Hi everybody,
I have been a Mopar fan most of my life. I have had quite a few in the past. My Favorite was always my 70 ‘Cuda. It was an original 440 six barrel, 18 spline 4 speed, 3.54 Dana car. It was originally Plum Crazy, but had been painted B5 blue before I got it. I drove that car to work every day in the late 80s, rain or shine. I retired it about a year later after a fender bender with a minivan tweaked both fenders and the hood. I rode in the backseat of my parents 1988 Olds Delta 88 4 hours with a pair of fenders for the car on my lap after scoring them from a junkyard while on a family vacation.
I ended up selling the car to help pay for college tuition. I told myself I would get another one just like it if this college thing ever paid off. Needless to say, the price of a 440 six pack Cuda rose much faster than my income did, even when college was clearly paying off. I read all of the auto trader publications before Al Gore had perfected his internet. Once all of the internet sites offering classic cars for sale popped up, I checked most of those on a daily basis. Along came marriage, two beautiful (and expensive), daughters, and a couple of mortgages.
Along the way I still played with other cars, and most recently had been having a great time using a 69 GTO clone as a daily driver. I managed to put several thousand miles on it because it was fun to drive, and was a clone anyway so I didn’t have to obsess about taking it through traffic.
This gave me a brilliant idea – why not get a barracuda and clone it into what I want. That way I can Have what I want and hopefully keep the tab reasonable (sort of). The only problem was that I still had the previously mentioned daughters and remodeling projects which use up about 113% of my free time. So I ended up buying a car which had started being cloned into a 440 Cuda. Now all I needed to do is finish the job. It is not perfect, but is starting to get there. The plans include the addition of the six pack set up, and probably a shaker hood. I am still unsure about a rear wing.
Sorry for the long post, but I had been lurking here and saw that this was more like a big family than a forum, so I figured everybody might want to know where I was coming from.
