Let's see your first A-body!
OK... before i get a bunch of "hate mail" for the paint job on this "original" 68 formula S 340, 4 speed, please let me explain!
i was 17 and a junior in high school in 1971. i had bought an almost new 68 barracuda from a mechanic at a local plymouth dealer who ordered the car new and drag raced it for about a year before selling it to me. it was an original turbine bronze car with black side ralley stripes. being in high school, i worked on cars and was just learning how to paint. naturally, i had to "experiment" on "custom paint jobs" and one weekend, i sprayed the front end a bunch of different colors then took masking tape and put it all over the hood and then sprayed it black. yes... it looks terrible AND ridiculous. but this WAS my first "A body" mopar. the second turbine bronze cuda is the one i have now - it is an exact recreation of the one i had in high school, "minus" the "custom" paint job! oh.. i was also into motorcycles at the time ... that is a 68 harley sportster ... which i spent MOST of my time "pushing it home" rather than riding it.
OK... before i get a bunch of "hate mail" for the paint job on this "original" 68 formula S 340, 4 speed, please let me explain!
i was 17 and a junior in high school in 1971. i had bought an almost new 68 barracuda from a mechanic at a local plymouth dealer who ordered the car new and drag raced it for about a year before selling it to me. it was an original turbine bronze car with black side ralley stripes. being in high school, i worked on cars and was just learning how to paint. naturally, i had to "experiment" on "custom paint jobs" and one weekend, i sprayed the front end a bunch of different colors then took masking tape and put it all over the hood and then sprayed it black. yes... it looks terrible AND ridiculous. but this WAS my first "A body" mopar. the second turbine bronze cuda is the one i have now - it is an exact recreation of the one i had in high school, "minus" the "custom" paint job! oh.. i was also into motorcycles at the time ... that is a 68 harley sportster ... which i spent MOST of my time "pushing it home" rather than riding it.
