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Did you guys see this one in Mopar Muscle? Awesome car.
I was trying to chase down a Hemi Cuda in a barn last year, but I didn't get it. I got to talking cars with this guy Mike at work, and he mentioned that the guy who did some work on his sister's cottage had the front clip from a Hemi Cuda he'd wrecked years ago. I asked Mike to get ahold of the guy, and see if he wanted to sell it, and find out what happened to the rest of the car. He got in touch with him, and found out that the guy had bought the car new after getting out of the service, in '70 or '71, then wrecked it after hitting some railroad tracks too fast when it was a couple of years old. Apparently it bent in the middle, popped out the front and back glass, and the trans tore the floor pan. He dragged it home, put it in the barn, and left it there, although he gave the hemi to his uncle. I think it was in Indiana, too.
He said it was grey, with a hemi stripe on the side, which I think would make it a '71 - Winchester Grey with a billboard. He had told Mike he had the front clip, because he thought that was the only part that was any good. It was still on the car. It must have been bent pretty bad, because he said only one set of wheels would touch at a time. Unfortunately, he'd gotten divorced since he and Mike had spoken, the ex-wife got the house, and he left it in the barn. Tried to get ahold of the ex-wife through the son, and the word came back that she'd just had her new boyfriend drag it out of the barn with a front-end loader, smash it flat, and load it in a dumpster, along with the rest of his stuff. At that point, it became kind of a sore spot with the guy, and I couldn't get Mike to pursue it any further. I'm not above dumpster-diving for a hemi cuda, even just to confirm the story.
Anyone else ever hear about this car? I posted about it on moparts, and never got a response. I guess nobody believed me, and I never saw it in person, but I believed it. If I can track down that uncle with the hemi, I guess that's the only way to prove it.
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