Chris Pauluks 1973 (70 styled) Plymouth Cuda BS23H

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I flew to Muscle Shoals Alabama in January of 2017 to drive it home to Minnesota. 

The car was much rougher than I thought it was, but I still thought I did pretty good on the price for a running driving car.
I bought the car already roughly cloned as a 70 Plymouth Cuda AAR.
The car started Life as a 73 BS23H Plymouth Cuda 340 4 speed pistol grip in what I believe was Tor Red.
The previous owner never had Fender tags for it, so I have no fender tags or build cheats.
Power steering, power brakes and a single speaker non a/c dash, non counsel.

The car came with a few desirable Factory Parts, the rear trunk lid and spoiler were from an AAR Cuda as well as the rear elastomeric bumper, front bumper and grill..

In October of 2017, I was caught in a sudden downpour which led me to hydroplane into a center divider backwards and took out the right rear quarter panel/tail panel.

This led me to pursue having the rest of the car to get it right and have the rest of it completely repainted.

The roof skin was shot, so that got replaced, the right inner Fender needed to be replaced.

The rear elastomeric bumper was warped when I bought the car, no body shops wanted to try to straighten it for me and it got damaged in the accident anyway so I got front and rear elastomeric bumpers from Tommy the Chryco. 

Here's a few in the process pictures from the body shop that did the work.     

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Here's the pics. 

The car was picked up by Johns Autobody Shop Nicollet Minnesota on December 15th 2017

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In October I fractured my spine, I was supposed to remove the engine and transmission from the car, but I was physically unable to and The Body Shop said they could do everything they needed to do under the hood without removing it and I was a little leery about that but it turned out okay.   In hindsight I should have just paid them to do it but it is what it is

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 I had the body shop shaved the CUDA 3:40 emblem holes off of the hood just to keep it clean

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I traded the Rocker gills to the body shop for some labor time since I didn't want them on the car.

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Green. 

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I came up with an idea to ditch the AAR part on the Mefallion and Challenger Gary made that happen. 
That's about it for now.     

I've been chasing electrical Gremlins...   

[Brads70]

Nice job, lots of hours into this one! Enjoy it!

[anlauto]

Car looks great....again 

[mopar thunder]

Wow, really looks good. You'll definitely be having fun again in that.   

[Cudakiller70]

Nice!

[RUNCHARGER]

Nice! Just in time for summer.

[nsmall]

Great news.  Check out that smile in the pic with the dude with the camera.  Assuming that was you?  I liked the non AAR decal just because, and no I am not a OEM snob.  Looking real sharp.

[Archialfa]

Looking good!!


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