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Found a Car and Driver article on the car from Mike Volz's collection here at Rocket. It is an article on the race and only has pictures of the big boys (Ferrari's, Ford GT, etc) but they have a little note at the end of the article:

"There was also a legally-homologated Plymouth GT car, a hemi-engined monster with two four-barrel carbs, a NASCAR roll cage, the biggest drum brakes you ever saw and various other goodies, along with Chrysler engineers Scott Harvey (the rally driver) and Peter Hutchinson as drivers.

They laughed when Harvey sat down to drive, but stopped soon afterward when he qualified the noisy beast in 2:12 (the Ford GTs were at 2:01 and 2:03 for the 3.81 mile course). Harvey had the 11th fastest time. They blew it up after about two-and-a-half hours, but while they were around this small, rather informal attempt by some Chrysler people to learn what this roadracing business was all about was impressive. If you've never seen a Plymouth blew off a Ferrari GTO or a Porsche 904 (the GTO eventually finished seventh, the Porches were fifth, eighth and ninth) you've missed a lovely sight."

I own a 65 Plymouth that was a Permatex car and raced at Riverside in 70, 71, and 72, have attached a picture of it.



That is one of the coolest cars ive ever seen.