i'll share this story in brief as it was one of the most fun things I've ever done.
bout mid 90's , car market soft, I was down on my personal car toys. had the hots for a big block 67-9 A car. dark ages, no internet, but hemmings and MCG. I call on cars in MCG for sale. each ....sold. every month or two there would be one for sale. I seach back issues....each call, later and later issues, the same result, sold. huh I say. so now i'm back to year old issue, call on CA 67 383 cuda. $5500. so I call. it was getting to be a challenge I guess.
I get the owner on the phone, he works for oil co. developing synthetic oil, road races another 67 cuda he built, this car is totally done, laquer paint 10 years old, rebuilt everything, great interior, he has driven it like 10,000 mi. says drive it anywhere. so I tell him I will fly out there on midnight flight. can he pick me up at Oakland airport. ?? YES, he says.
next morning he picks me up in this cuda. he's hauling a-- don the freeway, around some pretty good curves 80 mph. it goes like starped *** ape and around curves like on rails!????? find out it has this BIG front swaybar, really good shocks, and no telling what else. I look it over, really nice car. pay the man. super nice guy. in his garage is a restored 67 hemi car, and his road racer. all very nice. well BS cars all monring....
bout noon i'm ready to head back to MISSOURI! ,,,,i'm asking routes. he says, go up north a ways and go to Reno and hit this 2 lane blacktop, take it across 2-3 states to CO. I will be in desert and might see 3 people. run as fast as ya like! he was right.
this was the most fun!!!!! driving a really nice old mopar. going down back roads( highway 82 or something).. for 3 states. knowing if I did have a problem, I would sit there for how long before anyone come along!? not even a screwdriver with me.... left my pistol at home.. LOL.... then I remember he said he had put bout 10,000 trouble free miles, and this guy was a real gearhead!!! (smart gearhead at that)... so I didn't worry, just drive and loved every minute of it!
spent first night in Reno, 2 nd night just East of Denver. home next afternoon late., after checking out a few boneyards along the way. 2.94 gears, 4 speed, thermoquad, yes , points.... 18 mpg running pretty good clip.&0-80) dessert, mountains,
I drive my old mopars but never went that far on one that old. it was bout 30 years old then. would be almost 50 years old now. LOL
1 week after I get home, a guy, his wife and kids.... down the road called and wanted to come look at 69 road chicken I had for sale. they show up and he spots this cuda in the shed and tells me how I has wanted a BB cuda all his life, and I actually see tears on his cheek. ( this guy has kids that were young teenagers)... I tell him how I have searched high and low, went to Ca for it, didn't buy it to sell........ I wind up letting him have it for what paid for it..... I did get an extra 4 speed and bb A headers with the deal.... I just called it my vacation.... saw him and family at Mopar Nats several times with it.... it was a member of the f amily!!!!
end of story....
bout mid 90's , car market soft, I was down on my personal car toys. had the hots for a big block 67-9 A car. dark ages, no internet, but hemmings and MCG. I call on cars in MCG for sale. each ....sold. every month or two there would be one for sale. I seach back issues....each call, later and later issues, the same result, sold. huh I say. so now i'm back to year old issue, call on CA 67 383 cuda. $5500. so I call. it was getting to be a challenge I guess.
I get the owner on the phone, he works for oil co. developing synthetic oil, road races another 67 cuda he built, this car is totally done, laquer paint 10 years old, rebuilt everything, great interior, he has driven it like 10,000 mi. says drive it anywhere. so I tell him I will fly out there on midnight flight. can he pick me up at Oakland airport. ?? YES, he says.
next morning he picks me up in this cuda. he's hauling a-- don the freeway, around some pretty good curves 80 mph. it goes like starped *** ape and around curves like on rails!????? find out it has this BIG front swaybar, really good shocks, and no telling what else. I look it over, really nice car. pay the man. super nice guy. in his garage is a restored 67 hemi car, and his road racer. all very nice. well BS cars all monring....
bout noon i'm ready to head back to MISSOURI! ,,,,i'm asking routes. he says, go up north a ways and go to Reno and hit this 2 lane blacktop, take it across 2-3 states to CO. I will be in desert and might see 3 people. run as fast as ya like! he was right.
this was the most fun!!!!! driving a really nice old mopar. going down back roads( highway 82 or something).. for 3 states. knowing if I did have a problem, I would sit there for how long before anyone come along!? not even a screwdriver with me.... left my pistol at home.. LOL.... then I remember he said he had put bout 10,000 trouble free miles, and this guy was a real gearhead!!! (smart gearhead at that)... so I didn't worry, just drive and loved every minute of it!
spent first night in Reno, 2 nd night just East of Denver. home next afternoon late., after checking out a few boneyards along the way. 2.94 gears, 4 speed, thermoquad, yes , points.... 18 mpg running pretty good clip.&0-80) dessert, mountains,
I drive my old mopars but never went that far on one that old. it was bout 30 years old then. would be almost 50 years old now. LOL
1 week after I get home, a guy, his wife and kids.... down the road called and wanted to come look at 69 road chicken I had for sale. they show up and he spots this cuda in the shed and tells me how I has wanted a BB cuda all his life, and I actually see tears on his cheek. ( this guy has kids that were young teenagers)... I tell him how I have searched high and low, went to Ca for it, didn't buy it to sell........ I wind up letting him have it for what paid for it..... I did get an extra 4 speed and bb A headers with the deal.... I just called it my vacation.... saw him and family at Mopar Nats several times with it.... it was a member of the f amily!!!!
end of story....
