Sunday, March 08, 2026

Hurst SS Cuda with it's original engine pulled out of the widow's garage and brought to the Barnfind section of the MCACN



It’s 1 of only 70 Super Stock BO29 Hemi Barracudas modified by Hurst Performance for competition in the 1968 season. 

Californian George Wejbe bought it new in Santa Fe Springs and campaigned it in IHRA events. 

George retired the car in 1972 and it was recently acquired from his widow. 

Remarkably, it still retains its original 426 race-spec Hemi engine and heavy-duty Torqueflite transmission, and is well documented with its original sales and finance papers, and factory-to-dealer bulletin detailing the race modifications and warranty exclusions.

this MCACN barnfind '73 Citroën SM was extensively modified by prior owner



Bob Diemert was a self-educated engineer known in the aviation world for his meticulous restorations of  a Hawker Hurricane fighter (one of only 5 in existence!) and two Japanese Zero fighters.

He applied his aviation know-how and ingenuity to this SM, in some cases to increase its performance and in others, for reasons unknown.

he overcame the absence of the car’s original triple Weber carburetor setup by designing and fabricating a new intake manifold to adapt a Marvel-Schebler Ha-6 carburetor borrowed from a 1968 Beechcraft 23 Musketeer. To significantly increase power output from the SM’s V6 Maserati engine he added an AiResearch T04 turbocharger and nitrous oxide system.

Barnfind Jag... but what will it cost the next owner to make it safely roadworthy? The XK140 only has 15,570 miles on its odometer, was found in a barn in Virginia several years ago. Its 2nd owner last had it on the road in 1967.






The 3rd owner is a Jag restorer who obviously figured out it's now financially feasible to restore it, so he's looking to sell it for 50k to a potentially future customer to offload the expense, and hopefully onboard a new rich customer   https://www.hemmings.com/stories/will-you-be-the-one-to-take-on-this-barn-find-1955-jaguar-xk140