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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: John Brown]
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05/24/23 10:34 AM
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It's a cool custom car that the build was sanctioned by Chrysler. I personally miss the wild custom cars of the late fifties through the seventies!
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: Devil]
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05/24/23 12:31 PM
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I love the 70s graphics! I could do without the funny grill butt I love some of those wild 70s paint jobs.
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: Devil]
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05/24/23 06:49 PM
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The new owner of the RTS 'Cuda, Evan Metropoulos of the Only Original Once car collection, is going to be showing the car at MCACN 2023, November 18th and 19th. Come check it out and say hi. You know where I will be. www.mcacn.com![[Linked Image]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52911264520_bec53e6b47_b.jpg) Hey Ryan, what's with the hood? Did it get slammed down on something? Looks like a 10 second tweak would help. I'm glad this story has a happy ending and the car is back out in public. Make sure your journal your conversations and experiences that are hush hush right now. Might make good fodder for a chapter in a book someday down the road. I'll always wish that Steven had been able to own this car. It could not have been in better hands. I will always wonder why the guy and his son held out on him. What I do wonder is what Steven would have done to it. He had the other's restored for obvious reasons. I wonder if he would have had it gently detailed like a fine painting, or documented and completely redone. I envy you being able to hang with a guy like Chuck Miller for a while. Question. I know that they were looking for the Sonic Cuda back in 2009-10. What's the current dope on that car? I know there is an old moparts post with Steven discussing what he knew. Did anyone ever locate and document it?
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: Big Bad Bee]
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05/24/23 06:58 PM
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The new owner of the RTS 'Cuda, Evan Metropoulos of the Only Original Once car collection, is going to be showing the car at MCACN 2023, November 18th and 19th. Come check it out and say hi. You know where I will be. www.mcacn.com Hey Ryan, what's with the hood? Did it get slammed down on something? Looks like a 10 second tweak would help. I'm glad this story has a happy ending and the car is back out in public. Make sure your journal your conversations and experiences that are hush hush right now. Might make good fodder for a chapter in a book someday down the road. I'll always wish that Steven had been able to own this car. It could not have been in better hands. I will always wonder why the guy and his son held out on him. What I do wonder is what Steven would have done to it. He had the other's restored for obvious reasons. I wonder if he would have had it gently detailed like a fine painting, or documented and completely redone. I envy you being able to hang with a guy like Chuck Miller for a while. Question. I know that they were looking for the Sonic Cuda back in 2009-10. What's the current dope on that car? I know there is an old moparts post with Steven discussing what he knew. Did anyone ever locate and document it? Best i remember the cars location / owner has been known by a few people since the 90s , maybe earlier. But always same story. NOT FOR SALE
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: gtx6970]
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05/24/23 10:26 PM
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The new owner of the RTS 'Cuda, Evan Metropoulos of the Only Original Once car collection, is going to be showing the car at MCACN 2023, November 18th and 19th. Come check it out and say hi. You know where I will be. www.mcacn.com Hey Ryan, what's with the hood? Did it get slammed down on something? Looks like a 10 second tweak would help. I'm glad this story has a happy ending and the car is back out in public. Make sure your journal your conversations and experiences that are hush hush right now. Might make good fodder for a chapter in a book someday down the road. I'll always wish that Steven had been able to own this car. It could not have been in better hands. I will always wonder why the guy and his son held out on him. What I do wonder is what Steven would have done to it. He had the other's restored for obvious reasons. I wonder if he would have had it gently detailed like a fine painting, or documented and completely redone. I envy you being able to hang with a guy like Chuck Miller for a while. Question. I know that they were looking for the Sonic Cuda back in 2009-10. What's the current dope on that car? I know there is an old moparts post with Steven discussing what he knew. Did anyone ever locate and document it? Best i remember the cars location / owner has been known by a few people since the 90s , maybe earlier. But always same story. NOT FOR SALE It was not, I've had a few conversations with the owner. And Steve is the only one that was able to track the owner down. And he wasn't ever able to even find the actual location of the car. Yes if you knew the owner, you knew the car. But the neighbor who had lived there for 20 years had no idea. And I don't know about the hood, they had just shut it after having it up for the cameras. It sat fine before. ![[Linked Image]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51997929994_e2502437f8_c.jpg)
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: maximus]
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05/29/23 12:14 AM
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This was told to me by the buyer who bought the car from the old man's estate. The neighbor of the old man told his friend the buyer that there was a Cuda in his neighbor's garage. He came out to look at the car and bought it on site knowing what the car was, for a low price. He in turn found some interested buyers, and ended up selling it to the Brothers Collection in Oregon, knowing it would be perserved for history. The buyer did show me pictures of the day he found it in the old man's garage. All this was told to me in June of 2022 at the Eyes on Design show in Grosse Pointe at the Ford Mansion that I was invited to show my Hemi Dart. The car was found in Sterling Heights Michigan about 2 1/2 miles from where I grew up. Nobody spoke of the car back in the day. You are correct!! Brothers were given a number to buy! Don't know if they got snaked by a buyer who paid more!! That's the buyer who auctioned the car off for a Huuuuuuuuge profit!!
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Re: RTS 'Cuda uncovered after 40 years!
[Re: moparx]
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10/05/23 02:07 PM
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Well I just found a 71 cuda m2 diecast with similar paint graphics when the rts cuda was green and has some interesting details on it like 440 painted on the sail panel. It's in quaker state packaging.Of course the orig was a 70 with customizations done by Chuck Miller.Got it at Walmart for 6.96 it 1/64 But I'm gonna look for larger size. 
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