{"id":24075,"date":"2013-06-23T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/?p=24075"},"modified":"2013-06-23T23:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T06:29:26","slug":"hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fhemi-barracuda-funny-car-history%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F06%2F01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2.jpg&amp;description=The+Day+the+Hemi+Cuda+Took+Flight\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" data-text=\"The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight\" data-desc=\"Looking Back on Hemi Cuda Funny Car Development \u00a0 By Moore Good Ink Photos courtesy of Jim White Forty-eight years ago, toward the end of the 1965 drag racing season, Chrysler and their Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association underwrote the costs of constructing and operating a blown\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><h2>Looking Back on Hemi Cuda Funny Car Development<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooregoodink.com\/\">Moore Good Ink<br \/>\n<\/a>Photos courtesy of Jim White<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24078\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24078\" class=\" wp-image-24078 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"01 Plymouth Dealers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2.jpg\" alt=\"1965 cuda, Plymouth Hemi Barracuda, Cuda Funny Car\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/01-Plymouth-Dealers-FC-2-575x391.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1965 Chrysler and the Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association underwrote the costs of constructing and operating a blown nitro 426cu in rear-engine Plymouth Hemi Barracuda Funny Car<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forty-eight years ago, toward the end of the 1965 drag racing season, Chrysler and their Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association underwrote the costs of constructing and operating a blown nitro 426cu in rear-engine Plymouth Hemi Barracuda Funny Car.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The proposition that brought together the Chrysler Corporation and the Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association was conceived by the late Lou Baney. Lou, who was already running the Mongoose in the Yeakel Plymouth Center\u2019s Fuel dragster, could see the potential for exploiting a new Hemi Barracuda Funny Car in exhibitions and match races. The moment was right and the deal was struck and B&amp;M Automotive were contracted to construct the car, Dave Zeuschel to prepare the engine and Tom \u201cMongoose\u201d McEwen to drive it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24080\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/02-J2772x1870-00047.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24080\" class=\" wp-image-24080 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"02 cuda rear axle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/02-J2772x1870-00047.jpg\" alt=\"chrysler, rear axle,\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/02-J2772x1870-00047.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/02-J2772x1870-00047-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/02-J2772x1870-00047-575x387.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For 1965, the blown nitro 426ci engine and transaxle of the Plymouth Hemi Cuda funny car was moved to the rearweight transfer under acceleration, thus increasing the car\u2019s traction<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The origins of the Funny Car<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The term Funny Car had derived from the appearance of Chrysler\u2019s Ram Chargers a year earlier. The corporation\u2019s competition department had moved the rear axle assembly forward on the chassis in an attempt to improve weight transfer under acceleration, thus increasing the car\u2019s traction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Also, funny by today\u2019s standards, this fuel car, those that run on nitro methane, and others from that era exhibited a conspicuously high front ride height. Constructed with leaf springs resting on a simple front beam axle the high front ride height was most probably adopted for its ability to transfer weight quickly to the rear end during full acceleration. However, the practice came to an abrupt end when the \u201cMongoose\u201d unleashed the new 1965 Barracuda on its first full quarter-mile run at Lions\u2019 drag strip in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24081\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03-Goose-65-Cuda-FC.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24081\" class=\" wp-image-24081 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Goose 1965 Barracuda \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03-Goose-65-Cuda-FC.jpg\" alt=\"60's drag car, Mongoose racing, red 1965 barracuda\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03-Goose-65-Cuda-FC.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03-Goose-65-Cuda-FC-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03-Goose-65-Cuda-FC-575x388.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Constructed with leaf springs resting on a simple front beam axle the high front ride height was most probably adopted for its ability to transfer weight quickly to the rear end during full acceleration<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Taking flight in the Barracuda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If it had occurred to anyone that the car\u2019s contemporary body styling resembled that of an airplane wing and that at 160mph it might take flight, their comments were not recorded. But fly it did during a test session one fine autumn Sunday afternoon in 1965. Some reports cite the Barracuda climbed to 30 or 40ft before its parachute deployed, encouraging its return to mother earth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24082\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/04-65-Cuda-Cockpit_4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24082\" class=\" wp-image-24082 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"04 65 Cuda Cockpit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/04-65-Cuda-Cockpit_4.jpg\" alt=\"Moongoose behind the wheel, Mickey Thompson, Dave Zeuschel\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/04-65-Cuda-Cockpit_4.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/04-65-Cuda-Cockpit_4-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/04-65-Cuda-Cockpit_4-575x359.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mounting the Cuda\u2019s engine and transmission in the rear created an unorthodox driving position, pushing \u201cMongoose\u201d uncomfortably close to the steering wheel. Pictured from left: \u201cMongoose\u201d McEwen, driver; the late Mickey Thompson (in blue), then manager of Lions Drag Strip; Dave Zeuschel (in red and black), engine builder; and Danny Thompson, Mickey\u2019s son<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Certainly Tom\u2019s thoughts were not of aerodynamics. His mind was preoccupied by more pressing matters, chiefly the car\u2019s unorthodox driving position. To allow space for the engine and transmission behind him, he had been pushed uncomfortably close to the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u201cAbout mid-track,\u201d said Tom, \u201cthe car took flight and it seemed to climb a long way. I figured I was going to hit a pole or the fence or land on cars, but I pulled the parachute and switched off the motor and waited for the crash. Ironically the car glided down gently, landing on its side and then flipping onto its roof where it slid along the asphalt, setting the headliner on fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Eventually the car reached track end where it somersaulted right way up, breaking all its wheels off. The driver\u2019s door opened easily and the crew greeted the reluctant pilot. By Tom\u2019s account, \u201cThey stood in amazement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Aftermath<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24077\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/00-06-Goose-65-Cuda-Crash-lions.