I'm a GM guy but those old Mopars are just too cool

He should restore it…… all these people say. Absolutely not…… why? I’ve been going to car shows for years and these kinds of cars are WAY cooler to look at. Cars like these draw more crowds to look at them and why? Patina takes time to take in and observe. There is so much more to see. It’s why we will never restore our 64 Polara. Drive it like it is…. wipe the bugs off it…. no worries. Awesome video! Thank you for posting.

I Love The Nostalgia of the way those Meats Look on there. Totally Old School.

This is such a cool story. Fair play to old mate for hanging on to it. I wish him many more happy miles in it!

She is beautiful!!!! I have loved Mopar for 40 year's. My dad was to thank for this nothing like it!

i love that old school look that's how they were back in the day That old man has got something special

Very rare car there. Glad to see it out at a car show. I own both your books really enjoyed them. They only made 2,724 AAR Cudas and only 1,120 of them were 4 speed cars. Glad that the man has it out enjoying it again.

Those crager 5 spokes are from the 80's. Like 1986. They belong on the car! Had em on my 72 Challenger.:)

Bill sure is a nice humble man with a awesome car !! Mopar or No car !!

I restored 2 of these in the mid 90’s . There a blast to drive

Wow《☆》It's a Survivor. Hopefully I'll get my 73 Dart Sport🤳out of my Barn one day👍🤓☮🇺🇸

AWESOME story !! So glad he's enjoying it again ! He did it justice by keeping the rake on the car with the 70's correct stance and tires !! LOVE IT !! Ma Man CAN drive it too, and certainly knows how to load it !! I wish him MANY more years of enjoying it !!

I’ll buy it! Only ‘cuda better than a ‘71 is an AAR. Cudos to the man that kept it all these years. Wish I’d have kept my ‘71 BH car.

Quite unbelievable. It will have to be restored sooner or later as the cancer will get to serious. How many of us wished we had our 1st car back. Mine was a 71 Chevelle Malibu that was 1/2 rotted but could fly. Fun 1st car!

One Fantastic save!

My brothers and friends have seen mopars sit in fields and yards that are ruining and stop and ask if they are for sale . The people that own them say gonna fix it up one day! Still sitting in the same spot years later! Saw a Hang 10 Duster in a yard that is all there but still has grass grown up around it and is just rotting away! Such a sad thing to see people let classic car decay away! Glad this one is back on the road !

Cuda is 🔥🔥🔥

Greeeeeeeen Interior.......... blech

The AAR is bad ass but that blue Hemicuda in the background is next level. My dream

Wow amazing find

Mean old Plymouth's are rad Mopar is that not what IT stands for God bless from Canada eh nice job!!!

My dream is to have a 1970 AAR cuda and the color is gorgeous God bless

Very cool ....................... 👍👍👍

STOP CHIP FOOSE,......and all the rest. When you put low profile tires and giant rims on a Hot-Rod like this you turn it into a circus. Cragars and the Mickey's fit it perfect.

Plymouth is a 6Bbl and Dodges are Six pak. Aren't they? . i had a customer in the 70's with a 340TA with six pack. What a crazy car!.

If I seen that car going down the street, we're talking serious whiplash × 3 from me doing a triple take! Absolutely gorgeous!

Dam a one in a lifetime!!

I love the cars in that condition

Just a note on car prices back then.In 1973 working at a Ford dealership.A coworker was selling his 1965 Mustang 289 4 speed , 2nd owner,low miles and EC condition car.For $ 800.00.

Great Video!!! #aarcuda4thewin

Looks like a great candidate for a restoration. I hope he returns it to stock form. AAR's were not designed to be drag racers, they were road racers. It would also be worth much more in original factory form. That green is one of my favorite Mopar colors. We had a Chrysler Newport that was the same color....it would really pop in the sunlight when it was polished up.

Honestly the barn saved the car. Had it been out in the sun and rain it would have returned to the earth by now. This is so cool. She held up well in that barn. Im glad that they are keeping it a survivor. They are only original once and cars like this are few and far between. Seeing cars still popping up like this makes me really wonder how many more awesome finds are waiting their turn to shine again.

That is so cool!!

Great car!

Very nice car and cool video.

I saved my money for the year I was in Vietnam when I made it home in Aug. 1970 I bought a 70 AAR Cuda. I forget the technical name for the color but it was pink! Man I have some memories of that time and the role that car played in them.

Its got to the point that we are thanking people for letting a car sit and rot in a barn for 40 years??

That’s my dream car, wish I could afford one but will settle for and A-body Dart 👍

Great video. I love a good barn find and the small block Mopars are my favourite. There is one departure from stock that I noticed right away. The exhaust. I’m pretty sure they didn’t come with tube headers and I know for a fact that it should have side exit exhaust. One of my favourite things about the AAR and T/A cars.

Oh wow,!!!

Great video Ryan. In the future if you had a microphone for your guests it would be much easier to hear them.

