Been chasing my old boss for this Barracuda for close to 8 years, he finally broke free of it, came with a ton of parts, I should make my money back when it is finished, doubles and triples of most of the parts

 

nice what are your plans for it?

 

rebuild, have been wanting a drop top for a long time just haven't found one in my price range, or in this good of condition, and I do like to build and put my signature on my rides so people don't walk up to me and say wasn't that so and so's car

 

cleaned all the dirt out of it the other dayand this is what I found

 

looking good cuda trunck rot is usual for mopars great score AINT NO BODY like an A BODY

 

Trunk rot is pretty much normal, but the floors look relatively solid. Gonna be a nice cruiser when she is done.

 

Have any ideas where I can get patch panels, haven't been keeping up with the latest in Mopar news and mags these days

 

auto metal direct they gots them

 

Thanks I will look them up this weekend

 

starting to move on the cuda started with the trunk yesterday, its a slow process when you have so many irons in the fire

 

Nice score! Congrats! It looks to be a great find.

j

 

haven't been here in a while but I have been working on the cuda on the weekends and progress is moving slow but it is moving front and rear floor pans right side

 

Might as well take your time. It looks like there won't be any top down weather this year.

 

Well fall has arived and I am back working on my cuda spent yesterday welding in the back floor on the left side and removing the rear end so I can make a templet to build a frame rail that is week from rust

 

Nice Cuda Congrats!

 

Sweet! That will be a fun car!

 

Looks good so far. Keep up the good work.

 

The last couple of weeks I have been in the garage and have acomplished weling the frame rail and puting the front nose and left fender on

 

This is a good project, I like how you are keeping us up to date- that is what I want to do. Joe

 

tore the rear end apart last weekend and gave the housing to a friend to blast, came back yesterday now to paint it and put in the traction lock. Yes Joe, I wish there was some thing like this 30 years ago when I was building my 62

 

The other night the wife had to work late, so I took it upon my self to bring the center section into the basement where it is a little warmer. I procieded to disasemble the center section. when the wife got home the battle started the smell from the grease on the bolts was ransid and strong, needless to say she was pissed! At two in the morning I get an elbow in the ribbs and she sead "If I can't sleep nether can you". It took a good day for the smell to disapate. Lesson learned my garage her house.

 

Oh well, back to the old, cold garage. Good luck with your project. Looks like you're making good progress on it.

 

Last weekend I was out in the cold garage welding in the left side of the floor pans and front tork box and got-r-done, frame conectors are for this weekend hope to have enough time to cut and fit them

 

Well floor pans and frame conectors are in and undercoated, next new trick is to learn how to do the body work, did a little 15 plus years ago. Here are some pics of the bottom of the floor.

 

Good Job.

 

well I have the traction lock together, it turnd out to be an alday event when I launched the springs across the bacement. Putting it together was very easy, just took an hour totake the housing apart and put the center in. The rest of the day was combing the bacement floor with a magnet to find the springs, cant wait to see how it works. spring is around the corner.

 

The first bit of paint for the car, hopfully will be on the ground soonso I can role it around for body work

 

Well I got the car on the ground with rally wheels, Wich do you like better?

 

The first picture is the best.

 

Ditto: First set of wheels.

That is a great ride. Love to find one like that..