1969 Plymouth Barracuda Sales Features - Dealer Promo Film
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Features Video from the Chrysler Master Technician Service Conference Training Series. Used as a training tool for dealer salesmen and a sales tool for potential customers.
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The instrumental tune playing in the background in this video is "Sunday will never be the same" by Spanky and our Gang which came out in 1967
My first car was a '68 with a 318. It was blue with a fuzzy deep shag white carpet in the cargo area and on the back of the rear seat. Fold that down, and stare at the stars through the HUGE rear window. The original love machine!
Odd how they did not mention anything about the m code 440 available only with a 727 automatic. This must have been a very early advertisement.
Last of the compact Barracudas...I think they're nicer than the big ones.
By far!
Wow...Factory to Dealer promo tape...Can You Dig, the low mileage Mopar muscle... It was Mr Norm's Grand Spalding Dodge, just outside of Chicago Illinois, who stuffed a big block 440 engine, into these tiny barracudas, for the first time, and he actually drove that car to Chrysler in Detroit, and in 68 and 69, with these body styles, they ended up offering a 440 engine in the Dart And the Barracuda, because of being shown how they could do it by Mr. Norm's top shelf Mopar Mechanics! The dark in the barracuda were called Dart GSS, and barracuda GSS, For Grand Spaulding, and it was a Factory Racer! 440 engine, 4speed, in that little car... Can you imagine what that must have been like, taking that Barracuda out onto the street for the first time, as you let out the clutch with the car in first gear, and felt the enormous torque as you begin to scream down the street out of the dealer showroom...
And can you imagine, but it must have been like to be able to go into Grand Spaulding Dodge, on the corner of Grand and Spalding, just outside of Chicago where the ENTIRE FOCUS of the dealership, was selling fast muscle cars, from Dodge and Plymouth... He LOVED stuffing 6pack engines and Hemis into Barracudas and Dusters and Darts. And these weren't just factory crate engines either... You could sit down with a master engine builder at Grand Spaulding Dodge, and you could both figure out exactly what kind of horsepower you wanted, out of your car, and they would build you a quarter mile brawler, that would be a museum piece now. They milled heads, ported, polished, and flow-bench tested your intake set-up, they then Bored the block, installing .030 or .060 oversize forged aluminum racing slugs, and then balanced the entire bottom-end, rods, crank, and flywheel... Headers went on, they had an engine dyno cell, they would dyno your mill, and you could see the 850 horse engine you would then have the Tremendously skilled Mechanics stuff into a Cuda or Dart, Superbee or Charger.
A while back in a Mopar Muscle magazine article, they showed a '68 Plymouth station wagon, that a guy needed because he had a big family. He had fallen in love with the new '68 GTX body style, and really wanted one of those, and he asked Mr. Norm, if he could outfit a 68 440 4 speed, buckets and console, setup from a GTX, into his STATION WAGON!!!. Well, you guessed it, and the car is an absolute legend. It even has GTX badges on the outside of it. Plymouth Belvedere Wagon, with built 440 4 speed, headers, that Gorgeous B5 blue, with a blue and white interior, right out of a 68 GTX. Console mounted, wood grain offset, 4 speed shifter... Buckets, 150 MPH speedometer... That was just one of Mr Norm's custom big block builds in that incredible dealership, in the 60's and 70's.
God, gimme a time machine, set to Mr Norm Krause's Dodge Dealership, on Grand and Spaulding, in Chi town, with a million bucks in a briefcase. What a place that had to have been, 50 years ago! The smell of gasoline and oil, air ratchets tightening the steel cop rims onto a boulevard screaming Dart... the sound of engines with headers getting fired up, Dodge Superbees, with the dual scoop hood open, as the mechanics smiled, as he finished installing the last bolt, on the chrome valve cover of a 440 six pack engine, that had been bored, cammed and dyno' d for the customer... I think it can only properly be described as absolute Mopar Evan that existed for those few magic years in the 60's and 70's and now only exist in what any of us can imagine it must have been... God Bless You, Mr. Norm Kraus. I hope you are in good health, and you are enjoying your retirement. I do know that people will wait 5 hours in a line, to have you autograph the dash of their Mope muscle car. Truly a Chrysler Legend, of the highest order. What a place that must've been!!!
I want a time machine too. I want mine with a 440 Six Pack. Hurst shifter. And all the other stuff that would make this car look and drive so cool. Yeah and the hot chick would be nice too. ;)
SO wonderful to drive a DEATH TRAP GAS GUZZLER just to jerk yourself off like a selfish asshole....
I had a 69 type S. bought it used in 1972. Had a 340 with triple carbs. Cast aluminum valve covers, Hurst 4 speed. Did not see it mentioned in this ad. Wonder if I had something unusual. Perfect car for hauling ass in more ways than one. Oh look! The back seat turns into a bed!
My 69 fastback 440
JAMAICA BLUE.
HAD IT SINCE 1980
Nice cars. Bought a '69 Charger pretty much out of the blue in '77. This has a nice 'model'.
But what happened to the hood vents 😢
She's gorgeous and has the most perfect feet I've ever seen.
The best lookin' cuda out of 3 generation... Those A55/ A56/ A56 M-code !!♥️♥️♥️👌👌👌
Any one from that era knew enough to wait and buy the 1970 Cuda. Both available at the same time in the summer of 1969. Same base price.
Just think - the girl in this video is now somewhere between 75 and 80 years old!
So am I!
I've always heard the Cuda replaced the Formula S, but this seems to contradict that. Cast aluminum wheels never made it - but neither did those big deep dish turbine wheel covers either. I've never seen another pic of that. One of the sexier film strips. Something about painting the girl in an awfully short dress :-)
I don't know what you mean by "never made it" - do you mean their popularity never took off? Both options were available and produced. I have the deep dish wheel covers on my 69 Barracuda; they were part of the A14 and A15 Spring Special package, but also available separately. Yes, the Cuda package was distinct from the Formula S, both only available in 69; they seem to have overlapped in time and the Cuda package might have been designed to have replaced the Formula S package.
Those cast aluminum wheels are famously known as "Recall Wheels" because 99% of them were recalled due to cracks developing around the hub if wheel torque wasn't maintained. There are a few original sets that remained in the wild. They do reproduce them now with modern casting techniques so as to not crack like the originals. I've never seen those wheel covers on a Cuda before, but I'm fairly certain I've seen them on a Fury.
Yes, those cast rims are extremely rare. I wasn't aware of the recall. The deep dish turbine wheel covers like I have on my 69 Barracuda are also seldom seen.
IF I WAS AROUND BACK THEN, IT WOULD BE A 383, WITH 4 SPD. PREFERABLY BLACK.
DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THE BARRACUDA "HILLARY" IN THE '67 FILM "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?" HAD?
WOW I want a Vinyl roof that will crack, leak rain, and RUST OUT THE ROOF IN FIVE MONTHS
That's right, better to have a modern car that looks like every other used bar of soap on the road, no style, no class.
You still here?
As for power, this will MURDER YOU IN A CRASH faster than you can say "Death Trap"
But it'll be fun until then. What a way to go.
I was wondering when you'd show up.