Muscle Car Of The Week Video #94: 1970 Plymouth 426 Hemi 'Cuda

[@michaelcerza871]

Whats our favorite color? Any available color! Talk about an icon of a muscle car!

[@bongodave13]

The Cuda/Challenger was the most bad ass of them all. Built for a big block, right out the door. They're beautiful cars.

[@curtisbailey2792]

Work of art.

[@joecarlson178]

I am a HUGE Mopar Fan and this car is and always will be in my Top 5 muscle cars of all time. Just another bad ass Mopar !!!!

[@doofino]

This car is absolutely beautiful.

[@allenmoccasin2029]

The 440 was a fantastic engine also.

[@jeremythompson9122]

Before 1970 the 440 was a much better street engine than the 426 Hemi. But the 1970-71 Hemi was a much more refined street engine than the 1966-69 version was because of the switch to a hydraulic valvetrain in 1970 for emissions reasons. Hemi owners no longer had to pop the valve covers off every couple thousand miles and adjust the valves like they had to do with the 1966-69 solid lifter Hemi's. The 1966-69 Hemi was basically a race engine de-tuned for the street but the 1970-71 Hemi was a true street engine. And even then the 426 Hemi was still the baddest big block on the street. The quickest production car in 1970 as tested by magazines was a tie between a Hemi Cuda and a Hemi Challenger...which both clicked off a 1/4 mile time of 13.12. Motor Trend said the quickest car they tested was a Buick GSX 455 Stage 1 but other magazines got quicker times out of 426 Hemi powered Mopar's and an LS6 Chevelle

[@allenmoccasin2029]

@@jeremythompson9122 Thanks for the great info. Have a great day and be safe 😃🇺🇸

[@n40wdcte]

Best muscle car

[@tyhighway2127]

AMEN...AMEN...AMEN.

[@norristammislideshowmulgre877]

Mopar set the example very high when it came to racing. No matter what if you take a look at ford,Chevy, Pontiac, oldsmobile, buick they all run Hemi engines in them in top fuel .so they all owe mopar for being number one in racing.

[@richardturk7162]

Mine was the same color combo but with a 440+6 and a 4 speed. Dana 60 with a super trac pak 4:56 gear

[@waynejohnson3812]

My favorite car ever,..well done video, excellent research delivered beautifully! Keep up the good work.

[@tyhighway2127]

This is a shining example of the WORLD's GREATEST MUSCLE CAR...EVER MADE...BAR NONE! This miracle machine just makes Chevy's, Ford's, Pontiac's, Oldsmobile's, Buicks, Mercury, etc., all crap in their panties. I mean..."HELL".....there is nothing with the class, power, looks, performance, & REPUTATION that the 1970 Hemicuda grew overnight. Instantly... this car became the dominant hero in the all out American "CAR WARS". "THE AMERICAN FERRARI"! It blew past all other wanna bee's. It made the Camaro & Mustang look like after-thoughts. OUTCLASSED & BEAT DOWN. This beast has sold for $3-$4 million dollars at auto auctions and has now been firmly placed as the Record Holder beating out the Corvette Split window. Actually....only a moron would choose a Vette over this PRO STOCK CHAMPION as the 'Cuda has paid in BLOOD to win the coveted honor of 1970 "PRO STOCK DRAG RACING RECORD HOLDER" for the most wins in a single season in the 1970 & 1971 season even though the HEMICUDA had to add extra weight as a handicap because it out=powered the Ford & Chevy Pro Stock cars. Yeah, they were sandbagged to pull more weight so Chevy & Ford could have a chance to win. Still….the Hemicuda's could not be beat.

[@65coupestang]

AN That's why THEY had ta "KEEP UP" WITH THE SALES OF MUSTANGS, CAMAROS IF THIS CRAPUDA IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANY OF THE VEHICLES YOU MENTIONED IN YOUR COMMENT🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤨HMM..!!??MIND ANSWERING ME THAT HOW CAN THIS SPECIFIC VEHICLE BE SO MUCH CLASSIER AN NICER THAN SAID MUSTANGS &CAMAROS(SLO-MAROS🤔🤷‍♂️🤨) HMM..!!?? HOW'S THAT WORK OUT

[@Slimjim260]

Love the Ford truck in the background!

[@timothymckay5594]

My favorite color is R4 which is Performance Red . In March the color code was changed to V2 renamed to Tor (Toreador Red) as far as Plymouth's were concerned. On the Dodge side V2 was called Hemi Orange. My 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner which I'm restoring has the R4 inside the left front fender on the badge plate. So I'll be painting it that color in keeping with the basic intention of how it left the factory.

