Picked up a Mopar
 

My dad and I picked this thing up on Saturday. 1965 Barracuda, slant 6 (turned out to be .030 over, aftermarket cam, 4barrel intake manifold, long tube header, adjustable rocker arm setup). The car has only a few small rust holes, it had been garage kept all its life, and we bought it mainly because the shocktowers were in great shape and the rest of the body was surprisingly good. The guy was moving, and needed the money. Not bad for $1,000.

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Local car all its life.
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We pulled the motor yesterday, and got it down to the shortblock. A gasket set is on order, as well as a water pump.

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My dad is pretty stoked on this car, he is planning on just getting the motor back together, put on some new brakes, tires, and whatever else it needs to be safe and just cruising for a while.

That is ****ing cool as hell man!! Be sure to post up your progress.

damnn that looks extremely clean for a grand congrats

Good god, I hate that motor. LOL


Nice find!

Clean car, good luck with it! Make a great DD ;)

Will do, It honestly shouldnt take much to get it back up and running pending everything is okay with the bottom end (which looks good) and the rest of the drive train.

Thanks, yeah we bought it mainly because it was too hard to pass up

:lol: it will be my first dealings with one, any reason you hate it?

Its a good possibility I could DD it for a while, gonna depend on how reliable it is and whether or not I put a dual master cylinder for the brakes :-)

Yea, they suck. LOL, we had one in the travel lift at work. Coupled with bad gas, dead batterys and leak head gaskets, that thing never died. In the winter it would crank forever before starting and it overheated like no other. LOL. And of course it was 10 feet of the ground and you could not work on both sides at once so I am a bit biased.

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Very hard to kill the 'Leaning Tower of Power'. Those 6's go forever.

nice shed you have there. is that a 40 x 60?

I hope youre right, Ive never heard they were EASY to kill :lol:
Thanks, yeah its 40x60.

I can say that ours caught on fire, leaked worse than an LT1, and would drop spark on random cylinders and yet still managed to live. On top of that, the lift operator liked to rev the snot out of it, even though the hydraulics had reliefs... lol

nice. My friend has a real nice 66 baracuda prostreet car.

Looks good Jon, looks like a great project!

nice! my buddy has a 65 barracuda with a 318 and a powerglide. let me know if you are looking for parts. i don't think he is restoring it anymore. black interior.

nice car great find looks to be solid i see the 64 chevelle in the backround it needs to be back on the road not up on the lift lol

i know of a parts car if needed.....

definitely not my cup of tea, but it looks like a hell of a score for $1K!

best of luck with it!

put a hemi in it....

haha. that reedman logo on the back is pretty awesome. i wonder if it was originally bought there, or if it was traded there years ago. pretty interesting.

regardless, cool car man. with a deal like that, you can take that car in any direction you want without worrying about it too much. have fun!

haha. i totally agree with this statement ^

The HEMI we have is set for another project, I think the Barracuda is destined for a blown 440.