what would be considered an EARLY production 64

[dodgedave68]

Hi - I have a 1964 Barracuda that was made in May of 64, and I was wondering how you tell if that is a early production or not. I know the barracuda beat the mustang (april 15th 1964) to launch - so would it need to be an april production date to be 'early'

mine has the push button (of course) the Valiant badging and the long tail barracuda scripting

 

[yellowdartdave]

I think they started Barracuda production in mid-March. It takes a while to ramp up production, get the initial batch built and then distribute them to all the dealers.

 

[slantsixdan]

There's no formal demarcation between "early" and "not early" and "late". It's pretty vague and general; a fairly good rule of thumb is that "early" is the first two or three months' production of any given year-make-model and "late" is the last two or three months' production.