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The Barracuda has delivered seriously injured people to the emergency room, towed other vehicles when the rear hitch was attached for many years, crossed the highest mountain passes in Colorado, Wyoming, and California with heavy rear tire chains attached, and crossed the extreme deserts of SoCal, Arizona and New Mexico. In 1983, I dropped the drive shaft onto the bridge that spans the Missouri River at Williston, North Dakota and had to retrieve it. The Barracuda was then used to pull a large hot dog stand for a couple of years in Denver. I have been stuck in the sand, snow and mud in at least ten states and provinces. I have folded down the rear seat and dropped the inside trunk wall flat, where a six foot+-tall man can rack out. Sleeping under that big, beautiful back window looking up at an unbelievable firmament of the Milky Way out in the middle of nowhere-- that is the kind of nowhere I like to be.
The Barracuda has only been painted once and there has never been any serious damage or rust to the body. I have the original Owner's Manual and the original, matching "Chrysler Corporation Car Production Broadcast", aka the "Build Sheet." The Barracuda also still has the 1966 Chrysler metal "Certicard" attached (the original owner's name & address was stuck on it with a plastic label maker). That was the clue I used to find Mr. Koski in Livermore, California in 2012. He is now a retired school teacher. Ray still loves cars, especially racers and was amazed when I wrote to him. He then sent me a June 1966 photo of him and his new bride when the Barracuda was two days old, the massive back window pasted in white with "JUST MARRIED."
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