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10 FASTEST Australian Street Cars Ever Built.

You might enjoy an old YouTube video of my favorite make, the lowly Buick. Check out,
1960 Buick Invicta, 10,000 miles in 5,000 minutes. Same engine I had in Grandpa's old '66 Wildcat. It embarrassed a lot of muscle cars, of the 70's, at my local highschool.
 
because rego covers insurance, all the kids drive fast cars ins Oz
 
Getting back to Mr Poole's Grandpas Buick.. Jees, in the UK in the main, it was probably 4 cylinder 1.4 engines in the 60s VS stateside cars that you could fit eight people into most probably. Awesome America for you.

 
A few too many posts Soz- always liked the look of the Plymouth Sport Fury - some 40 years back probably, used to sometimes look at the UK Classic American Magazine. This youtube one, guy bought his mid eighties Sport Fury from the original owner for $200. Nice.

 
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Shame about the Robot voice but some cool cars.

A mate has a VXR8 which I think is a rebadged Holden Comadore. Supercharged LS3 by Walkinshaw performance. It's a true beast and a match for any US muscle car.
 
Looks like the Australians had some real muscle cars. The old Carrol Shelby principle, stick a big high powered engine in a smaller car and look what you got. I had a factory supercharger 200BHP SLK.. just a 1.8 Kompressor- it used to pull like a train and sound like a beast if you booted it down a B road. Nothing like a stateside or Aussie muscle car though.
 
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Manley JP said:
Looks like the Australians had some real muscle cars. The old Carrol Shelby principle, stick a big high powered engine in a smaller car and look what you got. I had a supercharger on my first 200BHP SLK.. just a 1.8 Kompressor- it used to pull like a train and sound like a beast if you booted it down a B road. Nothing like a stateside or Aussie muscle car though.
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Not Carroll Shelby, that’s just the muscle car principle. John DeLorean invented the muscle car with the original Pontiac GTO. Carroll Shelby did a similar thing, but just wanted to go racing, so he used a smaller “pony car” engine- the Ford 289 in a small British sports car- the AC Ace to create the Cobra. Then when more power was needed he went to a muscle car motor- the Ford 427 for the wide boy Cobras. Basically mirroring what they did with the GT40. Muscle cars are “full size” cars- Dodge Chargers, Pontiac GTO, Plymouth Roadrunner etc. Pony cars are mid-size, stuff like Mustangs, Camaros & Trans-Am. Then the Cobra, Corvette etc are really sports cars/GT’s.
 
That 68 Plymouth Sport Fury ticks the boxes for me. Lovely. I used to have a Brooklands book on the Cobra many decades ago. I do like the hardtop that you can bolt onto the Cobra. All beyond serious money. The first generation Corvette Is great, Oldmobile Toronado, loads of great stateside cars- lucky them. Imagine winning the lotto, you could rent a couple of old motors out maybe for a few weekends and see which one you might like to buy.

I saw an original AC Ace in a car show about four years back, rare I do stuff like that, but this guy had a legal street car, an old AC Ace, a bit battered and the info board which he had left out, said he rescued it from a skip and part restored it. Battered about but what a great little car. Street legal and still being used.
 
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I was sorely tempted to buy a V8 Monaro when Vauxhall introduced them to the UK market in the early 00's. It was a 2 door Coupe version of the Vauxhall Omega Rep. Saloon (probably copied from a Holden) and about £16K at the time but, the Fun Police blocked me from using my Car Allowance so, I went 'dull Corporate' and played it safe with a 320d Touring instead.
 
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One of my favourite old channels I used to watch on youtube.. Flemings Ultimate Garage.. some great motors.. usually with his use car sales talk he goes "I am Tony Fleming and this is Flemings Ultimate Garage.... Check out the four wheel independent suspension, the full array of gauges and 8k rpm tachometer- when I put the car sales data sheet against the paint, you can see the writing reflected in the paintwork... somebody's baby.. a second car for sure.. if you have $, and can find a way to get this in your life, call us and we can tell you all about it"... great channel.


 
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how about Vauxhall Maloo The Aussie Hooligan, I had the pleasure of driving one a few years back. pure muscle with room for the surf board.:LOL:
 
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Imagine smoking a cars tyres like that.... that would be more tyre wear than my car gets in a year.. looks like the old school stateside pick up. All that space in the back for all the tools or whatever you are carrying around.

Edit- reminds you of the stateside El Camino pick up.
 
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Manley JP said:
Imagine smoking a cars tyres like that.... that would be more tyre wear than my car gets in a year.. looks like the old school stateside pick up. All that space in the back for all the tools or whatever you are carrying around.
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They where evil we had about 5 in for de-fleet inspection couldn't resist the offer to test one yer they chewed tyres and drank fuel can you imagine the cost of fuel today we used to say buy one and a tanker to follow you
 
Mark E Smith said:
I was sorely tempted to buy a V8 Monaro when Vauxhall introduced them to the UK market in the early 00's. It was a 2 door Coupe version of the Vauxhall Omega Rep. Saloon (probably copied from a Holden) and about £16K at the time but, the Fun Police blocked me from using my Car Allowance so, I went 'dull Corporate' and played it safe with a 320d Touring instead.
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I think i remember some knowledgeable person saying that Holden did have a input
 
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