The 1970 Plymouth Cuda Muscle Car
The 1970 Plymouth Cuda Muscle Car
The 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda with a 340 V8 pumping out about 300 horsepower.
The Plymouth Cuda is a 38-year-old car muscle car, that accelerates on a dime. The fun part of muscle cars is the speed. The Plymouth Cuda still holds up today 38 years later as a pure acceleration and adrenliane rush.
“These cars were made to go super-fast in a straight line. It will outrun all but the fastest modern-day sports cars,” says Girardin, who is at the wheel of one his family’s collection of Chrysler muscle cars. “But they are not great in the corners and the brakes aren’t what you’re used to in a modern car.”
The engine has an incredible sound, more like that of a powerboat with an inboard V8 than a car. Plus, the Cuda has some macho touches from the ’60s era — the 340 we are taking for a spin has a pistol grip shifter for the four-speed transmission.
Hemi V8 engines were a $900 option in the 1970 Cuda, almost 25% of the car’s original price. Few people bought them. That year, there were only 44 Hemi Cudas sold in Canada. Not many survive.
Muscle cars from the late 1960s and early 1970s are just about the most collectible and valuable American cars of the post-war era.
“They’ve gone up tremendously in the last five years as Baby Boomers buy the cars that remind them of their youth,”
A 1970 Hemi Cuda is worth at least $200,000, a mint one maybe double that, although the ongoing near-recession in the United States has meant a fall in prices for muscle cars.
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August 1st, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Great read 300 hp had no idea