holds this as some test as to see what car is superior. superbee's slaloming against ponycars...hmmmm....

[69hurstSC]

wow, suprising results. its just so hard to know if any mods were done to these day 2 cars. once they get the bugs out of that SYC Nova it should improve drastically on the 1/4.

[StealthBird]

Here are the results:

Braking
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1. 69 Shelby Mustang 428SCJ
2. 69 RAIV GTO Royal Bobcat
3. 69 Baldwin-Motion 427 Camaro
4. 69 AMC Hurst Rambler/Scrambler
5. 69 Super Bee (Mr. Norm's)
6. 69 Yenko Nova 427

Slalom
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1. 69 Baldwin-Motion 427 Camaro
2. 69 Shelby Mustang 428SCJ
3. 69 RAIV GTO Royal Bobcat
4. 69 Super Bee (Mr. Norm's)
5. 69 AMC Hurst Rambler/Scrambler
6. 69 Yenko Nova 427

0-60 mph
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1. 69 RAIV GTO Royal Bobcat - 5.40 sec
2. 69 Super Bee (Mr. Norm's) - 5.65 sec
3. 69 AMC Hurst Rambler/Scrambler - 5.85 sec
4. 69 Baldwin-Motion 427 Camaro - 6.05 sec
5. 69 Shelby Mustang 428SCJ - 6.20 sec
6. 69 Yenko Nova 427 - 6.25 sec

1/4 mile
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1. 69 RAIV GTO Royal Bobcat - 13.04 @ 106 mph
2. 69 Baldwin-Motion 427 Camaro - 13.41 @ 106 mph
3. 69 Super Bee (Mr. Norm's) - 13.83 @ 102 mph
4. 69 AMC Hurst Rambler/Scrambler - 13.87 @ 101 mph
5. 69 Yenko Nova 427 - 13.96 @ 101 mph
6. 69 Shelby Mustang 428SCJ - 14.08 @99 mph

The RAIV was the overall winner.

The Yenko Nova suffered wheel hop and was a fresh resto, but I don't believe it was "off" enough to explain why it came in dead last in nearly every event.

The Shelby had the largest factory wheels and tires, the AMC Rambler/Scrambler had the smallest.

The RAIV just flat out cranked, although I did notice the car lift its ass end on launch, so I believe it may have had hop-stop (or no-hop) bars installed. This may explain why the GTO seemed to hook much better than the other cars.

BTW, I'm only here to gloat.

Seriously, it was a very cool shootout, and I'm sure there will be lengthy debates as to why these cars ran quite a bit slower than what we've seen at the Pure Stocks.