Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
Well, I made it to the Lincoln swap meet this morning and the weather was great. Even at 4:00 a.m. when I got up, the temp wasn't bad.
I've always joked about the possibility of missing out on a cheap Hemi if I didn't go and lo & behold my dream came true today. I picked up a 426 for just 25 bucks!!
OK, it's only 1/6th scale, but it's still cool and a lot cheaper than what they usually sell for. It'll have to do until the real one gets done later this year.
Another thing I picked up was a sign for the basement cave. It wasn't a necessity but at 10 bucks I couldn't pass it up.
Someone was selling a cast iron 440 sixpack intake that had us scratching our heads. I realize it's not uncommon to find them at swap meets but the strange thing about it was the casting date. We knew that Edelbrock had made the first year (1969&1/2) intakes for Chrysler out of aluminum and had made cast iron ones for production in the '70 and '71s. This intake clearly has the casting date 10/9/68 on it. What's the scoop? I couldn't find an explanation online.
They were asking $800 for it and the carb parts seemed like junk. The front one was almost non-existant and the back one was frozen shut. No linkage, etc, etc... We scoffed at the price but were still mystified by the date on it.
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Well, I made it to the Lincoln swap meet this morning and the weather was great. Even at 4:00 a.m. when I got up, the temp wasn't bad.
I've always joked about the possibility of missing out on a cheap Hemi if I didn't go and lo & behold my dream came true today. I picked up a 426 for just 25 bucks!!
OK, it's only 1/6th scale, but it's still cool and a lot cheaper than what they usually sell for. It'll have to do until the real one gets done later this year.
Another thing I picked up was a sign for the basement cave. It wasn't a necessity but at 10 bucks I couldn't pass it up.
Someone was selling a cast iron 440 sixpack intake that had us scratching our heads. I realize it's not uncommon to find them at swap meets but the strange thing about it was the casting date. We knew that Edelbrock had made the first year (1969&1/2) intakes for Chrysler out of aluminum and had made cast iron ones for production in the '70 and '71s. This intake clearly has the casting date 10/9/68 on it. What's the scoop? I couldn't find an explanation online.
They were asking $800 for it and the carb parts seemed like junk. The front one was almost non-existant and the back one was frozen shut. No linkage, etc, etc... We scoffed at the price but were still mystified by the date on it.
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