Posts Tagged: Hemi cuda
This 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda convertible isn’t just rare — it’s the very first of only fourteen ever built, wearing Rallye Red paint, a black top, and the Shaker hood scoop that came standard on every Hemi ‘Cuda. Underneath sits the legendary 426 Hemi V8, rated at 425 horsepower and fed by dual four-barrel carburetors. Decades later, it remains one of the most sought-after Mopars in existence. See what makes serial number one worth more than the other thirteen.
Plymouth beat Ford to showrooms by two weeks with the 1964 Barracuda, then spent a decade playing catch-up anyway. See how a Valiant-based fastback with the biggest curved rear window ever installed on a production car turned into the Hemi ‘Cuda — a car so rare that one convertible sold at auction for $3.5 million.
A 1971 AMC Hornet SC/360 — one of only 784 ever built — lined up bone-stock against a Hemi Cuda, a 454 Corvette, and a rare 455-powered Pontiac T-37 at the 2025 Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race. No nitrous, no shortcuts, just factory specs and a stopwatch. Here is what happened when four genuinely rare muscle cars ran exactly the way Detroit built them.
The 1970 Buick GSX and Hemi ‘Cuda came out of opposite corners of Detroit’s muscle car playbook: one built for country-club buyers, the other stripped down for the strip. A rediscovered Muscle Car of the Week rivalry video puts their numbers side by side, and the torque column says more than either brand ever advertised.
A 1969 Yenko Camaro built purely as an engineering test-mule was never meant to be sold at all — yet it just became the most expensive Camaro in auction history at $1.815 million. The sale happened during Mecum’s record-breaking Kissimmee 2026 event, where a $38.5 million Ferrari 250 GTO and a $259 million single-day total redefined what the collector car market can do. Somehow, in a room full of exotic Italian metal, a Camaro nobody wanted new stole its own piece of the spotlight. Here’s how a rejected prototype became a seven-figure legend.
Plymouth’s Barracuda beat the Mustang to market by two weeks in April 1964 — and then spent a decade figuring out how to actually compete with it. This rundown traces the nameplate from its Valiant-based debut through the 1970 E-body reinvention, the Hemi ‘Cuda and AAR ‘Cuda, and the four-headlight 1971 restyle, ending with Barracuda production’s quiet close in 1974. Watch to see how a footnote became one of the most valuable muscle cars ever built.
A 1,025-horsepower Dodge Demon 170, a C8 Corvette, a Hellcat, and a current Camaro SS all line up against vintage Detroit muscle in this head-to-head drag video — and the old cars, especially a 1970 Plymouth Duster viewers keep singling out, do not go quietly. Watch to see which era actually backs up its reputation on the strip.
Plymouth built just eleven 1971 Barracuda convertibles with the 426 Hemi engine, and only seven of them went to U.S. buyers new. That scarcity has pushed sale prices as high as $3.5 million at auction, with a different example chasing a $4.8 million bid in 2021. Read on to find out what separates a seven-figure Hemi ‘Cuda from an ordinary E-body.
The 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda shares its basic body with a car Plymouth once sold as sensible transportation, and yet it routinely outruns period Ferraris at auction. The reason is not styling, and it is not nostalgia. It comes down to a single option box that almost nobody checked, a production number small enough to memorize, and an engine Chrysler built for the racetrack first. Here is the whole story.
A 1970 Hemi Cuda, one of just 652 built with the 426 that year, lines up against an even rarer 1967 Hemi Coronet R/T, one of the earliest street-legal Hemi cars Dodge ever sold. Both cars share the same legendary Elephant engine, which means this is less a brand rivalry than a family argument about which chassis and gearing made better use of it. Viewers in the comments have already nicknamed both cars the asphalt elephants. Watch the run and see which body style actually won the argument.