Most of us dream of finding the one car we consider our Holy Grail, haunted by a “can’t live without it” mentality. While many suffer endless summers of searching in vain, others are more fortunate. One is Randy Kallensee of Howell, New Jersey, whose admiration for early E-body Barracudas had been set in stone because of older brother Scott, who drove a black-over-black 1972 ’Cuda hardtop when Randy was a teen. It left such an indelible impression that Randy vowed to have one of his own. Randy also remembers the fateful day he spied a car that would become the mainstay of his family garage—a Holy Grail.
“The year was 1992, and I was working for an overnight delivery company. At the time, I owned a ’73 Plymouth Barracuda hardtop. It was powered by a 318-cu.in. V-8 and was painted Rallye Red with a black vinyl top. I loved the car, but I always wanted to get my hands on a ’70 or ’71,” Randy says.
When heOne day it happened. I hit the jackpot,” he remembers.