[@SolamenteVees]

Absolutely sublime design... and easy to forget the base axle, even with a Hemi, was the 8 3/4. (unless a 4-speed was chosen)

[@darylshanks3150]

I want to thank you and Brothers for providing such a great experience of what it was like back in the day. I was born in '70 and feel a strong connection to all 70ies muscle cars. I could go on about your incredible attention to detail, the back stories and exquisite examples of the erra. My only wish, aside from being in the drivers seat would be to see more real world driving experiences on the road and connection the owners like with the 455 HO. As much as I love to see these incredible specimens they seem confined to a small parking lot which is somewhat disheartening for the pinnacle of automotive history. Regardless I still love and subscribe to your channel, thank you.

[@dumpsterchicken6287]

That red right there will do just fine.

[@ozzstars_cars]

I'm not a Mopar fan but I like this car. Thanks for posting

[@Samsgarden]

Ozzstar Everybody is a mopar fan

[@carstuff2744]

+Samsgarden as they say mopar or no car

[@leonbaker7123]

My favorite car hands down

[@reedallyn1767]

One horsepower per each cubic inch of motor. Beautiful engineering and vision put into a big block engine.

[@Codename_Jaeger]

my all time favourite car!!

[@tyhighway2127]

Me too my Greek brother....

[@steveallred1330]

It's always funny to see the size of the batteries it takes to crank these monsters

[@precbsfender]

The shaker Hemi Cuda..The best damn American muscle car of all times.. they sure don't make them like that anymore. Todays Emission controlled Hemi's don't have true hemispherical heads or domed pistons. Dodge is targeting the mechanically inept Crony's by calling them Hemi's ..

[@joepiraino3469]

PRE CBS FENDER they still look badass

[@oceanhome2023]

Is that true ? The new Hemi is no good ?

[@heatherblow7806]

This car was built on my 5th birthday love this car

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Built a few days before my 6th. It sucks not knowing what has happened in the world before we were born, or old enough to understand. Now I wish I were born in 1890, so I would be a teenager when all the great things in the USA started, (with the industrial revolution, electricity, and the beginning of the auto industry, when there were 400 to 500 manufactures at any given time to work for in the early decades of the 1900's.).

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I could have been one of those manufactures.

[@65coupestang]

​@@EarthSurferUSAYEEEEAAAAAH MAYBE, BUT WHAT MAKES YA THINK THOSE SAME MANUFACTURERS WOULD'VE HIRED YOU

[@kayebair9417]

The lime green with all the stickers- yum mm!

[@lovetherockies6080]

Beautiful cars

[@netsurfers9357]

Awesome Mopar!

[@gregorytimmons4777]

The brothers have a few of them. Easy to see why. Chryslers engineering for the most part was still ahead of the rest. Or at least still at a high level then.

[@slacadjuster237]

The hero car of Camaros and Mustangs. Mopar or no car.

[@60viking]

I worked at Chrysler engineering and development and remember doing "shaker work". I remember a 5/10 Hp loss by removing it. It sounded cool though. Great memories.

[@stevekouts4709]

You worked on developing these cars and not even one like on your comment. Let me be the first!!

[@rickbailey189]

What you're looking at is "ROLLING REAL ESTATE." 1 of 652 built. $258,000 concourse price(hagerty)(11/21/21) 13.10 sec. 1/4 mile @107 MPH 0-60 low 5 seconds. Straight from the factory.

[@dannychavez310]

I only got to ride in one of these back in the 70s , it belonged to my girl friends brother , it was black with red interior, he offered to sell it to me for 3000.00 $ I didn't have the money , he wrecked it a couple years later went to junk yard.

[@factfinder4839]

My Buddy had one of those new in that Reddish Orange color, it was beautiful. We used to take it to Whittier Blvd and drag race. I had a Boss Mustang and my MOM had a 440 GTO lol...man those were the days. Everyone I knew had some car we thought was nice then, but was actually off the charts badass by todays standards. Talk about living through a standout segment of history and not quite realizing it at the time, I thought they were just going to keep getting bigger and badder...boy was I wrong. Even though I had a Boss 302 i was jealous of that HemiCuda, it had something special.

[@70b426]

The Plymouth reddish orange color was code EV2 Tor Red. Hemi Orange is the Dodge name.

[@doomrot]

Dream car

[@culcune]

It's interesting nowadays, one can buy (for not much longer) a base Challenger for $25k msrp with the V6, or the whole hog Challenger for into the $90k msrp range. Back then, people couldn't justify spending for the cost for performance, such as paying double the price of the car in the case of the L88 Corvette, but today can nearly spend quadruple the price for performance like in the case of the Challenger.

