'68 Barracuda Formula S Fastback Restoration Background

Yes!!!!! Small world!!! Here's my story on that car......It was mid to later 90's I lived in Mo. and I wanted a 383 Cuda. I had already grown tired of building E bodies, and went to 68-70 B bodies, but then I got the hots for the 6-9 BB A body. I searched MCG and each one listed had sold. So I kept going back to older issues. I finally found your 67 for sale near San Francisco and flew out there. You had a 67 RoadRace Cuda and a hemi B body I recall. I have owned many Mopars over the decades and only bought a couple done, but your Cuda was by far the best Mopar done and one of my very best Mopars ever, I ever had! My trip driving back to Mo. was one of the all time joys of my entire life!

I had NO desire to sell this car, but I got home and a guy half hour away came to look at a 69 Roadrunner project I had for sale, he and his wife and 2 girls about 10-12, he saw the Cuda under my barn, and I made the mistake of saying what he was. Well he had been lusting for such for years and he actually began to cry when I tld him NOT FOR SALE! , a grown man weeping!!!! So, after more tearing... I told him I would keep that spare A833 and the set of headers you threw in , he could pay me $500 cash and I would call that the best vacation I ever had. OK so it was my first vacation I ever had.

The next summer, I was at Mopar Nats and I see this guy, his wife, and girls come running toward me and I get the best hugs!!!! They were still so excited. Made my day. There are more things in life better than a $.
I really liked that '67 383. I put a lot of effort into the engine and it ran perfectly. I got it to idle down to 400 RPM when pulling up the driveway. It even passed 1980 smog standards when I registered it. I am glad it went to a home where it was appreciated. I kick myself for having to sell it but CCR's at my new home and a bitchy neighbor forced me to get rid of it. Boo!
The car is lucky to be alive. I was at Sonoma Raceway drag racing it for the first time. I made a few runs and it got dark. I wanted one more run as I was having a hard time launching it with BFG's. No traction with that 383 4sp and 3.55 gears. About half track I shifted to 3rd and immediately lost all traction spinning the car around twice. But I kept it in the lane and completed the run (just to get off the track!). Must have hit water or oil on the track, but no damage done! LUCKY!