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Drag racing didn't start in the 1960s, but it sure got big (and crazy) in that decade and the auto manufacturers noticed. At Chrysler, in a time not long before the arrival of the legendary 426 Hemi (which would soon become a permanent fixture in top fuel classes and more,) a series of everadvancing factory built race cars would help cement their reputation on the drag strip. Although today's subject is far from the wildest of those concoctions, it serves to illustrate the formula a cheap, lightweight, midsize car, with the largest engine Dodge had on hand, specially built and tuned for one purpose only to be a straight line killer.