The BEST Barracuda you will ever see. 1969 MUST WATCH!!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2022
- Our friend Joe Cook brought in one of the coolest cars we have ever seen alongside one of the best stories ever attached to a car's history he has owned and sold this car 4 times in the last 50 years and has rebuilt it from a broken-down rust bucket to the cleanest Barracuda you will ever see.
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Wait a minute here. He's the 3rd, 5th and also the 7th owner of the B'cuda? That's like being the 3rd, 5th and 7th husband of Elizabeth Taylor. LMAO!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Yea we couldent believe it when we heard it either
@@TAGCustoms Talk about a love hate relationship sheeesh. C'mon pal. Ya either love the car or dump it!🤣😆
@@TAGCustoms He must be Richard Burton and the B'Cuda is Liz Taylor. 🤣😆
@@rickbailey189 Haha we will see if he sells it again, anytime soon
❤MOPAR!!! I'm retired from Chrysler Transmission in Kokomo Indiana. Worked in the Test Garage department. Changed over 8,000 Transmission's in my day. ❤❤❤❤
Excellent car. One of the best of the 60's legends.
Yea he is always winning best in show at our local car shows
😂
Oh wow. Back in the 80,s I had two 68 Barracudas. One blue green coupe with the 340 auto.and one Black fastback with the little 273 auto. Those cars were so fun to road race with.. They cornered way better than the old 60,s Mustangs did.I got married and moved away and had to sell them both. I kick myself everyday. A lot of people think they are ugly..not me .I love the grill the most. Now the older like 64 with the huge back glass I couldn't warm up to.
Wow you had 2 barraducudas at the same time?? And yea idk why the front grill gets so much hate on them looks great to me.
For sure I had the 69 340 formula S with possie rear end - real tire burner
Also had the 65 with a 273 , wasn't as fast or handle quite as well but still loved it.
Bought my wife a 64 with a 225 six in it. 😊
Boy do I miss my 1969 340-s 4 speed notchback
My dad bought a brand new 69 1/2 440 orange 🧡 Cuda' . I drove through Kansas when we took it on Vacation. Memories sometimes last a life time . ❤️ love Cuda'
Wow an orange one would be amazing, love old cars in bright colors
The first ‘cool’ car I ever drove was a 67 Barracuda notchback. My dad ran a gas station and rented Avis cars also. No idea what it had for a motor. Being a rental, I assume either the 273 V8 or maybe even a slant six but, to 14 year old me it might as well have been a Hemi! There was a parking lot on our way home and he would let me drive the last few miles home from there. Wishing a friend would see me driving that yellow Barracuda but, no one ever did. We lived in a very small New Hampshire coastal town and after Labor Day it was pretty much deserted. Great memory!
Great Story man a Baracuda in yellow would look so flashy n cool
Very interesting video just watched it I have a 69 formula s 340 automatic barracuda that I have owned since May 1st 1975 my very first car if you would like to see it January 2005 Mopar Muscle
@@kurthollembeak190 Just had a google super slick looking Barracuda
Thank you
Plymouth rated the 340 at 275 hp. The typical dynamic output was around 350, with some tuning taking it to 370. Insurance & the Nader crowd caused some imaginative #'s. I had a 68 318, & badly wanted the 340/Formula S. They were on the market for cheap by 73, but I was 17 & could not swing the insurance. I sa an ad in Revycler for a Coronet RT Hemi asking for a station wagon in trade, no money. HARD times. If you bought an LS6 in70, it was worth almost nothing in 73. Sad.
I had a 4 speed version ABSOLUTELY loved that car
Beautiful Fish indeed. Formula S was a top sport version of Barracuda from 1965 to '69. These Barracudas were excellent for nimble handling and driving ease. It's really great to see such a clean piece. Nice video!
Thanks you very much, and yea it was a pleasure to work with such a nice car
Actually not true. The "Cuda" was the top version ....not the Barracuda Formula S.
@@ctbourbon Actually not true😁 The name 'Cuda did not officially appear until 1969, although this shortened term had been used before. From 1965 to 1968, the Barracuda with the Formula S package was the sportiest version. In 1969, the 'Cuda 340 or 383 version was introduced and it could receive similar equipment as the Formula S. Everything depended on the customer's wishes. It is definitely highly debatable. On the other hand, the cuda 440 M-code was just a "'Cuda". This probably also played a role in the fact that in 1970 it was no longer on offer.
