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16/02/2012 11:48 am
According to Hemmings Classic Car, the Top 10 Most Powerful Classics...
(American makes, listed by decade) are:
Most Powerful Veteran Car, pre-1905: 1904-'05 Buffum 4-4 Greyhound Eight, 80hp
Most Powerful Brass Era Car, pre-1916: 1907-'08 Apperson Big Dick, 96hp
Most Powerful Teens Car: 1919 Porter Model 45, 125hp
Most Powerful Twenties Car: 1929 Duesenberg Model J, 265hp
Most Powerful Thirties Car: 1932-'35 Duesenberg Model SJ, 320hp
Most Powerful Forties Car: 1940 Cadillac Series 90, 185hp
Most Powerful Fifties Car: 1958 Mercury Park Lane, 400hp
Most Powerful Sixties Car: five-way tie:
1963-'67 Full Size Ford, 425hp;
1963-'64 Full Size Chevrolet, 425hp;
1963-'64 Dodge Intermediates, 425hp;
1965-'66 Full Size Chevrolet, 425hp;
1968-'69 Full Size Chevrolet, 425hp
Most Powerful Seventies Car: 1970 Cadillac Eldorado, 400hp
Most Powerful Specialty Car: 1924 Doble Model E, 75hp
The editors make their cases for these picks in the April 2012 issue.
16/02/2012 4:19 pm
I wonder how the Apperson got it's name?
16/02/2012 4:36 pm
LOL !
16/02/2012 5:28 pm
And it was B4 a person knew about an APP
16/02/2012 6:49 pm
We know it today as...
The Wienermobile!! LOL
16/02/2012 6:51 pm
Obviously size mattered.
16/02/2012 6:54 pm
The company was founded by the brothers Edgar and Elmer Apperson 1901 shortly after they left Haynes-Apperson
The Apperson car was produced from 1902 to 1926 by the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company, which was located in Kokomo, Indiana. Apperson Brothers was founded by two brothers, Elmer and Edgar Apperson. They had worked with Elwood Haynes previously under a partnership company called Haynes-Apperson Automobile Company, and they even built one of America's first automobiles, which was designed by Haynes.
17/02/2012 7:16 am
I wonder what the rating would have been if it was power to weight ratio instead.
Also, several cars in the 60's were proven to have far more horse power that the mfg's claimed values. Possibly for insurance purposes?