High-end car companies like to brag that they are all about the relentless pursuit of perfection. If, rather than luxury drivers, they were talking about antiseptically clean musclecars that could eclipse the quarter-mile in 8 seconds or better, then cars like
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Check out Rod Arndt's 1969 Hemi Plymouth Barracuda - Car Craft Magazine
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28 Street/Strip Power Combos And Hellacious Stories Of Survival From The Racers Of HOT ROD's Second Annual Drag Week.
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Ted Hellard Spent Concours-Type Money To Build The Heavily Modified Hemi 'Cuda Of His Dreams, And He Did It Without Cutting Up A Real One.
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This Hemified 'Cuda Shuts Up Those Who Don't Put Up
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Wrenching On This 'Cuda Counted As Quality Time
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When A Super Stock Hemi Barracuda Just Isn't Enough
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It might have taken years to get, but the final build of this 1968 Hemi Cuda took only months
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Cashing in your chips
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Cuffing Challengers, A Quarter-Mile At A Time
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Here at Mopar Muscle we've been drag racing our cars nearly as long as we've been driving, and, like any true enthusiast, we want our race cars to be pure Mopar. If there's one thing we hate to see at the track, it is a two-speed transmission in an otherwise g
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Here at Mopar Muscle we've been drag racing our cars nearly as long as we've been driving, and, like any true enthusiast, we wan
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Don Rae's 67 Barracuda Formula is no garage hermit, smoking tires and camaros on a regular basis
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They Never Thought Joe Jacono Would Get Out of the '70s Alive, Let Alone Turn Up Racing a Nostalgia Funny Car in 2005
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SS/AA Hemi Screamer / Jim DeFrank & Sons, Chatsworth, CAAmong the NHRA door-slammer classes, few cars elicit more excitement than a pair of SS/AA Hemi Barracudas carrying the front wheels on their way to 8.50s at 150 mph. Many Hemis boast Super A pedigrees,
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Remember the late '70s? The groups Boston and Rush were big on the radio, the original Saturday Night Live and The Blues Brothers had us laughing, yet almost everything out of Detroit was like a bad dream. We were busy wrenching on projects in the garage, whil
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Brett Johnson Got His 'Cuda From A Childhood Dream
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They nicknamed him Akron Arlen-a racer who started making laps down primitive drag strips with the likes of George Montgomery and the Arfons Brothers in 1953. Arlen Vanke, operating out of his shop in central Ohio, proved early on he had what it took to be a c
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Refined RideThe AAR 'Cuda and its Dodge counterpart, the T/A Challenger, were built mainly for homologation purposes, to make them legal to race in Trans Am competitions. a dealer's flyer dated late 1969 touted that Chrysler was going Trans Am racing, and th
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Forget the rules of Queensbury, this is the way it happens in a street joust or on the track. The contender with the hardest punch and the longest reach usually wins-as it is on that long narrow strip of pavement that measures 1,320 feet. This is a drama that
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While most of us simply hang out at the track on grudge nights, Brooklyn, Minnesota's John Foster grew up at the racetrack ... literally. John's mother and father were the general managers of the now-defunct Minnesota Dragway, which was one of the most highly
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The musclecar concept was quite simple: stuff a big engine into a small body and hang on. While this normally meant an intermediate-body style, such as the GTO, Road runner, or Chevelle, Ma Mopar took it one step further when she shoehorned a big-block between
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In Storage For 10 Years, This Barracuda Finally Sees The Light Of Day.
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Perseverance Does Pay Off
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Jeff Larsen's dream car is a stretch from reality, which is what dreams are made of. His illusion of musclecar grandeur was the king of musclecars-the Hemi 'Cuda convertible. Maybe his Plymouth won't be factory stock down to the VIN, but Larsen, who lives in D
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