10 Quickest Muscle Cars of 1968 | What They Cost Then vs. Now

Back in 73 looked at and drove 68 vett L88 4 speed one piece hard top like Sl Mercedes. Price 7000. Now 500000

Life was so different then. Worked at a McDonald’s in San Diego. All us kids working there, except me, had muscle cars, 442, GTO, about 5 mustangs, nova SS, 3 RoadRunners and more. I had a 57 Fury-318, dual quads, 290 hp. A dog, but a great cruiser. Blew the head gasket. Ditched it. Bought a 63 Impala SS convertible—all show, no go. 283 with a 2 barrel, 2 Spd auto on the floor. Used to put my top down, stick my Bear surfboard top down just under my seat, sticking out the back. I couldn’t make it from Balboa and down Mission Blvd without a girl jumping in. It was the 60’s and California girls were the most beautiful in the world. God, I’m old.

I would like a 68 Hurst Olds Cutlass, Peruvian silver and onyx black stripes, with air induction to the 455 under the hood. I wonder what those go for these days.

That GTX has got me excited its beautiful

All beautiful cars. The 1960's was a decade long, with as much history as most centuries packed in.

That over head cam straight 6 with a 4 barrel carb 2 speed automatic made the Pontiac firebird a contender

You can spend 40K on a Tesla Model 3 and run an 11.8 quarter mile, however it is nowhere as cool as an old school muscle car

i miss my 67' Chevelle SS

They all got better in the next couple of years

My cousin graduated high-school and bought a new charger and went mining in az. This kept him in chargers a new one every couple years. All were orange . But he bought a 68 rt charger with the 426 hemi. He drove that one for 10+ years until they came out with that Mitsubishi charger came out . SMH

I love cars also but all I have is a 1990 1LE-IROC-Z 350 auto w/o air or power windows or door locks or a radio. It has 6.3 miles on it, they made only 28. Paid it off and have a 1992 1LE-B4C 350 that I drive as they made 250 of them.

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In 1972 my cousin and I bought some flood cars in Pennsylvania I bought a 1964 Pontiac Bonniville and he bought a 1968 396 Chevelle both for $100 he told me years later he couldn’t get the engine running and he junked it
What a mistake and only 7 were ever made OMG

Would love to see 1965.

best era for automobiles

That Corvette is a monster!!!

I had the BEST ❤❤❤❤

My brother in law gave me his 69 chevelle Ss for my 16th Birthday. It was an Awesome car. Wish I still had it. My Dad Loved the car sooo much that he Bought my Sister a Brand new 1972 For my sister. We even drove that car from Corpus Christi ,Texas toOrlando ,Florida for a vacation. As a kid I vaguely remember a road in Florida with no speed limit. My dad got that car over 100 mph. It was a coool experience 😀😀😀😀😀😀

I got out of the Navy in 1970 and bought a ‘68 Olds 442.

Quickness and muscle were difficult to join. Zero to sixty, the quarter mile and top end were different beasts. I both lived in and loved the muscle car era. You could easily take something stock and turn it into an absolute monster. Working on and driving them was so much fun. I wish I still had all of them.

To my eye 1968 was just about everyone's best looking year.

Great video! The 1968 Chevelle SS and 1968 Dodge Charger RT are my two favorite muscle cars! Hope to be able to get one someday

REALLY ONLY a REAL nut will buy any automobiles with ( any computer's ) REALLY Believe it or NOT. I REALLY DO ALREADY REALLY KNOW Because I AM a REAL ( ASE ) certified ) Real ( Master ) ( AUTO technician ) with way over 60 year's of REAL experience on Real automobiles . yes REALLY ! . Believe it or not ! .

Really that was when american REALLY -made beautiful automobiles REALLY now days American automobiles REALLY are so ugly REALLY I will NOT buy NOT any new automobiles .yes REALLY American automobiles NOW Days REALLY are Real ugly Now Days . Yes REALLY Billions of Real Americans will NOT buy NOT any new automobiles NOW Days Yes REALLY !.

GREAT video!

