67 Barracuda rolling resto
1967 Barracuda streeter/occasional strip
73 340/727 (Originally 273/manual)
3.55 Suregrip
Figured I would start a thread on my project that's been on the back burner for the past 8 years while I built our house. I bought this car in 2005 for $2500 running, with a really worn out front end and some impact damage to the front left corner. The person I bought it from was selling it off for a family friend that moved out of state and it sat for 16 years. They said it was built for the strip but I didnt take their word for it. In the first 3 years or so that I owned it, I converted the front to discs and upsized the lug spacing to match the previously-added 8.25 rear. At the same time I changed all the front end wear parts and bushings, along with new big block torsion bars. I replaced the rear leaves, they were cracked in multiple places. Drove it off and on for a few years, and in between deployments repaired floor sheetmetal, added TTI dual exhaust, and tinkered with the tuning but could never get a good idle, and always had overheat problems. Parked it in 2011 while I built our house, then built a shop last year. Shop is still in progress but usable so I pulled it in this fall to start on it. The plan is for this winter: Freshen up the motor, mate it to an 833OD I picked up, refurbish and paint all the engine bay metal, K frame, steering, and suspension pieces up front. I also have to repair the trans tunnel because the PO who installed the 727 hacked right through the torsion bar crossmember. I want to be able to drive this car in the summer so I'm trying to do the resto-mod in phases during our long cold winters up here. Sorry for the long windage. Here's a pic of the car.
1967 Barracuda streeter/occasional strip
73 340/727 (Originally 273/manual)
3.55 Suregrip
Figured I would start a thread on my project that's been on the back burner for the past 8 years while I built our house. I bought this car in 2005 for $2500 running, with a really worn out front end and some impact damage to the front left corner. The person I bought it from was selling it off for a family friend that moved out of state and it sat for 16 years. They said it was built for the strip but I didnt take their word for it. In the first 3 years or so that I owned it, I converted the front to discs and upsized the lug spacing to match the previously-added 8.25 rear. At the same time I changed all the front end wear parts and bushings, along with new big block torsion bars. I replaced the rear leaves, they were cracked in multiple places. Drove it off and on for a few years, and in between deployments repaired floor sheetmetal, added TTI dual exhaust, and tinkered with the tuning but could never get a good idle, and always had overheat problems. Parked it in 2011 while I built our house, then built a shop last year. Shop is still in progress but usable so I pulled it in this fall to start on it. The plan is for this winter: Freshen up the motor, mate it to an 833OD I picked up, refurbish and paint all the engine bay metal, K frame, steering, and suspension pieces up front. I also have to repair the trans tunnel because the PO who installed the 727 hacked right through the torsion bar crossmember. I want to be able to drive this car in the summer so I'm trying to do the resto-mod in phases during our long cold winters up here. Sorry for the long windage. Here's a pic of the car.
