Actually it was an inline 6 and could be made to run fairly well. I remember seeing them run on the high banks at Daytona. Probably around 140-150mph top end on 80s street tires.
And the only car disqualified for being too slow... Car #82... a Ford Pinto, my first car.
I thought that thing had to be the lowest HP per liter (a 90hp 2.0liter 4cyl). Ford put a 3 speed automatic transmission in the 72 Pinto I had. That poor engine would be up at what sounded like 10,000rpms at 65MPH, with a blazing top speed of 82mph that required a 3 mile stretch of totally flat highway to reach it.
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