You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

[olredalert]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

----Makes me wonder if there was ever a "Hemi" Cuda with a Mod Top? I would love to know and see it if so.....Bill S

[markinnaples]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

You had to have been very confident in your manliness back in 1970 to buy and drive a Mod-Top. I was only 4 then, but now I'd drive a MOPAR with one of those tops every single day.

[R68GTO]

Originally Posted by William

Cracks me up when restorers go overboard carefully painting their frames.

This is a photo of the former AO Smith frame plant in Milwaukee. Drove past it literally hundreds of times, including the dead of winter. Frames stacked outside, exposed to the elements long before they were assembled into a car.

If you wondered how your frame got so rusty, probably started here.

Still happens today...open flatbed trucks or open rail cars transport truck frames stacked every day of the week. Frame coatings today are likely much more durable than back then though.

[R68GTO]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

One of the best pics of Verdero Green I've seen, no wonder so many people ordered that color!

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by markinnaples

You had to have been very confident in your manliness back in 1970 to buy and drive a Mod-Top. I was only 4 then, but now I'd drive a MOPAR with one of those tops every single day.

It might have had a lot to do with driving a "chick magnet". Having a Yellow Lab puppy in the front seat would have helped with that also...

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by olredalert

----Makes me wonder if there was ever a "Hemi" Cuda with a Mod Top? I would love to know and see it if so.....Bill S

The one you see in the photo was the only one built. It was owned by Steve Juliano.

STOLEN! STEVEN JULIANO’S SUPER-RARE ’70 MOD TOP HEMI ‘CUDA

Another rare and unique Mopar has been unfortunately stolen and we ask that you please keep your eyes open for it. The car is a very rare 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda that features a unique Mod Top. The ‘Cuda is green with a green interior and has two fender tags worth of options including a Shaker hood, road lamps, hood pins and the previously mentioned “V1P” Mod Top floral top option.

According to the builder, the 1970 ‘Cuda Mod Top Hemi, is “Numbers matching 1 of 1. This was the only ‘Cuda built in 1970 that was a Hemi with automatic transmission, F8 Green paint and a Mod Top. This car was highly optioned. Extensive restoration of body and paint took approximately 14 months to complete. The body was painted like factory with orange peel finish. This car has not been buffed. All body panels were installed and aligned prior to paint except the front bumper and the front and rear lower valances as the factory did. Primer and paint were matched to factory colors. This car was primed, painted and undercoated – overspray included – as the factory.”

Valued at a whopping $1.4 million dollars, this Mod Top ‘Cuda was reported to belong to Steven Juliano. It was stolen from his Pelham Manor, New York area garage shortly after midnight last Tuesday according to police reports.

https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/...top-hemi-cuda/

[flyingn]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

The one you see in the photo was the only one built. It was owned by Steve Juliano.

STOLEN! STEVEN JULIANO’S SUPER-RARE ’70 MOD TOP HEMI ‘CUDA



https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/...top-hemi-cuda/

was it ever found? That was 5-6 years ago

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by flyingn

was it ever found? That was 5-6 years ago

Not yet. I like many suspect it was parted out.

[Lee Stewart]