Car Porn

Like when I owned a 1971 CUDA in the early 1990’s. So many people were clueless on what it was. “Nice Charger”, sorry but it’s a CUDA.

Then the show Nash Bridges hit prime time in 1996 with the 1971 HEMI CUDA as the main attraction and suddenly people recognized what I had. Just about the time I sold it and just prior to those cars skyrocketing in value.

 

Dude sold this for 13k. Dummy. Edit: under the blue paint is original (one of 6 built) silver paint with red tail stripe and red interior, 4 speed cars. I got a little sick just writing that

 

I toured junk yards a LOT in my youth... and saw soooo many cars I wish I'd salvaged. A Shelby (body only, no frame... but the vin plate was there) I could have picked up for practically nothing. A '69 GTO with only 500 & change on it and absolutely pristine... except the top was crushed to within six inches of the top of the door. Chargers, Roadrunners, Hurst Olds', and lots and lots of old stuff that would have been fun to hot rod...

 

I threw up a little just reading that. Which brings me to the color of my 1971 CUDA.
B5 blue. A highly desired color in all mopars.

My biggest regret was selling my 1969 GTO Ram Air IV. They only made 759 with the Ram Air IV motor in 1969. The highest horsepower output motor of all GTO’s and very rare and highly sought out in todays world.

 

so many missed opportunities

 

Yeah... but I also owned so many and sold them, and drove the tires off of them. I miss some of them, and I miss those times. American Graffiti times but with newer muscle cars. Cheap gas and a service station where we could find used tires that still had two weeks worth of tread on them.

 

I still remember reading the reviews for Nash Bridges when it first came out, all of them pissed me off because they said it was a 1970 Cuda...

 

Went over to my buddy's house and got a cool picture of his group of cars.