superbee_68
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So I picked this car up back in 2005. Looking at the pics, the car trailer and my truck were brand new, man it has been a long time... It is a 70 barracuda, original plum crazy purple with white interior, 318 auto, buckets with console shift, manual steering, manual brakes, standard gauges, no a/c. It is pretty stripped down but at least that means it will be easier and cost just a tiny bit less to restore. Trailer pic was the day I bought it. I went to buy the 70 roadrunner in the background and saw a purple e-body poking out from under a tarp. After going back to the bank to get more money, I took home the barracuda instead. I know a little bit of history on the car. It was daily driven by a young girl in the 80's. She managed to ding and dent every panel on the car except the driver fender and door. When she backed into a short pole that punched the gas tank, the car was parked. I got it running and driving with a battery, some wheel cylinders, a master cylinder, and lots of transmission fluid. Drove it around the block once, did a small burnout, and parked the car in the garage where it hasn't moved since. That was 9 years ago. It is now time to get this thing back on the road where it deserves to be.
The car came with new quarters and some extra consoles. I have since purchased full floor pans, trunk floor, trunk extensions, the metal and fiberglass composite AAR hood (so I can use light weight hood springs), front valence, rear valence, hood pins, the AAR spoiler, sub-frame connectors, and all the body stiffening pieces from xv-motorsports.
Plans for the car are costly so I will be taking my time and build in stages. From all outward appearances, I would like the car to look like an original AAR Cuda like the one pictured below, correct hood, decals, spoiler, exhaust, antenna location, etc. For the interior, 100% factory original in pattern and color is what I am after. The only thing I would like to upgrade is to have an original FM radio hooked to four modern speakers, two in the dash, two in the package tray hidden. I even want to keep the standard gauges. I will have to hide a tach somewhere but will figure that out later. I do want a/c so a kit from classic auto air is in order. Outward appearance and interior is where the original stops. For motor, I will be running the 5.7 hemi that came out of my uncles 08 challenger. He built a stroker motor for the car and gave me his 5.7. I still need an oil pan and accessory drive for it. Transmission will be a 5 or 6 speed, rear end will be an 8.75 with some stiffening and 3.55 gears. K-member will be tubular, power rack & pinion steering, and the car will loose the leaf springs in the rear. There will be discs brakes on all four corners but I want to run 15" Rally Wheels so I will have to buy brakes that will fit.
I hope to drive this car to work every day when it is done so I will have to balance concourse restoration/build quality with the reality that I will put a lot of miles on the car. Does anyone have any driver seat tracks, just need the standard ones? I will be looking through threads here for inspiration and know how. I hope to become part of the for e-bodies only community.
Just in case you are like me and look at the cars in the background, the 68 Charger was sold to a father and son 7 years ago and the 68 Coronet is still around but has received a face lift since the pictures were taken, six pack hood, 15" black steel wheels. The last pic is the Coronet and my 1970 Roadrunner race car I picked up last year. So now you can be sure I'm a mopar nut.
The car came with new quarters and some extra consoles. I have since purchased full floor pans, trunk floor, trunk extensions, the metal and fiberglass composite AAR hood (so I can use light weight hood springs), front valence, rear valence, hood pins, the AAR spoiler, sub-frame connectors, and all the body stiffening pieces from xv-motorsports.
Plans for the car are costly so I will be taking my time and build in stages. From all outward appearances, I would like the car to look like an original AAR Cuda like the one pictured below, correct hood, decals, spoiler, exhaust, antenna location, etc. For the interior, 100% factory original in pattern and color is what I am after. The only thing I would like to upgrade is to have an original FM radio hooked to four modern speakers, two in the dash, two in the package tray hidden. I even want to keep the standard gauges. I will have to hide a tach somewhere but will figure that out later. I do want a/c so a kit from classic auto air is in order. Outward appearance and interior is where the original stops. For motor, I will be running the 5.7 hemi that came out of my uncles 08 challenger. He built a stroker motor for the car and gave me his 5.7. I still need an oil pan and accessory drive for it. Transmission will be a 5 or 6 speed, rear end will be an 8.75 with some stiffening and 3.55 gears. K-member will be tubular, power rack & pinion steering, and the car will loose the leaf springs in the rear. There will be discs brakes on all four corners but I want to run 15" Rally Wheels so I will have to buy brakes that will fit.
I hope to drive this car to work every day when it is done so I will have to balance concourse restoration/build quality with the reality that I will put a lot of miles on the car. Does anyone have any driver seat tracks, just need the standard ones? I will be looking through threads here for inspiration and know how. I hope to become part of the for e-bodies only community.
Just in case you are like me and look at the cars in the background, the 68 Charger was sold to a father and son 7 years ago and the 68 Coronet is still around but has received a face lift since the pictures were taken, six pack hood, 15" black steel wheels. The last pic is the Coronet and my 1970 Roadrunner race car I picked up last year. So now you can be sure I'm a mopar nut.
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