4-Door Barracuda

[Beavis]

Continuing on the theme, the 4-Door Barracuda silhouette looks almost exactly like that of a 1971 B-Body Sedan, which to my eye is the biggest distraction of the build.

I doubt the Chrysler stylists would have come up with such a clumsy roofline if this concept was ever done for real. Chrysler created some of the most beautiful flowing 4-door hardtop rooflines on their C-body Plymouths, and Chryslers of that era. Designers of that era had a full understanding of how to make a hardtop roofline flow - even on 4-door body styles. GM also built some really good examples of fluidly designed 4-door hardtops that didn't look anything like their 4-door Sedan counterparts.

This Barracuda was built around a 1971 4-door Plymouth B-body and unfortunately.... it still looks like a reskined 4-door sedan with shorter deck proportion and Barracuda front and rear design elements.

Sadly this 4-Door Barrcuda Project doesn't represent itself well as a "what-if" concept. Its a flop.

Sure Chrysler had all type of 4-door Hardtops in their fullsize C-body line in 1970, but General Motors was building the nicest most comprehensive line of 4-door hardtops in the industry (with the obvious exception of pony cars)




This photo was found on another Mopar website submitted by ECS.

Source: http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...ept-car/page35