4crusin, pictures sent, thanks
Moparal, We are just getting the charger home, but I am sure there are parts missing. I know I will need some stuff and will hollar when I get a list, thanks
440 sixpack, Did you ever see the cuda in person? We all can not like the same thing or everyone would have the same grandmother,lol, but I have seen many Cudas in my life and never seen a car like the gforce. It was beside several different cudas while on power tour, and there was just no comparison. However, I do like a modern approach to old cars, so I guess I am somewhat jaded.
The everyone that wants numbers, stats, etc. Let me first say this. NO ONE can build a car that will do all things perfect. To have a car that is best in several forms of competition is impossible. The Cuda was a compromise as well and was set up for road racing more so than 1/4 mile times so it just wasn't ever drag raced. The video of it breaking on the local strip here is the only time it was ever on a strip. In the first pass shown in the video, the only one it ever completed, it ran a 8.60 (1/8 track) and was absolutely spinning the tires the whole run. The car was to have run our autocross track the next day and the run was just for photos, however, Bob got that ole heart pumping on the first run, came right back up to the line, and broke because of wheel hop. That break that day not only cost the autocross run the next day, but also the Maxon run the next week. I feel bad about that because I am the one that asked Bob to run the car that day. I do not have the specific numbers that the car did on the road coarse earlier that week at a Air Ride sponsored event, but it did the best time of any car on street tires. This was a race where Scott Pruitt and other big name guys drove it (Boris Said) and all of them said it was just unreal to think the car was a street car. The car was just getting sorted out when Bob sold it, but that was a business decision he made. Whether it was the right time or not, we will never know, but that is done now and he is moving on. Remember, not only was the car on power tour, at several autocrosses, etc, but it also was at several Goodguys events, including Columbus where it won SMOTY. Also the car was at SEMA two years in a row. If you break down the 60 weeks or so starting with SEMA 2005 until Barrett Jackson 2007, the car was doing something just about every weekend. It was hauled all the way to the Playboy mansion for that show the week before SEMA 2006, it was all over the place. Two different photoshoots for two huge magazine cover stories, the list goes on. Chip Foose pick of show at Year One, Shades of the Past top pick, top in class YOE, etc, etc. This car had a very short shelf life when you consider all it has done. More in 60 weeks than most do in a lifetime. Swapping the car from street machine trim to full race trim took about 4 days. The car did do some runs at a abandoned air strip in Alabama, and did do the 191mph runs there.
While I will be glad to answer any and all questions, I refuse to get in a pissing contest about one aspect or another about what it did or didn't do or why. For the time it was in the spotlight, it covered so many bases, I would hate to know how much money was spent just in travel, motel bills and cleaning supplies.
