Cuda Hunter,
The Judge was orange when I used to drive by it.
The Hemi Cuda (legit car) originally had been bought in 70 and drag raced on and off for only a year or so when the guy traded it to the second owner for a 340 Duster and I believe $600 cash or something like that. The 2nd owner then drove it till the gas crunch in the 70s. He pulled the hemi and stuck a 318 in it for fuel economy....but he took all the original hemi specific items off the car and stored them. When I saw the car, the car was in a field, and the hemi, shaker, hood, tranny, etc. where all sitting in a side shed/barn. He filled the hemi up with diesel fuel so it wouldn't rust up inside. Like I said, I talked to him in the early 2000s and at that time he still had the car, but I've since heard he may have sold it. Who knows what was even left of the car. When I saw the car the first time years ago in the field the car had 11K on the odometer and perfect in-violet paint in the door jams and trunk, weathered exterior paint and hockey stripe, cracked rocker gills, and the interior had been destroyed by mice. I almost had him selling the car to me but he said he had registered the title in his mothers name years ago to save insurance/age group money and she was already an elderly woman so he always was going to get the title the next time he visited his mother. This is one car that isn't an urban legend because I actually saw the car in person. I wish I would have gotten the VIN off of it at that time to see if anyone every restored it. I got side tracked in chasing it back then because I moved out of state and bought a house.
This guy also had a true GT500 Shelby in that same field but I never got any info on that car.
Wes
