We Stumble Upon The Wreckage of Richard Petty's LOST '65 Barracuda A/FX Drag Car!
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2023
- If you saw our most recent video, you'll know that Mopar Connection Magazine stumbled upon the remains of possibly one of Richard Petty's most infamous race cars: the "43 Jr." 1965 Plymouth Barracuda A/FX drag car that sadly careened into a crowd, killing an 8-year-old boy.
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I don't blame the Petty's for burying it or moving on from that sad day. In fact, I think it speaks to their character in a good way.
it wasn't his fault so get over it
Where is the engine and drivetrain?
@@hankwilliamsfan1986 Yours is a dumbass comment.
In 1997 my dad bought one of Petty’s track tool boxes for $8,000, petty has a mural of his car and himself in his cowboy hat and its signed. He also really like cummins engines, he put two cummins logos on the box, not stickers… logos. It is a beautiful tool box that us hillbillys have used for almost 30 years since it left the track it even came with some of pettys tools🤘😎 still got it to this day
Also i wanted to add im not sure what years on the track the toolbox was from, i forget but its a MAC toolbox, maybe it was even a personal box i will have to find that out.
When I was 15 my dad took me and my friend Eddie Belt to the Dallas GA Drag strip to see Petty and Arnie Beswick. I saw Petty do a wheel stand and the car came down and broke something on the left front axle and the car shot of to the left side and ran into the fence and hit the people next to the fence a little boy was killed and others were hurt, I ran over to the car wreck and picked up the Barracudas headlight bucket and we went home, I kept that headlight cover for 15 years and I moved to a different house and lost it. That was the first and last race my father and I ever went to, It was a very sad day. I don't blame Richard feeling that way.
Holy cow! That's an incredible story!
Was the family compensated?
@@matroxEnter at your own risk.
Hey brother my mother and my mother's family were born and raised in Dallas Georgia. I believe this happened where Hardy Chevrolet is correct? I was told that story a few times. I was somewhere between 3and 5 years old. And may have been in Dallas Georgia that day visiting my grandparents. All of my mother's family grew up there It was my favorite home of all the homes I ever lived in. As we speak I'm trying to get up the money to buy my grandmother's home back and bring it back into the family near highway 61 & scoggins road right down the road from Paulding County high School
I wasn't there that day , but remember it happening. Ibelieve they closed that track right after.
It's good that he's going to honor the agreement with Richard and not try to rebuild it, which is obviously not even feasible or possible look at the state of it lol
There are plenty of spot on clones “out there.” Leave this one be.
" Graveyard Cars " would do a VIN swap " restoration " like they did on the Phantom Cuda E body a while back. I call replacing over 50 % of a cars bare welded body shell at one time ( by weight ) not the same car any longer. ( or in the case of the Phantom probably 85 % )
Now, if a car is damaged at some point and 30 % of the weight is replaced bringing the car back to life and later a different 30 % is replaced, it is still the same car ( with repairs ) because the replacement parts had a chance to meld with the original car. There are lots of gray areas however, ethically one should represent the car for what it contains not what it may appear to be.
@@bobroberts2371Even that type of “restoration” wouldn’t be possible here. There is nothing to swap over from this ball of metal. Chrysler delivered this car to Petty as a bare body in white shell. Any sort of trim tags and stamped digits that were affixed to identify a finished production car of this era wouldn’t have been present. Even a lot of the factory metal itself where such information would have been a production car like the firewall and floor pans were cut out of the shell to turn it into an altered wheelbase car. The structure of the car itself is the only thing identifying what it is, and that is far beyond repair.
There R two replicas of that car. One of them infact locally here where I live in Pa. The guy that owns it is was a Petty fan Petty fiend even had the fence around his house & shop were Petty Blue. He is almost 90 now I think he has not displayed the car since the mid 1980s. At one time he used to buy mopars at the end of their lives so to speak had salvage. I bought a warmed over 318 motor & trans from him circa 1998 or there abouts. There is another drag car a 65 cuda out on the west coast someone painted that one red. Not that many years ago when I was seeking advice to paint my 71 Demon I almost did paint that Petty Blue just because I had some left over paint for a Ford Maverick and that Ford color is just about Petty blue. The Maverick owner pulled the car away to do this and that work before I was supposed to paint it and never brought it back. I may still have that paint from like 30 years ago... There is another Black 64 Cuda called the Widow Maker which I believe is in Museum on the west coast by the pics I have of it. From the time I was 12 years old I was a Mopar man and a Petty fan too, even still have the Richard Petty AFX track is in my spare bedroom set up and still working after nearly 50 years. My allegiance to Mopar all changed when I hit 30 something years old and went to the Northeast Modifieds I got sponsored by 2 local GM dealers.
