Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
Whenever I have a picture in my head of the way I want something to look I usually have a hard time letting go of it.
The styling of the Barracuda hoods is really nice right from the factory but I still wanted to have that race car look so I purchased a fiberglass Hemi style hood online and painted it flat black. I suppose everyone else going to their local courthouse tries to find license plates they can relate to without having to spend for prestige plates. I was fortunate that the G318 plate was available.
You can barely see the '68 Charger inside the garage behind the 'Cuda.
In this photo you can see I was running the 14" Cragar's SBP that came with the car.
The engine compartment was what you might have expected in a car that someone had already started to fix up a few years earlier but never finished. Headers that were semi-rusty, an Edelbrock carb, generic chrome air cleaner, newer Chrysler electronic ignition, a set of generic one-size-fits-all spark plug wires, a nice set of Edelbrock signature series valve covers with no breathers (left open), a rat's nest of wiring, etc... I power washed the engine clean, repainted the headers silver, added an MSD billet distributor and Digital control box, replaced the ignition wires, added wire looms and breathers, switched to a Holley carb, changed out the stock coil to an ACCEL Super coil, and re-bundled the wiring. The new hood that I'd installed had such a large opening in the front of it that you could see most of the motor through it. I replaced the air cleaner with a taller offset JEGS one to get it up into the clean air and to give the appearance of a larger motor from the outside.
I remembered those blue tinted headlights that they used to run on the Sox & Martin Barracuda and decided to try to copy it. So, I replaced the headlights with a set of halos.
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Whenever I have a picture in my head of the way I want something to look I usually have a hard time letting go of it.
The styling of the Barracuda hoods is really nice right from the factory but I still wanted to have that race car look so I purchased a fiberglass Hemi style hood online and painted it flat black. I suppose everyone else going to their local courthouse tries to find license plates they can relate to without having to spend for prestige plates. I was fortunate that the G318 plate was available.
You can barely see the '68 Charger inside the garage behind the 'Cuda.
In this photo you can see I was running the 14" Cragar's SBP that came with the car.
The engine compartment was what you might have expected in a car that someone had already started to fix up a few years earlier but never finished. Headers that were semi-rusty, an Edelbrock carb, generic chrome air cleaner, newer Chrysler electronic ignition, a set of generic one-size-fits-all spark plug wires, a nice set of Edelbrock signature series valve covers with no breathers (left open), a rat's nest of wiring, etc... I power washed the engine clean, repainted the headers silver, added an MSD billet distributor and Digital control box, replaced the ignition wires, added wire looms and breathers, switched to a Holley carb, changed out the stock coil to an ACCEL Super coil, and re-bundled the wiring. The new hood that I'd installed had such a large opening in the front of it that you could see most of the motor through it. I replaced the air cleaner with a taller offset JEGS one to get it up into the clean air and to give the appearance of a larger motor from the outside.
I remembered those blue tinted headlights that they used to run on the Sox & Martin Barracuda and decided to try to copy it. So, I replaced the headlights with a set of halos.
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