[@jackhammer2671]

My favorite color is that red...only thing I would have not ordered was the vinyl roof I much rather the top body colored.

[@blah9664]

Very nice.

[@djcosmosis4477]

~ Hemi Green ~

[@ajrg91]

My dream is to find one of these things and do a restoration.

[@shafiqtabanjah6952]

Plum crazy

[@izk4093]

dream car

[@nachos_70firebird66]

That Baby is from Stockton, California due to the fact the plates say Stockton Chase. That's a Chevy dealer. Shout from Northern California and my 1970 Pontiac Firebird

[@oceanhome2023]

Oooh yes I love those Firebird 400 with the 400 on each scoop and a hood mounted tach . Avacodo green with black enterior

[@GlassTopRX7]

I've seen a few with a slant six, and ton with 318's did you mean base big block?

[@raylowery9466]

personally i loved the 318, use to drive their power wagons in the Navy around the base, all had a 318 with ''''three on the tree'''' trannie..... great trucks, never gave us a problem.......workhorse.................

[@paul1x1]

Bought mine 25 years ago 340 not the big blocks I take mine on a driving holiday every summer southern British Columbia to texas this year best looking cars on earth everywhere you go you meet car guys my wife got the stereo it is loud old rock and roll would not trade my 340 for anything

[@Turbodog1]

I think I would’ve bought this over a Mustang because like you said they weren’t that popular and there wasn’t many made. Blue.

[@johnmaloney9368]

if you guys look up the australian ford falcon xb gt that came out in 1973 you will notice some similarities check them out they came out in 4 doors coupes utes station wagons and car based vans we have economy of platform over hear

[@oceanhome2023]

I would like to see a lime green color if they had one !

[@tacgear01]

My dream car

[@TheXopony]

In 1970 you could buy a decent used car for the price of the HEIMI option .

[@eddiego8197]

Hemi orange it goes faster!

[@geraldjyrkinen7420]

Black with yellow pin stripes and accents.

[@hurtlocker6611]

my 70 cuda was orange so thats my fav

[@petemedina8446]

That's one baaad car love these cars wish I had one I'd take one in purple

[@victorpetroff830]

Do like the cuda but I'd have a challenger anyday plum crazy in colour

[@sheldonbaggs4634]

Very very nice car did you know when mopar was developing the 426 hemi they used the 440 engine block as the test platform. Then later on they develop a engine block just for the hemi. But all facts aside this is a nice car and for the money back then and now is one big bang.

[@milwaukeegregg]

This or a 440, horse a piece!! Shorter than the Challenger and I think better looking!!

[@steveunger8108]

How do you remove the air cleaner?

[@tyhighway2127]

Two screws at the top, & it came off easily & this was a purposeful move by Chrysler. They wanted these cars to dominate "SUPER STOCK" class, & so the air cleaner was designed to remove easily & quickly between rounds. It worked as these cars dominated PRO STOCK & SUPER STOCK for many, many years. Even till today.....these cars "PURE STOCK"can run 9.0 quarter mile runs for the average drag racer. Some have gone into the 8's as Super Stock MOPARS! 8 second STOCK Cars......

[@TechSeller]

Who are the brothers?\ Names? Thanks!

[@joelsaylor5170]

Pete do you have a 1971 Plymouth Duster 340?

[@jeremythompson9122]

I had a 73 Duster 340-4 speed. Last year for the 340. The 360 replaced it in 74. Even for being a de-tuned smog 340 that car was still pretty fast because it was so lightweight. One of my favorite cars that I've ever owned. My favorite was definitely my 69 Roadrunner 383-727 auto. Loved that car and still beating myself up over selling it

[@johnvanlindingham9490]

My 440 six will run with it

[@arthurleino]

My 73 Barracuda had a 318. lots of room to do tune ups. Even was not hard to install headers.

[@terryschnereger8531]

Butterscotch/Bahama yellow🚩

[@ungurdani8346]

Salut my friend super car super video subscribe subscribe. ..

[@WorldMundo]

Is that the original engine or is it been modified?

[@loucaruso3971]

Great Car Half Alright View, Show"s No Interior !!!! Stay Strong....Peace

[@orange70383]

I had a chance in 1985 to buy one just like this for 10k but couldn't swing it.

[@bigthunder2860]

The real hemi cuda's in 1970 you could smoke most cars we would wait till someone cracked one up and put the hemi in dodge darts crazy the dart had a 340 and now the up grade hemi see you later officer!

[@twagn]

BLK on BLK

[@steveallred1330]

You gave up a lot of detail about your cars good information

[@aljazzizek7496]

Picard Piranhaaa!

[@patrykmaziarz816]

But Cuda is not a Muscle Car is a Pony Car.