@@thekingsilverado3266 Would that be the color ford called medium bright blue metallic? I have an almost all original 74' Maverick Grabber, one of 13 with my options and it was paint code 3E "medium bright blue metallic". Hard to find what that color looks like.
Nobody loves a Gen 1 Barracuda more than me but buried is where 43jr belongs. Remember Hemi Under Glass.
Not knowing the history of the car, I thought it was going to be one of those we found it, and we're going to restore it to it original condition videos. After hearing about the accident, and the loss of life, I fully understand & respect Mr Petty's desire to leave it in it's wrecked condition. That's class. 🙏
Thank you. Few here in the comments section got that.
Richard Petty was one of my childhood sports heroes. I chose well.
I'm 69 years old... he's still one of my favorite sports heroes. 😁😁
Such a shame to see such an iconic and legendary car of Mopar and drag racing history in this condition. Like other Plymouths with Altered-Wheelbase and Hilborn fuel injected Hemi, the Barracuda was born to win. Thanks guy for such an interesting video👌
Absolutely, glad you enjoyed this!
I purchased a 4 speed Charger R/T from Billy.I saw this car 20 years ago bebind Billys shop.
I think Richard Petty's career is what cemented my love of Mopars and my early racing life. I was always a drag racer but a big fan of Nascar. I'm in my 70s now and I don't watch much Nascar but still love to watch drag racing. ❤
Very cool!
Wow 😳…. What a piece of history !
Yeah, it blew our socks off!
Now find David Pearson's identical drag racer. During the hemi ban of '65 they toured together match racing beginning what would become the greatest rivalry in racing. The crash was big news and was very sad to hear. I think I would've buried that car too if that happened to me.
@plantfeeder6677 , I'm Almost Certain that DAVID PEARSON Was Drivin For "Cotton Owens" & You're Right they Went Dragging during the Hemi Ban, but they Didn't Race it as Much as Team Petty did the Cuda..
I was there and it was a terrible sight to see that car go into the crowd. It missed me by 10 feet, luckily.
OMG
The king surely was a lucky man to survive some of the wrecks hed been in. On the other hand not so lucky to have to live with that fatality on your conscience.
Thank you for posting this! Neat to see what became of the car.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ok... so after this accident, the Pettys IMMEDIATELY built a another '65 Barracuda drag car that was lighter and more radical... that's the car on the flatbed after it was sold to Eddie Ratcliff... this car still exists and recently received a stunning restoration... by the end of '65, NASCAR let the Hemis back on track (mile or shorter)and once the Street Hemi was released for the '66 model year, Richard Petty's drag racing career was over...
Exactly! It didn’t last long. The second ‘Cuda came out of Petty’s contract with Plymouth to compete. By all accounts his heart wasn’t in it after the accident
@@moparconnection So as we travel back to 1965 and the NASCAR Hemi ban, how about the David Pearson/ Cotton Owens '64 Dart station wagon... 'The Cotton Picker'... with a Hemi... IN THE BACK SEAT!!! Or the Trans Canadian Rally A990 they built with the prototype Street Hemi under the hood? How about the Buck Baker Hemi C bodys??? GET TO WORK!
LOL while we dont focus on the history pieces we do focus on tech and how-to articles on the magazine
I've seen him race a few times at Lime Rock when he was driving Mustangs for Ford, in the days when Donahue was driving AMCs.
I'm 59 years old,
Have followed the 60's performance car scene since I was old enough to read and follow what I was reading,
(Hot Rod Magazine, etc),
And somehow,
I'm only just now hearing about this crash for the first time.
Blows my mind.
I guess there's enough common decency in our community to keep such devastating developments on the down-low.
I've been a petty fan for many years and don't really know a whole lot about the 43 Jr. Car but it's so nice that someone found what has been lost for so many years.
👍🏻
I've known of that tragic day from long ago in The King's history since I was a child in the late 60's, but not until now did I know just how mangled Richard's drag car was after that crash! 😳!!