The biggest difference between a '67 & '68 model muscle car was the DOT required "side markers". Very little body style changes were made in '68. I graduated high school in '68. Back then you could just look at a car and know the make, model & year! Not so much today.

One problem with the stock firebird ,when the car got up close to 100 mph the body would start to float and there was this feeling of loosing steering control. Unsettling.

Very nice 😊

Cars use to look so much better. Cars today all look the same and every SUV looks the same. Plastic pieces of crap.

Damn!

In ‘74 I purchased a 1968 Z/28. A friend of mine owns it today since I have owned by 1970 Z/28 since 1981 that I bought from the original owner. All my Z’s I’ve owned are/were 4 speeds.

Very cool video. Thank you.

I need to win the lottery

1968 Ford Mustang that is!

I was only 13 years old in 1968. I loved the design of the 1968 2 door with the 289cc engine. I was fortunate enough to get one in the early 1980’s and I owned it for 35 years. It was always a head-turner!

In 1970, bought brand new 4x4 chevy shortbox for $3400.00. Was offered to buy 3 for $10,000. Dealer told me they were just boy toys. He was wrong, wish I would have kept it.

My 68 GT fastback Mustang was a 390 with 300 HP I was working for ford motors Mahwah NJ and got it brand new for $100.00 over dealers cost paid $ 2800. Would race it at island Drag way Great Meadows NJ. Best time stock was 13.7 104 MPH. Those were the days.

My 1963 caddy with 15K original miles and 2 doors is a masterpiece of Automotive art. No AC to make it heavy. Original red paint! Its the only car that will operate after nuclear war:)

my 1966 427 corvette with mech. Lifters was rated at 450HP when it first came out. And only 3200 pounds

my first car was a 1968 galaxy 500, with a 490 and the cobra jet 500 carb I got it up to 120 mph in a game of catch me if you can with a fire bird formula 400like most kids I'm guessing I loved that first car the convertable was a per fect car for an 18 year old.

You needed a hemi to carry that heavy pile of steel to the next gas pump, because the guage would be on E

I'll take the Cougar.

Very beautiful amazing looking cars beautiful colours thanks friend good morning

I drove a 66 Barracuda at that time and put a built 340, fenderwell headers and Dodge truck trans. in it, 3.91 gears.
no one beat me.. 11.9-12.0 quartet mile. never cared who had what.. the headlights all looked the same in my mirror.

My first car was a 1968 Malibu, (Red) Chevy (327 C.I.). Purchased in Cal for $2200.00 with low mileage. Totaled it the same year with five friends in the car; doing about 110. No one got even a scratch and not any were wearing seat belts. I had the Astro Supreme wheels which were very popular back then.

That Corvette was priced in Cadillac territory at that time.

I'm a FoMoCo fan, but I like most Detroit iron from the good old days. And, that 427 Chevy Biscayne looks bad to the bone in black, and it is with that engine!

Auto reviewer Joe Oldham alleged the 426 Hemi lacked low-end torque, and would only perform at wide-open throttle.

I've had lots of fast cars ranging from Corvettes to a TVR but my favorite ride was my 1969 Dodge Charger R/T with a 440 V-8 Magnum. I bought it new from a dealer after someone special ordered a number of items deleted and didn't buy it. It had no A/C, no power steering, no power brakes, and the rear R/T strip was also missing. The 4-speed Hurst shifter came with a bend to get it closer to the driver. It was a beast to drive w/o power steering. but you could catch rubber in all four gears. It was also fun to run in first gear on idle, and let it chug abound the local drive-in. I never made any mechanical changes to it but I did install rear speakers and a 4 track tape deck (later upgraded to an 8-track lol).

1960 up to the beginning 80s are the car era were you had REAL cars. Not that junk they lie to people claiming they are cars that they make now a days, which stoopid high prices not even worth the value of it..
-Biscayne will evolve into the Chevy Impala/Caprice. Like the Galaxy/Galaxy400/and so forth, evolved into the LTD, then evolved to the LTD Crown Vick/Crown Vicktoria