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Contemporary road tests and retrospective reporting establish clear quarter‑mile figures for the (roughly mid‑ to high‑14 seconds and faster in modified forms), but the specific factory quarter‑mile t...
The GTO arrived as a factory performance package built around a 389-cubic-inch V‑8 that was officially rated at 325 horsepower with a single four‑barrel carburetor and 348 horsepower when equipped wit...
Cliff Gromer is a veteran American automotive journalist and editor best known for his long association with Mopar-focused publishing—serving as writer, editor and publisher of Mopar Action—and for ea...
’s 1984 revisiting of its 1964 “GTO vs. GTO” material recirculated the magazine’s original performance claims for the Tempest LeMans GTO—most famously a 0–60 mph time of 4.6 seconds and a quarter‑mile...
There is no authoritative, factory or magazine-sourced quarter‑mile time for a stock mid‑size fitted with the 198 cubic‑inch in the reporting provided; sources document the engine changeover, displace...
Published, period testing for the equipped with the 426 HEMI and 4.10 rear gears did not consistently publish a canonical time, but contemporary test results and later reference compilations allow a r...
’s March 1964 GTO feature broke the conventions of contemporary road testing by pairing dramatic narrative, painted cover art and exhaustive lap/acceleration claims while relying on dealer-prepared “r...
Contemporary sources do not list a factory 436‑cubic‑inch engine for the , and none of the provided reporting gives a direct curb‑weight figure for a equipped specifically with a "436" engine and a ma...
The quickest quarter‑mile time appearing in the supplied reporting is 11.81 seconds, recorded by a raced 1962 Plymouth Fury Max Wedge according to its current owners and Hot Rod’s reporting ; this fig...