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Offline tancuda

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To believe or not.........
« on: August 24, 2007 - 12:29:19 AM »




Offline 6packCuda

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2007 - 12:37:26 AM »
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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2007 - 12:42:43 AM »
If they could save this.....my hats off to them.
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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2007 - 01:05:12 AM »
Thats a sad sight.   :crying:

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2007 - 01:13:19 AM »
Totally unbelievable what they started with!  :22yikes:
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Offline 71340RT

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007 - 01:15:48 AM »
I checked this car out at the Show Me Mopars fest in Columbia, Mo. in June and the Cuda looked great. I never had any idea what it use to look like till I read this.


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Offline willhaven

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2007 - 01:26:08 AM »
God that car is beautiful.

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2007 - 01:48:10 AM »
This brings up the re-body debate.  There is nothing really original about that car, except the VIN numbers.  More parts have been "replaced" than not. 

Looks great though!


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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2007 - 02:01:14 AM »
If they could save this.....my hats off to them.
:dunno:

Nothing was really "saved"...... the whole car was replaced. sans VIN

Offline Robert1050

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2007 - 02:32:43 AM »
I'm not going to debate the re-body issue, but I just have to wonder what the car's story actually is?  I've seen some very mangled cars in my years on the road, but nothing like this one.  All I can think of is that it must have mis-timed a railroad crossing and met a locomotive.  Anyone know what happened to it?
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Offline 360 'CUDA

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2007 - 02:38:40 AM »
I'm not going to debate the re-body issue, but I just have to wonder what the car's story actually is?  I've seen some very mangled cars in my years on the road, but nothing like this one.  All I can think of is that it must have mis-timed a railroad crossing and met a locomotive.  Anyone know what happened to it?


Just a guess but I would say it's just mistreatment at the boneyard they got it from.  Originally rusted but then hit in the front and junked out.  After a while other cars get stacked on top of it, the forklift hits it ect...

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2007 - 02:53:56 AM »
This is a illegal vin swap, plain and simple. Why dosent someone impound this car, like they said they would the white vert from France?? If they want to take every HEMI part off of it, and build a clone, fine. This is what makes this hobby sad. Tell me he did not rebody this car! 

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2007 - 03:21:59 AM »
This is a illegal vin swap, plain and simple. Why dosent someone impound this car, like they said they would the white vert from France?? If they want to take every HEMI part off of it, and build a clone, fine. This is what makes this hobby sad. Tell me he did not rebody this car! 

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Rebody, plain and simple. Clone at best, illegal at worst.

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2007 - 03:41:18 AM »
I vote rebody...

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Re: To believe or not.........
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2007 - 06:03:13 AM »
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