After seeing it now, I'd say it's a miracle there weren't 2 people killed that day 🙏 RIP to that poor 8yr old boy 😞
It was devastating for sure!
fortunately the second car like this one has been perfectly restored
Yes in fact the pic in our lead art is of the second car.
You are welcome for the tip... there are tons of racing pieces, Chrysler "Engineering" parts, and artifacts here in NC. I'll tell you one story. Stop in at a gas station not half a mile from Lee Brick. Up a side driveway comes an orange & white Charger Daytona. Older man, in his 70's, is driving. He pulls up to the island, back side of the pump I'm on. We started talking, and I said ," That nose looks a little different." He replies, I made this car from parts my buddy Bobby Isaac gave me."
Started really looking & sure enough, not BS-ing. He said," I'm headed over to my buddy's place in Pittsboro, wanna go?"
And that's how I met Billy Eubanks😂
Whoa. Now that’s a great story! Thank you!
@@moparconnection I have the video of me following him from Sanford to Pittsboro in my GT350
@@olikat8that’d be pretty cool to see… my Dad was into “Carolina Car Culture” of the late 50s and 60s … recall a lot of “low flying” along those roads in my childhood ; )
Billy West Pedin was a great guy lost to soon ( His wife has a 1970 Amc Rebel. When Billy was alive he told me had had to leave his shop to go over to Richard's house for dinner I thought he was kidding me as I'm a New Yorker but he was serious pretty cool.
Yes the Rebel is in our previous video
He was lucky to get out of that mess
I read years ago Maurice buried the Daytona convertibles that were raced on the beach, behind the old shop.
Daytona convertibles were never made.
the ultimate MoPar piece of art now (sad story but still a cool thing)
Very!
The wreckage in the old photo is one of Lee Petty’s #42 Plymouth stock cars in the fence. It looks like his ‘60 Plymouth with the tail fin folded right over.
Hmm. That pic was taken from a site documenting this exact wreck. We’ll have to double check
Unless Petty was running the same size NASCAR tires all four corners on black steel wheels for that race it can’t be - plus that looks like part of a number 2 and not a 3. 😁 I think the barrier altered the wheelbase on that Plymouth!
Actually saw that car. His property was filled with so many awesome mopars.
You are half right. This is the first car, the 43 Jr. 'Outlawed'. They built a 2nd one after the accident, but the Hemi was no longer 'Outlawed' in NASCAR by that time, so it was just done up as the 43 Jr. The 2nd car was restored about 8 years ago. I got in a lot of trouble with the Pettys when I did an article on this wreckage.
Sorry to hear that you caught some flak for it.
Reed Koeppe (sp?) sent me pictures of that wreck about 20 years ago. He tried to buy it. There were several stock cars buried where they expanded the shop and one pic showed a few cars. Some of the damage is not the crash but the burial and excavation.
@@tomp1612 You are absolutely right. Well Petty ran it over with an excavator when they pushed it out back so nobody would ever race it again.
@@RyanBrutt Thanks, that explains why I don't recall it being as badly damaged.
Very interesting to see what's left of the original "Outlawed" Barracuda. I own the passenger side door to this very car, acquiring it from a long-time Petty crew member back in 1989. I carried the door to Richard's Fan Club open house that same year, and he signed the door, and Dale Inman verified it's authenticity. It's my most treasured piece of Petty memorabilia.
Wow! That IS a cool piece of memorabilia!
Glad y'all made this clip,
It wouldn’t have happened without our viewers leaving their comments!
Great story glad it got dug up 🏆🇺🇸🤔
Pretty safe to say it's not restorable. A nice relic to own though.
Someone may want to do it but it was Richard’s wish that it wouldn’t happen.
There’s nothing left to use. 😀
Nope not much
@@moparconnection Mark Worman would probably take it on.😄
But he shouldn’t
I saw that car run in the day at pocono drag lodge in the day what a awsome sight to witness it run the quarte mile got a beautiful pic of it often wonderd what happened to it. Thanks for the video now i know thanks
Its to bad he wecked it and for the tragedy it caused
I'd noticed this car in your other video. I had a feeling that was Petty's car! Great find!👍
It is! So crazy!
Yup, old school Mopar folks around here have known about it & other bits for years
Many did, and a few videos had come out of it but it certainly wasn’t widely k own to have survived - just look at the folks in the comments alone.