Unreal to see this car, I remember in 1968 I was 8, my late uncle was on leave from Vietnam War, and pulled up in his Yellow 69 Barracuda fast back. The smile on his face I will always remember. Unfortunately, his smile was short live, he was killed in the Tet Offensive.
My condolences brother
My 1st classic was my dad's 69 barracuda, I drove it in highschool 👍🏿
When I see cars like this, I laugh because my friend "Dusty," his mom had one. We thought it was cool for a mom to have a Barracuda and that was it! Never in a million years did I think these cars would be a "thing," 50 years later.
Hahaha, I wonder if the Mustang Mache E will be cool like this in 50 years lol
@@TAGCustoms nothing will exist in 50 years
I can't fathom that at all.
@@frwystr Not like today. We're on the cusp of יְהֹוָה!
@@yeehaw3792 us neither long live the V8
What a gorgeous car. When I was growing up, my best friend had one with a 318 so I really appreciate seeing the work done on yours....Thanks for sharing it!!👍👍
Joe has really done something special with this restoration build
I bought this similar car a 1967 baracuda with a 318 in early seventies for $700 drove it for a year and wrote it off for $1000; needed the money. No regrets.
Such a lovely car! Bringing back memories from the past... I love it!
Did you have one?
@@TAGCustoms no, but a friend of mine had a 69 fastback with 383. We had a lot of fun with it... :-)
Later on he had a 70 with Hemi!
@@matsfredsson9445 Haha yea its alaways nice when a buddies got the car n the bills but you get to enjoy the joy rides. haha
Front end 4/ back end 10 , one of the prettiest tails ever.
This guy gets it 100% agree
sweet car nice job,mopar loyalty at its finest, 340s are no slouch !
No slouch indeed, was great to document such a rare cool Mopar, like their is a million old mustangs but old Mopar is so hard to find
100% agree
Always worth a rewatch
One clean Fish.
Its a slippery fish to Joe couldn't seem to keep a hold on it buying and selling it 3 times over
Beautiful restoration sir!
Now thats a crazy story!
Truly is
my dad paid $500 for his barn find cuda back in 1989, anyways no matter how special this car is, it seems only one man keep artificially raising it's pricing by buying and selling it
Haha they are getting pretty darn expensive these days
I had a 1968 Barracuda Formula S 340.
Wish I still had that car.
I love the 340 motors. They were very underrated.
I have owned 3 different 340 Challengers including a 4 speed pistol grip one. Had that car for 19 years until someone ran a red-light and T-boned it.
Ouch sad story to hear of a car like that getting wrecked hope your all right from the accident, Also what do you prefer Cuda or Challenger??
@@TAGCustoms
The wreck busted my ribs on the left side and punchered my left lung. Spent 6 days in ICU and another 6 days in the hospital.
I have owned 7 Challengers.
2-70's, a 72, 73, 74, 2012 and 2017.
I like all E-body's.
Actually I'm Mopar or no car.
@@michaelcowan6254 Haha a Baracuda and 7 challengers my oh my what a collection. And hope your feeling better these days
@@TAGCustoms
Thanks
Doing as well as can be expected.
I have had 3 neck surgeries, with 2 being a fusions.
But I take the good with the bad.
I have a friend of mine who has a 70 Challenger RT/SE 440-6 pack (which is his show car) and a 71 Challenger 340 and a 2001 Viper.
I have a video on RUclips of both Challengers.
Man that is to cool what a awesome story!
Joe story never ceases to amaze us
Oh, yeah, Thank You for not painting it resale, retail, brain dead red or low riding it. A beautiful car & restoration. I liked the 67-69 fish much more than the 70+ E bodies.
The 340 is a fantastic high revving engine. It punched well above it's weight.
DAMMM havent seen a cuda that cool in a long time
one of the best weve ever seen
I have one and it will be black on black on black but since it is nothing special 318 auto i am doing it up like i want into a stroked 440 6 BBL fuel injected 5 speed and a Dana 60 with minitubs and a stage 3 US car tool kit. It is converted to disk brakes and tubular control arms and it is on the rotisserie as of this writing.
the one in my shop is getting upholstery work and is factory stock down to its hurst shifter. the guy needs to do a disc brake upgrade. good luck- get a 340 theyre about the same $ as a 318.
