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71 Plymouth "Frankencuda" from "Fast Five" Sells For $308,000
Posted By Chris Demorro On February 24, 2011 (6:30 am) In News

If youre a car guy, chances are youve subjected yourself to The Fast and the Furious series of films. These movies have always been more about fast cars, and less about plot, characters, or the basic laws of physics. Say what you will about the movies though; theyve given us some of the most intense car-on-car action of any movie in recent memory, and of course, there is yet another sequel on the horizon, the fifth in the franchise called simply Fast Five.

One of the automotive stars of this upcoming sequel is this 71 Plymouth Barracuda which you might already recognize as Frankencuda. The brainchild of car designer Murray Pfaff of Pfaff Designs and custom Mopar builder Troy Brumbalow, good ol Frankie has been the show car for Mothers, Holley and K&N Filters at this past 2010 SEMA show. Oh yeah, it also won the Dyno Challenge on Power Tour.

And how did it do that? The engine is an all-aluminum 636 HEMI that is force-fed via a 14:71 blower and Ultra Dominator carburetors which blow all that air through a intercooler. Of course, this blown 636 HEMI can drive on pump gas while enjoying the cool breeze thanks to Vintage air conditioning.

Built on an Art Morrison G Force chassis, Frankie rolls on wheel-wheel Wilwood power disc brakes and Budnik wheels, making it -surprisingly- a nimble Pro-touring car with tons of horsepower.

The rest of the good stuff includes a turbo 400 transmission with a Gear Vendor overdrive backed by a Strange 9-inch Ford rear with a Detroit Locker. Inside is a Flaming River tilt column and wheel, leather seats with snakeskin inserts and 5-point harnesses, a custom dash with three LCD screens, Mopar Performance gauges and the aforementioned Vintage Air A/C.

Frankencuda was recently signed by all the stars of the next Fast and Furious movie including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne The Rock Johnson and others.

Were happy to see more muscle cars in this line of movies, and yet were a little worried that by the end of the movie, which debuts in April, this Barracuda might not survive its time on film. After all, these movies have a bad habit of destroying awesome automobiles. If you want to see more pictures of this car, head over to the Barrett-Jackson auction listing where it claimed $308,000!

Article taken from Street Legal TV - http://www.streetlegaltv.com
URL to article: http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/71-plymouth-frankencuda-from-fast-five-sells-for-308000/3/8/11

Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.

A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.

When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3) stages: low, middle, and high. You should be pumping on low mode, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some of the liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.

One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL. The reason for this is the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.