If there’s one thing that I love watching on youTube, it’s spring break videos automotive videos with high production value: Car reviews from Top Gear UK, the Ken Block Gymkhana series, and any “best of” racing series clips are all permanent fixtures in my youTube viewing history.

The thing is, all of these videos are about loud music, fast cuts, and non-stop action. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but sometimes I’m in the mood for a video that’s a little more low-key, and this is where the Petrolicious video series comes in. We’ve featured many videos from these guys before, including the Ring Brothers, Bob Sirna’s Mercedes 300SL Gullwing Bonneville racer, and the Martini Mustang, and this video of Bob Gough and his 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S is the latest in the series.

If you somehow managed to avoid the Petrolicious series up until this point (Which is a feat in of itself as these videos are everywhere) then you’re in for a treat as there’s nothing else quite like their style of filming: Both the Gymkhana videos and Top Gear, much as I love them, can be best described as summer blockbusters, all popcorn and action that leave you with little sense of the true nature of the vehicle that you just spent several minutes of your life watching. With a Petrolicious video, however, it’s all about the car and its owner, which in this particular case is Bob Gough and his 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S.

I’ll admit that I didn’t know much about the Formula S version of the Barracuda before watching this video, but like most Petrolicious features, after it’s over I feel like I now know both the car and its owner well enough that I’d recognize the car on the street and offer to buy Bob a beer if I saw him near it.

By now you should all know that I’m a big Pro-Touring guy, with the assumption being that my ideal vehicle would have massive brakes, eighteen-plus inch wheels, wide rubber, etcetera etcetera, all of which is typically true. However, this “moderately modified” (In Bob’s words) Formula S is perfect in its own way: It’s been upgraded just enough for the owner to enjoy it without killing the original spirit and feel, and you gotta love the “upgraded” fifteen inch steel wheels. No “second mortgage on the home” billet wheels or 3xx wide tires here, and that alone is a breath of fresh air. That, along with the upgrade from a Commando 273 V8 to a 340 and the installation of a five-speed manual gearbox makes for the perfect cruiser, as you can see from the footage of Bob roasting the tires and carving along some curvy backroads with ease. Other than a set of modern shocks the underpinnings of the Barracuda are relatively stock, which is a reality check for guys like me that sometimes delude themselves into thinking that they “need” the latest and greatest suspension tech in order to enjoy their vehicles. Sometimes all you need is an open road and an open mind, and this particular 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S is proof of that.

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