68 Cuda Funny Car

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Cudakid2967

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Figured y'all would get a kick out of this. We picked up this body the other day and hopefully will start piling parts together over next couple years to get it built to go bracket racing with. Fully fiberglass, stretched and narrowed a little bit. Should be pretty fun!

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HemiSSDart said:
Have you figured out whose it was back in the day? It would behoove you to do some research...
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I have not yet, gentleman we got it from didn't know the history, need to contact him again and see if I can maybe get the info for the guy that he got it from to trace it back, am kind of curious as well.
 
HemiSSDart said:
Have you figured out whose it was back in the day? It would behoove you to do some research...
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Jim, you mean like if this was Don Schumachers car Stardust? Wouldn't that be something? If no history was found, this is at least the paint scheme I would be using! One of my favorites.

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Cool….I’d make sure to find out the history if you can, could be a valuable or historic body! I picked this up last summer, 1972 Duster F/C body, I have been told it’s the 1st NHRA approved rocket powered funny car. Not sure what I’ll do with it yet but I’m gonna do my best to preserve what’s left! Sometimes I wish the body I had didn’t have any neat history…would have been cool to paint it up like the Mongoose!

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If you carefully strip or sand the paint down layer by layer, there might be a hidden paint scheme underneath all that old paint!
 
The shear fact that these old car bodies even still exist is a big cool factor.... any history will add even more cool to it period.
Don Prudhome, Don Shumacher, Rolland Leone were just a few who run that style funny car back in the day.
 
Plymouth 65 said:
Nice, definitely would be nice to know the history on the car. Great build. 65
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It looks a lot like this car - Cecil ran it injected after retiring the '65 AWB car - but the rear wheel openings appear smaller than his.
I'll ask him if he knows what happened to the car.

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