I have a '74 Barracuda that's being restored. The original 283 was tossed
out into the dirt by the previous owner, and a 440 dropped in. During the
restoration, I found a cracked piston skirt, so I had the engine rebuilt.
We're looking for some adapter plates to put it on the dyno, but the desktop
calculation says 475 HP at the crank.
http://tinymicros.com/vehicles/cuda/images/74Cuda_001.jpg and
http://tinymicros.com/vehicles/cuda/images/74Cuda_002.jpg.
The previous owner did a couple things I don't care for, such as making the
inlets functional (well, air goes in, but it just goes down over the
manifold, and nowhere useful), painted the bumpers, and lost the sheet metal
where the exhaust should come through. I'm putting as much as possible back
to factory as far as esthetics. Obviously it'll never show class 1 because
the numbers don't match.
Before I started the resto project, she could lay 110' of rubber on those
crappy tires that are on there.
--John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Doc Shipley
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 18:38
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: TRS-80 fever on ebay?!
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Will Jennings wrote:
>
> > I think if I ever somehow had a drastic increase in cash
> flow, I would
> > likely buy nearly every pre-1980 or so mopar I could get my
> hands on,
> > especially 67-69 barracudas.. I dunno, 2 1967s just isn't
> enough... Of
> > course, I would immediately be shot by my parents but yeah..
>
> Flew into Phoenix airport this afternoon, and down by the baggage
> carousels they had a '71 440 *Automatic* Charger R/T. Yes,
> it was built
> that way, and yes, as far as I could tell it was showroom
> perfect. Plum
> Purple. Black leather, front buckets. R/T trim package.
> RRrrooooowwwww!!!
> They only want $55k for it.
>
> Doc
>
Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 18:00:00 GMT
