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And the much-maligned Hornet!
I remember being on the pit crew for an RS car and seeing Mazda RX-3's and Buick Skyhawks and Pintos and just all kinds of stuff. Truly, IMSA RS was the last of the "run what you brung" sort of series - although at the time IMSA in general had rules that encouraged quite an eclectic field in both RS and GT/GTU.
The Pacers/Gremlins/Hornets were killers at places like Daytona. Despite being about as aerodynamic as a brick they had those nice, big, reliable straight sixes...
Oh yeah, they used to lean on each other and bang around like crazy! It was the closest thing you could have on a road course to the kind of action you got at the local 1/2 mile dirt oval.
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