My old Monte SS with a L69 5.0L was a fun car. Could spin the tires on command, sounded good with dual exhaust, and never let me down. Thanks for the video!

I'm glad you're not yelling at me like all other channels.

You said it best at the end. V8 power even if only 5 liters , gave the driver prestige and a special feeling. Myself included, have always had 8 cylinder rear drive cars all my life. One of your best videos yet, thanks!

If the 5.0 is good enough for Vanilla Ice, its good enough for me. Time for me to go rollin in the 5.0.

New drinking game: Take a shot every time you hear, "Five point oh liter vee eight". *unconscious 5 minutes in

Those V8s were choked down to save gas, but they could be built to perform easily.

You should do a video on the diappearance of Inline-6s

89 Mustang GT was my dream car in high school, my Honda Accord has more HP now...still can't beat the looks and the V8 sound.

I had an 81 Caprice with that underpowered Chevy 262 V8. Horrible gas mileage. Traded it for the 5.0 84 Olds Delta 88. One of the best cars I ever owned. Kept it for over 30 yrs.

they need to bring back t tops. its one of the best creations ever.

All those 80s V8 engines had all the potential to make 400+ of Horsepower easily with very little money.

I still drive a 302 in a 96 F150. Will not win any drag races but uses little oil and has been very reliable.

I would still love to have a 1986 Monte Carlo

Makes me appreciate my little 305 in my 87 el camino a little more.

The 307 olds might have been a dog in the horsepower department, butthey were one of the most reliable engines I've had.

Come on folks! Let's share this man's fine channel and get it over 100,000 subscribers. He deserves it in a big way for all his work and research, and fine production. 🙌👏👋☝

big fan of those grand national and regal t - types,cutlass supreme. god i miss 80's cars!

And when I was 19 years old, my 1986 Buick Grand National ate them all alive. With a V6.

I love your channel. Thanks for the no nonsense, direct approach to document older cars. You have one of the best automobile channels on KZfaq and I have yet to see a video from you that wasn’t good!

Thank you so much for continuing to provide high quality accurate material. You always deliver interesting facts, along with great period photos in all of your posts. Great work!

I had 82 olds Delta 88 2 door Broham with 307 V-8 with 4 barrel Quadrajet 3speed auto trans with over drive!! At 70mph engine was just turning 2000rpm, she had longitude lites next to the rear side Windows , Kool machine!! I Loved to drive her!! Flip air cleaner lid n kick in passing gear on interstate n she wood sound like big milk cow!!! Loved her!!!

Amazing that a 5.0L in the 80s made an abysmal 140hp, and in 2019 a 5.0L makes up to 480hp.

That was the beginning of the end of great v8 rear wheel cars

Glad I stumbled across this. I love these types of videos, where I learn about a specific niche time in history. Subscribed.

Thanks for the memories!! The only limit to the humble 305 is your imagination and wallet!! Very reliable and smooth. I've got a 1985 Monte Carlo sport coupe. All it needs is just a little love and 400 hp is not hard to imagine.

I had a 1980 trans am with the base 5.0 v8. It had a 2.41 diff! What I did was change that to a3.08, put a true dual exhaust on, and tune the Quadra jet. Then it really ran! Was a great all around driver in the mid eighties! I miss it.

I was just getting old enough to pay attention to cars in the early ‘80s. My grandparents had full size V8 road boats but everything else I ever really had any contact with was 4 cylinder.

Makes my day , thank you for taking time out and putting together fun informative videos , I enjoy the style and info, thank you

Love your videos. The cars from the 80's look so beautiful in this video. I miss them.

Many years ago I had an 87 Mustang LX notchback 5.0 5-speed. installed straight pipes and an air horn, good times.

I was born in 1975 and grew up during the '80s and seeing all these cars in your great video really take me back to my childhood. I feel really lucky to have grown up during the 1980s, even if the cars were slow.

Sir, you are a treasure to us gear heads! Thank you for The uploads.

For over 15 years I've been telling people that one of my first cars, '80 Thunderbird, had a 5.0. Wow I feel like a dummy now.

The Cadillac 1970 Eldorado introduced the largest regular production engine in an American car at that time: 8.2 liters (500 cubic inches).

