Photo: Hemmings
Despite having left this world nearly two decades ago, Plymouth is still around, as if the world is unwilling to let it go. The brand owes its presence in the public conscience not to its newer models, like the insanely dull Voyager van, but one of the older ones, with whom it is immediately linked now: the Barracuda.
The Cuda is perhaps the most famous Plymouth around, despite having been both introduced and discontinued decades ago, and remains one of the pillars of the muscle/pony car movement of the 1960s and '70s.
There are plenty of Cudas still doing the rounds on today's roads, or touring auctions or sales websites, but most have had some type of modification done do them, required either by the desire of the owner, or the requirements of the rebuild.
Not this one in the gallery above, though. With the exception of the Shaker hood with scoop, the car has all the original parts (and looks) it had back when it was made in 1970.
The car rolled off the assembly lines that year packed with a 440 under the hood (390 hp), backed by three two-barrel Holley carburetors and a four-speed manual transmission. It was one of just 900 or so to be made that year in this configuration, but that didn’t mean much to its owners at the time.
The listing of the car on a specialized sales website says the car spent most of its early years not on the road where it belonged, but in a barn somewhere, before getting rescued closer to our time. It underwent a three-year restoration process that ended in 2006, and with the exception of the added Shaker hood, nothing was changed.
Wrapped in Vitamin C Orange with 440 stripes to either side, the Cuda traveled just 1,000 miles since it was restored. The asking price for the car is just five bucks under $100,000.
There are plenty of Cudas still doing the rounds on today's roads, or touring auctions or sales websites, but most have had some type of modification done do them, required either by the desire of the owner, or the requirements of the rebuild.
Not this one in the gallery above, though. With the exception of the Shaker hood with scoop, the car has all the original parts (and looks) it had back when it was made in 1970.
The car rolled off the assembly lines that year packed with a 440 under the hood (390 hp), backed by three two-barrel Holley carburetors and a four-speed manual transmission. It was one of just 900 or so to be made that year in this configuration, but that didn’t mean much to its owners at the time.
The listing of the car on a specialized sales website says the car spent most of its early years not on the road where it belonged, but in a barn somewhere, before getting rescued closer to our time. It underwent a three-year restoration process that ended in 2006, and with the exception of the added Shaker hood, nothing was changed.
Wrapped in Vitamin C Orange with 440 stripes to either side, the Cuda traveled just 1,000 miles since it was restored. The asking price for the car is just five bucks under $100,000.
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