10 Fastest Classic GM Muscle Cars

When you think about muscle cars from the classic era, Dodge, Plymouth, and Ford immediately pop into your mind, but definitely not General Motors. That's because GM is a huge blanket corporation with several makes under its name. You know, Chevrolet and Pontiac muscle cars, plus probably Buick and Oldsmobile as well. Mopar had a great line-up of American muscle, Ford Lincoln-Mercury had a huge stable of pony cars, AMC was a serious player, but GM could hang with them all.

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One of the biggest reasons why GM brands don't have as much widespread recognition as classic muscle cars is because the corporation had a ridiculous and arbitrary rule that only full-size cars could have engines bigger than 400 cubic inches. This means that while Chargers, Barracudas, and Mach 1s were tearing up the tracks, Camaros and Chevelles were tragically underpowered.

Thankfully, GM finally ditched that stupid rule in 1970 and all of its brands took advantage by making some of the most insanely powerful rides ever. Yes, Chevy had the Corvette, which seemed exempt from the rule and was the ultimate speedster on the road, but that was a two-seat sports car, not a muscle car. As the company that began the craze with the 1964 Pontiac GTO, here are the fastest classic GM muscle cars ever made.

TimeStamp:
00:00 intro
00:12 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS
01:11 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 455
02:05 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 454 SS
03:06 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Ram Air IV
04:14 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W30
05:17 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
06:17 1970 Buick Gran Sport 455 Stage 1
07:14 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS 396
08:12 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 455 Super Duty
09:23 1963 Pontiac Tempest Super Duty

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[joshthemediocre]

I love all old muscle cars, Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, Dodge, Pontiac and Olds...they have all made someone's favorite car.

[alanscobie]

The last car you called a tempest, was a Catalina, a full size pontiac.

[classified]

Just a side note, the Trans Am shown in this video is actually a 1972 which can be identified by the one year only honeycomb front grilles, plus the SD455 was available in 73 & 74 only as the car shown did not have SD on the shaker.

[packrcch]

that 70 Camaro z28 is immaculate! inside and out.
i would be afraid to drive it…..

[auto-Insight-yt]

nice video, i love watching classic muscle cars ❤❤

[packrcch]

i always preferred the 396 chevelle over the 455.

[fredstuckmann]

I had a 70 Grand Prix with the 455 SJ option, awesome car, but my top speed was in excess of 140, at least according to the speedometer, which I pegged.

[FullContactDrummer]

Funny hearing AI read some of these car names. Oldsmobile four hundred and fourty two? LOL

[lifehappens]

Good video, but I’ll point out the Oldsmobile 442 was NOT a “four hundred and forty two”.
The number stood for “four barrel carburetor, four on the floor, dual exhaust.”

“Four, four, two.”

[painkillerjones]

Dad had a 69 Chevy II Nova. It had everything the SS had - (this was the 350-4barrel version) console, buckets, rally wheels, but $90 a year LESS on insurance!!
($90 a year meant something back then)

[tomm]

Thank You for the information and beautiful pictures of these old mussel car. keep up the great work. 74 years old PMD lover

[billbernhard]

Even without the biggest engines, these were excellent, fun, inexpensive, GM offerings ! What has happened to the auto industry of today ?

[kylecrawford]

Maple Motors footage on the 69 Nova. That's funny.

[senioraces]

great video, all my favorites included. Thanks!

[johngranato]

I grew up through the 60's and 70's and saw all these cars--in driveways, parking lots, on the curb, etc. Wow

[bartbullock]

Old school here, In 73.. You could order a stage two cam, And quite a few made it out with that cam, (455s.d.) They discontinued that cam grind because it idled so rough, Even though they did not change the part number, The motor was a beast, it idle so rough everybody in the car were like bobble heads, Add a stop light.
570 fpt... The automatic was faster than the stick, You just couldn't get it to bite even with 10 inch slicks, on a good day.
Low 10's, You would have to feather the throttlefor the first 100 ft. I heard stories of some pulling the wheels off the ground when they went into second, Is turbo 400 with a kit, That's a lot of iron to come off the ground, I could tell while riding in the car it was close.
freaking Fast, real detroit iron.
Fact.intake, carb, exh.man.(s)

[lorenhewitt]

The 1962 Catalina in the video wasn’t a Tempest.

[Aussie-]

The little red beast in my photo is a 1976 Aussie GM Holden LX Torana. Top speed 127 mph with a 308 ci 5lt Aussie engine. Destroyer of the Ford 351 around the famous Bathurst Track. RIP GM OZ

[johngranato]

Those later Nova's were uuuggglllyyyy

[davidmorris]

Good god man, stop calling the Olds 442 the four hundred and forty two. It is called 4-4-2!