As a life-long gearhead and American muscle car enthusiast, you likely have a great deal of pride about cars made here in the States. These might be cars you grew up with – falling in love with them at an early age – or they could be cars you didn’t discover and come to appreciate until later in life. But one way or another, you probably think that American cars are the greatest in the world. And well… you wouldn’t be wrong.

Take, for example, this 1970 Chevelle Wagon “sleeper”– paired up first against what appears to be a Volkswagen, then the stereotypical ‘fart-can’ equipped Honda Civic. As was expected, the Chevrolet walks away from both imports, beating them by several full seconds each. In the third match-up, the Chevelle faces off against the poster-child of Japanese sports cars: a Nissan GT-R.

According to the uploader, the wagon has a pump-gas fueled, naturally-aspirated, 553 big-block Chevy tucked under the hood, with a column-shifted Turbo400 transmission and 4:56-ratio Dana rear end to back it up. We can only assume that the GT-R is utilizing its factory configuration of twin-turbo V6 with lightweight carbon-fiber driveshaft, six-speed and dual-disc clutch, and all-wheel drive system.

In essence, the technological comparison of the two cars is similar to that of a 19th century bi-plane and a NASA space shuttle. However, the brute strength of the beastly Chevelle is enough to trump the highly-esteemed modern supercar.

The video description states that the Chevelle is a 10-second car, with its quickest time being a 10.93 at 121 mph; none of its races in the video dipped below 11 seconds, though. But nonetheless– even without running its best– the 46-year old, 4500-pound machine is able to take the win over the 3,900-pound, cutting-edge Japanese sports car. How’s that for American ingenuity?