68 Cuda Funny Car

[Cudakid2967]

Figured y'all would get a kick out of this. We picked up this body the other day and hopefully will start piling parts together over next couple years to get it built to go bracket racing with. Fully fiberglass, stretched and narrowed a little bit. Should be pretty fun!

 

[HemiSSDart]

Have you figured out whose it was back in the day? It would behoove you to do some research...

 

[Cudakid2967]

Have you figured out whose it was back in the day? It would behoove you to do some research...

I have not yet, gentleman we got it from didn't know the history, need to contact him again and see if I can maybe get the info for the guy that he got it from to trace it back, am kind of curious as well.

 

[Cudakid2967]

Figured y'all would get a kick out of this. We picked up this body the other day and hopefully will start piling parts together over next couple years to get it built to go bracket racing with. Fully fiberglass, stretched and narrowed a little bit. Should be pretty fun!

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Some pics of it sitting on a chassis from a couple owners before us

 

[Plymouth 65]

Nice, definitely would be nice to know the history on the car. Great build. 65

 

[71GSSDemon]

Have you figured out whose it was back in the day? It would behoove you to do some research...

Jim, you mean like if this was Don Schumachers car Stardust? Wouldn't that be something? If no history was found, this is at least the paint scheme I would be using! One of my favorites.

 

[66340SEDAN]

Cool….I’d make sure to find out the history if you can, could be a valuable or historic body! I picked this up last summer, 1972 Duster F/C body, I have been told it’s the 1st NHRA approved rocket powered funny car. Not sure what I’ll do with it yet but I’m gonna do my best to preserve what’s left! Sometimes I wish the body I had didn’t have any neat history…would have been cool to paint it up like the Mongoose!

 

[66340SEDAN]

If you carefully strip or sand the paint down layer by layer, there might be a hidden paint scheme underneath all that old paint!

 

[3deez]

66340SEDAN. Tried to PM you. your inbox is full.

 

[Cudakid2967]

Jim, you mean like if this was Don Schumachers car Stardust? Wouldn't that be something? If no history was found, this is at least the paint scheme I would be using! One of my favorites.

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Definitely one of my inspiration, would love to get it sitting close to that!

 

[memike]

66340SEDAN. Tried to PM you. your inbox is full.

A member trying to get ahold of you @66340SEDAN

 

[Murray]

Any history will add value to it.

 

[Texas Red]

The shear fact that these old car bodies even still exist is a big cool factor.... any history will add even more cool to it period.
Don Prudhome, Don Shumacher, Rolland Leone were just a few who run that style funny car back in the day.

 

[MOPARMAGA]

Oh that's real awesome.

 

[topside]

Nice, definitely would be nice to know the history on the car. Great build. 65

It looks a lot like this car - Cecil ran it injected after retiring the '65 AWB car - but the rear wheel openings appear smaller than his.
I'll ask him if he knows what happened to the car.

 

[topside]

It looks a lot like this car - Cecil ran it injected after retiring the '65 AWB car - but the rear wheel openings appear smaller than his.
I'll ask him if he knows what happened to the car.

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I talked with Cecil, and have some info that may help ID the body in case it was his.
Fiberglass is from a chopper gun, not hand laid - had an aluminum rear spoiler with a notch in the center to help parachute blossom - cowl had the square notch, but windshield wasn't cut or notched (he ran the car injected, no blower) . He ran the car out of San Leandro, where he had his shop.
He sold the body & chassis to a guy in NV, who in turn sold the chassis to someone in ID who turned that into an Altered, but the body may well have stayed in NV or returned to CA.

 

[1969cuda]

Figured y'all would get a kick out of this. We picked up this body the other day and hopefully will start piling parts together over next couple years to get it built to go bracket racing with. Fully fiberglass, stretched and narrowed a little bit. Should be pretty fun!

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Where about did you buy this? Ca., Nv., Az.?

 

[Cudakid2967]

Where about did you buy this? Ca., Nv., Az.?

Picked up out of So-Cal

 

[Cudakid2967]

I talked with Cecil, and have some info that may help ID the body in case it was his.
Fiberglass is from a chopper gun, not hand laid - had an aluminum rear spoiler with a notch in the center to help parachute blossom - cowl had the square notch, but windshield wasn't cut or notched (he ran the car injected, no blower) . He ran the car out of San Leandro, where he had his shop.
He sold the body & chassis to a guy in NV, who in turn sold the chassis to someone in ID who turned that into an Altered, but the body may well have stayed in NV or returned to CA.

I'm going to say this probably isn't his car, wheel openings in the rear and then also there doesn't look to have been a rear wing or spoiler ever mounted to this car.

 

[topside]

OK - sure looks like a spoiler in the photo in its current state. A lot can happen to a car in 50 years, but no worries. Good luck with it !

 

[1969cuda]

I see what you see topside.