@moparconnection The part about it being buried in behind Petty's shop at one time opened up another group of stories! I'd head tales of Hemi engines still hot off of the dyno buried back there. I guess souvenir hunters would go back there looking for momentos, so they covered everything up with concrete & made a pad never to be disturbed again!
LOL can you imagine?!
I was a Petty/Plymouth fan. In 1965, I was 12 years old and wrote Petty for a autographed photo. He sent me an autographed 8x10 black and white glossy of him sitting in his Barracuda! In 1969 I was so pissed that he switched to Ford I threw the photo away! ;-)
Oh man! That would’ve been awesome had you kept it!
Never would have gotten that mad to throw it away
Plymouth gave him no choice..... he wanted Chrysler Corp. to put him in a Daytona, so he wouldn't be out there floundering and looking foolish against the aero cars( Torino Talladega, etc) but he was Plymouth's cash cow, they insisted he remain with them and drive a stock bodied, shoebox aerodynamic '69 Road Runner against the slippery fastback Fords - he said "not gonna do it"- Ford made him the offer ; Plymouth would not build him anything that would compete- so off he went, resulting in 10 wins for the 1969 season.
@@ervinthompson6598 And it cost him the title that year too~
I recall a magazine article about the car soon after it was dug up. The article also mentioned a number of new body in white Superbirds , as well as wrecked race cars that were stripped of driveline parts and pushed over the bank, getting buried as the expansion continued... While bulldozers and being buried for decades makes everything likely unusable...still sounds like an amazing auto archaeology project...!!!
MCG had an in depth article when it was unearthed what, over a decade ago I think it was.
Did Billy show you Richard's "BLACK FLAG" engine? Billy was best buddies of Maurice. They stashed a lot of good parts at Billy's.
Billy has since passed on, but Jamey showed us Billy's Road Runner with the wedge-head Hemi!
Thank you for sharing bud.
You bet
My 2nd cousin raced a 67 Barracuda with a 426 after he came home from Vietnam.
The car has been long gone, but he still has the motor.
Very cool!
He still has the engine~ Cars don't have motors, unless you're talking about a windshield wiper motor, or you're driving an Elon Mushbrain mobile~
@@Buttermilkjug Hey Buttermilk,
He calls it a motor, I call it a motor, you call it whatever you want.
@@richardharris8399 Well, you're both wrong~ I'll stick to calling it what it is~ Motors run on electricity, engines run on fuel~
Somebody better call the Detroit Motorama, Dept of Motor Vehicles and General Motors!
I was actually there in Dallas Ga that day, saw it happen from the other side of the track.
OMG wow!
My Dad was also there that day. That's how I knew about the story. ;)
I’m not a MoPar guy by nature (and likely never will be), but I am finally fulfilling a 35 year long dream and buying a ‘64 Barracuda project car that is coming home with me in early June. The 64-66 Barracuda captured my imagination back in high school, but life away got in the way of my owning one … till now! Score one for the bucket list! I agree that the Petty car should never be restored … but it probably should be relocated indoors if it is to continue to survive as it is.
Agreed
Not really a Mopar fan but dang that thing looked sweet in it's heyday.
Wow. Thats an awesome find. That is a big piece of Mopar history. The fastest names Nascar have always been Hemi and Petty. The little slice of drag racing history makes this a holy grail piece, for sure.
No doubt!
@steveanderson6353, most all drag racing 426 hemi engines were NOT MOPAR. Keith Black or Ed Pink. MOPAR discontinued the 426 hemi in 1971.
@@sergeantmasson3669but those engines were a near carbon copy of the Chrysler design .
@@HowardJrFord Far better design than the MOPAR versions.
@@sergeantmasson3669 there's virtually no difference between them , the biggest being extra webbing in the blocks due to aluminum being weaker than cast iron . You clearly aren't familiar with either version .
I've been helping a friend run Nostalgia Super Stock class this summer we'll be in St Louis area weekend of 19th WWT (technically in Illinois) dragway. He has a few sweet Mopars
Very cool!
When you first showed it, I was thinking it looked like Petty Blue. Then I heard you say it was Petty’s on the Watercraft Journal live last week.
LOL yup
There is a replica of this car at the NHRA Museum in Pomona,CA
Very cool!
Wonder what the power to weight ratio was. Just imagine trying to hold on to that beast going down the track.
I bet! What a monster!
