Six-Cylinder Hondas have about 300hp these days....Most the the ‘baddest’ Muscle cars from back in the day can’t compare to most stock six-cylinder cars these days...It’s about more than HP in this car...And, I bet 120k will not touch it at Barrett-Jackson.
I read an article in a Sports Car magazine where a Honda Odyssey Minivan with a big six utterly destroyed a 60s era Porsche and Jag XKE wearing 60s era rubber. The minivan slaughtered them both on braking, acceleration, top speed, etc. And the slalom made it even worse.
They didn’t expect it to be competitvie at all, so they had brought along some modern tires to help the minivan. When they threw those on, it became a total route.
In some ways, surely. Though not entirely true unless you're talking braking and handling.
If you're looking at 0-100kph figures or 1/4 mile ETs, most of the foundation test report figures of the time (Motor Trend, Car & Driver) had varying methods for achieving these results.
Most any '60s muscle car can shave 1 to 2 seconds off their factory floor ET with a tire change and some tuning, presuming that they're not detuned for modern 92 unleaded pump gas.
Some of the 'baddest' '60s muscle cars are still highly impressive in their acceleration performance, but maybe I'm thinking of the limited factory production models as being 'baddest', like the '64 Ford Thunderbolt A/FX cars with the SOHC 427 FE that would run high 10s on slicks and tuned/timed for 129 octane race fuel. You may be thinking 'GTO' or 'Chevelle SS396'.
And old gentleman at a car show parked his Thunderbolt next to my Chevy at a classics show a few years back and we spent an hour talking about his car even though he pretended to be more interested in mine. People who knew what they were looking at saw his as a true-born NHRA treasure, while lots of tuner kiddies with imports visiting the show (kids who wouldn't know genuine magnesium Halibrands if they saw them) mostly regarded it as a silly old redneck man's car not even worth the once-over... until he fired it up a few times and let everyone at the show hear what 700hp worth of mechanically fuel-injected motor through straight un-muffled exhaust pipes sounded like.
Sounded like an F4U Corsair idling, and made the street smell like burning sauerkraut from spitting unburnt fuel ... thoroughly gassing everyone out and making children in strollers hold their ears and cry.