Only seven 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertibles were ever built, and that scarcity has turned each surviving example into a seven-figure event whenever one reaches auction. Recent sales have ranged from 3.3 million dollars at Mecum Kissimmee to bids as high as 4.8 million that still were not enough to close a deal. Just how high can the market push a car this rare?
Everyone likes a good muscle car but people especially like Plymouth Hemi ‘Cudas, giving them the title of the most sought-after model in this specific genre of classic cars.
So when a virtually unused example shows up in our radar, in mint condition and with all the desirable options ticked from the factory, we had to take a closer look.
The custom-ordered Hemi ‘Cuda is described to be in a true and all-original ‘time-capsule’ condition and has covered only 2,010 miles since new.
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Money has a way of clarifying just how rare something really is, and few muscle cars make that point as bluntly as the 1971 Hemi Cuda convertible. Of the 16,492 Barracudas Plymouth shipped to American showrooms that year, only 114 buyers checked the box for the 426 Hemi. Fewer than a dozen of those went further and ordered the convertible top, a combination so scarce it borders on mythical among Mopar collectors. Recent auction results suggest the market has only grown more obsessed with finding one.
How Rare Is Rare?
Of the seven convertible buyers who ordered the Hemi in 1971, only a handful of cars survive in anything close to original condition, and each one that surfaces at auction tends to rewrite the record books. A blue example sold for 3.5 million dollars in 2014, and more recently a 1971 Hemi Cuda convertible crossed the block at Mecum Kissimmee for 3.3 million dollars including buyer premium. One especially well-documented car, built with the rare three-speed TorqueFlite automatic rather than a manual, has carried pre-auction estimates as high as 6.5 million dollars.
Why the Money Keeps Climbing
Rarity alone does not explain price tags this large; provenance and documentation matter just as much. A 1971 Hemi Cuda convertible was bid up to 4.8 million dollars at a Mecum event in Indianapolis in 2021 but failed to meet reserve, a reminder that even seven-figure offers do not always close the deal on the rarest Mopars. As fewer original, numbers-matching examples remain in private hands, each new sale tends to push the ceiling higher rather than settle the market.
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I think so. The rarest muscle car ever.
BEAUTIFUL CAR.
1.2 million, for those investors or collectors who have it it is one heck of a vehicle. I got a two year old ’70 Barracuda in June of ’72 that got me through college graduation in ’75 and I drove it until ’77 when I had two pickups and two other cars so I sold it for r$1,000 I’d gladly pay a grand for my little 225 six Barracuda!