Wow! Offer on my Cuda

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I'll bet while you were building it you said many times "if I did this again I would change and do it this way"! Well heres your chance. I would have to sell it. But I understand the love affair!
Rod
 
Aaaaah Kalifornia, and as Paul Harvey used to say, and now the rest of the story. How many illegals there gettin free **** too.
 
MrJLR said:
Hey, I will say California is beautiful almost year round and there a great car culture here as well.
The politics piss me off to no end.
Born here...I'm sure I'll die here.
There's worse for sure.....

Jeff
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All the great car culture is in Southern CA. Not in the Bay Area. Here car culture is "What color Prius are you going to buy?" or "Can I charge my iPad/iPhone in my Prius?"
 
rod7515 said:
I'll bet while you were building it you said many times "if I did this again I would change and do it this way"! Well heres your chance. I would have to sell it. But I understand the love affair!
Rod
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Yep i thought this as well. I have redone many vehicles since my first car a 68 charger. I started that ones cosmetic refurb when i was 15 years old in 1982. Drove it my senior year in high school. Each one i redid over the years, i got better and better at it. You could say i was learning at perfecting my craft. My current 67 barracuda project is the culmination of all that OCD behavior. Over the years i learned metal panel fabrication, welding, upholstery recovering, sheetmetal panel replacement, wiring, as well as going in depth in all the mechanical systems. Every car i redid seemed to get worse and worse, or was it that they were getting older, and so was i ?? LOL

The worst was the 1960 el camino i dragged out of the corner of a field in 1996. No engine, no trans, heater box was a mouse tenement. Everything that was left was fucked. I learned a lot on that car. Its where i learned panel fab, and replacement, welding, how to double flare brake lines, since i had to bend everything new. Also had to rewire it from nose to tail. About 2 weeks in and the car completely taken down to the frame i took a long look at it and went what the hell did i go and do this for. I must be a masochist. Never again i said. Low and behold after it was done and gone in 2006 i got the itch again, and in 2008 bought the 67 barracuda notch after realizing that 68 chargers werent cheap anymore. Not even for a shell. I had A bodys in the past. They were always fun cars. And were still inexpensive compared to what B bodys had become.
 
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magnummopar said:
Technically speaking, its not a Cuda, its a Barracuda which makes a huge difference in price, granted a very nice Barracuda but still not a Cuda.

We have two signs in the shop, first says" speed is just a question of money, how fast can you afford to go?" and my favorite, " everything's for sale" . Maybe we need another, "show me the money"....$35K for a clean barracuda is way up there in the fully restored convertible range, it would have been gone and I would have been rolling next project into shop.... but I build them for q living knowing that eventually they will all find a new home. My 6 year old likes the 67 Dart convert and wants to keep it so it will stick around until she likes something better or I get an offer that equals a year at Harvard . Its your car so its your choice but 6-8 years ago custom Harleys were selling for $50K+ and now they are selling for $18K....trends change, look at Mustang and Camaro prices, they have come down in last few years so if its not a #'s original car with rare options I would have given it more thought, well actually I would have sold it. Just my $.02. Nice car BTW!
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Try not to be such a stickler with the terminology...the nickname "cuda" came about shortly after the Barracuda was introduced, years before the 'Cuda model was introduced. I refer to my '67 Barracuda coupe as a "cuda" and none of my Mopar friends get all uptight about it.
 
My dad bought me my first car. A 1973 dart sport in 1994 I was 14 years old. slant 6 fold down seat beat to hell with 5 layers of paint. For 700 bucks. My dad and I have spent yrs working on it. It's a project that is never done always something to change or do. I'm now 36. No amount of money would ever purchase that car. With the fold down seat I could sleep in it. If I had too. Hahah
 
Not only is $35K a lot of money, it's a heckuva lot of money for an A-body! That's more like B-body money.
I know we all love our A-bodies but the truth is they just don't bring as much money as a B-body will.
But I'm still continuing the build on my '69 Dart.
 
MrJLR said:
Hey, I will say California is beautiful almost year round and there a great car culture here as well.
The politics piss me off to no end.
Born here...I'm sure I'll die here.
There's worse for sure.....

Jeff
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Ya' along with all the wildfires,earth quakes,landslides,illegals and "bleeding heart liberals"..no thanks.
 
well.... there are several "collector car" markets in the U.S. cars in southern california, miami and the big cities of texas sell for prices that could NEVER be obtained in the deep south or the mid-west or "Appalachia." as such, some of the prices that folks have listed A-bodies for on ebay and various craig lists seem pretty ridiculous to many of us. in the last week, i have seen 2 ads for 426 HEMI 69 barracuda clones in the low $40's! that would be unheard of 5 years ago! AND... there has been a viper red 440 4 speed 69 barracuda out of michigan that has been advertised for the last 6 months all over the internet for between $32-38k and THE GUY CAN'T SELL IT!! - and the car is beautiful and very professionally done.

so i guess the bottom line is - a mopar is worth whatever someone wants to pay for it - especially in different parts of the country. as to the $35k offered for the car in this thread - in the last year, you could have bought ANY A-body barracuda you wanted for that price.
 
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