This is a list from period road tests, then scroll down to modern muscle cars and then to imports.
Tire smokers During the Musclecar heyday, the manufacturers "tuned" the cars before giving them to magazines for testing.As Truckedup said, many couldn't match the book times in when totally stock.
I'm searching for top speeds in my old car mags, so far the fastest automatic is a 3.55 geared Hemi Dodge,136 mph at 6200 rpm.A 70 Chevelle,454-450hp,3.70 gears,is the fasted 4 speed , 132 at 6500 rpm.
Almost all the 4 speed cars came with 3.23-4.10 gears,most had rpm limitations of 6000 rpm due to beathing(camshaft) in stock form.With a typical 26-27 inch tire,140 mph was well beyond the engine rpm limits.Automatic cars could have 3.08 gears on some models, with the slippage in the transmission, the top speeds were the same as stick cars.
