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Offline RDF

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75 Barracuda???
« on: July 24, 2007 - 08:22:01 PM »
Just got my new issue of Hot Rodding and they have a 3 page article on the 75 Cuda - The fish that got away.

Anyone else seen this?  I'll scan the article tomorrow and post it here.....what a weird looking car....totally different from the pervious 5 years.  They said it almost made it to production.....almost.....
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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2007 - 09:32:59 PM »
Weird, would be cool to see.  Got a scanner?   ;D

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2007 - 09:39:54 PM »
It sounds like the F-body successor to the E-body that has been shown in some of the Cuda/Challenger books.  It looked sorta Covette-like, if I remember correctly.

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2007 - 09:47:28 PM »
hmmm, very interesting

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2007 - 10:08:00 PM »
In my " Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Barracuda " book, it shows a picture of the proposed F-body successor to the E-body, and yes, it does look  a lot like a Corvette - real swoopy body lines. Love to scan the pictue, but my scanner isn't up to it.
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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2007 - 10:56:17 PM »
These are from "Barracuda & Challenger" by Paul C Zazarine....

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2007 - 11:04:17 PM »
I'm really interested in reading about it.

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2007 - 11:04:37 PM »
I recall seeing an article on that car when I was in middle school (91-93ish), I even made aCo2 car based on the design.

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2007 - 12:07:35 AM »
I posted an article from Mopar Muscle a few year ago that did a great article of the history of the ebody barracuda and had that picture included.  Great story!   :grinyes:

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2007 - 12:27:04 AM »
Is the car still alive? Where is it now?
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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2007 - 12:40:22 AM »
I found the thread but the story was gone as the pics were deleted.  So I went looking in my PC and found the pics of the story!!  Enjoy!!

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2007 - 08:57:53 AM »
Is the car still alive? Where is it now?

If I remember right this car was severely damaged either during a show or while being transported to or from a show.  I think it was destroyed.


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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2007 - 09:34:03 AM »
If I remember right this car was severely damaged either during a show or while being transported to or from a show.  I think it was destroyed.

Thank goodness.  That thing is disgusting, IMO.  I'll take an F-bod any day.   :eek4:

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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2007 - 10:11:04 AM »
Wow, that thing definitely looked way different than the previous 'Cudas...(and it wasn't for the better IMO.)
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Re: 75 Barracuda???
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2007 - 10:33:33 AM »
I agree. definately not a fan of that one.  :scared: