Checking out Copart.com is just about the same as asking for a tour of the local morgue. You know what to expect, yet you still want to see it for yourself. Luckily, not everything at Copart is a burned shell, or has had a tree fall on it, or went swimming when the last storm hit the coast and is up for pennies on the dollar. Some are in the lots for more benign reasons, like hail damage or, in the case of this resto-modded 1965 Plymouth Barracuda, “vandalism”.

To tell the truth, I looked at this listing for two reasons only: one, I wanted to see what kind of vandalism puts a car into a Copart lot, and two…well, look at it. I’m not a fan of the early A-body Barracudas with the big back window, but this is a neat little build! A late-model Hemi swap, nice paint, good chrome, some custom touches here and there…this is a nice little car. What the hell is it doing socked away in an open storage lot in Houston? Well, we know what Copart claims, but I was expecting a bashed-out back window, or key scratches up and down the flanks, or the popular “I hope she was worth it, bastard!” spray-painted across the hood in a blazing shade of silver. I see none of that.

Unless I’m just not seeing the problem here, this might be the score of scores from Copart. Late-model power, Vintage Air…what got messed-up so badly that it couldn’t just be fixed?

Copart.com listing: 1965 Plymouth Barracuda