My beautiful FF4 70 `Cuda is going to be restored by me. The engine, body and interior will be farmed out, but all the deconstruction and constructrion will be all me; I don't trust anyone else.
Little history: I've been a Mopar guy since high school back in the early 80s.
My first car was a 69 Charger, my mom bought for $500, and I did everything to it myself.
Drag racing was my best subject, and living in SoCal there was plenty of it.
My first swap was to change out the 383 to a 440, I also put a Dana 60 with 3:54. I crafted it for speed on the track, weekend after weekend. Best 1/4 was 13.04 at 104mph with a sixpac and slicks. The Charger was a whopping 4080lbs with me in it, but it had torque like a John Deer tractor. The 440 only had a little larger cam than stock and nothing else. 10 to 1 pistions, stock exhaust manifolds and no porting, also a 3000 stall in the trany+-2 shift kit.
I took it to the Muscle Car Nationals in Sacramento CA (1989), and won Junor Stock Big Block, beating a 67 GTX with the same drive train as mine. Best with dot tires was, 13:20 at 101.
But the most fun that day was blowing the doors off a 70 Chevelle 454, which was in a higher class than me.
I also had a 69 Superbee, I bough from a junkyard for $600. Well the mid 1990s came and I had to go to College, since I wanted a better job, so the cars had to go. Regrettably I wish I still had them; I didn't get half what they were worth,...
but fast forward to 2003.
With money in hand and an empty garage, I wanted a new Mopar, but what?
Somthing smaller and lighter with a small block. I looked around the Midwest, where I live now, for over a year with no luck. Then last year, I saw an add showing a green Cuda 120 miles away in the middle of no-where-ville USA. It wasn't in sad shape, or that rusty,.. surprisingly it was straight as an arrow. It had a ton of under coating and a Maco paint job, but best part is it had all the original parts and the original 340 motor.
I though it looked like a time capsule from back in my SoCal days, it was so well preserved. A deal was made and I towed it back home. I soon started looking for a broad cast sheet and there, under the back seat, was a beautiful one. Wow, this was an amazing find I though, for a 34 year old car in the Midwest.
So here I am, back in the world I knew so well, with a new Cuda, and in a new time where Mopars are on the rise in popularity and prices.
But my question is where do I get a parts book to look up numbers, so I can buy the right parts?
I'll go NOS as much as I can, but I'm not buying junk, just because it came off of a Cuda it worth 10 times more than it should BS. :bs:
This is a hobbie folks, I'm not in it for a turn around profit, I love my Plymouth and will not sell it for anything.
Moparing Old School'in 2004
to be continued...
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