'68 Barracuda Formula S Fastback Restoration Background
A guy named Barbee bought the '67 383 Formula S FB I restored many years ago in 1998 or so. This is the car in my photo on the left. Are you the same guy?
Yes!!!!! Small world!!! Here's my story on that car......It was mid to later 90's I lived in Mo. and I wanted a 383 Cuda. I had already grown tired of building E bodies, and went to 68-70 B bodies, but then I got the hots for the 6-9 BB A body. I searched MCG and each one listed had sold. So I kept going back to older issues. I finally found your 67 for sale near San Francisco and flew out there. You had a 67 RoadRace Cuda and a hemi B body I recall. I have owned many Mopars over the decades and only bought a couple done, but your Cuda was by far the best Mopar done and one of my very best Mopars ever, I ever had! My trip driving back to Mo. was one of the all time joys of my entire life!
I had NO desire to sell this car, but I got home and a guy half hour away came to look at a 69 Roadrunner project I had for sale, he and his wife and 2 girls about 10-12, he saw the Cuda under my barn, and I made the mistake of saying what he was. Well he had been lusting for such for years and he actually began to cry when I tld him NOT FOR SALE! , a grown man weeping!!!! So, after more tearing... I told him I would keep that spare A833 and the set of headers you threw in , he could pay me $500 cash and I would call that the best vacation I ever had. OK so it was my first vacation I ever had.
The next summer, I was at Mopar Nats and I see this guy, his wife, and girls come running toward me and I get the best hugs!!!! They were still so excited. Made my day. There are more things in life better than a $.
