Been a while. Firebird’s 95% done, S10 is still running great. The LT4/T56 makes for a fun parts getter.
My first venture into Mopar is quite the undertaking. I picked up this 1966 Barracuda after finding it locally. Guy was asking $1,200 for it. I went and looked at it and after him seeing me noticing all the hidden rot, he said $500 takes it.
I got it home and found 70% of it was there. From what I can gather, it was last on the road in Florida in 1982. It was a 273 2 bbl V8 with a 904 auto. Original paint was light blue and dark blue interior with power steering, air, and 10” drum brakes. It’s interior was gutted, an aluminum dash cover was put in place with toggle switches and racing gauges.
The car came complete with its original 13” rims, sans poverty caps. A hole had been cut in the hood for the air cleaner to pop through. Hastily sprayed with red oxide primer (more of a doodoo brown), the bondo patches were good enough for a race car.
I sourced a ‘96 Ram Magnum 360 and rebuilt the bottom end and put on a 4 bbl air gap intake and threw on a small HEI style distributor and topped it with a 750 Holley I rebuilt. Found a small block 727 and bought a new 2800 stall neutral balanced converter with smaller bolt pattern to use with the balanced Magnum flexplate.
The 7 1/4 stock rear has got to go, thinking shortened 8.8 Explorer or 8 3/4 Mopar a-body rear if I can find one I won’t have to take out a mortgage for.
Everything is super expensive and I jumped right into a one year only model. (64 and 65 share body styles, 66 was a one off.)
Probably won’t be on here often but here’s what I’ve done so far in pictures:
My first venture into Mopar is quite the undertaking. I picked up this 1966 Barracuda after finding it locally. Guy was asking $1,200 for it. I went and looked at it and after him seeing me noticing all the hidden rot, he said $500 takes it.
I got it home and found 70% of it was there. From what I can gather, it was last on the road in Florida in 1982. It was a 273 2 bbl V8 with a 904 auto. Original paint was light blue and dark blue interior with power steering, air, and 10” drum brakes. It’s interior was gutted, an aluminum dash cover was put in place with toggle switches and racing gauges.
The car came complete with its original 13” rims, sans poverty caps. A hole had been cut in the hood for the air cleaner to pop through. Hastily sprayed with red oxide primer (more of a doodoo brown), the bondo patches were good enough for a race car.
I sourced a ‘96 Ram Magnum 360 and rebuilt the bottom end and put on a 4 bbl air gap intake and threw on a small HEI style distributor and topped it with a 750 Holley I rebuilt. Found a small block 727 and bought a new 2800 stall neutral balanced converter with smaller bolt pattern to use with the balanced Magnum flexplate.
The 7 1/4 stock rear has got to go, thinking shortened 8.8 Explorer or 8 3/4 Mopar a-body rear if I can find one I won’t have to take out a mortgage for.
Everything is super expensive and I jumped right into a one year only model. (64 and 65 share body styles, 66 was a one off.)
Probably won’t be on here often but here’s what I’ve done so far in pictures: