My friend's Mod Cuda

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Offline Winston

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My friend's Mod Cuda
« on: June 22, 2005 - 03:32:47 PM »
A friend of mine spent years on this car, and it truly is an amazing piece.  Just thought I'd show you some pictures.  I went to see him over Memorial Day weekend, and he showed it to me.  It was in an enclosed trailer, so I couldn't get a great view of the car; however, I took pictures of a photo album he has of the car.  It's a '70 'Cuda 340 with a '72-4 grille in it built on a Petty racing chassis.  Lots of blood, sweat and tears in this one.




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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2005 - 03:48:29 PM »
that things wicked!

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2005 - 04:06:41 PM »
Looks very cool!!  Love to see some more pics!!    :dogpile:

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2005 - 04:07:23 PM »
 :iagree: if you could get more pics that would be great!

Offline MEK-Dangerfield

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:00:44 PM »
Winston,
   That thing looks awesome.  :drool:  I have to congratulate you about posting reasonably small pics for us dial-up's.  :grinyes: Thank you.  :burnout:

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Offline Johnny Cuda

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:05:39 PM »
Nice Car, would love to see more pics. :coffee:

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:26:10 PM »


Not too bad eh. 80's styling to the max.  :cool: ;D
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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:29:50 PM »
Don't be mean to me, but I love the white on one side, and it blends to red on the other.  :grinyes:  That is a seriously nice paint job.  :thumbs:

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Offline Killer_Mopar

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:37:26 PM »
Nice car, but does he usuallyl park it on its' side???  :laughing:
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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:42:35 PM »
Oh come on!!! You know you have to hang them up so you don't get flat spots on the tires.  :laughup: :laughup: :laughup:

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2005 - 05:57:28 PM »
 :laughup: :laughing: :laughup:


If he had a spoiler like mine use to have hanging them up wouldn't have been so hard.... :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2005 - 07:48:59 AM »
MEK, There was serious planning in the paint work.  The measuring, the order in which everything was painted, etc was quite tedious.  There are no stickers on the car...everything you see in red and white is paint.  He initially planned on driving this car, but after all of the work, he decided to just make it a showcar.  He has a few other cars he toys around in.

Here are some more pics, including one pic of the chassis he began with.  And some fixed pics, so it's no longer parked on its side.  Smartarses!!   :laughing:

I may be going to visit him again later in July.  If so, I'll try to get pics of it while out of the trailer.

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2005 - 07:50:28 AM »
OK, so fixing the pics didn't work!  Forgive me for my lousy picture editing skills.

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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2005 - 09:10:30 AM »
That's one wild 70's paint scheme. I feel like I'm back at Tulsa International Raceway and it's 1972 all over again. The nostalgia thing is really kicking in again. A friend of mine had a Herb McCandless 70 Cuda that looked a lot like that.
Tell him to get it out of the trailer and drive the hell out of it. If it breaks, fix it, if the paint gets scratched, fix it...but just do the right thing and drive it!!!  He'll be the envy of the every Mopar nut around.
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Re: My friend's Mod Cuda
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2005 - 09:46:29 AM »
Very cool looking car your friend has!!!  I like that nostalgic look of it all. :grinyes: :thumbs:
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