Vehicle Description
THE LOWEST MILEAGE HEMI CUDA ON THE PLANET!!UNRESTORED WITH 86
ORIGINAL MILES!! - Simply, the lowest mile Cuda on the planet,
period with 84 historically and highly documented miles. This is an
amazing all correct, all original and all numbers matching Tor Red
Hemi Cuda with a significant racing history to boot. It was
special-ordered and purchased new at Shreves Plymouth-Dodge in June
1970 by Bill Reardon of Clarksburg, West Virginia, who was finally
buying his dream car at 62 years of age. One of the last ten Hemi
Cudas built in 1970, it was exactly as he imagined it: Tor Red with
a black interior; Torqueflite automatic transmission; Shaker hood
with tie downs and color-matching steel wheels with dog-dish hub
caps and Goodyear Polyglas GT tires. He named it True Grit. Bill
immediately began modifying True Grit to get her ready for the drag
strip: removing the intake and carburetors, the complete exhaust
system, rear end, rear wheels and tires and front shocks. He
replaced all these with the best performance parts available, while
carefully stowing the originals in safe storage. In his first
season racing True Grit, Bill would make approximately 30 passes at
three local drag strips with times occasionally dipping into the
high 10-second range. Sadly, that would be his one and only season
as Bill suddenly passed away. When his widow passed in 1977, the
couple?s son sold the car and all the original parts to Marvin
Dillion, who, after returning it to its original configuration at
42 miles, drove it less than a single mile in the 16 years he owned
it. The car passed through three more caring owners before renowned
Hemi specialist John Arruza of Thomasville, North Carolina,
purchased it with 61 miles on the odometer. Arruza performed his
magic on the car, refreshing it after its years of storage with a
complete fluid change and tune-up and overhauling its carburetion
system so that it once again performed as new. Arruza drove the car
to 73 miles in the process of refining the car?s state of tune.
Since then it has been moved enough to take the odometer to its
present reading of 81 miles. Today, it is the textbook definition
of a time capsule; unmolested, original and in superb condition,
with documentation that includes the factory broadcast sheet and a
recorded verification of the numbers and codes?for Hemi lovers, its
the Holy Grail!!!