When Julia parked her 1970 Plymouth Barracuda convertible after a minor crash in 2003, she thought she might never drive it again. Two decades later, that same E-body ragtop—her first car and a ...

The ’Cuda name has become synonymous with the earth-shaking machines that prowled streets, dragstrips, and road courses of America in the early ’70s, but the Barracuda’s origins predate the muscle car ...