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Either the tach is way off, or the tranny is slipping badly. With a 3.23 gear I would expect 2500 RPM or so. There are websites with formulas that you can use to see exactly what the RPMs should be. You need to start with the diameter of the tires, of course. Here is one of them...

My 66 Barracuda vintage road race car has lots of "patina" after 18 years on the track. The front center grille has several big dings in it from engine pieces that hit my car from a Corvette whose engine exploded in front of me at Laguna Seca. Every time I look at the car I remember that...

It is a pretty involved question,and it "depends on who is asking!". ;-) The FIA Group 3 specs I received show that a 318 was legal in 1966 for the Barracuda, I guess because the engine was in development at the time and Chrysler holomogated it that way. Group 2 specs used the normal...

I have been vintage racing this car for almost 20 years now under the "new" Team Starfish banner. Here are a few YouTube videos I put together: The engine compartment tour: Team Starfish Vintage Racing Barracuda Engine Tour - YouTube The brakes: Team Starfish Barracuda- Brakes - YouTube...

The car now, at a local car show here in Oregon:

It took me a year to get the car back on the road again after the fire. Everything in the engine compartment that can burn or melt, did. Here is a shot of its first outing after, the Maryhill Loops Hillclimb in Washington, October of 2013:

Along with the good, comes the bad though. A fuel fitting came loose at the carburetor at a historic road race up in Seattle at Pacific Raceways in July of 2012, and what happened next was not fun. The on board fire suppression system decided not to work....:oops:

One more shot, from the inside down the straightaway at Willow Springs Raceway in CA from 2014:

Another pix, taken at the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, sometime in the early 2000's:

Here are a few pictures of my car. This was at the chicane at Portland International Raceway during the Portland Historic Races in 2011:

I ran into Scott Harvey at a car show in So Cal in 1994. I had my 66 Barracuda road race car there, and he told me of the original Team Starfish. I asked him if I could use the name for my current vintage race team. He agreed, and I have been running under the "Team Starfish" banner ever since...

Not even a Formula S!

As long as the VIN tags exist, anything is possible. Happens with valuable cars all the time. Look how many old Ferrari and many other old race cars were crashed and burned beyond recognition, rolled into balls, or whatever. As long as the VIN tag existed the car can be re-built as good as new...

The '65 will also have the weak 7 1/4 rear end, verses what is already in your '74 (an 8 1/4, I believe). I would highly suggest you look at another donor car. That 65' tranny will also have the trunion rear fastening for the drive shaft, rather than a U-joint. Big differences between a '65...

When I was in high school in 1970, my uncle bought a new blue Boss 429 mustang. That was about as bad-*** as it could get. I still remember being scared to death in that car when he punched it! A good friend of mine in high school had a 67 Olds 442 that was no slouch either.

A crossram 340!

I did some research before getting my Barracuda insured after I moved to Oregon. Hagerty was recommended by others, and the pricing was well within budget. That said, there are other options out there, such as Heacock. The cheapest deal I found by far was special collector coverage through my...