Thanks for the clarification Jeremiah 29:11. I know I will sound like a heretic for saying this, but I was never that impressed with the 426s and wasn't one of those people dancing in the streets when Chrysler resurrected the name.

For a time, I was half-owner of a '68 Coronet R/T with a 440 Magnum and three-speed automatic. Frankly, that car could easily blow away most 426s on the street -- enough so that at $50 or $100 a pop (big money in '73 and '74), it basically financed four semesters of college for me.

As I saw it, the old Hemis were incredibly touchy engines, requiring you to regap the plugs and readjust the carb every time you ran them hard. That was never a problem with the 440 Mag.

And again risking cries of "heretic!" I should note that a big reason so few Challengers with anything over a 340 are with us in the 21st century is that you had to be REAL careful going off the line with one, because the back end always pulled real hard to the right. The general consensus back then was that the wheelbase was too short to properly dissipate the torque. Unfortunately, too many people weren't good enough drivers (or were too stupid) to compensate for this rather annoying tendency and a lot of perfectly fine Detroit rolling iron wound up wrapped around light poles, fireplugs or other stationary objects.