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Originally Posted by jaynutter2
As far as the power of those old muscle cars, wasn't HP rated differently back then? I can't remember where, but I read somewhere that those cars would be rated much lower today. Not to mention their 0-60mpg and 1/4 miles times are being produced by cars with much lower HP.
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Yeah, once they actually started regulating how they rated horsepower almost every car had a massive drop in advertised power.
The '78 base model Corvette only made 185 hp from it's 350 cu small block.
It took a while for manufacturers to get back to "big numbers" with the combo of the change in rating system and early smog tech.
Nathan