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Offline fishn4cuda

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"What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« on: January 16, 2006 - 06:50:31 PM »
That was the Question asked by my brothers wife about 5 yrs ago and he responded, with his tail between his legs, "a Cuda". Purchased out of New Mexico for $5000.00. Fast forward to this weekend and we are finally going to start this beast. We've collected alot of goodies for this original 383 HP, 4 spd, curious yellow Barracuda. I'll try to keep up with posts as we progress.
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2006 - 07:07:04 PM »


Awesome!!  :bananasmi Glad to see yet another MoPar E-Body getting her beauty treatment.
Make sure you do keep us posted!!!  :naughty:


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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2006 - 07:13:59 PM »
Excellent news!  So what does she look like now?? 
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2006 - 07:23:31 PM »
Excellent news!  So what does she look like now?? 

Oh boy, have I miss read again??  :crazy:

Are you "starting up the resto..." or "starting up the car"??  :dunno: :lol2:
I just gathered from the photos you had started the strip down....I thought 5 years was a long time to begin..

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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2006 - 07:31:31 PM »
Hmmm...maybe I misunderstood (I've had that kind of "blonde" day today).  So, what's the deal Fishn? 
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2006 - 08:08:48 PM »
Fast forward to this weekend and we are finally going to start this beast.

 ;) Looks like they started this weekend.
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« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2006 - 08:34:42 PM »
We spent the weekend stripping her down to get it ready for the media stripper. So far not too many dissapointments. I know the tail panel needs to be replaced due to some rear end accident sometime in its life. Qtrs don't look to be damaged severly. We already collected a perfect tail panel. We'll hopefully have it on a rotissori in the next couple of weekends. As of now we've collected an original E-body Dana, Crate Hemi, elastomer bumpers, complete shaker setup, and have had alot of parts plated their proper coating. We bought alot of NOS and excellent used pieces over the last 5 years. Good thing our wives don't know what we've spent so far. Plans are to have the body done by June. I figure it'll take 2-3 years to complete. But after seeing all that original curious yellow under the carpet, It'll be worth the wait.
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2006 - 09:52:14 PM »
Excellent news!!  Very cool!!  Love to see the progress!     :bananasmi  :bananasmi  :bananasmi

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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2006 - 05:22:45 AM »
Spent this weekend removing the rear end and k-frame. Built a rotissori and fixed the cuda on it. Next step will be to remove a little undercoat in the wheel wells and send it out next week to be plastic media stripped.
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2006 - 05:35:35 AM »
Wow, you built your own rotissori, impressive. Can't wait to see the progress, keep it up.

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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2006 - 05:43:27 AM »
A friend of mine supplied me with a basic materials list and with a few personal mods spent Sat afternoon welding it together. I only have $500.00 and time in building it.
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2006 - 11:19:57 PM »
Very nice!!!  The progress is looking good.  It'll be nice to have it all blasted to see where you sit with rust repairs.
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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2006 - 10:54:58 AM »
Keep us posted on your progress. Looks like it will be a fine Cuda when it's done. That's great making your own rotissori. Sure beats what I went through on my Challenger and Cuda projects.


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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2006 - 07:11:32 PM »
Nice to see another car saved      :drunk:

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Re: "What the **** did you buy now!?.......71 Cuda
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2006 - 08:12:40 PM »
awsome fishn!! how ya been long time no talk??!! 
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