Thanks again for creating another great video. I've owned many 5.0 in GM cars and I have to say they are and were the best reliable engines ever. My favorite was my L69 in my '84 Z28. True over achiever. I put over 120000 kms on that car and never had an issue, ever.

Still driving my 68 mustang , mpg is terrible especially with headers and a holly 4 barrel, but it’s still gets crowd around it when I take it out.

Oh yea! As a red blooded American Male that turned 16 in 1971, I had the opportunity to buy into some fairly interesting used cars in the mid 70’s while stationed at Ft. Carson, CO. The first was a beautiful 1962 Chevy Impala Hardtop Convertible Coupe loaded with the SS Package and Torque Monster 409 4brl, with a 4 speed and 3:72 Posi rear. That was lucky to get 12 city 16 highway! The next was an amazing 1969 GTO I traded the Chevy in on, that was a very nice all white with a regular 400 4 brl and TH 400 with 3:55 Posi rear, that again was lucky to get 12-16 mpg! But even in 1975, gas was still under .40-.50 a gallon for the real Sunoco 260! The final car in CO, after a salesman flying across a Mall parking lot T Boned the GTO, was an old Nevada State Police Chiefs 1970 Plymouth Fury Pillar Post Coupe that had a honking 440 Super Commando 4 brl Dual Exhaust that interestingly had a rare combination of 4:10 Posi Trac with an overdrive unit installed! That I’ve never seen since! That big car was as quick as any I’ve come across back then, but after you got rolling could put into overdrive and the tach would drop from 4,000 rpms at 110 mph to a much nicer 3,000! At the 75 mph speed limits back then at 75 it would only be at 1,800 or so. But still in tow it was a gas hog at 10 mpg, but on the open road, jetted for the high altitude, just shy of 20 mpg was easy at the speed limits! That car was like a truck! With HD leaf springs and cranked up front torsion bars was a real blast on the dirt mountain roads!

I love those 80's Buick's such a beautiful car.

Wow, what a huge flood of memories! Great video and thanks for reminding me how spoiled we are today with HP-Torque. My first car was an 1980 Chevy Malibu 3.8. While most of my friends have VW and Honda. Then my dad bought a 1986 Mercury Lynx.....my mom's sewing machine had more power. I remember the imports were spanking your everyday cars. Then the "older" guys started buying I-ROC's and Mustangs 5.0. The Grand National GNX was the icing on the cake.

Man, I loved it. Please keep turning out these videos!

I like my 88 GTA and it's a lot of fun to drive with 5.0 TPI V8.

Thank you to the producers and narrator of Old Car Memories my favorite Channel!!!

God I love your videos. The aftermath of the oil crisis. True car talk.

The 305-5.0 V8 in my Monte SS cars was a great engine, always went high mile no problems

You can blame it on the government, but fuel prices tripling and quadrupling by 1980 also played a big part in these monster engines becoming extinct.

Great video. So many different engines just from the different GM divisions from 78 until the early 80's until they settled on the 5.0. My brother had a 1980 Grand Prix with a 4.3 (265 cubic inch V8). Looked identical to the 301 but only had 120HP while 301 had 135 I think. It was a great engine and a great car. My buddy had an 81 Lemans and it had the 4.4 267 Chevy engine so a lot of different combinations to keep track of. The HP seems brutal but don't forget average 4 cylinders in those days ranged from 70-95 HP.

I had the exact z28 pictured in ur video red with grey cloth. It was an 1984 though did have the 5.0 HO and also had the Borg-Warner 5speed gearbox. Also with T-tops. Definitely one of my all time favorite cars to drive. I was 19years old.

Exceptional video, your coverage of the issues that faced Ford, GM and Chrysler is very informative and dynamic in that meeting the bar was difficult, and game changing and the end result was just as you explained, your narrative voice is among the best, trustworthy, inviting, another video... well done. I really liked the job you did on the GMC motorhome I never knew it was the Oldsmobile power train although after seeing the gas and brake pedals would have told me something was a foot. I suspected it was a 454 400 turbo hydramatic platform and was very excited to find out it was the Toronado front drive set up, a new concept for the RV market and excellent choice with it's outstanding strength and reliability of both engine and trans. The Oldsmobile 455 would be the smoothest engine of the 460, and 454 , which were the industries leading gas RV power train formats. Great Video this comes from a lover and previous owner of the Big Three Big Blocks and Small Blocks of which I've experienced much fun owning and driving. But when it comes to softest ride, its hard to beat the Big Olds and Lincolns of the late 60s and early 70s. Thanks!!

