My M-Code Cuda is finally getting worked on

Back in the late 60s/early 70s lots of people took brand new or nearly new muscle cars, even relatively rare models, and turned them into drag cars, I personally knew several people that did that. At least with a drag car, like yours for instance, it's still straight and solid and can be put back to stock. I knew of some other people in my area, the western suburbs of Chicago, that bought a new 67 GTO and ran it on dirt oval tracks. After a couple years of that, the car was junk.