Most Iconic Engines From The Golden Era Of Muscle Cars!

I'm 68 years old. I owned almost all those engines during my life. They were all great engines.

The mopar small block 340. These were badass high reving engines. I won a lot of drag races with it.

Great list but the giant killer 340 mopar should have been included.

Oldsmobile!! How could you leave them out??? The infamous 442-W30!!! They were a powerhouse. I had a 69 I got from a vet from Nam. It had only 20k original miles on it. Went threw that car soup to nuts. It was amazing!!! These kids today wouldn't know what to do with so much stock power!!!

Totally forgot the BUICK 455 STAGE 1 !!! The all time torque MONSTER of 1970 !!! 510 foot pounds of torque !!! On a good day !!!

Chevy 454 in the chevelle ss how did you guy's miss that?

I really appreciate everything you guys did about the engine series. But it would have been great if you guys could have mentioned something about the Oldsmobile engine's? Next time you need to remember that Oldsmobile was going on back then too.

The Buick 350. The forgotten engine and Mopar 340. The Oldsmobile 442. The Electra duce and 1/4

Chevy, after 1969, punched out the 396 .30 over. Making it a 402. But on ss cars it was 396 on passenger cars it was 400 and pick ups 402. " Insurance costs." Also Chevy built the DZ 302 from 1967-69 . The original Boss 302.

Chrysler 340. The big block beater. The reason the production of the Chrysler 400 and 440 ended was it was a condition of the government load Chrysler got In 1978. If you find a 1979 Chrysler product with a 440, it's in inventory prior to the loan. They would have kept building them for truck usage.

I miss my '63 389 Catalina

Um 1970 454 LS-6! The most powerful engine of that time!

428CJ SCJ, 429 CJ

greatt video !

The only problem with the 455 Pontiac, 428 Pontiac and the 421.,they had a heavy 3.25 main bearing size. The reason Smokey Yunick quit Pontiac was the 3.25 main bearing . The 351W had a 3 inch main like the 351M and 400 had a very sluggish powerband.

I'm not expert on this stuff, but the video caught my attention. I was an avid Motor Trend reader in my teenage years in the late '60s and early '70s, at I seem to recall that as of about 1970, the fastest stock car Motor Trend had tested was the Buick GSX running the Buick 455 cu. in. engine. In fact, I just looked it up and MT got 13.38 in the quarter mile.

The 409 deserves much more than a passing mention while talking about the 396. It was an iconic engine in its own right. Also, Chevrolet never put it in an intermediate sized car. The whole reason it came about was because they needed something more than a small block to power their full size passenger cars so they started putting the 348 in their full sized cars in 1958. In 1961 they increased the displacement to 409 and it became legendary even though it was only available for five years. I think they should have mentioned the Ford Flathead V8 too. Even though it wasn’t produced during the muscle car era, what hot rodders were doing with them in the fifties was one of the things that led to the muscle car era.

As usual - the government ruined the real performance years of US. Cars ! We sure were Having fun with our cars ! All of ‘em . They were all good in their own ways !

It's really hard to believe that you didn't even bring up the Buick Buick 455GS stage 1 stage 2 wow

There we sorta got some of it ! Good show -