It enabled the car to hit 0-60 in 7.5 seconds and a quarter-mile time of 16.3 at 86 mph.

Force, the eight-time Winston funny car champion and winner of five events this season, posted a top quarter-mile time of 4.866 seconds at 315.93 miles an hour.

SE-R's came only in automatic transmission from 2003 to 2006 and are capable of a quarter-mile time of 16.0.

While highly debatable, owner-drivers have recorded quarter-mile times in the 11.7 - 11.9 seconds.

His quarter-mile time (28 seconds) stood as the world record for 21 years and as the British amateur record for 'at least 39 years'.

The SC/Rambler "became one of the most potent cars of its time, throwing down quarter-mile times that only Hemis and Cobra Jets had previously touched."

In Car and Driver magazine testing of a 1975 car with the 400 engine; 0-60 happened in 8.1 seconds and quarter-mile times were solidly in the 16-second range.

Cars equipped with the 390 were generally good for high-14-second quarter-mile times, putting AMC in the thick of the muscle car battle.

Weight was up by about 170 pounds, however, and quarter-mile times crept higher, by nearly a full second in some tests.

Now, 400 horsepower engines are common, as are quarter-mile times under 13 seconds.