17 missing Canadian spec 1970 HemiCuda's

[RzeroB]

@cuda hunter and his recent parade of fender tags has motivated me to be a little more active here on the site. Thanks Josh!

44 1970 HemiCuda's were reported as originally being sold through Canadian dealerships. These are your "Y07" Canadian-spec cars. Of those 44, at least 27 are known to still be around today in one form or another. But what about the other 17 that are missing and at large? What might have become of them and where might they be today? After 54 years, some of them have surely been wrecked, rusted-out, parted out and scrapped. Others were probably stripped, acid-dipped, raced and then retired to some corner of a long forgotten storage shed.

So are all of missing 17 gone forever? Probably not. I would think that a few of them are still out there ... somewhere. If you knew where one was hiding would you tell? Probably not. Usually the location of an elephant E-body is a closely guarded secret! However, what if one or more of these cars is still out there in plain sight not hiding from anybody? Take a look at these VINs. Maybe you have seen one of these missing cars? If it's not a secret, let us know and post it up.

Check out the graphic below. Note that 10 of the missing 17 were sold new around two of Canada's three largest population centers; the greater Toronto area (I'm including Barrie and Cobourg in that), and Vancouver. Then there's two in Quebec, one in Manitoba and four whose original point of sale is not known.

[blown motor]

If there is 24 known out of 44 that would leave 20, not 17.

[RzeroB]

If there is 24 known out of 44 that would leave 20, not 17.

Whoops! Thanks for the math check Murray! 

[Cuda Cody]

I love stuff like this! 

[blown motor]

I was on a garage tour a couple years ago and at the one stop there were two Hemi Cudas. I checked the VINs and they were both originally 318 cars. I wish I could have checked the stamping on the blocks to get the VIN for the original car they came out of.

[Brads70]

worked for Gord Coats for a few years at a speedway he owned. He had lots of fun stories. He was the half of the Cloak and Coats race team. He said he blew up quite a few Hemi's One story he told of a race where the engine was hurt, down a cylinder , likely hole in the piston, he added more oil and sent it. Totally destroyed it, nothing salvageable from it. He laughed said they would routinely  pull motors from cars on the lot to race all weekend then put them back on Monday then sell the cars... Gord was .... well..... very well off , money was not as important to him. Racing was more fun. He was a guy you wanted on your side. He offered to back me if I wanted to start my own shop for an obscene amount of money, but I thanked him and said no.  I always got along great with him, lots of bench racing stories over the years, both drag racing and circle track and some personal non racing stories too.  I'll miss him as he passed a few years back. Nov 10Th 2016 He had quite a few Hemi cars over the years. Jackson Motors was the dealership back in the day, Gord had a few pretty successful dealerships too. One night he called me up at like 11pm! I was already in bed , he asked hey what are ya doing? I replied well I'm in bed? He said come over to the dealership I want to talk to you about the race track. So I went over . He just wanted to talk and have fun making plans. Another time he called me to his office and said oh just a minute I have a car going thru an auction.....  Turned opn his big screen tv, It was Barret Jackson and it was a 70 Hemi purple roadrunner that sold for some crazy amount of money. I was shocked, he just laughed it off....  I asked him years later if he had anymore cars tucked away and there were lots of rumors that he had quite a few prized Mopars hidden away. He smiled and said naw why would I do that, then laughed?  I'll miss him, and all his fun stories!  Rest Easy Gord, your a legend around these parts!