I respect the Petty's wishes. I think they should have this in their museum as a reminder to the fact that tragedy can happen.
i helped billy out around the yard for many years. billy NEVER told anyone that this was the 43 jr. and never claimed it was. the car only became the 43jr. after his death.
There were two Barracudas: the 43 Jr. and the Outlawed. We believe the Jr. was the second car that replaced the crashed Outlawed car. Billy had the Outlawed car to our understanding.
He told me and several others never been a secret
I was at that race as a young boy. It was at Dallas Dragstrip, in Dallas, Georgia.
Terrible
He not need to worry... that thing isn't going to be rebuilt
In it's current state, there's nothing left to restore, outside of a few tiny bits.
It’s just metal
Good history, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
That is Outlawed, not 43jr. 43 jr was built next and he raced it through the 65 season. It is still around, fully restored.
Correct. The lead art is of Jr. but the car itself is Outlawed.
If you tried to rebuild it you would need a large pieces of body shell ! Along with everything else .
It would take a lot of work for sure, but it's possible. It's just that Richard doesn't want it so.
That would be a hard rebuild.
Keep it buried where it belongs, I'm sure the parent's of the little boy that was killed wouldn't
appreciate it being a tourist attraction...
They couldn’t keep it where it was
RICHARD PETTY IS MY FAVORITE NASCAR DRIVER
Stand in line, there's about 50,000,000 of us who feel the same thing. Shows you got good taste.
@ 2:03 roll bar from back seat still holding up part of the roof.
Yup
FYI people...the Hemi was NOT totally banned from NASCAR. It was only allowed in a Plymouth Fury which we all know was a much larger car than the Belvedere that King Richard drove.
They never made a Hemi Fury.
Carl’s right
I say that the magazine should pull one of the other 65s out of his yard and build a clone of the 43 Jr!
Personally, I'd rather build that '69 fastback Barracuda towards the beginning!
I’m not familiar with the Mopar yard where this car is. I’m always interested in Dodge Sweptline trucks as I have 2 at the moment.
Click the link to see our tour of the yard
@@moparconnection Thanks!!!
LOL!! Worried about it being rebuilt? Now that is funny!!
It was Richard’s wish
I didn't realize the car was so tore up in the wreck; Petty was lucky to be unscathed.
Yeah it was pretty bad
I'm amazed he wasn't dead or crippled.
It wasn't damaged that bad. The front steering broke and it turned into a crowd of people and killed an 8-year-old boy. It was taken home, striped and buried the rest of it. It was destroyed further as it was buried, and rust did the rest over time as it would to any car.
@dwc4343
The picture of it in the stands shows it pretty Tore uo
@@StudioDaVeed Yep... that's the sure sign of someone who comments without watching the vid for some reason.
Good story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
👉 "All Mopar salvage yard": This is where you go when there's no "all Ford salvage yards" within 1,000 miles of where you live. {😊 Just joking. These days, I like 1960s and early 70s American cars from _ALL_ manufacturers, because there's not enough of them around to be picky}
There’s a few all Ford yards we’ve seen.
Most Fords are crushed!
Why didn't you mention that NASCAR banned the Ford 427 SOHC Boss 429 engines also? AND the fact that Petty switched to Fords for a couple of years before signing with GM.
Wasn’t pertinent to the story.
Richard drove Ford for the one year 1969 then back to Mopar until mid 1978 when Petty Enterprises decided they just could not make the Dodge Magnum competitive so they bought a couple of Monte Carlos to finish out the season with and Richard ended his career with GM. 175 wins in Mopar, 10 in Fords and 15 in GM cars.
Some things just need to stay buried in the past!
i Bet you that was a Beast to handle with a Hemi in it.
Absolutely!
It should be in a museum.
"It belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones
Wow, talk about a story that I would’ve never ran up on today…👍🏾. Whatever happened to the engine that was in the car?
Good question, that I don’t know. I’ll have to do some digging
@@moparconnection the engine went to the Petty's shop and ended up in the 2nd drag car
Yes you’re correct
Ok, what happened to the second drag car? I didn’t even know there was a second one… I thought after the wreck of the first one, it was done…👍🏾
Igor has the pro stock duster pettys built
Nice!
The little boy was Wayne Dye. My second cousin. The first casket I ever was a pall bearer for. I was ten. Again his name was Wayne and I believe he was 7 at the time of his death.
Terrible. Thank you for sharing Wayne's name. Most sources don't list the victim.
