In the early 70’s these cars were quite common , as in everywhere you looked , I had a 65 SS Impala with the 396/375 , it ran extremely well , Street races were quite common , especially at 3AM , I never raced a hemi , but did go heads up with a couple of 440. GTX’s and a few 383 Super bees , won a few , lost a few , but had fun . I’ll never forget those days .
Have you seen VP #2 ? It's not as in-depth, but I liked it a lot to because they also have a 68 Charger in it and was my first car. If you haven't, you should check it out sometime
1970 hemicuda was there ever more heavymetal thunder than this? Due to legal constraints Plymouth featured the Cudá heavily in their print ads shown with body colored shaker hoods. The lawyers said they must offer the red Cudá with the body colored shaker. The body colored shaker created glare from the sun so all other shaker equipped cars were either painted argent gray or black. The red charger in the background is a charger 500 Nascar special. The oddball feature of this car were the magnum 500 wheels.
Thanks for the info on the comment. I zeroed in on the shaker hood. I said to myself that’s not right! It should be like flat black or gray! I’m not a big Mopar guy but I do love them and I’ve never seen one with body color like that. Thanks for pointing that out, never knew that before
A good friend of mine from High School bought one back in the early 80s' Black on Black 440 Magnum Shaker. I think he paid $2800 for it back then. I hope he still has it!
Didn't own one back then (wasn't born yet)...lol, but bought my 71' Hemi Cuda back in 2003, my very first car and I'm the coolest cat in my WHOLE town 😎 These cars are more rare and cooler now than back than just the fact it stands out more than these plastic garbage cars nowadays
"ORIGINAL LIST price" was low 4 to 4.5 grand in "1-9-7-0" for the HEMI CUDA Hard top....today 250 to 350 grand in mint condition. $258,000 #1 condition--Hagerty insurance (10/11/21)
Pontiac had their version of a "Hammer Commercial" too. They used a crowbar to tout their Endura bumpers on the '68 GTO. One of the actors from The Planet Of The Apes did the swinging!
@@kepler240 Sorry it was actually Beneath The Planet of The Apes. The actor was Paul Richards. He played the human mutant named Mendez XXVI. He bashed the nose of the GTO in the '68 commercial with a crowbar. You should be able to find it with a RUclips or Google search. He's wearing a white dinner jacket, black slacks, black bow tie, and he really whacks the bumper!
Just think if that actual Hemicuda was auctioned a Meccum . Would it bring $4 Million since it had the prominence of being in a commercial and getting its Elastomeric bumper beat with a sledge
In 1979 a guy drove up to me and my Challenger and offered to sell me his white Cuda convertible with the shaker hood and a pistol grip four-speed. he wanted 2,700 for his car. But I had no money and had a nice car.
@@ronwest7930 Back in 1973 , a friend of mine picked up a 1969 Super Bee with the 383 , it had about 40 thousand miles on it , he got it for 2200.00 , good deal even back then ,
Had one I bought as a winter beater in the early eighties it was this color combo with a 318 and a slapstick automatic it was in New York so you know it was rough, when it's winter duties were over I wanted to fix it up, so I kept it at my Oma's house with the ass end in her old flip up door garage because the car had a vinyl top (they SUCK!) which I had ripped off the day I bought it and every time it rained it looked like a pool in the trunk, any way as a broke young fuck I could not afford to do anything to it and besides parts back then were non existent so I sold it telling myself that one day I would have another, yeah right I moved to Florida and have been here almost 40 years and have only seen one other 70, and all the others have turned into clones, man what I wouldn't give to have that car back, ah shit hindsight is 20/20!
Geez I miss ballsy car commercials like this. Steppenwolf blaring, a hemi roaring down the dragstrip ... you couldn't wait to get down to a dealership and sign up. Compare that to the wussy commercials you see today. They make your guy parts shrivel up.
crashandcynder Yes it was. I've got a 71 Plymouth Satellite Sebring and the racing mirrors were supposed to be chrome,but its painted to match the car (High Impact color: Bahama Yellow $15.05 extra at the Plymouth/Chrysler dealer...) And if they wanted: the loop bumper could have been painted to match...