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24077\" class=\" wp-image-24077 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Mongoose 1965 Barracuda Funny Car Crash at Lions Raceway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/00-06-Goose-65-Cuda-Crash-lions.jpg\" alt=\"wrecked drag car, mongoose wreck, damaged drag Barracuda, 1965 Lions raceway\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/00-06-Goose-65-Cuda-Crash-lions.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/00-06-Goose-65-Cuda-Crash-lions-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/00-06-Goose-65-Cuda-Crash-lions-575x453.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About mid-track the Cuda took flight then glided gently down landing on its side. It flipped onto its roof, setting the headliner on fire, and eventually reached track end where it somersaulted right way up, breaking all its wheels<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The destroyed car was soon returned to B&amp;M where they built another. Understandably Chrysler engineers decided to lower the car; install a front spoiler, though narrow by today\u2019s standards it deterred full air flow from getting under the car; and fitting it with a short spoiler on the rear deck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Thereafter the Barracuda proved to be a useful exhibition car, attracting much publicity not only with Mongoose but also later in the hands of Fred Goeske before it took residency in Don Garlits\u2019 museum. Currently the car resides in Seattle where its present owner, Dana Winters, is engaged in a frame-off restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24084\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/07-Goose-69-Cuda-FC-pomona.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24084\" class=\" wp-image-24084 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Mongoose 1969 Barracuda Funny Car in Pomona\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/07-Goose-69-Cuda-FC-pomona.jpg\" alt=\"1969 Barracuda, late 60's drag car, driver Mongoose\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/07-Goose-69-Cuda-FC-pomona.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/07-Goose-69-Cuda-FC-pomona-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/07-Goose-69-Cuda-FC-pomona-575x351.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Later Chrysler engineers lowered the car; installed a narrow front spoiler that deterred full air flow getting under the car; and fitted it with a short spoiler on the rear deck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although further aerodynamic concerns emerged five years later when Ronnie Scrima built two effective new chassis for the 1970 Hot Wheels Plymouths, it was the Corvettes of 1976 that caused most dismay. Of the six cars produced five of them crashed; only Tom McEwen\u2019s survived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u201cFirst, the Corvette had a short rear deck, which nullified the effect of the rear spoiler. At three-quarter track distance,\u201d says Mongoose \u201cthe high-speed low-pressure air flowing over its roof generated so much lift at the rear the car became unstable, causing most of them to crash.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24076\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09-23086_jpg.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24076\" class=\" wp-image-24076 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"gray and yellow English Leather Corvette Funny Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09-23086_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Indy 500 engineered drag car, funny car, corvette drag car\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09-23086_jpg.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09-23086_jpg-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/09-23086_jpg-575x382.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Subsequent consultations with an Indy 500 engineer pioneered the use of long end plates, so familiar on today\u2019s Funny Cars. By lengthening the end plates and extending them further forward, they trapped air at the rear of the car, added down force to the rear wheels, and solved many aerodynamic troubles<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Subsequent consultations with an Indy 500 engineer pioneered the use of long end plates, so familiar on today\u2019s Funny Cars. These end plates, which are positioned at each end of the rear spoiler and extend forward, trapped air at the rear of the car, added down force to the rear wheels, and solved many aerodynamic troubles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24085\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/08-Blue-and-Yellow-Vette-Burnout.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[24075]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24085\" class=\" wp-image-24085 \" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Blue and Yellow English Leather Corette Funny Car Burnout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/08-Blue-and-Yellow-Vette-Burnout.jpg\" alt=\"1960's corvette, 60's drag racing cars, Drag burn out\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/08-Blue-and-Yellow-Vette-Burnout.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/08-Blue-and-Yellow-Vette-Burnout-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/08-Blue-and-Yellow-Vette-Burnout-575x419.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Corvette had a short rear deck, which nullified the effect of the rear spoiler. At three-quarter track distance, the high-speed low-pressure air flowing over the roof generated so much lift at the rear they became unstable and most of them crashed<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Those of us who have come to know the gentlemanly McEwen well are enraptured by his first-hand reminiscences of a time in drag racing that produced so many pioneers\u2014a formative era in the sport that is worth revisiting. Next month the \u201cMongoose\u201d talks about the developments that brought us the racing slick tires.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fhemi-barracuda-funny-car-history%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=The+Day+the+Hemi+Cuda+Took+Flight\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/hemi-barracuda-funny-car-history\/\" data-text=\"The Day the Hemi Cuda Took Flight\" data-desc=\"Looking Back on Hemi Cuda Funny Car Development \u00a0 By Moore Good Ink Photos courtesy of Jim White Forty-eight years ago, toward the end of the 1965 drag racing season, Chrysler and their Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association underwrote the costs of constructing and operating a blown\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Email Looking Back on Hemi Cuda Funny Car Development &nbsp; By Moore Good Ink Photos courtesy of Jim White Forty-eight years ago, toward the end of the 1965 drag racing season, Chrysler and their Southern Californian Plymouth Dealers Association underwrote the costs of constructing and operating a blown nitro 426cu in rear-engine Plymouth Hemi Barracuda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[303,1946,446,336,286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24123,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/24123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}