I no longer own a Barracuda.

[TheGhost]

I just did the one thing I thought I'd never do.  Signed the title over to the new owner today.  He picks her up on Sunday.  It's bittersweet, to say the least.  She's going to a good home, the new owner and his entire family are Mopar people, but I'm gonna miss her.



Siyonara, Jessica Lynn.

[CB]

sorry to hear that!
CB

[69CoronetRT]

That's a surprise. What prompted the sale if I may ask?

[TheGhost]

That's a surprise. What prompted the sale if I may ask?

A lack of money.  I can't afford to restore her, could barely afford to keep her around, so I decided to sell to someone who could afford her.

[nh_mopar_fan]

That's sucks but you can take heart in the fact that most all of us at one time or another have been in the same place. I sold off my 78 T-Top Super Coupe because we needed a Dodge Caravan.

It took a few years but the kiddo grew up and I picked up my 67 Charger.

Things come back around eventually. Take care of business in the meantime.....

[The70RT]

Cool, good deal. I figured the price you was asking it wasn't gonna last. I was looking at it and your not too far away but the Charger has a long ways to go and would be a while before I could really think about it.

[71ChallengeHer]

That's sad but at least she's going to a good home.

[89MOPAR]

  Sorry to hear as well.   sometimes you have to sh*t or get off the pot though - this way you'll have a reason in the future to own more mopars, absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that ...
  I sold off my first Charger so long ago, and regretted it, but it lit the fire to own maybe 15 cool Mopars over the years after it !
It worked out good in the end, as I eventually owned and went through a few B-bodies, a C body, an A body, 2 E-bodies,Chrysler-Mitsu Turbo cars,etc.
    Put some time into establishing a carreer, get on a good financial footing, where your not explicitly going from paycheck to paycheck--- its a lot more enjoyable when you can buy a new car part for your musclecar because you want it and can afford to pay cash without affecting other fixed bills --- than having to worry about affording to keep a rig on the road as your main transportation.
   You'll find a good mopar replacement someday, and you can start plotting to buy+bulid your ultimate 2nd gen barracuda in the meantime.

[Ghoste]

You'll have another eventually and it's better than just parking it and letting it rot away as one of those "Ill fix it someday" projects.  Sorry to hear it came to selling though.

[41husk]

sorry to here it, she looked like a nice ride!

[Brock Samson]

If it's any consolation Everette, I lost my first Car/Mopar to lack of funds too,..
 
I was only making a few bucks a week and i couldn't afford insurance and stuff,.. then it needed brakes, well i did a front yard brake job,.. but didn't have the knowledge to bleed the brakes, you know?.. get the air out of the lines?.. welp, i drove it around the block to see, and when i pulled up in front of my house (which is on a really steep hill) it slowed but wouldn't stop... Down at the bottom of the hill double-parked was a brand new 1977 Cadillac coupe De Ville,.. the owner was showing it off to the thugs at the corner drug house...


         

Well my '65 Dodge 880 custom fourdoor hardtop put quite the dent in that caddy,.. whose owner was allready wearing a neck brace from who knows what insurance deal - that i like to think paid for the new caddy...

And that's was the end of my first Mopar. It took me over three years to pay off the damages, and i didn't have enough $ to buy another car, (my '77 tradesman) till 1982...   

[69*F5*SE]

I feel your pain bro. 

[The70RT]

If it's any consolation Everette, I lost my first Car/Mopar to lack of funds too,..
 
I was only making a few bucks a week and i couldn't afford insurance and stuff,.. then it needed brakes, well i did a front yard brake job,.. but didn't have the knowledge to bleed the brakes, you know?.. get the air out of the lines?.. welp, i drove it around the block to see, and when i pulled up in front of my house (which is on a really steep hill) it slowed but wouldn't stop... Down at the bottom of the hill double-parked was a brand new 1977 Cadillac coupe De Ville,.. the owner was showing it off to the thugs at the corner drug house...


         

Well my '65 Dodge 880 custom fourdoor hardtop put quite the dent in that caddy,.. whose owner was allready wearing a neck brace from who knows what insurance deal - that i like to think paid for the new caddy...

And that's was the end of my first Mopar. It took me over three years to pay off the damages, and i didn't have enough $ to buy another car, (my '77 tradesman) till 1982...   

Why didn't you slam it in reverse and hit the gas? Hey it worked for me 

[Brock Samson]

Well,.  I did put it in park and it went click click click clkick click click... for about thirty yards with me honking the horn hopeing numbnuts would move the caddy,.. 
An experience i will never forget. 

[BigBlockSam]

 

[aussiemuscle]

Why didn't you slam it in reverse and hit the gas? Hey it worked for me 

Mythbusters had no luck trying that (neither manual or auto could be slowed by using reverse or park). automatics have a park/reverse safety device to prevent it. 

[The70RT]

Why didn't you slam it in reverse and hit the gas? Hey it worked for me 

Mythbusters had no luck trying that (neither manual or auto could be slowed by using reverse or park). automatics have a park/reverse safety device to prevent it. 

I did it on wet pavement. I hit the brakes and the rears locked up then hit reverse and the gas at the same time...yeah i was lucky and it worked....very well that people behind me went around me on both sides. This was an old Ford truck. I seen that on myth busters too. I cant remember what they used but it wasn't a 60-70's model. Another freind of mine had an old 69 GMC and his kid hit the shifter and it hit park and it nearly threw them through the windshild before it broke the shifter lever inside the trans. Don't try it in a Honda it will shell the trans....at least on the 80's models. We did it on purpose on a junk one and it grinded, slowed then locked up and did a 360 in gravel  A manual trans well duh...no way....you will grind up the plantary gear first