Tracking down my father's old AAR 'Cuda

[72heavychevy]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

that car looks really familiar. did he ever take it down towards Wichita area or maybe topeka area?

It's definitely possible. He went to K-State so he would have to drive through Topeka and I'm sure he visited sometimes. Not sure if he ever took this car down to Wichita.

He sold it locally too so it's possible you saw a different owner around Kansas somewhere.

[muscle_collector]

I may even have a polaroid of that car. I used to carry a polaroid camera with me and when I found a rare car I would take a picture and write the address on it. things sure were different back in the late 70's and early 80's

[72heavychevy]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

I may even have a polaroid of that car. I used to carry a polaroid camera with me and when I found a rare car I would take a picture and write the address on it. things sure were different back in the late 70's and early 80's

That would be too cool! You'll definitely have to let me know if you find one.

He also told me there used to be a 1971 Hemi 'Cuda convertible not more than a few miles from him that sat in a front yard for years. It was a white plain jane car with no stripes, steel wheels, and an auto on the column. He was never interested at the time because of that but this is the car it turned out to be....Note the ad states copy of 1977 Kansas title!

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0116-22...a-convertible/

[old5.0]

Originally Posted by 72heavychevy

That would be too cool! You'll definitely have to let me know if you find one.

He also told me there used to be a 1971 Hemi 'Cuda convertible not more than a few miles from him that sat in a front yard for years. It was a white plain jane car with no stripes, steel wheels, and an auto on the column. He was never interested at the time because of that but this is the car it turned out to be....Note the ad states copy of 1977 Kansas title!

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0116-22...a-convertible/

The last name of the guy who had it was Sutton, iirc. I sold him parts for another 71 Cuda convertible he was working on years ago when he still had the Hemi car.

[72heavychevy]

Originally Posted by old5.0

The last name of the guy who had it was Sutton, iirc. I sold him parts for another 71 Cuda convertible he was working on years ago when he still had the Hemi car.

Small world! I don't know anything else about the car but always wondered why it sat for so long.

Funny enough there was also a '70 Hemi Challenger convertible locally as well, not 10 miles away. So this small suburban Kansas City town had two different hemi convertible cars running around back in the day. That car is actually for sale right now -
https://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/K...dge-Challenger

[old5.0]

Originally Posted by 72heavychevy

Small world! I don't know anything else about the car but always wondered why it sat for so long.

Funny enough there was also a '70 Hemi Challenger convertible locally as well, not 10 miles away. So this small suburban Kansas City town had two different hemi convertible cars running around back in the day. That car is actually for sale right now -
https://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/K...dge-Challenger

I first met him back in the mid-90s up in Marysville Ks. He was a railroader. Made it pretty clear that the white car was his retirement fund, he was just waiting for it to "mature." He told me the car's backstory, but I don't remember it anymore. Friend of his older brother bought it new, or near new. His brother ended up with it in the mid 70s and then he got it a couple years later? I dunno.

He showed up at my house a few years later buying some Cuda parts. Said he was building a Hemi clone and was starting to think seriously about letting the white car go. I went short on Mopar futures not long after than and never saw him again.

I remember that Challenger. When I was into Mopars I used to keep an informal list of Hemi cars (or what was left of Hemi cars) in the northeast Kansas/ southeast Nebraska area. There was a guy up by Sabetha that had a few complete Hemi engines in the shed. One allegedly came out of a 68 GTX convertible. The Challenger, the white Cuda and that GTX were the only Hemi rags I ever heard of in this part of the world, but who knows.