Match Race 1972 ~ 'Duster 340 vs 'GTO 400'

My 72 340, 4 spd with no power options, 3:23 gears. I loved the car, but was no comparison to the 69 340-S 4 spd Cuda I traded on it. That car was a street terror with 3:91 rear.

The 72 was respectable though. It felt good and yes the Thermoquad was a cool factor. It ran a 15:30 (I am pretty sure, still have the time slip somewhere) with the tires you see in the picture. They had a pretty hard compound, and though they hooked well on the street. At the strip you might as well have had baldies on the back. The 15:30 was with the tires going completely up on smoke.

That car is a Beauty. No doubt with some "sticky" tires it would have been in the 14's.

Track times really didn't give a total picture vs street work. A little "roll on" and not going to a extreme mph on the top end would make a well tuned car much stronger on the street then just a ET slip. I'm sure it held it's own, and then some.