"65 Barracuda Roll Call" just curious..how many of you have one?

I know everybody loves short gears for drag racing, and of course that's what you need with a big cam, But I disagree...

Tall highway gears are also very cool in our old cars with all the Detroit torque. When I first got my 64 GT it had 2.79 gears behind the 273, and it was always awesome to cruise around with the motor just rumbling at low rev. And then on the highway it did just fine.

In the US in most places the speed limit is 60mph (100kph) so most people are not really driving much above 75 most of the time. In rural areas bump that up 10. Except for track duty there just isn't that much need to ever go much faster. In your case however, you have stretches of autobahn where the limit is much higher, or even unlimited (or it was ten years ago when I last drove there, on a borrowed K100)

I think if most mopar lovers had a highway where they could take their car above 100mph they would do so in a heartbeat - and that would lead to different kinds of performance work - better tires, suspension. etc. I'm sure if you posted a video of your finished car on the autobahn at 160+ kph speeds we would all be delighted with envy.

IceWarrior said

Thanks for the motivation! I'm so impatient, can't wait to cruise the autobahn with her...so much so that I am considering gear vendors so don't have to rev the hell out of the motor to keep up with the rest of traffic--with the 3.55 gears I have now.

Or maybe I should consider a highway gear...we'll see.

Loving your Cuda, cool color for sure! Mine was originally light tan.

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