Don't things tend to be a little different in commercials. And didn't they send ringers to the magazines that tended to run a little better than what showed up on the show room floors
The car appears to be an early prototype. The original Hemicuda ad showed a red car with a red shaker hood scoop. The red scoop was bad because it reflected glare into the drivers eyes....legal said it had to stay because the car was advertised that way. The same happened with the Plum Crazy Challenger, however with Dodges the shakers were optional. The Hemicuda they were standard. The preproduction Hemicuda's had Magnum 500 wheels.
Awesome. So much better than the plastic computerized garbage today. We could fix them ourselves and did. Sometimes on the side of the road. Try that with your government computerized car.
Joe the cop based on the real JOE THE COP ANGELTON TEXAS. I rode with him in the mid 1950's .. when he pulled someone over he'd walk up to the driver and say. ""BOY, YOU IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE "" ROAD WITH AND WAS A COP,, NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE DO THAT..
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One of the coolest car ever made!!!
In the early 70’s these cars were quite common , as in everywhere you looked , I had a 65 SS Impala with the 396/375 , it ran extremely well , Street races were quite common , especially at 3AM , I never raced a hemi , but did go heads up with a couple of 440. GTX’s and a few 383 Super bees , won a few , lost a few , but had fun . I’ll never forget those days .
So many people bought the cars and threw away things like exhaust manifolds, carbs, etc. Now they are worth a fortune.
Funny how a modern V6 Camry can smoke 60s 70s muscle @@bluesky-ud9wg
My favorite Mopar commercial is for the 1970 Challenger, its called Vanishing Point.
Thanks Kowalski! ;)
I prefer you could be Dodge material
I have the movie Jeff .
"They're the Guys with the White Hats."
Kowalaki Lives....
Have you seen VP #2 ?
It's not as in-depth, but I liked it a lot to because they also have a 68 Charger in it and was my first car. If you haven't, you should check it out sometime
Boy! I wish I have that car now! Beautiful.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
This looks more like a dealer promo than a commercial. At any rate, I love the car.
justsomeguytoyou yeah i remember there was a different song
Hey guys, I just finished my time machine. Who's coming along with me to race that Cuda and Charger?
I'm tempted, but I'm afraid I'd run into my 10-year-old self. And that would cause the universe to explode . . .
@@bman99ss
I’d take that risk. I’ve got some good advice for my younger self.
@@thegoldendog7991 Ha! Yeah, we can all benefit from some advice from our older, wiser selves. And pick up a hemicuda while we're at it . . .
i useto have a 74 "Cuda"with 318ci and hearders
These cars are great time gone never to b relived in mass production much better than the eggs made today
They aren't Much Better. It was a different time. Classic cars are amazing but let's get real...
Technology is so amazing and impressive that there are more surviving Hemi Cudas than were actually originally manufactured.
Very true
😂
1970 hemicuda was there ever more heavymetal thunder than this? Due to legal constraints Plymouth featured the Cudá heavily in their print ads shown with body colored shaker hoods. The lawyers said they must offer the red Cudá with the body colored shaker. The body colored shaker created glare from the sun so all other shaker equipped cars were either painted argent gray or black. The red charger in the background is a charger 500 Nascar special. The oddball feature of this car were the magnum 500 wheels.
Thanks for the info on the comment. I zeroed in on the shaker hood. I said to myself that’s not right! It should be like flat black or gray! I’m not a big Mopar guy but I do love them and I’ve never seen one with body color like that. Thanks for pointing that out, never knew that before
Yes there was for 1 year.....The Buick Stage 1...
The hits keep coming. What a video. Love the Cuda .250-K car Today .
A good friend of mine from High School bought one back in the early 80s' Black on Black 440 Magnum Shaker. I think he paid $2800 for it back then. I hope he still has it!
Crazy how these cars were mean looking powerful now we have modern V6 Toyota Camry that can smoke 60s 70s V8s.
