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Just Wow. And another one the same day for $1.15 Million !

Rare Plymouth Hemi Cuda muscle car sold for nearly $2 million

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/rare-plymouth-hemi-cuda-muscle-car-sold-for-nearly-2-million

Nice car.

From the article, the Torqueflight 4 speed is very rare option, lol. I always liked the Shaker hood.
My 70-440 came with the standard hood, but currently wears an original AAR fiberglass hood.

I've always loved them 'Cudas from the early '70s. I think they're probably one of the best looking body style of that era, and most of those early '70s cars were beauties.
I almost bought a '73 (a 318) when I joined the Army in '85. As a young E-2, newly married with a baby on the way, I talked myself out of it.
The Hemi 'Cudas and Challengers always bring a ridiculous price. Too bad most of them never see the sight of day after they've been bought. If I had one, I'd be a nervous wreck every time I pulled it out of the garage!
Still, it be pretty hard for me not to melt the damn tires every weekend.
7mm

ya those were cool cars with the knife handle stick shifts. unfortunately up here in PA they lasted about 5 years. i remember a guy in the neighborhood had a bright green one with white stripes, 50's in the back, 440 or maybe 383, not sure on that. by about 76 or 77 it had holes in the side you could put your leg through. still ran like a raped aped though. he beat the piss out of that thing smoking the tires off. same with the camaro's of that era. my buddies brother had an early 70's z28, yellow with black stripes. 4 speed, beautiful car. it too ended up with giant holes in it by mid 70's. such a shame.

I have seen one in the flesh in my entire life, i saw a bunch of hard tops with 440's though.

I don’t think I have ever seen one.

know a guy here in town about my age. his dad had a 70 hemi cuda hardtop, original owner, he gave it to Macky when he was 30. Macky kept it several years but ended selling for close to 200,000 a few years ago.

All the Cudas and Challengers from then are cool but that one is off the charts. I've never even seen one in person and I know they are extremely rare. In 1970 my future wife got a new Dodge Challenger 318 automatic. Not a performance model but a very nice car that grew on me. Always liked the Mopar pony cars. The early ones are my favorites.

In 79 or 80 a fella here in town bought a hemi '70?(or '71) Challenger convertible out of Ekalaka, MT for $2500. Cannot remember the mileage but not excessive. Needed some work like a new plum crazy paint job and white top along with new carbs. Electric windows IIRC and cannot remember if auto or 4sd.(know it wasn't a 4sp auto,lol) but he claimed only 5 built with those options. Had $5K into it when done. A few yrs later someone offered him $10,500 for it and he sold it. Was a lot of money back then. Occassionaly I bring it up that he still owes me a ride in it and then I listen to his tirade.lol Think he said it is in Phoenix now and fully restored. His wife went down there to visit and called the present owner and he gave her a ride in it? Cannot verify that part of the story.

Only other 'Cuda around here was a '70 purple 440-6 w/4sd and 4.10's and Shaker hood. Guy bought it when he got home from 'Nam and sold it in '75 for $1600 with under 50K miles. Buyer was from Rapid City, SD and wanted it for drag racing. Gutted interior except for drivers seat and removed carb and manifold, cut out hood and installed tunnel ram and 2 quads. He had gotten married, had a kid and gas had more than doubled so he bought a Nissan Sentra or something close to that. $1600 was hard to come by and with gas prices dad didn't think it a good graduation gift.

I think there is a '71 Convertible Barracuda coming up for sale here shortly from estate. Sadly a 6 but can't remember now if a 3sp or auto? Just seen it a month ago. Needs some work. One of his son's said only 17 or something like that were made? My first pic would be a nice '69 Z28 and second would be a 'Cuda/Challenger but don't think either will ever happen.lol

Kind of makes you wonder if when our generation starts dying off, if prices on heavy metal will plummet?

Low mileage Vipers are going to be the next Shelby AC Cobras.

Buy one now, don't hit a tree, and your grandchildren will be rich.

Had a '69 Charger R/T 426 Hemi 4sp (less than 50).Belonged to a Hemi club here in N.Y. in the early 1970's.We would meet at Speedwin Automotive on Long Island.We had Hemi 'Cuda's,Challenger's,Road Runner's, GTX's,'67 Hemi Belvedere's and my Charger.Almost everyone sold their muscle car's due to the 1973 gas crunch.Sold my Hemi for $1800.

I bought a 70 challenger se in 1972. 318 with 4 speed. Good car. About 2 months ago I bought a new challenger ScatPak. These are nice cars and run hard. 485 horse. It’s the same bright blue as my 70 was. Memories! Ed k

I think those things are safe, blued and walnut rifles will be dodo's

I got to see the 1948 Tucker rear engine that sold for 1.8 million at the Tupelo Mississippi Car Museum before they closed. Way ahead of it's time back then.

1948 TUCKER 48
Design by Alex S. Tremulis
Chassis no. 1028
Engine no. 335-35
335ci SOHC 6-Cylinder Engine
Single Stromberg Downdraft Carburetor
166bhp at 3,200 RPM
4-Speed Manual Transmission with Bendix Vacuum-Electric Preselector
Front and Rear Independent Torsilastic Suspension
4-Wheel Drum Brakes
• One of the seven Tuckers to
undergo endurance testing at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Mechanically prepared by Tucker
expert Richard E. Jones
• Carefully maintained since complete
restoration in the 1980s
• Featured in the company’s film
‘Tucker the Man and the Car

............ I've thought about that stuff and the majority of future generations will probably be indifferent to both. Probably be just a small "niche market" for what will become just old, obsolete pieces of a bygone age. Interesting only in a historical sense.

All stuff goes through a life cycle.

First it's new and cool.

Then it's just old junk.

Then so few of whatever it is survives the "it's just old junk" stage that it becomes rare. It is much sought after by those who remember when it was new and cool. Those folks die off so the value goes down somewhat but it's still rare so it maintains some value as a rare antique for its duration.

Fanner 50's to original comic books (99% of kids or their moms threw out collections of comic books that would be worth thousands today - that's why the few that are left are worth so much). For a while you couldn't hardly give away an M1 carbine, original issue or not.


I have a flip phone in its original box complete with instruction manual that will make my heirs rich one day...

Nobody gives two shîts about a Tucker on a Hemi-Cuda thread.

JFC

had a 6 pack 440 Cuda back then....1970-1973

I can still remember slapping the auto shifter into drive and hearing

the tires chirp.......bought it from original owner for $1400......

had a rag top GTS 340 4 speed same time frame.....those were the days....

I have been tempted lately to entertain offers on my 72 Challenger.

Numbers do not match, so value would be subjective.

I preferred plum crazy and a 383 instead of robin egg blue and the 318.

I think the 318 is in the barn sitting in pigeon crap.


I have my stash of SHTF big blocks, complete engines and parts, parts, parts in my other shop.

I used to ponder hauling all that stuff to Englishtown on a gooseneck.