1970 Hemi Cuda For Sale - EB7

[70_440-6Cuda]

anyone know of this car?  Very nice looking, but the description leaves out a lot of details, like originally an automatic and no shaker hood.... shocker...

Seems like a ton of money for a car that is not original and no idea if its #s matching. 

Beautiful car either way, I just hate those ads that gloss over the details but asking price is sky high.

1970 Hemi Cuda

[RUNCHARGER]

No red bar, front spoilers on a HemiCuda, I didn't get past that. Heavy pass.

[70_440-6Cuda]

No red bar, front spoilers on a HemiCuda, I didn't get past that. Heavy pass.

"Heavy Pass" - Love it!!  Thats why I post here - love all the small details you can learn - I feel like I have made a ton of mistakes on mine and had to go back and find a correct part, or decide not to worry about a date code - and I haven't even really started yet!

[RUNCHARGER]

$150k maybe. Trans swap, wrong rad cap, wrong antennae mast, Firestones, sloppy looking wheel tubs, ECU on fire wall, body paint on secondary latch, manual drum brakes on a Super Performance Axle car, painted wiper motor, not sure whats going on with the battery cable, Painted door strikers, No mufflers. I could go on but those are the easy ones.
Believe it or not I don't hate the car, it's just it isn't priced to what it is.

[RzeroB]

Sold four years ago for 103K at the 2021 Mecum Indy event. When new, it was a bare bones automatic car which was probably bought new to be a race car? A LOT of things have been added to this car. Good, or bad, I know one thing I love about this car ... the color. EB7 Jamaica Blue is a very under-rated color ... but I just love the depth and richness of it!   

[70_440-6Cuda]

@RUNCHARGER I agree - it's a beautiful car, just overpriced.  Lots of details I didn't notice at first pass. 

I do hate when the ads sort of purposely leave out the details - I think it misleading.  I would be more interested knowing the true details

[RUNCHARGER]

It had a lot of weird options similar to my HemiCuda. Other than the factory installed automatic and colour. Mine also was no radio, tinted glass, console, 4.10 Dana (which included PDB), standard gauges.
Very odd combination of options. I can see stripped for racing but then why add the tinted glass and console?

[cuda hunter]

A picture for posterity.

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[cuda hunter]

And another.

[70_440-6Cuda]

Ok, my brother is looking at a '68 Hemi road runner with column shift and we were kind of asking who on earth would want a column shift, and why would Chrysler even offer that in a Hemi?

Interesting point about ordering a bare bones car to turn into a race car .. but then why some of the other options? 

I am always curious about a column shift with the performance engines, was that very common?

[JH27N0B]

That car seems pretty bare bones option wise, but if ordered to build into a drag car I wonder why power steering was optioned.
Keep in mind when these 60s and 70s musclecars were being sold new, their typical buyer was a late teen to 20 something single male.  Many of these buyers envisioned themselves out cruising with their girl by their side, not several feet away in the passenger seat, but up close and personal lying against his right arm, or with his arm around her. So a bench seat was desirable to them. 
That doesn't seem to be the case with this car, but explains why some performance car buyers then opted for column shift automatics.

[RzeroB]

Ok, my brother is looking at a '68 Hemi road runner with column shift and we were kind of asking who on earth would want a column shift, and why would Chrysler even offer that in a Hemi?

Interesting point about ordering a bare bones car to turn into a race car .. but then why some of the other options? 

I am always curious about a column shift with the performance engines, was that very common?

First off, I must apologize for saying it was a "bare bones column shift automatic car". When I wrote that I overlooked the fact that it has a center console on the fender tag and broadcast sheet which would put the automatic on the console and not the column.

Surprisingly, there are quite a few HemiCudas that DID come with the column shift automatic. In my notes I have 48 '70 HemiCudas and 6 '71 HemiCudas with the column shift automatic. Maybe they were ordered that way to be strip down no option cars to be turned into race cars? Or, if you ordered an automatic and didn't remember to check the box for a console, guess what, your car came delivered with the shifter on the column - surprise!

Nobody was more surprised than me when I saw my first column shift E-body at the Power in the Pines show at the Kirkwood ski resort California in 1986 (see attached pic). It was there that I saw the beautiful two-tone (V02) '71 HemiCuda 275819 for the first time. When I looked inside I was totally dumbfounded to see not only a column shift automatic, but also a bench seat! Up until that point I wasn't even aware that you could get either one of those things in an E-body. That car really confounded me and just as you said, I couldn't understand why Chrysler would even offer that configuration on the E-body? I thought it was just weird, but then again at the time I thought Chrysler offering the Slant Six in the E-body was weird too.

[JH27N0B]

Why certain things were done feature wise on E bodies is a question we could probably start a long thread for a subject.  A few I've thought about are why weren't cloth seats offered in convertibles? Having got 3rd degree burns a few times over the years sitting down in my convertible after it's been parked out in the sun makes me wish it had cloth seats! Why wasthe buddy seat bench seat option available in hardtops but not convertibles?  Why a gran coupe barracuda convertible but not a SE Challenger convertible.  Why was rally dash standard on R/Ts but not cudas?

[fc7cuda]

https://www.mecum.com/lots/461826/1970-plymouth-hemi-cuda/

Always fond of the color. 

[E74cuda]

The 71 cuda next to the black hemicuda is one of the promo cudas, both at the time owned by brothers. They had some nice 71 cudas