In December 1967, several automotive journalists gathered at the relatively new Orange County International Raceway in Irvine, California, to drive something altogether different from American Motors.

If you listen to Mark Myrsten, you'll soon learn that he's a Mopar man through and through. "When I was growing up," he tells us, "I had a little '73 340 four-speed Duster, and I used to eat people up ...