Vehicle Description
1970 Plymouth Hemi CudaTHE 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!!!
