64-66 Barracuda Race Cars Post your Pictures

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I like the looks of your 66 Bonneville Cuda btw, the 66 is actually my favorite. I thought of one more thing to add, this car set me on a path of deep appreciation for the integrity of MOPAR suspension design, A-bodies in particular, probably attributable to Scott Harvey's engineering discipline and influence. MOPAR was the poor third cousin of the Big Three and pragmatically decided to apply limited competition resources to stock-car and drag racing. Sports car racing was unfunded and nearly unsupported. Ironic considering they had the best platform. (See Bob Tullius). When I drove this car (and other "sports car like" MOPARS later), I was always being asked "what's it do in the quarter?" Too which I could only say zero to a hundred really fast on the speedometer while sitting still. I have always regretted on behalf of circumstance that the full dimensional representation of acceleration/turning/braking that define a high performance automobile escaped appreciation.
Doh! I can't stop... everybody please stop with the bogus trash coil spring conversions! ARGHHH! (Editorial comment)
 
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Not a race car but sort-of related:

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Check out the Corvair with the "Barracuda-esque" rear window....
 
I'm pretty sure that you mean the C pillar. On hardtops, there is no B pillar.
Interesting use of the glass though.
 
I think this Austin Grassi Fuel Cuda is in this thread already (painted gold). I didn't realize what I was looking at though. You see it here from a different time period in much detail. Wicked :)
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Sorry fellas not a Barracuda but his little brother Valiant.

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No problem with the Valiant, Barracudas are built on Valiant floor pans anyway!
Todays image. Dave Koffel, father of the B1 and the Ex Sox and Martin 66 Barracuda far lane.
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Ed's car back in the 70's in the right lane. Same drag strip, same lane, same car, 40 years later. I just stumbled onto this photo I took.

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No problem with the Valiant, Barracudas are built on Valiant floor pans anyway!
Todays image. Dave Koffel, father of the B1 and the Ex Sox and Martin 66 Barracuda far lane.
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Thanks, Oh, Ed's car get's with the program. A mini stroked 340. 367? Just guessing

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