340 exhaust heat shield needed for Van's to repop.

You do make a good point. It would be interesting to know what the tooling cost was and what it costs to stamp and produce every one of those 69 rear decklid panels. 69 was the lowest production year of the 67-69 Barracudas, so it is a rather limited market to start with. I wonder how many of them they have sold. I would certainly agree that once the tooling costs were recovered the company should lower the price to cost of production plus a reasonable profit, but they never do.
round about 1998 or so i bought a complete 69 barracuda for the passenger side grille. the rest of the car was roached out with a wheezy 318 2bbl and 904 that was more loose and sloppy than the all you can drink mimosa brunch at Cougar Cafe.

i bought an entire car for one grille. and it wasn't even mint. and i was happy to do so.

the fact that i can open a catalog and order that same grille today delights me to no end. remember when the mopar catalogs got lumped together with the amc and jeep stuff, or even worse that pontiac crap? when we didn't have alum head options at any price point?

the past isn't all that far behind us and people seem to forget how hard we had it.