Geesh there's no rebuilding of that car in the shape it's in.
Truth!
Is that LF rail still good?
There isnt much left that’s good
One quick question from the beginning of the video: Who is this "Bill French" that was mentioned? Was he any relation to Big Bill France, the founder and president of NASCAR at he time?
I misspoke. It’s France.
Dig a deep hole and keep the car under ground!
Nah.
I'm building a 64 Barracuda Gasser with a blown 330 DeSoto Hemi. I'm considering painting it Petty blue and making it a Petty AFX tribute, or sticking to the original plan of going electric green metal flake.....
What do y'all think?
De Soto hemi?
Put down that bong; your brain is turning green.
@@nitromartini1422 Better educate yourself .... Plymouths were the only Mopars that didn't use Hemi's between 1951 and 1957.
That’s a…unique idea
Green is Golden... don't listen to that other guy
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Yeah...I'm leaning towards green 🍏
I would like to see it rebuilt into a static display, not rebuilt to run. preserving the car, and the Petty's wish that it not end back up on the street.
There is nothing to rebuild,it just rusted scrap metal.
A permanent display would be the likely best option
it was a NON SANCTIONED OUTLAW track in georgia.
No kidding!
Funny how Ford petitioned NASCAR to outlaw the Hemi. I wonder where NASCAR would be if MOPAR was allowed to dominate competition in the '60's and '70's.
It’s all about money
I also wonder,my friend........what if NASCAR allowed the ford sohc.........how would things have been different?@@moparconnection
I thought that he trashed car and wanted not to ever see it again
Correct
My last one was a 65 fastback
Nice!
I would just feel weird getting around that car. So much pain and sorrow. Just not worth messing with in my humble opinion.
That's why it'll stay as-is.
They built 2. Do your own research. The Pinterest pics have both cars. The front grill is obvious. 64-65 I think.
Yes. We know, we’re discussing it with other commenters
Wow. Cool story and anything being left this long after is amazing. MOPAR2YA
I don’t think ya could call that a car anymore, I don’t understand why they dug it back up
We told you why in the video
When Petty calls on people at Pedin’s garage does he get a Co-Cola out of the vending machine behind the Baracuda?
LOL!
There's nothing to rebuild. It's twisted every direction and rusted beyond belief, so if someone were to try, they would be better off building a tribute car, than actually trying to rebuild the wreck. Is Richard Petty still alive? I know he retired a long time ago, but I'm out of the loop on that one.
Yes, he's still very much alive.
Yes honor it🙏
Agreed
Holy smokes 😯🏁🏎🚑⚰🪦
Badass car
HOW ABOUT THAT? WOW. AT LEAST PERHAPS KEEP IT INDOORS?
Petty wanted it crushed
Old news. That thing has been at Billy Wests place forever…
For you, yes. For thousands of others, it’s news.
Rebuilt? Only the vin number would be relevant. You would have to find another Barracuda and make a fake replica. I saw a show on restoring one of those Barracudas and they said finding the rear glass is very hard after 50+ years.
Correct. There’s very little - if anything at all - is salvageable; and yes, parts for the ‘64-‘66 Barracudas are very hard to come by.
And what was the the name of the eight year old boy I wonder?
His name was Wayne Dye, from Austell, Georgia.
Thanks, Max!
Funny thing that I just remembered.... as a kid I got a yard sale slot car set. Not the regular small ones. This was an old school set from idk where. The cars were about 6in long, and both were 66 Barracudas. (I know, the real one wasn't a 66 but i digress...) In an extreme coincidence, I picked through the choices of decals, and on the blue one- i put a white stripe on the roof and 43/Jr numbers on it. I had no clue that I was being correct about it, as wasnt a mopar guy yet, and had no clue about the car, Richard, or anything. The white one got some random, other decals LOL...
Strombecker barracuda 1/32 set. Sold at Mopar dealerships.
@@mikegardner5188 yes!!! Didnt know it was a dealership thing, that's pretty cool. But yes, Strombecker sounds right!!
They turn up on eBay often
MOPAR for life 👍🏻🇦🇺💯⛽️.
Amen!
Forget it, you’ll buy China or nothing. Re-elect Trump
@ .027 sec in who is Bill French?
I meant France; I misspoke
Thanks, learned something new. What surprises me is burying old race cars instead of making a few bucks by sending them to a scrap yard for recycling.
I'm sure the Hemi was recycled
It was