Jekyll and Hyde: 1970 Plymouth Barracuda
I am not sure the seller wants to sell this 1970 Plymouth Barracuda because the pictures are so poorly presented and many of the pictures are dated. Despite the pictures and poor grammar, the car looks like a fun driver with a lot of power. You can see more here on eBay and the car is currently bid to $17,100 with less than 2 days left in the auction. The Barracuda is located in Puyallup, Washington.
The exterior is painted in either Blue Fire Metallic or Jamaica Blue Metallic with a matching blue interior. The seats and console look good but the dash is cracked really bad. The odometer shows 60k miles and the seller states that the car is solid with little or no rust. Power is transferred to the rear axle via an automatic transmission. Not much else is included about the car’s options.
Originally equipped with a 318 cubic inch V8 engine, the seller has swapped it for a 440 cubic inch V8 engine from his Charger. Modifications to the engine include 906 heads, headers, Holley double pumper carburetor, aluminum manifold and a Weiand air cleaner. The engine compartment looks very clean but the car needs an exhaust system installed.
Oh I forgot to say that one of the pictures shows the back half of the car is black and the other pictures show it blue. Some of the pictures show a snorkel hood scoop in orange but those are old pictures and the seller has now painted the hood black. So the car is probably mostly flat black. Equipped with aluminum slotted wheels, the car is said to run and drive well. What is the creature worth?
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Comments
The body looks good but showing old and new pictures doesn’t help to sell a car.
The car should have been pulled out from the garage with underneath and new pictures. A video with a cold start helps tremendously to get the owners asking price.
I have a feeling the reserve will not be met unless a local buyer inspection. A second listing should it not sell will be improved having better pictures, video and details included.
every big block i have seen has the distributor up front at a angle and i don’t see that here?
The distributor is partially hidden by the two heater hoses; the cap is missing, along with the plug wires. You can see the vacuum advance canister behind the upper radiator hose.
Agree with Classic Steel’s comments. Also, if he really wants to sell it and since the reserve is likely $20k plus, the seller should fit a new exhaust and wiper motor.
Jekyll and Hyde is right! How many cars are we looking at? Hmm, maybe the seller’s description “automatic transition” explains how the car can change like a chameleon. In fairness to the seller, he does clarify that the car will include the aluminum wheels rather than the steelies, and that the pictures with the black hood are the latest. However, I think I would have simply omitted the earlier pictures. I’m thinking that 440 hasn’t run in a while–no distributor cap or plug wires, valve covers just sitting on the heads with no bolts, throttle linkage hanging down over the water pump, no coolant in the radiator, several wires not terminated, etc. I did get a big laugh from the comment on the seller’s poor grammar, after reading hundreds of Barn Finds articles that were painfully difficult to read due to similar issues.
I would remind everyone to NOT use those fuel filters.
That lift off hood looks like it would be more of a “fly off” hood without any hood pins. Than engine bay is a mess.
Oh, and those air cleaners are complete fire-bombs.
Yes, there are a lot of dangers lurking when you drive an old school muscle car. The lack of air bags, anti-lock brakes, back up cameras, lane departure warning and even not having to put your foot on the brake to start it, are all major pluses for me.
I would avoid looking at the car just based on his grammar! That was brutal reading the ad!
This is a pig in a poke!! Don’t know what your looking at!! I’m in agreement with everyone here that this needs to be clarified with all modern pictures and not ones from the photo album 20 years ago!!!
So if it runs good ,perhaps a picture of the motor with the missing components installed would help. Another spelling error was listing leather seats instead of Pleather seats.
Make sure you break the motor in correctly, don’t rush and throw a road