The idea was poorly executed, the roof doesn't jive with Barracuda roof line,the car looks ridiculous! I build these one off cars you are referring to.Oh no, someone thought waaay of the box! They didn’t build a gen 3 hemi 68-70 b body or e body, they didn’t build a convertible wing car, or convertible charger! He came up with an original idea that nobody has done, and probably won’t ever do again. Burn the man!
For me, I just thought the color was over-done for awhile. In the 80s, it seemed that a large percentage of magazine feature cars, when they were a Mopar, it was Green.
Well, I'm short on the $600,000 that was spent to build that car, as well as the skills to do custom work that looks like a factory effort.Selling yourself a tad short Greg?
Red...Yeah, I know the color isn't a favorite of everyone. I hadn't had a red car before this one of mine that was F8 green originally. I once considered stripping the '70 down and changing it to B5 blue, a color that now stands at the top of the heap for me.Yeah, Greg needs to check his color bias.... Gonna start thinking he's not really a Mopar guy....
Oh well, I don't really like red... Even though I own two red cars...
This car is FK5, Burnt Orange metallic. When that color is new, I like it. When the clear fades, it looks really bad to me. I want to paint it B5 eventually....
Well if you are going to turn an awesome car into a 4 door dorkmobile,then you have to go all out and put the dork dish hubcaps on it as well! Did you see the 70 Hemicuda convertible at Mecum, with the goofy yellow wheels and dork dish hubcaps? If that was my car,I have those removed faster than the fastest Nascar pit crew could!
poor horse
not much but yes it does look slightly better
NO...
"When your time comes, why not go in Style".
Is that the real black ghost Challenger? That reminds me of the 71 Challenger R/T that had the vista cruiser roof grafted onto it,that used to be seen at Carlisle years ago."When your time comes, why not go in Style".
Note- Not a 4 door Barracuda or a dead horse.
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Atleast they got the roofline correct in this poorly executed photoshop, but I'm still trying not to vomit!
The guy who sold the car last year at Mecum, was the same guy who sold all the wingcars there last year including the former David Spade Hemi Daytona Charger that sold for 1.3 million dollars. He bought a few cars from Dave Walden's estate,and was forced to take the four door Barracuda monstrosity in a package deal if he wanted the other cars. It received a single bid and was immediately short hammered sold at Mecum last year. The Fish took the bait,and wound up on the plate.
my next question would be...... are there actually 2 or more people willing to bid against each other to own it?
and on the reality TV auction point...... "the internet" sure wins a lot of the bids
I'm with you. I'm not a fan of red ..... (black is my LEAST favorite car color, for me to own, anyway) and I have four red cars.Yeah, Greg needs to check his color bias.... Gonna start thinking he's not really a Mopar guy....
Oh well, I don't really like red... Even though I own two red cars...