Nice cleaner then the one we just got but then again we got ours for $500

Love it

What a car top notch👍

Restoring that car would be a complete TRAVESTY! Like erasing its history. Not every last car has to be restored, especially this one. LEAVE IT ALONE!!!

you soo lucky my friend im jealous......:)

Great car and story! Shes a rare beast and still sounds great 👍👍 Maybe just repair the rust and do a mechanical and light interior restoration... Definitely keep the wheel and tire combo! That would be perfect!🤠

Cool car all original except wheels and breather and headers , hi jacker decal , I remember mine a fc7 4spd had bass 48 speakers and play boy stickers and hooker header stickers wish I held on to it

Sweet Find Brother.

The one bad thing about one of these finds in a old barn/shed is that usually the mice/rats get into it and makes a big mess of every thing.

So glad the owner didn't change the wheels. That things a time capsule and looks soo baad ass like that!

What does staggered. tires mean?

The AAR came with bigger tires in rear

Awesome! The deal was sealed for me when I saw the rear mount for the antenna. I never could figure out how a fiberglass hood could cause interference with the radio and the metal hood, didn't?

Looks like it’s even got all of its original rust

Tears

Quarter panels are toast. Hagerty talked about #3 Good condition $71K value in their article about this car. The car as it is in the video is no better than #4 Fair condition at most. Barn find = neglected car, in almost all cases.

six pac = DODGE / 6BBL = PLYMOUTH

How much $for it

At the start he says original 440. AAR's were 340 or am I wrong?

With alot of day 2 stuff

Price

I tried ordering that color in 1970, but they didn't have one in that color with the options I wanted. The best thing about AAR/TA cars was that it was a well thought out PACKAGE, and a few additional options like the fast-ratio power stg. Somebody must have stolen this guy's original air cleaner.

Beautiful Cuda but needs a set of Year One 15×8 factory rally wheels so the rear quarters can sit down over the tires like it's supposed to. Would definitely get better launches from a dig!

So glad you said a shed which it is but I’m sure it will be called barn find 🤬🤬 Car looks incredible 👍👍👍 How good would it look with a wash and we can see all the details

@autoarcheology Great story and Barn find, amazing work by the KZfaq, my only constructive criticism is that he should get a stabiliser on his GoPro or Phone to make the Great contents that he's making EVEN BETTER. like I said fantastic work 💪😉👍

I sure am glad to see that somebody like Gas Monkey Garage or Dennis Collins or any of those other money grubbing shits didn't snatch it out from underneath him .. Enjoy your car bother

Hello. I'd like to buy a signed copy of your "Barn Find" book with the AAR 'Cuda cover. How do i buy from you? I'm in New Zealand.

THATS A 6 BARREL NOT A 6 PACK, DODGE HAD 6 PACKS NOT PLYMOUTH

In my dreams (total fantasy unfortunately) a similar Challenger barn find would have Colorado tag OA 5599.

Perfect stance. Wish those Mickeys were still made. Wonder what size

Perfect stance!

I meant to say Good Money Too!!!!

How the hell do you find these ?

So many great cars hidden. Shame!

Nice, but... The engine compartment isn't "unmolested." And I'd question how whoever put the headers on got them on without pulling the engine.

So there was only about 1300 of those cars made, can you believe that shit !!! That’s just crazy ,, I have seen only one original AAR cuda and it was complete but it was in about the same shape as this guys car when it was in the barn and it was for sale ! $60,000 is what he was asking about seven years ago,,, so I imagine Magine how much do you think this guys car is worth Today .Anybody have an idea how much this car is worth nowadays ❓❓ please tell me in this comment

Time capsule

Are those original factory headers too?

I would just replace the rusted panels in the car and keep looking original

should take off them deep dish rims off and put reverse deep dish so the tire fits under wheel well and lower the car to stock ride height it would handle alot better get some ultra light wheels it makes a big performace advantage weld wheels are pretty good

It's a survivor 🤓

Six barrel

why is the videographer rocking back and forth?

The rims make the car I have them on my car wouldn't have it any other way

A friend of mine has one of 989 4sp 1970 challenger TA six pack b5 blue. He brought Right after high school . He's the original owner never part ways with his car neither and his car is in mint condition 73000 original miles.

I'll buy

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. " Bundesabgasbespaßungsverbotsverordnung = BABBVO" in German.

I've had some cool mopars but always liked my GTO better. In 2002 I found a 70AAR w/3900mi. For sale in the Sunday paper, no price, called he said he wants $1000. Over what he paid for new. It was 99% original, it had L-60-15 mickeys & G-70-15, on Cragers w/ mickeys. Had 5 years, sold it to a guy for big money. Very fast car, but the louvers rattled alot.

Does that have 440 big block under the hood

Don't restore it...fix it.

Number 6548 of 2500 built

Such a beautiful car but whoever put those hainus paint whatevers on the sail panels should be slapped

C'mon man the AAR was special because it was a small-block road race style build like a Boss or a Z28. Put this one back on the ground where it belongs. .

Whats so bad about it