My neighbor scores big (shooting fish in a bucket.)

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cudaspaz

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Neighbor calls me to day to come look at what his old man dragged home.

His dad was bummed that he sold his Scamp because he needed the money and all of us car guys that live near and know him well felt kinda bad that the poor guy had to sell his nice scamp with a hot 360.

Well not any more, because we're all jealous now..

Look at this craigslist special his Son found for him.

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It needs cleaned up a bit, some things painted but it's a solid car that can be driven and fixed up at the same time.

It's a real 383 formula-S car with a 383 according to the vin#.

It now sports a 440 with a crossram and hydraulic .525 lift cam with two edelbrock carbs, aluminum edelbrock heads, fenderwell headers with threaded pipe to uncork them at the strip.

It shreds the hides very easily and is built pretty stout.

His goal is to drive the hell out of it and get started on the freshening up this winter.

One thing I need to know is the original color.
The vin stated the paint code is HH1, but I don't know what color that is.

It looks like the car had been B-5 blue or something similar and turbine bronze or something similar at one time as there are still some paint remnants of previous colors on the door skins and body panels where paint rubbed off.
 
I can see why your jealous of him!! Nice car.
 
i didn't know they were re poping the crossram for b blocks... also it looks aluminum?...
 
Now there are three a body barracuda's within one square mile of me.

Can't wait to show off together.
 
Very nice!! What did he pay for it?
 
i didn't know they were re poping the crossram for b blocks... also it looks aluminum?...

I was looking all over it for ID and nowhere did I find a manufacturer name.

I was sure it would be an edelbrock STR-something, but all I found were a couple stamping numbers but nothing to really identify it.........friggin cool nonetheless.:glasses7:
 
Nice find.

I hope upon closer inspection there isn't much more of this "engineering". lol

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I was looking all over it for ID and nowhere did I find a manufacturer name.

I was sure it would be an edelbrock STR-something, but all I found were a couple stamping numbers but nothing to really identify it.........friggin cool nonetheless.:glasses7:

im sorry i didn't say NICE cuda First!

that crossram caught my attention because only the 64/65 wedge cars had aluminum then went to mag in later 65...

the factory aluminum intakes did not have the two plugs by the throttle "tree" though so i would have to guess its some aftermarket...
 
im sorry i didn't say NICE cuda First!

that crossram caught my attention because only the 64/65 wedge cars had aluminum then went to mag in later 65...

the factory aluminum intakes did not have the two plugs by the throttle "tree" though so i would have to guess its some aftermarket...

Maybe someone here can identify it as I'm sure he would like to know more about it.
 
Nice find.

I hope upon closer inspection there isn't much more of this "engineering". lol

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agreed. is that a home depot special exhaust cutout? aside from this and the awful stripes this car is badass and worth WAY more than the 6800

huge score
 
agreed. is that a home depot special exhaust cutout? aside from this and the awful stripes this car is badass and worth WAY more than the 6800

huge score

That's how they used to do it back in the day, I kinda like it, and for some reason I like the stripes too,
Different is good.
 
Some day I'm going to get a cross ram intake for my Valiant. Can you say Max Wedge 413/426 Valiant!!!! :burnout:
 
I found out that the original color is HH1 dark bronze metallic which would explain the very thin line of dark bronze metallic paint on the very inside edge of the door frames near the cat whiskers.
I called the owner right away to inform him of this and he's really stoked as this is one of his favorite Mopar colors.

He's going to drive it this way for the rest of the year then get started on bringing it back to original condition including looking for a 67 383 engine which I think one of my buddies have.

Why someone would hack up an original formula-S like that is beyond me, but luckily it's only the inner fenders so not a hard fix really.

Now I need to work on him to sell me that motor with that intake for my car. he, he.
 
Nice find.

I hope upon closer inspection there isn't much more of this "engineering". lol

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That be a cheap and easy mod that works and works real easy.

I call it "red neck engineering" and there aint a DAMN thing wrong with that. Just a lil'car crafting at work. The rest looks great.

Spaz iz dead on, someone stole it and someone stole it for there DAD! Or was it for there Son? Ethier way......

How FLIPPIN COOL is that! I just can't find words on how cool that is to do for your Son/Dad. If my son or daughter brought something like that home....forgettaboutit!
 
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