Ah the 80's. Mustang GT's, IROC's, MTV, Reagan, Miami Vice, great economy, people making big money, coke and Girls Girls Girls. Best decade by far.

Most of the 1980s was a performance and quality disaster for all of Detroit. Foreign car's quality dropped too. A whole decade of throw-away cars, but there was much to be learned and much was. Ford modified the "Windsor" based 5.0L (302) V8 engine block in 1985 to accept a roller lifter camshaft in its "HO" series of small block V8s. The roller camshaft allowed for more radical camshaft profiles in OE applications that weren't practical for standard flat tappet, (lifter) cams. The roller cam, with electronic fuel injection made for a simple engine that was easily modified to produce substantial power gains; Chevrolet followed closely after with it's LT1 350 (5.7L) equipped with the same type of camshaft and fuel injection. The roller cam and electronic fuel injection bred the beginning of the new generation of "Muscle" in Detroit. Electronics allowed you to have the government's desired fuel economy and low emissions, with the increase in power that is more than awesome. American cars are powerful and fun once again. Thanks for the good series of videos, keep up the good work.

Those old cars are so much better looking and cooler than any car built today.

Just FYI the 1989 IROC Coupe with manual transmission and RPO N10 dual catalytic Converters was rated 230 horsepower 5 more than the Mustang and Firebirds so that was the highest 5.0 V8 of the 80’s!

We had one, a '78 Malibu Classic 4 door. Had been overhauled before i got it. Good car.

Nice details and thanks for the memories of my early 20's... 😑👍🚘

This is very well researched and well done. Thanks for posting.

This is an Awesome Channel keep up the great work

Keep up the great content!

it was the end times for Detroit.

My 1986 Chevy Caprice sure sounded great exhaling through it's single exhaust with aftermarket turbo muffler! The 305 gave it "enough" power to get out of it's own way. People used to comment on how good it sounded. Not too loud. Good tough durable car--wish I still had it. You don't see many on the road. They all got used up.

My 1992 Yamaha VMax had 145HP from the factory. It weighed 600 lbs. 1/4 mile in 10.8 seconds. No cars were that thrilling back then.

Loved seeing the L69 G VIN, H.O. in the 83 Camaro. Thank you.

The 305 was such a boat anchor, my brother had a new Formula Firebird with a 305 4bbl, it was Rockford Files tan/gold with t-tops. Well back in 81' he let me drive it on the last day of school my sophomore year and I brought it back to him with a spun main bearing. He wasn't thrilled, but hey you don't lend your nice new car to a 16 year old irresponsible kid who more than likely skipped that day and drove it around floored getting stoned all day.

Thanks for what you do! Love the videos

Another great video. I always learn so much.

great channel, I'm hooked

With the development of the LS engines Chevrolet proved without a doubt that the push rod v8 is far from dead,you got to at least give that to GM

Wow I used to know this subject inside and out! Great video!

Thanks good stuff, I am glad to say I remember living and driving cars thru the 70s and 80s it was an interesting time to watch as the family car went from station wagon then became the mini van and then the SUV and then the luxury pickup truck

My F-150 V8 5.0 still on the road best motor ever build by Ford #5.0/5.8

The Ford 302 will always have a special place in my heart, as several 'moved me' through my more formative automotive years. It's not the best engine but they do get the job done. And the Olds 307, while a bit under powered in the big Broughams (the 305 and 350 in the early 90s were a huge improvement), is still better than the 4.1 those cars had '82-'85... Not every car with a V8 needs to be a performance car- I can appreciate the low, subdued rumble of a stock 302 or 307 coming from a Crown Vic or a Cutlass Supreme. These were/are comfortable cars. Sure, more power is always appreciated, but for me at least it isn't a total deal breaker. These engines and they cars they moved (G-Bodies, Fox Bodies, even the old woody wagons) will forever be a part of car culture.

I worked for Cadillac-Olds. From 84-90. Saw a lot of interesting cars back then, and drove them all.

You are a saint for researching and reporting that!