If you owned a Hemi Cuda in 1970s you automatically became the coolest cat in the neighborhood. 😎
Didn't own one back then (wasn't born yet)...lol, but bought my 71' Hemi Cuda back in 2003, my very first car and I'm the coolest cat in my WHOLE town 😎 These cars are more rare and cooler now than back than just the fact it stands out more than these plastic garbage cars nowadays
In 1979 I had a 1970 Barracuda Gran Coupe. Vitamin C orange with black vinyl top and 318 auto. Repainted it Hemi orange. Miss that car still.
I like the Charger R/T sneaking off in the background.
Lee Crt same my dude, 👀👀
That is not a Charger R/T that is the more aerodynamic Charger 500
What a awesome car wish I had it true muscle car
Literally my dream car
The car and song are both classics
I had a ‘73 ‘Cuda in ‘88. Pistol grip 4 spd. 340. I had NO IDEA it would have been worth money or else I would have kept it!
Hemi, shaker hood, that's all the money right there...
Oh Yeah, That's my car on the right at 1:32 Go baby go!!
I agree must be in an early model there's no red on the grill and I like the Magnum 500s those rims look good on anything.
My most favorite car of all times.
"ORIGINAL LIST price" was low 4 to 4.5 grand in "1-9-7-0" for the HEMI CUDA Hard top....today 250 to 350 grand in mint condition. $258,000 #1 condition--Hagerty insurance (10/11/21)
More like $35,000
@@TheWolverine-rm2kr what world do you live in ? You need to watch Barrett Jackson.
@@TheWolverine-rm2kr Its original hemi engine alone is worth at least $35,000.
@@davidgarris2513 ..I think he forgot a zero somewhere..
30 electric car owners came here by mistake.
The hammer pounding is showing that these were specialized limited polymer bumbers. If your a Cuda fan, you know this.
I had a ‘69 Roadrunner 440 6 pack 4-speed with a Hurst T-handle shifter. I sure do miss that car.
The hammer was unexpected
Pontiac had their version of a "Hammer Commercial" too. They used a crowbar to tout their Endura bumpers on the '68 GTO. One of the actors from The Planet Of The Apes did the swinging!
@@briansd2772 interesting and double interesting on the TPOTA's thing. Was it Amadeus?
@@kepler240 Sorry it was actually Beneath The Planet of The Apes. The actor was Paul Richards. He played the human mutant named Mendez XXVI. He bashed the nose of the GTO in the '68 commercial with a crowbar. You should be able to find it with a RUclips or Google search. He's wearing a white dinner jacket, black slacks, black bow tie, and he really whacks the bumper!
@@briansd2772 found it. Yeah, they beat the crap of that poor bumper. Not even a scratch. LOL.
What a beautiful car!
Ha ha! I like the hitting it with a hammer test. Nobody would dare do that nowadays.
Someone should do the hammer test on a new car and see if it can take the abuse.
Detroit muscle
It would be nice to be able to listen the original clip
Thats actually a pre-production model. Pretty cool.
Just think if that actual Hemicuda was auctioned a Meccum . Would it bring $4 Million since it had the prominence of being in a commercial and getting its Elastomeric bumper beat with a sledge
Very cool and a thumbs up !
they came with pistol grip shifters...
The barracuda his cousin is challenger because the barracuda his base its looks like a challenger and his front is different
i wishd id had 3 plymouth cudas < 2 green ones and one yellow and i would love to paint it and change tyres of it
Great style
I'd rather have a new '71, but wouldn't turn down a '70. 😀
In 1979 a guy drove up to me and my Challenger and offered to sell me his white Cuda convertible with the shaker hood and a pistol grip four-speed. he wanted 2,700 for his car. But I had no money and had a nice car.
Damn. I guess $2,700 was a lot more money then than now . . .
@@bman99ss I was a high school student at the time. I ended up selling my challenger for 3,400. I regret it.
@@ronwest7930 Back in 1973 , a friend of mine picked up a 1969 Super Bee with the 383 , it had about 40 thousand miles on it , he got it for 2200.00 , good deal even back then ,
Wow my dream car and I’m still dreaming 😳
I worked at SHELL $2.10hr changed oil tuned put high lead prem in muscle cars while in highschool but never saw one of these WOW!!
hammer time?? Jeez
Would have been nice if they said “Get it now because next year’s is gonna have half the horsepower”.
four-wheeled art.
