I guess junkyard A-bodies are all gone now

Yep i agree with the mustang analogy. Take for instance just the taillight assemblies on the 1st gen mustang VS 67 barracuda. Same light lens, bezel, reflector, and gasket is used on both LH and RH of the mustang. 1 tooling cost per piece because it fits both sides. Then you have 1 million copies of the car produced by mid year 1966 all using the same lamp assembly from 1964 thru 1966

1967 barracuda. Ok maybe 70,000 cars as a generous estimate for that 1 year. Tooling X2 since there are specific LH and RH parts to make a pair of these lamps. Plus these lamps are correct for 1 year only.

Now you.can buy the mustangs plastic lenses repopped for about $20 a pair

The 67 barracuda lenses for about $180 a pair.

Now as far as being cheap, i'm not cheap. I would love for AMD to come out with even just outer door skins for the second gen barracudas so i can reskin my doors instead of having to filler them. Since the same skin fits all 3 years and body styles of this car they could recoup their money pretty easily.

If you notice one of the first things repopped for A bodys was defroster vents. This was probably because it was easier to make tooling for injection moulding plastic parts, using existing good originals for moulds, and it was a common enough part from 1967 to 1976 unchanged.

The aftermarket is catching up, though i have no idea why AMD made a dutchman panel for 67/68/69 barracuda notchback when it seems most people regard these as parts cars for convertibles and fastbacks. Fastbacks BTW were the highest production # of this bodystyle.

I have seen quite a bit of 67 up A body sheetmetal being made now for the structural end. Full floor pans, full trunk floors, trunk drop offs, inner fender wells outer fender wells, front inner fender wells, rear shock mount crossmember, torsion bar crossmember, lower radiator support crossmember, outer rocker panels, cowl side support panels, spare tire mounts, etc. Its a matter of time before the rest is done.

AMD took the time to repop damn near every body panel for the 67 - 69 dart, plus the structural pieces i just mentioned that we all know fit it.

I am hoping they will see the value in repopping 67- 69 cuda fenders as well since beat to **** originals are fetching at minimum $300. I would gladly pay $500-$600 each for new ones, instead of F@@King around with fiberglass repop **** that almost never fits right on the first try for $500 each.