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SCCA Racers Scott Harvey & Randy Graves - Mopar Hall of Fame

SCCA Racers Scott Harvey & Randy Graves While most attention during the muscle car era was focused on drag racing and stock car racing, Chrysler engineer Scott Harvey was out there doing the impossible and wreaking havoc in all sorts of SCCA classes with 300s, Valiants and Barracudas starting in the early sixties. In January of 1964, Scott led a team of three rally prepared Valiants to an assault on the Monte Carlo Rallye in France. By 1965, Harvey's blue Barracuda had become an unholy terror at SCCA race and rally events, and Chrysler even used him and his family in a famous magazine advertisement. The "Team Starfish" Barracuda featured in the print ads was actually one of a two car team that contested the first SCCA Trans-Am championship season of 1966. Harvey finished first overall in the grueling Shell 4000 (mile) Trans-Canada Rally in 1968 behind the wheel of a Barracuda. This was a major victory, against intense international competition. Scott drove in off-road races in the rocky deserts out west, and all the while, he was winning races in the most inhospitable "road" conditions one could imagine simply for the love of the competition. He continued his winning ways, transitioning into Ramcharger trucks, then, he created his most famous ride – a 4x4 Dodge Aspen F-body powered by a 340, which he campaigned with great success from 1977 to 1982. The "Cheetah", as it was known, even took on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 1982. The team of Harvey and Graves captured a 2nd in the Pro Rally class. With his work schedule being what it was, and the extreme demands of time and logistics to make these long-distance rally and cross-country races, Scott teamed up with his friend and co-driver extraordinaire, Randy Graves. Randy's co-driving abilities and team management skills kept the team on task, and at the top of the leader board. Randy had also cut his teeth driving in SCCA races, and this dynamic duo continued to be a force to be reckoned with well into the late seventies – a time when Chrysler Corporation was floundering and generally not doing anything very well. Despite the company's woes, these guys kept the performance banner waving and they had remarkable success, and many of the innovations they pioneered during that period are still in use to this day. Scott retired from Chrysler while in the position of Chief Engineer at the Chrysler/Shelby "Skunk Works". Most all of the FWD Shelby performance cars of the 80s, were a result of the work of Scott Harvey and his team.