You just might find one in that price range if you keep looking. There's still a few mopars out there. Joe Mitchell has one or two there in the Little Rock area.
I usually buy one or two mopars a year around the Fort Smith area. I've been buying a lot of 3rd gen chargers lately. Looked at one last night in fact. I own 2 cudas, a barracuda and a gran coupe and a whole bunch of b-bodies.
I sold a 71 cuda to a guy in Hot Springs a couple of years ago for $6500. It was a restorable N96 shaker hood car, but the hood was long gone of course. He already had a real nice 71 Gran Coupe.
There are a lot of cudas around this part of the world, but none for sale that I know of. I think there's at least 20 barracudas/cudas around here.
In fact, I have 3 cuda projects in our bodyshop here in Fort Smith at the moment.
If you find one and buy it, be sure and take it to the mopar show at Centerville.
Good luck.