I have seen so few Cuda's in California I wonder if you could count them all on 2 hands?
I guess they were bought mainly in the East and South?
I lived in Sacramento during the '80's, and although not as plentiful as the Brand X cars, there were a fair number of 'Cudas running free. I had three of them, including my brief stint as a HemiCuda owner, while I lived there.
With as modest as the herd was, their numbers just could not be sustained. With poor game management and the iron-oxide predators taking their toll, the active number of 'Cudas in the California wild have dwindled down to near extinction.
It's just the power of time.