70 Cuda - Side Moldings, Hockey Stripe, or Nothing?

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What color is your car? Interior? Side trim?

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V5X all the way Dan! You already have the EK2 V6X 'Cuda

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James, I think you are 100% correct. I just wish I hadn't sold the set I had two years ago, to Ted Stephens!

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If it was my car, it would get a strobe stripe (non-AAR version). I don't remember the trim code but they look great and you rarely see them.

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V4 and whatever color......... Good choice!

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I have a black car 1970 that came with white interior. It also had white side moulding. The side mouldings completely ruined the lines of the car and just looked bad. The functionality of them for helping reduce door dings was great though.

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In that case, I'd suggest to leave the moldings. If the stripes make the car stand out, I think the molding doesn't look as ugly as it may.

But blue with black molding? It looks like an afterthought. If he leaves it off, he can always put it on later especially since finding good trim is difficult. Putting a hockey stick stripe is lowest common denominator thinking in my eyes. The strobe stripe is another idea, as someone mentioned.

Regarding ruining the lines of the car, I don't really understand considering the Barracuda's character line is completely horizontal, which is where the molding is.

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Regarding ruining the lines of the car, I don't really understand considering the Barracuda's character line is completely horizontal, which is where the molding is.

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Oh no, it was ugly. I have an old picture of it, but I need to have scanned to put on the computer. Like a beautiful woman, Barracuda's have compound curves and a quarter panel that looks like muscled haunches of a beast ready to leap. That horizontal stipe just breaks up the visual flow of the whole car. It's like drapeing a mumu on a woman with a bikini.

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Side moldings on Cudas are SO ugly. They just destroy the natural flow of the body lines. My car had them originally.

Asking for people's opinions on your car yields distorted results. The answers they give are what they'd like to SEE on someone else's car. After looking at these cars for so many years, sure, its neat to see differently equipped cars... but there's a reason some options are rarely seen... they're ugly! I can't stand it when people talk like high impact colors and shaker hoods are SO boring... No they're not! If you take a step back from the "too close" vantage point, they are STILL AWESOME.

My vote is the hockey stripe. Because yes, hockey stripes are STILL COOL! Side moldings suck.

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Steve,

Interesting post. I think you're right; many of us that have attended a million car shows get jaded by seeing all the rare, hi impact, shaker equipped muscle and actually enjoy seeing something oddball like /6's, 318's, whitewalls and body side mouldings.....I'm certainly guilty of it. BUT I also try to always remember when I look at a Hemi, 6 pack or LS6 that these cars are very rare and SPECIAL despite them being the subject of 90% of the magazine articles.

People advise a guy to leave his /6 car a /6 car because you don't see them very often, but I wonder if that's because THEY don't own it or have to drive it. I applaud those that do restore their stock low performance rides as it really IS interesting......but I don't necessarly want to own or drive one myself.

I suppose it's like doctors and nurses; it's hard to believe they don't get upset by some of the things they see, but when they see the same stuff day in and day out, the mind's response is to make it mundane to some degree.


I hear what you're saying and agree........though I find myself lusting after a set of original wheels, full wheel covers and whitewalls for my 'Bee......not sure I could leave them on often though!