I own this car. Cool commercial
Had one I bought as a winter beater in the early eighties it was this color combo with a 318 and a slapstick automatic it was in New York so you know it was rough, when it's winter duties were over I wanted to fix it up, so I kept it at my Oma's house with the ass end in her old flip up door garage because the car had a vinyl top (they SUCK!) which I had ripped off the day I bought it and every time it rained it looked like a pool in the trunk, any way as a broke young fuck I could not afford to do anything to it and besides parts back then were non existent so I sold it telling myself that one day I would have another, yeah right I moved to Florida and have been here almost 40 years and have only seen one other 70, and all the others have turned into clones, man what I wouldn't give to have that car back, ah shit hindsight is 20/20!
Yes it is ! I got about 4 cars I wish I could have just stored somewhere for 30+ years till now
They poster inserted music over the narration as they did not make commercials like this.
these cars are bad ass
My first car was a white 340
Damnit he took a hammer to a hemi cuda... But oh well I had a 71 super bee charger, 440-6, I used to go fish tail into snow Banks
I wonder where that car is now?
Pilot bucket?........
*"Filmed using PotatoCam2000."
Geez I miss ballsy car commercials like this. Steppenwolf blaring, a hemi roaring down the dragstrip ... you couldn't wait to get down to a dealership and sign up. Compare that to the wussy commercials you see today. They make your guy parts shrivel up.
very odd the bumpers arent chrome and the shaker hood isnt flat black its painted the same color as the car...was that an option back then?
yes.. elastomer (sp.???) bumpers option and yes body color shaker scoop was option..very rare on both counts
crashandcynder Yes it was. I've got a 71 Plymouth Satellite Sebring and the racing mirrors were supposed to be chrome,but its painted to match the car (High Impact color: Bahama Yellow $15.05 extra at the Plymouth/Chrysler dealer...) And if they wanted: the loop bumper could have been painted to match...
elastomeric " body color" bumpers dude
Don't things tend to be a little different in commercials. And didn't they send ringers to the magazines that tended to run a little better than what showed up on the show room floors
The car appears to be an early prototype. The original Hemicuda ad showed a red car with a red shaker hood scoop. The red scoop was bad because it reflected glare into the drivers eyes....legal said it had to stay because the car was advertised that way. The same happened with the Plum Crazy Challenger, however with Dodges the shakers were optional. The Hemicuda they were standard. The preproduction Hemicuda's had Magnum 500 wheels.
my favorite mopar = 'CUDA convertible 340
If we only knew what these cars would be worth. I would have a barn 3 times the size!
Awesome. So much better than the plastic computerized garbage today. We could fix them ourselves and did. Sometimes on the side of the road. Try that with your government computerized car.
Yeah. makes me want one...can i get mine for the 1970 price of $2,400. today?
MOPAR for life 👍🏻🇦🇺
the cuda in videothe color .of the only exterior paint you could get the the shaker hood scoop the same color
Joe the cop based on the real JOE THE COP ANGELTON TEXAS. I rode with him in the mid 1950's .. when he pulled someone over he'd walk up to the driver and say. ""BOY, YOU IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE "" ROAD WITH AND WAS A COP,, NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE DO THAT..
Wonder wt ya had to give for one in 1970?
Approximately $3,400.00
Had looked at them new on the lot.
I believe with the hemi engine it was about $4,200.
Turn it up.
nice one
Graveyard Carz cuda.
the ad is real,but I doubt the music was used...sorry
Give me that hammer if you can't swing it like a man!
With Chrysler engineering I've been to Detroit Dragway and stock car short track off Telegraph road, my memory just won't cooperate. So. Of Detroit.
skip the soundtrack, use the dealer comments in 1970.
Nah. This song is more for Chevys. With mopars its more "magic carpet ride "
graveyard cars......!
👍👍👍😎😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸😁
weak no engine sound