4-Door Barracuda

[Beavis]

I do find this project interesting and I'm not derailing the thread.

I've been involved in lots of things over the years and my hobbies and interests have also evolved. For example automotive history has always been very interesting to me. So if I can please go back to my original point of the 4-door Barracuda (let me apologize in advance)....you'll either have to disagree, agree to disagree, forever hold your peace, or click off this topic I guess.

We all know General Motors had some of the highly designed and most exotic show cars with their Motorama exhibits from 1949 to 1961 (with the highlight being their the New York 1961 cars).

In those days corporate competition between the auto manufacture's designs (mainly from GM) was reaching a pinnacle, which is why Chrysler built a vehicle called the Chrysler Norseman......in Italy of all places.

This was a unique car. Completely styled from a scratch piece of paper by Chrysler in Highland Park, Michigan. Then the drawings and plans were sent from Chrysler to Ghia in Italy to build a running and driving prototype based from Chrysler's spec's

The final car took over 50,000 total man hours and was destined to be revealed by Chrysler to the public in 1956 as an auto show exhibit car. Unfortunately the vehicle in sank in the cargo hold of the Andrea Doria ship near the Northern United States while crossing Atlantic Ocean.

However the history, specifications, and photographs of this top secret car is well known in the Chrysler historical archives. Even some original drawings and documentation of the project have been preserved....all the way back from 1956.

In terms of our hobby there's been many historically significant automobiles (previously determined not to exist) that have been found and accounted for. On the other hand, there's some very well documented cars (like the Norseman and others like the Electric Corvair) that has simply have never been found, or will not be found.

Luckily proof has existed in documents and photographs for some long lost cars (that were previously that not to exist), or were supposedly "disposed of" by the manufacturer. I can go into detail here but I'll save time as my point relates to the 4-door Barracuda.

Over the years much historical data has been found, that has either lead to the search of, or have verified the findings of some of the last so called "unicorns' in our hobby.

Here's the problem....and reason for my post. Right now we just can't call this 4-door Barracuda nothing more than a myth.

There's been no automotive enthusiast or collector to come forward with actual documented proof that a 1970 4-door Barracuda project ever existed in any form.

This is only a relevant subject because the builder, ECS says this car is based on a concept vehicle built by Chrysler in 1969, rather than something he created.

[Paul_S]

Which Electric Corvair documented and not found? Electrovair I & II are known and II still exists as well as the Electrovan (Fuel Cell). Is there another?

[marxjunk]

well..no good can come of this,,,thats for sure..

[ECS]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: marxjunk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">well..no good can come of this,,,thats for sure.. </div></div>

Isn't it funny how setting the record straight always seems to remove the &quot;good&quot; from a topic that was started to incite trouble? (lol)

[Charley Lillard]

I think we are done.