@@tommurphy4307 You are right Tom about the price difference of a small block to rebuild as i have a still very good (50,000 mile) magnum 360 as a what am i going to put this in spare but like my comment above i also have a very low mile 440 beer can headed 440 sourced put together out of a in the back kitchen fire motor home that will be used for my Cuda.
Wow nice build
Such a sick car!!!!
the coolest
I never realized until now that '69 Barracuda's had flat hoods. Yet '67 and '68 had the bulge hoods!
Ah….maybe this is the version that Cormac McCarthy had in mind in No Country….only without the bigger rear wheels it has in the book…I LOVE IT !!!! This is the best colour choice/scheme for the car by far. Just watched a video of a guy who had a ‘67 brown version with a bigger ‘69 engine and nitro shocks , that was nice….but I wanted to see a black one like in the book , this is the ONE !!!
In 1969 I purchased a repoed late build 1968 Formula S 340 fastback in lime green. SUPER CAR. I mention late build because of some of the anomalies I came across . First was rthe distributor, took 1969 points (hinged opposite end) ,. Way down the line it turned out the speedo was a 67 - different cable . Chrysler never could find the part nbrs for numerous other items. ???? The Kelsey-Hayes 4 piston disc brakes were a disaster. the cyl were not bored true perpendicular, the pistons would jam and complete rebuild necessary. about every 25-30 thou. All that being said I LOVED THE CAR!!!! LOLOLOL
Haha wow who would have ever know that a cool lil fun fact tho, lime green sounds beautiful
@@TAGCustoms In Aug, 1973 at Magnolia Oh My car beat a 72 Challenger 340 with 6 pack by almost a car length. `13.95/105.1 MB-I-L drove ot in a grudge against a HS buddy. Dan Kennedy was so POd he traded his car off the following Monday for a 69 hemi RR. What Dan didnt know was I had done a CAI from the plenum under the windshield direct to carb.
I had studied Smokey Y carefully. Smd before every trip to Oh, I pulled the dist and "cleaned", adjusted the points and timed it to a "T". For a brief period I had a McCullogh VS57 on it. TOOO MUCH., took it off. LOL
LOVED THAT CAR. put over a hundred K on it. You probably wont believe me, no one else does, but between Breezewood and New Stanton on the PaTpke I could gwet an honest 21MPG by holding 3200RPM where the bsfc was at the minima of the fuel curve..
@@frederickwise5238 Man 100k thats alot of driving for a car like that, nice to see it get put to great use tho, most of em end up as just show pieces.
@@TAGCustoms At the timee it was a family car.. only occasionally on the track or..... Divorce brings an end to all things.. eventually.
@@frederickwise5238 Aw Im sorry to hear that, would have been a crazy family car
Yeah the 340 setup was very cool under stated 4 barrel so on from the carburator to the transmission the exhaust manifold exit is the same size as the 440. In a world of low hood lines the small block was constructed essentially higher than the big block it tended to breath pretty good Good setup
The Hemi Killler
Possibly the best pony car ever built by Plymouth--the 275 HP 340 Barracuda. 14-second car in the quarter mile straight from the factory to the drag strip.
Man I wish they would bring it back would love to see what a modern Baracuda would be like, I would hope it would live up to the legend
@@TAGCustoms First of all the Plymouth brand is defunct and so is Chrysler although it has changed names. Dodge would be the one to do it but they would NOT want another hot car to compete against the Challenger or the Charger. I guess we're like Cuba. Fix up the old cars. We do a pretty good job of that.
Mopar or no car. 😄
Some one should buy that car from him,,,
one more time.
Yes lets keep the cycle going!
@@TAGCustoms the power to weight on that Barracuda is like the Corvette 327, L84. Rated at 375 hp.
Those big lifters made better cam chaft angles.
STUNNING!!!!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Weve rewatched this so many times
Man they dont make em like they used to, that's for sure
Modern stuff is cool but vintage will always be cooler
Cragar was the only company making wheels for that bolt pattern. Except one obscure company.
That a cool fun fact, you really know your stuff
Would love to rent that beauty for a couple hours! haha
hah well ask if hes open to rentals lol
Fabulous.
