Photo: Weaver Customs/Barrett-Jackson
File this under the “blast from the recent past" category: a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda so heavily modified it could have been a real treat to have around, hadn’t it been hidden from our eyes some time ago.
Last week, we told you about a 1950 Ford F-1 that is going under the hammer in March, in the hands of Barrett-Jackson. That particular pickup, it too a heavily-modified machine, is the work of Utah-based Weaver Customs, a shop we’ve talked about before. We mentioned the F-1 because it reopened our appetite for older Weaver builds, and we decided to revisit some.
We’ll start off with their TorC machine, a massively-upgraded 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that first surfaced back in 2016.
The car is nothing like the stock Cudas. Propped on top of a Roadster Shop chassis, the body of the TorC retains the overall lines of the vehicle it is based on but modified by means of a rear roof chop, the leaning back of the windshield, and restyled front and rear ends.
The interior is the embodiment of simplicity, with the hand-built steel dashboard and the center console holding Axalta gauges and a Dakota Digital audio.
The body sits on staggered 18- and 20-inch wheels, which get their spin from a 6.7-liter twin-turbo Cummins diesel engine. And we’re not talking about some off-the-shelf piece, but hardware taken by another garage, Gorilla Performance, to insane levels of power: 1,500 hp at the wheels, and some 3,000 ft-lb (4,062 Nm) of torque.
Last time we heard anything about TorC was in 2017 when the same auction house we mentioned above helped the owners sell it. It went for $129,800 at the time and got lost somehow, as no news about it surfaced since.
We only hope it does come back, if it’s still out there, as if there ever was a time for such incredible builds to take center stage, this is it.
We’ll start off with their TorC machine, a massively-upgraded 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that first surfaced back in 2016.
The car is nothing like the stock Cudas. Propped on top of a Roadster Shop chassis, the body of the TorC retains the overall lines of the vehicle it is based on but modified by means of a rear roof chop, the leaning back of the windshield, and restyled front and rear ends.
The interior is the embodiment of simplicity, with the hand-built steel dashboard and the center console holding Axalta gauges and a Dakota Digital audio.
The body sits on staggered 18- and 20-inch wheels, which get their spin from a 6.7-liter twin-turbo Cummins diesel engine. And we’re not talking about some off-the-shelf piece, but hardware taken by another garage, Gorilla Performance, to insane levels of power: 1,500 hp at the wheels, and some 3,000 ft-lb (4,062 Nm) of torque.
Last time we heard anything about TorC was in 2017 when the same auction house we mentioned above helped the owners sell it. It went for $129,800 at the time and got lost somehow, as no news about it surfaced since.
We only hope it does come back, if it’s still out there, as if there ever was a time for such incredible builds to take center stage, this is it.
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