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Gary Dodane, 70, owner of Karl’s Barber Shop in Fort Wayne, Ind., on his 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda, as told to A.J. Baime.
In 1983, I bought a Hemi Cuda for $500. At the time, I did not know much about these cars. They had huge “elephant engines,” but they got terrible gas mileage. Gas prices were surging at the time, so people were dumping these cars. When I bought mine for $500, I thought I was overpaying.
I…