yes it was a 318 and it was stock. I was the second owner of it. Also I never said that the 68 426 hemi came stock. I just told the guy what engines he could see in the three years of the barracuda.I know hurst put the hemi in the barracuda just as grand spoulding first did the 440s in 69.I don,t know your argument is I think every knows the history or can find easy.One thing I can tell you are family had some strange mopars in are time binging in mopar since the 1930s starting with my father.