it ran 215mph on the straights, as you'd expect of a Nascar charger with a 426 running on 93 octane... and it didn't have a hemi.
It didn't have good gas either, it turned out that the rating system was a bit different for some reason, maybe the metric to American translation? But they were really only getting 88 octane, and burning some pistons from preigntion due to lower than needed octane for the amount of timing they were at, based on getting 92 octane.
this 1974 Charger had been the last Dodge to ever win a USAC Championship, in 1977, by the way
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2017/10/03/charger-yankee
Love that old "Oly Charger" wish I could find one that year just to drive it for myself, but once again, anyone who has one to sell thinks it the only one left in the world. 🤨
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