Umm, I can daily this, right? 'Cause I wanna try..

[69.5CUDA]

ebaybodys be the ugliest period....and to which i will ALWAYS see a dodge camaro....
and its why if you ask me..the DEMON/duster is/was the gen3 cuda..it just got its badging mixed up somewhere
a-body, check
108 wheelbase, check
fold down rear seat, check
barracuda dash(yes they call it ralley but it was stock on the fish and stock on the demon), check
then theres that demon grill and tail lights..totaly a throwback again at the secondgen fish

it shares more in common with a second gen fish than it does a dart!

of the second gen i like the 7's and the 9's the 8s have the worst tail too plain of hood inserts ..and while i like the grill it clashes with the hood inserts and is fragile as fuck...ive had all 3...and the 8 overall is the most annoying with its underhang dash, doors all wonky with placement(all 3 years the doors are different), even the 68 markerlights look sorly out of place...while the tail lights are novel at best the only look good at night..worst seat pattern of the 3

i had all 3...i know the changes and individuality of them far too well

as far as notch vs fastback...shrug...once apon a long time ago ida said notch(btw if you dig back into chrysler literature a coupe has a vynle top but a notchback does not)...having my coupe full boogy and my fastback looking era correct down to the velvete tuck n roll ...i couldnt pick one body ove the other...id tell you tho that the coupe seems lighter in the tail ...and the fastback is a great driving rig and moving truck

 

[Stretch]

Does now!

No it doesn't.

I like it but not for the $ its at and the reserve isn't met.

 

[Dr.Jass]

The E-body Barracuda on the drawing boards prior to the introduction of the second-generation Barracuda (and the Camaro itself), while the Duster was a hastily slapped-together afterthought that took about a year to develop, although a damned-fine-looking one. The E-body was designed first and foremost to put the Barracuda on a solid performance footing rather than being built on the flimsy price-point A-body platform. It was designed so the big engines would fit; B/RB A-bodies had a well-deserved repuation as dogs when new, even the '69 440 cars. As 71ChargerR/T has discovered, exhaust was always a probelm. A 340 car would crush a 383 stablemate in any sort of race, as would a 383 Road Runner or Super Bee despite the weight difference. Chrysler execs have been quoted on record as saying the entire reason for the E-body's existence was to be the "the most potent ponycar ever" available with a myriad of options and every engine in Chrysler's lineup.

Calling the Demon grille a throwback to the second-generation Barracuda grille is akin to saying the '75 Cordoba was a throwback to the original Barracuda.

The E-body Barracuda has a 108" wheelbase as well.

There was no specific Barracuda dash after '66, so calling the Rallye cluster which, from its introduction was optional on the Dart, a "Barracuda dash" is like saying the B-body Rallye dash (also standard on Super Bees) a "Charger dash". The Rallye dash was not standard on the Demon: Nodda's car didn't have one, nor did the '71 Sizzler that ran/laid around here for 20+ years. Fact is, most Demons have the standard cluster. I believe the Rallye dash was standard on the '71 340 Demons, but that's it. Buddy Kev's '71 Twister also had it, while his '72 did not (obviously both 318 cars; there's no such thing as a Twister 340). The A-body Rallye dash went dodo after the '72 model year, so the vast majority of Dusters weren't even available with it.

Thinking the first two generations of Barracuda were some sort of dedicated performance car is flawed; they were tarted-up Valiants (108" wheelbase) from the get-go. They didn't get their own performance-based platform until the introduction of the E-body. The E-body had a rear swaybar available from Day One; you couldn't even order one on an A-body until 1976--their curtain year--and you needed to order the cop package to get it. It was not available a la carte. Obviously, they're rare as hell.

Looks are too subjective to decisively claim a winner, and sales figures declined with increasing prices so one can't even use those as a bellwether of public opinion*. The best-selling Barracuda ever was the (inexpensive) '65, though few would call it the prettiest. Personally, I think the '67-'68 notchback is the best of the bunch. I liked the fastbacks better until I spent more time around them, and now think the roofline is "missed it by that much" in profile. It's just a little too bubble-butt for me in profile. Obviously that makes the car that much more useful, and was a consideration for rear-seat headroom, but the round crown of it makes it look awkward in direct profile. The '69 finally got the taillamps right, at the cost of ruining the grille and hood. I agree fully with 69.5 on the marker lights and tail panel of the '68, making the '67 my personal champ.

On the other hand, I like the '72-'74 cars the least; the taillights were a poorly-executed "me-too" copy of the '70 Chevy F-body and the grille is too chunky and busy-looking. The cool '70-'71 road lamps were off the menu due to the stupid location of the turn signals. The grille of the '66 was equally tragic to those cars; the same-year Valiant used a much prettier design. The '70-'71 cars themselves are OK, but I consider them "take or leave" in that I've never actually desired to own one that wasn't sitting in front of me with a sign in the window. The E-body Barracudas overall don't excite me and never did, so along with the '66 styling misfire, they're at the bottom of my list.

But hey, I like 'em all to some extent because they're all Mopars. The only one I have any desire to own, though, is a '67 notch. Perhaps if/when I sell the Valiant I'll pursue one.

*One can, however, use sales figures as a comparison of styling across a shared platform. For the entire run of E-body production, the Challenger absolutely clobbered the Barracuda in sales--despite having a notably higher base price.