Owned a Delta 88 with 307 and 200-4R transmission. Driving hard in city traffic it got 14mpg maybe... mayby not. But the odometer rolled over so many times in that car. Very reliable. It was a daily driver for over 30 years. Rust ate the rear frame rails. My 89 F150, 91 F150, and 1992 Econoline all have 5.0 backed by an AOD and 8.8 inch rear with 3.55:1 gears. The 89 was a short bed 2wd and was actually pretty qick on rare occasion I jumped on it. The van is slow but not bad for a 302 pulling 6k lbs around

The 87-93 Ford 5.0 typically found in the Mustang was an unbelievably reliable engine. Made 300 foot pounds of torque stock...and got great mileage. The key was the camshaft and roller lifters.

My aunt had a v8 oldsmobile cutlass that car was BEAUTIFUL.

Love this channel. Great videos

The excellent Cadillac 425 was called a 424 to avoid confusion with earlier Buick and Olds engines.

For all of their horsepower shortcomings the 80's pushrod V8's are legendarily reliable. That's why you still see so many Fox platform mustangs and 3rd Gen camaros rolling around. But the CAFE standards really set back American engine performance. The import guys had been enjoyed efficient smaller displacement engines for years and our auto industry almost imploded trying to compete. I'm glad we're over that now. I still love my 81 Z28 camaro but it is PAINFULLY slow. But my 2013 ZL1 Camaro makes up for it. I really enjoyed this video. I grew up in the 80's and vividly remember these cars brand new. ... But now I want a Fox mustang 5.0 5-spd.... lol

Had an '84 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham Kemper Open (Burgundy/Silver) Edition w/ 302 V8. What a great car!

Oh yeah!!! I remember well the formula= bigger carb, lumpy bumpstick, hot up the distributor, headers, duals exhausts. All put in starting Saturday morning, getting done and running by 5pm. At least one of your buds knew how to tune carbs and you just timed it by ear. Now, it's a loud, shakey, gas-smelling beast; you cruised it that night and most girls went NUTZ over it!!! So what if it still struggled to one- wheel peel??? Man, I loved the 80's!!!!!!!!!!

I really feel like after the 70’s, American cars lost their true touch. So much stigma that people say about them today. I mean, they’re killing just about all their sedans off very soon sadly. But I’ll say from 2010+ for the most part they have gotten their act up.

I don't think I felt very special driving my 1978 Buick Regal with the 5.0 during the 1980's. I could maybe chirp the rear tire if I got it spinning on gravel and then hit the pavement. My generation got the shaft when it came to car performance.

The little 301 Pontiac turbo was a giant slayer with the boost turned up.

Excellent subject as usual!

Who remembers the government mandated Jimmy Carter 85mph speedo’s? They figured it would prevent people from going faster than the readout of the speedometer.

BUICK GRAND NATIONAL showed everyone what was possible.

I had a 1984 Z28 with the 5.0 HO that I bought used in 1990. It had all the smog equipment taken out or plugged up. Stock intake, TB, Stock manifolds but a gale bank exhaust with no cat. Also had 4.10 gears and stock 5spd with Hurst short throw. It was peppy.

Appreciate the video. Very informative video.

some cars are my favorite cars from the 80's

Great video as always... The 5.0L is the engine I grew up with. It was THE Ford engine...and the 5L is still humming around

I owned an '87 Thunderbird that had a 5.0. That car ran very nice

The Monte Carlo SS looks excellent! I had a 1984 LS and it was bad azz!

I did not know a Corvette came with a 305 ! Thanks for the info. What a dog, but thanks.

It's almost impossible to break a Chrysler 318 with TorqueFlite auto trans if you take care of them.

im still running a 6.2 diesel to this day what a gas saver!

5:27 That's the Pontiac Gran Prix. I had 2, just as pictured, an '82 and an '84. 2 of the best looking cars I ever owned. The newer one ran beautiful, the '82 had a lemon engine and had to trade it in even though it was spotless and gorgeous (a V 6). Also shown at 9:19, but mine weren't like that; they had wire rims, etc.

"The Oldsmobile's are in early this year."

8:50 Gah! The Topaz was an assault on the eyes.

Love this channel

Had an 1986 Camaro with the 305 v8. Bought it in 1989 with 27k miles and sold it with 127k miles. Drove it through College and it never once gave me any issues.