SS/B Barracuda project
There doesn't seem to be a real SS car that is restored with extreme high detail that people are doing nowadays and reflecting the knowledge that is out there currently.
There is a lot of fact in this statement. There are a few guys who are restoring real cars and
trying very hard to return them to how they were by erasing years of updates. It is very costly for them to buy the original parts when they can find them. They search for years. There is a lot of uncertainty in areas and it can be difficult to get answers. I have found some guys who will share and some that won't.
Some who have these cars and some answers are secretive and don't particularly care for guys cloning these cars and they feel it is not good for the information to be known and could confuse or add counterfits the hobby. At least that is my take on them when I encounter this type.
Because of this I was kind of curious to see how many would contribute to to this thread and
and what would be revealed.
I would consider it impossible to build a car that was indistinguishable from the real McCoy.
If ever there was a car that truly was questionable in the eyes of the people in the know it would have to be a car that at some point sat next to a genuine and had many parts transfered
over as in a rebodied car.
What we can accomplish here with this thread will not fool the owners of these cars.
But we can build a likeness to enjoy that is more obtainable than the genuine article.
Along the same lines as cloning a formula S or GTS but I would say more difficult.
Some will be bothered by it some not.[/QUOTE]
Yes so true... and in my case, I do this for my on peace of mind. And with you help I know I will be very successful... Thanks all of you so fare.
I am not sure I would be more satisfied with a factory SS. Economically of cause but besides that, these cars are such a special part of your drag racing history, I thing they belong to America. Of cause I, like some of you guys think back. and go if if if.
In the mid seventies Don Grotheer put up his Barracuda for sale in the National Dragster. Less than 8k I thing. Spare engine and stuff... Some arrangements were made with transportation to Gothenburg here in Sweden, but like I say it is nothing I keep thinking of...
