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fshd4it

fshd4it

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But I guess that makes sense, no? I've made the jump into gen 1 A-body world, picked up a '64 Barracuda the other day from a good friend of mine and tore into it right away. Nice straight rust free car that's been sitting for a decade or so, but boy am I gonna need a lot of stuff. I'm realizing info/knowledge is probably at the top of that list, so please bear with me as this project moves forward. Or snowballs, like they all seem to.
 
For some reason I can't upload photos? Have to try again.
 
If the pic file is too big it won't load. Make sure you camera settings are for the smaller/smallest file size.

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There we go.

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Looks like a great place to start. Solid for sure. Boy, you don't mess around. LOL
 
fshd4it said:
But I guess that makes sense, no? I've made the jump into gen 1 A-body world, picked up a '64 Barracuda the other day from a good friend of mine and tore into it right away. Nice straight rust free car that's been sitting for a decade or so, but boy am I gonna need a lot of stuff. I'm realizing info/knowledge is probably at the top of that list, so please bear with me as this project moves forward. Or snowballs, like they all seem to.
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You know, the thing about "snowballing" is that you end up with a nice snow ball.
 
TrailBeast said:
You know, the thing about "snowballing" is that you end up with a nice snow ball.
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Sure, if you don't get buried in an avalanche...they sure come apart a lot faster than they go back together I've found. It is a nice, solid body (no bondo or rust other than surface, yet), but it's been messed with a bit as is usual. Wrong seats which tore up the floorpans, springs moved into the framerails with a narrowed 8 3/4, and the torsion bar crossmember & trans hump cut out (I'm assuming to fit a 727). Little stuff amazes me, like the fact that the glass is perfect with no clouding.
 
I don't think this is how you're supposed to do it. There was a hump from another car rivited over the hole.

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What's your plan for the restoration? Looks like a pretty solid body to start with. 65'
 
Plymouth 65 said:
What's your plan for the restoration? Looks like a pretty solid body to start with. 65'
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This is going to be the wife's car, so I'm trying to keep it pretty basic. Going BBP with 10.97 discs & 10 by 2 1/2 drums, rebuild the suspension/steering. Looks like I'm going to have to redo everything underneath but the T-bars. Interior was redone circa '70s or something, going back to as stock as I can afford. Either an LA 360 or 5.9 magnum and a 727, since I've got a few spares around. I'd like to find a '65 column shift column (I still have the 727 and cables that came out of my '65 Belvedere) as an option to the entire push-button system or a floor shifter. Stock exhaust for ease, especially since it's a PS car. She hasn't picked a color yet, but that's last anyway. Thinking any farther down the road just scares me.
 
Ok if you end up going cable shift and want a culumn to shift it look at Valiants or a Dart because the Barracuda was a floor shift in 65
 
Thanks, that confirms what I was thinking, as I've been searching the web for the last few days and haven't found any reference to auto column shift 'cudas. But they had 3 speed on the column, no?
 
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