74 'CUDA CANCELLED?: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LAST YEAR
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2021
- It has always been widely rumored that Plymouth pulled production on the Barracuda mid year in 1974. This car will prove that just ain't so. Very interesting what they did do, though.
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72-74 grilles dont deserve the hate they get. They look badass as hell imo
brand new 72-74 grill is awesome. I sold one few years back 100% profit
I agree im resurecting my car 😉
30 years ago I missed out on a 71 barracuda, 225, air, p/s p brakes and disc. and convertible. I think it had power windows too... 30 years ago
a year ago I sold my 70 Superbee. loaded... 383, auto, bench seat, column. air, PW, hood pins, disc, PB, fender tag was full of options. banana, C stripe, vinyl top
love the show as usaul! i contacted tonys parts since seeing him on this show and tony helped me with a few questions i had about my 73 challenger! His websight is awsome!! Btw, i do like the tail lights on the 72-74 cuda and challengers!!! sorry mark, lol
My 2nd car in high school was a used 1970 Barracuda convertible 318 2 brrl w/ a 3-spd manual trans. It also had a chrome trunk luggage rack, power top w/ glass back window, and a center console.
I replaced the 3-spd trans with a 4-spd trans and a pistol grip shifter out of a 1970 AAR/CUDA being parted out.
The original 3-spd accelerated much better. The pistol grip shifter had about a 12 inch throw from 1st to 2nd.
I bought another car, a 69 Chevelle SS, about a year later. This forced me to sell the Barracuda to make room for my father's cars' in his garage. I wasn't allowed to park in the garage after the Barracuda vacated it's space.
Though I was allowed to "use" one side of the garage to rebuild a couple motors for my 57 Chevy, my first car. And then the Chevelle. Since both my sister's had cars. The driveway was a little cramped. I actually bought my Barracuda 3 months before I sold my 57. I pretty much commandeered the garage. My father was patient.
Hindsight is 20/20. I wish I'd never sold my Barracuda! It wasn't fast but it was a really sweet ride. If I'd put the money into my Barracuda, instead of buying the Chevelle...? What a significant difference it would have made.
Thank you so much for all the info this program gave me about my Barracuda convertible. I've missed it since I sold it.
I have a 3 speed 73 cuda 340. aka the forgotten cuda on my channel.
True 3 speeds accelerated better trust me i know😅
I feel you Mark. I had 69 Charger SE, 318. Friend borrowed it and stuck the the gas cap in a phone pole 12 ft. off the ground.
In January of 74' I ordered a new 360 Challenger Rallye 4 speed, the dealer wasn't sure if it would even build... but the salesman put the order in anyway. The Challenger was delivered in April albeit there was no 360 lettering on the Rallye Hood, no Rallye Wheels and a 2 speaker stereo instead of the 5 speaker I ordered. The salesman said your lucky it was build at all, they did swap out the white walls and hubcaps for Rallye Wheels....I was 20 and happy as pig in you know what.
Many years later I was in a conversation with Mopar expert Galen Govier and asked about my old 74'...he said by the Vin sequence it had to be one of the last ones produced.
back around 83 or 84 i worked at a tire shop, a guy came in a new looking 74 challenger with 360 magnum on the hood and a hurst pistol grip all original said he would take $4,500 for it but i thought that was high back then...LOL
@@rayhope7957 Mine was $3850, out the door with NYS tax was 4300, your right 10 years later that was a lot....I believe the Magnum name was dropped after 71.
@@LICobra i think the rally challengers in 74 still had it on the hood, it would have been a deal compared to values now!
@@rayhope7957 They had 360FOURBARREL same as 72 and 73 only with a 340
@@LICobra ok thanks, I remember I asked if was for sale and he said it would take $4,500, to get it, and back then it seemed kind of high but who knew!
One of the first cars I learned to drive was my brother’s 71 barracuda gran sport 383 slapstick automatic transmission. He wishes he still had it!
I drove a 74 barracuda for my drivers test in CA in 1990. Loved that car. Wasn't mine but the guy who owned it sold it. What I wouldn't give just to hear it again.
