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

Beauty is in the eyes of the beerholder.... or something like that.

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.