Where were you in '85?

[Denis]

In 1985, I lived in England and owned two cars, a V12 Jaguar and a teeny Fiat.

[DaJudge]

Yea I guess your right when you put that way!!

[njsteve]

By the way, the guy on the left in the Musclecar Review photo was Mason Dixon, local Tampa, Florida radio personality and Mopar collector. The 70 Charger R/T 440 car was his. If I recall correctly, the guy on the right was Mike Mueller, former managing editor at Dobbs Publishing Group, the publishers of MCR, Mopar Muscle, Corvette Fever, Super Ford, Mustang Monthly, etc. (I took over as a tech editor and managing editor for MCR and Mopar Muscle in 1990 and worked there until 1994) It was a fun job at the time. Sure beat being a lawyer

[SamLBInj]

Pedro Say "Cold today Hotomali" Only 150 more miles to South of the Border...LOL.. Nice job on the restore!
Sam

[njsteve]

Very good observation on that one. Yes like every other 80's tourist, we had to stop at South of the Border! Can you blame us after driving from Miami toward Connecticut in a 24 foot Uhaul with a trailer, speed governed to 55 mph down hill....

[SamLBInj]

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Very good observation on that one. Yes like every other 80's tourist, we had to stop at South of the Border! Can you blame us after driving from Miami toward Connecticut in a 24 foot Uhaul with a trailer, speed governed to 55 mph down hill....

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You got the car but sitting in my backyard is that uhaul trailer It definatly need a restore..
Sam

[69LM1]

Had Just graduated H.S. and sold my 1969 Camaro, 307 3 speed(console) on the floor for 3,000.00. Of course, been kicking myself ever since. Firethorn red with keystone classic rims. Ahhhhh the memories!

[SamLBInj]

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In January 1985 I was driving back up from Miami after finding this 1971 440 Six Barrel, 4 speed Cuda Convertible (1 of 5 produced). I paid $2500 for the project. It had been through a series of owners in Miami including a drug dealer who sold it, and then stole it back shortly thereafter and in a police chase launched it into the ocean! It had all of its original drivetrain (in the back of the U-Haul truck that is). The car needed new quarters, fenders, trunk, doors, upper cowl but the floors were perfect! -never buy a Florida car that spent any time near the beach: they rust from the top surfaces downward. I restored the car within a year and then sold it to buy my yellow 71 Hemicuda ragtop. The comical thing is that I hear rumors that the person who owns it now (after paying $350K for the car) is claiming that the sheetmetal is all original!

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You sure this was taken in 1985? Looks more like 1975, I can just about hear Skynard playing Freebird in the background...
I had just moved back from Florida a little before that, there was a guy in the Keys who had a 70 or 71 Hemicuda Ragtop and 2 or 3 hemi Superbirds...does that ring a bell? Maybe it was that drug dealer guy
Sam

[njsteve]

So I'm a little "dated" looking Actually, it was Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in the background. I bought the car from a collector in Miami. He saw the "before" photos and after results of 383 Cuda ragtop I restored that I pulled out of a wrecking yard in Colorado in 1982, (I traded a 4 cyl Vega someone abandoned on my property for it) I had the Cuda at the '84 Mopar Nationals (see attached) and he asked me if I would be interested in another major project. I was happy to oblige him when I saw the polaroid of the car and he recited the VIN to me. He was the one who filled me in on the cars interesting history.

[yellowjudge]

I was in high school here in the pittsburgh area. I had a 72 formula, w/TA add ons. & a 77 brown TA, w/low miles.