Here at Dragzine, we love badass Mopars — they provide a welcome diversion from the steady stream of Mustangs and Camaros that dot the drag racing landscape in overwhelming numbers. Tyler Valentine’s shared his father Randy’s ’67 Cuda, which competes regularly at Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma. 

The car uses a 493 cubic-inch big-block Mopar engine featuring a set of Indy Cylinder Heads’ SR castings to make 790 horsepower. The car has been 8.81 at 151 MPH in the quarter-mile, and 5.61 at 123 MPH in the eighth. Tyler is grateful to Dad that he gets to occupy the space between the wheel of the beautiful machine.

Last fall, the team doubled-up to win the No Electronics and Super Pro events at the Mopars In The Park event held at TRP. That high was followed by an immediate low.

“We had an incident with the tie downs in the trailer. Needless to say, the car rolled back and forth in the trailer from Tulsa to the house two and a half hours away,” says Tyler. 

What you see here is the freshly-repainted machine, with artwork from Scott Brown Designs with paint laid down by Clay Philips Performance Paint And Chassis. “This is my dad’s car, and I do all the driving, so I would really like to thank him for the opportunity,” says Tyler.

We should all be so lucky — thanks for sharing it with us, Tyler!

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