Well you certainly don't
see this everyday! I am proud to bring you this
exclusive story and images of yet
another awesome 1971 440-6pk Cuda! A couple
of weeks ago, I received a cryptic email from
someone visiting Cudaworld.com claiming to
have an identical car like the 1971 440-6pk Cuda I
did an article on a few months back. Curiously, I
proceeded to call the gentlemen to learn more
about the Cuda he found. I was greeted with an
energetic and excited guy by the name of Chris. He
proceeded to tell me about his numbers
matching 71, EV2, 440-6pk, 4speed,
original paint Cuda.
The more and more he told
me about the car the harder and harder it was to
believe. This car is 99% rust free and the images
below proves this without a doubt. With the
exception of a very small pin hole in the trunk
and an other pin hole in the drivers side lower
quarter this car is an unbelievably preserved car.
There is a lot of information we have been
gathering from this car which I
personally never knew. For example did you
know they painted the blackout on the lower
rockers before they painted the car, at least they
did on this one. The paint ridge is on top of the
black out, pretty cool!!
At first glance, it's not
hard to tell, the seats in the car are wrong and
both Chris and I initially believed the
interior was black. Then we noticed the white
sun visors and headliner, so I checked the fender
tag. Sure enough the interior code on this Cuda
is H6XW. Oh my, this is an
original white interior car. How many of
these did they build? I'm not one to start
splitting production numbers by options, but this
Cuda has to be pretty rare and cool! I am sure
others would know and care about the exact
production figures, but to me this Cuda is simply
cool, rare and FRESH looking dressed in this color
combo!
So how did
Chris score this treasure? Good question! As he
pulled the horse shoe out of his ass he was
heading into the mountains of Colorado on business
and ended up at a local Ford Dealership. Once
inside he was smacked in the face with the awesome
site of a billboard Cuda! As a very
successful and die hard Mopar collector he thought
to himself, either this is a an old school clone
or this is a "barn fresh original car". It didn't
take Chris long to track down the second
owner of the car in a near by bay. He proceeded to
ask the gentlemen if the car was for sale. The
owner said "Yes the car's for sale,
everyone says they want it but nobody
comes up with the money, so I'm plannig
to restore the car."
Chris
immediately said "How much do you want
for it?"
The owner blurted out a number and
after Chris picked himself off the floor he
instantly agreed... Knowing that was too easy
the owner back pedaled and said the car wasn't for
sale anymore. Slightly frustrated, Chris gave him
his number and told him to call
if he ever changes his mind.
Well a couple of
months later, Chris got a call from the gentlemen
who had given the sale more thought. Needless to
say, the price had literally doubled, but this
time there was another buyer involved. We've all
been here before haven't we? The old saying is
true, something that sounds to good to be true,
probably is. Chris was now in a bidding war with
someone else who just had to have this "survivor"
Cuda. Back and fourth, back and fourth, the game
was played. Fortunately, Chris was ultimately the
winner in end and for the third time in it's life
the Cuda had a new owner.
Even though the
price for the Cuda rocketed into a more
reasonable sale price the car was still
a great deal.
I mean when
was the last time anyone found an all original,
rust free, original paint, 440-6pk Cuda? The
car has the original billboard applied by the
factory back in 1971 still hung with pride on the
quarters! And to kick up even more it's an
original 4speed car to boot! Knowing how awesome
this car is Chris has decided to share the photo's
with me and all of you to view. Chris was a
little torn about what to do with the car now
that he has it. It's not nice enough to leave it
unrestored, even though it runs and
drives and cleans up real well. He
thought about restoring her to OE Gold
standards and perhaps sell it once it wins
everything and covers every magazine on the
newstands.
For now he is willing to
sell the car the way she sits so he
can concentrate on his rather large and
impressive collection of rare Mopars. The car will
be on sale on Cudaworld.com for a limited
time and if the asking price is not met the car
will be sent out for restoration and sold for a
lot more I'm sure. Who knows, it may even end up
at the Barret-Jackson for the rich and
esentric prices... ;)
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Either way, the story should be told about how
another low profile E-Body comes to the
public!! This is a car that hasn't seen the light
of day for many years and with only 93,888
original miles on the car it really hasn't
been anywhere. The second owner bought the car in
1985 and hasn't really driven it much since then.
Interesting to note, even though the
Cuda's looks gorgeous with the "70" rubber front
bumper it is an original chrome front bumper car.
After Thirty plus years the two owner's were bound
to lose stuff off the car and this Cuda
is missing a couple of pieces. For
example an original pistol grip shifter, and
correct radiator are some of the missing items
from the car. The car comes complete with
numbers matching engine, transmission, broadcast
sheet, fender tag, & vin tag. The Cuda is
100% matching numbers and would make any purist a
happy camper and make this killer rust free Cuda
an easy restoration!
Thanks for sharing your awesome car Chris!