Fabulous indeed
My dad had 1 I'm still in love with them wish I could have one but they are rare in South Africa and also to expensive
Yea i cant imagine many of them made it to south Africa
Friend of mine had a 340-6-barrel in a dodge dart i don’t remember what year the car was but we were in high school in the early70s when he had it , he could run all day with big blocks and beat most of them !
Haha those were the days hard to do that on the streets of today to much traffic sadly
Would love to take that for a joy ride!
Haha not sure if its available for "test drives"
I love the car!!! Like my 1969 383S it has the standard interior! The owner also kept it in 4" pattern on the wheels and a very interesting brake Booster plate/paint treatment, I like!
Very nice resto over all, however Chrysler never did a X9 black Sport Stripe on X9 finish in 69! This is a nice touch, but to me, it detracts from the whole car!
The car either came with stripe delete or thin V7 stripe because it has the fender badging of 340S! As they Never shown the Fender tag Who really knows!
Ahh good catch, you know your cars
I had a 67 273 hp ci. Lots of fun. Wish it had the hemi.
Dont we all wish we had hemis, please santa bring me a hemi for christmas
in the 60s we would deliver sometimes as much as 75 kilos of weed a day Mexican dirt weed in the hidden sides of this car with a garage full of kilos it was somthing back then. this was L.A.
HAHah ha, dam 75 kilos is lot of weight for anything let alone plants
Have the same car but a 4speed 383s
We want to HEAR IT! Let’s take it for a drive.
Thanks for the feedback we will make sure to do a extensive sound test next time
I had one with a 273 and a 4 spd
Nice Car forsure!
A fancy valiant
🤣😂😂😂 haha them be fighting words, but yea your right
WOOOOOOOWWW
WOOOOW to you to
I think the current owner is exaggerating the weight considerably. A slant six 69 Cuda is probably 2900#'s, maybe.
A 340 drum brake Cuda is probably more like 3300#'s, maybe 3400#'s.
I have a '67 360 auto which I've never weighed, but I've got a 340 64 Dart 4spd w/headers and front disks and it's over 3400#'s.
Regardless, beautiful car with lots of NOS trim installed.
Yea the amount of NOS is truly impressive I cant imagine the hours on google trying to track it all down, from across the continent
No I think I remember my 71 duster weigh-in 2300 pounds I had put in a factory sunroof (if you can believe that) and the fold down seat both kind of heavy plus I think for some reason it was a dealer demo I had replaced a fender and it was heavy with sound deadener still I weighed it at a truck scale 8/34 rear and stuff I'm still freaking
@@jamespell8091 not believing that at all. I think you misremembered the number.
@@budlanctot3060 perhaps the scale was rigged
Man I wish I could get my 1977 Mustang 2 fixed it's been sitting outside for 7years and it's rusting out on me .I wish I could hurry up and help her look good again but with 380 $ a month in Ss it's going to be lost
Yea it tough Watching all these old classic cars slowly fade away.
there was a nice 69' savage 340 running around san diego but i havent seen it for a couple of years- somebody prolly moved to texas and took it with them. i have a 68 383-S MTM fastback in the shop now- she will be sweet when she's ready. why would the door glass be peculiar to the 69's? formula S was an appearance package as well. there were no emblem deletes- you had to do it yourself. i'd like to find a rehab-able 68 hemi car, but all i've seen are trashed. come on a 68 hemi cuda would eat that thing for breakfast.
that MTM fastback sounds like itll be real cool when it gets finished
There was a freind ( gone now) that had a 69 hemi Cuda convertible. It was blue.
Nice car forsure
Then your friend must have put a Hemi in his car because the biggest engine you could order for these were the 383 & the 440 wedge engines . The 440 Barracudas were very rare . The only Hemi available for these would have been the B029 factory Super stock drag cars that Chrysler had Hurst build for them to sell to certain drag racers like Ronnie Sox and a few other well known Mopar drag racers. These cars dominated it's class back in its day and today they have their own class as well with others that have these cars and the Hemi Darts that were also sent from Chrysler to Hurst to build those as well . These cars now today with modern wheels tires for drag racing and better suspension are running high 7 s low 8 s in the 1/4 mile with no power adders like turbos blowers or nitrous just high octane race fuel .
I want one! Wonder how much he spent on that build!?
We dared not asl that question
Lot cheaper to afford than a HEMI or even a BIG block engine. Very agile car and quick too. Car hugs the road.
