Photo: YouTube/Mopars5150 The 426 Hemi was losing its street appeal ... Funny enough, it was one of the carburetors on one of those 788 Plymouths that got a gearhead to eventually buy a car.

When the 426 HEMI was introduced in mid-1964 ... The second was a race version built for drag racing and used twin Carter AFB ...

The iconic 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) Hemi V8 engine was born in 1964 as a race-spec unit. It was first raced in a Plymouth Belvedere and then banned due to its unavailability in production vehicles.