Although the Ford Mustang is often described as America's first pony car, that achievement actually belongs to the Plymouth Barracuda. The fastback-shaped Valliant debuted on April 1, 1964, about two ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

Unlike other golden-era Mopars, such as the Plymouth Road Runner, Satellite, and Belvedere, the Barracuda got the mighty 426-cubic-inch (7.0-liter) HEMI engine for only two model years. That's because ...

The 1970 Plymouth HEMI Cuda was the high-water mark for Chrysler muscle cars of its era. The 1970-74 E-body Plymouth Barracuda and its sibling, the Dodge Challenger, were Chrysler's "pony cars," ...

DURING the 1970 model year, Plymouth manufactured a total of 19,515 Cudas, a vehicle Henry Mauney Jr. describes as “a car just short of a race car for the street.” Of that number of Cudas, only 635 ...

Perhaps due to the low volume built and even-smaller surviving population, Plymouth Hemi ‘Cudas are among the most valuable and sought-after cars from the muscle car era. Finding one in mint condition ...

In 1972, somebody lost one of the great muscle cars for $51.45, the sum for which the Bedford National Bank of Bedford, Iowa, repossessed this real R-code 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda convertible.

In 1970, Detroit's performance high-watermark—the musclecar-hit its peak. And, at least among MoParphiles, no other engine exemplifies pure, raw power better than the legendary 426 Hemi.