Respond to my comment if you're seriously looking for a '69 340. I might be able to locate one for ya or maybe even a '68 340. No hard sales tactics or tricks. I'll send you a classic car link you can click on.
about 50K for a solid 340 car, more for the fastback, or S. more for the 383's, hemi, or Savage 340 (if you can find one- and if you do hang onto it like the green death).
I have a list of muscle cars that I hope of owning one of on the list and this one and my 69 grand torino are on it and honestly I'd rather have the cuda....all my buds are chevy guys along with myself however my dream cars maybe have 2 chevys on my list lol I got 70 gto my barracuda my boss429 and I Hate ford's but love mustangs 😂 so you can see the ridicule I went through from my buds 😅 nonetheless I then say I want a 52 or 53 Porsche they laughed at me even harder.....so now I'm ready to drop a bomb shell on them when I say I want a 69 barracuda! They gasped and said ....that might be awesome lol...so my mission is to find one lovethis channel ✌🏼
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Man they dont make em like they used to
Truly they dont,
6:08
Good Catch 😏
Would have been a much more beautiful car if Chrysler had spent a little money on front end style as the did later on. It had the power.
Fair point
i've never had clients complain about the front ends of the 7-8-9 cudas.....i think they look great too. when you say 'later on'- to which cars were you referring?
I've never heard the front end of 68&69 Barracuda weren't stylish even muscular. My opinion!
oh i was hoping it wasn't a fastback
Haha what did fast backs ever do to you??
Lovely Car, you have to consider, the parts are as not plentyful
It's a crime that people buy cars like this with no place to store them.
No bias ply tires huh...
wym
@@TAGCustoms the car looks so original in so many ways except for the tires, I just really like the old school look of bias ply especially if mounted on Cragar's. Either way, the car looks outstanding. I love the look of it no matter what, who wouldn't?
@@irocitZ ahh good point, thats a good catch.
look up 1969 barracuda savage only 13 made
Now thats a cool car
Like u shirt..
Awesome Barracuda!!! Check out my Barracuda fastback 512 stroker. 👍
a senior citizen American trying to explain a 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S to an Indian(?) Pakistani (?) Middle Eastern (?) guy? even though the foreign guy seems pretty excited, i can't imagine he understood a single thing the old guy said. i have a collection of old Barracudas - 7 of them 68-69 - all fastbacks.
Haha pretty Close Joe is Canadian tho and yes first guess was correct Nav is Indian, and yes correct not a muscle car historian
These are nice, but it doesn't hold a candle to the 70 thru 73 cuda.
It has a flat hood. No inserts! Odd..
DAMMMMMMMMMM
DAMMMMMM
That is one VERY sexy car--69 B'cuda. It's the "Elizabeth Taylor
B'cuda". 🤣😀😛
I Cuda but I didn't want to.
Clever Pun
The best Barracuda is a 71.
What makes the 71 your favorite?
According to Babvvo and Tebbvo laws, sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-(
In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime!
AWWWW that is truly tragic to hear, we had no idea it was getting that strict
@@TAGCustoms In the USA California and New York state talk about very similar nightmare plans
@@Schlipperschlopper That will be a sad day forsure
That's f-ing DISGUSTING, we gotta STOP this stupid SHIT!!!
@@jerrycraig6522 Im hoping rocket power takes over before EV power lol
63 09 would smoke it.
Id like to watch that happen, be a good video
Who the hell leaves a fully restored classic parked outside where mice & rats can do their thing with it?? I won't even say what I think should be done to a person like that...Grrrrr 😠.
Yea like how and why would you let something just rot away like that!? Hurts the soul
👎🏿 Thought it was going to be taken for a spin 😞
This was MY 1st favorite car back in the day ~ a few years earlier than this one
We wanted to next time well make sure we do, had spotty weather n a tight sheduale this time around
It is NOT the best Barracuda you will ever see!
Poor build quality, rust buckets. The 60's and 70's Chrysler products were crap. I owned and drove quite a few. I can't believe the prices they're commanding.
And we have a winner for most unpopular opinion! But in all serious you have a point comparing how many old mustangs have lasted till today to old challengers is almost funny how few challengers n mopar products are still around
i just looked out my window and two old mustangs past me wait here comes a camaro they maid loads of them and if you live in a rust belt nothing holed up to salt nothing right @@TAGCustoms
The only things I see that are missing are the fender mounted turn signal indicators.