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On
a sunny early December day a much altered 1970 Plymouth Barracuda returned to
its spiritual home at the Chrysler Proving Grounds in Chelsea Michigan and
broke the 200 mph barrier.
The
culmination of almost two years of hard work by the team at Legendary
Motorcar, the Cuda’ is the successful realization of a seemingly impossible
goal. Can Legendary Motorcar build a resto-mod muscle car that will rival the
world’s most exotic super cars?
The
television show Dream Car Garage, which can be seen each Saturday on SUN TV, has
followed the construction of the Super Cuda’ from a rusted shell to show car
and track star. This week’s show is the season finale, featuring the exciting
shootout between the twin-turbo V10 powered Super Cuda’ and an Enzo Ferrari.
Less
than a month ago Peter Klutt, Pres. of Legendary Motorcar and Chip Foose
debuted the Super Cuda’ at the SEMA convention in Las Vegas. The car was an instant
hit but it had yet to achieve its most important goal, to match the performance
of an Enzo Ferrari and to go 200mph!
The
clock was ticking down to the last episode of Dream Car Garage’s 2009 season. The
Cuda’ had to be filmed meeting its goal no later than Thursday of last week or the
show would not make it to air, whether the Legendary Motorcar team met with
success or failure.
On
top of everything they had to find a place to actually go the distance, calls
to airports and race tracks across N. America proved fruitless until the true
car enthusiasts at Chrysler agreed to let the Super Cuda’ run on their high
banked oval at the storied Chelsea proving grounds.
It
all came together on Tuesday December 1st. The Super Cuda impressed
the engineers at Chelsea and was cleared to run
on the track. Grey skies and the threat of snow gave way to sun. As the track
warmed, speeds increased and the Super Cuda’ punched a hole in the air topping
208 mph with still more power to spare.
As Peter said, “above 200 the Cuda’ was running
out of aero and I was running out of cohones”.