Barracuda Gran Coupe Convertible

[Benji]

Bella Napoli!  Ciao!  Hey I spent two years in Naples in the late 1960s aboard a US Navy ship that was homeported there.  Do you ever see a red 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air four door hardtop around town (I realize Naples has about 1 million residents and you couldn't possibly know every American car there, but..........?  One of my shipmates had it shipped there and when he got transferred he sold it to another shipmate.  I assume it is still there (or been junked by now.) 

I bought a new 1970 Gran Coupe in 1970 after I got out of the Navy.  It was a 318 auto car with a vinyl roof.  I shoud have bought a hemicuda instead!!!  One of my shipmates married a gal from Naples and stayed there.  His name is Kenneth Valenca, bet he is still there.

Keep up the good work.

Ben

[antonellomopar]

Hello from Italy
I have bought the Barracuda from Paolo last july, and work has been progressing fast. First of all, I sent the car to a bodyshop to have bodywork done. It was left unfininished, to say the least, and a lot of work still had to be done. It has been sprayed the correct B5, and a couple of weeks ago it was finished and brought to my place where I have started putting together. While bodywork was being done, I managed to find all the important parts that were lost while in Italy, like top frame, Windows, front suspension parts, seats and so on. Now car is basically complete, just waiting to be put together
pics coming soon

[JayBee]

Congratulations on the buy, and completing where Paolo left off.

Definitely post up some pictures.

[hemiken]

Congrats and looking forward to seeing what happens with the GC vert now

[antonellomopar]

Have some problems with my Photobucket account, can't load pics. Will found a way in the next few days

[ragtopdodge]

Have some problems with my Photobucket account, can't load pics. Will found a way in the next few days

Get the URL of the picture.  Typically, it's like:

"http://worldcarslist.com/images/plymouth/plymouth-barracuda-gran-coupe-conv/plymouth-barracuda-gran-coupe-conv-03.jpg"

Then, copy that link, and use the little picture icon above (it's below the "B" for bold) and paste the URL in between the two HTML brackets of img.

Then it'll look like:

[antonellomopar]

parts that were with the car...easy to spot what's missing and what's present...

[antonellomopar]

lots of bodywork done to get car ready for paint

[antonellomopar]

Painted B5 as per fender tag







at home now

[antonellomopar]

waiting for parts to arrive...put on dash and some other small parts....interior at uoholstery shop, engine at machine work....

[CudamanTom]

Holy crap!!! She is beautiful 

I love that color!!! 

[turbo224]

That looks amazing!

[hemiken]

  That does look amazing, are you going to have the tail panel painted out in Textured Argent Silver - i see you still have all the Gran Coupe rear emblem holes in place.

[dutch]

drop dead gorgeous 

[moparstyle]

Sweet car, how many GC convertibles did they make -70?

Keep it as a GC.......