LOL, no she didn’t have a hemi, I used a little artistic license. It had a 361 with a Torqueflite and would scoot along pretty fast, as my brother and I tested a few times. I had that engine ready to put in the model but ran into some fit issues at final assembly. By then I had put enough time into the project, so I took the easy way out and went with the kit engine.
kind of ironic that a hemi was used because another engine didn’t fit!