Green with envy
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Just figured I'd share some progress we've managed with the Barracuda. For those of you that don't know, I've been spending my "free time" over the past... nearly a decade... working on restoring my dad's 1970 Plymouth Barracuda convertible. It's finaly at the point where the body's getting finished up and painted, and getting ready to be a rolling chassis again *real* soon. We got the call from the body shop yesterday that they'd gotten the initial coats of Sub-Lime green on the car (it's original color), so mom, dad, and I took a trip there this morning to check out the work so far. Here's what we saw....
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you planning on leaving it straight green, or are you gonna add some white racing stripes or anything else? Racing stripes would look good.
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Racing stripes on a 'cuda? I don't think so. I've seen 'cudas with a black stripes down the side of the rear quarter panels, or along the entire side of the car, but I don't think racing stripes would look right on a 'cuda.
MUWHAHAHA!!!
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you planning on leaving it straight green, or are you gonna add some white racing stripes or anything else? Racing stripes would look good.
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Racing stripes on a 'cuda? I don't think so. I've seen 'cudas with a black stripes down the side of the rear quarter panels, or along the entire side of the car, but I don't think racing stripes would look right on a 'cuda.
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"Billboards" and "Hockey Sticks" is what they were called. We considered those, but decided against it, since the car didn't come with them. My dad does want to do some rather off-the-wall airbrushing on the fiberglass hood I got for the car, but I'm fighting it the whole way (REALLY don't like the idea).
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That's looking nice, man! So are you going to restore it to drive or restore it to every-nut-has-mirror-finish show quality?
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It's gonna be a daily driver, but a secondary one.
Which engine? I'm guessing the 440?
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Nope, 318 2 barrel bored out to a 340 4 barrel setup (automatic tranny), the Hemis / big blocks were murder on the drivability for the muscle cars, made them ridiculously front heavy. There is a all-aluminum big block available from Mopar that weighs about the same as the 318, so we're considering that as an option down the road.
(oh yah, and this photo is from about a year ago...)
Too bad its convertable tho, coupe looks so much better.
And for god's sake get atleast 360 in it, to be honest i didnt know they made 'Cudas with 318's :S
Nice color.
Too bad its convertable tho, coupe looks so much better.
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I would have to disagree with that wholeheartedly.
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And for god's sake get atleast 360 in it, to be honest i didnt know they made 'Cudas with 318's :S
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Because the Chrysler 318 small block, much like the Torqueflight transmission it's hooked up to, is pretty much bulletproof, it provides plenty of power, and unlike with the big blocks, the car is still drivable.
And just for the record 360 is a small block and should weigh as much as 318. Smallest classic Mopar big block is 383.
But yah, like I said in an earlier post, considerations have been made for that Mopar all-aluminum big block, with the option to convert it to a hydrogen-fueled powerplant (with just as much compression).
... and the best part is, when I roll this bad boy up next to some ricer in a day-glo pink import, I can brag my car came this color stock.
What kind of rims?
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Keyser
But in MCO all my big Mopars ran Magnums (tm)
In other cuda news, front steering / suspension's about halfways put together (rear axle's been together for a month or two now), couple of stubborn bushing sleeves that made it in with the powdercoating are being an absolute pain to get out now. Fortunately the body shop (as expected) didn't get anything done this past week, so I've got the weekend to work with. There's times I'm *really* glad the body shop guy is taking his time (AND keeping himself busy with other projects)... this is definitely one of those times.
MCO... Motor City Online? The doomed driving "mmo" that I still hate EA for shutting down (and doing an absolute half-assed marketing deal to begin with).
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Yes the same thing.
I wanna play it so bad but nooo... fuck EA!
Those black stripes look cool
Seriously that is a dream car you got there, count me in on the envy club
We loaded up the Barracuda's front and rear end on the trailer last night:
Early this morning we drove over to the body shop, where the cuda's body had gotten the rubberized coating on the underbody and was sitting up on a lift. My dad and I proceeded to bolt the front end in place, bolting in the A arms, shocks, and front K-member were all bolted in:
, We then moved on to the back of the car and bolted up the rear end's leaf springs and shocks:
When all was said and done, it was a proper rolling chassis, but the body shop owner decided to leave the car on the lift so he could do some other work on it:
The photos cannot convey just how much that paint color (Chrysler's Sub-Lime) reaches out, grabs your eyeballs out of their sockets, sets them on golfball tees, and drives a 500 yard hit down-range with them. The paint supplier for the body shop happened to stop by just as we were leaving, and as he put it "the car just stands out in this shop".... and trust me when I say there are some top-notch cars in that body shop, both old school and new top of the line.
A very productive saturday morning indeed!
This was taken today at the shop next to the body shop (they specialize in auto interiors / convertible roofs and the like).
At this point all four windows are in (one in each door and one in the space to the rear of each door). The floor has some dynomat down in it, as per our request. The front windshield was in up until a few days ago, but had to be removed because of the order in which the chrome / black trim around it has to be installed.
This photo was very special and kind of eerie for me to take... the shop owner and I were talking over some of the things I need to bring him so he can get underway... he brought out a battery, hooked it up to the new roof motor, and got that thing pumping and pushing the roof up into the position it's at in that photo.
You have to realize, it's been ten years since that roof's been on the car and moving...
chinups.. the help offer's appreciated, but we really don't want any dirty hands on this thing now.
Yah, uh huh.
Just a side note; that intake manifold and valve covers aren't the ones that are going in with the engine. Got an eldebrock manifold powdercoated black, and we're looking for a set of black valve covers and air cleaner to go on it. We just got the original stuff painted so it would be in good condition when we store it away.
... and see.. more black parts..
What kind of trans are you going to run btw?