70DartMike
Too many projects
I saw an ad online for a 2 ton engine hoist so I called the guy and picked it up. We hit it off pretty good because he has a '49 International 1 ton, a '67 Dodge D300 383, and a '66 Fairlane GT ragtop. He has a pile of welders and cool tools, and a machine that has every single American made bumper design from the '30's to late '70's, and it'll bend them back into shape if they're dented or twisted or whatever.
Anyways, Dave eventually asked me if I wanted to go look at a '60's Dodge van his friend was selling. I'm always up for looking at an old vehicle, so I followed him to this cedar mill out in the woods and found the van. Neat van, '66 A100, actually pretty solid, /6 with 3 on the tree. The slant had a Clifford 4 bbl, headers, and a Street Demon carb. But the guy wanted $4000, which wasn't worth it to me. He also thought this was a Super Six that was a factory high performance 6 from a '71 Demon.
Dave then said, "Oh I think there's an old Barracuda in the woods back here somewhere," so I asked what year but he didn't know. We walked back and found it, it was a '68 fastback with Formula S emblems on the fenders. The VIN and fender tag match, it's a 340 auto Cuda, high price class. Dave knew the owner and called him for me. The owner, Mike, said he owned the car since the '70's and had dropped a '67 440 in the car and was driving over a mountain pass in '91 and hit black ice. The car spun out and crunched in the entire passenger quarter. He said he wanted to redo the car, but it's been sitting in the woods 15 years and he's on compo. He agreed to sell to me.
I called him yesterday and went by his place to pick up some parts. There's a full Direct Connection quarter, high back buckets with rust free seat tracks, back seats in the same diamond pleated pattern, door panels in the same pattern, center console that's not pitted too bad, 340 call outs that aren't pitted AT ALL, emblems, trim, black carpet, and a pile of fastback specific interior parts. There's also a '69 front clip and a '68 hood with more call outs that he's getting from another house for me. Monday I'll be taking my chain saw to the bush to pull the Cuda out and trailer it home. And yes, the price was right.
I'm excited about the seat pattern because I wanted to do a retro look on the Cuda and this is perfect.
Anyways, Dave eventually asked me if I wanted to go look at a '60's Dodge van his friend was selling. I'm always up for looking at an old vehicle, so I followed him to this cedar mill out in the woods and found the van. Neat van, '66 A100, actually pretty solid, /6 with 3 on the tree. The slant had a Clifford 4 bbl, headers, and a Street Demon carb. But the guy wanted $4000, which wasn't worth it to me. He also thought this was a Super Six that was a factory high performance 6 from a '71 Demon.
Dave then said, "Oh I think there's an old Barracuda in the woods back here somewhere," so I asked what year but he didn't know. We walked back and found it, it was a '68 fastback with Formula S emblems on the fenders. The VIN and fender tag match, it's a 340 auto Cuda, high price class. Dave knew the owner and called him for me. The owner, Mike, said he owned the car since the '70's and had dropped a '67 440 in the car and was driving over a mountain pass in '91 and hit black ice. The car spun out and crunched in the entire passenger quarter. He said he wanted to redo the car, but it's been sitting in the woods 15 years and he's on compo. He agreed to sell to me.
I called him yesterday and went by his place to pick up some parts. There's a full Direct Connection quarter, high back buckets with rust free seat tracks, back seats in the same diamond pleated pattern, door panels in the same pattern, center console that's not pitted too bad, 340 call outs that aren't pitted AT ALL, emblems, trim, black carpet, and a pile of fastback specific interior parts. There's also a '69 front clip and a '68 hood with more call outs that he's getting from another house for me. Monday I'll be taking my chain saw to the bush to pull the Cuda out and trailer it home. And yes, the price was right.
I'm excited about the seat pattern because I wanted to do a retro look on the Cuda and this is perfect.
