Old "B" Body Guy Joins "A" Site -Woodstock, GA
Great to get posts from you guys. Nice to hook up with a bunch of Motor heads the better half likes cars but I am a bit more enthusiastic than she is. Matter of fact she drove a 68 Barracuda Fastback in high school and that is what prompted me to see just what was under that pile of stuff in that garage and buy this 69. She took a look and said it "wasn't talking to her" but man when I looked under the hood and saw the V-8 then stuck my head in and saw a Hurst 4 speed shifter it was literally screaming take me home to me. I have done a bit of research with a pocket manual I purchased from Galen Govier and the fender data tag and with this 318 - (2 bbl), D-12 3 speed on the column factory setup I might have run into a somewhat rare "fish". The Govier production figures for this cars VIN and engine/tranny combo was 201 which is fairly low. Been a good year for me as I have lucked out on 3 rides which turned out to be low production number cars (A 69 Mach 1, A 72 Hurst Oldsmobile convertible and now this 69 Barracuda). Only downer of this Barracuda is since it is a low production number vehicle I am kind of stuck with White exterior Red interior if I want to keep it's factory originality. I was planning on either a B-7 Blue or Q-5 Seafoam Turquoise exterior and black interior. Oh well. I have included a pic or two of m 71 Challenger R/T I have and an taking back to original factory specs. So far I have picked up this Challenger and a GTX that both decode to having factory 4 speeds and both of them still had the swing pedal assembly still in the car with the clutch pedal tucked under the carpet. Go figure it eludes me. The Challenger presently has a set of Hurst lightning rod shifters in it, pretty strange looking in a MOPAR.
Great to get posts from you guys. Nice to hook up with a bunch of Motor heads the better half likes cars but I am a bit more enthusiastic than she is. Matter of fact she drove a 68 Barracuda Fastback in high school and that is what prompted me to see just what was under that pile of stuff in that garage and buy this 69. She took a look and said it "wasn't talking to her" but man when I looked under the hood and saw the V-8 then stuck my head in and saw a Hurst 4 speed shifter it was literally screaming take me home to me. I have done a bit of research with a pocket manual I purchased from Galen Govier and the fender data tag and with this 318 - (2 bbl), D-12 3 speed on the column factory setup I might have run into a somewhat rare "fish". The Govier production figures for this cars VIN and engine/tranny combo was 201 which is fairly low. Been a good year for me as I have lucked out on 3 rides which turned out to be low production number cars (A 69 Mach 1, A 72 Hurst Oldsmobile convertible and now this 69 Barracuda). Only downer of this Barracuda is since it is a low production number vehicle I am kind of stuck with White exterior Red interior if I want to keep it's factory originality. I was planning on either a B-7 Blue or Q-5 Seafoam Turquoise exterior and black interior. Oh well. I have included a pic or two of m 71 Challenger R/T I have and an taking back to original factory specs. So far I have picked up this Challenger and a GTX that both decode to having factory 4 speeds and both of them still had the swing pedal assembly still in the car with the clutch pedal tucked under the carpet. Go figure it eludes me. The Challenger presently has a set of Hurst lightning rod shifters in it, pretty strange looking in a MOPAR.