I added another 69 Cuda to my collection today
I am proud to say i added another 1969 Barracuda to my collection today.
I attend car cruises around the Pittsburgh, PA area in the summer and have met a lot of very nice folks - many of which now know that I have a collection of Barracudas.
About a month ago, a guy that i know called me to say that he had been driving in a smaller community just South of where I live in Scott Township (South Hills, Pittsburgh) and passed by a blue 69 Barracuda fastback sitting in the front yard of a house. He said he stopped and the owner was an older gentleman who had owned the car many years. My friend asked him if he would be interested in selling the car and the guy said, he was "attached" to the car but that he now had some difficult medical issues and that he would consider selling it "to the right person."
My friend called me and gave me the car owner's phone number and I called him to set up a time to look at the car.
The car has the deluxe interior option with headrest bucket seats. it's a 318 automatic with power steering and "factory air." it has the original air dash and the chrome vent attachment under the dash and a couple of belt pulleys on the motor. But the big air compressor is gone. The car does have a lot of rust on it but both front fenders only have small holes at the rockers and the rear rockers also have holes. There is some rust under the hood on the inner fender wells. And sadly, the rear big window was broken by a tree branch. However, the car has a LOT of very good parts.
I will be selling the 318 and the auto trans and the remaining factory air stuff including the dash bezel, under dash vents, what's left under the hood and even the rear window glass that still have the original "Chrysler Air Temp" decal. It's not my intention here to offer stuff for sale as this is not the right forum. I'm just "talking" (... Joey?... LOL!).
The car just arrived on the slide-back truck tonight and I haven't had a chance to clean it up and do a full inventory of parts that may be available. I'll be posting more pictures later.
I got this car for $3500 which I feel was fair to the owner given the car's condition and fair to me given what I wanted from the car. The OEM headrest seats will be going in the M-Code car i'm building. The driver's fender will go on the gold 69 383 fastback S car that i am also doing presently. I had posted here on FABO for a fender, however, the fenders and prices offered to me were not in line with my "internal price estimates" - but i do thank the FABO members who offered fenders to me. I'm finding that it may make more sense just to buy entire cars now rather than individual parts.
I am proud to say i added another 1969 Barracuda to my collection today.
I attend car cruises around the Pittsburgh, PA area in the summer and have met a lot of very nice folks - many of which now know that I have a collection of Barracudas.
About a month ago, a guy that i know called me to say that he had been driving in a smaller community just South of where I live in Scott Township (South Hills, Pittsburgh) and passed by a blue 69 Barracuda fastback sitting in the front yard of a house. He said he stopped and the owner was an older gentleman who had owned the car many years. My friend asked him if he would be interested in selling the car and the guy said, he was "attached" to the car but that he now had some difficult medical issues and that he would consider selling it "to the right person."
My friend called me and gave me the car owner's phone number and I called him to set up a time to look at the car.
The car has the deluxe interior option with headrest bucket seats. it's a 318 automatic with power steering and "factory air." it has the original air dash and the chrome vent attachment under the dash and a couple of belt pulleys on the motor. But the big air compressor is gone. The car does have a lot of rust on it but both front fenders only have small holes at the rockers and the rear rockers also have holes. There is some rust under the hood on the inner fender wells. And sadly, the rear big window was broken by a tree branch. However, the car has a LOT of very good parts.
I will be selling the 318 and the auto trans and the remaining factory air stuff including the dash bezel, under dash vents, what's left under the hood and even the rear window glass that still have the original "Chrysler Air Temp" decal. It's not my intention here to offer stuff for sale as this is not the right forum. I'm just "talking" (... Joey?... LOL!).
The car just arrived on the slide-back truck tonight and I haven't had a chance to clean it up and do a full inventory of parts that may be available. I'll be posting more pictures later.
I got this car for $3500 which I feel was fair to the owner given the car's condition and fair to me given what I wanted from the car. The OEM headrest seats will be going in the M-Code car i'm building. The driver's fender will go on the gold 69 383 fastback S car that i am also doing presently. I had posted here on FABO for a fender, however, the fenders and prices offered to me were not in line with my "internal price estimates" - but i do thank the FABO members who offered fenders to me. I'm finding that it may make more sense just to buy entire cars now rather than individual parts.
