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"In 1976, a handful of NASCAR stockers were selected to campaign at the Le Mans 24. Among them was a Richard Petty-built Olympia beer-sponsored Charger with a 426 Hemi built to run flat out at Daytona. Unfortunately none of the American stock cars finished in &amp;#039;76. Poor French fuel quality was blamed for their DNFs. In 2006, the same Olympia Charger was found by Richard Pearson and was brought back to life. Pearson, the car, and his team were invited back to run in the Le Mans Classic, which goes off every 2 years at the famous Circuit de la Sarthe.  The car is fully period correct, featuring an 850-horsepower, 426 CID Hemi V8, and a 4-speed manual. IN &amp;#039;06, it was geared down to have a maximum speed of 180 mph. Today&amp;#039;s video is of Christophe Schwartz (another of the drivers from 2006) as he corrals the &amp;#039;Oly&amp;#039; Express in the rain at the 2012 Classic. Now, the big Charger was squirrely on hot sticky midsummer asphalt according to Robin Donovan when he drove it in 2006. On a wet racetrack, this car must be insane. Still, 850 horsepower of American thunder in the rain at the oldest racetrack in the world? You bet your Bald Eagle it&amp;#039;s better than coffee! Turn up the volume and watch:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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