1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible
Offered by Barrett-Jackson | Scottsdale, Arizona | January 19, 2013
There are muscle cars that are desirable and then there are desirable cars that happen to be muscle cars. This is as close to the latter half of that sentence as you can get. This is the most desirable muscle car there is. It’s also just about the rarest – with only 11 built.
When people make “re-creation” or “clone” or “tribute” cars, they usually start with a run-of-the-mill car – a V6 or a base V8 engine and base or mid-level trim. Then they go to the Mopar catalog and order a Hemi crate engine and stuff it under the hood. It’s not desirable. It might be fun to drive or show your friends, but it just cheapens the real thing.
But this is the real thing and boy is it pretty. It’s the only Plum Crazy Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible (it is the original factory color and, in my opinion, the best). This is one of two that were built for Canadian export. And it’s got that magical 7.0-liter 427 Hemi under the shaker hood.
These don’t come up for sale very often – obviously, there’s only 11 of them. One sold for $2 million a few years ago and, while a little extreme, that was the going rate – a few years ago. This is not a $2 million car today – even though any Barrett-Jackson employee near a microphone during the car’s sale will surely be telling you otherwise. This will undoubtedly be one of the top sellers of the auction. Read more here and check out more from Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, here.
Update: Sold $1,320,000.
I believe the car that sold for 2 million was a France export car and it was white if I remember correctly??? Chrysler only built 2 or 3 four-speed J-code cars in ’71, and I believe one of them is just like this one except it’s B5 blue.
R-code, sorry I keep thinking of the 60’s hemi cars.
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