When I finished putting my 68 Barracuda together,in November 1999, the thought was that it would be my DD forever. Every September long-weekend, 6 winters running, the HO 367 came out, and a smoggerteen went in. Some winters it had a manual trans, sometimes an overdrive; and some winters it was an automatic.
Then, May long weekend, the 367 went back in, having been refreshed, along with whatever trans I intended to run that summer, and sometimes/usually, the rearend was changed as well.
I had a lotta money tied up in that combo, and I figured it was cheaper to be pro-active in catching problems in the making, than fixing them afterwards. And I did catch a couple of doozies.
But by 2004, the engine was as tough as it could be. I did the swap one last time in 2005, but since then the 367 has stayed under the hood, and I never opened her up again; and I retired her from winter-driving; cuz I sold the smoggerteen, together with it's A998/2800TC/3.55s.
With the 318/automatic and 4 studded tires she was almost unstoppable. She was a lotta fun no matter how she was combo'ed out.
Between the three engines she has known, I'll guess the chassis has over 150,000 that I put on her, and the car had over 70,000 when I got her.
She's been in my stable since 1978. We had a good run together. But she's tired now....... like me; we got a lot of miles on our respective trip-counters..
