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I'd hazzard a guess that it was to build street cars (at least as streetable as the Max Wedges) to legalize the HEMI for NASCAR, to give in to the crying that it wasn't a "production" engine or what ever the NASCAR rule book spelled out. 34 of 70 cars have heaters, none have 999 paint or 999 interiors. Then when NASCAR ruled no HEMIs, the street car idea was canned, no need for '65 street HEMIs.

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That thought is one that I agree with. Again, if you were just replacing max-wedge cars, why wouldn't you just build that number. Instead Chrysler built 35 of each dodge and plymouth hemi hardtops and 55 of each hemi post cars. The thought, that Chrysler was just trying to apease NASCAR sounds logical to me.