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Offline Racer

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Color, Year of this Cuda?
« on: March 12, 2006 - 02:59:34 AM »
When I was a kid, I wasnt into cars much. All my neighbors had muscle cars I wasnt into them. But my Favorite car was a Cuda that came down the Gun Club I worked at. I started working there at 12.
I havent seen this exact once since and after over an hour looking thru google still nothing.

It was a light blue, kinda birds egg blue, not a sky blue it had some pop to it. With a white vinyl roof.
What year and color is it? Its one of my dreams to own one. Can you link me to a site with the specs on one or photos of one?

thanks alot.




Offline Carlwalski

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2006 - 03:23:51 AM »

My guess is it's B3 (Ice Blue) or a color close, perhaps B5 (Blue fire Metallica).
There is also a B7 (Jamaica Blue Metallic).


The year is hard to tell.....could be any Barracuda/Cuda year from a /6 1967 A-Body to a 74 model.
Is this close to what your saw?

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2006 - 03:38:04 AM »
Im guessing it would have been a '70-'74.

You worked at a gun club when you were 12?

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2006 - 08:02:34 AM »
If it had some metallic to it, it was probably EB3...Ice Blue metallic.

Could it have been Petty Blue?   If it was a later Cuda....could be.

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2006 - 09:53:52 AM »
I guess the only way we will figure this out is if you pick out the one that matches what you saw!  lol  Welcome to cc.com!  Hope you enjoy the site! 
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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2006 - 10:04:04 AM »
I guess the only way we will figure this out is if you pick out the one that matches what you saw!  lol  Welcome to cc.com!  Hope you enjoy the site! 

Hey 4C....where was that B3 Cuda pic taken?  That looks like my old Cuda (the one i posted a pic of in this thread)  440-6 4 speed, export car, B-3 with blue/white interior.
I sold it to a couple in Minnesota. Very nice people.

Pic of engine below

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2006 - 02:01:59 PM »
Hey 4C....where was that B3 Cuda pic taken?  That looks like my old Cuda (the one i posted a pic of in this thread)  440-6 4 speed, export car, B-3 with blue/white interior.
I sold it to a couple in Minnesota. Very nice people.
Pic of engine below


  I think that came from the Woodward Cruise . . .   :dunno: 

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2006 - 01:21:03 AM »
Thanks for all the replies.
No it definately wasn't mettalic.
I did more searching after I posted here and came to the conclusion that it was a 1973 Cuda. They had like 5 blues that year from the online original brochure I found (somewhere lost it :(  )
And now I cant remember the color but it was (I think) that middle of the three posted above. (But I dont remember it having any racing stripes)
I met a guy at work that has one!!! He showed me pictures just today and that brought me back here.
But now I cant find that brochure lol. The only thing with his is, it has a black vinyl roof and interior. But from reading the brochure it was evident any color outside could be matched with any color inside and with any color vinyl roof.

He told me he has never seen another Cuda in his color and it was only made in 73.

I wonder if I should just look for a 73 in any color and have it totally repainted but to me thats like cheating.

Yeah I was 12 when I took hunter safety and my dad was the secretary for a gun club. I loaded clay pigeons onto the trap machine and loaded the trap houses with the pigeons. Did that from 12-17. No gun has ever committed a crime or killed anyone. The gun club was next to a state prison and got closed down. Sad thing the gun club dated back to the 1800's and was around for many before the prison. In fact it operated forever next to the prison. You think a escaped prisoner would face all those guys with guns? guys that knew how to use em lol.
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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2006 - 03:49:21 AM »
I this stripe was only available in '74?


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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2006 - 12:06:47 PM »
Racer:

This may be your lucky day; I saw this last night:

http://www.dealsonwheels.com/search/detail.aspx?id=27547

-JeffAARy

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2006 - 12:20:01 PM »
  I had a 73 Cuda 340 car that was B1 blue. I don't know what they call the color,but it looked like robins egg blue! It looked like they took white paint,and mixed in a little blue!

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2006 - 05:07:10 PM »
I this stripe was only available in '74?





That was available in 1973 and 74!!   Cool looking car!   :drool:

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2006 - 06:32:37 PM »
The Petty blue cudawith the white top pictured is a 1973. It belongs to me. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

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Re: Color, Year of this Cuda?
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2006 - 07:26:13 PM »
You worked at a gun club when you were 12?
Ya,like a Golf caddy retieving golf balls?"Hey kid go find my bullets for me"as the range master shouts "Range Hot"! :bigsmile:
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