I'm still a GM guy,but ,this is a great show..it doesn't really matter what kind of car you have, watching Masters at work, and having fun,doing what you like...always liked challengers..so I bought a challenger hellcat.
Everybody loves the cudas..
It's fun to see someone like Mark who is so mercilessly OCD about OEM Mopar stock car goodness meet his match in Tony who is all the more encyclopedic in his Mopar knowledge!
1974. "CUDA, was 3rd week of March my old car(Color was Burnished red, Metal flake with white vinyl roof and white Stripe was built with 318 engine.. 318, Bore to 4.0 which is stock 360 bore and then stroker crank 4.0 inches , and swap in fully ported x heads with 2.05 valves and get 904 transmission proi built , swap in a Dr. Differential pro built 8/34 unitand then you can run with those stock Hemi cars
Enjoyed!!
Mannix drove a convertible Barricuda from 70-74 when the TV producers switched him over to driving a Camaro for the shows last couple of seasons.
Catching up with Mannix now that all 8 seasons are on Amazon. The 72 convertible was probably a 71 with a 72 front & rear clip. Season 7 was a 73 Challenger and he had the Camaro in the final season. Even Peggy traded in her mopar for a Chevy Vega in season 8
Love the show, brings me back to my youth
Same here Michael
If there were a "Mopar Muscle Car Quiz Show", and you could pick someone as your playing partner, I'd take Tony, not Mark. Sorry, but Tony just doesn't make mistakes, and even knows the historical reasons behind "unusual" Mopar features. But Mark is probably the SECOND most knowledgeable Mopar guy out there, and that's not bad...
It appears to me that in early '73 they started adding 'CUDA hoods, swaybars and rallye gauges to as many Barracudas they could to empty the parts bins knowing the E bodies would be cancelled. Bench seats and column shifters were common too just to get rid of them IMO. ON the other hand the '74s were better CARS then the earlier ones just because of the safety devices that were added. Modern seat belts, reinforced chassis and roof as well as all 73s and 74s had front disc brakes and no /6 option.
I am from ponce puertorico I have a cuda 360 .4 mouth carbulathor ,a beast
Yes correct not many 74 cudas that one had the ball shifter I would have expected a T handle. I know T handle was on 73 what determines is it slapstick?
Right, that shifter handle is from an earlier car
Where you see the prices of RR going in the coming years?' especially 72-74 model
Mark has definitely cornered the market on E bodies lol
where s these guys located
Oregon
Can you give Tony more cheeze on that Philly .....
Tony “Philly Steak” D’Agostino AKA the master of mind games. Rumor has it the USSR used to call him in when they needed to break a man’s mind completely and turn their brain to mush. The pleasure he takes in causing Mark mental anguish is just horrifying.
g'day ..🤠
where is Mrs Brady's Cuda ?
Mark cant handle us tough Pa guys 😏
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Typical Mark Worman behavior, I’ve walked away from bosses like him also.
Nothing ruins a Mopar like a vinyl top. I hate those damn things.
To each his own. I think a vinyl top on some 68-74 muscle cars looks awesome. Fake convertible tops just look stupid. And some cars don't look good as convertibles.
But those vinyl tops look awesome on old Chevelle's, 1st gen Camaro's, pretty much every Charger from 68-74. Ford's T- Birds from 67-78. Lincoln Mk II's through Mk IV's. To name a few.
Yes, not every car looks good in a vinyl top. But some do. And it finishes the car in a way that paint can't. 69 Chevelle SS in Hugger Orange with chrome wheel mouldings and a black SS stripe running front to back on factory SS wheels. Sweet!
Do to massive money laundering and printing,I'm keeping my 74🤑
I owned a 1970 318 three speed convertible it was yellow and black interior beautiful car but very poorly made cheap interior cheap everything rust bucket quarter panels drum brakes had to use both feet as hard as I could sometimes to stop it. Had to redo interior and paint after four years of light use. Engine had 60,000 miles on it and had to be rebuilt I changed oil all the time. The timing chain got sloppy and bent all the valves all that car did was cost me money