Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Well like lightweight said in his thread just start a new one for the Cudas.
There seems to be some great historians here, so I thought since we have so much Dart info here why not complete the history by adding the Cudas. I feel like so many of the Hemi guys back then played with both. Who knows maybe while looking at info on the Cudas we might trip across something to help lightweight with his quest on the history of his car.
So post up what you got.

Back in the late seventy's and early eighty's I use to see Bob Reed and his Cuda running around down here in Florida.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Good idea, I hope it brings out the same amount of valuable information that the Dart info site has produced.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

First one I ever saw, therefore, my favorite:
Listed as #33 sold:

http://lakelandraceway.com/images/lil_super_cuda.jpg

Beautiful candy red (I think, a long time ago) with gold leaf.

http://img3.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...a2c05ad569.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Very cool thanks Charlie A.. Any one know what number the Sox and Martin car is.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

The 'first' BO29

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...1&d=1368382454

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Stewart Pomeroy Cuda. I believe this was an ex-S&M Cuda. He had several ex-S&M cars, I sort of lose track of all the cool cars he owned. I think he said this was taken at the Oldsmar track on the north end of Tampa Bay.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Another Super Cuda photo. It looks like the R6 red that my 1969 Barracuda is. I am not sure if they had R6 in 1968.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

http://www.classracer.com/classforum...6&d=1368405259

http://www.classracer.com/classforum...5&d=1368404998

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

One of my favorite drivers was Judy Lilly. She took the time to talk to a young kid at the Bradenton test session circa 1976. I took off work on day to drive across the Skyway bridge to go see the Mopars racing/testing. I wish they still had those test sessions. All the big guns where there. Judy was very friendly to a kid straight out of HS.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

So, who owns one now????

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Candy Red and Gold leaf always gets me looking:

http://www.draglist.com/draglist/adm...1.jpg&full=yes

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Several different cudas. Not sure if they are all original cars though.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Me too! I love Candy Apple Red and Gold Leaf lettering. Fred Hurst had a beautiful Cuda with an injected Hemi and ran A/G I think. Not a BO29 car though.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

I'm thinking its in a collection in St. Pete Florida, not sure of the guys name but I think his claim to fame was the sorting machine for the post office. That's just what I heard.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Wow, I had forgotten about Oldsmar cool pic. I still live in south Tampa.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

I grew up in St. Pete but never went to Oldsmar when it was active. Robert Fulco took me by there a couple of years ago and it's now a park. The track surface was still there, narrow and bumpy from the looks of it. Bradenton opened up about the time I got my first car, so I went there instead. I swear I walked past Stewart's Duster (ex-Mopar Missile) at Bradenton once circa 1974 and never knew what I was looking at. The Nelson Des Champs name didn't mean anything to me. Only years later when he showed me photos of the car I thought, boy that car looks a lot like the Missile. Then he told me it was!

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

That's awsome, a friend of mine over on abodiesonly is a huge fan of the missile and has built an incredible Hemi car to pay tribute to the missile. He has created the ghost of a missile. His name is Hemi Denny.

I need to figure out how to post some pics using this I pad.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

paul rossi's cuda is real. originaly jim wick's. now owned by danny smith

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Super Stock and Drag Illustrated (June 1968)

Photo's were taken in late March 1968.

The 'first' photos of the BO29

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/6-1968-Super-...hVQ~~60_57.JPG

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

does anyone know of a '68 Hemi 'cuda found in Wilson, NC? i don't know if it was a real one or not but there was a former racecar that sat in a backyard in that area for years and then it disappeared.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

April 1968 (Cecil County Drag-O-Way)

One the earliest tests with the 68' Hemi Barracuda.

At the time, the 68' Hemi Barracuda was 'not yet' legal for NHRA SS/B or SS/BA.

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...1&d=1368385490

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Thanks again Paul, you sure have a lot info on the Hemi cars.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...Number=6393416

Anyone know this guy? lol

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Thanks Mr. Skypower,

1968

Sox & Martin with both their 68' SS/B Hemi Barracuda cars.

And the 1968 GTX '440' classed in SS/F.

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...1&d=1368391397

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

The "Mule". A '67 turned '68.

http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/...gePlymouth.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Hope we can hear from some past and current BO29 owners/crews.
Nothing says it better than "first hand" knowledge

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

This is the car Sam Pannuty purchased from S&M in 69.
I have a shot of the Cuda, after the sale and repaint, and it still has the #784 on the rear quarter windows.
We ran it in the NASCAR ULTRA STOCK circuit that year.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Now we're getting some where, Jackarnew do you have any idea where that car is now, or who owns it.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

The 'first' BO 29

BO29M8B299110

This Hemi Barracuda was 'primarily' the Test Car for Sox & Martin.

A) White Hood with Blue Stripe.
B) Slightly twisted front bumper
C) Blue-tinted Glass
D) Blue Roof
E) 'Barracuda' lettered of front grille panel

http://images16.fotki.com/v382/photo...tinCuda-vi.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Don Grotheer,

Switched from the 4-Speed in 1968, to the Automatic in 1969.

http://media-cache-is0.pinimg.com/55...03ddec0f47.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

wasn't the first car from Sox and Martin received by them incomplete and only partially converted?

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

I have the magazine article some where that shows the car being built using parts from another donor car. I am not sure if either car was an original hemi car.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

I'll go with what Jack Werst said.

Jack got the the 'second' built BO29, right after Sox & Martin got the first car.

The first cars were partially completed, and were not 100% Soup-to-Nuts done.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

If I remember correctly that was a '70 hemi barracuda they built for the article.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Mr.5 and 50:

http://image.moparmusclemagazine.com...-barracuda.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

1969 Photo

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3452/3...7f3ab296_z.jpg

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

This one is supposed to be real anyone know anything about it.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Yep it's real and Clayton still owns it.

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......
 

Re: Original Hemi Cuda Info.......