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I was recently trying to find pictures of 1970s Toyota woody wagons when, for some reason, this lovely aqua vision appeared in the search results. If Plymouth had added a Sport Suburban to the Barracuda line in 1970, hopefully it would have looked something like this. Quite simply, I loved it! It is part of Aaron Beck’s webpage of modified Mopar E-bodies.
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I also rather liked his ’75 Barracuda, shown above and based off clay models done in Highland Park before the E-body was axed. This would have been a nice Brougham-free counterpart to the ’75 Cordoba, don’t you think? He has also done a “Bosozoku” ‘cuda, a Challenger hearse (yes, you heard correctly) and even a Barracuda sedan! If you like E-bodies even half as much as I do, Mr. Beck’s site is well worth a visit.
The 4 door wagon on the E body doesn’t do much for me, but a 2 door version could have been really cool. Sort of an early version of the Magnum wagonette that Dodge sold until the Charger displaced it.
The Barracuda – I don’t see that this would have struck much of a chord in 1975, although it would have looked pretty good around 1970-71.
Looks good, looks better than the Volare/Aspen. Probably would have been the same size. I was trying to turn my old 70 Sport Suburban into a Sport fury GT wagon, or a Sport Suburban GT. I did not get further than getting a good motor in it, and peeling off the loose contact paper. I did not have the time to do it right.
I was at a car show where someone had a beautiful low mile Coronet Crestwood with R/T badges on it. I love those old Sport Suburbans.
Very interesting. I like it.
That Challenger hearse on his website is .. dare i say… to die for? (rimshot)
To me the back of the top one looks a bit like a 4-door version of the Pinto Squire wagon (in the rear in particular).
My “clever” response on what the top one looks like what would have happened in the driveway when Florence Henderson’s car ran into the back of Robert Reed’s car. Wonder if it would have the distinctive 1970 Mopar steering column? Still looks cool.
Yes. My first thought.
The woodiecuda rocks!I like pony cars and woodies what’s not to like!
As a 4-door wagon, I think the Cuda is starting to tread too much into Dodge Coronet and Plymouth Satellite territory. As a 2-door wagon it could have found a market, as JPCavanaugh said, rather like the Firebird “Kammback” wagon that Pontiac considered briefly in the mid-70s.
The green pointy-nosed Barracuda looks like an interesting update, and probably based off the 1970 Dodge Diamante concept car (or vice-versa).
The wagon looks surprisingly great, the Barracuda doesn’t look right at all to me.
I remember woody Toyota Crown wagons the stick on wood grain was the only part that didnt disolve.
+1
Very good, also the late Paul Zazarine had written a book about the Challenger and Barracuda including a sidenote about the proposed and aborted 1975 models.
It could be interesting to see AMT or another toycar maker doing a toycar version of these cars that never was.
Nice!
It goes without saying that the interesting wagon concept is begging for either billboard stripes or the worlds longest hockey stick stripe!
Looks an awful lot like a 73-78 LTD/Squire wagon with two headlights instead of four. Maybe with a 426 Hemi or a 440 Wedge Six Pack.
That Barracuda wagon is brilliant.
Reminds me more than a little of the Ford XB Falcon wagon, sold in Oz between 1973 – 1976. There’s often one parked down the street from my office–been meaning to snap some pics of it.
Mmmm, beautiful. V8, GS stripes and what appear to be genuine Globe Volante wheels…very nice package.
The hearse would have been right at home in “Harold and Maude.”
Or as the “final taxi” for carrying Kowalski’s korpse to the human scrapyard (following his rendezvous with the bulldozers) in Vanishing Point.
It looks like an overgrown Pinto. All it needs is the panel-van sides and the porthole and you have your very own Barracuda Cruising Wagon, complete with self-opening doors.
If I wanted weird I’d look at AMC. In fact, this looks like something AMC might have done if they had the money, a Javelin wagon, preferably kammback like the aborted Trans Am wagon. Which also looked weird…
OK, on second thought, it’s almost weird enough.
The wagon has a strong resemblance to an AMC Hornet wagon.
That lower one is obviously spun off the 1970 Dodge Diamante show car.
Love the wagon, not really sure on the coupe.
Loving the hearse!
My friend’s 1970 Challenger R/T customized with a Dodge Monaco roof !