1969 M code Barracuda...This is not mine

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Has side stripe delete. Does that delete hood stripes also? Interesting looking car.

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413 said:
Has side stripe delete. Does that delete hood stripes also? Interesting looking car.

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I can't tell from what is shown. I can see the longitudinal stripe delete. It's about the same color as my Avatar 65. I was never a huge fan of this light blue but it kind of grew on me with the chrome, white center stripe and raised white letters. We get a lot of compliments on the color from people...mostly women...LOL I've never seen this Ebay car before.
 
It looks like it is a V 78. Maybe the owner or painter didn't put the callouts back. It was painted in 2000. Like I said it's not mine. The valve cover. I have no idea.
 
M47 on the fender tag denotes hood scoops and they came with the whole hood stripe, lower stripes and call outs
 
I know the 440 cars are all simular. Do they all have V78 on the fender tag?
 
413 said:
I know the 440 cars are all simular. Do they all have V78 on the fender tag?
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Yes they do. Guessing the govier decode just assumed that the V78 code which is for the longitudinal stripe delete on non-cuda versions meant the same. Or the owner did, and left them off. They all have them.
 
jeff alder said:
It looks like it is a V 78. Maybe the owner or painter didn't put the callouts back. It was painted in 2000. Like I said it's not mine. The valve cover. I have no idea.
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That is a 67-68 valve cover, by 69 the heater hoses were routed to the inner fender with a clip screwed on it. I also agree that the car should have stock steel painted covers, and I agree that the Cuda cars could not delete the stripes, and this car proves it, just looks wrong...
 
With all of it's faults that has been covered mostly above, the car could be made correct looking with a few upgrades and changes.
The master cylinder cover is wrong as well...
 
HemiSSDart said:
That is a 67-68 valve cover, by 69 the heater hoses were routed to the inner fender with a clip screwed on it. I also agree that the car should have stock steel painted covers, and I agree that the Cuda cars could not delete the stripes, and this car proves it, just looks wrong...
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it is plain Jane that's for sure
 
It is missing quite a few items but it is a good car for tweaking to make it right to the buyer who has the knowledge to finish the car correct.
 
Yeah it just makes you wonder how much has to be done if they didn't build it correctly to start
 
It could just be the way the owner wanted it. I like it the way it is, but I think the stripes could give it a little more snap.
 
nutz said:
Yeah it just makes you wonder how much has to be done if they didn't build it correctly to start
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That you will not know until you get into it. From just restoring one I see quite a bit different from Original but that doesn’t matter to a lot of people as long as they have a M Code car. I know a lot of people would not do it back to Original so it really wouldn’t matter. You could install the Stripes and it would appear to the untrained eye it is correct, Until you got into the smaller details. But there is always the big question was the body done correctly.
 
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