I will be posting an article about why I think cars like this are so great very soon, so please check back with me and in the mean time, consider this:
The Chrysler Corporation rushed the first Barracuda into production so as to beat the Ford Mustang to market by a couple of weeks, but that required them to cobble together a sporty car from their current economy car, the Plymouth Valiant. Ford mopped the floor with Chrysler in sales, and when Ford was ready for a next-generation Mustang, they went bigger and better, making a car capable of holding very big engines while keeping the magic of the Mustang alive by continuing to give the customer anything they wanted, any way they wanted it.
Why, oh why, did Chrysler make Plymouth base the second-generation Barracuda on the Valiant again? Sure, that made for economic sense, saving a lot of dollars in development costs, but it made the 1967-1969 Barracuda competitive with the 1965-1966 Mustang 2+2, not the current model.
Huh?
Still, from a perspective of decades later, the fastback Barracuda is, from some angles, quite a pretty car.
Here are a couple of beautiful pictures of one found on the always-excellent Hemmings site, at http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/2012/01/01/hmn_feature2.html
And just in case there are copyright issues with using a pic from another website, here is a 1366x768 Poster version of the same, cos I believe that under most copyright law, images altered for artistic purposes are protected as 'new materials.' In any case, no offense intended, Hemmings, we all love you!
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